Gli effetti urbanistici di un grande progetto di trasformazione della cittŕ di Milano

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Matteo Doni
Keyword(s):  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Complete Conversion ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Being There ◽  
The City

- Consideration of the affair of the former O.M. (Machine Workshop) area starts with an attempt to ‘read the past to understand the present' and therefore the main documents, plans and programmes which affected this part of the city were examined and ‘taken apart' as it were. This process involved analysing some of the main Milanese deregulation instruments (The master document for the Urban Link Line Railway, 1983), the starting point for the redefinition of plans for this area. In subsequent years the entire area was affected by the ‘Nine parks for Milan project' (1995) which laid the foundations for the complete conversion of it, which was to occur with the ‘Urban redevelopment programme' (1999) named the ‘former O.M.'. As we will see, this programme was to take no account of some abandoned or about to be abandoned areas contiguous to the zone which were redeveloped independently using the ‘Dia' instrument. Reflection performed at the same time on the planning assumptions and on actual results highlighted issues for consideration within the framework of large urban transformations. Being There and Away.

Genova, dalle Colombiane a Capitale Europea della Cultura. Grandi eventi e processi di rigenerazione urbana

TERRITORIO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Francesco Gastaldi
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Centre

- Major events have played a crucial role in the urban transformations that have taken place in Genoa over the past 15 years, both for the huge investments they require and for the way they have redefined the city's image. Urban transformation, upgrading and maintenance, all of which have affected the historical centre and the waterfront, have contributed decisively to the reversing of the process of physical, economic and social degradation which had been devouring many parts of the city centre. 2004 was the year Genoa became European Capital of Culture and this was a turning point in the endeavour to relaunch and consolidate the role of the city in the tourist and cultural panorama of both Italy and Europe.

scholarly journals Pamćenje hrvatskog društva na primjeru Vukovara – “grada heroja”

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Zanki
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
War Of Independence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Remembering in Croatian society as exemplified by the “hero city” Vukovar The article concerns forms of maintaining memory in Croatian society. Its starting point is the term sites of memory (lieux de mémoire), introduced by Pierre Nora, who defines them as characteristic and symbolic elements that ensure the presence of the past in the present. After the Croatian War of Independence, sites of memory became a foundation for building a new, partly modified Croatian identity. This raises the question about the role the politics of remembering has had in the Croatian collective identity and the purposes for which it has been formed.The analysis is based on the most popular place of memory – the fall of Vukovar. In Croatian consciousness, Vukovar is a “hero city,” a symbol of the valiant fight against the Great Serbian aggressor during the War. Its fall is an important element of the conflict that is still ongoing between Croats and Serbs, both regionally (in the city) and more broadly (throughout Croatia). In her analysis, the author was trying to see the influence of sites of memory not only on the group which created them but in a wider context as well.The more general aim was to study the discourse of memory and attempt to determine, with reference to specific examples, whether the Croats’ collective memory is a factor of integration or conflict. Pamięć społeczeństwa chorwackiego na przykładzie Vukovaru – „miasta-bohatera”Artykuł dotyczy form pamięci w społeczeństwie chorwackim. Punktem wyjścia stało się pojęcie miejsc pamięci, które autor, Pierre Nora, zdefiniował jako charakterystyczne i symboliczne elementy zapewniające obecność przeszłości w teraźniejszości. Po wojnie ojczyźnianej stały się one podstawą do tworzenia się nowej, zmodyfikowanej tożsamości chorwackiej. Rodzi to pytanie – jaką rolę pełni polityka pamięci w chorwackiej tożsamości zbiorowej i dla jakich celów jest formowana.Analiza opiera się na najpopularniejszym miejscu pamięci – upadku Vukovaru. Vukovar jest w świadomości Chorwatów „miastem bohaterem”, symbolem heroicznej walki z wielkoserbskim agresorem podczas wojny. Jest też ważnym elementem wciąż istniejącego konfliktu między Chorwatami i Serbami w perspektywie wąskiej (w mieście) i szerokiej (obie narodowości w Chorwacji).Autorka starała się zauważyć nie tylko wpływ miejsc pamięci na grupę, w której powstały, lecz także ich szerszy kontekst. Celem była analiza problemu pamięci i próba określenia w odniesieniu do konkretnych przykładów, czy chorwacka pamięć zbiorowa jest czynnikiem integracji czy konfliktu.

scholarly journals CITY-BRAND BUILDING – FROM CITY MARKETING TO CITY BRANDING

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (14) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Boban Melović ◽  
Slavica Mitrović ◽  
Arton Djokaj
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
City Branding ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
Branding Strategy ◽  
City Brand ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Marketing Approach

