43 results on '"Cecchini, Arnaldo"'
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2. Towards a Design Support System for Urban Walkability
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Blecic, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Trunfio, Giuseppe A.
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- 2015
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3. Addressing Peripherality in Italy: A Critical Comparison between Inner Areas and Territorial Capital-Based Evaluations
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Blečić, Ivan, primary, Cecchini, Arnaldo, additional, Muroni, Emanuel, additional, Saiu, Valeria, additional, Scanu, Serafino, additional, and Trunfio, Giuseppe Andrea, additional
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- 2023
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4. Fast and Accurate Optimization of a GPU-accelerated CA Urban Model through Cooperative Coevolutionary Particle Swarms
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Blecic, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Trunfio, Giuseppe A.
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- 2014
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5. The future of the city from Science to Science Fiction and back (and beyond)
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Cecchini, Arnaldo
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- 2014
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6. L'urbanistica è stata da sempre un crocevia di discipline.
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Cecchini, Arnaldo
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- 2023
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7. Cellular automata simulation of urban dynamics through GPGPU
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Blecic, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Trunfio, Giuseppe A.
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- 2013
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8. A decision support tool coupling a causal model and a multi-objective genetic algorithm
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Blecic, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Trunfio, Giuseppe A.
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- 2007
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9. Erratum to: On the antifragility of cities and of their buildings
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Blečić, Ivan and Cecchini, Arnaldo
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- 2017
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10. Emergency-Proof Tourism: The Heritage of Industrial Archaeology in Internal Areas as a Potential for a Sustainable Tourism
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Beretić, Nađa, primary, Talu, Valentina, additional, and Cecchini, Arnaldo, additional
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- 2021
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11. Wine cellars of Negotin – Participatory Urban Design
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Đukanović, Zoran, Đukanović, Zoran, Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo, Đukanović, Zoran, Đukanović, Zoran, and Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo
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The book "Wine Cellars of Negotin: Participatory Urban Design" presents a summary of five years of activities. It is a logical continuation of the previously published book and collaborations, which have initiated earlier. The first collaboration between the Municipality of Negotin and the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture - Public Art & Public Space Program - PaPs [http://www.publicart-publicspace.org/] has started in 2011. A very wide range of top academic, public, and private institutions and top experts, from Serbia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the UK has accompanied this collaboration. The first results of the activities, which were realized from 2011 to mid-2014, are presented in the book “VinoGrad - The Art of Wine” [http://www.publicart-publicspace.org/publications/books/vinograd-the-art-of-wine173], published in 2015. Therefore, this book is a result of the activities that have been implemented since mid-2014. Developing as a continuation of the previous research and achieved results, implementation of the activities in the last five years has evolved in three basic directions. These directions make the structure of the book. Firstly, connecting the city of Negotin to the international networks aimed at the knowledge transfer through twinning, or networking with cities that share similar experiences from the past and similar hopes for a desired future. Secondly, drafting concrete project proposals for the revitalization of Negotin wine cellars as a distinct development base for the restoration of wine-growing methods and wine production techniques that have traditionally celebrated this region. This is in order to prove the possibility of introducing modern approaches to the revival of the viniculture, protecting the heritage, and closer linkage of these sectors with the daily needs and routines of both existing and future users. Thirdly, the book presents the initiative and implementation of international scientific research proj more...
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- 2019
12. Geotourism as a development tool of the Geo-mining Park in Sardinia
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Beretić, Nađa, Beretić, Nađa, Đukanović, Zoran, Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo, Beretić, Nađa, Beretić, Nađa, Đukanović, Zoran, and Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo
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Theory and practice about geoparks and the geotourism concept consider not only the geological heritage, but also its relationship to all other aspects of the natural, cultural and intangible heritage as a cornerstone of sustainability and well-being. In doing so, geotourism could be a powerful tool for the preservation and development of the heritage. The Geo-mining Park in Sardinia marks centuries of geological, mining and historical and environmental heritage. The recognition of the Sardinian Geopark by UNESCO in 1997 as innovative, and as a heritage of great importance, created administrative and legislative opportunities. However, the territory lacks a territorial development strategy and administration structure for managing the heritage. With the indirect pressure from the tourism industry the region faces, over the next few decades, a deep social-economic crisis and neglect of the landscapes and settlements. This paper aims to examine geotourism as sustainable strategic approach and territorial planning tool that based on multi-source networking and, that benefits both, development of the local community and preservation of the Geo-mining Park in Sardinia. more...
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- 2019
13. Problem issues of public participation in heritage conservation: Geo-mining park in Sardinia
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Beretić, Nađa, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Đukanović, Zoran
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Heritage planning ,Governance ,Identity ,Public participation ,Sardinia - Abstract
Public participation and bottom-up approach have spread across the field of heritage since last two decades. Theory and practice about heritage conservation note strengthening the local capacitiesoverrecognition and inclusion of local communities in the decision-making processas vital for more sustainable development. UNESCO proclaims theuniversal value of the Geo-mining Park in Sardinia in 1997. The institutionalisation by Regional Decree in 2006 gave onadministrative and legislative opportunities, but socio-economic crisis and neglecting of mining landscape still follows the decaying trend. The paper aims to examine the problematic issues of public participation in heritage conservation facing the case of Geo-mining Park in Sardinia. The paper highlights the importance of public participation in heritage conservation and the role of local communities in the decision-making process through the theoretical framework. Additionally, participation process as an integrated heritage conservation approach delineates the features that give a unique character and provide the sense of belonging that lies at the core of thecultural identity of the heritage site. Furthermore, the paper introduces Geo-mining Parkin Sardinia picturing the problematic issues about public participation rise in the foundation process, and that left the consequences until nowadays. An overview of theorganisational structure, principles of making-decision, the role and recognition of local communities and collaboration patterns pictured the contextual problems illustrating the current governing structure. The paper found that the complicated institutionalisation process of Sardinia case demonstrates top to down institutional efforts from the foundation process without responding the needs of the civic sector. Lack of an effective public participation mechanism and exclusion of the civicsector from making-decision process detached the people from the landscape and contributed to the loss of identity.Accordingly, to the identified problem issues, implications and recommendations about the participation process are made in conclusion. more...
