scholarly journals Getting to know the city: the construction of spatial knowledge in London in the 1930s

Urban History ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
COLIN G. POOLEY
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Everyday Action ◽  
Action Spaces ◽  
The City

This article explores the ways in which a young woman who migrated from Londonderry to London in the 1930s acquired and used spatial knowledge of the city. Using detailed diary evidence the article maps everyday action spaces, and examines themes such as the use of visual cues in the accumulation of spatial knowledge, the use of maps and signs, the influence of previous travel experiences and the organization of search and exploration strategies in the city.

Introduction

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Bramadat
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Present Book ◽  
Christian Fellowship ◽  
Conservative Protestantism ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Sunday Evening

One warm Sunday evening in September 1993, I found myself walking aimlessly around the McMaster University campus. Earlier the same week, I had seen a poster advertising “Church at the John,” an event organized by the McMaster chapter of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF). Since I was academically interested in conservative Protestantism, and since at that point I knew no one in the city, I decided, for lack of other options, to attend this meeting. What I found there fell completely outside my expectations, prompted an elaborate series of questions, and ultimately resulted in the present book. Since I assumed that the meeting would be small, I worried that being ten minutes late might draw unwanted attention to my presence. As I descended the stairs of the Downstairs John (or simply “the John”), McMaster’s largest student bar, I could hear the noises of a large group of people. I thought I might have misread the poster a few days earlier; when I entered the bustling room, I was virtually certain I had. Except for the well-lit stage at one end of the room, the John was dark, and almost six hundred people were crowded into a space designed for no more than four hundred and fifty. The room was narrow and long, with a low stage at one end, pool tables at the opposite end, and a bar along the side of the room. People were standing and sitting in the aisles, on the bar, and against the walls beneath the bikini-clad models and slogans that festooned the neon beer signs. I discreetly asked one person who was standing against the wall if this was the right room for the IVCF meeting, and he replied that it was. I looked at him more intently to determine if he was joking, but he just smiled at me politely and bowed his head. After a few confusing moments, I realized he was praying. I turned away from him and noticed that all the other people in the room had bowed their heads in a prayer being led by a demure young woman on the stage.

Is the perception of their own odour effective in orienting the exploratory activity of cave fishes?

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 871-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalisa Paglianti ◽  
Giuseppe Messana ◽  
Alessandro Cianfanelli ◽  
Roberto Berti
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Chemical Information ◽  
Fish Swimming ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Sensory Pathways ◽  
Water Volumes ◽  
Odour Perception

Spatial knowledge of the surrounding environment is extremely important for animals to locate and efficiently exploit available resources (e.g., food, shelters, mates). Fishes usually acquire spatial information about their home range through vision, but vision fails in the dark and other sensory pathways have to be exploited. Fishes possess a remarkable olfactory system and have evolved a refined ability of chemical detection and recognition. Nevertheless, while the role of chemical cues in spatial orientation is well known in long-distance salmonid migrations, it has never been investigated in orientation within local, familiar areas. Here we report the first evidence that fish swimming can be topographically polarized by self-odour perception. When an unfamiliar area was experimentally scented with fish self-odour, the cave cyprinid Phreatichthys andruzzii Vinciguerra, 1924 behaved as if the area was previously explored. The fish preferred an odour-free area to a self-odour-scented one, and when offered the choice between a familiar and an unfamiliar area, they preferred the unexplored environment. Avoidance of self-odour-scented areas would allow effective exploration of the subterranean environment, minimizing the risks of repeatedly exploring the same water volumes. Our results are the first clear evidence that fish can use their own odour to orient their locomotor activity when visual cues are not available. This highlights the possible role of chemical information in fish orientation.

Battle of the Sexes: Gender and the City in the Song of Songs

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-116
Author(s):  
Elaine James
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Landscape Urbanism ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Battle Of The Sexes ◽  
The City

This article considers the significance of the city in the Song of Songs as a landscape, that is, a cityscape. It explores how contemporary theorizations of the city, especially landscape urbanism, can illuminate patterns of poetic use in the Song. It argues that the Song's use of the motif of the city is highly ambivalent, evoking the twin themes of protection and vulnerability. The Song playfully casts the lovers in a battle of the sexes, in which the young woman is a threatened city, and her lover is the encroaching enemy. Ultimately, the Song imagines the city as a body–-dependent on and susceptible to its surrounding environment, gendered female according to the conventions of the ancient world, and evocative of desire.

Activist Cinéma-monde in Paris: Filming Foreigners in the French Capital

Cinéma-monde ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Rice
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Romanian Immigrants ◽  
Hit And Run ◽  
Jewish Descent ◽  
The City

Recent films set in Paris have called attention in various ways to the diversity of cultures, beliefs, and languages that come together in the French capital. This chapter examines four films characterized as ‘activist’. Whether it is a question of the intersecting fates of Malian or Romanian immigrants in the French capital in Austrian director Michael Haneke’s Code inconnu (2000), the life-or-death situation of an Algerian immigrant who has been forced into prostitution in Coline Serreau’s Chaos (2001, France), the purposely hilarious socio-political activism of a young woman whose father is an immigrant from Algeria and whose newfound love is of Jewish descent in Michel Leclerc’s Le nom des gens (2010), or the spontaneous kindness a witness to a fatal hit-and-run accident shows to the Moldavian victim’s wife in Catherine Corsini’s Trois mondes (2012), it is clear that these filmmakers have turned an attentive eye to the injustices that mark the experience of those from elsewhere whose trajectories have brought them to the City of Lights.

