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Go for it! Exercising makes you happy and strong
2020
Despite it is generally recognized the beneficial role of physical activity, large portion of the population is physically inactive. Very alarmingly, the well-known gender gap in physical activity is constantly increasing. Several barriers obstacle women to perform physical activity although exercising would be of paramount importance for their health in particular during pregnancy and menopause. In addition to physical health benefits, physical activity may influence well-being and resilience, greatly impacting on quality of life. Here we explore the relationship between physical activity resilience and well-being in a group of 1107 female residents in the Metropolitan area of Naples.
In Search of the Metropolitan Dimension
2021
The new settlement phenomena in our territory, linked to current globalisation processes and the increasing complexity of contemporary society, have caused a crisis of the historical boundaries and are creating new planning layouts. In this context, the metropolitan dimension is once again viable, and Italy, with Sicily sometimes experiencing these processes in advance, is reorganising the institutions covering large areas, directing processes and trying out new convergences, under the driving force of new public finance reorganisation policies.
The Governance of Metropolitan Areas: Problems and Alternatives in the Spanish Case
2013
In federalist thinking, a constant is the tension in defining optimal levels of government, its territorial scope and functions. These questions are particularly difficult at the local level. This is where we find that the differences between various forms of structuring local governments are vast. This is the case from the point of view of their legal status. In Spain, for example, we find municipalities, provinces, island authorities, counties, metropolitan areas, communities, consortia, local entities below the municipal level and other juridical forms. However, it is also the case from the point of view of their socioeconomic characteristics. Thus, for instance, it is difficult to compa…
New Regionalism—Not Too Complex for the Media Watchdog
2014
As cities grow and expand, governance networks advocated by the “new regionalism” have become increasingly important for policy making in metropolitan areas. This article examines media reporting about governance networks and the effect this reporting has on democratic accountability and legitimacy. We use data from a standardized content analysis of newspaper coverage about metropolitan policy making in four European metropolitan areas (Zurich, Berlin, Paris, and London), as well as survey data on citizens’ attitudes. We find that the leading newspapers adequately cover governance processes and pay attention to both governmental and nongovernmental actors. Media content is correlated with…
The metropolis in retrospect : from the trading metropolis to the global metropolis.
2005
SummaryMetropolization is not a new phenomenon: metropolises have been around for centuries. The prime and permanent function of a metropolis is the coordination of economic activities at a world scale. This function has been applied to different activities in history, depending on technological conditions and economic organization, and consequently it generated different forms of metropolises. The resulting continuities and discontinuities in the metropolises' evolution can be understood in terms of agglomeration economies. In the pre-industrial period, the trading metropolis coordinates long range trade. The industrial revolutions generate new needs for coordination of production and give…
A la deriva entre cartells de cinema: una narrativa personal sobre París
2020
INTRODUCCIÓ. Les ciutats enquadrades des del cinema han construït una cultura visual amb la qual s’identifiquen els seus consumidors; imatges emblemàtiques que configuren una memòria col·lectiva. Però aquestes metròpolis només existeixen en la ficció. La realitat té poc o gens a veure amb aquestes visualitats. En aquesta investigació s’ofereix un relat alternatiu sobre la ciutat de París. MÈTODE. A partir d’una metodologia de recerca basada en l’art, s’empra la deriva com a mètode d’observació i anàlisi crítica de l’entorn urbà. L’objectiu és percebre París d’una manera alternativa a l’imaginari urbà creat pel cinema, a partir de la recerca de cartells de cinema que es troben en aquesta ciu…
La coronación de Agustín I de México en los sermones religiosos impresos
2020
Este artículo analiza los cuatro sermones publicados sobre la coronación del militar Agustín de Iturbide como emperador del Imperio mexicano, que tuvo lugar en la catedral metropolitana el 21 de julio de 1822. A través de dichos documentos se estudian los referentes político-culturales y religiosos que manejaron los autores eclesiásticos a la hora de legitimar al nuevo emperador y explicar el proceso que había llevado hasta su coronación. Las opiniones que sostuvieron permiten un acercamiento a las interpretaciones que realizaron sobre la independencia del país, así como al modelo de gobierno que idearon. También se observan las pretensiones de buscar un encaje privilegiado para la Iglesia …
A GIS-Based Model for the analysis of an urban flash flood and its hydro-geomorphic response. The Valencia event of 1957
2016
Summary Flash floods are recurrent events around the Mediterranean region. Extreme episodes activate hydro-geomorphic high-intensity processes with low frequency. In urban environments, the complexity becomes higher due to the existence of very quick-response runoff. However, immediate recovery works remove the urban marks. After a short time both the significance and magnitude of the hydro-geomorphic event become completely unrecognizable. Nevertheless, these episodes generate extensive documentation which is testimony of the processes in almost real time. It is necessary to exploit this source typology in order to draw flood sketches when events far in time may lack a sufficiently rich da…
Housing Affordability and Income-threshold in Social Housing Policy
2016
Abstract The issue of affordable housing has again become crucial in ensuring a greater social equity, increasing social cohesion and reducing inequalities within metropolitan or regional systems which, in the current climate of severe economic crisis, have to respond to global challenges of development, innovation and sustainability. This study aims at building a system of knowledge about the housing affordability on the territorial scale, by which to identify the local characteristics of housing problems that could be solved through traditional planning tools or new practices of social housing, which involves private stakeholders and/or public administrations. This system of knowledge sho…
A J-MADeM Agent-Based Social Simulation to Model Urban Mobility
2011
The mobility models followed within metropolitan areas, mainly based on the massive use of the car instead of the public transportation, will soon become unsustainable unless there is a change of citizens’ minds and transport policies. The main challenge related to urban mobility is that of getting free-flowing greener cities, which are provided with a smarter and accessible urban transport system. In this paper, we present an agent-based social simulation approach to tackle this kind of social-ecological systems. The Jason Multi-modal Agent Decision Making (JMADeM) library enable us to model and implement the social decisions made by each habitant about how to get to work every day, e.g., …