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14. Mobility Policies and Extra-Small Projects for Improving Mobility of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Cecchini, Arnaldo, primary, Congiu, Tanja, additional, Talu, Valentina, additional, and Tola, Giulia, additional
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- 2018
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15. Towards sustainable regional development through social networking - 'Negotinska krajina' case
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Đukanović, Zoran, Živković, Jelena, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Beretić, Nađa, Plaisant, Alessandro, Battaglini, Elena, Giofre, Francesca, and Lalović, Ksenija
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Social networking ,Sustainable development ,Knowledge transfer ,Collaboration ,Wine region - Abstract
Like many other rural regions in post-socialist countries, Negotinska krajina wine region faces serious decline in wine production and severe depopulation. In order to reverse these negative trends, strengthening local capacities, through development of social networks, exchange and transfer of knowledge, expertise and know-how, is recognised in planning theory and practice as vital for more sustainable development of rural regions. This paper presents a process of developing a complex and dynamic model of collaboration between local institutions, companies and communities from Negotinska krajina region and Serbian and Italian academic and scientific institutions, experts and companies, in order to achieve: a) Increased transfer of knowledge, experiences and practices of local representatives and wine growers from Negotinska krajina region and partners; b) Increased knowhow transfer among academic partners and practical knowledge transfer among local public, private and civic stakeholders and academic institutions from Serbia and Italy; c) Institutionalized inter sectorial collaboration and ‘city to city’ cooperation. Some of the partners in this collaboration are: University of Belgrade-Faculty of Architecture;..... Fondazione De Vittorio (ex IRES – Istituto Ricerche Economiche e Sociali); Department......– Società cooperativa Agricola per azioni; Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade; University of Belgrade-Faculty of Philosophy, and Italian Embassy in Belgrade. more...
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- 2017
16. Walkability and Street Intersections in Rural-Urban Fringes: A Decision Aiding Evaluation Procedure
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Blecic, Ivan, primary, Canu, Dario, additional, Cecchini, Arnaldo, additional, Congiu, Tanja, additional, and Fancello, Giovanna, additional
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- 2017
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17. Is urban gaming simulation useful?
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Cecchini, Arnaldo and Rizzi, Paola
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Simulation methods -- Methods ,Simulation games in education -- Usage ,Computers ,Computers and office automation industries - Abstract
The practical, methodological and epistemological reasons for the crisis in Urban Gaming Simulation (UGS) are discussed.
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- 2001
18. Walkability Explorer. An Evaluation and Design Support Tool for Walkability
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Blečić, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Congiu, Tanja, Fancello, Giovanna, and Trunfio, Giuseppe Andrea
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Walkability ,Evaluation ,Decision support ,GIS ,ELECTRE TRI ,ING-INF/05 Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni ,lcsh:TA1001-1280 ,lcsh:HT361-384 ,ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica ,lcsh:Urbanization. City and country ,ICAR/22 Estimo ,lcsh:Transportation engineering ,ICAR/05 Trasporti - Abstract
Walkability Explorer is a software tool for the evaluation of urban walkability which, we argue, is an important aspect of the quality of life in cities. Many conventional approaches to the assessment of quality of life measure the distribution, density and distances of different opportunities in space. But distance is not all there is. To reason in terms of urban capabilities of people we should also take into account the quality of pedestrian accessibility and of urban opportunities offered by the city. The software tool we present in this paper is an user-friendly implementation of such an evaluation approach to walkability. It includes several GIS and analysis features, and is interoperable with other standard GIS and data-analysis tools., Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2014: INPUT 2014 - Smart City: planning for energy, transportation and sustainability of the urban system more...
