‘Managing’ Cape Town's street children/youth: the impact of the 2010 World Cup bid on street life in the city of Cape Town

2011 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine van Blerk
Author(s):  
Marta Iurevna Grigoryan ◽  
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Yulia Adolfovna Kosikova ◽  

This article discusses the results of marketing research of the market of public catering enterprises. In 2018, Russia was the mistress of the world championship on football. This event could not but affect the attendance of catering establishments in the cities hosting fans. Almost all restaurateurs agree on one thing - the championship had a great impact on business. On average, revenue growth in restaurants and bars in Moscow ranged from 10% on the outskirts of the city and up to 150% in the center. Beer sales have increased significantly. The staff has increased and improved qualitatively. This laid the Foundation for the further growth of the popularity of Russia, as satisfied customers will transmit positive information in their homeland, inviting more and more tourists to visit us.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 605-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Schlegel ◽  
Rebecca Pfitzner ◽  
Joerg Koenigstorfer

This study looks at the hosting of the 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup in Rio de Janeiro and, based on research drawing on environmental psychology and studies of liminality, hypothesizes that the perceived celebrative atmosphere in the city increases subjective well-being of host city residents (cariocas). Data were collected via in-person intercept surveys from 221 and 218 cariocas before and during the event, respectively. There was an increase in subjective well-being from before the event to during the event. The results of two-group path modeling revealed further that there was a positive impact of the perceived celebrative atmosphere in the host city on residents’ subjective well-being during the event; the effect was weaker (though still positive) for the time period when the event was not being hosted. Initiatives may build upon the atmospheric elements in a city to increase subjective well-being of residents, particularly in the context of event hosting.


ILUMINURAS ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anelise Gutterres

Esse ensaio apresenta a experiência do trabalho com redes de negociação e resistência em contextos urbanos.Partindo da disciplina antropológica e das pesquisas em torno do fenômeno da cidade é discutido a relevância das redes sociais para o fluxo de trocas - formador de vínculopolíticos e partidários - no estudo do impacto de eventos como a Copa do Mundo, em Porto Alegre.Palavras chave: Ritmos temporais e megaeventos. Sociabilidade. Rede política. Dinâmicas urbanas. The politics sociability in the cities of mega-events: Ethnography of social network in the context of Porto Alegre- RS Abstract This essay presents the experience of working with networks of negotiation and resistance in urban contexts.From within of anthropology and of the studies about the city is discussing the relevance ofsocial networks for the flow of exchange - moulder of political links andmembers of a paty - for the study of the impact of events like the World Cup in Porto Alegre.Keywords: Time rhythm and mega events. Sociability. Political networks. Urban dynamics.


Wajah Hukum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 467
Author(s):  
Dedy Syaputra ◽  
Sartika Lia Apriana

This phenomenon of street children in Jambi clearly proves a fact that the rights of children are not fulfilled by parents, society, or country.  On the other hand, the variety and types of unofficial professions and occupational sectors in the city make city life more diverse from the angle of the types of jobs available. This is one of the factors that makes each individual including the children who attend school even interested in making a living, and the more unique case is in cities, the type of pecerajan for the age of adolescence is also widely available. This is why street children are more common in the city than in the village. If carefully observed, the point where street children gather is very dangerous. In addition to disturbing the order and comfort of others, it can also harm itself and provide opportunities for acts of violence. Even street children themselves have the potential to become criminous such as compressing their friends or other weaker individuals, petty theft, and the use of even trafficking drugs that are classified as substances that are harmful to health. To approach this issue, researchers used a qualitative paradigm from a criminal perspective. The findings of the data search results in the field are obtained as follows: (1) The causative factor of the number of street children in Jambi city is due to the unmet physical and psychic needs of the child, then, because of the personal desire of the street children themselves and environmental factors. (2) The impact of criminal problems that can lead to criminal acts from the appearance of street children are: the emergence of new social problems, disruption of city order, and threatening the safety and security of the citizens of the surrounding communities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Vania Cynthia ◽  
Rahmadani Yusran

This study aims to analyze the evaluation of the Desaku Menanti Program in dealing with homeless people and beggars in the city of Padang. The basis for the implementation of the my village program is regulated in the Padang City Regional Regulation Number 1 of 2012 concerning Development of Street Children, Homeless People, Beggars, Singers and Street Vendors. The objectives of the village waiting program are 1) Improving people's ability to carry out their social functions properly in society. 2) Improve the ability of people and the social environment to solve social problems. 3) Improving people's social status and roles so that they can adapt to their environment. This program is an innovation of the programs for handling the homeless, beggars and street children that have been carried out, namely by focusing all services in the areas of origin of homeless people and beggars (village based). This research is a qualitative research using descriptive method. The research informants were determined by purposive sampling. Data collection techniques are carried out by conducting interviews, observations, and documentation studies and data reduction is carried out so that accurate conclusions can be drawn from the data that has been obtained. The results showed that the impact of the implementation of the Desaku Menanti program in dealing with homeless people and beggars in the city of Padang was not optimal. This is because the objectives of the Desaku Menanti program have not been achieved.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercy Magdalene Brown-Luthango

