scholarly journals Making the city through participatory video: implications for urban geography

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Christopher Yap
Keyword(s):  
Urban Geography ◽  
Participatory Video ◽  
The City

Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Asif Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
General Public ◽  
Early History ◽  
Physical Isolation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Camp System ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

Abstract This article recovers the early history of the Soviet ‘closed city’, towns that during the Cold War were absent from maps and unknown to the general public due to their involvement in weapons research. I argue that the closed cities echoed and appropriated features of the Stalinist Gulag camp system, principally their adoption of physical isolation and the language of obfuscation. In doing so, I highlight a process called ‘atomized urbanism’ that embodies the tension between the obdurate reality of the city and the goal of the state to obliterate that reality through secrecy. In spatial terms, ‘atomized’ also describes the urban geography of these cities which lacked any kind of organic suburban expansion.

The Urban Geography of Red Power: The American Indian Movement in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, 1968-70

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1241-1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce D'Arcus
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Red Power ◽  
American Indian Movement ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

Drawing on recent theories of citizenship that argue the city as the pre-eminent ‘difference machine’, this paper argues that it is also a crucial site for the production of resistance as a social identity and practice. This argument is presented through an analysis of an example from the ‘Red Power’ movement in the US in the 1960s and early 1970s. The paper examines how American Indian activism—while often dramatised in rural reservation locations and centred on rather grand abstractions quite far removed from typically urban concerns and politics—also has a profoundly urban historical geography.

scholarly journals Gênese e dimensões da rede de vilas e núcleos de ocupação na Bahia no setecentos

GeoTextos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Carlos Silveira Porto
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

A recomposição de uma geografia histórica tem sido feita por muitos pesquisadores no âmbito da ciência geográfica. Dentre os estudos realizados nessa perspectiva, aqueles voltados aos estudos urbanos são realizados com maior frequência, embora haja maior dificuldade à medida que se volta mais no tempo. O presente artigo é uma contribuição aos estudos da geografia urbana histórica na Bahia, cujo objetivo principal é discutir a formação de uma rede de assentamentos densa no setecentos, para além do Recôncavo Baiano. A consulta a relatos de viajantes, documentos estatísticos históricos, relatórios dos presidentes da província da Bahia e mapas históricos auxiliou na recomposição dessa rede pretérita, além do acesso a livros, artigos, dissertações e teses que dispunham de informações sobre o quadro demográfico, econômico e social da província da Bahia. As condições naturais, a presença da monarquia lusitana e da Igreja, a existência de caminhos, bem como a dinâmica populacional e econômica evidenciam o processo de formação dessa rede no período da mineração dos sertões baianos, tendo sido Rio de Contas e Jacobina nós dessa incipiente rede. Abstract GENESIS AND DIMENSIONS OF THE NETWORK OF VILLAGES AND NUCLEI OF SETTLEMENTS IN BAHIA IN THE 1700s The reconstitution of a historical geography has been done by many researchers within geographical science. Among the studies conducted with this approach, those aimed at urban studies are conducted with a frequent scope, although there are more difficulties as they go back further in time. The present article is a contribution to the studies of historical urban geography in Bahia, and its main purpose is to discuss the formation of a dense settlements network in the 1700s, beyond the Recôncavo Baiano, the region surrounding the city of Salvador and Todos os Santos Bay. The investigation of travel memoirs, historical statistics, Bahia Provincial Presidential Reports and historical maps, as well as books, articles, dissertation and theses that provided an overview of the demographic, economic and social situation in the Province of Bahia, aided to reconstitute this bygone network. Natural conditions, the presence of Lusitanian Monarchy and the Church, the existence of paths, and also population and economic dynamics are evidence of the process of formation of this network in the mining period in the backcountry of Bahia, in which Rio de Contas and Jacobina were important villages in this incipient network.

scholarly journals Geographical Analysis of Ruralization Phenomenon in Rania City and Impact on Their Urban Enviroment

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-109
Author(s):  
Bestun Ahmed Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Infrastructure Services ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Ideal

Ruralization of Urban areas is one of the most important topics of Urban Geography as it is one of the issues of urban areas and a major contributor to other urban issues; therefore, researchers need to look at this issue with caution. Ranya city has experienced this issue to a great extent mostly due to population growth and urban expansion. Ruralization has caused major issues such as infrastructure issues in terms of education, health, transportation and increased crime rates in different parts of the city. This research addresses this issue and aims to investigate the causes and characteristics of ruralization in Ranya city. This effort will help the local government to look for solution to address this issue. This research has used descriptive and analytical methods.The research concludes that ruralization has caused some drastic consequences when it comes to providing and delivering different public and infrastructure services. The paper recommends to authorities that preparing a master plan for the city would be the ideal resolution for this issue and other issues in the city.

