Mobile phone tracking data collected by telecommunication companies allow recording and
reconstructing the practices of mobilities and the presence of users with significant spatial …

Think of anything fragile, say, objects in your living room such as the glass frame, the
television set, or, even better, the china in the cupboards. If you label them 'fragile', then you …

La Collana di studi e ricerche del Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani del Politecnico
di Milano intende diffondere i risultati delle ricerche e le riflessioni generate all'interno del …

Architecture, urban policies and planning are based on the need to prefigure and encourage
possible changes that contribute to the construction of 'desirable futures'(the world as we …

Fragility is the outcome of a set of aspects related to and dependent on environmental,
social, economic, political and institutional factors that require specific interpretation skills …

The extreme variety of the Italian territory, of its 100 cities and 1000 settlements and
agricultural contexts, has long been known to the curious traveller, as well as to those who …

This chapter starts from the idea that fragility1 is an intrinsic characteristic of humans, objects
and, on a larger scale, buildings, cities and territories. According to psychologists, fragility is …

3 Introduction a condition of any territory and an opportunity to give quality, meaning and
energy to the places we inhabit. In Chapter 8, Stefano Guidarini examines how architecture …

The extreme variety of the Italian territory, of its 100 cities and 1000 settlements and
agricultural contexts, has long been known to the curious traveller, as well as to those who …

During the last decades, cultural heritage digitization processes have assumed a central
role in documenting, communicating, and enhancing the cultural landscape. Beyond the …