Publications de Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Dalmine lives. A biopolitical history of an italian company town

Industrial organizations have significantly shaped the relationship between urbanization and industrialization through their policies of constructing and managing urban spaces, as well as their social actions, with company towns representing an outstanding ...

EPFL2024

Steel Pipes and Global Networks: The Influence of Dalmine S.p.A in Shaping Resource Extraction Infrastructures

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Pipelines for extracting oil, gas, water, and supporting energy systems are part of the infrastructure of extractive sites, especially marked in countries with less urbanized areas. Throughout the twentieth century, such regions were influenced by economic ...

2023

When the industry built the city: business archives, memory and community in a contemporary company town

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

This short essay illustrates the role of the business archive in the transmission and maintenance of contemporary industrial culture, with a focus on the company town of Dalmine. In the context of Dalmine, the business archive managed by the Fondazione Dal ...

EPFL Press English Imprint2023

Company Town : To Provide and to Separate. An Open Letter to Giorgio Agamben [by] Vittorio Gregotti

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

This letter, written by the architect Vittorio Gregotti to the philosopher Giorgio Agamben, was originally published in 1997 in the Italian Journal Rassegna, which Gregotti directed from 1979 to 1998. It is perhaps the very first time that a practicing arc ...

2023

Dalmine: From Company Town to Hybridized Productive Habitat

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

The establishment of company towns played a significant role in developing both urban and rural areas in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By combining historical and urban research, this study provides findings about the industry's pol ...

Louvain research institute for Landscape, Archi- tecture, Built environment, UCLouvain2023

The biopolitics of a company town: shaping the urban, shaping identities in Dalmine, Italy

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

Since the Industrial Revolution, Industrialists promoted and funded the development of housing projects, infrastructures, and social facilities around the production sites, some of them known as company towns. The scope was twofold: the entrepreneur or the ...

Docomomo international, Tirant lo Blanch España2022

Vivre plus localement après le coronavirus ? - Scénarios d'avenir pour les économies locales

Anna Karla De Almeida Milani, Pekka Jaakko Halla

Le citizen think tank intitulé “Vivre plus localement après le coronavirus ? - Scénarios d'avenir pour les économies locales » s’inscrit dans le cadre de la recherche Corona Citizen Science. Les citoyens et les scientifiques de l’EPFL, de l’UNIL et de l’id ...

2020