City Project and Public Space

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by  Silvia Serreli (auth.), Silvia Serreli (eds.)

URBAN AND LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVES
Silvia Serreli (Ed.)
City Project
and Public Space
Urban and Landscape Perspectives
Volume 14
Series Editor
Giovanni Maciocco
Editorial Board
Abdul Khakee, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå University
Norman Krumholz, Levin College of Urban Affairs,
Cleveland State University, Ohio
Ali Madanipour, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape,
Newcastle University
Frederick Steiner, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin
Erik Swyngedouw, School of Environment and Development,
University of Manchester
Rui Yang, School of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Tsinghua University, Peking
For further volumes:
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Editorial Committee
Paola Pittaluga
Silvia Serreli
Project Assistants
Monica Johansson
Laura Lutzoni
Lisa Meloni
Aims and Scope
Urban and Landscape Perspectives is a series which aims at nurturing theoretic re fl ection on the
city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our
physical and social landscapes.
The main issue in the series is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of
visualising both the city and the territory from a particular viewpoint, which singles out the
territorial dimension as the city’s space of communication and negotiation.
The series will face emerging problems that characterise the dynamics of city development, like
the new, fresh relations between urban societies and physical space, the right to the city, urban
equity, the project for the physical city as a means to reveal civitas, signs of new social cohesiveness,
the sense of contemporary public space and the sustainability of urban development.
Concerned with advancing theories on the city, the series resolves to welcome articles that feature
a pluralism of disciplinary contributions studying formal and informal practices on the project for
the city and seeking conceptual and operative categories capable of understanding and facing the
problems inherent in the profound transformations of contemporary urban landscapes.
Silvia Serreli
Editor
City Project and Public
Space
Editor
Silvia Serreli
Department of Architecture,
Design and Planning
University of Sassari
Alghero, Italy
ISBN 978-94-007-6036-3 ISBN 978-94-007-6037-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6037-0
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Contributors
Ivan Blečić Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University of Sassari ,
Alghero , Italy
Ivan Blečić is a researcher at the Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism
of the University of Sassari. His main interests are urban modelling, simulation and
evaluation models especially related to the normative approaches to urban planning
and public policy analysis.
Alessandra Casu Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University of
Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Alessandra Casu, PhD (IUAV, Venice, Italy), is a researcher at the University of
Sassari, where she teaches Urban Sustainability and Urban and Environmental
Design. She has been in charge of some participatory processes in Sardinia: for
the urban regeneration of some districts in Cagliari and in Prato; for the strategic
plans of Alghero, Castelsardo, and La Maddalena; and for the review of the
Regional Landscape Regulatory Plan.
Arnaldo “Bibo” Cecchini Department of Architecture, Design and Planning ,
University of Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Arnaldo “Bibo” Cecchini obtained his master’s degree in Physics and began his
academic career at the IUAV in Venice. He is now Full Professor of Urban Planning
at the University of Sassari; he is an expert in urban analysis and modelling tech-
niques including simulations, gaming simulations, cellular automata, scenario tech-
niques and information systems for public participation.
Daniela Ciaf fi Department for European Studies and International Integration ,
University of Palermo , Palermo , Italy
Daniela Ciaf fi is an architect working on research at University of Palermo and
Turin Polytechnic Spatial Planning Department. She has a PhD in Planning and
Local Development and teaches Urban Planning and Community Capacity Building
at the Turin, Alghero and Genoa Faculties of Architecture. Her main interest is the
relationship between people and the urban environment.
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Enrico Cicalò Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University of
Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Enrico Cicalò is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Sassari. His fi eld of
research focuses on the relations between project and public sphere, concentrating
in particular on the relations between project action and the processes of representa-
tion, perception, communication and fruition. His publications include: Immagini di
progetto. La rappresentazione del progetto e il progetto della rappresentazione
(Angeli 2010); Spazi pubblici. Progettare la dimensione pubblica della città con-
temporanea (Angeli 2009).
Lidia Decandia Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University of
Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Lidia Decandia is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Sassari
where she teaches Design in the Social Context and Urban and Regional History. At
the same faculty, she founded and is in charge of “Matrica: a laboratory of urban
fermentation”. She is a member of the Urban Planning PhD Committee at the La
Sapienza University of Rome. Her most recent publications are Polifonie urbane.
