in_bo is an open-access online journal, founded in 2008 and based in Bologna, Italy. It publishes yearly issues on architectural design, architectural history and urban studies, with a specific attention to the teaching of architecture and the intersections between architecture, culture, and society. Double blind peer-reviewed research papers can be in Italian or English. Since 2016, in_bo is rated as a "classe A" journal by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes). In 2019 in_bo was accepted in Elsevier's Scopus. in_bo is owned by the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna. The journal is managed in partnership with the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna, Centro Studi Cherubino Ghirardacci (Bologna) and Fondazione Flaminia (Ravenna).

Through an open call, in_bo invites authors to submit full papers on topics that characterize the journal’s lines of research. The open call is open year-round. Papers are first evaluated by the editorial board and then reviewed according to a double-blind peer review process. in_bo focuses on the past and present forms of architecture and the city. The editorial board is interested in receiving proposals on the following research topics: didactics of architecture, design theory, the relationship between the sacred and the built space, and the history and transformations of architecture, the city and the landscape, without chronological or geographical limits.

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The Churches and the City | DEADLINE EXTENDED

2023-08-10

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The Churches and the City| in_bo vol. 16, no. 8

Promoters DA - Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Bologna

Edited by Luigi Bartolomei, Federica Fuligni, Gianluca Buoncore 

Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council Vatican, the call is devoted to scrutinizing the future of the relationship between churches and cities, considering the radical changes in social structure, the acceleration of secularized society towards a post-secularized one, and the definitive distinction between civil and religious communities, and between religion and Christianity: what form, role and model for new churches (and especially parish centers) in the cities of today and tomorrow? The idea of the parish complex needs not only a revision of its spatial conformation but also of its legal and management model, to allow for a different organization and an effective and substantial new distribution of responsibilities. This initiative proposes a critical review of the figure and role of parish complexes to an update on the spatial articulation, management and planning models for parish complexes suited to the conditions of contemporary cities.

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Vol. 14 No. 18 (2023): Cities and Territories of Democracy
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The connection between the forms of power exercise and those of space must be under continuous observation. In a co-evolutionary ecosystem, where local societies transform (and transform themselves with) the environments in which they live, a perturbation in the ways of living and producing eventually also perturbs forms of governance, and vice versa. In this process of becoming and con-being, the condition for safeguarding democracy is the protection of what we define here as democratic cities and territories, of which we have collectively attempted to circumscribe the meaning, character and limits. Whether they are real or utopian expressions, an observation or a desire; whether there are models for implementing them; whether there are parameters that identify their democratic nature; whether an aesthetic characterises them: we attempt to answer these questions in this issue of the journal in_bo edited by Ilaria Agostini, Luigi Bartolomei and Elena Franco.

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