Assessment of a vulnerability model against post-earthquake damage data: the case study of the historic city centre of L’Aquila in Italy

This study concerns contemporary cultural buildings in the historic city centre of Krakow, Poland, and their assessment in terms of sustainability. The paper aims to bridge a research gap in previous studies on pluralistic values and the impact of cultural heritage on sustainability. The comparative case study conducted in Krakow aims to evaluate the functioning and potential of the space towards achieving the following five goals: accessibility, conservation, mix of functions, aesthetics, comfort and sociability. The perception of these buildings and the public space around them by the city residents, as well as their operation during unexpected circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, were also evaluated. The author combined an on-site analysis, behavioural mapping and a survey. The results correlate the liveability and aesthetics of public spaces along with the amount and quality of greenery found there with the comfort of users and the popularity of particular places. This paper highlights how important it is to create cultural spaces in a historic city to develop a range of their activities linked to the surrounding public spaces and green areas. Activating cultural spaces and connecting them to sustainability goals is especially important when faced with declining tourism.

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Retail change in a context of an overtourism city. The case of Lisbon

International Journal of Tourism Cities ◽

10.1108/ijtc-11-2020-0258 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Pedro Guimarães

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

City Centre ◽

Content Type ◽

The Public ◽

Historic City

Purpose The excess of tourism in some destinations has led to the discussion of overtourism. One of the sectors that most interacts with tourism is retail, a key element in the experience lived by tourists. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how retail evolves in a context of an overtourism city, how it relates with touristification and what are the elements that best characterise such evolution and relation. Design/methodology/approach This research is based on a case study, using the main historic city centre of Lisbon for that purpose. Fieldwork was developed by the author to collect information about the commercial fabric and its main characteristics. Findings The findings show a clear adaptation of the commercial fabric of the analysed area to the tourism industry. Furthermore, the author unfolded that the change of retail is towards a consumption environment based on leisure, involving the adaptation of the public space into terraces, and on the thematisation of stores, using elements seen as “authentically” Portuguese, which bestows on theses spaces a sort of certification of quality and authenticity. Originality/value The mere reference to the homogenisation of the retail fabric is too simple to explain the richness and variety of elements imbedded in the process of retail change in a context of excessive tourism and touristification. In this paper, the author produced novel knowledge by analysing the elements that embody the evolution of retail in such a context.

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Romaeuropa Festival, A Case Study

Focus On Festivals ◽

10.23912/978-1-910158-15-9-2656 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Lucio Argano

Keyword(s):

Visionary Leadership ◽

City Council ◽

City Centre ◽

Red Brigades ◽

Significant Case ◽

The Common ◽

First Time ◽

Historic City

Different combinations of conditions, circumstances and historical moments trigger festivals. One of the common denominators that characterises their origins and success over the course of time is the role of their founders. The birth of Romaeuropa Festival, provides us with a significant case study of visionary leadership. The story of this festival began in 1986, just ten years after the creation of the Estate Romana (Roman summer), a programme of cultural events invented by architect Renato Nicolini, the Rome City Council politician in charge of cultural affairs from 1976-1985, which brought life to the city’s streets and squares each summer with music, dance, theatre and film. During that period Rome, for the first time since the end of World War Two, was governed by a leftwing administration, led by mayors belonging to the Italian Communist Party (PCI). These were also the dark years of the Red Brigades and Fascist terrorism that bloodied Italy. The Estate Romana was conceived as an umbrella event, which was to bring together many independent initiatives from theatre, music, cinema, art and literature and smaller individual festivals, and which soon became a symbol of the rebirth of Rome and of the revitalisation of the deeply scarred city. Nicolini’s idea was to enable people to regain possession of public spaces, especially in the historic city centre, by encouraging them to engage with the highly ghettoised suburbs, by fostering democratic access and participation in cultural activities. The initiative also sought to integrate different cultural forms and languages into its programme and to appeal to a variety of audiences.

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Analysis and repair of clustered buildings: Case study of a block in the historic city centre of L’Aquila (Central Italy)

Construction and Building Materials ◽

10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.09.108 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 1221-1237 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

F. da Porto ◽

M. Munari ◽

A. Prota ◽

C. Modena

Keyword(s):

Central Italy ◽

City Centre ◽

Historic City

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Post-earthquake damage assessment of traditional masonry buildings: A case study of Bhaktapur municipality following 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake

Engineering Failure Analysis ◽

10.1016/j.engfailanal.2021.105277 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 123 ◽

pp. 105277

Author(s):

Manjip Shakya ◽

Chandra Kiran Kawan ◽

Arjun Kumar Gaire ◽

Sunil Duwal

Keyword(s):

