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100			_aBrandolini, Pierluigi _958578
245			_aGeomorphology of the Anthropocene in Mediterranean urban areas/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol 44, issue 4, 2020 : ( 461–494 p.).
520			_aUrban-geomorphology studies in historical cities provide a significant contribution towards the broad definition of the Anthropocene, perhaps even including its consideration as a new unit of geological time. Specific methodological approaches to recognize and map landforms in urban environments, where human-induced geomorphic processes have often overcome the natural ones, are proposed. This paper reports the results from, and comparison of, studies conducted in coastal historical cities facing the core of the Mediterranean Sea – that is, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Palermo (Italy) and Patras (Greece). Their settlements were facilitated by similar climatic and geographical contexts, with high grounds functional for defence, as well as by the availability of rocks useful as construction materials, which were excavated both in opencast and underground quarries. Over centuries, urbanization has also required the levelling of relief, which was performed by the excavation of heights, filling of depressions and by slope terracing. Consequently, highly modified hydrographic networks, whose streams were dammed, diverted, modified in a culvert or simply buried, characterize the selected cities. Their urban growth, which has been driven by maritime commercial activities, has determined anthropogenic coastal progradation through port and defence or waterfront works. Aggradation of artificial ground has also occurred as a consequence of repeated destruction because of both human and natural events, and subsequent reconstruction even over ruins, buried depressions and shallow cavities. As a result, the selected cities represent anthropogenic landscapes that have been predominately shaped by several human-driven processes, sometimes over centuries. Each landform represents the current result, often from multiple activities with opposing geomorphic effects. Beyond academic progress, we believe that detecting and mapping these landforms and processes should be compulsory, even in risk-assessment urban planning, because of the increase of both hazards and vulnerability as a result of climate-change-induced extreme events and extensive urbanization, respectively.
700			_aCappadonia, Chiara _958579
700			_aLuberti, Gian Marco _951419
700			_aDonadio, Carlo _958580
700			_aStamatopoulos, Leonidas _958581
700			_aMaggio, Cipriano Di _958582
700			_aFaccini, Francesco _958583
700			_aStanislao, Corrado _958584
700			_aVergari, Francesca _951427
700			_aPaliaga, Guido _958585
700			_aAgnesi, Valerio _958586
700			_aAlevizos, Georgios _958587
700			_aMonte, Maurizio Del _951429
773	0		_012665 _917140 _dLondon: Sage Publication Ltd, 2019. _tProgress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment/ _x03091333
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0309133319881108
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