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Paola Viganò

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Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Paola Viganò, Stéphane Joost, Dusan Licina, Idris Guessous, Anna Pagani, Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Mathias Lerch, Catarina Wall Gago, Derek Pierre Christie

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

2023

Dans toute nouvelle recherche sur le futur de l’espace urbain, le regain d’intérêt pour la vie, frappée de manière tragique par les crises sanitaires, écologiques et socio-politiques, soulève une question théorique et projectuelle cruciale : quel rôle l’es ...

MetisPresses2023

Territory Subject: Designing Human-Environment Interactions in Cities and Territories

Paola Viganò, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Qinyi Zhang

A brief critique of the evolution of ecological perspectives surrounding the current environmental crises in the age of climate age and Anthropogenic impacts is highlighted across the inter-disciplinary fields of landscape, urbanism, and ecology. First, re ...

Springer Cham2023

Inspired by Bernardo Secchi’s 1986 text “Progetto di Suolo,” this issue of Oase offers critical analyses of how soil, as an intermediary entity between surface and subsurface, can further the practices of urbanism and urban design. ...

NAi Publishers2022

The Horizontal Metropolis. The Anthology

Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni Corte

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the “Horizontal Metropolis” concept. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it explores various theoretical, methodological and political implications of the Horizontal Metropolis hypothesis. Assemb ...

Springer2022

The Anthology concludes the series of publications on the “Horizontal Metropolis,” a research and an oxymoron whose strength resides in expanding the traditional image of the metropolis to a larger territory where urban and non-urban elements live side by ...

Springer2022

The second part of the Anthology reconstructs a more recent and empirical tradition of thought that emerged in the twentieth century between the 60s and the beginning of the 90s from the direct observation of different contexts and case-studies developed b ...

Springer2022

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The Seminar proposes a European and transatlantic dialogue around the questions of the social and ecological transition (post-carbon) of marginal spaces, and territories of exploitation as the ancient coal territories on the two sides of the Atlantic. Th ...

2022

Eight years after the last visit of Bernardo Secchi to Brazil, the new cycle of online seminars Prima Lezione: Bernardo Secchi and the project of the contemporary city will be a posthumous tribute to the Italian professor, given his important contribution ...

2022

Designing Horizontality

Paola Viganò, Tommaso Pietropolli

This paper is divided into three parts. The first introduces a trilogy of concepts and figures of the discourse. The concept of isotropy, as opposed to hierarchy, evokes the same conditions in all directions. The concept of porosity tackles the fluidity an ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021