TOWARDS A MULTI-SCALAR, MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE CLASSICAL GREEK CITY: THE OLYNTHOS PROJECT

2017 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 155-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa C. Nevett ◽  
E. Bettina Tsigarida ◽  
Zosia H. Archibald ◽  
David L. Stone ◽  
Timothy J. Horsley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Dynamic Community ◽  
The City ◽  
Greek World

Research on the cities of the Classical Greek world has traditionally focused on mapping the organisation of urban space and studying major civic or religious buildings. More recently, newer techniques such as field survey and geophysical survey have facilitated exploration of the extent and character of larger areas within urban settlements, raising questions about economic processes. At the same time, detailed analysis of residential buildings has also supported a change of emphasis towards understanding some of the functional and social aspects of the built environment as well as purely formal ones. This article argues for the advantages of analysing Greek cities using a multidisciplinary, multi-scalar framework which encompasses all of these various approaches and adds to them other analytical techniques (particularly micro-archaeology). We suggest that this strategy can lead towards a more holistic view of a city, not only as a physical place, but also as a dynamic community, revealing its origins, development and patterns of social and economic activity. Our argument is made with reference to the research design, methodology and results of the first three seasons of fieldwork at the city of Olynthos, carried out by the Olynthos Project.

scholarly journals Миграционные процессы в истории формирования национально-конфессиональной структуры и городского пространства г. Владикавказа  в 1861-1917 гг.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Kerceva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

The subject of the study is the influence of migration processes on the formation of urban space. The hypothesis is that migration processes were the reason for the formation of the urban space of national diasporas and confessional groups of the population of Vladikavkaz in the late XIX-early XX centuries. During this period, various religious buildings appeared in the city: nine Orthodox churches, the Armenian church, the Polish church, the German church, the Jewish synagogue, the Lutheran church, two Moslem mosques. Near them there were concentrated residential buildings, national schools, shops, theatres, etc. of a certain ethnic and confessional group of the population. This division can be traced in the peculiarities of architecture and the place of residence of certain ethnic groups up to the present time. Historically developed urban space allows peaceful coexistence and development of various peoples and confessional groups.

Analysis of the Cadastral Assessment of Lands, Taking into Account Zoning of Lands at a Prestige in Krasnoyarsk

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Ruslan V. Romanov ◽  
Gennady S. Varaksin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Individual Housing ◽  
The City ◽  
The Prestige

The analysis of the state cadastral assessment of land based on the data of zoning of lands according to their prestige in the city of Krasnoyarsk. The need for assessing the prestige of territories of settlements is stated. On the territory of Krasnoyarsk, 3 zones were conditionally allocated in different districts of the city, where plots intended for the construction of individual residential buildings are located. The main parameters of the cadastral assessment of the lands of such territories are considered. A list of parameters is outlined by which the prestige of individual housing construction lands is estimated. The prestige of each zone is determined. Four indicators are identified that form the prestige of the zones in the cadastral assessment of land. The parameters that determine the level of land value depending on their prestige are identified. A tendency has been established to determine the prestige of zones as a result of the classification of the population of these zones by income level and the desire to live on this territory of people of equal social status. The territory of urban space must be divided into zones, according to the criteria of prestige. A comparison is made between the market and cadastral value of land plots. The comparative analysis method revealed that in the most prestigious areas of urban space, the market value of individual housing construction sites exceeds the cadastral value several times. Conclusions are drawn about the dependence of the price of land for individual housing construction on the level of prestige of the territory of urban space and location.

INSTITUTE OF AMBIENCE IN TRADITIONAL KAZAKH SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A. Sarsembaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City ◽  
Size And Structure ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Migration processes, being the most important component of the evolutionary development of the population, causing changes in its size and structure (gender and age, ethnic, social, professional), today continue to be an urgent topic for consideration and analysis. A careful and comprehensive study of the migration movement, the creation of a strong migration policy is elevated to the rank of the republic's leading priorities in the context of its further accelerated modernization. This article discusses the evolution of urbanization processes in modern Kazakhstan. The author pays attention to such features of urbanization of the republic as the dynamics of the urban population, the problem of integration and adaptation of former villagers in urban space. The paper separately discusses the scenarios of the development of the city by migrants, the problems of ethnicization and ruleization of urban settlements, the transformation of individual elements of the urban subculture.

