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Urban Technologies

The fringe is the contemporary city "in-between space," in which urban and periurban features interweave. In European cities, this transitional belt often matches with the Post World War II expansion. Nowadays, the urban fringe, generally in decline, offers huge changes for regeneration. For this aim, innovative planning tools are required, more flexible and adaptive than the traditional blue-print based. The book collects the ongoing experiments focused on innovative planning modes, carried out in some European cities within the urbact III network "suburban reinventing the fringe."

The multiple, in its relations with art and industry, is the starting point for an investigation into the evolution of jewelry design. In going beyond an obsolete notion of industrial serial production, contempo¬rary jewelry stands out as a highly innovative field of research, for its ability to understand the object through new esthetics, meanings and materials, towards an idea of a singular multiple. The book concludes with the story of a collective design experience that involved several figures of the contemporary jewelry scene in Italy, through the organization of co-projects and workshops, aimed at the dissemination of a design culture that takes into consideration new technologies and digital processes currently under way.

The book addresses the relationship between the city and autistic people. The research identifies a set of integrated policies and projects to make cities (more) inclusive by promoting the possibility for autistic people to safely and autonomously move within the urban environment.