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  • The multidimensional nature of urban sustainability
    Vol. 16 No. 31 (2023)

    The concept of sustainable development started in 1987 with the Brundtland report “Our common future” which defined it as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of  future generations to meet their own needs. In forty years of scientific research on the city, we have also looked at the proliferation of new terms alongside that of city, which attempted to clarify the idea of a sustainable city discussing the limits of this concept. We can certainly state that after forty years of debate, when we talk about a sustainable city we mean preserving nature, avoiding the indiscriminate consumption of resources, making human habitats greener and more resilient, making the economic and environmental benefits of the policies implemented accessible to society. This issue presents research experiences describing tools, methodologies, plans and operational approaches to build the sustainable city.

  • Measuring the green efficiency in the settlements structure 2
    Vol. 16 No. 30 (2023)

    The role of green is part of the disciplinary paradigm of green and blue infrastructures, to whose construction contribute the solutions based on nature, aimed at maintaining and strengthening the ecosystem services provided by the soil. Green materials in urban areas are used according to four configurations: punctual (isolated trees or shrubs), linear (hedges, rows, etc.), massive (groups of trees), area (turf, green roofs, etc.), not only depending on the function to which they respond, but also commensurate with the available space, the height and distance from the facing structures, the posture and the foliage,  in order not to cause damage to the urban surroundings, creating an obstacle to the passage or unwanted shading.

    The design aim is to try to measure (by means of physical, geometric as well as vegetation indicators) the performance of urban green (permeability, hedge lawns, shrubs, low - medium - tall trees) with respect to a series of functions (shading, permeability, O2 oxygen production, absorption of carbon dioxide CO2 and pollutants, acoustic insulation, creation of urban habitats and urban ecological micro-corridors to promote biodiversity, windbreak effect, division of spaces, visual isolation, etc.). 

    The approach is seen from the point of view of the urban planning, without neglecting the contributions of figures from other important disciplines (ecologists, botanists, biologists, foresters, etc.). A model of this type would allow to analyse and compare, through the construction of different scenarios, different projects, identifying the best design solutions in terms of efficiency in the use of green materials, based on the ability of soil covers to provide specified ecosystem services. 

  • MEASURING THE GREEN EFFICIENCY IN THE SETTLEMENTS STRUCTURE
    Vol. 15 No. 29 (2022)

    The role of green is part of the disciplinary paradigm of green and blue infrastructures, to whose construction contribute the solutions based on nature, aimed at maintaining and strengthening the ecosystem services provided by the soil. Green materials in urban areas are used according to four configurations: punctual (isolated trees or shrubs), linear (hedges, rows, etc.), massive (groups of trees), area (turf, green roofs, etc.), not only depending on the function to which they respond, but also commensurate with the available space, the height and distance from the facing structures, the posture and the foliage,  in order not to cause damage to the urban surroundings, creating an obstacle to the passage or unwanted shading.

    The design aim is to try to measure (by means of physical, geometric as well as vegetation indicators) the performance of urban green (permeability, hedge lawns, shrubs, low - medium - tall trees) with respect to a series of functions (shading, permeability, O2 oxygen production, absorption of carbon dioxide CO2 and pollutants, acoustic insulation, creation of urban habitats and urban ecological micro-corridors to promote biodiversity, windbreak effect, division of spaces, visual isolation, etc.). 

    The approach is seen from the point of view of the urban planning, without neglecting the contributions of figures from other important disciplines (ecologists, botanists, biologists, foresters, etc.). A model of this type would allow to analyse and compare, through the construction of different scenarios, different projects, identifying the best design solutions in terms of efficiency in the use of green materials, based on the ability of soil covers to provide specified ecosystem services. 

