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Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria ; Between Community Spaces. Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria
The theme of open “community spaces” in recent years has to the development of important interdisciplinary issues.Nevertheless, the reading of smaller towns, in urbanistic, historical-anthropological and geographical terms appears less extended, considering the declination of public spaces as "squares." Starting from this declension we would like to introduce the first results of a research. The research had the aim of (re)interpreting the particular characteristics of these areas in specific areas such as small towns, using the region of Calabria for the case of analytic application.These communities have diverse and stratified living cultures, altered by settlement processes that have triggered two different types of urban contexts. The former often lead either to urban areas in depopulated decay or, in contrast, in places of memories: empty containers of relationships, sterile and crystallized museum objects, reduced to scenarios on which passing groups of visitors move necessarily from those realities. The latter often encircle primitive nuclei, asphyxiating them, or characterizing the so-called "dual" or "satellites" towns, completely detached from the original urban center in which all public functions are decentralized.The applied methodology is based on the reading of the historical-functional evolution of squares by the identification of codified compositional criteria.Through this research we seek to verify how urban planning, in synergy with other disciplines, can define processes of regeneration aimed at restoring the meaning of "center", and thus of an urban-community reference center. ; The theme of open “community spaces” in recent years has to the development of important interdisciplinary issues.Nevertheless, the reading of smaller towns, in urbanistic, historical-anthropological and geographical terms appears less extended, considering the declination of public spaces as "squares." Starting from this declension we would like to introduce the first results of a research. The research had the aim of (re)interpreting the particular characteristics of these areas in specific areas such as small towns, using the region of Calabria for the case of analytic application.These communities have diverse and stratified living cultures, altered by settlement processes that have triggered two different types of urban contexts. The former often lead either to urban areas in depopulated decay or, in contrast, in places of memories: empty containers of relationships, sterile and crystallized museum objects, reduced to scenarios on which passing groups of visitors move necessarily from those realities. The latter often encircle primitive nuclei, asphyxiating them, or characterizing the so-called "dual" or "satellites" towns, completely detached from the original urban center in which all public functions are decentralized.The applied methodology is based on the reading of the historical-functional evolution of squares by the identification of codified compositional criteria.Through this research we seek to verify how urban planning, in synergy with other disciplines, can define processes of regeneration aimed at restoring the meaning of "center", and thus of an urban-community reference center.
Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria ; Between Community Spaces. Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria
The theme of open “community spaces” in recent years has to the development of important interdisciplinary issues.Nevertheless, the reading of smaller towns, in urbanistic, historical-anthropological and geographical terms appears less extended, considering the declination of public spaces as "squares." Starting from this declension we would like to introduce the first results of a research. The research had the aim of (re)interpreting the particular characteristics of these areas in specific areas such as small towns, using the region of Calabria for the case of analytic application.These communities have diverse and stratified living cultures, altered by settlement processes that have triggered two different types of urban contexts. The former often lead either to urban areas in depopulated decay or, in contrast, in places of memories: empty containers of relationships, sterile and crystallized museum objects, reduced to scenarios on which passing groups of visitors move necessarily from those realities. The latter often encircle primitive nuclei, asphyxiating them, or characterizing the so-called "dual" or "satellites" towns, completely detached from the original urban center in which all public functions are decentralized.The applied methodology is based on the reading of the historical-functional evolution of squares by the identification of codified compositional criteria.Through this research we seek to verify how urban planning, in synergy with other disciplines, can define processes of regeneration aimed at restoring the meaning of "center", and thus of an urban-community reference center. ; The theme of open “community spaces” in recent years has to the development of important interdisciplinary issues.Nevertheless, the reading of smaller towns, in urbanistic, historical-anthropological and geographical terms appears less extended, considering the declination of public spaces as "squares." Starting from this declension we would like to introduce the first results of a research. The research had the aim of (re)interpreting the particular characteristics of these areas in specific areas such as small towns, using the region of Calabria for the case of analytic application.These communities have diverse and stratified living cultures, altered by settlement processes that have triggered two different types of urban contexts. The former often lead either to urban areas in depopulated decay or, in contrast, in places of memories: empty containers of relationships, sterile and crystallized museum objects, reduced to scenarios on which passing groups of visitors move necessarily from those realities. The latter often encircle primitive nuclei, asphyxiating them, or characterizing the so-called "dual" or "satellites" towns, completely detached from the original urban center in which all public functions are decentralized.The applied methodology is based on the reading of the historical-functional evolution of squares by the identification of codified compositional criteria.Through this research we seek to verify how urban planning, in synergy with other disciplines, can define processes of regeneration aimed at restoring the meaning of "center", and thus of an urban-community reference center.
Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria ; Between Community Spaces. Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria
Francini, Mauro (author) / Chimirri, Rosario (author) / Palermo, Annunziata (author) / Viapiana, Maria Francesca (author)
2017-08-30
doi:10.6092/1970-9870/5087
TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment; Vol 10 No 2 (2017): Methods, tools and best practices to increase the capacity of urban systems to adapt to natural and man-made changes; 157-178 ; Tema. Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment; V. 10 N. 2 (2017): Methods, tools and best practices to increase the capacity of urban systems to adapt to natural and man-made changes; 157-178 ; 1970-9870 ; 1970-9889
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 1991
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