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Ref: Porta S, 2008, The World’s Longest Mistake: Sustainable Urban Design and the Renovation of Social Housing Estates: Also a Disciplinary Problem, Urban scrawl, 2, pp.18-21. Download the paper. *** *** Italy is not somewhere that you associate with modernist planning. However while most Italian citizens managed to avoided …
Ref: Porta S. (2008), Analytical tools for time-conscious urban design, in Thwaites K, Romice O, Porta S, Greaves M, Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design, A module in the “Gateways to the Professions” Postgraduate Cross-disciplinary Online Urban Design Programme, Echelon learning Ltd, Reading UK. Download the paper. *** *** This …
Ref: Porta S, Latora V. (2008), The spatial analysis of urban systems: Multiple Centrality Assessment and the dynamics on street networks, in Hasic T (ed), ‘New Urbanism and beyond: the future of urban design’, Rizzoli International, New York, NY. Download the paper. *** *** How can we understand where …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V (2008), Multiple Centrality Assessment in Parma: a network analysis of paths and open spaces, «Urban Design International», 2008. Download the paper. *** *** This paper got published only in 2008 but was actually written and submitted two years earlier, in 2006. One …
Ref: Hart L, Hooi J, Romice O, Porta S, (2010), Under the microscope: 20 small towns in Scotland, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK. Download the book: Under the microscope_Part1 Under the microscope_Part2 Under the microscope_Part3 Under the microscope_Part4 Under the microscope_Part5 Under the microscope_Part6 Under the microscope_Part7 Under the microscope_Part8 …
Ref: Hart L, Hooi J, Romice O. (2010), An Comann, 50 Small Scottish Towns, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK. Download the book: An Comman_Part1 An Comman_Part2 An Comman_Part3 An Comman_Part4 An Comman_Part5 An Comman_Part6 An Comman_Part7 An Comman_Part8 An Comman_Part9 An Comman_Part10 *** *** Small towns are very much …
Ref: Thwaites K, Romice O, Porta S and Greaves M (2007), Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design: approaches to time, people and place responsive urban spaces, Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, UK. Download extract in pdf. *** *** What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban …
Ref: Porta S, Latora V (2007), Multiple Centrality Assessment: centralità e ordine complesso nell’analisi spaziale e nel progetto urbano, «Territorio», 39, 189-202. Download the paper *** *** «Non c’è spesso così tanta perfezione nei lavori composti di molte parti e realizzati dalla mano di diversi maestri quanto in quelli …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V (2006), Analyse du réseau des voiries urbaines: une approche directe, «Géomatique Expert», 53, 56-71. Download the paper *** *** «Entre lesquelles l’une des premières fut que je m’avisai de considérer que souvent il n’y a pas tant de perfection dans les ouvrages …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V. (2006), The network analysis of urban streets: a primal approach, «Environment and Planning B: planning and design», 33 5, 705-725. Download the paper *** *** The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition, especially in …
