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Report WS3 - The strategic role of gateway cities in Europe
2012
The IX Biennial of European cities and urban planners focused on the theme of the gateway cities in Europe, a topic that was discussed in detail in a parallel workshop: The strategic role of the gateway cities in Europe. The workshop discussants, coordinated by Franco Migliorini (INU), examining the effects that globalization is having on European territory, exposed the general framework of the on going changes, problems and unresolved evolving issues, and they proposed possible solutions and new thoughts on the procedures to be implemented, and also they presented examples of cases of emerging European cities, various forms of gateway cities. The most recurrent themes, addressed both in ur…
Report WS6: Immigration and new inhabitants in the Gateway Cities
2012
It is in the last years that the planning discipline has fully recognized immigration issues as decisive for their role both in the urban studies and in the policy design. Nowadays, in Italy and Europe, the shifting social composition of the cities asks the planner for new cognitive instruments and new strategies for the interventions on urban systems. The present report resumes the results of the workshop “Immigration and new inhabitants in the gateway cities” which took place inside the IX Biennial of Towns and Town Planners of Europe, held in Genoa in September 2011. In the two days of debate, a number of Italian and European examples has been presented: the report underlines three issue…
La territorialità delle dinamiche spazio-temporali della società “rete”
2015
Oggi le città si trovano in una fase di transizione a causa degli effetti delle dinamiche della globalizzazione, dell’economia mondiale, della società in rete e di un nascente capitalismo delle reti. In uno scenario in cui le connessioni e le relazioni, soprattutto quelle economiche e sociali, si sganciano dalle distanze spazio-temporali, la città torna ad essere un luogo denso di importanza perché in essa si può ritrovare quella dimensione territoriale necessaria ad integrare i contesti locali con l’immaterialità globale, riprogettando uno spazio dove nuove configurazioni territoriali, quali le regioni urbane e le gateway cities - grandi hubs di relazioni intersettoriali e multidimensional…