Thanks to the mobility of the population and the development of economy, nowadays much more attention is payed to the competitiveness between nations, regions and cities. In the early 90s, a special marketing trend appeared, known as "Place branding" which allows cities, regions and nations to differentiate themselves from others (competitors). Nowadays, the "city marketing" approach is a well-established practice which is widely applied by many cities all around the world. During the past 30 years, when the competition between cities became bigger and more important, city marketing approach comes to the fore more and more. Although cities can be too complex for branding or to be treated as products, however, city branding has become a widely applied practice in the past years, ever since cities began to "fight" for: tourists, residents, prestige, wealth, power, commerce, entertainment,etc. By "too complex for branding" we mean that by implementing the city branding strategy we need to keep in mind the past, the cultural identity and the historical background of the city. When we say the past, we refer to all events and happenings in one specific city. For example, Madrid, London, New York, Paris, Brussels are just a few of the largest, but also the best branded cities in the world. Indeed, all of these cities experienced terrorist attacks in their past. Experienced, but survived. However, it is obvious that these events have had a huge impact on their positioning and branding. In order to become sustainable, successful destination (city) brand development must be, first of all, original and different, but convincing (based on physical and emotional charachteristics of the destinations) and  relevant (directed towards the consumer in an appropriate way) as well. The authors' starting point is the hypothesis that the branding of cities is based on a combination of various factors and components and that with their combination we can build a recognizable image, which further contributes to higher tourism turnover and stronger competitiveness. Having in mind the previously mentioned, and when it comes to cities, marketing moves from a „city marketing“ to a „city branding“ concept. The aim of this paper is to carry out a symbiosis of key components, so we could offer guidance regarding the creation of a branding strategy to decision-makers in this field of marketing in our area.

Contemporary Archaeology and the City

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Dynamic Force ◽  
Contemporary Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belem, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.

Cairo: Restoration? And the Limits of Street Politics

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Abaza
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Street Politics ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Physical Interactions ◽  
The City

In this piece, I argue that the city of Cairo has witnessed unprecedented urban transformations for the past 4 years, owing to urban wars and confrontations during the two regimes that followed Mubarak’s ouster. Street politics, although mesmerizing, have been highly exhausting. With the reemergence of the army in civil life, after the ousting of President Morsi, street activism is becoming hazardous and highly costly in terms of human life. Whether Egypt is witnessing the persistence of a counter-revolutionary moment, firmly marching toward the uncompromising neoliberal city, exemplified in Dubai as a model and planned prior to 2011, will be difficult to answer, precisely because Cairo is not Dubai. Experts on Arab revolutions have spoken of the emergence of new “subjectivities” that have opened novel mental, visual, and physical interactions in the city, perhaps encouraging optimism in the long term.

scholarly journals OS XAKRIABÁ NO RIO SÃO FRANCISCO-SÃO JOÃO DAS MISSÕES/MG, BRASIL - O OLHAR SOBRE O RELATÓRIO CIRCUNSTANCIADO DE IDENTIFICAÇAO E DELIMITAÇÃO: território conquistado

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Cássio Alexandre da Silva ◽  
Anete Marília Pereira ◽  
Fabiana Santos Salis ◽  
Rosselvelt José Santos
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Official Journal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Occupied Territory ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Current Area ◽  
The Look ◽  
The City ◽  
Indigenous Land

O povo Xakriabá sofreu, nos últimos 150 anos, inúmeras ameaças que culminou na perda de território. Após várias ações de luta e resistência foi homologada, na década de 1980, a Terra Indígena Xacriabá-T.I.X  e, posteriormente, a Terra Indígena Xakriabá Rancharia-T.I.X.R.  Porém, a demarcação dessas terras ainda não resultam na conquista do território de ocupação tradicional que chegava até ao rio São Francisco. O objetivo é identificar no Relatório Circunstanciado de Identificação e Delimitação, documento publicado no Diário Oficial em 06 de outubro de 2014, as áreas com observância sobre o território conquistado de ocupação tradicional.  Para tanto, foi realizada a análise do relatório tendo como ponto fundamental de partida a identificação de áreas de retomada, os argumentos apresentados sobre a identificação e delimitação e a verificação se a área atual é considerada como um território conquistado. Em estudo prévio sobre o reconhecimento do relatório, constata-se que existem áreas que são de ocupação tradicional dos Xakriabá, no município de São João das Missões. Palavras-Chave: Território; Conquista; Xakriabá; Indígena.   OS XAKRIABÁ IN THE RIO SAN FRANCISCO-SÃO JOÃO DAS MISSÕES/MG, BRAZIL - THE LOOK AT THE CIRCUNSTANCIADO REPORT OF IDENTIFICATION AND DELIMITATION: conquered territory Abstract The Xakriabá people suffered, in the past 150 years, numerous threats that ended in the loss of territory. After several actions of struggle and resistance, the Indigenous land of Xacriabá-T.I.X and subsequently the Indigenous land of Xakriabá Ranchi-T.I.X.R were approved, in the 1980s. However, the demarcation of those lands has not resulted yet in the conquest of the traditionally occupied territory that reached the São Francisco River. The aim is to identify, in the Detailed Report of Identification and Delimitation, document published in the Official Journal in October 6, 2014, the areas with observance of the conquered territory of traditional occupation. Therefore, the report's analysis was performed taking as a fundamental starting point the identification of resumption areas, the arguments on the identification and delineation and the verification if the current area is considered a conquered territory. In a previous study on the recognition of the report, it is noted that there are areas traditionally occupied by the Xakriabá in the city of São João das Missões. Keywords: Territory; Conquest; Xakriabá; Indigenous.   El XAKRIABÁ EN RIO SÃO FRANCISCO-SÃO JOÃO DAS MISSÕES/MG MG, BRASIL - LA MIRADA EN LA IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LOS LÍMITES ANUALES DETALLADOS: territorio conquistado Resumen Los Xakriabá sufridas en los últimos 150 años, numerosas amenazas que culminaron en la pérdida de territorio. Después de varias acciones de lucha y resistencia se aprobó en el 1980, el indígena Xacriabá-T.I.X y, posteriormente, el indígena Xakriabá Ranchi-T.I.X.R. Sin embargo, la demarcación de las tierras aún no dan como resultado la consecución de territorio tradicionalmente ocupado que llega hasta el río San Francisco. El objetivo es identificar la presencia de robustos de Identificación y Delimitación, documento publicado en el Boletín Oficial el 6 de octubre de 2014, las zonas con observancia del territorio conquistado de ocupación tradicional. Por lo tanto, el análisis del informe se ha mantenido como un punto de partida fundamental para identificar las áreas de recuperación, los argumentos sobre la identificación y delineación y la verificación de que el área actual se considera como un territorio conquistado. En un estudio previo sobre el reconocimiento del informe, parece que hay zonas que están ocupadas tradicionalmente el Xakriabá en el municipio de Misión de San Juan.  Palabras clave: Territorio; Logro; Xakriabá; Indígena.

