Open Space Systems in Rio de Janeiro: The Public and Private Spheres Reflected in the Urban Landscape

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Vera Regina Tângari
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Space Systems ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Intervención pública en el paisaje urbano en Madrid. Un informe = Public intervention in the urban landscape in Madrid. A report

2019 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Antonio Díaz Sotelo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Commercial Landscape ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ResumenEl objeto de este texto es la exposición y análisis de los procedimientos de intervención pública en el paisaje urbano de la ciudad de Madrid. El objetivo último de ese análisis es identificar el modelo público para el paisaje urbano en Madrid.  Este texto se centra en la exposición analítica de documentos oficiales antes que en sus conclusiones definitivas, por lo que le corresponde la denominación de Informe.  Este informe se organiza en dos partes: una exposición teórica que enmarca el posterior análisis de instrumentos administrativos de intervención en el paisaje.  Se concibe como parte de la investigación de Tesis Doctoral titulada “Transformación Reciente del Paisaje Comercial en el Centro Histórico”, acotada en un marco temporal de apenas diez años, marcado por la crisis y la desregulación económica, y en un marco territorial limitado al centro histórico de Madrid. Esa investigación se enmarca en una reflexión general sobre la relación entre actividad económica y paisaje urbano. El interés de este informe para la investigación es sobre la utilidad de ese modelo público para el paisaje urbano en Madrid como parámetro para valorar la rentabilidad de los esfuerzos públicos y privados en la mejora de la calidad del paisaje urbano.AbstractThe purpose of this text is the exhibition and analysis of public intervention procedures in the urban landscape of the city of Madrid. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to identify the public model for the urban landscape in Madrid. This text focuses on the analytical exposition of official documents rather than on their final conclusions, for which reason the denomination of Report corresponds. This report is organized in two parts: a theoretical exposition that frames the subsequent analysis of administrative instruments of intervention in the landscape. It is conceived as part of the Doctoral Thesis research titled "Recent Transformation of the Commercial Landscape in the Historic Center", bounded within a period of just ten years, marked by the crisis and economic deregulation, and in a territorial framework limited to the historic center of Madrid. This research is part of a general reflexion on the relationship between economic activity and urban landscape. The interest of this report for the investigation is about the utility of that public model for the urban landscape in Madrid as a parameter to assess the profitability of public and private efforts in improving the quality of the urban landscape.

scholarly journals The Politics of Gendered Spatializations: A Study of Cityscapes in Manu Joseph’s Novels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Parvathi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Image ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Burton Pike (1981) terms the cityscapes represented in literature as word-cities whose depiction captures the spatial significance evoked by the city-image and simultaneously, articulates the social psychology of its inhabitants (pp. 243). This intertwining of the social and the spatial animates the concept of spatiality, which informs the positionality of urban subjects, (be it the verticality of the city or the horizonality of the landscape) and determines their standpoint (Keith and Pile, 1993). The spatial politics underlying cityscapes, thus, determine the modes of social production of sexed corporeality. In turn, the body as a cultural product modifies and reinscribes the urban landscape according to its changing demographic needs. The dialectic relationship between the city and the bodies embedded in them orient familial, social, and sexual relations and inform the discursive practices underlying the division of urban spaces into public and private domains. The geographical and social positioning of the bodies within the paradigm of the public/private binary regulates the process of individuation of the bodies into subjects. The distinction between the public and the private is deeply rooted in spatial practices that isolate a private sphere of domestic, embodied activity from the putatively disembodied political, public sphere. Historically, women have been treated as private and embodied and the politics of the demarcated spaces are employed to control and limit women’s mobility. This gendered politics underlying the situating practices apropos public and private spaces inform the representations of space in literary texts. Manu Joseph’s novels, Serious Men (2010) and The Illicit Happiness of Other People (2012), are situated in the word-cities of Mumbai and Chennai respectively whose urban spaces are structured by such spatial practices underlying the politics of location. The paper attempts to problematize the nature of gendered spatializations informing the location of characters in Serious Men and The Illicit Happiness of Other People.

scholarly journals Urban Rehabilitation of the Unirii Square in Cluj-Napoca

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Alex Péter COTOZ ◽  
Valentin Sebastian DAN ◽  
Maria CANTOR
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Ecological Benefits ◽  
The Public ◽  
Green Component ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Different Types

To improve the design of the Unirii Square from Cluj-Napoca both aesthetically and functionally, principles of urban landscape and sustainable design were implemented. To achieve this goal, modular and mobile structures with two different types of low maintenance plant species, Sedum and Cornus were selected. These species have been chosen because of their ecological benefits, hardiness attributes and morphological characteristics. This paper aims to present an urban green component adaptable to different scenarios such as major annual events without interfering with temporary constructions and pedestrian routes while at the same time creating a more aesthetic and attractive open space for locals and tourists alike. Every element added to the square can be relocated or moved at any given time without negative impact to the environment. To present the potential of this design concept, three different arrangement design scenarios were conducted - one for the everyday life of the public and the other to accommodate the unfolding of two major events held annually: the TIFF film festival and the Christmas fair.