  • Digital transition for contemporary space
    No. 28 (2022)

    Today, the contemporary society is going through a very uncertain and complex period: there is an evident need to evolve for overcoming the already stratified challenges of environmental sustainability but also the most recent developments in the pandemic criticalities that inevitably affect the way of living the city. The concept of "transition" thus becomes an essential element to define urban recovery strategies in the short and long term: if on the one hand the ecological transition is fundamental to counterbalance the effects of climate change and to improve the quality of the city space, in the other hand the digital transition becomes a highly innovative aspect to be investigated in order to guarantee an equal fruition of the opportunities that urban and architectural space offers to its users. Digital solutions aim to consolidate the importance that the community must have within the design process by promoting reliable technologies and inclusive approaches that will help change the way we perceive urban reality. The digital transition therefore has the purpose of supporting the cultural, functional and recreational relaunch of the city and the contemporary space, overcoming the limits imposed by traditional design; at the same time, it aims to pursue sustainable approaches that amplify participation, promote ecological design ideas and make the choices and behaviours of technicians and users responsible.

  • Nature-based solutions for urban planning 2
    Vol. 14 No. 27 (2021)

    The trend of urbanization in last decades is highly increasing and many environmental impacts are threatening the world resources and proposing new urban challenges to the cities. Land consumption, pollution, climate change, social inequalities are only some of the dangerous impacts on the territory which undermine its resilience. The Ecosystem Services approach through the Nature-based solutions represents an interesting and efficient way to tackle these pressures in order to obtain an efficient response for organizing the urban metabolism.  The issue offers some examples of the Nature based approach applied to the transformation of territory and cities.

  • Nature based solutions for urban planning
    Vol. 14 No. 26 (2021)

    NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN PLANNING

    The EU Commission defines nature-based solutions as “Solutions that are inspired and supported by nature, which are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes and seascapes, through locally adapted, resource-efficient and systemic interventions.”

     The application of innovative NBS in the urban planning practices is an open and increasing field of research for scholars and professionals to tackle the rising urban challenges. NBS are able to address multiple challenges simultaneously and provide additional co-benefits.

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    The teaching of urban planning
    No. 25 (2020)

    Urbanism and urban planning in the professional sector have received new stimulations from the challenges of contemporary society in recent decades, enriching and innovating methodological approaches and operational techniques. Climate change, environmental issues, growing social inequalities and the reduced accessibility to common goods require new skills and adaptive capacities from urban planners. It follows that it is necessary to reflect on the contents of these disciplines and how they are taught within the university and all institutions that provide training in this specific field. This issue of TRIA is dedicated to reflections on these issues, configuring only a starting point for new areas of discussion that deserve very large spaces.

  • Urban acupuncture & Art infoscape
    Vol. 13 No. 24 (2020)

    The second issue of the journal TRIA dedicated to urban acupuncture and art infoscape presents interesting papers completing the description of national and international experiences. Urban acupuncture is described as a practice of intervention at micro-urban scale which is characterized by quick intervention and capacity to promote regeneration and redevelopment of spaces enlarging the areas of intervention, acting on natural networks, infrastructures and urban settlements. The experiences of revitalizing abandoned, degraded and underutilized spaces of the contemporary city through collaborative and artistic practices, using digital technologies, represent specific actions for initiating interventions on a larger scale.

  • Urban acupuncture & art infoscape
    Vol. 12 No. 23 (2019)

    Analyzing and designing transformations of urban systems require a constant need to change scale for identifying efficient solutions, and in doing so it is necessary to develop the ability to focus on small points of the city, alternately intervening from above and below. The multiscalar approach aims to preserve the advantages and potential of a detailed design perspective (bottom-up approach), on a neighbourhood scale, with those deriving from the top-down approach, commonly applied by urban planning. For the definition of the nerve centres of the urban organism, reference is made to another recent field of urban planning research: urban acupuncture. It represents a practice at ‘micro-urban planning’ scale, as it is able to act in small, localised areas where local administrations’ representation becomes the fundamental to the success of the transformation. TRIA in this issue aims to debate on the "multiscalar approach and urban acupuncture", therefore the papers present theoretical reflections and interesting descriptions of actual experiences of urban planning and design in small scale interventions, with specific attention on artistic and digital practices regarding urban rehabilitation.

