Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Jan 5, 2023
The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent de... more The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent decades. The first part deals with the history of the railway station and is devoted to understanding its functions as well as its social and symbolic meanings. The construction of railways had a significant impact on the urban form: it created new centralities and fractures and conditioned the development of the city. The railway station represented a novelty from an architectural point of view, being a space in which architectural and engineering knowledge merged. Because of their importance and monumentality, railway stations have been likened to cathedrals of modernity and movement and have been among the most important public spaces in the twentieth century. The second part of the article focuses on railway station renovation projects, in particular the «Grandi Stazioni» project, viewing it in the broader context of the profound changes in urban policies, which are increasingly oriented towards enhancing competitiveness and attractiveness. The renovation of stations has been aimed at revitalising rail mobility to address the mounting crisis in both the freight and passenger sectors, due to competition from road transport first and air transport later. The loss of centrality of rail transport had also affected railway station spaces, multiplying material and social voids as well as forms of decay. The renovation of railway stations has taken the form of a privatisation and commodification of spaces and an increase in surveillance and control. The transformations of railway stations can thus be read an example of contraction/domestication of public space.
Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urb... more Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urban Outcasts
The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent de... more The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent decades. The first part deals with the history of the railway station and is devoted to understanding its functions as well as its social and symbolic meanings. The construction of railways had a significant impact on the urban form: it created new centralities and fractures and conditioned the development of the city. The railway station represented a novelty from an architectural point of view, being a space in which architectural and engineering knowledge merged. Because of their importance and monumentality, railway stations have been likened to cathedrals of modernity and movement and have been among the most important public spaces in the twentieth century. The second part of the article focuses on railway station renovation projects, in particular the «Grandi Stazioni» project, viewing it in the broader context of the profound changes in urban policies, which are increasingly orient...
L'articolo analizza la genesi del concetto di urban blight nel contesto delle politiche di ur... more L'articolo analizza la genesi del concetto di urban blight nel contesto delle politiche di urban renewal che sono state attuate negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta nelle città degli Stati Uniti. L'obiettivo è quello di evidenziare le logiche discriminatorie che hanno accompagnato l'imposizione di questo termine nel dibattito pubblico e le sue conseguenze sull'allontanamento dalle aree centrali (inner city) delle città americane delle famiglie afroamericane. La costruzione dell'urban blight si inserisce quindi nel più ampio discorso sulla razzializzazione dello spazio che caratterizza l'esperienza urbana statunitense.
Rassegna di lavori sulla diffusione planetaria degli slum con particolare attenzione alla questio... more Rassegna di lavori sulla diffusione planetaria degli slum con particolare attenzione alla questione della governance e dei meccanismi di amministrazione di queste realtà urbane
Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urb... more Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urban Outcasts
Great Expectations: Critical Notes on Smart City The smart city concept refers to a set of strate... more Great Expectations: Critical Notes on Smart City The smart city concept refers to a set of strategies to optimize and improve efficiency and innovation in the city's organization. It is becoming an integral part of a new urban imaginary, in which the use of new technologies is considered a solution to improve inclusiveness. However, the ambiguities behind the narration of the smart city have not been deeply explored. The new technologies allow increasingly detailed and pervasive mapping of the subjects' behaviors in the urban space. In this sense, we can read the smart city as a new regime of visibility. Furthermore, the promises of inclusion and horizontality collide with the extreme fragmentation of the urban space. The smart city risks to become a further element of crystallization of differences, as it is happening in India with the Smart City Mission program, launched by the Indian government in 2014.
Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Jan 5, 2023
The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent de... more The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent decades. The first part deals with the history of the railway station and is devoted to understanding its functions as well as its social and symbolic meanings. The construction of railways had a significant impact on the urban form: it created new centralities and fractures and conditioned the development of the city. The railway station represented a novelty from an architectural point of view, being a space in which architectural and engineering knowledge merged. Because of their importance and monumentality, railway stations have been likened to cathedrals of modernity and movement and have been among the most important public spaces in the twentieth century. The second part of the article focuses on railway station renovation projects, in particular the «Grandi Stazioni» project, viewing it in the broader context of the profound changes in urban policies, which are increasingly oriented towards enhancing competitiveness and attractiveness. The renovation of stations has been aimed at revitalising rail mobility to address the mounting crisis in both the freight and passenger sectors, due to competition from road transport first and air transport later. The loss of centrality of rail transport had also affected railway station spaces, multiplying material and social voids as well as forms of decay. The renovation of railway stations has taken the form of a privatisation and commodification of spaces and an increase in surveillance and control. The transformations of railway stations can thus be read an example of contraction/domestication of public space.
Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urb... more Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urban Outcasts
The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent de... more The article analyses the transformations that have affected Italian railway stations in recent decades. The first part deals with the history of the railway station and is devoted to understanding its functions as well as its social and symbolic meanings. The construction of railways had a significant impact on the urban form: it created new centralities and fractures and conditioned the development of the city. The railway station represented a novelty from an architectural point of view, being a space in which architectural and engineering knowledge merged. Because of their importance and monumentality, railway stations have been likened to cathedrals of modernity and movement and have been among the most important public spaces in the twentieth century. The second part of the article focuses on railway station renovation projects, in particular the «Grandi Stazioni» project, viewing it in the broader context of the profound changes in urban policies, which are increasingly orient...
L'articolo analizza la genesi del concetto di urban blight nel contesto delle politiche di ur... more L'articolo analizza la genesi del concetto di urban blight nel contesto delle politiche di urban renewal che sono state attuate negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta nelle città degli Stati Uniti. L'obiettivo è quello di evidenziare le logiche discriminatorie che hanno accompagnato l'imposizione di questo termine nel dibattito pubblico e le sue conseguenze sull'allontanamento dalle aree centrali (inner city) delle città americane delle famiglie afroamericane. La costruzione dell'urban blight si inserisce quindi nel più ampio discorso sulla razzializzazione dello spazio che caratterizza l'esperienza urbana statunitense.
Rassegna di lavori sulla diffusione planetaria degli slum con particolare attenzione alla questio... more Rassegna di lavori sulla diffusione planetaria degli slum con particolare attenzione alla questione della governance e dei meccanismi di amministrazione di queste realtà urbane
Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urb... more Lungo saggio introduttivo alla traduzione italiana del classico lavoro di Loic Wacquant "Urban Outcasts
Great Expectations: Critical Notes on Smart City The smart city concept refers to a set of strate... more Great Expectations: Critical Notes on Smart City The smart city concept refers to a set of strategies to optimize and improve efficiency and innovation in the city's organization. It is becoming an integral part of a new urban imaginary, in which the use of new technologies is considered a solution to improve inclusiveness. However, the ambiguities behind the narration of the smart city have not been deeply explored. The new technologies allow increasingly detailed and pervasive mapping of the subjects' behaviors in the urban space. In this sense, we can read the smart city as a new regime of visibility. Furthermore, the promises of inclusion and horizontality collide with the extreme fragmentation of the urban space. The smart city risks to become a further element of crystallization of differences, as it is happening in India with the Smart City Mission program, launched by the Indian government in 2014.
Il ciclo di incontri filosofici, organizzato in autogestione, mira a costruire visioni e ragionam... more Il ciclo di incontri filosofici, organizzato in autogestione, mira a costruire visioni e ragionamenti collettivi sull’ecologia politica e sulla critica anticapitalista. Con la partecipazione di: Andrea Ghelfi, Domenico Vertone, Ubaldo Fadini, Francesco Biagi, Ilaria Agostini, Sonia Paone. A cura di Ilaria Agostini e Gilberto Pierazzuoli. * Nell’attuale sovvertimento ecosistemico globale e mentale, i germi di mondi possibili e desiderabili indicano l’urgenza di una svolta radicale che rimetta in discussione il modello socio-economico neocapitalista. Le alternative di pensiero e di esistenza, le pratiche di riappropriazione degli spazi urbani ed extraurbani, antagoniste, oppositive, creative e progettanti, costituiscono gli ingredienti per una ripartenza nel segno dell’uguaglianza sociale, della giustizia ambientale e di genere.
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anticapitalista. Con la partecipazione di: Andrea Ghelfi, Domenico Vertone, Ubaldo Fadini, Francesco Biagi, Ilaria Agostini, Sonia Paone.
A cura di Ilaria Agostini e Gilberto Pierazzuoli.
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Nell’attuale sovvertimento ecosistemico globale e mentale, i germi di mondi possibili e desiderabili indicano l’urgenza di una svolta radicale che rimetta in discussione il modello socio-economico neocapitalista.
Le alternative di pensiero e di esistenza, le pratiche di riappropriazione
degli spazi urbani ed extraurbani, antagoniste, oppositive, creative e progettanti, costituiscono gli ingredienti per una ripartenza nel segno dell’uguaglianza sociale, della giustizia ambientale e di genere.