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- 2014
19. Ti senti volare, ti senti libero. La città come ambiente di apprendimento
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Cecchini, Arnaldo \\'Bibo\\', Bonini, Gabriella, Brusa, Antonio, Cervi, Rina, and Garimberti, Emanuela
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D111 Medieval History - Published
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20. 'Glocal' governance capacity: Mining heritage of Sardinia
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Beretić, Nađa, Beretić, Nađa, Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo, Đukanović, Zoran, Plaisant, Alessandro, Beretić, Nađa, Beretić, Nađa, Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo, Đukanović, Zoran, and Plaisant, Alessandro
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The paper explores government capacities of Sardinian mining heritage (dating back 8 thousand years of mining culture, crashed as an industrial engine in '60s and proclaimed as heritage of great importance by UNESCO in 1997.). Nowadays, characterized by depopulation, lack of management and managing, astonishing sites are conceived, semi-perceived and pseudo-lived. The research has an orientation, character and strategy, pragmatic orientated with qualitative character; oriented to determine what and how should be done in relation to what is wanted to be done. It is a multidisciplinary approach, which implies that research always takes place in a specific social, historical, economic and political context. Questioning trends and urban potentials of Sardinian territories, with a contemporary European strategy, the research discusses on shared cultural experience as long term sustainability, lies down and raises at the level of the local community. The main paper issue is examining 'Glocal' - local and global inter-governance capacity by using 'Axes of partnership' (local - Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale - European and Global Geoparks Network - UNESCO) as the first component of creative partnering, which leads to integration of local communities into participative, cultural, redevelopment process in the context of Sardinian mining heritage as system design sustainability., Rad se bavi istraživanjem kapaciteta upravljanja rudnim industrijskim nasleđem Sardinije. Rudarska kultura Sardinije datira iz perioda od pre 8 hiljada godina, gde je oduvek predstavljala industrijski razvojni motor regiona, ugašena je '60-ih godina prošlog veka, a kasnije, 1997. godine, proglašena od strane UNESCO-a za nasleđe od izuzetnog značaja. Danas, ovi predeli se odlikuju izrazitom depopulacijom, i nedovoljnim kapacitetima upravljanja i rukovođenja; pejzaži izuzetne lepote imaju karakter osmišljenih, ali polu-doživljenih i pseudo-živih mesta. Istraživanje je pragmatične orijentacije, sa kvalititativnim karakterom; orijentisano da utvrdi šta i kako treba raditi u odnosu na željenu budućnost. Ono je multidisciplinarnog pristupa i uvek podrazumeva istraživanje u određenom društvenom, istorijskom, ekonomskom i političkom kontekstu. Ispitivanje trendova i urbanih potencijala sardinijske teritorije rađeno je u komparaciji sa savremenom evropskom strategijom. Istraživanje govori o 'zajedničkom kulturnom iskustvu' kao dugoročnoj komponenti održivosti, koja počiva, zasnovana je i pokreće se, na nivou lokalne zajednice. Glavno pitanje rada razmatra 'Glokalnu', lokalnu i globalnu, sposobnost upravljanja pomoću 'ose partnerstva' (lokalni nivo - Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale - evropska i globalna mreža geoparkova - UNESKO), kao prve komponente kreativnog partnerstva, koja vodi ka integrisanju lokalne zajednice u participativni, kulturni, proces ponovnog razvoja, u kontekstu sardinijskog rudnog nasleđa kao održivog dizajna ovog sistema. more...
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- 2015
21. Il paesaggio come bene comune (e un esempio di gioco per imparare a gestire i beni comuni)
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Cecchini, Arnaldo \\'Bibo\\', Bonini, Gabriella, Brusa, Antonio, and Cervi, Rina
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- 2010
22. L’esplosione urbana: un fenomeno a molte dimensioni
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Cecchini, Arnaldo, Schirru, Maria Rita, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Schirru, Maria Rita
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Il mondo sta diventando un mondo di città. Un fenomeno incessante e che si svolge a velocità crescente è quello dell’esplosione urbana che spesso si manifesta come sprawl, ma che non è solo sprawl. Far fronte al fenomeno dell’esplosione urbana non è semplice, anche perché non è un solo fenomeno, ma fenomeni diversi per morfologia e per cause. E allora non vi è una sola soluzione per controllare l’esplosione urbana, come ripete il mantra della “città compatta” come l’unica e un po’ vaga soluzione. Governare l’esplosione urbana vuol certamente dire accrescere la densità e concentrare le aree urbanizzate, ma questo può essere fatto solo comprendendo le specificità dei diversi fenomeni e identificando la “cura” corretta, con un atteggiamento progettuale lungimirante. Come pianificare una nuova via per rendere possibile lo sviluppo di questi territori, pensando alle interazioni e ai legami tra i diversi livelli, le diverse funzioni, le diverse popolazioni, ma anche fra piano e progetto? Si può partire dal presupposto che sia possibile ridurre gli effetti negativi del periurbano pur conservandone e valorizzandone i vantaggi, ricercando dei “compromessi”, attraverso l’individuazione di una serie di strumenti urbanistici coadiuvati da misure economico-fiscali. La pianificazione urbanistica non può, da sola, governare il fenomeno periurbano, perché le convenienze in gioco sono numerose e in capo ad una moltitudine di soggetti diversi; quindi si deve operare, oltre che sugli strumenti urbanistici, anche su quelli economico-fiscali, proponendo un riordino del sistema fiscale, integrato nella pianificazione urbanistica ed ambientale delle città. Proveremo a indicare come, The world is today a “world of cities”. In this world there is phenomenon that is an incessant phenomenon, that occurs at an increasing speed: the urban explosion, that is sprawl, ma not only sprawl. To cope with this phenomenon is not easy, mainly because it is not a single phenomenon, but a set of related phenomena, different for morphology and different in causes. Then there is not a sole solution to control the urban explosion, as it is told by the rather simplistic mantra of the compact city. The control of the urban explosion needs to increase density and concentrate urbanization, but we can operate this control only if we understand the diversity of phenomena to identify the right treatment, designing with far-sightedness, How to design and plan a new way to allow a development of these territories, looking at the interaction between the different levels of governance, the different functions, the different populations? Uno starting point could be that it is possible to reduce the negative effects of suburbanization, maintaining the advantages, finding a “compromise” when needed; it implies to combine planning regulations with fiscal end economical measures. Urban and territorial planning cannot govern the sub-urbanisation by itself: we have a complex game with a lot of diverging actors; we must integrate planning and fiscal systems. We’ll try to say how., Peer Reviewed more...