  • The urban planning fragility of the "in-between city" 2
    No. 22 (2019)

    Con “città di mezzo” ci si riferisce spesso nel dibattito urbanistico alle idee di città diffusa o città intermedia, soprattutto a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni ’90, con l’avvio di strutturate riflessioni sulla nuova forma della città contemporanea, estesa sul territorio oltre i non più chiaramente rintracciabili limiti urbani. E’ il tentativo di interpretare un nuovo modello urbano che non ha corrispondenti nella storia precedente, sicuramente distante da quello tradizionale europeo. Il concetto di città di mezzo, o in-between city come si è andato affermando nel dibattito internazionale, tenta di descrivere  i temi della disgregazione dei limiti tra città e campagna, della compenetrazione del tessuto edificato nello spazio rurale e naturale, della scomparsa graduale della tradizionale gerarchia dei modelli insediativi. Tratta della formazione di una nuova città, che si colloca tra la città compatta e quella diffusa, tra i luoghi certi dello spazio vissuto e quelli indefiniti (non-luoghi) del movimento, tra i cicli territorialmente definiti delle economie locali e quelli impercettibili del mercato globalizzato.

  • The urban planning fragility of the in-between city
    No. 21 (2018)

    Urban decay regards not only the urban agglomeration - particularly the central area where the richness of its historical, architectural and artistic heritage represents the driving force of its social, economic and cultural vitality - nor the social housing neighbourhoods in the peripheries widely investigated in the last four decades, but above all the fragmented areas developed in-between the two mentioned models. The “in-between city” represents an intermediate area where the abandonment of agriculture has left spaces to unplanned models of settlements, such as the residential illegal housing (in Italy often defined as “illegal construction for necessity"), or the property and building speculation raised after the Second World War, often supported by the absence of planning governance.

    The growth of these neglected spaces, which we define “in-between city”, produced an indeterminate space characterized by precarious neighbourhoods, without planning and urban design strategy, not even involved in restoration, renovation and rehabilitation (environmental, social, economic and cultural) of the settlement asset. Nevertheless, the "in-between city", as a product of the failure of urban planning and design, has independently developed with the same fragility that has marked its genesis, remaining in silent expectation for a newly positive role of socio-economic and cultural mediation into the wider urban system through adequate projects.

  • Inclusive coastal landscapes: green and blue infrastructure design for the urban-land interface 2
    No. 20 (2018)

  • Inclusive coastal landscapes: green and blue infrastructure design for the urban-land interface
    No. 19 (2017)

  • Urban regeneration in the EU
    No. 18 (2017)

    During the last three decades the European Union (EU) has paid growing attention to the key role that cities play in the development of the European territory and their potential contribution to tackling the economic, climate, environmental and social challenges that the EU continues to face. 

    Due to this awareness, a complex process of urban regeneration policy-building has taken place within Community institutions since the late 80s.This has led to the definition of what we could call today the EU urban policy, a policy field that has been formalized through the launch of a number of non-compulsory tools of different types particularly oriented to support the Member States (MS), the regions, the cities, and other stakeholders to face the problems of decline of their urban areas.

    The URBAN Community Initiative has been largely recognized as the most influential tool launched in this regard.  The so-called URBAN method and the Urban Acquis of the EU are based on its integrated, collaborative and innovative approach to urban regeneration.  It was also assumed in the “urban mainstreaming” vision adopted in the context of the Cohesion Policy from 2007, in which its guiding principles aimed to be integrated into the operational programs of the Member States. 

    In the new programming period (2014-2020) the urban dimension of the Cohesion Policy has been reinforced.  In this  framework, MS are obliged to earmark at least 5% of their allocations of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support integrated sustainable urban development strategies.   In addition, new tools have been introduced to foster innovative and integrated urban action (the Urban Innovative Actions, the Urban Development Network).  Together with the continuation of existing initiatives such as URBACT, these and other policy instruments have the objective of fostering the EU support to urban regeneration with an integrated approach.

