Ways of looking: the creation and social use of urban guidebooks in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China

Urban History ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIYEN FEI
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Apparent Similarity

ABSTRACT:This article explores the intricate relationship between guidebooks and place-making in an early modern Chinese city, Nanjing. Despite all apparent similarity to a modern guidebook, the seventeenth-century guidebook Jinling tuyong (Illustrated Odes on Nanjing) offers no information regarding shopping, dining or lodging; instead, it catalogues all the possible experiences of sites in and around the city. Such a concentrated focus on spatial experiences brings to light an important change in the social role of guidebooks in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century China. As landscape appreciation developed into an important venue for status performance and social networking, the representation of space became an integral element to the construction of urban communities. In the case of Tuyong, its images even supplied a critical source of cultural continuity for Nanjing-neses during transition between the Ming and Qing empires, a finding that sheds a new light on the links between urban space and empire and serves as a useful entry for cross-cultural comparison.

Social and Political Interaction of Local Communities in the Region in the Context of Reactive Relations: Cases of Urban Space Improvement

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Elena A. Kranzeeva ◽  
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Evgeny V. Golovatsky ◽  
Anna V. Orlova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Political Communications ◽  
Political Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Event

The relevance of the study is associated with the speed of modern sociopolitical processes in the territories, the emergence of new participants and tools for achieving their own and collective interests. The aim of the article is to describe the real urban processes of sociopolitical interaction in the conditions of reactive relations, taking into account the interests and positions of the participants, the content and dynamics of interaction. The methodological basis of the study is the concept of social action and power relations by M. Weber, the concept of resources by A. Giddens, research works by L.L. Shpak, who considers interaction in the aggregate of regional everyday sociopolitical practices. The article proposes a framework for the study of rapid reactive actions and relationships that can significantly accelerate the flow of social and political interactions. The analysis of reactive relations, the dynamics of the nature of social and political interaction on the scale of the urban space, as well as confirmation of signs of reactivity of relations, is based on the analysis of two cases of Kemerovo related to the improvement of the urban space, demonstrating at the same time the practice of social and political communications. For the Statue of Saint Barbara case, the method of content analysis is used to study the Internet audience; the method allows analyzing the density and coherence of information communications taking into account the inclusion and/or belonging of users in relation to the analyzed data. The use of the method of analyzing event data in the media (event analysis) for the Lazurny case illustrates the dynamics of social and political interaction. As a result, it has been revealed that, in the context of new reactive relations, the communicative potential of ordinary users (citizens) grows in the social and political interaction of a city or a certain territory. The practices of social interaction considered in the article are replenished from the implementation of innovative projects within the framework of urban communities. An important role is played by the constantly changing conditions for the transmission and accumulation of information significant in the urban space, as well as by the activity resource – active drivers of modern communication. The prospect of further research is the search for new tools and indicators of a new quality of social and political interaction in the context of reactive relations

Inclusive trends of urban development: Temporalspatial social practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
D. V. Zaitsev ◽  
O. V. Zaitseva ◽  
V. N. Yarskaya-Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Landscape Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Spaces

The article presents the results of a review of the data of Russian and international research of social-urban development as presented at the scientific events in the Saratov region. In contemporary urbanism, there is a number of trends: temporal, of universal design, and social-cultural. The Russian urban development follows agglomeration trends that are increasingly evident in the processes of settlement, which means active development of suburban areas, changes in their landscape characteristics, cultural spaces, and mobility of citizens. The covid-19 pandemic had a complex impact on the social-urban features of cities in Russia and the world by transforming the structure and functionality of many urban locations, creating conditions for the emergence of a post-coronavirus city. The empirical data show that such a city is the most socially sensitive to negative and positive aspects of social life and to manifestations of inclusive practices that unite people. Under the low, fragmented accessibility of social, cultural and other infrastructure of cities that are designed for healthy people, there is a synchronization of urban infrastructure elements in the context of inclusion due to the social demand for a coronavirus transformation of the architectural and urban environment in terms of social distancing. Based on the research data from different regions of Russia, the authors identify priority directions of the inclusive development of social urbanism: models of the inclusive culture of urban communities; monitoring of the city accessible environment for citizens of different age and mobility (in particular, with the tracing and walk along approaches); model of participatory urban planning and social expertise of the inclusiveness of the urban space; educational model of professional training in the field of social urbanism and universal design.

scholarly journals Sustaining the Liveliness of Public Spaces in El Houma through Placemaking

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Mohamed Yazid Khemri ◽  
Alessandro Melis ◽  
Silvio Caputo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
Mapping Techniques ◽  
Social Use

