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The Monti government estimated in march 2012 that the global fiscal amount not perceived by Italian administrations due to illegal buildings was around 500 million Euros. According to some sources, up...
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Planum, the Italian online urban planning magazine, is publishing a series of links to urbanism-related films, with interesting examples. Most of the clips are historical, but there are also recent...
View ArticleBiblio (98) Landscape and economics
According to the European Landscape Convention, landscape is “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”. The...
View ArticleFrom Alps to Atlantic (3) Mestre
Can you just talk about Elephant and Castle and not about London? Or Jersey and not Manhattan? I’ll try to write about Mestre (where I took not a single picture) without mentioning the one reference...
View ArticleMaps 2015 (12) Seeing TV in Italy
Design Density is a research laboratory at the Design Department of the Milano Polytechnic. The Link Magazine, published by Mediaset, called them to do a work for their tenth issue in which they were...
View ArticleMaps (2015) Lago d’Iseo
An image from the project by Christo in Lago d’Iseo. Image from ANSA This comes from a press release by ANSA, the Italian Press Agency, and the title is quite catching; in English it would be “walking...
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