Exploring the Sacredness of Urban Spaces through Material Traces

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Mujde Bideci
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The City

From ancient times, some spaces have been understood to be more sacred than others. Even though many of these spaces have no specific religious meaning, there have been new religious movements which can easily be seen in daily life. In order to understand the current dynamics of religion, a focus on the material presence of religion (religious buildings, sites and artefacts in urban spaces) is a fruitful starting point. Thus, the objective of this study is to explore the potential meanings of the sacred in urban spaces, and the effects of these meanings or characterizations of the sacred have on places. Moreover, the focus is on analysing new manifestations of the religious and the sacred in urban space, as well as the ways in which material traces mediate diverse practices, discourses and effects in the various domains of the sacred. By investigating the alignments of these two fields, the city and the sacred, this study sheds new light on the metropolis of London, which manifests both religious diversity and multiple modernities via traces of the sacred in urban spaces. The results show that sacred traces in urban places have a prominent image that many residents and visitors fail to appreciate in their daily lives. The study concludes with a discussion of findings and implications.

“We Have No Need to Lock Ourselves Away“: Space, Marginality, and the Negotiation of Deaf Identity in Late Soviet Moscow

Slavic Review ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Deaf Community ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
Ambitious Program ◽  
The City

In the late 1950s, the Moscow branch of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf embarked on an ambitious program to build a network of social and residential buildings for deaf people in the city. In this article, I examine the resulting emergence of a defined “deaf space” within the Moscow cityscape, exploring the ways in which this space shaped, and was shaped by, the Soviet deaf community. While such institutional buildings were intended as the ultimate expression of deaf agency, drawing on revolutionary understandings of disability to define the deaf as active Soviet citizens, they also served to frame the deaf as visibly “other,” inviting contradictory and often problematic readings of the deaf community's place within the Soviet body politic. By examining deaf people's engagement with the developing politics of Soviet urban space, I thus explore issues of disability, Sovietness, and the complex intersection of marginality and emancipation in the late Soviet era.

THE SIZE OF CITIES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-719
Author(s):  
Kirkpatrick Sale ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Optimum Size ◽  
Human History ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Eye Blink ◽  
City Planner ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The City

. . . records of urban populations suggest that for most of human history cities did not generally grow beyond the 50,000 to 100,000 range. For most of its celebrated life the city of Athens hovered around 50,000 people, though at periods of particular power the surrounding state may have grown to 150,000 or 200,000. The Italian cities that nurtured the Renaissance were no larger than 80,000, and most of them held closer to 50,000—the Rome of Michelangelo had perhaps 55,000 people, the Florence of Leonardo 50,000, and Venice, Padua, and Bologna at their height probably 50,000 to 80,000. Boston and Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution did not have more than 30,000 people, New York had even fewer. In fact, it seems that only rarely did historical cities go much beyond 100,000, and then only temporarily when serving as the capitals of empires. . . . The very existence of giant cities is so recent as to be a mere eye-blink in recorded history. It was not until 1800 that any city grew to more than one million people—that was industrialized London—and by 1900 there were only ten others of that size. The conclusion of the great Greek city planner Constantine Doxiades, who spent his life categorizing such things, seems on the mark: "If we look back into history . . . we find that, throughout the long evolution of human settlements, people in all parts of the world have tended to create urban settlements which reached an optimum size of 50,000 people."

scholarly journals The urban space transformation of Lutsk as an example

2016 ◽  
pp. 53-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Melnyk ◽  
A. Oreshchenko ◽  
S. Batychenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Experimental Area ◽  
Space Transformation ◽  
Investigation Methods ◽  
Soviet Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Transformation Processes