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- 2014
23. Perché e come promuovere la camminabilitá urbana a partire dalle esigenze degli abitanti piú svantaggiati: il progetto 'Extrapedestri. Lasciati conquistare dalla mobilità aliena!'
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Arras, Francesca, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Ghisu, Elisa, Idini, Paola, Talu, Valentina, Arras, Francesca, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Ghisu, Elisa, Idini, Paola, and Talu, Valentina
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La città contemporanea è una città a misura di automobilista. Chi non vuole o non può usare l'automobile per spostarsi non è in grado di esercitare pienamente il proprio diritto urbano di accesso ed uso degli spazi e delle strade sottratti dalle automobili all'uso pubblico e collettivo. Il prerequisito per la riconquista di questo diritto urbano negato è la promozione di un vero e proprio cambiamento culturale in materia di mobilità, attraverso il coinvolgimento consapevole e responsabile degli abitanti nelle politiche e nei progetti di promozione della mobilità altra, in particolare di coloro che subiscono la maggior parte delle conseguenze negative determinate dalla presenza invasiva delle automobili nella città: bambini, anziani, persone disabili e pedoni (e ciclisti) in generale. Nell'articolo descriveremo il progetto pilota "Extrapedestri. Lasciati conquistare dalla mobilità aliena!" che si pone l'obiettivo di promuovere la camminabilità urbana di due quartieri marginali della città di Sassari (e, in prospettiva, di tutta la città, trattandosi un progetto facilmente replicabile) a partire dalle esigenze, dai desideri e dalla "capacità di disobbedienza" dei bambini, uno dei gruppi di abitanti più svantaggiati in materia di mobilità., Contemporary city is a car-friendly city. Those who cannot or do not want to use a car are not capable to fully exercise their fundamental urban right to access and to use the public spaces and the streets. In this paper, we argue that it is possible to make more effective policies aimed at building walkable cities making reference to the desires and needs of disadvantaged groups. In particular, we concentrate on children as one of the most vulnerable groups of inhabitants of the city. The role children can play in improving urban quality of life is fundamental, for a number of reasons, most important of which, for the purpose of this paper, is their "capability of disobedience" which might be used as a force of urban transformation. Then, we present one project through which we try to promote the urban walkability of the city of Sassari starting from children's involvement: "ExtraPedestrians: let yourself be conquered by the 'alien' mobility"., Peer Reviewed more...
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- 2014
24. Progettare la cittá di prossimitá per promuovere le 'capacitá urbane' degli abitanti svantaggiati
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Blečić, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Minchilli, Maurizio, Talu, Valentina, Blečić, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Minchilli, Maurizio, and Talu, Valentina
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La promozione della qualità della vita urbana passa necessariamente attraverso la costruzione di una città inclusiva, una città effettivamente "usabile" da tutti i suoi abitanti. Anche e soprattutto da chi, a causa di una qualche condizione (permanente o temporanea), si discosta dall'immagine dell'abitante-tipo adulto, maschio, sano, istruito, ricco e automunito e non é quindi "capace" (o non lo è pienamente) di accedere ai luoghi, ai servizi, alle opportunità e alle informazioni della città che sono progettate, organizzate e governate precisamente in funzione delle esigenze e dei desideri di questo abitante-tipo. Rilevanti sono in tal senso i progetti e le politiche che si concentrano soprattutto sulle periferie con l'intento di promuovere la qualità della vita urbana quotidiana degli abitanti . Accanto ai grandi (e costosi) interventi di riqualificazione, particolarmente utili sono le trasformazioni a scala di quartiere, le "micro" trasformazioni, perché sono in grado di migliorare concretamente l'usabilità di quella che può essere definita "città quotidiana e di prossimità", la città, cioè, che gli abitanti conoscono, "usano" (o "userebbero" se fosse effettivamente accessibile e usabile) e di cui possono prendersi cura. L'articolo cerca di mostrare perché è efficace e pertinente un approccio legato ad una dimensione "micro" degli interventi, anche attraverso il racconto di alcune esperienze sul campo condotte da Tamalacà, un gruppo di ricerca e azione del Dipartimento di Architettura Design e Urbanistica (DADU) dell'Università di Sassari., Upgrading the quality of urban life necessarily goes hand in hand with building up an inclusive city, a city actually “usable” by all its inhabitants. The kind of project that is important from this point of view will focus on the most marginal areas of the city. Alongside the large, costly urban redevelopment interventions, transformations on a neighbourhood scale and "micro" dimension are particularly useful. This article attempts to show why an approach involving intervention linked with a “micro” dimension is effective and pertinent, and also describes a significant experiment carried out by the action research group TaMaLaCà of the Department of Architecture Design and Planning - Architecture at Alghero (University of Sassari) in the town of Sassari., Peer Reviewed more...
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- 2014
25. Un sistema di supporto alla pianificazione e progettazione della walkability e dell’accessibilità pedonale
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Blecic, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Congiu, Tanja, Pazzola, Myriam, Trunfio, Giuseppe A., Blecic, Ivan, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Congiu, Tanja, Pazzola, Myriam, and Trunfio, Giuseppe A.
