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Mind the Gap

di Alfonso Casalini

Mind the Gap

The cultural sector needs managers. There is no other reason why the cultural sector is not the great thing of this era. The entire sector has changed since Europe acknowledged culture as one of the most interesting future industries. Analyses, data, business plans, financial statements, sustainability concerns: culture is no longer what we were used to thinking. Managing tools are more and more sophisticated, urban planning tools could provide real-time data about city fruition. Museum services, such as audioguides can interact with visitors based on their position within the exhibition area. The undeniable growth in terms of economic planning abilities that the cultural sector has experienced in the last ten or fifteen years, should have produced a comparable growth in incomes related to cultural activities.

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Gestire cultura

Commercial Districts and Corporate Planning: an international review

di Gianfranco Pozzer

The literature review aims at representing the different applications of the concept of the Trade District by comparing similar experiences on an international level (North-America, Western Europe, South Africa, Japan). The framework of the Trade District, globally, is acknowledged in different ways. Thus, this framework is not directly adopted in all the case histories analyzed by this paper. This is acknowledged in Table 1 where the describer is “commercial and economic development model”. Today, the reflections about the District intend the territory of the District as a sort of protected area. In this perspective, the District becomes a circumscribed area in which transactions are linked through proximity. Considering that the distributive value is influenced by characteristics acting in a context of variable geometry, e. a. proximity and contiguity, it is necessary to re-thing the District in its whole. In such a perspective, indeed, the District represents a planning tool able at interpreting the quality of territorial dynamics (cities and societies) also in relation to the digital component.

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Metropolis

Knowledge and exploitation of local resources: the historical centers of the Comino Valley

di Laura Lucarelli

This contribution is focused on an area located in the southern area of the Lazio region called “Valle di Comino” that has valuable characteristics from an environmental and historical construction point of view. It’s part of a wider research path carried out within the Laboratory of Documentation Analysis Survey and Technical Architecture (DART) of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio which deals with the analysis of the historical centers of southern Lazio, from architectural to environmental emergencies

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