Territorial Projects Research Articles

Projeto de saúde no território: educação sexual na escola / Health in the territory project: sexual education at school

A sexualidade é inerente aos seres humanos, e o sexo, uma forma de expressá-la, pode trazer consequências negativas quando praticado inconsequentemente. A educação sexual é um importante meio de prevenção de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis (IST’s) e gravidezes indesejadas, sendo a escola um ambiente propício para a abordagem de tais questões. No presente trabalho, objetivou-se desenvolver ações de prevenção e promoção envolvendo os temas sexualidade e saúde sexual com estudantes adolescentes. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, de caráter quantitativo, acerca dos conhecimentos relacionados à saúde sexual dos alunos da escola Polivalente, no município de Patos de Minas. A pesquisa contou com a participação de 47 alunos matriculados nas turmas do 9º ano do ensino fundamental ao 3º ano do ensino médio. A intervenção contou, em um primeiro dia, em uma aplicação de questionário seguida por exibição de vídeo disparador e discussão em grupo, com apontamento das maiores insuficiências nos assuntos abordados. Em um segundo dia, foi realizada uma aula expositiva abordando os tópicos da discussão e, posteriormente, foi reaplicado o mesmo questionário. Observou-se melhor desempenho na maioria das questões após a intervenção. Conclui-se a importância e validade de atividades de conscientização na escola, onde os jovens puderam discutir o tema entre si e resolver suas dúvidas.

Local public authorities’ and French mainland landscape advisers’ perception of landscape in Mayotte Island: The issues of quality of life in a developing region

The European Landscape Convention (ELC) has affirmed and legitimised the role of the landscape in the quality of life of people, emphasizing the importance of both remarkable and ordinary landscapes. Therefore, the convention should ensure that landscape issues are taken into account everywhere - in rich and poor regions and in different cultural contexts especially where the term ‘landscape’ does not exist in the local languages. We choose to study Mayotte, a French Overseas Department off the east coast of Africa, characterised by a particular territorial context with similar issues to those of the countries in the Global South. The aim of our research was to reveal how the concept of landscape is understood and defined by local public authorities and their landscape advisers and the extent to which the wider framework of the ELC is relevant to encourage landscape to be effectively taken into account in land use planning. Semi-structured interviews with 14 key stakeholders (local authorities and landscape advisers from mainland France) brought to light different ways of understanding the term ‘landscape’, and different approaches for including the issue of the landscape in land use management. The results show how integrating the issue of landscape can improve the quality of life in a poor region especially through the adoption of landscape tools. This adoption is still characterised by a top-down approach in which the French legislation and State services play an important role but which nonetheless clearly highlights the potential of these tools to coordinate a territorial project.

El catastro multipropósito como una construcción que parte de la comunidad: propuesta para alcanzar una visión con propiedad

The land registry consists in surveying the physical, legal and economic information from the land lots. This allows the towns, and the country, to keep updated the land databases regarding location, area, outline, access, land value, and legal status. This is a support to be used in the public policy-making, investments, territory ordering, and infrastructure works. Today, the rural land registry shows a great lack of updating, almost 95 %, which indicates that the processes, rules and resources are not being used efficiently. This fact has a direct impact on both the local and regional territorial projects. For this reason, the challenge of the multi-purpose land registry lies in having new regulations that take into account the decentralization when executing the registry, hiring land registry experts and transforming it in a public service. In addition, the methodology set out herein is intended to show that the direct participation of the owners in the process would yield efficient results in the medium term

Implementation of a seismic monitoring network of relevant and strategic public buildings in the Marche region (Italy)

