Location: Florence, Italy
Located in Novoli, periphery of Florence, the site was until the 1990s an industrial area characterised by the presence of plants of the automobile firm FIAT and residential quarters for factory workers.
Today the neighbourhood is at the centre of a wide urban redevelopment project that aims to convert the area into a metropolitan service centre and transport node. The case study allows for the evaluation historic heritage layers of material heritage and associated values and their impact on neighbourhood identity, in the context of a fast-changing and intense development urban area.
The DeepCities Curbatheri workshop in Florence seen by the stakeholders between impressions, reflections and feedbacks. A preliminary synthesis.
On the 31st of March and on the 1st of April 2022 was held in Florence the DeepCities Curbatheri workshop that saw the participation of different categories of stakeholders, both in presence and online, in addition to an audience of project members and affiliates of the various Curbatheri research groups. The stakeholders were representatives of…
The Deep Cities – Curbatheri project and the collaboration with the Sassetti-Peruzzi High School in Novoli, Florence. Knowledge and participation of the youngest for the historical and social mapping of the territory
By Andrea Biondi, The University of Florence Between February and March 2022, as part of the activities of the Deep Cities – Curbatheri project at Novoli in Florence, we decided to involve the local Sassetti-Peruzzi High School. The school, located in Via di San Donato, was exactly within our study area and, moreover, it is…
Reflections on Heritage and Urban Planning – Exhibition in Florence
From March 31 until April 21 citizens and visitors to Florence can experience the Deep Cities exhibition at Biblioteca delle Oblate e Archivio Storico Comunale. It is well known that cities are constantly changing. As such, cities arecomposed of added historic layers that, over time, transform into heritage whichmerits conservation. Within the conservation process, heritage…
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The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Florence: excellence and memory of a public service
By Andrea Biondi (University of Florence), Doc. Francesca Gaggini (Responsible for the Archives and SDIAF Professional Organizer of the Municipality of Florence) and Doc. Giuseppe Cuscito (retired Archives Professional Organizer of the Municipality of Florence). The Historical Archive of the Municipality of Florence is an Associate Partner for the Deep Cities project in Florence, Italy.…
A periphery in transformationand a hidden heritage. The case study of the San Donato neighbourhood in Florence.
By Andrea Biondi, Research Fellow on the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Florence The San Donato neighbourhood, in Novoli district in Florence, is located in the north-western area of the city. It is an area out of any tourist itinerary, unknown even to most of the Florentines and not considered peculiar for the representation…
Florence: memories, needs and urban development. A case study from the 19th century
By Andrea Biondi, Research Fellow on the JPI Deep Cities project, University of Florence Work Package 4 (WP4) is a section of Curbatheri project stricktly oriented to determine and to create an effective link between theory and practice. Its principal aim and deliverable is to create a toolbox to help the governance structures in the…
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