George Melnyk,Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-382
Author(s):  
Romain Chareyron
Keyword(s):  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Paleo-futuros cercanos. Apuntes en el margen del imaginario urbano contemporáneo | Closed paleo-futures. Notes in the edges of the contemporary urban imaginary

ZARCH ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Juan Luis De las Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

A través de tres figuras creativas y relevantes, aunque no siempre bien conocidas, de tres imágenes y de tres ideas arquitectónicas planteadas por ellas pensando en el futuro urbano, se desarrollan en este escrito unas notas o apuntes que quieren ser útiles hoy, aunque permanezcan en los márgenes del imaginario urbano contemporáneo dominante. A pesar de sus limitaciones coyunturales, Bel Geddes, Fuller y Kurokawa siguen ofreciendo una reflexión valiosa sobre la relación entre la ciudad y su medio y, a la vez, sobre la ciudad-artefacto como medio. Si dichas propuestas pueden parecen exageradas, ello se debe a las condiciones históricas de un futuro que cuando se define quizás envejece. Pero no son proyectos utópicos, se plantean en contextos precisos y se consideran viables, confiando en la capacidad de la ciencia y de la tecnología para mejorar el hábitat del hombre.Through three creative and important figures, perhaps not well known, trough three images and three architectural ideas raised by them for thinking the urban future, this writing develops some notes useful nowadays, in spite of they remain in the edges of the contemporary dominant urban imaginary. Despite its occasional constraints, Bel Geddes, Fuller and Kurokawa still offer a valuable reflection on the relationship between the city and its environment and, at the same time, about the man-made city as a medium. If these proposals could be seen excessive, this is due to the historical restrictions of a future when defined, gets older. But them are not utopian projects, are raised in precise contexts and are considered viable, trustful in the ability of science and technology for improving the habitat of man.

scholarly journals Memórias, narrativas políticas e dicotomias da cidade: Olhares Fílmicos sobre Recife-PE

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (45) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendell Marcel Alves da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Short Films ◽  
The Look ◽  
The City ◽  
City Film

Este trabalho analisa o objeto do olhar a cidade do Recife-PE e as suas características espaciais e sociais a partir da perspectiva antropológica e fílmica. A discussão tem como ponto de partida a questão de documentar e ficcionalizar a cidade por meio das narrativas fílmicas do espaço urbano, e também de como o olhar sobre a cidade pode ser analisada através da ótica espacial e fílmica. Considera-se, portanto, os arranjos espaciais, imagéticos, identitários e estéticos presentes no âmbito urbano para então discursar acerca do problema central deste trabalho: os olhares fílmicos construídos da cidade do Recife-PE por meio das narrativas fílmicas dos curtas-metragens pernambucanos. Dessa indagação parte-se às contribuições do imaginário urbano, da memória e da identidade como elementos que constituem a construção do olhar para a cidade.Palavras-chave: Olhares fílmicos. Cidade. Recife-PE.Memories, narrative policies and dicotomies of the city: Film Looks on Recife-PE    AbstractThis work analyzes the object of the look at the city of Recife-PE and its spatial and social characteristics from an anthropological and film perspective. The discussion has as its starting point the question of documenting and fictionalizing the city through the film narratives of urban space, as well as how the view of the city can be analyzed through space and film optics. The spatial, imaginary, identity, and aesthetic arrangements present in the urban context are then considered, and the discourse about the central problem of this work is considered: the film-based views constructed from the city of Recife-PE through the film narratives of Pernambucan short films. From this question we start with the contributions of the urban imaginary, memory and identity as elements that constitute the construction of the look for the city.Keywords: Film looks. City. Recife-PE. 