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Il contributo propone un metodo e uno strumento per la valutazione della qualità della vita urbana basato sui concetti di walkability e di accessibilità pedonale di luoghi della città rilevanti con i quali estendere le capacità degli individui e partecipare concretamente alle urban opportunities. Il modello di valutazione utilizza i percorsi pedonali esistenti della rete viaria e valuta la loro qualità in base a diversi attributi importanti per la pedonalità. L’applicazione del sistema proposto al caso studio di valutazione del progetto di riorganizzazione della Segunda Circular (seconda circonvallazione) di Lisbona consente di mostrarne i possibili utilizzi e di trarre alcune riflessioni sulla base dei risultati ottenuti., We present a methodology and a tool for evaluating the quality of life in cities based on walkability and pedestrian accessibility of places which are relevant for people's capabilities. The evaluation model uses the actual pedestrian routes along the street network and considers their quality on several attributes important for their walkability. We furthermore demonstrate possible uses of the support system by reporting and discussing the results of a case-study assessment of a project for the Lisbon Segunda Circular (Second Rind Road)., Peer Reviewed more...
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- 2014
26. SUPPORTING URBAN PLANNING WITH CAGE: A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT TO SIMULATE COMPLEX SYSTEMS
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CECCHINI, ARNALDO, primary and TRUNFIO, GIUSEPPE A., additional
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- 2007
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27. MULTI-AGENT BASED MODELLING OF AN ENDOGENOUS-MONEY ECONOMY.
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BLECIC, Ivan, CECCHINI, Arnaldo, and TRUNFIO, Giuseppe A.
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MULTIAGENT systems ,BANK loans ,INDUSTRIAL productivity ,LABOR market ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) - Abstract
We present an agent-based model of a simple endogenous-money economy. The model simulates agents representing individual persons who can work, consume, invent new products and related production technologies, apply for a loan from the bank and start up a business. Through the interaction of persons with the firms, we simulate the production of goods, consumption and labour market. In order to achieve a significant level of realism of the simulations, the firms are modelled as'adaptive agents using an effective reinforcement learning approach in continuous space. This setting allows us to explore how an endogenous-money economy can be built up from scratch, as an emergent property of actions and interactions among heterogeneous agents once money is injected into a non-monetary self-production (or barter) economy. In the paper, we first empirically investigate the learning capability of the firm agents. Then, we discuss the results of some computational experiments under different significant scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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- 2015
28. A decision support tool coupling a causal model and a multi-objective genetic algorithm
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Blecic, Ivan, primary, Cecchini, Arnaldo, additional, and Trunfio, Giuseppe A., additional
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- 2006
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29. The diffused city of the Italian North-East: identification of urban dynamics using cellular automata urban models
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Besussi, Elena, primary, Cecchini, Arnaldo, additional, and Rinaldi, Enrico, additional
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30. Commercial Vacancy Prediction Using LSTM Neural Networks.
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Lee, Jaekyung, Kim, Hyunwoo, Kim, Hyungkyoo, Beretić, Nađa, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Talu, Valentina
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Previous studies on commercial vacancy have mostly focused on the survival rate of commercial buildings over a certain time frame and the cause of their closure, due to a lack of appropriate data. Based on a time-series of 2,940,000 individual commercial facility data, the main purpose of this research is two-fold: (1) to examine long short-term memory (LSTM) as a feasible option for predicting trends in commercial districts and (2) to identify the influence of each variable on prediction results for establishing evidence-based decision-making on the primary influences of commercial vacancy. The results indicate that LSTM can be useful in simulating commercial vacancy dynamics. Furthermore, sales, floating population, and franchise rate were found to be the main determinants for commercial vacancy. The results suggest that it is imperative to control the cannibalization of commercial districts and develop their competitiveness to retain a consistent floating population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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- 2021
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31. A Cultural Heritage Low Entropy Enhancement Approach: An Ex Post Evaluation of Creative Practices.
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Cerreta, Maria, Daldanise, Gaia, Giovene di Girasole, Eleonora, Torre, Carmelo Maria, Beretić, Nađa, Talu, Valentina, and Cecchini, Arnaldo
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According to the current European and Italian scenario related to urban regeneration, cultural and landscape heritage valorization is being enhanced by the activation of innovative processes and new emerging approaches. These involve the development of methodologies and tools that can address decision-making processes based on creative practices consistent with a concept named "low-entropy economy" in this paper. The low-entropy economy represents an economic approach based on the minimization of physical urban transformation and the enhancement of the existing heritage. In this perspective, the research aims to develop the Cultural Heritage Low Entropy Enhancement (CHLEE) approach by exploring how some frugal experiences have promoted cultural heritage enhancement and related complex values through a program of temporary uses and activities able to produce new values, where the human experience is essential. A crucial role is represented by the heterogeneity of creative practices that contribute to identifying and implementing innovative management and governance models. The analysis of creative practices, based upon the ex post evaluation of some Italian case studies across the PROMETHEE-GAIA multicriteria method, is able to show how these experiences build innovation ecosystems and improve the ex ante evaluation for new strategies and policies, underlining strengths, weaknesses, and milestones that shape creative experiences as drivers of urban competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] more...
