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This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences and in urban studies. Leading sociologists, economists, urban planners and architects address the ways in which spatial mobilities contribute to producing diversified uses of the city and describe forms and rhythms of different life practices, including unexpected uses and conflicts. The individual sections of the book focus on the role of mobility in transforming contemporary cities; the consequen...
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1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with Landslide processes, including: field data and monitoring techniques, prediction and forecasting of landslide occurrence, regional landslide inventories and dating studies, modeling of slope instabilities and secondary hazards (e.g. impulse waves and landslide-induced tsunamis, landslide dam failures and breaching), hazard and risk assessment, earthquake and rainfall induced landslides, instabilities of volcanic edifices, remedial works and mitigation measures, development of innovative stabilization techniques and applicability to specific engineering geological conditions, use of geophysical techniques for landslide charac...
In che modo il corpo si inscrive nell’orizzonte del progetto urbano e delle sue pratiche? È questa la domanda di fondo da cui si sviluppa il libro. Questione cruciale che ne genera altre: come uscire dalla trappola dell’analogia organica – la cui ombra si allunga fino a noi – tra la perfezione dell’uomo vitruviano e l’imperfezione di Frankenstein? Come dare conto del carattere politico del rapporto tra corpi e spazi nell’azione di progetto? Un tema ampio e imprendibile, esplorato nel volume dapprima attraverso un’interrogazione sul senso di un percorso individuale dentro una storia più generale. Quindi appoggiandosi a robuste ontologie politiche che fanno riferimento al pen...