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What is Edges

Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage
The margins, are paths that serve as a boundary between different areas such as neighborhoods in different characterization—these can be as permeable or impermeable to the transverse movement.
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Handbook of Research on Urban and Territorial Systems and the Intangible Dimension: Survey and Representation
Giorgio Garzino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), Giuseppa Novello (Politecnico di Torino, Italy), and Maurizio Marco Bocconcino (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7555-9.ch014
Abstract
Surveying has always been closely linked to the definition of cognitive framework to which it is connected. Carrying out a survey has always meant representing the geometry of the context of interest but also thoroughly investigating the historical dynamics, the tangible, behavioral, and performance-based characteristics. The dimensions of comfort, usually associated with the private, domestic environment, now extends to the urban and territorial context too: perhaps going beyond the sense of the threshold referred to by Walter Benjamin when he described the city as a house with its living rooms. A new concept of habitable city has developed, where we can live, according to Ortega y Gasset, not simply a place for estar (being) but for bienestar (wellbeing).
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