Dal Centro Storico alla Città Storica: la dimensione progettuale della conservazione − Il caso di Roma

Com a adoção do Plano Regulador, Roma finalmente adquiriu uma nova perspectiva para construir o seu desenvolvimento, partir de um sistema histórico-ambiental tutelado e valorizado (base concreta da sustentabilidade), valorizando a reorganização funcional e espacial das suas estruturas subterrâneas. Uma cidade projetada em uma dimensão metropolitana e organizada segundo um modelo policêntrico – no qual se chama atenção aos trabalhos regulares e superamentos do velho conceito de centro “histórico”, conjugado à parte mais antiga do centro urbano, e a assunção do conceito de “cidade histórica” – compreende um universo mais vasto e difuso no território (do medieval ao Renascimento ao Novecentos). Um método inovador de leitura da cidade, não mais por zonas homogêneas mas por tecidos − isso permite superar o modo de tratamento unitário por zonas inteiras e lê-las ao invés de diferenciá-las, sobretudo em uma cidade como Roma, e para tanto ler as atuais exigências de transformação, procurando conferir, ou restituir, ao final cidade histórica a difícil tarefa de regular a valorização, orientar as estratégias de requalificação, construir as condições do projeto, recuperando, em tal sentido, a dimensão projetual da conservação

Urban Guidelines and Strategic Plan for a UNESCO World Heritage Candidate Site: The Historical Centre of Sharjah (UAE)

This paper presents the results of theoretical and applied research that employs methodological experimentation in a project for the protection and integrated transformation of the downtown area of the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. The particular nature of this case relates to two factors: (a) strategies and policies to protect and enhance the cultural heritage as a driver for tourism and the cultural development of the entire Emirate, from archaeological goods to the urban fabrics in historical centres (Sharjah and Korfakkhan), in contrast to the surrounding Emirates; and (b) the client’s request to define guidelines to manage the urban cultural heritage during a time of transition while awaiting the results of UNESCO candidacy. This unique fact denotes a sensitivity and long-term policies regarding the cultural heritage which views the recovery of the urban historical heritage, assuming the cultural component as the fourth dimension of sustainability. The methodological approach, the results of the research, and design are organized on the dual urban and building scale to understand the structure and elements of the historical centre. The actions and interventions are differentiated with respect to urban fabric, building, archaeological good, and landscape, and translate the strategies of the guidelines into short-/mid-/long-term design actions

Strategies and Actions to Recover the Landscape after Flooding: The Case of Vernazza in the Cinque Terre National Park (Italy)

European territories are fragile places in which landslides and flooding have occurred with a high frequency in recent decades, risking the safety of settlements and people and the integrity of the landscape. In many cases, recourse has been made to geotechnical and hydraulic interventions that have been rather non-uniform and partial and which, in prestigious areas, have made intervention after the fact problematic in recovering/mitigating what was done with extreme urgency. This paper reports on theoretical/applied research that implements methodological, multi-system experimentation and interdisciplinary skills for a project to recover the landscape within the Cinque Terre National Park (World Heritage Site, Italy). This recovery is capable of responding to the demand for protection, conservation, transformation and management of this cultural landscape par excellence. The methodological approach, the results of the research and the planning solutions span two scales—territorial and local—thereby highlighting the need for an approach to both microand macro-scale knowledge of the cultural landscape system to understand its structure and elements and to intervene with the proper planning sensitivity. Guidelines, masterplans and profiles of the types of intervention constitute the large- and small-scale results of the research, translating the strategies of the guidelines into planning actions

Megalopoli

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Emergenza abitativa,interventi

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Downtown

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Italian immigration in southern Brazil: Reproduction and innovation in the layout of rural houses through the space syntax theory

The structure of a sample of rural houses built by Italian immigrants in Southern Brazil from the last quarter of the 19th century onwards and a sample of Italian rural houses were analyzed using the space syntax theory and techniques. The samples were analyzed to identify key differences in the house genotypes. The main goal of the article is to compare the results regarding the Brazilian sample of houses with the Italian sample of rural houses from the regions of Veneto and Trentino Alto‑Adige, where most of the families that had moved to Southern Brazil came from. Therefore, it will be possible to evaluate whether or not, and to which extent, the Italian immigrants reproduced in Brazil the Italian house structures they used to live in and, more importantly, the relationship between the spatial structure of the houses built in Brazil and the patriarchal social structure that governed the entire society at that time. We inferred so far that the main genotype found in the Italian sample corresponds to the genotype produced in Brazil, a time when the houses were organized around the daily life of the families and suited the prevailing patriarchal social structure. In the Brazilian case, liminal events and a more flexible house plan are able to introduce differences in the way the same house can function, depending on how strangers are admitted into the houses on liminal occasions and in the daily life of the families. In Italy, this kind of flexibility is not found. There are two main hypotheses regarding this aspect: the first one is that the immigrants tend to reproduce the structure of the houses as experienced in Italy but, at the same time, they tend to introduce in Brazil a new typology of houses based on the flexibility of the house plan that is relatively autonomous from their spatial experience in Italy. KEYWORDS: Domestic space. Rural houses. Italian immigration in Brazil

Learning from Experience to Build Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) in the Central Adriatic City (Italy) under the Life+A_GreeNet Project

In Europe, the implementation of urban green infrastructure (UGI) in spatial planning remains slow, although the economic/financial limits of the past have been overcome due to the recent investment priorities established by the Structural Funds and Next Generation EU. The difficulties of integrating UGI in spatial planning regard the limits of researchers’ theoretical approach and the unpreparedness of territories, administrations, and technicians. The Life+ A_GreeNet project aims to overcome these critical points. Several European and national experiences in implementing UGIs are investigated to assess their transferability into techniques and local and large-scale spatial planning tools in the Central Adriatic of Italy through a phase of interaction, learning and listening among local administrations (decision makers and technicians). The objectives shared among various local players are thereby identified. These involve regenerating settlement and environmental systems and beginning to interact on problems and possible solutions that, overcoming administrative limits, regard an entire territory. A framework of commitments for local and large-scale planning therefore emerges, with conditions for the transferability of some techniques and Climate change practical/operational procedures

TOWARDS HEALTHY URBAN DESIGN IN A RATIONALIST NEIGHBOURHOOD: A RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR THE MONTICELLI QUARTER IN ASCOLI PICENO, ITALY

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