scholarly journals Methodological Proposal to Study the Uses and Appropriations of Unfinished Estates: A View from Vizela, Portugal

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Rui Pereira ◽  
João Sarmento
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
Private Domain ◽  
Social Uses

Contemporary urbanity is marked by the presence of abandonment, ruins, and voids. Over the last decades, the model of urban development in Portugal allowed a discontinuous city expansion that has left many plots and spaces empty. Due to interrupted urbanization processes, urban developments suspended in time and space have progressively degraded, constituting nowadays new forms of non-historical ruins and a significant part of the urban landscape. However, these semi constructed buildings, are not only structures made of brick and mortar, but commonly the object of several and distinct appropriations and social uses. In order to explore the socio-cultural meanings of these ruinous constructions, their social life and their material and symbolic transformation, this paper puts forward a methodology, based on systematic ethnographic observation and detailed field work. Furthermore, it applies this methodology to a case study—an unfinished project in the city of Vizela, Portugal, for which fieldwork was carried out during 2017 and 2018. The paper ends up highlighting a political challenge in planning the contemporary city, towards the need to overcome a conventional dichotomy between the usage rights of the public and private domain.

scholarly journals AN EXPLORATION INTO THE CREATION OF ‘PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES’ IN TORONTO, ONTARIO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Ricker
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Privately Owned

An exploratory research investigation into the creation of ‘privately owned publicly accessible spaces’ (POPS) in Toronto, Ontario and a critical review of the process used to secure these spaces and the subsequent agreements made. This paper seeks to answer if land use planners are able to better mediate the use of POPS as a means of providing open space to communities in high-density areas. This report includes the timeline illustrating the development of Toronto’s POPS program followed by a discussion on Toronto’s increase growth and development and the suitability of POPS as a contributing strategy for diminishing new park and open space assets and a high level breakdown of the legal mechanisms currently in place to help facilitate new POP spaces. Interviews with individuals from both the public and private sectors were conducted, which produced a generalized model outlining how POPS in Toronto are secured.

scholarly journals Intervención pública en el paisaje urbano en Madrid. Un informe = Public intervention in the urban landscape in Madrid. A report

2019 ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Antonio Díaz Sotelo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Commercial Landscape ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ResumenEl objeto de este texto es la exposición y análisis de los procedimientos de intervención pública en el paisaje urbano de la ciudad de Madrid. El objetivo último de ese análisis es identificar el modelo público para el paisaje urbano en Madrid.  Este texto se centra en la exposición analítica de documentos oficiales antes que en sus conclusiones definitivas, por lo que le corresponde la denominación de Informe.  Este informe se organiza en dos partes: una exposición teórica que enmarca el posterior análisis de instrumentos administrativos de intervención en el paisaje.  Se concibe como parte de la investigación de Tesis Doctoral titulada “Transformación Reciente del Paisaje Comercial en el Centro Histórico”, acotada en un marco temporal de apenas diez años, marcado por la crisis y la desregulación económica, y en un marco territorial limitado al centro histórico de Madrid. Esa investigación se enmarca en una reflexión general sobre la relación entre actividad económica y paisaje urbano. El interés de este informe para la investigación es sobre la utilidad de ese modelo público para el paisaje urbano en Madrid como parámetro para valorar la rentabilidad de los esfuerzos públicos y privados en la mejora de la calidad del paisaje urbano.AbstractThe purpose of this text is the exhibition and analysis of public intervention procedures in the urban landscape of the city of Madrid. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to identify the public model for the urban landscape in Madrid. This text focuses on the analytical exposition of official documents rather than on their final conclusions, for which reason the denomination of Report corresponds. This report is organized in two parts: a theoretical exposition that frames the subsequent analysis of administrative instruments of intervention in the landscape. It is conceived as part of the Doctoral Thesis research titled "Recent Transformation of the Commercial Landscape in the Historic Center", bounded within a period of just ten years, marked by the crisis and economic deregulation, and in a territorial framework limited to the historic center of Madrid. This research is part of a general reflexion on the relationship between economic activity and urban landscape. The interest of this report for the investigation is about the utility of that public model for the urban landscape in Madrid as a parameter to assess the profitability of public and private efforts in improving the quality of the urban landscape.

scholarly journals Corpo, oralidade e letramento na cidade contemporânea: materialidades e construções simbólicas

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
José Cardoso Ferrão Neto
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
Processing Regimes