A seismic monitoring infrastructure for relevant and strategic public buildings has been developed thanks to the agreement between the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) and Marche Region. The project was founded by European projects for the assessment of seismic risk for strategic public buildings, prevention and monitoring - European Territorial Cooperation Project Holistic (EU IPA-Adriatic) and READINESS (INTERREG Italy-Croatia). The project was born by taking advantage of the presence of MEMS accelerometers installed at the base of municipal buildings. The project aims to implement low-cost technologies and non-invasive methods to extend the seismic monitoring of the sites where the structures are located and characterize the seismic action in correspondence of them with a rapid estimate of the damage through relationships between acceleration and macroseismic intensity or fragility curves and construction features. Among the various activities, environmental seismic noise measurements were carried to investigate the fundamental vibration of the structures and soils, semi-automatic procedures were developed for the calculation of the strong motion parameters of seismic events and a web portal was implemented for the collection and rapid dissemination of information to local Civil Protection.An important part of the activities concerned the testing of new MEMS accelerometers through collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM) and the headquarter of the Osservatorio Nazionale Terremoti (ONT) in Palermo. Moreover, new monitoring sites are being prepared in some municipalities affected by the 2016 seismic sequence. Since the beginning of the project, the strong motion parameters relating to 95 seismic events of magnitude greater than 3 and with ground motion accelerations greater than or equal to 0.001 g have been stored in the database.

Ascoltare il territorio

The recent history of urban development in Italy largely stems from a policy – here intended as a set of actions and strategies of administrators, entrepreneurs and experts – which has been incapable of planning transformations and, therefore, adopting a shared and far-sighted approach to development. The urban regeneration of metropolitan areas and their consequent demographic and economic development (70% of the population and 80% of GDP are concentrated in these areas) have often penalised internal areas such as the Alps and Apennines. Some peculiar experiences, including the regeneration of the village of Ostana (Cuneo), the project carried out in Contrada Bricconi (Bergamo), or even the activities of the association Dolomiti Contemporanee (Belluno) – just to mention a few interesting cases in the Italian Alps, – show that the understanding of and care for a unique territory are the pillars on which any informed political, administrative, architectural or territorial project should be based. This approach is all the more important in the framework of those events envisaging the construction of large infrastructures (such as the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina). After these events, such infrastructures are often abandoned because they are useless for the territory, economically unsustainable in the long-term, and not shared with the local community. In this perspective, the work of the association Architetti Arco Alpino (Alpine Arc Architects), whose activities range from architecture awards to photographic surveys, conferences and publications, aims to understand the complexity of mountain areas and to promote architectural quality. In this framework, they have successfully shown how the problems are often the same regardless of geographical and cultural distances. The solution to these problems is to be found primarily in the act of listening to the places and history of the local population; whether in the Alps or elsewhere, every good project based on a contemporary and conscious approach starts from there.

“My Electricity” Program Effectiveness Supporting the Development of PV Installation in Poland

There are a lot of studies that show the legitimacy of subsidizing renewable energy; however, some mechanisms are defective, and there are problems with the appropriate allocation of funds. Therefore, this paper aims to look at the situation of allocating funds to photovoltaics (PV) micro-installations in Poland through the “My Electricity” program. The article presents the results of analyses aimed at identifying inequalities between provinces in the use of funds available under the “My Electricity” program and verifying whether these inequalities are getting worse and whether the intensity of support should not be territorially conditioned in terms of maximization an electricity production. As part of two editions of the “My Electricity” program (until 1 August 2020), over 64,000 PV micro-installations were created with an average power of approximately 5.7 kWp. The total installed PV capacity was 367.1 MWp (1st edition: 159.3 MWp, 2nd edition: 207.8 MWp). Financial resources (as a whole), in the second edition of “My Electricity” program, were distributed better than in the first edition. In the first edition, as much as 7.60% of funds were allocated inefficiently; in the second edition, it was only 3.88%. Allocation surpluses occur in provinces where the average disposable income is low and where there are a small number of households. There is a potential to introduce a territorial project selection criteria. The analysis shows that the criteria should promote provinces with higher disposable income and a larger number of households.

Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) and the “Jewish Question” in Russia

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Jews in France sought to assimilate into French society. It is generally accepted that this desire to assimilate explains their wariness towards Russian Jews, whose nationalist aspirations found concrete expression in the Zionist and territorial projects. The correspondence of Salomon Reinach, who was one of the most important figures in French Judaism during the Belle Epoque, shows that the “Jewish question” and the situation of the Jews in Russia was central to his attention both as a historian and as the head of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. An analysis of this correspondence allows us to understand the emergence of cultural and scientific transfer processes between France and Russia, French Jews and Russian Jews.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНАЯ ГЕОГРАФИЯ В ТУРИЗМЕ

