scholarly journals Spatially organized «vertical city» as a synthesis of tall buildings and airships

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Gagulina ◽  
Sergei Matovnikov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
High Rise ◽  
City Space

The paper explores the compact city concept based on the «spatial» urban development principles and describes the prerequisites and possible methods to move from «horizontal» planning to «vertical» urban environments. It highlights the close connection between urban space, high-rise city landscape and conveyance options and sets out the ideas for upgrading the existing architectural and urban planning principles. It also conceptualizes the use of airships to create additional spatial connections between urban structure elements and high-rise buildings. Functional changes are considered in creating both urban environment and internal space of tall buildings, and the environmental aspects of the new spatial model are brought to light. The paper delineates the prospects for making a truly «spatial» multidimensional city space.

scholarly journals Mixed-use development in a high-rise context

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena M. Generalova ◽  
Viktor P. Generalov ◽  
Anna A. Kuznetsova ◽  
Oksana N. Bobkova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Tall Building ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The article deals with an actual problem of finding techniques and methods to create a comfortable urban environment. The authors emphasize that in the existing conditions of intensive urban development greater attention should be given to spatial concentration based on and more compact distribution of population in urban space. It is stressed that including mixed-use facilities into urban realm results in a significant improvement of living environment qualitative characteristics. The paper also examines modern approaches to constructing a «compact city» for comfortable and convenient living with a mixed-use tall building development. The authors explore the world's experience of designing tall mixed-use buildings and reveal modern trends in their construction. The statistics given is based on the data analysis of a group of tall mixed-use buildings consisting of more than 400 objects, constructed in 2007-2016. The research shows functional and architectural peculiarities of this typology of tall buildings and investigates a mechanism of creating zones of mixed-use tall building development in the urban structure. In conclusion, the authors consider prospects of development and major directions of improvement of mixed-use tall building parameters for a reasonable territorial urban growth and creation of high-density and comfortable building development.

The Impact of Spatial Organization on Locating the Friday Mosques in the Traditional Islamic City-The Old Mosul City as a Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faris A. Matloob ◽  
Ahmad B. Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Analytical Technique ◽  
People Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Early Islamic

Islamic city has its own character that distinguishes it from other urban environments. This is because it followed the Islamic ideology related to building the land. This led to that all cities built during early Islamic ages had followed the same principles in any part of the Islamic world. It is argued that the characteristics of the urban space configuration have a big role in making these cities successful environments. The key aspect in this matter is the distribution of land uses within the urban structure as it is directly associated with people movement and the distribution of their activities. The Friday mosques as the most important components of the Islamic city was located in a way that gave the city its own character. This study supposes that the distribution of the Friday mosques was affected by the way in which the urban space was configured. It aimed to find out to what extent this configuration influenced locating the Friday mosques in the urban fabric. Using space syntax as an analytical technique and the Old Mosul city as a case study, this research analyzed the spatial structure against several spatial characteristics with mosques locations to meet its goal.  

scholarly journals Animal work, memory, and interspecies care: police horses in multispecies urban imaginaries

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110036
Author(s):  
Nora Schuurman
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Work Memory ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relational Networks ◽  
City Space ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The City

Mounted police units around the world have entered social media, with the aim of bringing the police closer to the public. In this paper, I analyze the Facebook page of the mounted police in the city of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. I ask how equine agency, animal work, interspecies care, and the relational networks of memory are interpreted, communicated, and performed on social media, contributing to the co-production of urban imaginaries. I approach the material as performances of animality and human–animal relations, concentrating on shared interpretations and representations of the horses and their agency. To be able to analyze human–animal encounters and interaction in urban space as they are experienced, imagined, remembered, and collectively shared, I suggest a novel concept of multispecies urban imaginary. Developing the concept widens the focus of understanding the multispecies nature of urban environments and includes animals in the experiences and perceptions of city space – where they belong.

