Our cities are continually transforming: their appearance is constantly changing over time, adapting to the needs of the community. Nevertheless, cities preserve certain essential characteristics that enable to recognize and maintain a sense of belonging of the inhabitants. In the globalization era the historical city centres are recognized as human artefacts where the culture of the people that inhabit them is conserved and manifests itself. They are “adapted” for their purposes and needs for everyday life. Important for those who administer them is the ability to take decisions aimed at maintaining this sense of belonging. Our historical centers are, in every respect, "places of the memory”, developing, at social level, a significant and refined identifying function. This implies the necessity, for local Administrations, associations and experts involved in the local transformation processes in act, to read the possible evolutions and identify effective intervention strategies. Moreover, the small historical centers of Calabria constitute an architectural historical and urban property which often melts with the natural and ambient values of regional and local belonging. The developed application (still in continuous development) has as principal aim to support the processes of recovery of the Calabrian historical centers and the exploitation of local enterprises involved in extraction and production of the material necessary to the recovery. These processes have the last purpose to re-propose the typical solutions and the original typologies in order of an usable conservation and, so, "sustainable". From a structural point of view, the architecture of the application has organized in four levels, interconnected each other and scalable., These levels are the data base, the MIS component (Management Information System), the GIS (Geographic Information System) and lastly the multi-user interface (system manager, private and institutional stakeholders). This articulate application provides the necessary support to public administrations, planners, designer and companies.
A MIS-GIS APPLICATION FOR THE HISTORICAL CENTERS
BARRILE, Vincenzo;
2011-01-01
Abstract
Our cities are continually transforming: their appearance is constantly changing over time, adapting to the needs of the community. Nevertheless, cities preserve certain essential characteristics that enable to recognize and maintain a sense of belonging of the inhabitants. In the globalization era the historical city centres are recognized as human artefacts where the culture of the people that inhabit them is conserved and manifests itself. They are “adapted” for their purposes and needs for everyday life. Important for those who administer them is the ability to take decisions aimed at maintaining this sense of belonging. Our historical centers are, in every respect, "places of the memory”, developing, at social level, a significant and refined identifying function. This implies the necessity, for local Administrations, associations and experts involved in the local transformation processes in act, to read the possible evolutions and identify effective intervention strategies. Moreover, the small historical centers of Calabria constitute an architectural historical and urban property which often melts with the natural and ambient values of regional and local belonging. The developed application (still in continuous development) has as principal aim to support the processes of recovery of the Calabrian historical centers and the exploitation of local enterprises involved in extraction and production of the material necessary to the recovery. These processes have the last purpose to re-propose the typical solutions and the original typologies in order of an usable conservation and, so, "sustainable". From a structural point of view, the architecture of the application has organized in four levels, interconnected each other and scalable., These levels are the data base, the MIS component (Management Information System), the GIS (Geographic Information System) and lastly the multi-user interface (system manager, private and institutional stakeholders). This articulate application provides the necessary support to public administrations, planners, designer and companies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
