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 […]
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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 […]
Cultural Heritage and its important contribution to sustainable development.
The Directorate for Cultural Heritage is an Associate Partner for the Deep Cities project in Norway. Here, Special Advisor at the Directorate Marit Huuse writes about the importance developing our historic urban environments. We live in a time of great and rapid change in our physical environment. In particular, cities are constantly changing. But the […]
#Archaeology #DeepCities #CallforPapers #EAA2021 #WideningHorizons
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to inform that we will be participating in the 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) “Widening Horizons”, that will take place in Kiel (Germany) but also in the virtual world from 8th to 11th September. We invite submission to our session titled: Preserving Transformative ‘Palimpsests’: […]
A paralell case study in Barcelona
DEEP CITIES: Barcelona’s parallel-local case study: Changes and transformations in the town of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat In Barcelona we are planning to undertake another comparative study case working jointly with the “Museu de l’Hospitalet de Llobregat” (associate partner). It will focus on two fundamental aspects of the CURBATHERI-Deep Cities scientific objectives. Physical, urban and social […]