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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
Processi di periurbanizzazione nei paesaggi dell'olivo
The urban sprawl in the agrarian territories of Sassari started more than twenty years ago, even
if the urban development is disciplined by urban planning.
In the essay we read the evolution of land use and land government, according to the plans at
different scales; furthermore, a diachronic analysis of land use transformations is done, to underline
the trends toward a sort of urban “dispersion” or “diffusion” (Indovina 1990), both residential
and commercial.
Such urban phenomenon is articulated in different areas, characterized by different ways of interaction
between residential (or commercial) and (residual and marginal) agrarian land uses. This
forms of interaction oscillate between two conditions: one is a sort of “olive trees and residential
landscape”, a unicum of interaction between the trees matrix and the settlement. This landscape –
in which the relationship with the environmental structure of the territory (the valleys system,
Monte Bianchinu, Monte Oro) is privileged– is opposed to the settlements superimposed to the
historical agricultural matrix (Li Punti, Predda Niedda), which dim it and determine non-structured
hybrid edges.
Between these situations, intermediate forms of interaction can be recognized; these need planning
rules ad hoc, that choose the most suitable “devices” to govern the urban phenomena and to
maintain the original landscape matrix
Graphic-Novel “Diario dal confine. Ventimiglia/Diary from the border. Ventimiglia”
Questo fumetto è tratto dall’esperienza di ricerca dell’autrice nel campo delle politiche migratorie dell’Unione europea.
Il breve racconto si focalizza, in particolar modo, sul diario di ricerca scritto durante l’etnografia svolta al confine italo-francese di Ventimiglia
tra settembre e dicembre 2018. Il lavoro desidera documentare alcuni esiti dei controlli francesi alla frontiera – nuovamente in atto dal 2015 – e delle politiche italiane volte a gestire il conseguente aumento dei migranti in transito in città . Il lavoro si focalizza su questi ultimi e sull’impatto negativo che un certo modo di intendere e gestire il confine ha sulle loro vite
Derelict places as “alternative” territories of the city
In her paper “Derelict places as alternative territories of the city” Silvia
Serreli discusses some alternative territories of the city not directly
linkable with the dense metropolis. The experiences illustrated by means
of the concepts of peripherality and proximity offer interesting departure
points for in-depth study of the urban perspectives for non core-areas in
particular.
The crisis processes involving derelict sites are not connected with their
being “small” realities, but with being “isolated” places, far from the
“sources of knowledge creation and transfer”. Situations in peripheral areas
are also investigated, by means of the concept of re-urbanity, in which
new ways of inhabiting are found which shape new spatialities. These are
places where the great tension between the different urban populations, be
it the long-standing residents or the neo-rural in-migrant populations, has revealed new socio-spatial dynamics which highlight significant emerging
practices of the city.
The approach towards new scenarios of territoriality is highlighted by
the author through certain requisites of the project: the environment is the
strategic nucleus of space organisation perspectives and growth of
economies; the environmental structure guides and directs localisation and
organisation of settlement systems and activities; local societies need
urban motivation and environmental awareness. In particular, attention is
drawn to how urban motivation may be produced in the project through the
use of narratives which give voice to territorial subjectivity and put the
social actors in a position to express their values and expectations. The
narrative approach offers itself as one of the modalities of selfrepresentation
of a local society, as it constitutes the exploration of
representations of trajectories that favour recognition of the plural
dimensions of a territory
Il rapporto tra progetto e contesto nell’esperienza didattica delle scuole di architettura di Alghero e di Edimburgo
Dispositivi concettuali e spaziali per la valutazione dei processi urbani nella cittĂ provinciale
City project and public space
The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the territorial dimension as the city’s space of communication and negotiation. Issues that characterise the dynamics of city development will be faced, such as the new, fresh relations between urban societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban equity, the project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social cohesiveness, the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of urban development. Authors have been invited to explore topics that feature a pluralism of disciplinary contributions studying formal and informal practices on the project for the city and seeking conceptual and operative categories capable of understanding and facing the problems inherent in the profound transformations of contemporary urban landscapes