scholarly journals Mooring in the Homeless City. A Practice Theoretical Account of Homeless Urban Dwelling and Emplacement

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-75
Author(s):  
Natalia Martini
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Theoretical Account ◽  
The City

Taking a practice theoretical approach and building on the research conducted with a group of people who live their lives on the streets of two Polish cities, this paper provides an account of the homeless city dwellers’ mode of emplacement. It offers the terms licensed, invisible, motile, material, relational, affective, and ad hoc mooring to describe how homeless people establish a place of and for various activities that make up their everyday practice of inhabiting the city. While highlighting the accomplishments of homeless places, the paper also underscores their tentativeness and instability. It situates the homeless mode of emplacement within a wider landscape of normative urban geography, against which the ways homeless people establish themselves in place are often judged out-of-place. It attends to the role that this transgressive potential plays in limiting homeless dwellers’ capabilities for mooring and considers how they might be enhanced.

scholarly journals Se nos ha ido, como el rayo, Luz Marina.

2021 ◽  
pp. 353-358
Author(s):  
Antonio García García ◽  
Juan Francisco Ojeda Rivera ◽  
Francisco José Torres Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Geography ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Luz Marina García Herrera, professor at the University of La Laguna, colleague, teacher and friend, passed away in June 2020. A reference in Spanish Urban Geography, her contribution to the debate on the shaping of the city and the social dynamics inherent to it has opened up timely and necessary lines of work. She anchors her background in the interpretation of urban social processes under capitalism, focusing on key issues such as marginal developments, gentrification mechanisms or different facets of urban segregation. In addition she also approaches other issues in which we have been able to share time and space with her. Among them the constant and changing conditioning between physical and social environments in the city and consequences, or the reading of public spaces, their use and appropriation keys, as an indicator of cohesion as well as an instrument for the transformation of specific realities. All of this, and even more his commitment and his profound humanity, which we are proud to have learned from, motivate these lines.

scholarly journals Gênese da geografia urbana no Brasil: A contribuição de grupos de pesquisa da Bahia

GeoTextos ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Auxiliadora da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Geography ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Regional Geography ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

O texto apresenta um panorama do desenvolvimento das pesquisas em Geografia na Bahia, pontuando a influência de Milton Santos nesse processo, até a atualidade. Destaca a importância da criação do Laboratório de Geomorfologia e Estudos Regionais da Universidade da Bahia, que, com a participação de vários professores convidados do Brasil e do exterior, foi responsável pela formação de uma geração de pesquisadores, promovendo uma renovação teórica e metodológica nos estudos de Geografia. Focaliza ainda a criação do curso de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, o que veio a ser um grande incentivo para a pesquisa. Enumera e comenta os principais temas e trabalhos produzidos, com destaque para os focos na geografia regional e na geografia urbana, que focalizam o Sertão da Bahia, o semiárido, o Recôncavo, e a cidade de Salvador, seus bairros, seu entorno, sua vida cultural e suas novas centralidades. Abstract GENESIS OF URBAN GEOGRAPHY IN BRAZIL: THE CONTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH GROUPS OF BAHIA This text presents a panorama of development of the geographic researches in Bahia till the present days, focuses on the Milton Santos’s influence in this process. Highlights the importance of creation of the Geomorphology and Regional Studies Laboratory at the University of Bahia which was responsible for the formation of a generation of researchers, promoting the theoretical and methodological renovation of the Geographic studies, with the participation of many invited professors from Brazil and abroad. Focuses more on the creation of Postgraduate Geography courses what became an immense incentive for research. Lists and comments the main subjects and works produced, highlighting the Regional Geography and Urban Geography, which focalize on the Bahia Dryland, the Semiarid, the “Recôncavo”, the city of Salvador and its neighborhoods, environment, cultural life and new centralities.

Urban political ecology III

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Heynen
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Urban Political Ecology ◽  
Feminist Political Ecology ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The City ◽  
Queer Ecology

Given the ongoing importance of nature in the city, better grappling with the gendering and queering of urban political ecology offers important insights that collectively provides important political possibilities. The cross-currents of feminist political ecology, queer ecology, queer urbanism and more general contributions to feminist urban geography create critical opportunities to expand UPE’s horizons toward more egalitarian and praxis-centered prospects. These intellectual threads in conversation with the broader Marxist roots of UPE, and other second-generation variants, including what I have previously called abolition ecology, combine to at once show the ongoing promises of heterodox UPE and at the same time contribute more broadly beyond the realm of UPE.

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