O artigo é uma reflexão sobre o corpo, como suporte material dos meios e modos de comunicação e sua inserção na paisagem urbana. A partir de um trabalho de campo baseado na observação participante da presença do homem e seus media, em uma das ruas mais movimentadas do centro do Rio de Janeiro contemporâneo, descortinam-se práticas sociais e representações ligadas aos diferentes regimes de processamento da informação, a oralidade e o letramento. As performances públicas, onde se dá o intercâmbio material e simbólico, ainda revelam a relação orgânica do corpo com as tecnologias, que estendem os sentidos e constroem ricas e variadas teias de remediação do tempo, do espaço e da memória. **************************************************** ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on body as a material support for the media and the modes of communication and its insertion into urban landscape. From a field work based on participant observation of the presence of man and their media in one of the most bustling streets of contemporary downtown Rio de Janeiro, social practices and representations are unveiled, related to different information processing regimes, orality and literacy. The public performances, where material and symbolic interchange takes place, still reveal the organic relation between the body and its technologies that extend the senses and build up rich and varied remediation webs of time, space and memory.

scholarly journals AN EXPLORATION INTO THE CREATION OF ‘PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SPACES’ IN TORONTO, ONTARIO

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Ricker
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
High Level ◽  
Privately Owned

An exploratory research investigation into the creation of ‘privately owned publicly accessible spaces’ (POPS) in Toronto, Ontario and a critical review of the process used to secure these spaces and the subsequent agreements made. This paper seeks to answer if land use planners are able to better mediate the use of POPS as a means of providing open space to communities in high-density areas. This report includes the timeline illustrating the development of Toronto’s POPS program followed by a discussion on Toronto’s increase growth and development and the suitability of POPS as a contributing strategy for diminishing new park and open space assets and a high level breakdown of the legal mechanisms currently in place to help facilitate new POP spaces. Interviews with individuals from both the public and private sectors were conducted, which produced a generalized model outlining how POPS in Toronto are secured.

scholarly journals Contaminación visual en centros históricos: un problema estético y de valor social de las ciudades actuales

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Angélica Sierra Franco ◽  
Oscar Guevara Guevara
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Constitutional Right

Resumen: La contaminación visual en los centros urbanos debe ser considerada en nuestros tiempos como un factor determinante en el deterioro de la calidad de vida y la ruptura del paisaje urbano, en tanto provoca una desvalorización de la propiedad pública y privada, como resultado de la dinámica desordenada de la competitividad en las dimensiones institucionales, cívicas, políticas y comerciales. Por tanto, debe ser regulada, prevenida y controlada. Este planteamiento surge de la necesidad de promover la conservación, protección y sostenibilidad del paisaje urbano, conformado por los elementos que constituyen el espacio público del centro de Sincelejo, y su valoración histórico-patrimonial, como factor fundamental para preservar y mantener el equilibrio visual de los mismos. El trabajo tiene como finalidad garantizar el derecho constitucional de gozar de un ambiente sano y ecológicamente equilibrado. Y que, a su vez, se convierta en un eje articulador de las propuestas turísticas que tiene la región, en cuanto a la promoción de los bienes inmuebles culturales e históricos que se emplazan en esta zona. ___Palabras clave: Contaminación visual, centros históricos, entornos urbanos, ambiente, percepción ciudadana, actores. ___Abstract: The visual pollution in urban centers must be considered in our times as a determining factor in the deterioration of the quality of life and the rupture of the urban landscape, while causing a devaluation of public and private property, because of the disordered dynamics of competitiveness in the institutional, civic, political and commercial dimensions. Therefore, it must be regulated, prevented and controlled. This approach arises from the need to promote the conservation, protection and sustainability of the urban landscape, made up of the elements that constitute the public space of the center of Sincelejo, and its historical and patrimonial valuation, as a fundamental factor to preserve and maintain the visual balance of the same. The purpose of the work is to guarantee the constitutional right to enjoy a healthy and ecologically balanced environment. Moreover, that, in turn, become an articulating axis ofthe tourist proposals that the region has, in terms of the promotion of cultural and historicalreal estate that are located in this area. ___Keywords: Visual pollution, historical centers, urban environments, environment, citizenperception, actors. ___Recibido: 15 de agosto de 2016. Aceptado: 22 de octubre de 2016.

scholarly journals Experiential Density: Infill strategies within Toronto's Centres - Bringing Human Scale, Character, and Walkability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Lee Sauder
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Private Realm ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
New Public ◽  
Intensity Of Development ◽  
Growing Population

A variety of approaches are being used to accommodate Toronto’s growing population. Most of these solutions rely on high-rise and mid-rise developments, emphasizing the quantity of density instead of the quality. However, this thesis focuses on blocks of slab towers, and explores how the perception of an environment and intensity of development can form an experiential density. Introducing new public and pedestrian orientated spaces to the neglected land between apartment towers to improve the experience of urban blocks also offers open space to increase the density in Toronto’s designated growth areas. To achieve this new environment, urban blocks containing clusters of slab towers will be fragmented into walkable distances; scaled outdoor spaces will activate the neglected park; infill will increase density and define outdoor spaces; and transitional areas will mediate the public and private realm, all to bring life into the block and improve experience of urban density.

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