The article deals with the historical aspects of the origin and formation of streets within the experimental area in the city of Lutsk. The modern pecularities of development and operations of the objects within the experimental area are analysed here. The factors of influence on the level and distribution of transformation processes pecularities of urban space within the experimental area are characterized. There are defined the research of space transformations as one of evaluation methods of estimation of social and economic conditions of people living in the article. The very people were concerned not as generator of these changes but as media which only change the environment in which they live and adopted. These conditions are: social, economic and natural. Mapping of these transformations as one of investigation methods (also using observation, questioning and oth.) have allowed more information about the subject of research; besides changing of representation information method supported of revealing of object geographical peculiarities, their factors and consequences. Also representation of results in view that are more convenient for perception is need to creating of theoretical statements which have helped to understanding of social and geographical processes. The common transformation features of urban space within the experimental area of the city of Lutsk are highlighted. The results of sociological research on transformation of urban space are analysed as well. The areas with different types of transformation processes within the experimental area are identified here. It is done using the historical, map, sociological research methods. Based on the historical and cartographic analysis we watched some processes of transformation of urban space within the test area of the city of Lutsk: facilities services and trading concentrates along of residential buildings within the territory of the main streets (Freedom Avenue and street of Vinnichenko); commercially important area changes to living zone; the city borders grow and building-up is sealed. However, respondents believe that in the future with the cultural function and expansion of rest zones should strengthen the housing function of area. Percentage of disaffected of urban space changes is only 10%. We can see that people of Lutsk city are conscious citizens and in case for violation of their rights under the transformation of urban space will take appropriate action. So the city is undergoing of functional changes of urban space characteristic of post-Soviet time cities.

Transnational Habitus and Sociability in the City: Zimbabwean Migrants’ Experiences in Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khangelani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
The City

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

Ukraina Wschodnia jako przestrzeń symboliczna w prozie Serhija Żadana – na podstawie powieści Woroszyłowgrad i Mezopotamia

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Marta Zambrzycka ◽  
Paulina Olechowska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
City Space ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

The subject of the article is an analysis of the three aspects of depicting urban space of Eastern Ukraine, focusing specifi cally on the Donbass region and the city of Kharkov as depicted in the novels Voroshilovgrad (2010) and Mesopotamia (2014) by Serhiy Zhadan. The urban space of Eastern Ukraine overlaps with the most important values that shape a person’s personality and aff ect her or his self-identifi cation. The city space is also a “place of memory” and experiences of generations that infl uence current events. In addition to the historical and axiological dimension, the imaginative aspect of space is also important. This approach is used by the author to describe the urban space as a functioning imagination or stereotypes associated with it as opposed to its realistic depiction.

Categorias analíticas do espaço e Turismo: o exemplo da Fortaleza de Santa Cruz, Niterói/RJ

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ângelo Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Guanabara Bay ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Spatial Dynamic ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
The City

O objetivo que permeia a presente pesquisa é utilizar a Fortaleza de Santa Cruz, localizada no bairro de Jurujuba, em Niterói, construída em 1555, na entrada da barra da Baía de Guanabara, como foco de antílise, ressaltando a importância deste fixo social enquanto atração turística e de lazer, incluindo a cidade de Niterói no circuito destas atividades, complementares à cidade do Rio de Janeiro; além de abordar conceitos e categorias analíticas, oriundos das ciências sociais, principalmente provenientes da Geografia, pertinentes ao estudo das atividades em tela. Neste contexto, na dinâmica espacial da cidade de Niterói, o processo de mudança de função dos fixos sociais têm sido extraordinário. Residencias unifamiliares, prédios e até mesmo fortificações militares, verdadeiras monumentalidades, foram refuncionalizadas, passando por um processo de turistificação. Assim, a refuncionalização da respectiva Fortaleza em espaço cultural toma-se um importante atrativo da história, do patrimônio, da cultura, marcando no espaço urbano sua expressões e monumentalidade, criada pelo homem como símbolo de seus ideais, objetivos e atos, constituindo-se em um legado as gerações futuras, formando um elo entre passado, presente e futuro. Abstract This paper focuses on Santa Cruz Fortress, built in 1555 in Jurujuba (Niterói), to guard the entrance of Guanabara bay, and stresses its role as a towist attraction and leisure' area, as a social fix which links the city of Niterói to the complementary circuit of these activities in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The study uses important concepts and analytic categories fiom social sciences, particularly fiom Geography.In the spatial dynamic of the city of Niterói, change in functions of social fuces has been extraordinary. Single-family dwellings, buildings and even military installations have been re-functionalized, undergoing a process of touristification. In that way, the refunctionalization of the Fortress as a cultural space provides an important attraction in the domains of history, patrimony, and culture, providing the urban space with an expression of monumentality, created by man as a symbol of his ideals, aims and actions, a legacy to future generations forming a link between past, present and future.

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