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Since 1892, one century after the Discovery of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis as the causal agent of the disease by Robert Koch in Berlin, on March 24th each year the WHO celebrates the TBC day

At the end of the eighteenth century, following the middel-class and industrial revolution, important urbanization phenomena arose - dragging with them social and sanitary issues

The reflection focuses on the role of historical-cultural permanences within the processes of urban regeneration, starting from the experience of the PRG ‘08 of the Municipality of Rome, which, in particular, introduces a new perspective assuming, among its priority options, the role of history for high-quality transformation and recalling, on one hand, the need for an interpretative description of the historical and cultural structure of the territory in all its expressions and specificities and, on the other, the need to reaffirm the centrality of the design dimension for the protection a

The metropolisation processes that, in recent decades, have determined deep territorial transformation, together with the identity features and the intrinsic characteristics of fragility of the contemporary city, recall the need for a unitary, integrated and interscalar public government strategy aimed at urban regeneration.

The new conception of History of the current PRG of the City of Rome reaffirms the centrality of the design dimension of the protection and enhancement of the Historic city within the regeneration strategies of the contemporary city.

The marginalization of women in economics has a history as long as the discipline itself. Throughout the history of economics, women contributed substantial novel ideas, methods of inquiry, and analytical insights, with much of this discounted, ignored, or shifted into alternative disciplines and writing outlets.

Using information on students’ past participation in economic experiments, we analyze whether behavior in public goods games is affected by experience (participation in social dilemma-type experiments) and history (participation in experiments different from social dilemmas). We find that: (1) on average, the amount subjects contribute and expect others to contribute decreases with experience; (2) at the individual level, the proportion of unconditional cooperators decreases with experience, while the proportion of selfish people increases.

This article aims at discussing the evolution of Tibetan diasporic cinema in India. Reading every film as a journey in time and space along sites of memory and nostalgia, the chapter raises the question of cinema as a powerful exercise of historiography or, as Hayden White (1988) has aptly called it, “historiophoty”.

Throughout his career, Herman van Bergeijk built his own unique expertise on the Dutch 19th and early 20th century architectural history. He has become an inspiration for scholars in the Netherlands, Europe and beyond. The extraordinary response of colleagues when asked to contribute a chapter in this Festschrift stands as an example of Herman’s widespread influence. Invitations for keynotes and lectures or courses keep reaching him, and he will continue to teach and write.

Il saggio si occupa del rapporto tra storia e testo costituzionale nella cultura giuridica statunitense