Berlin

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-378
Author(s):  
Susan Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Action Films ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Historical Films ◽  
Film Style ◽  
The City

Historical films about Hitler and Nazi Germany are perennially popular both within and beyond the academy. However, even in films not set in, or in any way involving, Nazi Berlin but rather only filmed on location in the city, material memories of the city’s fascist spaces can be shown to exert their influence. In comparing the eerily similar geo-aesthetic styles of two relatively obscure, relatively recent science fiction action films—Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) and Karen Kusama’s Aeon Flux (2005)—this contribution seeks to understand how the historically inflected spatial dimension of its urban imaginary has translated into a discernibly dark and spectacularly gendered film style.

scholarly journals URBAN IMAGINARY: ВИЗУАЛЬНЫЕ МАРКЕРЫ ГОРОДСКОГО ВООБРАЖАЕМОГО

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memories ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Visual Markers ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Visualization Process ◽  
Symbolic Code ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
The City

Статья посвящена изучению визуальных маркеров urban imaginary, которые обеспечивают аккумулирование и репрезентацию коллективных представлений о городе, а также структурируют процесс воображения города. Актуальность исследований функционирования urban imaginary подтверждается как повышенным научным интересом к тем феноменам, которые символически и ментально детерминируют городскую реальность, так и эпизодичностью исследований urban imaginary в России. Проблематика urban imaginary открывает возможность междисциплинарного взгляда на город как глобальный текст, порождённый в результате структурирования коллективного воображения и образуемый динамикой городских смыслов во времени и пространстве. В работе акцентируется внимание на том, что люди соприкасаются лишь с фрагментами города, а в условиях информатизации и цифровизации реальности город как целое существует прежде всего в воображении людей, которое приближает и редуцирует символический код города. Ключевым тезисом работы является утверждение о том, что важнейшим знаковым репрезентантом, благодаря которому структурируется urban imaginary в каждом конкретном городе, являются визуальные маркеры городского воображаемого, обладающие исключительным образным и генерирующим эффектом. Автор обращается к процессу конструирования urban imaginary, выявляет типологию и специфику визуальных маркеров urban imaginary российских городов, выполняющих роль символических медиаторов. Среди доминирующих в работе рассматриваются природные, символические, архитектурные, персонифицированные визуальные маркеры, которые могут принимать разную конфигурацию и по-разному структурировать urban imaginary. Результатом процесса визуализации urban imaginary, транслирующего коллективные представления о городе, становится городской образ. На основании утверждения символической и отчасти виртуальной природы urban imaginary подчёркивается, что процесс репрезентации города и его сконструированный образ сегодня нередко имеют больший вес по сравнению с тем, что представляет собой город на самом деле. Полученные результаты являются отправной точкой для дальнейших, в том числе прикладных, исследований urban imaginary. Они могут стать частью интеллектуального капитала, который может использоваться городскими элитами в символической борьбе городов за пространство и мобильные ресурсы, а также в решении проблем повышения конкурентоспособности российских городов.The article is devoted to the study of visual markers of urban imaginary, which provide the accumulation and representation of collective memories of the city, and structure the process of imagination of the city. The relevance of urban imaginary research is confirmed both by the increased scientific interest in the phenomena that symbolically and mentally determine urban reality, and by the episodic nature of urban imaginary research in Russia. Urban imaginary opens the possibility of an interdisciplinary view of the city as a global text, generated by the structuring of collective imagination and formed by the dynamics of urban meanings in time and space. The work focuses on the fact that people come into contact only with fragments of the city, and in the conditions of informatization, digitalization of reality, the city as a whole exists, first of all, in the imagination of people, which approximates and reduces the symbolic code of the city. The key thesis of the work is the statement that the most important symbolic representative, thanks to which urban imaginary is structured in a particular city, is visual markers of the urban imaginary, which have an exceptional imaginative and generating effect. The author addresses the process of urban imaginary construction, reveals the typology and specificity of Russian cities visual markers that act as symbolic mediators. The dominant markers considered in the article are natural, symbolic, architectural, personalized visual markers, which may have different configuration in each city and differently structure urban imaginary. The result of urban imaginary’s visualization process, which translates collective representations of the city, is an urban image. Based on the symbolic and partly virtual nature of urban imaginary, it is emphasized that the process of representation of the city and the constructed image today have more significance than the city really is. The results can be a starting point for the further urban imaginary research, including applied research. They are part of the intellectual capital that can be used by urban elites in the symbolic struggle of cities for space and mobile resources, as well as in solving the problems of increasing the competitiveness of Russian cities.