Geographical descriptions and geographical comparisons provide a basis for understanding the key features of a place. These classical approaches, revealing the typical and the unique, make it possible to discover the «formula of the place», to understand the rational directions of the development of the territory. Often, territorial development projects are based not on marketing and technical calculations, but on a geographic idea. In this case, we are dealing with conceptual geography, which can significantly change the priorities of society’s development in the future. Conceptual geography is seen as an applied approach, expressed in the practical, economic design of geographical thought. The tourism sector demonstrates a special geographical conceptuality. Tourism is one of the areas of interest for people where the importance of geography is recognized. The most promising planning of tourist routes based on geographical creativity. The tourist industry is especially «genetically» territorial. Objects of tourism and recreation are inherently geographic, organically integrated into the territory, reflecting its features. The article shows the movement from descriptive and comparative geography to conceptual geography on the example of the development of one of the towns of the Perm region. Geographic technologies are actively used in tourism design. The development of conceptual geography through tourism testifies to its special sensitivity, to the ability to show new guidelines for social development.

Investment, Employment and Aggregate Demand: A New European Industrial and Regional Strategy

The recent economic crisis asks for expansive economic policies because already the crisis of 2007-2008 showed the lack of investments and low employment rates as the crucial week points of the European economy. Recently even European Commission recognized the urgency of a large investment plan in Europe to face the Covid’s crisis with the launch of the NGEU to reach green and sustainable goals. This underlines the role of development industrial policies and the coordination of the dynamic relationships between cities and regions with Europe giving a big push to territorial development projects. Industrial and development planning should be realized through a multilevel and experimental governance.

Désinences vernaculaires : architecture alpine en Valais

Since the term ‘vernacular’ has been used to frame an ‘architectural gender’, not a constructed heritage, particularly that of the rural economy in the mountains, reality has been dispossessed, and all the natural elements are, in fact, the result of a natural restoration. This was the case in Valais under the architectural governance of Edmond Giroud and Maurice Zermatten during the Trente Glorieuses. Their belief in a narrow regionalism aspiring to an identity, which they defined as a ‘neo-Valaisan’ style, wiped out modernist aspirations. In order to fight against an outdated censorship, architects react by exalting the modernist cause, which sometimes makes them forget that any new form can also be the result of a critique of the forms established by tradition, or the result of an order that is specific to the architectural project. Alongside the multiple conclusions of the ‘vernacular gender’ – the latter understood narrowly as tradition – a more daring project can be measured across the whole of the Valais and Alpine territory. From the simple dwelling house to the imposing dam, the scale adopted is a territorial measure, an order of thought that internalises a necessity, engaging the author in a work that is less autobiographical and more empirical. On the one hand, there are the virtuosos of the vernacular and, on the other, those who propose a territorial project, such as Jean-Paul Darbellay.

University extension in the democratic construction of the territory: reflections on a cultural landscape of the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

This article intends to reflect, analyzing a case study from Argentina, on the role and engagement of the public university, specifically through extension, in the democratic construction of a territorial project. The case constitutes a cultural landscape within the mountain system of Tandilia (province of Buenos Aires), whose characteristics have been investigated by public universities for more than forty years. However, the history of projects and extension activities to democratize that knowledge and favor collective patrimonialization processes is scarce. In consideration of two current situations such as, on the one hand, the threat of the landscape against private investment interests, government disinterest and lack of planning, and on the other hand, the high valuation and community interest for its conservation, this area of the public university becomes a political action that needs to be analyzed.

Financialising the frontier: Harish City

Housing and settlement played a key role in the formation of an Israeli society and its territorial project. While earlier frontier settlement relied on the rural sector and on peripheral development towns, with the liberalisation and privatisation of the local economy it was incorporated in the nationwide suburbanisation process. Eventually, with the neoliberal turn, the state sought to redirect investors, entrepreneurs, developers, and families to frontier areas by creating a real estate market and thus financialising the national territorial enterprise. This paper focuses on Harish, a rapidly developing housing project on the border with the occupied Palestinian West-Bank (the Green-Line). Presenting the geopolitical and societal interests behind its development, as well as the transformations its planning processes went through, this paper shows how the state was able to financialise its frontier and to eventually domesticate its border area. Analysing the spatial characteristics of Harish, this paper explains how the built environment functioned both as the medium and outcome of the alliance between national interests and market economy, merging financial frontiers with economic ones.