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32. La Pianificazione in zone di conflitto: il caso di Gerico nei Territori Palestinesi occupati
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Isayed, Mohammed, Pascucci, Vincenzo, and Cecchini, Arnaldo
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica ,ICAR/21 Urbanistica - Abstract
In the Israeli-Palestinian context there is an intricate territorial conflict based on two different and contrasting narratives of historical, cultural and religious belonging. In this clash, it is the state of Israel that holds power and exercises it through spatial, politicaladministrative and economic control over the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Since 1948 a continuous process of contraction of Palestinian Territories (PT) has been initiated, this by means of targeted policies such as the incessant construction of Israeli settlements, the declaration of military zones and the construction of by Pass roads etc. The research explores and analyzes the role that planning has played in the process of colonization of the PT, using planning techniques to achieve political objectives, by making the strong part prevails against the weaker one. Thus, this thesis aims, from one hand to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of planning system used by the Palestinian National Authority in areas of its sovereignty: it is done through the use of analytical and comparative methodology to study the planning system in the PT and its historical development and the descriptive method of the impacts of Israeli policy on Palestinian cities. From the other hand, by using the city of Jericho as a case study, the thesis elaborates the research issues and advices for better planning and management of the PT based on future scenarios of the political situation. more...
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- 2020
33. Why a Learning City could be a Healthy City? Why and how to bypass the rhetoric of innovative learning spaces, using the construct of the [urban] capability [sensitive design] approach
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Arras, Francesca and Cecchini, Arnaldo
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ICAR/21 Urbanistica ,ICAR/14 Composizione architettonica e urbana - Abstract
This research aims to demonstrate if and how a Learning City can exist, and satisfy the requirement of a Healthy City, trying to give an operational meaning to this word beyond the current definitions and guidelines (OMS, OECD, UNESCO, ONU, MIUR) reflecting on the educational potential of space. The results of the research demonstrate a "healthy city” is above all a fully, inclusive and enabling, innovative and safe "usable and used" city by all its inhabitants. A malleable and transformable urban environment, not only a container of health or learning, but also as an instrument that creates them and allows the people to be not only recipients, but co-authors of their own processes of development and well-being in the full sense, in an emancipatory perspective. The research is therefore inscribed in the broad debate on what it means to be a "healthy city" as well as the particularly effervescent "innovative" learning spaces, "re-organizing” the priorities of the urban agenda. The research approach aims to overcome the limits inherent in the disciplinary and academic fields, often characterised by fragmentation and isolation, by moving onto other disciplinary domains, especially in the pedagogical sciences; re-center the city around the theme of learning, beyond the enclosures / standards/ disciplinary and exclusion devices produced by the contemporary city, from the beginning of the modern city. At the same time, the rhetoric of the Innovative Learning Spaces is replaced with projects / processes (of space and learning) based on the "Capability Approach" as a founding paradigm of the spatial and pedagogical choices (with the perspective for lifelong/wide/deep learning). In the III part of the work (chapter IV and V) explains the reasons why this could occur, opening learning spaces to the city and vice versa, from the perspective of widespread learning, with a series of reflections, ideas, research trails, case studies, and direct experience in the field as well as in the sphere of research & action. A possible methodology is introduced suggesting to elaborate the concept of "tactical counter-device" chosen as a tool that, by its nature, is able to “hack” and “dubug” space into an inclusive perspective, capacitative-enabling, "beta-permanent", open and incremental. Starting a new concept of learning, which guarantees different yet fair opportunities to all, ensuring everyone will have the chance to use and enjoy the city with respect to the development prospects chosen for each-ones own life and action projects, especially for all those categories of "disadvantaged" inhabitants to whom the city is hostile and inaccessible. more...
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- 2019
34. Italy-Serbia bilateral research project 'Learning Economies. Modelling Community-Led Local Development for the Sustainable Economic Trajectories of the Negotin and Zlatibor Regions'
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Battaglini, Elena, Živković, Jelena, Đukanović, Zoran, and Cecchini, Arnaldo Bibo
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Collaborative research ,Learning economies ,Sustainable regional development ,Community led local development - Abstract
The research project „Learning Economies. Modelling Community-Led Local Development for the Sustainable Economic Trajectories оf the Negotin аnd Zlatibor Regions” is a policy oriented project that provides a platform for interdisciplinary scientific collaboration on identification and construction of a Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) intervention model on the regional sustainable development paths.The project is part of the “Executive Programme for Scientific and Technological Cooperation Between the Italian Republic and The Republic of Serbia for the Years 2016-2018” as a "Joint Research Project of Particular Relevance" ("Progetti di Grande Rilevanza" aisensi della I. 401/90). more...
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- 2019
35. The City as theatre: the performing space
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Campus, Giovanni, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Đukanović, Zoran
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ICAR/21 Urbanistica - Abstract
This research aims at investigating the theoretical basis, the role, and the regularities of performing arts in the urban environment. References to theatre and dance are abundant in urban studies, but they serve almost exclusively as metaphors. Investigating the specificity of performing arts will also allow clarifying the performative aspects of every artistic intervention in urban space. Indeed, from ancient rituals to contemporary street theatre, an intentional and staged action plays a central role not only in the processes of sense giving and community building, or in what is today called "placemaking," but also in the "production of space." Three main conceptual tools are identified: the rhythmanalytical method, as sketched by Lefebvre; the trialectical logic, as elaborated by the Situationist International; and the category of liminality, as defined by Turner. The second section of the work, called "Atlas," while working as a repertoire of case studies supporting the theoretical text, is also intended to work autonomously by building a parallel discourse through images. That section aims to demonstrate how a range of performance interventions produce the city and underscore the notion that theatre is a requirement in the production – or building – of urban space and, as such, forms a continuum with architecture and urban design. The thesis is completed with a section of interviews with choreographers and directors who have dedicated their attention to performance in the urban environment. more...
