Ghezelloo, Yegane Hokugo, Akihiko Tsukihashi, Osamu
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City, Territory and Architecture
Gathering and public spaces, along with infrastructure and houses, are demolished because of disasters, which weakens the community ties. Different approaches, such as government-led and community-driven, to recovery initiate the recovery of gatherings and public spaces, and the long-term impact of each recovery approach on community recovery may n...
Bonet, Lluís Calvano, Giada Fernández Compañ, Pablo
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City, Territory and Architecture
Cultural projects, particularly when aiming at social impact, are usually the result of the context, values, and social fabric. Some endogenous factors, such as governance models and availability of resources, mainly committed human resources, could explain their particular development as well, despite being widely recurrent. Cultural policies are ...
Concilio, Grazia Bianchi, Irene Tosoni, Ilaria
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City, Territory and Architecture
This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning to sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on the analysis of cultural initiatives in six European Cities, the study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses...
Moro, Anna Legale, Eric
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City, Territory and Architecture
Cultural policies can be a strategic key to shaping more inclusive and sustainable urban regeneration processes, especially exploiting the acceleration promoted through transition dynamics. The City of Issy-les-Moulineaux, for its recent and deep investment in culture, sustainability and innovation in a non-conflictual and socially homogeneous urba...
Rausell-Köster, Pau Ghirardi, Sendy Sanjuán, Jordi Molinari, Francesco Abril, Borja
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City, Territory and Architecture
This article defines "cultural experience" and places it in a holistic conceptual model; “the cultural city” where it plays a relevant role in improving the performing of cities. The conceptual model combines the basic elements of the heritage city, the smart city and the creative city. The city is interpreted from a threefold perspective; as a rep...
Cacovean, Claudia-Maria Dascăl, Marina-Denisa Zbranca, Maria-Rarița
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City, Territory and Architecture
The article discusses the context and conditions for implementing culture-based interventions for health and well-being in an urban setting. Specifically, the article presents the case study of a cultural intervention aimed at reducing burnout-related symptoms in adults, describing the context of the intervention, the project design, implementation...
Spanedda, Francesco Fusaro, Matteo Carmine
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City, Territory and Architecture
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic put the spatial layouts of contemporary housing to the test. During the strict lockdowns in the early phases of the outbreak and the limited, temporary restrictions of the later phases, the safeguarding of public health was inevitably enforced by confining people at home, thus severing, by reasons of force majeure, the tradi...
Jones, Zachary M. Di Vita, Stefano Ponzini, Davide
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City, Territory and Architecture
Despite the proposed ‘certainty’ in a city or region hosting a mega-event, there has long been issues of uncertainty surrounding the planning and implementation of what have until now essentially been mega-projects. Large events have found a variety of ways to adapt and respond to unforeseen circumstances due to political conflicts, planning of ove...
Cicerchia, Annalisa
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City, Territory and Architecture
Wellbeing measures are gaining consensus as complementary to the traditional GDP approach when it comes to assessing the development of countries and communities. Cultural Welfare is a new, integrated approach aimed at promoting the wellbeing and health of individuals and communities through practices rooted in the arts and in cultural heritage. Re...
Segovia, Chema Hervé, Julie
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City, Territory and Architecture
The change of the century saw the emergence of a series of discourses that conceptualised different aspects related with culture as key elements in the future of urban realities. The fact that these notions have become encompassed within the celebrated label of “the creative city” leads us to think that they form a self-evident model, fully assimil...
