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 &qu...
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| author | Mauro Francini Rosario Chimirri Annunziata Palermo Maria Francesca Viapiana |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ae61d787fbe4003992f288c4a8b5bf32024-04-02T04:02:34ZengUniversità di Napoli Federico IITeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment1970-98891970-98702017-08-0110215717810.6092/1970-9870/50873919Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of CalabriaMauro Francini0Rosario Chimirri1Annunziata Palermo2Maria Francesca Viapiana3University of Calabria, Department of Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Environment and Land Use PlanningUniversity of Calabria, Department of Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Environment and Land Use PlanningUniversity of Calabria, Department of Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Environment and Land Use PlanningUniversity of Calabria, Department of Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Environment and Land Use PlanningThe 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.http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/tema/article/view/5087Community spacesinterdisciplinary approachculture of livingvernacular architectureurban regeneration |
| spellingShingle | Mauro Francini Rosario Chimirri Annunziata Palermo Maria Francesca Viapiana Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment Community spaces interdisciplinary approach culture of living vernacular architecture urban regeneration |
| title | Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria |
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| title_short | Between Community Spaces: Squares of Minor Centers of Calabria |
| title_sort | between community spaces squares of minor centers of calabria |
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