Sustainability and urban democracy: contradictions and hopes emerging from new forms of collective action

Como consecuencia de los cambios profundos y rápidos de la vida urbana, la democracia y la economía que caracterizan la cuidad neoliberal, los movimientos medioambientales han perdidos progresivamente su credibilidad y capacidad de actuar como motor de cambio. Al mismo tiempo, grupos heterogéneo de ciudadanos han imaginado y experimentado con formas nuevas de acción colectiva para contrarrestar desarrollos urbanísticos irregulares e insostenibles. Sin embargo, su potencial para producir una alternativa importante a la producción insostenible del espacio urbano sigue siendo un tema controversial. Este artículo considera las posibilidades transformadoras de estas formas emergentes de acción colectiva ambiental. Teniendo en cuenta que las geografías de acción colectiva y sus ideas respecto al cambio no son inmutables, el articulo utiliza teorías Deluzeanas para comparar algunos casos de movilización, que tienen como objetivo la afirmación de los derechos de los ciudadanos, con la justicia ambiental, y para entender sus características comunes emergentes, así como sus fortalezas y debilidades. Aunque el potencial transformador de estos experimentos es sumamente vulnerable a los imperativos, acontecimientos y manipulación hic et nunc, radica en el hecho que son autónomos, y que sirven como incubadoras de alternativas al imaginario idílico de la cuidad sostenible neoliberal armónica así como originadores de narrativos y experiencias nuevas de sostenibilidad urbana como una producción dialéctica y controvertida.With the profound and rapid changes of urban life, democracy and the economy characterizing the neoliberal city, environmental movements have progressively lost their credibility and capacity to act as a force of change. At the same time, heterogeneous groups of citizens have imagined and experimented with new forms of collective action to counter uneven and unsustainable urban developments. However, their potential to produce a substantial alternative to the neoliberal unsustainable production of urban space remains a contested issue. This paper debates the transformative potentials of these emerging forms of environmental collective action. Considering that the geographies of collective action and their ideas of change are not immutable, the paper uses Deluzean theories to compare some cases of mobilization aimed at affirming citizens’ rights to environmental justice, and map their emerging common features, strengths and weaknesses. Although extremely vulnerable to the hic et nunc imperatives, events and manipulation, the transformative potential of these experiments lies in them being autonomous, acting as incubators of alternatives to the idyllic imaginary of the harmonic sustainable neoliberal city and generators of new circulating narratives and experiences of urban sustainability as a dialectical and contested production.Eje 3: Derecho a la ciudad: mutaciones, recomposiciones, adaptaciones, reformulaciones.Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Cities and migration: generative urban policies through contextual vulnerability

Abstract This paper deals with the relationships between urban policies for the integration of migrants and the construction of new spaces of coexistence in the contemporary city. It discusses the limits of the current conceptual framework of integration and shows how it works in a way that seperates space and people from each other. This creates marginalisation and segregation in already unjust and uneven cities. By contrast, the paper proposes a different perspective toward the construction of coexistence between local populations and migrants. It places a particular emphasis on contextual vulnerability and on its role in generative planning experiments that are aimed at creating inclusive cities. It also reflects on some of these experiences by considering their potential to reconnect local people, migrants and places, and shows how a focus on a relational and embodied understanding of vulnerability can give rise to supportive, less disciplining forms of coexistence in the contemporary city

Sustainability and urban democracy: contradictions and hopes emerging from new forms of collective action

Como consecuencia de los cambios profundos y rápidos de la vida urbana, la democracia y la economía que caracterizan la cuidad neoliberal, los movimientos medioambientales han perdidos progresivamente su credibilidad y capacidad de actuar como motor de cambio. Al mismo tiempo, grupos heterogéneo de ciudadanos han imaginado y experimentado con formas nuevas de acción colectiva para contrarrestar desarrollos urbanísticos irregulares e insostenibles. Sin embargo, su potencial para producir una alternativa importante a la producción insostenible del espacio urbano sigue siendo un tema controversial. Este artículo considera las posibilidades transformadoras de estas formas emergentes de acción colectiva ambiental. Teniendo en cuenta que las geografías de acción colectiva y sus ideas respecto al cambio no son inmutables, el articulo utiliza teorías Deluzeanas para comparar algunos casos de movilización, que tienen como objetivo la afirmación de los derechos de los ciudadanos, con la justicia ambiental, y para entender sus características comunes emergentes, así como sus fortalezas y debilidades. Aunque el potencial transformador de estos experimentos es sumamente vulnerable a los imperativos, acontecimientos y manipulación hic et nunc, radica en el hecho que son autónomos, y que sirven como incubadoras de alternativas al imaginario idílico de la cuidad sostenible neoliberal armónica así como originadores de narrativos y experiencias nuevas de sostenibilidad urbana como una producción dialéctica y controvertida.With the profound and rapid changes of urban life, democracy and the economy characterizing the neoliberal city, environmental movements have progressively lost their credibility and capacity to act as a force of change. At the same time, heterogeneous groups of citizens have imagined and experimented with new forms of collective action to counter uneven and unsustainable urban developments. However, their potential to produce a substantial alternative to the neoliberal unsustainable production of urban space remains a contested issue. This paper debates the transformative potentials of these emerging forms of environmental collective action. Considering that the geographies of collective action and their ideas of change are not immutable, the paper uses Deluzean theories to compare some cases of mobilization aimed at affirming citizens’ rights to environmental justice, and map their emerging common features, strengths and weaknesses. Although extremely vulnerable to the hic et nunc imperatives, events and manipulation, the transformative potential of these experiments lies in them being autonomous, acting as incubators of alternatives to the idyllic imaginary of the harmonic sustainable neoliberal city and generators of new circulating narratives and experiences of urban sustainability as a dialectical and contested production.Eje 3: Derecho a la ciudad: mutaciones, recomposiciones, adaptaciones, reformulaciones.Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanism

Promises and Problems in the Governance of Mediterranean Agro-Pastoral Systems: The Case Study of Alta Murgia

Governance, as a wider concept that includes not only government actors but also private sector and civil society, came into use in the 1980s. This paper discusses some major definitions of governance in order to delineate its main indicators. These indicators are then used to discuss premises and problems in the governance of rural areas with special reference to Alta Murgia, in central Apulia. The paper shows that the governance of rural areas holds both promises and problems

Prevalence of resistance-associated substitutions to NS3, NS5A and NS5B inhibitors at DAA-failure in hepatitis C virus in Italy from 2015 to 2019

: Despite the high efficacy of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), the selection of resistance-associated substitutions (RASs) after virological failure of hepatitis C virus (HCV) DAAs can impair the cure of chronic HCV. The aim of the study was to characterize RASs after virological failure of DAAs in Italy over the years. Within the Italian network VIRONET-C, the change in prevalence of NS3/4A-NS5A-NS5B RASs was retrospectively evaluated in patients who failed a DAA regimen over the years 2015-2019. NS3, NS5A and NS5B Sanger sequencing was performed using homemade protocols and the geno2pheno system was used to define HCV-genotype/subtype and predict drug resistance. The changes in the prevalence of RASs over time were evaluated using the chi-square test for trend. Predictors of RASs at failure were analysed by logistic regression. Among 468 HCV-infected patients, HCV genotype 1 was the most prevalent (1b in 154, 33% and 1a in 109, 23%). DAA regimens were: ledipasvir (LDV)/sofosbuvir (SOF) in 131 patients (28%), daclatasvir (DCV)/SOF in 109 (23%), ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir+dasabuvir (3D) in 89 (19%), elbasvir (EBR)/grazoprevir (GRZ) in 52 (10.5%), velpatasvir (VEL)/SOF in 53 (11%), glecaprevir (GLE)/pibrentasvir (PIB) in 27 (6%) and ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir (2D) in 7 (1.5%); ribavirin was administered in 133 (28%). The NS5A fasta sequence was available for all patients, NS5B and NS3/4A both for 93%. The prevalence of NS5A and NS3/4A RASs significantly declined from 2015 to 2019; NS5B RAS remained stable. Independent predictors of any RASs included older age and genotype 1a (vs G2 and vs G4). Notably, at least partial susceptibility to all the agents included in the GLE/PIB and VEL/SOF/Voxilaprevir (VOX) combinations was predicted in >95% of cases. As RASs remain common at the failure of DAAs, their identification could play a crucial role in optimizing re-treatment strategies. In Italy RAS prevalence has been decreasing over the years and susceptibility to the latest developed drug combinations is maintained in most cases

Procedure di valutazione ambientale per una pianificazione sostenibile

Dottorato di ricerca in ingegneria edilizia e territoriale. 6. ciclo. Tutore P. GiordaniConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Biblioteca Centrale - P.le Aldo Moro, 7, Rome; Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale - P.za Cavalleggeri, 1, Florence / CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle RichercheSIGLEITItal

When activism meets radical politics – landscape planning as a catalyst for transformative change

Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Spaces of Dialog for Places of Dignity, Lisbon, 11-14th July, 2017Planning for radical change has been conceptualized in different ways. A number of strong manifestos for change have been drawn up – for reconsidering the absolute faith in economic growth (Mishan, 1967; Hamilton, 2004), for living inter-culturally (Landry, 2000; Sandercock, 1998, 2003), for creating a more sustainable society (Sachs and Esteva, 2003), for social mobilization (Friedmann 1987), for an urban political ecology (Heynen et al., 2005), for recapturing democracy (Purcell, 2008) and for a more radical planning (Albrechts, 2013, 2015). In the vast literature that has been produced on approaches, forms and contents of radical planning, to our knowledge, there are no examples that discuss planning experiences developed by regional governments inspired by program guidelines explicitly aimed at countering neoliberalism (see also Purcell, 2009 on resisting neoliberalization).Published versio

Il primo Workshop per i più giovani della SIU

Il testo approfondisce i modi attraverso i quali appare possibile riuscire a svolgere, come società scientifica, un ruolo di supporto attivo e, allo stesso tempo, propulsivo per i più giovani, parte essenziale e insostituibile della crescita della comunità non solo accademica degli urbanisti italiani. La riflessione incrocia le questioni sempre urgenti e attuali del necessario aggiornamento dei profili formativi all’interno del nostro complesso campo disciplinare entro una più ampia esortazione a re-immaginare le pratiche degli urbanisti italiani (De Leo, Forester 2017; 2018). Ma, anche, inevitabili riflessioni sul raggiungimento di standard elevati di qualità della ricerca urbanistica nel nostro Paese, nelle difficoltà proprie dell’adozione di adeguati metodi di valutazione