scholarly journals Cultural icons and urban development in Asia: Economic imperative, national identity, and global city status

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Kong
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Global City ◽  
Economic Imperative

Budapest: progresso urbano a passi accelerati

STORIA URBANA ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Ordasi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
European State ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The City

- Unlike other great cities of Europe, Budapest did not experience any significant urban development before the nineteenth century, especially before 1867, the year of the foundation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After that, the city became the second pole, after Vienna, of this important European state. The capital of the Kingdom of Hungary grew through the use of various types of urban architecture and especially through a "style" that was meant to express Hungarian national identity. Architects, engineers, and other professionals from Hungary and Austria contributed to this process of modernization as well as many foreigners from Germany, France and England. The city's master plan - modeled after Paris's - focused on the area crossed by the Viale Sugár [Boulevard of the Spoke] was set on the Parisian model and so covered only certain parts of the city. The Committee on Public Works (1870-1948) played a leading role in putting the plan approved in 1972 - into effect in all aspects of urban planning, architecture and infrastructure.

scholarly journals Advances on Smart Cities and Smart Buildings

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Michele Roccotelli ◽  
Agostino Marcello Mangini
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Global City ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Smart Buildings ◽  
Modern Cities

Modern cities are facing the challenge of combining competitiveness on a global city scale and sustainable urban development to become smart cities [...]

The Global City Comes Home

Urban Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (12) ◽  
pp. 2495-2517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Keil
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Global City ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Urban Regime ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Explanatory Concept

‘New urban politics’ in the 1980s coincided largely with a process of intense restructuring and globalisation. Mindful of the specific problems of transposition of American concepts to the European case, this paper revisits the Frankfurt urban regime. Based on interviews with decision-makers in 2008, the paper argues that today’s Frankfurt regime has turned its attention inward. The region, while still important for the structured coherence of the global city, has been depoliticised as problematic issues tend to be sectoralised and cast in technological terms. The global has lost its lustre as a self-explanatory concept for urban development and urban politics has regrouped as a set of functionalist specialty discourses such as that of the creative city. As city politics was re-localised, it also became largely devoid of traditional political conflict. Instead, questions of social justice and diversity were partly integrated into the formal and bureaucratic political process.

scholarly journals The Singapore National Dance Company: Reminiscences of an artistic director

SPAFA Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Kim Leng Yeoh
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Global City ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
The South ◽  
Dance Company ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
Enormous Success

These reminiscences of Francis Yeoh, founding artistic director of The Singapore National Dance Company (1970-1985) is to create a tangible record of the Company’s history. Its inaugural overseas performance was launched at the Adelaide Festival in 1972 following an invitation from the South Australian Premier Donald Dunstan. The enormous success of the performances paved the way for the Company to become the island nation’s flagship company: embarking as cultural ambassadors in tours that included performances in the Soviet Union (1973 - Moscow, Kharkov and Kurst), Theran, Iran (1974), Seoul, South Korea (1975), Bangkok, Thailand (1976) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1977). Its history marks an important phase in the island nation’s history when it was seeking to establish its national identity and its eventual development as a global city.  

Emerging Themes, Concepts, and Solutions to Urban Challenges in Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
John Ogbonnaya Agwu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Economic Imperative

Development realities confronting African cities truly call for contemporary and innovative solution that is crosscutting in concept, cost effective in implementation, and socially inclusive in impact. However, one of the most recent urban development models (smart city concept) envisioned as appropriate solution and promoted as conduit to good quality of life and socio-economic efficiency has been criticised on the ground of its economic imperative and over dependency on highly skilled digital platform to be successful. In this paper, the author proposes sharing city concept as African alternative and supplement to smart city concept. Using smart city potentials and urban challenges discussed around it, the paper adopted a systematic literature review design and evaluated sharing city concept against the backdrop outlined by smart city opponents and urban challenges peculiar to it. The result revealed that sharing city concept could serve as alternative where smart city is not viable and as supplement where it is feasible.

‘Globalized difference’: Identity politics on social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Sanja Vico
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Global City ◽  
Technical Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Practices

By drawing on an ethnographic study of digital communication practices of Serbian Londoners, this article identifies a new form of subtle spontaneous identity politics on social media that seeks to reassert national identity and present it both as an exotic difference and as cosmopolitan. It argues that this form of identity politics has been brought about thanks to social surveillance on social media, the context of London ‐ as a global city ‐ and the particular socio-historical position of the Serbian national identity. Thus, this article contributes to the socio-technical approach to social media, which considers both technical properties of social media and a range of social factors, including users’ agency, in understanding the social consequences of social media. The article concludes that this identity politics is ambivalent in its character ‐ while it is a source of empowerment, it also tends to commodify difference.

scholarly journals Singapore ‘A Land Imagined’: Rising Seas, Land Reclamation and the Tropical Film-Noir City

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Lundberg ◽  
Jasmin Thamima Peer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Global City ◽  
Active Response ◽  
The World ◽  
The Tropics

Sea level rise due to climate change is predicted to be higher in the Tropics. As a low-lying, highly urbanised island near the equator, Singapore is taking an active response to this problem, including through large land reclamation projects. Incorporating both environmental and aesthetic elements, these projects also serve to bolster Singapore’s reputation as a shining example of a global city, a leading arts centre in Southeast Asia, and an economic hub to the world. This paper draws attention to urban development through an ethnographic reading of Yeo Siew Hua’s film A Land Imagined. A Singaporean tropical-noir mystery thriller, the film follows the rhizomatic path of a police investigator and his partner as they attempt to solve the disappearance of two foreign labourers. Interwoven within the film is a critique of Singapore’s treatment of migrant workers as it constructs the imaginary of the ‘Singapore Dream’.

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