    This issue of TRIA focuses on urban regeneration in the EU.  Its aim is to address the policy action summarized, from the recognition that scholarly research on it remains very limited.  The objective is to contribute to a better understanding of the general scenario and to bright the attention of the scientific community, policy-makers and other relevant stakeholders to the relevance of the critical analysis of the action undertook to advance to sustainable urban development.

  • Engendering Habitat III: Facing the Global Challenges in Cities
    No. 17 (2016)

    This special issue of TRIA includes a number of selected papers presented at the Engendering Habitat III Conference held in Madrid in October 2016. The conference was organized by the European COST network genderSTE and by the UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Around two hundred participants from 40 countries and five continents engaged in its discussions, providing inputs from a wide diversity of academic disciplines. The papers engaged with contemporary challenges to the urban environment, with specific reference to their gender dimensions and the promotion of gender equality.

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    Towards Habitat III. A gender perspective
    No. 16 (2016)

    In 1976 there was the first global summit, officially identified as the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, known as Habitat I, first of a bi-decennial cycle of conferences  (1996, 2016), in which a international debate about these topics started. In 1996 the second conference took place at Istanbul analyzing two themes: "Adequate shelter for all" and "Sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world". The third conference - Habitat III - is to be held in Quito on 17-20 October 2016, and all the members of the Assembly will make a step forward by defining the New Urban Agenda that represents not only a vision for the future but also a strong commitment to act in pursuing the objectives of a more sustainable urban realm.

    The New Urban Agenda contains many commitments with attention to women's needs and promote policies and action to remove the obstacles which the women faced in urban environment. It promotes gender equity and empowerment in all the urban activities, as to ensure women's participation in all levels of decision making processes. Particularly, gender responsive urban planning should rely on  transport system, services, infrastructure spread off in the city. Another important issue is the security and safety, particularly for women and girls, of the contemporary city where public spaces must be without fear of violence.

    The journal TRIA aims to contribute to this debate by proposing some findings about one of core topics of Habitat III e and New Urban Agenda: a city for all in respect of differences such as age, gender, race, etc.

    In particular, this issue is dedicated to the gender perspective of New Urban Agenda collecting many interesting papers from over the world in collaboration with the University of Cordoba (Argentina) and the Gender Hub of UN-Habitat. The papers highlight the role of woman in the urban development and help to evaluate what has been done in the last years and what is necessary for the future.

  • THE CHALLENGE OF URBAN RESILIENCE
    No. 15 (2015)

    Building urban resilience is one of the greatest challenges that contemporaneity poses to the experts of urban and regional phenomena. Human settlements prove weaker and weaker against natural disasters that seem to intensify in terms of number and scale. The city and the territory appear to be under attack and even more vulnerable facing the threat of nature and irresponsible human actions. The existence of the natural hazard is solely due to the antrophization, being the very presence of man to transform any natural hazard such as earthquake, flood, seaquake in a danger for man himself. In this sense, the city represents a factor to increase the hazard for the concentration of human lives, activities and goods that are exposed to. In addition to the natural disasters which have always threatened human settlements, there are new risk factors such as climate change, desertification, mass exodus, depopulation of rural areas, uncontrolled sprawl of megalopolises, increasing urban poverty, and so on. Such scenario highlights  a growing demand for urban resilience thought as adaptive capacity as regards the vulnerability which transforms risks into dangers. Vulnerability can be considered from various viewpoints, through the risk exposure assessment of goods, urban morphology and open spaces, activities and functions, urban community and social articulation. Similarly, resilience can be built by improving adaptive capacity among the various articulations of urban complexity, both physically and functionally, in a multi-scalar level, and with interdisciplinary and intersectorial collaboration.

