Blending adaptive governance and institutional theory to explore urban resilience and sustainability strategies in the Rome Metropolitan Area, Italy

Adaptive governance is an emerging theory in natural resource management. This paper addresses a gap in the literature by exploring the potential of adaptive governance for delivering resilience and sustainability in the urban context. We explore emerging challenges to transitioning to urban resilience and sustainability: bringing together multiple scales and institutions; facilitating a social-ecological-systems approach and; embedding social and environmental equity into visions of urban sustainability and resilience. Current approaches to adaptive governance could be helpful for addressing these first two challenges but not in addressing the third. Therefore, this paper proposes strengthening the institutional foundations of adaptive governance by engaging with institutional theory. We explore this through empirical research in the Rome Metropolitan Area, Italy. We argue that explicitly engaging with these themes could lead to a more substantive urban transition strategy and contribute to adaptive governance theory.

Crónicas y romancero: la muert de Afonso V de León en la Villa de Viseu

Neste artigo, dão-se a conhecer duas versões (recolhidas da tradição oral na região de Las Hurdes, Cáceres, Espanha) dum romance de que não tinhamos notícia nem paralelos nas colecções romancísticas antigas ou modernas. O romance recria alguns episódios da morte do rei Afonso V de Leão, devido aos ferimentos produzidos por uma seta, na cidade de Viseu, em 1028. As primeiras referências a estes factos encontram-se nas primitivas crónicas asturiano-leonesas da primeira metade do séc. XII e notícias sobre eles aparecem também nos sécs. XIV, XV e XVI. O romance parece fruto dum refundidor tardio que, inspirando-se em factos históricos que conhecia, escreveu um romance, que conseguiu entrar na tradição oral de Las Hurdes, embora de modo fragmentário e mostrando acentuada debilidade narrativa. A visita de Afonso XIII à região em 1922, e a coincidência entre o seu nome e o do protagonista do romance, favoreceu, talvez, uma reactualização deste, permitindo-nos conhecer as recordações longínquas em que se inspira.

Accessibility Planning tools for sustainable and integrated Land Use/Transport (LUT) development: an application to Rome

The paper fits into the themes of sustainable accessibility planning in urban areas, that can be defined as the integration of transport and land use planning to achieve sustainable development. In particular the study proposes a tool to support the choices of activities location, which is based on a new aggregate (zone-specific) indicator: the ‘Marginal Activity Access Cost’, providing estimation in monetary terms of the impacts on mobility and on the environment of locating one new activity in a specific zone of the urban area. The proposed indicator is validated through an application to the urban area of Rome.

The History of Rome in Painting

There are many paths to reach Rome, immense field open to the eye through the centuries and days, where the presence of the story is haunting. All the artists came to Rome: Italians of various Italian and also French, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, English and Americans. These painters whose works tell its long history for having lived in the glare of light forever are the Roman pantheon of arts: what are all the anonymous authors of the frescoes of ancient Rome and medieval, but Fabriano, Cimabue , Giotto, Botticelli, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Guercino, Titian, Vasari, Velasquez, Le Nain, Poussin, Zuccari, Van Wittel, Eckersberg, Giraudet, David, Panini, Hubert Robert, Reynolds, Fuseli, Ingres, Sargent, Caffi, Vernet, Turner, Corot, Caffi, De Chirico, etc..