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University of Naples Federico II
University of Naples Federico II
University or Research Institution
Phone number
+39 081 2531111

Location

Corso Umberto I 40
80138
Napels
Italy
Working languages
Italian

The University of Naples Federico II (ItalianUniversità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a university located in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224 it is the oldest public non-religious university in the world, and is now organized in 13 faculties. It was Europe's first university dedicated to training secular administrative staff, and one of the oldest academic institutions in continuous operation. Federico II is the third University in Italy by number of students enrolled, despite its huge dimensions it still represents one of the best Universities in Italy being an excellence in particular for research; in 2015 it was ranked among the first 100 universities in the world by citations per paper.] As of 2016 it is the only generalist Italian university in the Times higher education reputation, which considers the best 200 best universities in the world. The university is named after its founder Frederick II. From October 2016 the University hosts the first ever Apple IOS Developer Academy.


Source: Wikipedia (consulted d.d. February 21st 2018)

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Spatial Resilience of Outdoor Domestic Space in Mozambique

Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2012
Mozambique

Historically, the people of Mozambique have faced oppression and social spatial segregation and responded in a way that has reinforced rather than dismantled their traditional values. Since pre-colonial times, the population’s strategy for escaping from environmental and foreign political disruption has been to reinvent tradition, based on the principles of resilience, resistance and self-reliance.

Densification Versus Urban Sprawl

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2012
Italy
Europe

The urban sprawl that consumes land and don’t create urban quality is definitely one of the most serious crisis in the territory, historically became from the American model of the CBD (Central Business District) associated with dense and low-density suburbs boundless, achievable through the use of the car, which extended the size of the city - the shape and extension of American cities would be inconceivable without the car.

Sprawl in Barcelona Region and the PTMB 2010

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2012

The Barcelona metropolitan region is composed of 164 municipalities distributed over an area of ​​about 3234 sq km with a population of 5 million inhabitants. In the last decades, the growth of metropolitan region has been characterized by some critical problems: high land occupation, dispersed occupation of the territory, low building density, considerable fragmentation and high specialization (residential developments, commercial centers, industrial areas, etc), growing social segregation.

Conflitti territoriali: sei interpretazioni Territorial Conflicts: Six Interpretations

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2011
Global

Nelle società contemporanee i conflitti territoriali sono ormai diventati più frequenti e diffusi dei conflitti sociali. Il loro tratto caratteristico è costituito da comunità che difendono il loro territorio da aggressioni esterne che possono essere costituite tanto da manufatti invasivi, quanto da insediamenti umani sgraditi. Questo articolo si propone di rispondere a tre domande: 1) perché si sono diffusi in questi ultimi venti anni? 2) qual è il “vero” oggetto del contendere? 3) come possono essere affrontati, con quali possibili sbocchi?