     

  • If voids do not fill
    No. 14 (2015)

    A little more than a decade ago a book entitled “Se i vuoti si riempiono” (If empty spaces fill) was published, regarding abandoned industrial areas turning out both as a problem and as a resource. Anyhow “urban voids” were an opportunity to be taken for transforming the city: unexpected occasions for reflecting upon the city and local development on the basis of new objectives, in particular sustainability objectives.

    Brownfield phenomenon has concerned not only industrial sites but also areas and plants not directly related to production (through degradation and induced social costs), such as service industry, dumps, infrastructures, port, railway and military areas, which have been affected by swift processes of reorganisation, re-dimensioning and modernisation.

    Actually the abandonment of sites and buildings is not a new phenomenon in itself, since it has always been within the physiological dynamics of the spatial organization of human activities, such as re-use. The novelties have been the extent of the phenomenon (so much to exceed the natural capacity of reusing spaces), its concentration in limited areas, the difficulty of recovering areas often contaminated by polluting agents and therefore in need of reclamation, the huge amount of funding to be invested for regeneration.

    The study in depth of causes and effects of a phenomenon with dramatic effects, such as the closure of production plants or other urban structures, has been extremely important. Nevertheless, after several studies and debates for a time, the interest has waned and there is still uncertain opinion about the pre-eminence either of the structural feature or the cyclical one. After all, the extreme variability of the brownfield phenomenon, the multiplicity of its causes, the present crisis forecasting scenarios of swifter (and swifter) demise, make the subject very topical and innovative solutions urgent.

    This issue of TRIA tries to take stock of the situation and to suggest solutions,

  • Sea and the metropolitan city of Naples
    No. 13 (2014)

    Naples was a capital and a port very important at European level in the past centuries, but at the present day it lives a period of social and economic decline and weakness. The maritime identity and the metropolitan dimension are two pillars on which we canrebuild the future of Naples and its Gulf.
    The view from the sea opens new perspectives to identifymetropolitan coast potentialities and resources. The challenge is define strategies for sustainable - environmental, social, economic –development having the sea askey resource and involving the whole metropolitan city.
     In this special issue of TRIA, we selected considerations, analysis and proposals coming from different learningsabout various parts of the metropolitan coast, from Sorrento’s peninsula to the Phlegrean coast.

    The metropolitan coast’s redevelopment and enhancement has to be based on”maritime awareness” and focused on sustainable development, combining the general perspective with specific projects. The metropolitan vision can become true with local bottom-projects that bring together different interests oriented to the common goal. We propose this route for Naples 2020as metropolitan city of the sea.

  • WATER CITIES, ART CITIES The city and water in the artistic production
    No. 12 (2014)

    “Water cities”, been converted into “art cities”, have begun competing with each other for the aesthetic renewal of their image. 

    Our present perspective is not addressed to highlight people contributing to “the beautiful” of the “sea city”, as planners, philosophers, entrepreneurs or politicians, but people able to appreciate aesthetic and landscape values, as artists, stressing lyrical and dramatic aspects, negative and positive characteristics, vitality and solitude, looking for a sensory charm, far from a mere report.

  • Sea and the City
    No. 11 (2013)

    The balanced relation between the city and the sea was at the centre of the Greek philosophy. During the flourishing of the Hellenic civilization, Plato began wondering about the appropriate characteristics of a site for an urban settlement near the sea. An ideal-type of urban settlement model resulted, based on accessibility, safety, hygienism, productivity, proximity to energy sources, prosperity.

     

    The new city-sea relation has to be studied as a valorisation, not as mere protective measures prescribed by ordinary landscape/town planning tools, or as design interventions for the aesthetic renewal of waterfront building facade. We need to go further, allowing the city to demolish definitely the port barriers which still deprive it of the fruition of its sea, acting consistently with the intervention designed and implemented by Hippodamus of Miletus in Athens during the Age of Pericles, so that the city could join its port (Piraeus), thought with some mediation: a protective wall which would sanction a right of reciprocal belonging, physically and institutionally, between the city and the sea.