Oltre i con fi ni della visione prospettica (2008) and L’apprendimento come espe-
rienza estetica (2011).
Giovanni Maria Filindeu Department of Architecture, Design and Planning ,
University of Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Giovanni Maria Filindeu is an architect with a research degree in Architectural
Design, who works as a researcher and contracted lecturer at the Department of
Architecture, Urban Planning and Design of Sassari University. His particular
interest is the relations between jazz music and the processes of construction and
transformation of space. As a musician he has taken part in numerous international
jazz festivals and has recorded several CDs.
Luc Lévesque History and Theory of Architectural Practices , Université Laval ,
Quebec City , Canada
Luc Lévesque is an architect, professor in History and Theory of Architectural and
Design Practices at Université Laval (Quebec City); his recent body of research
traces the potentialities of an interstitial approach to urban landscape and urbanism.
In 2000, he was one of the cofounders of the urban exploration workshop SYN –
with which he has produced different research works and interventions. As a member
of the editorial committee of Inter actual art magazine, he has edited many issues
dealing with architecture, landscape and urban practices.
Ali Madanipour School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape , Newcastle
University , Newcastle upon Tyne , UK
Ali Madanipour (MArch, PhD) is Professor of Urban Design and a founding mem-
ber of Global Urban Research Unit at the School of Architecture, Planning and
Landscape, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. His latest book, Whose Public
Space? International case studies in urban design and development, was published
in 2010 by Routledge, London.
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Alfredo Mela Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and
Planning , Turin Polytechnic , Torino , Italy
Alfredo Mela obtained a degree in Philosophy at the University of Turin. He is Full
Professor of Urban Sociology at Turin Polytechnic and of Environmental Sociology
at the Second Faculty of Architecture. His main research themes concern the
contribution of sociology to urban planning, the improvement of sustainability at
a local scale and the organisation of citizen participation in decisions referring to
urban policies and design.
Paola Pittaluga Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University of
Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Paola Pittaluga is Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental planning at
Sassari University and chairperson of the B.A. Degree Course and Master Degree
in Planning. Her works include: Images of local societies and projects for space (in
G. Maciocco, The Territorial Future of the City, Springer 2008), Sustainable touristic
development in marginal landscapes (with F. Spanedda in Various Authors, Heritage
and Sustainable Development, Green Lines Institute 2010) and Integrating land-
scape design, environmental rehabilitation, cultural heritage restoration (in Various
Authors, Planning Support Tools, FrancoAngeli 2012).
Alessandro Plaisant Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University
of Sassari, Alghero , Italy
Alessandro Plaisant has a PhD in Territorial Engineering and teaches Territorial
Planning in the Environmental Science Degree Course at Sassari University; he has
contributed to writing various strategic plans, dealing particularly with the explo ration
of methods and instruments of public action in urban government. On these themes
he has published: “La partecipazione nel governo delle trasformazioni del territo-
rio. Strumenti innovativi per costruire la città dei diritti” (“Participation in governing
transformation of the territory. Innovative instruments to construct the city of rights”),
FrancoAngeli, 2009, and “Costruire Paesaggi. Visioni collettive e partecipate”
(“Constructing Landscapes. Collective and participated views”), FrancoAngeli 2010.
Davide Ponzini Department of Architecture and Planning , Milan Polytechnic ,
Milan , Italy
Davide Ponzini, PhD, is currently Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) of Urban
Planning at Politecnico di Milano, and he was visiting scholar at Yale University,
Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and at Sciences Po Paris. His
research interests are planning theory, policy studies and the role of cultural policies
in urban development. His research work has been published in international
scienti fi c journals and books. He is co-author, with Pier Carlo Palermo, of the
book “Spatial Planning and Urban Development. Critical Perspectives, Springer”.
Gianfranco Sanna Department of Architecture, Design and Planning , University
of Sassari , Alghero , Italy
Gianfranco Sanna is a researcher in Architectural Design. He holds a degree in
Architecture from the IUAV in Venice. He carried out his research in Portugal, at the