Réflexions sur le fait urbain en Cyrénaïque tardo-médiévale (XIIIe-XVIIe siècles)
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Medieval Arles through the Lives of Its Founding Bishop
Texts recounting the careers of saints were foundational to Christian worship and historical construction in medieval Europe. They were also fluid, living works that evolved over time as individual saints’ stories were revised, adapted, and retold. These texts changed in response to changing contexts in which they were used and understood. This art...
Transformation of Silifke—A Historic Town in Anatolia in the Ottoman Period
This article focuses on the Ottoman Period urban fabric of Silifke, a crucial historical town in Turkey. The aim of this paper is to develop a research framework for the transfer of cultural heritage and cultural continuity in multi-layered historical cities. In this context, investigating the level of sociocultural transition and physical permeabi...
Decoding Near Synonyms in Pedestrianization Research: A Numerical Analysis and Summative Approach
Pedestrianization is a significant discourse focus within urban planning and design research. However, the need for more clarity from the inconsistent use of near-synonym concepts or terms necessitates attention. This review article addresses this issue through a comprehensive analysis of synonym proliferation in pedestrian research, culminating in...
La Alameda en ojos decimonónicos: evolución y representación de un espacio de sociabilidad (1807-1905)
The article studies the way in which the transformation of the Alameda de las Delicias was perceived by its contemporaries in the 19th century, from being a peripheral space and the limit of urbanity to an articulating axis of the city of Santiago de Chile. Through travelers’ accounts, political memoirs, autobiographies, and newspapers, we will ana...
«..Porque en las Ciudades Lineales la vida será mucho más higiénica». Teorie e applicazioni igieniste nella Città Li...
Nel 1882 sulle pagine del periodico repubblicano spagnolo “El Progreso”, Arturo Soria y Mata (1844-1920) presenta per la prima volta le proprie considerazioni sulla linea recta e la calle curva: la prima sinonimo di rigenerazione urbana, intrisa di valori ottocenteschi come pragmatismo e igiene, mentre la seconda emblema della «città invecchiata, ...
Les madrasas de Tripoli d'Occident à l'époque médiévale
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Mass housing and collective-use facilities in the 20th century Turin: an urban history of stratification
Historians of public housing schemes in Italian cities have usually approached the history of public facilities from within the limits of a given housing complex, observing which collective-use infrastructures were built for a specific neighborhood (a parish, a school, a public market, etc.). This approach has been guided by a representation of 20t...
Pitrufquén, Chile: la ciudad como estrategia de ocupación territorial
This paper analyzes the development of Pitrufquén (located in the Araucanía Region, Chile, and founded in 1897) from a historical, territorial, urban, and architectural point of view. It is proposed that the city’s development is framed in a new moment, where the Chilean State abandons military criteria and assumes economic-territorial factors wher...
Imaginarios periféricos. Un análisis de la producción escrita acerca de la zona Nororiental y la Comuna 13 de Medellín (...
The paper explores the degree to which a dispute over the classification of inhabitants of the hillsides of Medellin marked the years 1980 to 2012. It is founded on the so-called New Cultural History principle, which states that representations are additional forms of social world production. Regarding methodology, it relies on reviewing and examin...
