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2013, La Citta Nuova Oltre Sant'Elia
This essay introduces Italian readers to Archigram's Plug-in City for the catalog accompanying the exhibition La Citta Nuova Oltre Sant'Elia (Beyond Sant’Elia. A Hundred Years of Urban Visions), Villa Olmo, Como, March-July 2013, curated by Marco de Michelis.
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Journal of Architectural Education
The New Urban Scale in Italy. On Aldo Rossi's L'architettura della citta2006 •
The publication of Aldo Rossi's L’architettura della città in 1966 marked the conclusion of several years of research and writing on architecture and urbanism. Rossi wrote the book as a treatise for a science of urbanism in an attempt to establish the principles and terms for analyzing existing urban conditions. His thesis responded to a polemical debate within Italian architecture of the early 1960s over the future form of the city brought about, in part, by unprecedented transformations in the postwar city. In this essay, I chronicle the cultural context of the debate over urbanism in Italy that motivated Rossi to establish objective principles for a new urban theory, distinguishing between “the architecture of the city,” autonomy, and the concept of la nuova dimensione.
Research in Urban Sociology
Urbanity beyond nostalgia: Discovering public life at the edge of the city of Rome2010 •
The contemporary city of Rome is being built differently from the expanding post-war peripheries. New, mainly private residential developments are changing our perception of the cityscape. According to the General Plan, these projects are designed to encourage a polycentric metropolitanization, with mixed uses and facilities. But they have been critiqued for producing urbanscapes that ‘discourage urbanity’ because the relevant organizational and functional dimensions of public life have been almost totally neglected: foremost among these are the provision of public goods, services to citizens, high-quality standards of construction and an infrastructure allowing for spatial mobility. The main argument for urbanity emphasizes ‘the way of using the space of the city’ in combination with spontaneous forms of interaction within that urban space. This argument contests the production of the contemporary suburban areas of the city and is based upon a sort of nostalgia for the urbanism inherited in the romantic conceptualization of the modern European city, made visible in the celebrations of historical city places. It gives rise to dissatisfaction with the recently built environment which has been critiqued for its ‘absence of urbanity’. Despite – or perhaps because of – this criticism, little attention has been given to deepen the quality of life in those places from an agents-based perspective.In-depth interviews with local residents suggest that these communities represent ‘reserves of urbanity’ in which new forms of interaction may be interpreted as the ‘learning process of living together’, a precondition of both tolerance and civil respect that works as preliminary step in the achievement of public life in the urban periphery.
in A. Carneiro, N. Christie, P. Diarte-Blasco (eds.), Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West. Materials, Agents, and Models, ISSN 2182 8814 ISBN 978-989-26-1898-2;
Reflections in Late Antique cities in Apulia et Calabria and in Southern Italy, Coimbra University Press, Coimbra 2020, pp. 61-87.2020 •
This paper presents some reflections on the new identity acquired by Southern Italian cities between the 4th and the middle of the 6th century AD. The roman towns, that knew continuity of life during the Late Antique period, responded with a resilient behaviour to the effects of long-running processes such as the con- traction of public and private financial resources; the drastic limitation of the role and decision-making power of the ancient urban curiae; the progressive concentration of the peripheral power management functions in a few selected centres.
Urban History, 37 (3), pp. 349-359.
Introduction: Locating Communities in the Early Modern Italian City.2010 •
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Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos (Sección Árabe-Islam), 73 (2024)
DE LA RECUPERACIÓN A LA EXPROPIACIÓN: CAMBIOS EN LA ESTRUCTURA DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA TIERRA EN LAS CIUDADES DEL REINO DE GRANADA EN ÉPOCA MORISCA Y TRAS LA EXPULSIÓN. EL EJEMPLO DE GUADIX2024 •
Route Educational & Social Science Journal
STADTENTWICKLUNG UND TOURISMUS. DIE SALZBURGER IDEE EINER "SAISONSTADT" ANNO 1861 IM VERGLEICH ZUM BEGINN DES TOURISMUS IM OSMANISCHEN REICH2024 •
CASTELO, Sander Cruz. Historiofotia: a escrita cinematográfica da Histórica. In: RODRIGUES, Rui Martinho; LIMA, Jaimes Mazza Correia; MARQUES, Janote Pires (orgs). Teorias da História e Pesquisa em Educação. Fortaleza: EdUECE
Historiofotia: a escrita cinematográfica da historia2015 •
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Preventive Conservation of Vernacular Adobe Heritage Located in Seismic-Prone Regions2020 •
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International Journal of Hematology
Thrombin generation and other coagulation parameters in a patient with homozygous congenital protein S deficiency on treatment with rivaroxaban2015 •
General Relativity and Gravitation
Propagation of gravitational waves in various cosmological backgrounds2021 •
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