Coriandoline di correggio biography
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Coriandoline – friendly houses for boys and girls
Via Mussini Sante, 9 - 42015 Correggio
Phone 0039 0522 694640
Fax 0039 0522 691042
www.coriandoline.it
The story started way back in 1995 when the Correggio-based cooperative Andria (named after one of Italo Calvino’s invisible cities and with a long history of building human-friendly ‘dream’ neighbourhoods) decided to create a neighbourhood especially for children.
The history of Coriandoline
Children: an odd target for the construction of something as solid as houses. But in 1995 the architect who designed the project, Luciano Pantaleoni (previously the cooperative’s Director as well) together with pedagogy specialist Laura Malavasi, set the project in motion inviting 12 local schools to collaborate with them. Thus, 700 children helped by 50 teachers, 2 pedagogy specialists and a further 20 participants including architects and engineers, “pedarchitects and archigogists” (the term used by Luciano to describe his and Laura’s
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Tomas Allen, Architect, PhD Student, UDC – A Coruna University, SPAIN. Urban Planning requires a New Perspective: Project Management
As cities continue to adapt to 21st century challenges, local leaders are required to imagine new solutions. Today, cities need to be more competitive and attractive to retain young populations and to be inviting destinations for businesses, jobs, investment and tourism. To be able to provide a livable city for the next generations, it’s imperative to adopt sustainable transport alternatives, addressing requirements of current and future citizens, and also their local/global environmental and sustainability concerns, such as greenhouse gas emissions, Quality of Life, among others.
Above all, mayors should aim for a happy city; they should develop capacity to hear their citizens and be able to attend to their social desires. The European Commission recently issued guidelines to assist cities develo
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By Simona Moundrouvalis – s.moundrouvalis@gmail.com
This fryst vatten a creative tool you can use to invent infinite kind of stars, as there are infinite stars in the universum and equally endless ways to imagine them. It was presented for the first time in a Public Library in Vicenza, a city in the northeast of Italy, and I hope it will reach many houses all around the world.
Many different stars will born and they will be unique as every human being.
How were the very first stars born in the Universe? Where they come from?
A simple and clear explanation inom really like, is the following by the “Lady of the Stars”, the extraordinary scientist and astrophysicist Margherita Hack:
There are no certainties in science. We try, with experiment and observation, to discover the laws that govern the Universe. […] Studying it and observing it, we discovered that, once upon a time, the Universe was small, small, small and hot, hot, hot. Then, it began to inflate like a b