Search results for "urbanity"
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Playing with accents
2020
While certain ways of speaking or varieties of English – such as American English or British English – evoke associations of modernity, higher education and urbanity in Uganda, others – such as Ugandan English with strong northern or western accents – stand for backwardness, social strata remote from education and ‘village identities’. Yet concepts of backwardness or modernity are not only based on linguistic criteria but also associated with a specific worldview, contributing to complex signs of higher-order indexicality. In contrast, speakers’ practices of enregisterment reveal how fluid and contextual these indices of urbanity and rurality actually are. Considering diverse repertoires of…
Cities facing the Wild
2021
Untamed ecosystems and plots of wild nature increasingly constitute large parts of contemporary urban spaces. They are often the unbidden result of a long-standing lack of maintenance as well as of the uncontrolled flourishing of weeds produced by the pesticide absolute ban. But they are also something more. Many recently implemented urban open spaces deal with wild nature to solve some of the most urgent tasks of the contemporary cities: reclaiming areas fallen into disuse, designing sustainable infrastructures, revitalizing valuable public spaces, enhancing the ecological footprint of new developments, suggesting new practices and social ritual, reducing management costs, fighting climate…
Sustainable mobility: “exchange poles” between transport networks and urban structure
2012
An intermodal hub can be defined as a place where transportation networks are organized to facilitate intermodality between different modes. Intermodal hubs should intrinsically have an urban dimension and be globally designed as “plug flows”, being interfaces between transport networks and territory, being an element to create “urbanity”. Intermodal hubs focus technical, social, urban, transport, service aspects and they play a multi-modal, multi-service, multioperator role. Several studies highlight the need to “measure the interdependence” among the various aspects of urban problems, avoiding too specific methodologies. The increasing congestion in urban centres and urban parking problem…
La durabilité du périurbain dépendant de l'automobile au regard des pratiques d'achat en ligne des ménages
2014
ASRDLF2014 - 51ème colloque de l'Association de Science Régionale de Langue Française : Métropolisation, cohésion et performances : quels futurs pour nos territoires ?, CHAMPS-SUR-MARNE, FRANCE, 07-/07/2014 - 09/07/2014; International audience; La dépendance automobile des territoires périurbains liée à une absence de commerces et de services pose la question de leur soutenabilité, voire de leur durabilité à l'aube probable d'une augmentation importante et continue des prix des carburants. Internet et plus particulièrement la vente en ligne sont en mesure de fournir une alternative propice au maintien des ménages dans ces territoires. En effet, grâce au e-commerce, les ménages n'auraient pl…
CULOTTA E LEONE. ARCHITETTURA CIVILE A PALMA DI MONTECHIARO
2018
Il saggio descrive l'intervento di Pasquale Culotta e Bibi Leone a Palma di Montechiaro nel Quartiere Calvario Pizzillo. Si tratta di un opera poco nota degli architetti siciliani. Il saggio quindi mira a colmare una lacuna nella documentazione. Ma il saggio ha lo scopo principale di analizzare questa opera per le sue peculiarità. Per fare ciò affronta alcuni temi generali che vengono puntualmente messi in opera nel complesso intervento di Culotta e Leone: il progetto urbano, il valore civile dell'intervento architettonico, il "nuovo realismo" progettuale, i rapporti con l'edilizia illegale, le possibilità di un'architettura "low budget". La realtà di Palma di Montechiaro è infatti tragicam…