scholarly journals Exploring the public value of streets in the context of rapid urbanization

2021 ◽  
Vol 283 ◽  
pp. 02032
Author(s):  
Song Hao
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
City Government ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Public Value ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Street Space ◽  
The City

Urban street is an important form of urban space. It is the economic lifeline of the city, as well as the most public space that people use in daily life. City streets bears not only the flourished style of this region, but also embodies the unique style and taste of a city. Since China's reform and opening, economic development has maintaining a rapid growth momentum. The economic base determines the superstructure,so the scale of city population is facing a rapid expansion. The city is changing rapidly with the vigorous development of motor traffic. The traditional street space is faced with the situation of being nibbled away.Based on the concept of urban street and public space, this paper further analyzes the importance of paying attention to urban public life for achieving sustainable development, and then points out the importance of urban street space as an important carrier of public life in the context of rapid urbanization.By clarifying the important public value of urban streets, this paper draws the attention of a wide range of city government decision-makers and urban planners.

scholarly journals KULTUREL DYNAMIK I OPLEVELSESBYRUMMET – EN ANALYSE AF BRANDTS KLÆDEFABRIK

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (109) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Hjørdis Havsteen Brandrup
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Textile Mill ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

CULTURAL DYNAMIC IN THE URBAN EXPERIENCE SCAPE – AN ANALYSIS OF BRANDTS KLÆDEFABRIKBrandts Klædefabrik (Brandt’s Textile Mill) is a cultural cluster in the city of Odense, Denmark. The cultural experiences available at Brandts Klædefabrik cover a wide field and are relevant for people of all levels of education and all ages, embracing as they do not only fine culture but also triviality and excitement. Brandts Klædefabrik is therefore a culturally inclusive place, although its symbolic power is dominated by a cultural and economic elitetrying to maintain an exclusively controlled social and physical order in the urban space. However, Brandts Klædefabrik is part of a city which contains a wide range of cultural groups: a Danish cultural elite, immigrants, homeless people and drug addicts. In this cultural multiplicity Brandts Klædefabrik is a cultural cluster and an urban entertainment district which does not include marginalised groups. Paradoxically, the attempt to maintainan exclusive order to satisfy an audience with buying power runs against the creative profile of the area, in which cultural and social multiplicity are important values. The area around Brandts Klædefabrik is a public space; but if it is going to be a public domain and the scene of cultural exchanges between different groups in the city, it needs to become more culturally inclusive. Brandts Klædefabrik may turn into a public domain if a cultural dynamic and multiplicity are given the chance to unfold there.

scholarly journals Possibilities to Apply the Urban Acupuncture Concept in Kaunas: Social Aspect

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Aurelija Daugelaite ◽  
Indre Gražulevičiūte-Vileniške ◽  
Mantas Landauskas
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The City

The concept of urban acupuncture, which has been gaining ground in recent decades, is based on the activation and revitalization of urban environments using small architectural or landscape architectural interventions in precise carefully selected locations of urban fabric. However, the rapid and unexpected design solutions of urban acupuncture, based on ecological design, nature dynamics, street art, material re-use, can cause different social and psychological reactions of urban population and these reactions may vary depending on cultural contexts. Consequently, in order to implement successful urban acupuncture projects in Lithuanian cities, it is very important to find out public opinion and priorities in the fields of public space management, aesthetics, and public art. The aim of the research was to analyze the opinion of Kaunas city residents regarding these issues. For this purpose, a sociological questionnaire survey was used. The questionnaire containing 20 questions was designed, with the aim to find out the trends of use of public spaces in the city, the attitudes of residents towards street art and other small-scale initiatives in public spaces implemented in the recent years, possibilities of creating landscape architecture based on ecological ideas in urban environment, the attitude of inhabitants towards community spaces and community space design in the city, etc. 100 residents of Kaunas participated in this online administered survey. The survey has demonstrated general positive attitude towards contemporary design trends of public spaces and public art; however, the surveyed population expressed preferences towards fully equipped public spaces offering possibilities for a wide range of activities.

scholarly journals Women of Fes

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Emilio Spadola
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Space ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Family Code ◽  
Mega Cities