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- 2018
36. Diritto alla città e diritto all'ambiente urbano: dalle pratiche alle regole
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Guido, Roberta, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and D'Orsogna, Domenico
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica ,IUS/10 Diritto amministrativo - Abstract
The research is driven by the motivation to contribute to the elaboration of the "science of the city" (Lefebvre), through the study of relationships and correlations which insist in the city. The choice is to investigate processes in which the lefebvrian concept of the “right to the city” is claimed in order to verify if it can be verified in these contexts not only the emergence of rights or a way of exercising rights related to the city. Above all, it intends to understand if a capacity for legal production can be identified. Recognizing the impossibility and uselessness of denying the conflict, and even evaluating the contribution of urban movements and practices in promoting greater collective well-being, it was decided to verify their contribution to generate another meaning of the right to the city that include the genesis of rules and effective government tools. It has been chosen to adopt a methodology strongly based on research-action and case-studies that allowed analysis and continuous interactions. It was intended to operate considering the interaction between movements and groups with the institutions, in order to verify dialectics according to their contribution to the general interest, for an improvement of institutions and generative processes of norms. more...
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37. Production of space: reproduction of mining landscape in Sardinia
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Beretic, Nada, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Dukanovic, Zoran
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica ,ICAR/15 Architettura del paesaggio - Abstract
The research examined mining landscape in Sardinia (Geo-mining, Historical and Environmental Park in Sardinia) as a place for everyday living. Developed within the theoretical framework of ‘production of space’ and cultural landscape concept it challenged place to identify and public participation in heritage conservation. Topic-specific theoretical principles and cases of practice have shown central role of everyday life routine and public participation in making-decision process for long-term heritage sustainability. Comprehensive elaboration of mining landscape in Sardinia confirmed domination of abstract space (bureaucracy and economy - mining industry in the past) that has modelled the landscape ever since. Productive synthesis of theoretical findings and international practices complemented the guidelines for the Sardinian case. Reproduction model illustrated components to the interpretative, evaluative and transformative value of mining landscape in Sardinia. Place identity (bound of place and people) is vital for reproduction of mining landscape in Sardinia as a place for living and loving. Both theory and practice, suggest territoriality of place-specific identities. The development principles focused rethinking the heritage conception on the regional level but starting from and with the local community. Research suggests more amplification of everyday life practices for a particular site of the mining landscape in Sardinia. more...
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- 2018
38. Strategie per la gestione della questione dei rifugiati a partire dalla lunga storia ed esperienza della Giordania
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Yaaqba, Amjad, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Plaisant, Alessandro
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica - Abstract
The essential theme of this research is the refugee issue in Jordan. This phenomenon, which accompanies the history of the Kingdom of Jordan, can’t be considered only as the management of an emergency through sectorial policies disconnected and not addressing the issue of administrative reorganization and promotion of public participation. For these reasons, its necessary to start from the history of Jordan: from a long history of refugees and asylum-seekers (Attachment 1), from a role it plays at international level as a territory where the government defines experimental management forms (Attachment 2), to description the current administrative situation of the Kingdom of Jordan (Chapter 5); in addiction, it is fundamental to deal with the actual crisis caused by the conflict in Syria (Chapter 4). These topics interrelate in Chapter 6; define the guide lines to deal with the problem of refugees and the question of government of the territory in Jordan (management of collective services, reorganization of administrative authority). The case study, useful to understand the current situation, is the refugee camp of Zaatari (illustrate in Chapter 2), from which can be draw inspiration information and good practices to create urban and territorial strategies for a refugees. more...
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39. L’Abitare collettivo: sperimentazioni e progetti degli anni ‘50 e ‘60 tra New Empiricism e Carta dell’Habitat
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Scalas, Sabrina, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Miàs, Josep, and Marotta, Antonello
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ICAR/14 Composizione architettonica e urbana - Abstract
The topic of housing, understood as grouping of social housing or as construction of “bourgeois” apartment buildings, in recent decades has seen a constant renewal of perspectives related to urban newly-built projects, to the recovery of brownfields and of course to the recovery of existing buildings. Following the creeping economic crisis, which has affected most of the advanced economies for almost a decade, the theme of house has taken again a central role in the discipline of architectural design and in the urban and social development planning policies. This dissertation, therefore, aims to investigate what happened, especially in Europe, in the two decades after the end of the Second World War. This period of strong revision of the concepts and theories of dwelling in different disciplinary environments and the consequent need of social and urban reconstruction, urged designers, theorists, philosophers to question themselves again about principles of dwelling, with all the implications that this new reflection generated. Among the Fifties and Sixties and the present day there are many similarities, especially in the economic and social fields. Research on collective housing project, that has been a central theme of the contemporary architecture since the early 2000s, reinterprets many of the trials of those years, rediscovering the inhabitant as a thinking man and not as a number. This research work, therefore, wants to: understand what are today the design actions focused on collective housing and on shared living that can affect the architectural and social renewal of the contemporary urban palimpsest and that reinterpret the models of the ‘50s and ‘60s; to investigate the experimental and greatly distinguishing examples, that belong to a historical period that will still probably need a historical gap to be better understood and absorbed; to analyze changes and transformations relating to the theme of collective dwelling, that occurred since the end of the Forties, through the Fifties to get to the Sixties; to find in the models of the ‘50s and ‘60s current references capable of returning an architecture closer to the perception of the space of the so-called “man in the street” that in 1949 was considered by James Maude Richards as first recipient of architectural production. more...
