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L’Università di Pisa e i suoi beni nel territorio, in relazione all’evoluzione storica dell’ateneo
The University of Pisa and its assets in the area, in relation to the historical evolution of the university
Pinna, Sergio
Grava, Massimiliano
2022
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2282-572X
Abstract
The aim of this article is to assess the impact exerted by the University of Pisa on its own territorial basin, by resorting to a series of primary sources - cadastral data and statistics provided by the university’s administrative offices - and secondary sources. This university, with a history of more than a six centuries, is located in a small to mediumsized city (88 thousand inhabitants in 2022). A powerful growth in the number of students since the end of the 1960s (to date the University has 47 thousand enrolled and just under 5,000 employees) has led to a profound transformation of the urban structure, with regard to the occupation of buildings for residential use in the historic centre, to the service sector, as well as to the spaces required for the university itself (classrooms, libraries, offices, canteens, etc.). In order to fully appreciate these dynamics, GIS tools were used to spatialise the cadastral data and identify how the various components of the university (relating to the different disciplinary sectors) insist on the structures of the city as well as outside the city and even the province.
In questo contributo si dà conto, facendo ricorso a una serie di fonti primarie – dati catastali e statistiche fornite dagli uffici amministrativi d’ateneo – e fonti secondarie, dell’impatto esercitato dall’Università di Pisa sul bacino territoriale di proprio riferimento. Questo ateneo, con una storia ultracentenaria, insiste infatti su di una città di dimensioni medio-piccole (88 mila abitanti nel 2022); generando di fatto, a partire dalla poderosa crescita del numero di studenti avvenuta a partire dalla fine degli anni ’60 (ad oggi si contano 47 mila iscritti e poco meno di 5.000 dipendenti), una profonda trasformazione del tessuto urbano sia in merito all’occupazione di edifici a uso abitativo del centro storico, sia relativamente al settore dei servizi che ha risentito fortemente di questi andamenti, sia ancora della necessità di spazi funzionali alla stessa università (aule, biblioteche, uffici, mense ecc.). Per poter pienamente apprezzare queste dinamiche si è ritenuto utile ricorrere a strumenti GIS per spazializzare i dati catastali e individuare come le diverse componenti dell’università (relative alle differenti aree disciplinari) insistono tanto sul tessuto cittadino quanto su quello esterno a quello municipale e pure provinciale.
The aim of this article is to assess the impact exerted by the University of Pisa on its own territorial basin, by resorting to a series of primary sources - cadastral data and statistics provided by the university’s administrative offices - and secondary sources. This university, with a history of more than a six centuries, is located in a small to mediumsized city (88 thousand inhabitants in 2022). A powerful growth in the number of students since the end of the 1960s (to date the University has 47 thousand enrolled and just under 5,000 employees) has led to a profound transformation of the urban structure, with regard to the occupation of buildings for residential use in the historic centre, to the service sector, as well as to the spaces required for the university itself (classrooms, libraries, offices, canteens, etc.). In order to fully appreciate these dynamics, GIS tools were used to spatialise the cadastral data and identify how the various components of the university (relating to the different disciplinary sectors) insist on the structures of the city as well as outside the city and even the province.
Source
Sergio Pinna, Massimiliano Grava, "L’Università di Pisa e i suoi beni nel territorio, in relazione all’evoluzione storica dell’ateneo" in: "Bollettino dell'Associazione Italiana di Cartografia 175 (2022)", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2022, pp. 22-31
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