The city of Fes, the once “bourgeois citadel” (J. Berque’s words) of Moroccoand once the world’s most populous city (1170-80), has in modernity beenunhappily bypassed for coastal trading hubs and global mega-cities. Materialand symbolic elements of Fassi power persist, however, and anthropologistRachel Newcomb’s finely researched and written ethnography identifies them in upper-middle-class women’s gender identity. In so doing, Women ofFes helps the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and Islamicstudies to illuminate the often-neglected power of class to shape gender in theMuslim Middle East and North Africa, demonstrating, not pointedly, thatclass divides women within as much as across cultures.Newcomb’s book concerns women of, not merely in, Fes, namely, a classof women of “original” Fassi families navigating the social ruins and newopportunities of daily urban life. Its disparate topics – urban rumors, women’sNGOs, reforms of the Moroccan Muslim family code (mudawanah), flexiblekinship, public space, a dépassé lounge singer – shift the book’s centerfrom class to gender and public life. Her skillful identification of class issueswithin the latter, however, gives the book a necessary coherence ...

scholarly journals Jak badać murale z perspektywy socjologicznej? Przykład Łodzi

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Mikołaj Statucki Piotr Mikołaj Statucki
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Government ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The City

The article explores the study of murals from the point of view of sociology and shows its application, taking the city of Lodz as an example. The proposed perspective is divided into three, partly overlapping sections: artistic, management and organizational areas. It is an attempt to present the methods used in the researches on murals and test them adopting the said division. The purpose of the text includes presenting how murals are perceived by different groups – viewers, art institutions, local media and city government. The research draws attention to the question of maintaining a balance between quantity and quality of art in public space.

scholarly journals Post-flânerie: How do mobile devices shape the experience of the city?

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Gorsev Argin ◽  
Burak Pak ◽  
Handan Turkoglu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In the last decade, the advances in mobile technologies and location-based applications reshaped our mutual relationship with the urban environment. These technologies, as both a mean and barrier to the engagement between humans and their environment, have transformed the urban experience in profound ways. Urban experience is a relatively new concept introduced with the rise of modern cities in the nineteenth century. Its loss due to the rapid urbanization has been a subject of debate since then. Among the discussions that take place in this debate, the figure of ‘flâneur’ plays an extensive role. The flâneur is a figure who wanders through and appropriates the metropolitan city in pursuit of urban experience and reaps aesthetic meaning from the spectacle of the teeming crowds. Flânerie, or the act of wandering, and its implications for our understanding of urban life have been profound. Today, mobile technologies create a new kind of urban wanderer which is described as “post-flâneur”. In this paper, by examining the altering concept of flânerie, we discuss the effects of mobile technologies on urban experience. Based on an informed study of a wide range of theories, we make reflections on the impact of mobile devices on the mutual relationship between humans and their environment, introduce key concepts for understanding the emergent phenomenon of post-flânerie and elaborate on its interconnections with the phenomena of cyber and hybrid-flânerie.

scholarly journals A Proposal for Elephant Square, London

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-270
Author(s):  
Lucien Steil
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Main Condition ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City ◽  
Common World

The Elephant Square project was carried out in the context of the 2019 University of Buckingham Summer School, chaired by dean John Simpson and director Clive Aslet. The design brief for the project was created by Stephanie Jazmines and Lucien Steil, both tutors at the 2019 University of Buckingham Summer School. Rather than following up on the endless series of post-Covid-19 urban, or “return to nature”, or “health technology” utopias, the Elephant Square project in London simply offers to re-establish the primacy of public space and public life as a main condition to reassess the city of the future. This project supports a vision of the city as a plural and common world, the purpose of which is to enhance public life in its most sophisticated forms.

scholarly journals PERAN DINAS KEBERSIHAN DAN PERTAMANAN (DKP) DALAM MENINGKATKAN SARANA WISATA KOTA MASYARAKAT KOTA SURABAYA (STUDI KASUS PADA WISATA MANGROVE WONOREJO)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fandy Alfizar
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
City Government ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Community ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The City