Romantic Love

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-134
Author(s):  
Rachel Manekin
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
School Education ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter centers on Debora Lewkowicz, a daughter of a village tavernkeeper, who completed her primary school education in the city of Wieliczka in Western Galicia. It discusses Debora's close relationship with a young Pole, as a result of which her father quickly arranged for her to marry a Jewish man. It also refers to Debora's escape on the eve of her wedding and entry into the Felician Sisters' convent, where she was subsequently baptized and prepared for the profession of governess. The chapter explores Debora's ambivalence that reflected her life on the boundary between the Polish-Catholic and Jewish worlds. It reviews the overall impression that Debora left in her letters to her father and to the convent, which is one of a deeply conflicted young woman who was torn between rival loyalties.

scholarly journals Discovering place-informative scenes and objects using social media photos

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 181375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Bolei Zhou ◽  
Carlo Ratti ◽  
Yu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Scenes ◽  
Visual Knowledge ◽  
Historical Architecture ◽  
Police Cars ◽  
The City

Understanding the visual discrepancy and heterogeneity of different places is of great interest to architectural design, urban design and tourism planning. However, previous studies have been limited by the lack of adequate data and efficient methods to quantify the visual aspects of a place. This work proposes a data-driven framework to explore the place-informative scenes and objects by employing deep convolutional neural network to learn and measure the visual knowledge of place appearance automatically from a massive dataset of photos and imagery. Based on the proposed framework, we compare the visual similarity and visual distinctiveness of 18 cities worldwide using millions of geo-tagged photos obtained from social media. As a result, we identify the visual cues of each city that distinguish that city from others: other than landmarks, a large number of historical architecture, religious sites, unique urban scenes, along with some unusual natural landscapes have been identified as the most place-informative elements. In terms of the city-informative objects, taking vehicles as an example, we find that the taxis, police cars and ambulances are the most place-informative objects. The results of this work are inspiring for various fields—providing insights on what large-scale geo-tagged data can achieve in understanding place formalization and urban design.

From source to commodity: newly-composed folk music of Yugoslavia

Popular Music ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljerka Vidić Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Water Spring

There is a shared view among insiders that the release of the recording ‘Od izvora dva putića’ ([There are] ‘Two paths leading from the water spring’) by Serbian female singer Lepa Lukić in 1964, marked the beginning of the ‘market history’ of Yugoslav novokomponovana narodna muzika (newly-composed folk music; henceforth NCFM). The song's lyrics depict a young woman in a rustic village whose love is thwarted when her lover moves to the city. The music evokes a motif typical of the Central-Serbian region of Šumadija: a tuneful melody, steady 2/4 rhythm, and a caressing quality in the narration. The title of the song is highly symbolic of the divergence of Yugoslav folk music into a continuing narodna muzika (folk; literally, ‘people's’ music) and an emerging pop stream.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING A WEB-BASED PPGIS, AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING SERVICE

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W7 ◽  
pp. 115-121
Author(s):  
N. Ranjbar Nooshery ◽  
M. Taleai ◽  
R. Kazemi ◽  
K. Ebadi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Web Gis ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Participatory Gis ◽  
The City

Today municipalities are searching for new tools to empower locals for changing the future of their own areas by increasing their participation in different levels of urban planning. These tools should involve the community in planning process using participatory approaches instead of long traditional top-down planning models and help municipalities to obtain proper insight about major problems of urban neighborhoods from the residents’ point of view. In this matter, public participation GIS (PPGIS) which enables citizens to record and following up their feeling and spatial knowledge regarding problems of the city in the form of maps have been introduced. In this research, a tool entitled CAER (Collecting & Analyzing of Environmental Reports) is developed. In the first step, a software framework based on Web-GIS tool, called EPGIS (Environmental Participatory GIS) has been designed to support public participation in reporting urban environmental problems and to facilitate data flow between citizens and municipality. A web-based cartography tool was employed for geo-visualization and dissemination of map-based reports. In the second step of CAER, a subsystem is developed based on SOLAP (Spatial On-Line Analytical Processing), as a data mining tools to elicit the local knowledge facilitating bottom-up urban planning practices and to help urban managers to find hidden relations among the recorded reports. This system is implemented in a case study area in Boston, Massachusetts and its usability was evaluated. The CAER should be considered as bottom-up planning tools to collect people’s problems and views about their neighborhood and transmits them to the city officials. It also helps urban planners to find solutions for better management from citizen’s viewpoint and gives them this chance to develop good plans to the neighborhoods that should be satisfied the citizens.

scholarly journals A note on the Relationship between Spatial Recognition and Behavior while Walking in the City

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Kaori Ito ◽  
Yusuke Sakurai ◽  
Yuri Fujita ◽  
Andrew Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Sketch Maps ◽  
Way Finding ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Spatial Recognition

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The experience of walking in the city has changed since the diffusion of smartphones with communication and GNSSbased navigation technologies. Accordingly, user's recognition of geographical space has also been changed; McCullough and Collins (2018) suggest that less spatial knowledge is gained while using GNSS-equipped devices while way-finding than by using paper maps or no tools at all; Ishikawa et al. (2008) suggest that GNSS-based navigation device users make larger direction errors and produce sketch maps with poorer topological accuracy after way-finding.</p><p>This study focuses on information gathering, decision-making and recognition of geographical space while ‘strolling’ in the city with a smartphone. This abstract describes the outline of the experiment and early stages of the analysis, especially relationships between spatial recognition through sketch maps and behavior while walking.</p>

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