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    What "gender" city for the future
    No. 10 (2013)

    The emerging challenges for the city of the 21st century are the growing urbanization of the world's population, extensive poverty and climate change, as stated in some international declarations (UN). The spatial strategies of international organizations and national governments promote the sustainable development of territories linking economic growth to the need for more efficient, inclusive and fair cities. According to these objectives, it is necessary to design cities able to effectively meet the needs of its inhabitants' everyday life: men and women, at different stages of their life from childhood and youth, until the old age. Since the way city users live their environment is various, the physical structure and functions of the city and its territory impact differently on people.

    Just during the last two decades the gender perspective in planning has been trying to establish itself in urban practices. Such themes as mixité of urban uses, facilities accessibility, urban times policies, safety of public spaces, transport systems efficiency, participation of local communities have been developed  through the cultural sensitivity introduced by the gender approach. A lot of these issues are broadly known but not systematically and effectively addressed through  adequate planning policies and techniques.

    The journal TRIA, by this issue, collected ideas, case studies, surveys, plans, experiences describing the current practices and suggesting a reflection on the efficiency of the city, with reference to the new challenges posed by the growing urbanization in the world, highlighting the need for a gender sensitive planning for the construction of the city in the future.

  • City and Mega events, yesterday today tomorrow
    No. 9 (2012)

    Every city arises from an event, an individual decision supported by a collective engagement, disciplined by rules defining technical and legal norms for implementing and managing, breeding customs, traditions, rituals and shared behaviours, as roots of culture and civilization. The origin of the foundation city, both in the ancient time and in the medieval and modern ages, represents the first major event for the city which resumes, in its physical and management setting-up, the matrix characteristics of urban planning complexity, putting into a dialectic comparison not only “where” (place and space), “when” (age and time) and “how” (form and behaviour), but also “why” and “for whom”, turning out as the dominant subjects of the residential making-process since the beginning of civilisations.

  • The territory of the city between the ancient and the historical. Metamorphosis of the languages
    No. 8 (2011)

    The dialogue between the ancient and the historical has developed on the anthropized territory, in the continuity and discontinuity, defining the spaces of residence, production, living, on which protection restrictions have been placed. Archaeology, landscape architecture and recently ecology give new life and reconfiguration to the past, which expresses itself through renewed languages, so that the signs testify not only past conditions, but also the present ones, as collective heritage connecting the past, the present and the future. Classic archaeology – through the ancient language, mural inscriptions, epigraphs and tombstones, street paths and objects of “material culture”, as well as through the support of direct and indirect documentary sources – tells about architecture and planning, aristocratic and plebeian life, opulence and poverty. Another kind of archaeology has rooted, the so called “industrial” one, related to dismissed productive areas. Nowadays the challenge is about a regeneration process able to connect properly conservation and transformation.

  • The Languages of the City
    No. 7 (2011)

    The city has many types of language: spoken, written, planned, expressed in its street names, in its numbered and lettered and  epigraphs, in its epitaphs and celebrative plaques, by means of its architectural styles, the typologies of its buildings, their height and the width of its streets, the flow of its traffic and the intensification of its relationships which make it a “living organism” with a body and soul, with a form and essence and with matter and  spirit.  A living organism in the context of an environmental and territorial landscape  which helps define it in a dialectical context, in rivalry with nature, from which it takes away space but adds culture and the linguistic confrontation which arises from this encounter gives us civilization’s journey.

  • The transversal play of different forms of knowledge in the city design and promotion
    No. 6 (2010)

    Philosophical knowledge, from the very beginning, gave spatial and organizational order to urban life, using thought and action as its school, rationalizing space, organizing activities, projects and administration, balancing out the settlements of people, mediating between demands, aspirations, needs and interests of individuals, with the normative badge of the reciprocal degrees of liberty, strengthening the whole without weakening the parts which are necessary for its realization.