The Privatisation of a National Project : The settlements along the trans-Israel Highway since 1977

The settlements along the Trans-Israel Highway illustrate the privatisation of the national settlement enterprise. To understand this process, this dissertation focuses on the settlement production mechanism, which consists of the reciprocal interests of the government and various private groups to develop and domesticate the border area between the State of Israel and the occupied West-Bank - the Green-Line. Centring on the spatial privileges the state granted to diverse spatial agents, this dissertation examines the manner in which different favoured groups were given the power to colonise, plan, develop and market space as a means to enhance the state’s power over it. Investigating the gradual transformation of this production mechanism, this dissertation explores the increasing privatisation of the local economy and culture, as well as how this was manifested in the built environment. Examining the modifications in the architectural and urban products this mechanism produced, this dissertation analyses the materialisation of the privatised national settlement project and how it transformed together with the changing political and economic interests.

The creation of innovative tourism products via local actor analysis and their organization in the territory

Over decades, tourism has grown steadily and has become increasingly diverse, becoming one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Indeed, among all this forms of tourism, emerging geological tourism in recent years is considered as an alternative that can be associated with classical tourism, which constitutes a presentation of the geological and geomorphological heritage of a territory and highlights the Enormous geological and cultural diversity. Our study forms part of the ongoing work on a territorial project which aims the structuring of these resources/territory (what can be done? what happens? Offers, events). The valorization, mobilization and combination of these resources are made to give various forms of geological tourism in a transversal and territorial approach.

A bioregional reading of the rural landscapes of the Italian inner areas and the regenerative potential of rural tourism. The case study of the VENTO project

Talking about abandonment means talking about fragile territories that need a regeneration territorial project. In this paper the phenomenon of abandonment becomes an opportunity to identify relationships between unused resources, anthropic dynamics, original landscapes. Bioregionalism is proposed as a possible theoretical approach that guides actions of project, reveals and holds together tangible and intangible resources and identifies the most suitable spatial scale for regeneration of depopulated territories. VENTO project, the 780 km cycle route financed by Italian Ministries that connects northern Italy, becomes a case study to investigate the potential of the slow line to be a bioregional project.

Anatomical study of the clavicular branch of the thoracoacromial artery

Introduction: The etiology and the complexity of losses of substances from the chest wall cause technical difficulties during their reconstruction. In order to obtain the best possible functional and morphological results, it is important to appreciate the lesions. When considering soft tissue reconstruction, the dimensions, location and shape of losses of substances, as well as the reliability and the arc of rotation of the chosen flap, must be taken into account. The perforator flap of the thoracoacromial artery and its vascular anatomical bases have been recently studied, concerning the pectoral and deltoid branches. The clavicular branch has only been rarely studied. We propose to study anatomically the clavicular branch of the thoracoacromial artery, in terms of constancy, dimensions and direction, in order to give to practitioners an additional option in the surgery of perforator flaps of the cervical region. Material and methods: We carried out a direct and selective injection of 24 thoracoacromial arteries, on corpses preserved in a low-formalin solution rich in glycerin. The injected solution was made from a mixture of methylene blue and gelatin. Cadaveric dissection was then used to study the location, frequency, and path of the clavicular branch of the thoracoacromial artery. Results: The clavicular branch was absent in more than half of the dissections. The length of its extrafascial pedicle varied between 0.5 and 2.5cm. The length of the pedicle after transmuscular dissection varied between 3 and 6cm. The general direction of this clavicular branch was ascending and medial. Conclusion: Our work shows that when it is present the clavicular branch of the thoracoacromial artery has an extrafascial pedicle which measures 0.5 to 2.5cm, and a transmuscular pedicle from 3 to 6cm. And that its vascular skin territory projects slightly below the clavicle.