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40. La Strada come progetto di spazio pubblico: strumenti convenzionali e non per il progetto dello spazio pubblico a partire dalle differenze degli individui
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Idini, Paola, Cecchini, Arnaldo, and Miàs Gifre, Josep
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica - Abstract
The “Street as Project of Public Space” problem is a “Right to the City” problem. It is, because of – paradoxically- it increasingly denies the Right of large part of urban population to move freely in the city and finally to “use”, to live freely the city. All individuals whom do not match the “ideal citizen” [adult-male-healthy-productive-wealthy-driver], they live in a hostile city. We could maybe “give back” public spaces to these urban populations [children, women, elderly, disabled, migrants, poor, pedestrians, cyborgs, and fyborgs, and so on]starting from here: understanding the importance of individuals’ diversities, make it a big challenge for the project. The research explore possibilities about how to do it in a incisive and positive way, analysing conventional and unconventional tools of project and design of public space and street: play, education, participation, self-building, urban inclusive communication, colour, ephemeral structures, micro-scale interventions, unforeseen reactions, time and times, commercial services, slowness, velocity, but overall the incredible diversity of “urban” bodies. The first part analyzes and criticises strategies and modern proposals about the street design; the second part explores the tools and possibilities of different way of design; the third part present some fieldwork projects made by TaMaLaCà group and spin-off, and finally some proposals for the Street as Project of Inclusive Public Space. more...
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41. I Sistemi idrici come organismi cibernetici: un approccio relazionale nella pianificazione di laghi artificiali e aree umide costiere
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Satta, Verdina, Cecchini, Arnaldo, Vacca, Sergio, Saurì, David, and Ribas, Anna
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ICAR/03 Ingegneria sanitaria-ambientale ,ICAR/01 Idraulica ,ICAR/21 Urbanistica - Abstract
The research deals with river basin planning considering both the relations between water, wetlands, and landscape, and the crisis caused by a design approach still conceiving water infrastructure elements – i.e. dams, water supply and treatment, and flood prevention systems – as separate and unrelated to the receiving water system, to its wetlands, and to landscape with its environmental, cultural, historic, and human features. Particular attention is given to artificial reservoirs and coastal wetlands insomuch as they represent nodal points of drainage basins, as they reflect territorial dynamics of water, and as they are cybernetic organisms representing a deeply interconnected socio-environment. The study examines two cases: the Boadella-Aiguamolls de l'Empordà system in Catalonia and the Cuga-Calich system in Sardinia. The research centres on the processes of review and structuration of landscape-water infrastructure relation, organizing its content based on multiple territorial layerings, within which complex issues – like flood risk, poor quality of water, low efficiency of water supply network, degradation of environment and landscape, or social denial of waterscapes – become driving forces in the definition of potential planning strategies rather than being mere outcomes. more...
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- 2015
42. Can Batlló: una significativa esperienza di conquista dello spazio pubblico da parte degli abitanti: lezioni apprese
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Selli, Sabina, Blecic, Ivan, and Cecchini, Arnaldo
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica - Abstract
The main focus of the thesis is an important experience in the conquest of public space from the citizens. Using the construction and deconstruction of Can Batlló's appropriation process, we are able to define the critical elements through which the context was educated, making possible the public space appropriation, recognizing the result reasons, understanding the problems and difficulties we came across and facing the future risks of this conquest. The thesis is not a simple narration of a story, but it follows the key issues and problem development, till arrive at the final results of this experience. The dissertation will be useful and meaningful for the answering of general questions, but especially for a practical critic about the project role and its expert, about the relationship with the institutions and participation problems and limits, typical democracy problems. An important goal for everyone that doesn't believe in the possibility of urban regeneration without the inhabitants as main protagonist, and for everyone that believes in the professionals' full immersion in the social practice, seen as a tool for discover again a role and a function of the expert, especially of the architects. more...
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- 2014
43. Abitare la differenza: indagine sugli spazi relazionali della città multiculturale
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Faedda, Andrea and Cecchini, Arnaldo
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ICAR/20 Architettura e pianificazione urbanistica - Abstract
In this investigation we explore the concept of difference as city’s interpretational paradigm, in order to understand the changes of multicultural contexts. Difference is read as a moment of transition and change among points of view, in their mutual relation. We study ongoing dynamics in the relationship between public and private space, and especially in intermediate spaces generated by the simultaneous presence of differences. The presence of migrant communities that cohabit in the same place enhance the continuous regeneration of different space interpretations. The on-field investigation, brought on through the comparison among three different multicultural realities (Sassari, Dakar, Aubervilliers, in Paris outskirts), made the presence of mutable spaces emerge, being defined by unpredictable relationships. This way it is possible to identify dense places, special spaces of change, by following the traces of urban space appropriation forms. The on-field investigation has moreover emphasized the conflicting role, which expresses itself through the relationships built up among the present dualities. This study intends to reconsider the conflict as a necessary tool towards urban regeneration and production of new differences. more...
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- 2013
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