Ricerc@Sapienza

In the name of regeneration, the study on the historical city and the deep linkage between
city and architecture is renewed. For years at the heart of the political agenda in Europe and
worldwide, “urban regeneration” not only implies a comparison with history, but also global
objectives of social inclusion, economic upturn, environmental sustainability. A design project is
more difficult when placed in a historical context left to decay, a melting pot of different people

From the middle of the 20th century, the center of São Paulo began to undergo a deep urban transformation resulting from the transfer of the ruling classes to other sectors of the city.
The related dislocation of higher-income housing, trade and services toward the south- west of the metropolis has left the city center in a social, economic and urban decay.

The southern Albanian territory gathers many orographic and territorial conditions as well as relationships between water, landforms and urban forms.
The city of Saranda, the neighbor small settlements, the Vrina Plan, the hills, the mountains, the sea and the lagoon are realities that coexist in a single stretch of territory developing along 23 km.

The Third ISUFITALY International Congress (ISUF Italy 2017) will be held in Rome from February 23rd to February 24th and will host 75 participants, more than 40 coming from foreign countries and the others from the Italian Schools of architecture. ISUFITALY is launching its third international congress after hosting in 2015 the Twenty-Second International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF Rome 2015) attended by 350 participants (800 abstract submitted) and publishing in 2016 the proceedings by U+D Editions, a monographic series launched beside

The themes of reduce, recycle, reuse are at the heart of the challenges that the global society of the XXI century is facing. At the same time, more than two-thirds of the world population lives in cities nominating the latters to play a central role in the near future.

Foreword of proceeding

The Artimino meeting has tried to lay the foundations for a joint re?ection willing to overcome the local resistances to innovation that often arise in the development of a discipline of Urban Morphology. By proposing a dialogue between the Italian and Spanish schools who share the same cultural Mediterranean area, the meeting compared different contributions, in sight of a new disciplinary de? nition within the urban morphology studies.