This paper takes Algiers as a case study, highlighting the social use of urban spaces in El Houma, in the Algerian capital, as a form of placemaking, a people-centred approach aimed at improving urban spaces within a neighbourhood. El Houma is a word for neighbourhood in North Africa synonymous with Hara and Mahalla in the Middle East. El Houma is not a typical neighbourhood that only houses people, it is a socio-spatial product formed by social relations between residents of the same neighbourhood. It is, therefore, a way of representing urban space though social practices, creating a strong sense of community, a sense of place and social interaction. Based on theories and mapping techniques from urban sociology and urban design, the research applies a methodology of activity mapping, in order to investigate patterns of outdoor social activities in public spaces and their correlation with the physical design of the neighbourhood. The research will measure the liveliness of public spaces exploring how people adapted their lifestyle to the built environment and vice versa. The findings demonstrate how the different social activities are spatially distributed, and their impact on the liveliness of el Houma.

Habib Dan Pengembangan Keagamaan Masyarakat Perkotaan (Peran dan fungsi Habib Syarif Muhammad Al-‘Aydrus di Kota Bandung)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ahmad Saepudin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strong Position

The purpose of writing this article is to describe the social role of Habib's diversity in the dynamics of the diversity of urban communities, especially in Bandung. Through descriptive methods, analysis of data obtained from interviews and observations has shown that when identity is able to enter the realm of religion, based on the strength of religious roles, it is able to deliver to a very strong position. The style of the role run by Habib Syarif as a research subject shows a moderate religious role, besides being able to maintain local Islamic traditions. In addition, Habib has a meaning and a clan that is quite strong in the eyes of the clergy and the community. This is an attraction for pilgrims to get involved and participate in religious activities in urban areas.

Urban Monumentality in Roman Britain

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Revell
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Use ◽  
The Town ◽  
Final Group ◽  
New System

This chapter investigates the character of the chartered towns in Roman Britain, their mature form in the late second/early third centuries, and the social use of urban space. It explores the activities fostered by the buildings within towns. The forum and the town are shown to be the centre of political organization, enabling the new system of elite magistracies. The religious structures of the towns allowed for varied forms of ritual experience engendered by the relationships between temple and urban layout. The buildings for leisure activities—theatres, amphitheatres, and baths—also formed an essential part of the urban existence. The final group of buildings to be considered are those for living and working in; these were an early part of urban construction and illustrate the continued investment throughout the Roman period. The chapter concludes by considering the nature of variability between the urban centres of the province.

scholarly journals Quality of Life to Achieve New Egyptian Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dina Darwish ◽  
Mohsen Bayad ◽  
Mohamed Mahdy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
National Income ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The Social

The change in the pace of urbanization that Egypt is currently witnessing due to the massive population growth and the trend towards migration to some urban polarization centers has responded in a large and unbalanced urban transformation. The absence of a clear long-term strategy for urban development has affected the accumulation of investments in major cities. Alongside the challenge facing the development of new urban communities, is the result of interaction between the social situation, economic and urban and the environment that affects the human being to form a society characterized by the quality of life, which is the goal of development. If all these challenges did not achieve the results of quality of life, development has become deficient and unable to achieve its objectives and therefore the investments directed to this development is a waste of resources in a country that needs to deal with Resources efficiently and effectively, so as to achieve the maximum possible return of national income. Therefore The need to design an appropriate strategy aimed at Integration of parts of the State's urban space, as well as alleviating the regional disparities in the levels of urban development between different regions of the country, and achieving the greatest justice in the distribution of services and facilities and economic opportunities between citizens and regions, and Attracting residents from densely populated areas and territories to new urban centers with growing development and investment potential.

scholarly journals Resources for Civic Initiatives in the Cities of Kuzbass

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-309
Author(s):  
Eugene Golovatsky ◽  
Natalia Nyatina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Authorities ◽  
Resource Capacity

The development of civic initiatives is a significant indicator of the social and political life of the community. A study of urban space initiatives can reveal both the state of civil society and the resource capabilities of the area. The research objective was to find tools for sociological analysis of resources of civil initiatives. The paper features some possibilities of social and political interaction between urban communities and the regional authorities. The civil initiatives within the urban communities of Kuzbass appeared to be poorly formed, especially in terms of quality content, self-expression, the nature of the initiatives, and the scale of resource capacity of the local population. The authors believe that the modern practice of using and attracting resources of civil initiatives is at its early stage in the cities of Kuzbass. Some formats of interaction between the authorities and the community are gradually emerging, but the local communities seem to mistrust the local authorities, which makes the interaction irregular and sporadic. The processes of interaction between the urban communities and the authorities demonstrate cases of joint and autonomous (as a rule, initiated by the community) use of publicity opportunities for the implementation of formal and informal civil initiatives. However, formal civic initiatives fail to convey all the diversity of the social demands that could improve urban life.

Visualizing the Street

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.

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