scholarly journals Performing the City’s Urban Imaginary – the New Taipei City Museum of Art

2017 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Birgit Mersmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Planning Strategy ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art ◽  
The City

Aspiring global cities, such as Taipei City in Taiwan, seek to accumulate cultural capital. For future-oriented local and global self-representation, they design cutting-edge contemporary museums. This paper analyzes the “urban imaginary” as constructed by new urban museumscapes. Choosing a case-study approach, it explores the embedding of a vanguard art museum project in Taiwan – the New Taipei City Museum of Art in Taipei – into long-term urban planning strategies. In order to understand the purpose and process of how the new museum of contemporary art. is devised as a public space of cultural self-representation and urban identity building, the study monitors the complete design process from the city government’s urban and institutional planning strategy to the architectural design. Evidence shows that the pathways of urban place-making for art and through art and design in Taipei are strongly determined by the historical role and current geopolitical repositioning of the city.

Remaking Beirut: Contesting Memory, Space, and the Urban Imaginary of Lebanese Youth

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Strategic Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Sites

Throughout the centuries Beirut has had an endless capacity for reinvention and transformation, a consequence of migration, conquest, trade, and internal conflict. the last three decades have witnessed the city center's violent self–destruction, its commercial resurrection, and most recently its national contestation, as oppositional political forces have sought to mobilize mass demonstrations and occupy strategic space. While research has been directed to the transformative processes and the principal actors involved, little attention has been given to how the next generation of Lebanese are negotiating Beirut's rehabilitation. This article seeks to address this lacuna, by exploring how postwar youth remember, imagine, and spatially encounter their city. How does Beirut's rebuilt urban landscape, with its remnants of war, sites of displacement, and transformed environs, affect and inform identity, social interaction, and perceptions of the past? Drawing on Henri Lefebvre's analysis of the social construction of space (perceived, conceived, and lived) and probing the inherent tensions within postwar youths’ encounters with history, memory, and heritage, the article presents a dynamic and complex urban imaginary of Beirut. An examination of key urban sites (Solidère's Down Town) and significant temporal moments (Independence Intifada) reveals three recurring tensions evident in Lebanese youth's engagement with their city: dislocation and liberation, spectacle and participant, pluralism and fracture. This article seeks to encourage wider discussion on the nature of postwar recovery and the construction of rehabilitated public space, amidst the backdrop of global consumerism and heritage campaigns.

Architecture and the Urban Life of Cairo

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Architectural Development ◽  
The City

When it comes to Cairo, there is a plethora of writing taking place amid its streets and alleyways. Trying to make sense of, and structure, such an immense output is quite a difficult task. However, this article aims to highlight some significant writings that would offer those interested in Cairo’s architecture an opportunity to learn more about the city and its built environment. My intent is also to expand the scope of the inquiry. Rather than simply focusing on specific buildings, I seek to include the broader urban context and also look at the socioeconomic conditions that gave rise to important structures. I start with a review of some major texts that have looked at the city from different perspectives and, in doing so, shed light on the city’s urban and architectural development. It is interesting to note that for the most part, authors in this section do not come from an architectural or urban-planning background. Instead they write from a historical, economic, and geographic perspective. Following this, I look at a variety of other sources and writings that have appeared in edited books and book chapters. I have also included journal articles, since they offer an in-depth examination of certain buildings and the city’s overall urban growth. In addition to writings about the city, I also sought to capture its “urban imaginary” (i.e., the extent to which its built environment has been represented by writers, filmmakers, and artists). To that end, a section is dedicated toward a review of key works and the extent to which they have shed valuable insights into Cairo’s past, present, and future. The city’s urban imaginary is also portrayed through the medium of film, which allows for a conveyance of a visual narrative that evokes the sight and sounds of the city. Here I review key articles discussing the representation of the city through cinema, which is then followed by a filmography of major movies released since the late 20th century. Last, I review online resources, offering researchers material about the city’s architecture and urban environment in the form of images, maps, and drawings, in addition to blogs discussing Cairo’s rich history as well as modern problems.

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