Tourism is a wide range of tourist activities and supported a variety of facilities and services provided by the public, employers, Government and Local Government. Wonorejo Mangrove Tour became one of the sights that have become icons of Surabaya citizens in the eyes of the local tourist travelers and foreign tourists. However, the actual inside Ecotourism Mangrove Wonorejo Surabaya are still many deficiencies, among others in terms of management and in terms of amenities. Associated with the condition, the author will conduct in-depth studies related to the role of manager of the parties in this case is devoted to and Sanitation Department (DKP) in developing Mangrove Wonorejo Tour as to improve tourist facilities lives in Surabaya city. The purpose of this study was to describe the role and Sanitation Department (DKP) Surabaya City Government on Mangrove Wonorejo Tour improve tourist facilities in the city of Surabaya City community. The research approach used in this study is a qualitative approach. Informants in this study is the travel manager of Mangrove Wonorejo Rungkut and surrounding communities Mangrove Wonorejo Rungkut travel. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive qualitative analysis. The results showed that the role and Sanitation Department (DKP) in Surabaya on Mangrove Wonorejo Tour in improving tourism facilities the city lives in Surabaya is just a role and focus in the cleanliness and landscaping in Wonorejo Mangrove Tour. More attention and Sanitation Department (DKP) in Surabaya to the tourist destination in this case is Mangrove tour Wonorejo Tour more emphasis on hygiene. And Sanitation Department (DKP) in Surabaya has always appealed to the manager and the local community to always keep the Mangrove Wonorejo sites. The management and the local community can then give an example of protecting the environment, especially in tourist locations mangrove Wonorejo that visitors have the awareness to jointly preserve mangrove ecosystems.Keywords: Tourism,  Tour Facilitation City, and Sanitation Department (DKP)

scholarly journals HARMONIZATION OF PUBLIC SPACES OF RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (156) ◽  
pp. 140-148
Author(s):  
O. Bezlyubchenko ◽  
T. Apatenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Ground Cover ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The City

The article considers topical problems of forming public spaces in the city. The concept of public space is given, as well as the classification of a number of public spaces: by the type of their location in the fabric of the city and according to the level of social interaction; according to the functional purpose and style of the architectural and landscape organization. The issue of public spaces is considered. Examples of different types of residential courtyards of cities in Western Europe are given, as well as the relevance of residential courtyard space in the system of a wide range of public urban spaces is emphasized. The question of the urgency of the development of adjacent spaces is raised, and also ways of their organization are considered. The problem of an integrated approach to the organization of adjacent spaces is raised. The means of forming an individual non-traditional process due to the use of natural and artificial materials for the design of the yard are given; creation of green modules from ground cover plants, flowers, and shrubs; change in the character of the relief with the formation of hills, slopes, waves, including various types of vegetation; overcoming stereotypical approaches to choosing the type of plantings of trees, shrubs and flower beds, offering three-dimensional solutions with the use of greenery and more. To assess the visual qualities of the environment of open spaces within the residential area, it is proposed to use indicators that are able to store their qualitative and quantitative сharacteristics: parameters of space, parameters of visual perception. As a result of this study, recommendations were developed for the formation of the design project of the yard space in the existing building. Ways to improve the quality of yards are formulated. Keywords: urban environment, yard, playground, yard space, comfortable environment.

scholarly journals Pop-up City. Searching for instant urbanity

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Luisa Bravo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
The City

<p>Pop-up City is a photography research project in the city of Bologna, Italy. It works on perception and understanding of urban and architectural features of the existing city, trying to deliver new powerful images of the suburban world and to highlight existing places with a potential for public life. <br />Pop-up City is an attempt to make people look at everyday streets, places and spaces around them with different, conscious eyes, in order to embed them in their physical and emotional urban life. Pop-up City moves far away from the European mental attitude that immediately links the concept of “public space” to the idea of a traditional designed square, searching for that intangible dimension made of desires, dreams and passionate involvement, giving shape to imagination.</p>

The Changes in Character of the City Center in Sofia

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Nanitchkova-Ozturk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City

This paper aims to provide insight into the repercussions of the recent changes in power structures and economic system in Bulgaria on the architectural features of public spaces in the city center. Within the general instability and confusion, increasing deterioration of the public domain is observed and this is interpreted as a field of opportunities through which the meaning of architectural environment as support of public life and its social significance could be regained. Whether and how this potential can turn into quality depends on a variety of factors, some of which are suggested as areas of inquiry. These include value systems of the society and the architectural practice respectively and their relationship. The architectural environment cannot fully determine the public life of a city, rather it can support the attainment of the practical and spiritual needs of people, expanding experience while allowing for dwelling. In a general condition of confusion and deterioration observable in almost every aspect of life in Bulgaria resulting from the fragmentation of power, the change of the economic system and the instability of values, the weight of responsibility concerning the qualities of public space tends to shift. It is important to identify the changing features of public space in relation to the forces effecting them. Thus directions of inqulry into conditions promoting positive developments could be recognized in terms of aspects of cultural wealth of the society as well as in terms of reassessing the role of the architect-planner.

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