Planning for the future? The emergence of shared visions for agriculture in the urban-influenced Ontario’s Greenbelt, Canada, and Toulouse InterSCoT, France

In urban-influenced areas, farmers face new opportunities and constraints that shape their farming styles. In this article, we investigate the impact of two planning strategies, Ontario’s Greenbelt, Canada, and Toulouse InterSCoT, France, on farmers’ investment and discuss the consistency of farmers’ strategies and territorial projects. A theoretical approach centered on J.R. Commons’ concept of Futurity is operationalized with mental modeling during 41 in-depth interviews with farmers. The results show that farming styles, which reflect farmers’ adaptation to their urban-influenced environment, stem in both jurisdictions from farmers’ values, attitudes, skills, and norms. The differences in investment decisions revealed in the respective planning strategies highlight that Ontario’s Greenbelt zoning is not sufficient to preserve urban-influenced farming, while in Toulouse InterSCoT, the viability of farmers’ projects depends on the alignment of farmers and other agricultural stakeholders’ representations of agriculture. The shared territorial vision of the agricultural landscape stemming from such an alignment may help mitigate potential conflicts while supporting farmers’ projects that contribute to this vision. The importance of a shared vision of the future supporting multifunctional agriculture emerged in both jurisdictions.

INVESTMENT PROVISION OF DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNIZATION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNAL ECONOMY OF URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS: REGIONAL FEATURES

Introduction. One of the defining directions of the management system transformation of socio-economic development of the national economy of Ukraine is the gradual implementation of decentralization reform, which involves redistribution of powers, financial flows and resources between levels of government, reformatting the administrative structure of territories and shifting responsibility for their development to local governments. The strategic goal of the reform is to form an optimal organizational and administrative structure of territorial management based on the duality of power and democracy, which will stimulate their advanced economic development, modernize infrastructure, improve living standards and effectively solve community problems. The purpose of the article is to analyze the regional features of investment support for the development and modernization of housing and communal services of urban agglomerations. Results. The analysis of financial support for UTC development showed that the consolidation of territorial communities creates better conditions for development and investment primarily due to the effect of synergies and scale, which allows for more ambitious projects to build infrastructure, improve housing management systems, create a favorable business environment and additional jobs. All this testifies in favor of the development of urban agglomerations, which create opportunities for inter-territorial integration of social and economic development. Conclusions. It is proved that in order to attract investment in the development of housing and communal services (including local territorial projects) and modernization of their infrastructure, which can potentially bring economic effect, it is necessary to introduce and improve tools of alternative financing, successfully used in developed economies, in particular: leasing, corporatization, project financing, forfaiting, debt financing, concession investment, mixed financing. Key words: investment provision, modernization, housing and communal services, regional features.

IDENTIFICATION OF NEW ICONIC OBJECTS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF HERGLA (TUNISIA)

This paper discusses the issue of territorial identity by facing globalization in Hergla's delegation. In order to requalify the “image of the city”, amulticriteria analysis of the landscape units ofthe “El Medfoun” forest and the Sebkha “Halk El Menjel” has been developed to detect symbol indices of change for a new “territorial landscaping”. These natural areas were identified as new iconic objects. Indeed, the Sebkha and the forest, carrying ecological, patrimonial, social and economic values, may be integrated into a territorial project, through of landscape geomediation practices. These values are considered as identity factors for the sustainable development of Hergla delegation.

Among territorial project and architectural design

The contribution develops a reflection on the urban space project in contexts characterized by historical-cultural relevance by exploring interdisciplinary approaches through the intersection of research and didactic actions in the field, which make the project emerge from specific ways of interacting with local societies. These relationships find a sense starting from the identification of some traditionally configured places in the city that present obsolete functions or abandoned conditions, but characterized by a strong urban value and can become hubs of potential and learning laboratories. In this sense, knowledge can be a tool capable of favouring forms of social relations and initiating the construction of new citizenships.The research identifies in the context of the historic city of Sassari some nuclei of urbanity, spaces and significant areas of the city that more than others recall an educational dimension. The relationship between the formative character of the historic city and the emergence of new forms of sociality favours the possibility of identifying areas outside standardization that contain the genetic code of urban conviviality. In this perspective, public space defined as the place of production of sociality, designed to bring out a different urban organization.The identification of these latent traces of a system full of meaning and full of potential for urban life can open fertile perspectives to think of new spaces of relationship for active participation in the project of the city. Marking the distance from an object-oriented position in favor of an ontology of urban and territorial relations, the project continuously aimed at revealing new forms of spatial distribution that relate different nuclei, interpreting their specific role in the overall system of generative structures environmental aspects of the city.