    Urban planning is presented as the first child of philosophy (etymologically as the “love of learning”) which has selected the city as her privileged residence from which to depart and in which it is just that the many branches of human knowledge converge where the play of knowledge is not converted into a yoke

  • The safe city. Ideas, programs and projects
    No. 5 (2010)

    The city, born to face individual fears, has become privileged seat of collective fears, losing those distinguishing features which drove the philosophical thinking of the flourishing industrial civilization to elaborate the following definition: “City air makes you free”.

    The freedom offered by the city has always been limited and above all conditioned; the measures set up to guarantee freedom have promoted the erection of material barriers (city walls, moats, fortresses, castles, barracks, residential walls/railings, etc.) and immaterial barriers (armies, vigilance institutions, protection regulations and an increasing hail of constraints), which have imprisoned the human being for protection and safety’s sake, have fed his “fears” and interdicted him the access to happiness; happiness that only the euthopic thinking has tried to keep alive through the optimism of willingness and the cultivation of trust.

  • Re-thinking the city today
    No. 4 (2009)

    The virtual city exists in “time” whereas the real city exists in “space”. The first one is an expression of our imagination, the second one of our ability to create.

    Time has articulated the images of cities as artisan philosophers, historians, artists, dreamers and even poets have given it to us.

    Space has generated cities which have been worked upon by geographers, geologists, surveyors, and finally urban planners. Space and time however live together in both cities, even if with alternating states of subordination. The culture of thinking, of decision making and of working is the unifying center of both the cities; it is the generating element both of the crises and the prosperity of the cities and it works towards an overcoming of the first and for the pursuit of the second (prosperity) using the experience of the past for the making of a better future.

  • The landscape in history, art, culture and urban planning;
    No. 3 (2009)

    The theme proposed attempts to re-define the concept of landscape, presenting it not only as a container of urban and rural territory, inhabitated and productive, man-made and natural, but also as a living organism, perhaps not in the best of health but despite its age still capable of withstanding the jolt of transformation produced by the disastreous phenomena known as natural calamities and above all by the many wounds inflicted on it by man who involving himself in the problem has re-defined the present day setting.

    The landscape like a living organism suffers from the evil inflicted on it and benefits from the good bestowed on it, wearing the poor man’s dignified clothes which is more gratifying than the clothes of the rich insolent man, witness to good and bad government, however heir to a noble history, which has inspired lyrical compositions, works of literature, expressions of art, and creative projects, all encapsulated in the term “culture” which merits being acquired, known, and transmitted to future generations, hopefully enriched by what the present day civilization will transmit even by the well directed way of urban planning.

     

  • The landscape in history, art, culture and urban planning; theoretical premises and experience
    No. 2 (2008)

    The theme proposed attempts to re-define the concept of landscape, presenting it not only as a container of urban and rural territory, inhabitated and productive, man-made and natural, but also as a living organism, perhaps not in the best of health but despite its age still capable of withstanding the jolt of transformation produced by the disastreous phenomena known as natural calamities and above all by the many wounds inflicted on it by man who involving himself in the problem has re-defined the present day setting.

    The landscape like a living organism suffers from the evil inflicted on it and benefits from the good bestowed on it, wearing the poor man’s dignified clothes which is more gratifying than the clothes of the rich insolent man, witness to good and bad government, however heir to a noble history, which has inspired lyrical compositions, works of literature, expressions of art, and creative projects, all encapsulated in the term “culture” which merits being acquired, known, and transmitted to future generations, hopefully enriched by what the present day civilization will transmit even by the well directed way of urban planning.

     

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    The bridge in space and time to overcome urban barriers
    No. 1 (2008)

    The first issue of "TRIA" addresses the problem of "communication" and significantly focuses on "BRIDGE" in the plurality of its materials, metaphorical and symbolic meanings .