Damage Assessment ◽

Earthquake Damage ◽

Masonry Buildings ◽

Nepal Earthquake ◽

2015 Gorkha Nepal Earthquake ◽

Earthquake Damage Assessment

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Fragility estimation for global building classes using analysis of the Cambridge earthquake damage database (CEQID)

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering ◽

10.1007/s10518-021-01178-x ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Robin Spence ◽

Sandra Martínez-Cuevas ◽

Hannah Baker

Keyword(s):

Fragility Curves ◽

Resistance Index ◽

Earthquake Damage ◽

Ground Acceleration ◽

Damage Level ◽

Ground Motion Parameter ◽

Geographical Regions ◽

Concrete Building ◽

Damage Data ◽

Regional Comparisons

AbstractThis paper describes CEQID, a database of earthquake damage and casualty data assembled since the 1980s based on post-earthquake damage surveys conducted by a range of research groups. Following 2017–2019 updates, the database contains damage data for more than five million individual buildings in over 1000 survey locations following 79 severely damaging earthquakes worldwide. The building damage data for five broadly defined masonry and reinforced concrete building classes has been assembled and a uniform set of six damage levels assigned. Using estimated peak ground acceleration (PGA) for each survey location based on USGS Shakemap data, a set of lognormal fragility curves has been developed to estimate the probability of exceedance of each damage level for each class, and separate fragility curves for each of five geographical regions are presented. A revised set of fragility curves has also been prepared in which the bias in the curve resulting from the uncertainty in the ground motion parameter has been removed. The uncertainty in the fragility curves is evaluated and discussed and the curves are compared with those from other studies. A resistance index for each class of building is developed and cross-regional comparisons using this resistance index are presented.

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Historic city, tourism performance and development: The balance of social behaviours in the city of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Tourism and Hospitality Research ◽

10.1177/1467358415578473 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 282-293 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Belén Mª Castro Fernández ◽

Rubén Camilo Lois González ◽

Lucrezia Lopez

Keyword(s):

Numerical Data ◽

City Centre ◽

City Development ◽

Santiago De Compostela ◽

Final Destination ◽

City Tourism ◽

Set Up ◽

Historic City ◽

The City ◽

The Way

Santiago de Compostela is an iconic place. From the 9th century through to the present day the city has acted as the final destination of a major pilgrimage route named after it. In the article we ask ourselves how the contemporary reinvention of the pilgrimage and pilgrimages on the Way of St. James has boosted tourism development in the city. Development has been concentrated in the historic city centre and in the area around the cathedral. The importance of tourism has transformed the significance of the city itself, which acquires a magical component as a place of arrival and encounter for all kinds of visitors. The historic city has been set up in the 20th century as a destination for the Way and for cultural tourism. The buildings, particularly those connected with the pilgrimage route, become highly attractive and symbolic places and tourists carry out a number of rituals in them. They travel and enjoy Santiago as a unique experience. The study of tourism and of the tourist transformation of Santiago de Compostela is undertaken using a qualitative and quantitative method. The article analyses the heritage and symbolic value of the historic centre, together with the growth of its tourism activities. Numerical data are also provided on the perceptions and behaviour of visitors using surveys carried out by the city's Tourism Observatory.

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Urban cloverleaves: origin, aesthetics, and contradictions of the Slussen, Stockholm

Architectural Research Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s135913552100021x ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Álvaro Clua Uceda

Keyword(s):

Traffic Engineering ◽

City Centre ◽

Compact City ◽

The Baltic Sea ◽

Southern District ◽

Stockholm Archipelago ◽

The Baltic ◽

First Time ◽

Historic City ◽

Different Levels

On 11 October 1935, the inauguration of the Slussen urban cloverleaf took place in front of the excited citizens of Stockholm. It had the attributes of a pure traffic machine taken from the most advanced traffic engineering publications, and it expressed the optimistic cultural modernism that five years ago the Stockholm International Exhibition had promoted.1 This urban cloverleaf was made of translucent glass, reinforced concrete, metallic handrails, and reflective tiles and was meant to solve, in one single gesture, the complex urban link between the Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea, between Gamla Stan – the historic city centre – and Södermalm – the southern district built on top of the 35-metre-high plateau [1]. The solution made difficult urban compromises between the foothills of the Brunkeberg topography, the smooth water surfaces of the Stockholm archipelago, the architecture of the historic urban tissue, and the demands of a complex articulated mobility. Boats, goods, suburban trains, subways, trams – later buses – pedestrians, cyclists, and automobiles finally converged on this place at different levels, completing the intricacies of a threedimensional geometry which, for the first time in history, was inserted into a compact city.

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