HISTORY AND CURRENT TRENDS IN HIGH-RISE CONSTRUCTION

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O. MATEJKO
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Urban Habitat ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Characteristic Features

The history of high-rise buildings development from the perspective of the skyscrapers international classification by structural depth, developed and adopted by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, is viewed. In accordance with this classification the entire history of high-rise buildings is divided into 4 periods from the perspective of overcoming the three key heights: the mark of 100, 300 and 600 meters and the emergence of skyscrapers (Tall buildings), Super skyscrapers (Supertall’s) and Mega skyscrapers (Megatall’s). Revealed the characteristic features in the use of technology, functional use skyscrapers, the approach to the placement of high-rise buildings and complexes in the urban space. Identify trends, characteristic for the present stage of development of highrise construction.

scholarly journals Urban space recovery. Landscape-beneficial solutions in new estates built in post-industrial and post-military areas in Bristol, Poznań and Gdańsk

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Raszeja ◽  
Joanna Badach
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract The limitation of territorial expansion and the implementation of the idea of a compact city are generally accepted paradigms of spatial development of contemporary cities. In consequence, actions are taken to improve the quality of city landscape and revitalise vacant areas. This study approaches the process of city regeneration as transformation and supplementation of the existing urban structure as well as creation of multifunctional, structurally, socially and ecologically sustainable spaces. The article presents the problem of creation of new-inner city residential areas. The study was conducted on three housing estates located in post-industrial and post-military areas: Harbourside Development in Bristol (UK), City Park and Ułańskie Estate in Poznań (Poland) and Browar Gdański in Gdańsk (Poland). The article includes analyses of relations between the estates and their surroundings, spatial structure parameters and architectural, urban and scenic characteristics. It includes assessment of the legibility, consistency, diversity and quality of the urban landscape.

scholarly journals Regional approaches in high-rise construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01023
Author(s):  
O.G. Iconopisceva ◽  
G.A. Proskurin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Constructive Methods ◽  
Factors Influencing

The evolutionary process of high-rise construction is in the article focus. The aim of the study was to create a retrospective matrix reflecting the tasks of the study such as: structuring the most iconic high-rise objects within historic boundaries. The study is based on contemporary experience of high-rise construction in different countries. The main directions and regional specifics in the field of high-rise construction as well as factors influencing the further evolution process are analyzed. The main changes in architectural stylistics, form-building, constructive solutions that focus on the principles of energy efficiency and bio positivity of "sustainable buildings", as well as the search for a new typology are noted. The most universal constructive methods and solutions that turned out to be particularly popular are generalized. The new typology of high-rises and individual approach to urban context are noted. The results of the study as a graphical scheme made it possible to represent the whole high-rise evolution. The new spatial forms of high-rises lead them to new role within the urban environments. Futuristic hyperscalable concepts take the autonomous urban space functions itself and demonstrate us how high-rises can replace multifunctional urban fabric, developing it inside their shells.

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.

Curating the urban music festival: Festivalisation, the ‘shuffle’ logic, and digitally-shaped music consumption

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110086
Author(s):  
Paulo Nunes ◽  
Carolyn Birdsall
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Urban Music ◽  
Cultural Intermediaries

In recent years, music festivals have grown in significance within local cultural policy, city branding and tourism agendas. Taking the Mexefest festival in Lisbon as a case in point, this article asks how, in the digital streaming era, music festivals in urban environments are framed, curated and experienced. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, our analysis examines how music festival programmers curate the urban festival experience, for both locals and tourists alike. First, we identify the emergence of urban music festivals in recent decades, and how modern festival programmes have adopted the cultural technique of the ‘shuffle mode’ as an influential principle. Second, we investigate the work of festival programmers through the lens of ‘cultural intermediaries’, and ask how their programming strategies, particularly through digital mobile media (such as music playlists), contribute to an aestheticised experience of the city during the festival. Third, we focus on how the Mexefest festival events are staged in tandem with brand activation by sponsors like mobile phone company Vodafone and their radio station Vodafone FM. In doing so, we highlight the participation of festival-goers through their embodied engagements with digital media, music listening and urban space, and evaluate the heuristic value of ‘shuffle curation’ as a tool for the understanding of music festivals as a distinctly global and networked form of leisure consumption in urban culture.

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