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Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability
This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy. With theoretically-informed case studies from leading researchers, the book addresses both concepts and practice, in a range of places and contexts including landscape, townscape, museums, indu...
Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation
This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP. This book addresses three main needs: first, it constitutes an assessment of the situation of Europe as far as natural na-tech risks are considered; second, it suggests future research themes to be opened of widened so as to tackle new and emerging threats as well as changes in the potential response to risk governance, in order to improve the way scientific and technical expertise informs decision making regarding all fields of mitigation, ranging from structural to non structural measures, such as training, education and land use planning.
Singing and Survival
An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage. Easter Island (or Rapanui), known for the iconic headstones (moai) that dot the island landscape, has a remarkable and enduring presence in global popular culture where it has been portrayed as a place of mystery and fascination, and as a case study in societal collapse. These portrayals often overlook the remarkable survival of the Rapanui people who rebounded from a critically diminished population of just 110 people in the late nineteenth century to what is now a vibrant community where indigenous...
Christmas Kisses with Her Boss
A mistletoe kiss to change her life... Ethan Caversham has always avoided Christmas. But when he hires Christmas-loving Ruby Hampton to transform an English castle into a luxurious festive resort, that's about to change! Ruby longs for the perfect Christmas with the perfect family but it's always been slightly out of reach. Now, though, her new boss is sending tingles up her spine with every stolen kiss! If she can just convince Ethan to let go of his past, perhaps this will be the year all her Christmas wishes come true...
Tivoli, un laboratorio urbano. Ieri, oggi, domani
Il volume raccoglie gli interventi presentati alla giornata di studio organizzata dal Comune di Tivoli nel 2016 e dedicata allo studio del contesto architettonico, urbano e paesaggistico della città e del territorio circostante. Diversi gruppi di ricercatori e di studenti di tre università (Università Roma Tre, Sapienza e Università di Genova) e dell’Accademia Adrianea di Architettura e Archeologia, hanno presentato le loro ricerche e i loro progetti su diversi temi che caratterizzano il territorio tiburtino e la città (l’Aniene; il Bacino delle Acque Albule; la struttura urbana di Tivoli, la sua storia, il suo lessico costruttivo e le sue infrastrutture viarie; la cartografia e il GIS; l’area del Mausoleo dei Plauzi e del Ponte Lucano; Castrovetere e l’area del Foro; le cartiere; il mercato; l’agro romano; le catastrofi naturali, i danni bellici e il rischio sismico; il patrimonio archeologico). In appendice il catalogo della mostra organizzata da docenti e studenti di Roma Tre, ospitata alle Scuderie Estensi.
Città e Territorio Virtuale - CITTÀ MEMORIA GENTE
Le città sono cambiate, è cambiato il modo di intendere la città e di viverla. E questo spesso al di fuori della pianificazione e delle politiche urbane. Esiste ancora un legame tra le persone e i propri – e altrui – luoghi? Nell’era della virtualizzazione e della globalizzazione della realtà, luoghi e relazioni si stanno evidentemente trasformando. Al punto che si possono nutrire dei forti dubbi sull’esistenza ancora di uno “spazio pubblico di relazione”, quell’armatura fisica e relazionale che è alla base delle nostre città e che nelle espansioni urbane recenti – in tutto il mondo – ha perso quasi totalmente senso. Quali sono pertanto le “cautele” da adottare ne...
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union
IAU Transactions XXIIB summarizes the work of the XXIInd General Assembly. The discourses given during the Inaugural and Closing Ceremonies are reproduced in Chapters I and III, respectively. The proceedings of the two sessions of the General Assembly will be found in Chapter II, which includes the Resolutions and the report of the Finance Committee. The Statutes, Bye-Laws and a few working rules of the Union are published in Chapter IV. The Accounts and other aspects of the administration of the Union are recorded in Chapter V, together with the report of the Executive Committee for this last triennium, and provide the permanent record for the Union in the period 1991-1994. This volume also contains the Commission reports from The Hague compiled by the Presidents of the Commissions (Chapter VI). Finally, Chapter VII contains the list of countries adhering to the Union and the alphabetical, geographical and commission membership lists of about 8000 individual members. The IAU still appears to be unique among the scientific Unions in maintaining this category of individual membership which contributes in a crucial way to the spirit and the aims of the Union.
Alive on the Andrea Doria!
One half-century later, the catastrophic ramming of the MS Stockholm into the Italian luxury liner the SS Andrea Doria in 1956 is relived in this candid, heartrending account. Author Pierette Domenica Simpson, who, with her grandparents, survived the tragedy off the shoals of Nantucket, shares the human and technical aspects of what has become known as the greatest sea rescue in history. As only an eyewitness can do, the author presents survivors' recollections in dramatic vignettes that meticulously re-create a horrific event-one that could have been another Titanic. Both poor immigrants and wealthy travelers give their accounts of ultimate despair and infinite elation after staring at their own reflections in the black ocean that night and seeing death stare back. Equally dramatic are the revelations of new facts exposed by nautical experts from two continents facts that solve the "mystery" of who was to blame for this most improbable collision between two ships on the open seas.
Centri storici minori
Il volume nasce dalle ricerche teoriche e progettuali svolte sul tema del recupero edilizio, urbano e ambientale, sviluppate nell'ambito del gruppo di lavoro del Master internazionale di II livello in "Restauro architettonico e recupero della bellezza dei centri storici", diretto da Paolo Marconi e coordinato da Elisabetta Pallottino. I diversi contributi si propongono di tracciare un percorso analitico e progettuale sulla questione della riqualificazione dei centri storici minori, tema centrale nell'ambito della valorizzazione architettonica e paesistica del territorio italiano. Riflettere sul recupero della bellezza dei borghi antichi, spesso in stato di abbandono, vuole così contribuire ad alimentare l'interesse e le competenze operative legate alla salvaguardia del tessuto edilizio storico e dei suoi valori formali e costruttivi. Il volume è a cura di Francesca Romana Stabile, Michele Zampilli e Chiara Cortesi, con un saggio introduttivo di Paolo Marconi.