Portuguese Sardines - from the ritual to the brand

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Cecília Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
City Council ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Branding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Behavioral Expression ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity

Place branding is a network of associations in the consumer’s mind, based on the visual, verbal, and behavioral expression of a place. Food can be an important tool to summarize it as it is part of the culture of a city and its symbolic capital. Food is imaginary, a ritual and a social construction. This paper aims to explore a ritual that has turned into one of the brands of Lisbon in the past few years. The fresh sardines barbecued out of doors, during Saint Anthony’s festival, has become a symbol that can be found on t-shirts, magnets and all kinds of souvenirs. Over the year, tourists can buy sardine shaped objects in very cheap stores to luxurious shops. There is even a whole boutique dedicated to the fish: “The Fantastic World of Portuguese Sardines” and an annual competition promoted by the city council to choose the five most emblematic designs of sardines. In order to analyze the Sardine phenomenon from a city branding point of view, the objective of this paper is to comprehend what associations are made by foreigners when they are outside of Lisbon. As a methodological procedure five design sardines, were used of last year to questioning to which city they relate them in interviews carried in Madrid, Lyon, Rome and London. Upon completion of the analysis, the results of the city branding strategy adopted by the city council to promote the sardines as the official symbol of Lisbon is seen as a Folkmarketing action. The effects are positive, but still quite local. On the other hand, significant participation of the Lisbon´s dwellers in the Sardine Contest was observed, which seems to be a good way to promote the city identity and pride in their best ambassador: the citizens.

Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Scheid
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Us ◽  
Shared Objective ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter explores the articulations that have emerged over the last half century between various types of holism, Chinese medicine and systems biology. Given the discipline’s historical attachments to a definition of ‘medicine’ that rather narrowly refers to biomedicine as developed in Europe and the US from the eighteenth century onwards, the medical humanities are not the most obvious starting point for such an inquiry. At the same time, they do offer one advantage over neighbouring disciplines like medical history, anthropology or science and technology studies for someone like myself, a clinician as well as a historian and anthropologist: their strong commitment to the objective of facilitating better medical practice. This promise furthermore links to the wider project of critique, which, in Max Horkheimer’s definition of the term, aims at change and emancipation in order ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them’. If we take the critical medical humanities as explicitly affirming this shared objective and responsibility, extending the discipline’s traditional gaze is not a burden but becomes, in fact, an obligation.

YOUTH EXPECTATIONS OF SMART CITY LIVING: AN IMPORTANCE- PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF YOUNG RESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF CITY GOVERNMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Jason Cohen ◽  
Judy Backhouse ◽  
Omar Ally
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
City Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Young people are important to cities, bringing skills and energy and contributing to economic activity. New technologies have led to the idea of a smart city as a framework for city management. Smart cities are developed from the top-down through government programmes, but also from the bottom-up by residents as technologies facilitate participation in developing new forms of city services. Young people are uniquely positioned to contribute to bottom-up smart city projects. Few diagnostic tools exist to guide city authorities on how to prioritise city service provision. A starting point is to understand how the youth value city services. This study surveys young people in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and conducts an importance-performance analysis to identify which city services are well regarded and where the city should focus efforts and resources. The results show that Smart city initiatives that would most increase the satisfaction of youths in Braamfontein  include wireless connectivity, tools to track public transport  and  information  on city events. These  results  identify  city services that are valued by young people, highlighting services that young people could participate in providing. The importance-performance analysis can assist the city to direct effort and scarce resources effectively.

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