South Africa is experiencing a youth bulge, with much public debate about whether this spells success or disaster for the country’s future. Some of the critical debates highlighted in the literature on youth, centre on youth transitions to adulthood, socio-economic and spatial mobility linked to issues of identity, inclusion and citizenship as well as agency and negotiation of alternative transition pathways. This article explores some of these issues by tapping into the literature on youth transition pathways, and linking them to Castel’s notion of disaffiliation. The article argues that these sources of data allowed me to describe and make sense of the different dimensions of “stuckness” experienced by the youth, and of the impact that being stuck has on their sense of belonging, inclusion and notions of citizenship. I conducted interviews with 10 out-of-school, unemployed young people who reside in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. Participants were asked about their histories in the city, where they had lived, how they had ended up where they currently resided as well as their aspirations for their future, their neighbourhoods, the city and their country. The study’s findings were that short-term interventions might facilitate a slight shift in Castel’s continuum from disaffiliation to integration for at least some of the youth. However, in the long run, significant improvements in the education system, a restructuring of the economy to address unemployment, and a spatial reconfiguration of South African cities to reduce poverty and inequality will have a meaningful impact on the lives of young people in South Africa. These improvements must be accompanied by a broad range of social and cultural programmes, engaging youths from across different communities, in order to foster integration and social cohesion.


2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evinç Doğan ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci

This study examines the ways in which the city image of Istanbul is re-created through the mega-events within the context of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2010. Istanbul “took the stage” as one of the three ECoC cities (Essen for the Ruhr in Germany and Pécs in Hungary), where the urban spaces were projected as the theatre décor while residents and visitors became the spectators of the events. Organisers and agents of the ECoC 2010 seemed to rebrand Istanbul as a “world city” rather than a “European capital”. With a series of transnational connotations, this can be considered as part of an attempt to turn Istanbul to a global city. In this study we examine posters used during the ECoC 2010 to see whether this was evident in the promoted images of Istanbul. The research employs a hermeneutic approach in which representations, signs and language are the means of symbolic meaning, which is analysed through qualitative methods for the visual data (Visual Analysis Methods), namely Semiotics and Discourse Analysis. The analysed research material comes from a sample of posters released during the ECoC 2010 to promote 549 events throughout the year. Using stratified random sampling we have drawn 28 posters (5% of the total) reflecting the thematic groups of events in the ECoC 2010. Particular attention is also paid to the reflexivity of the researchers and researchers’ embeddedness to the object of research. The symbolic production and visual representation are therefore investigated firstly through the authoritative and historically constituted discourses in the making of Istanbul image and secondly through the orders of cultural consumption and mediatisation of culture through spectacular events. Hence enforcing a transnationalisation of the image of the city where the image appears to be almost stateless transcending the national boundaries. Findings and methodology used in this study can be useful in understanding similar cases and further research into the processes of city and place branding and image relationships. 


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
A. P. Korzh ◽  
T. V. Zahovalko

Recently, the number of published works devoted to the processes of synanthropization of fauna, is growing like an avalanche, which indicates the extreme urgency of this theme. In our view, the process of forming devices to coexist with human and the results of his life reflects the general tandency of the modern nature evolution. Urbanization is characteristic for such a specific group of animals like amphibians, the evidence of which are numerous literature data. Many researchers use this group to assess the bioindicative quality of the environment. For this aim a variety of indicators are used: from the cellular level of life of organization up to the species composition of the group in different territories. At the same time, the interpretation of the results is not always comparable for different areas and often have significantly different interpretations by experts. Urban environment, primarily due to the contamination is extremely aggressive to amphibians. As a consequence, the urban populations of amphibians may be a change in the demographic structure, affecting the reproductive ability of the population, the disappearance of the most sensitive species or individuals, resizing animals, the appearance of abnormalities in the development, etc. At the same time play an important amphibians in the ecosystems of cities, and some species in these conditions even feel relatively comfortable. Therefore, it is interesting to understand the mechanisms of self-sustaining populations of amphibians in urban environments. To assess the impact of natural and anthropogenic factors on the development of amphibian populations were used cognitive modeling using the program Vensim PLE. Cognitive map of the model for urban and suburban habitat conditions were the same. The differences concerned the strength of connections between individual factors (migration, fertility, pollution) and their orientation. In general, factors like pollution, parasites, predators had negative impact on the population, reducing its number. The birth rate, food and migration contributed to raising number of individuals. Some of the factors affected on the strength to of each other as well: the majority of the factors affected the structure of the population, had an influence on the fertility. Thanks to it the model reflects the additive effect of complex of factors on the subsequent status of the population. Proposed and analyzed four scenarios differing strength and duration of exposure. In the first scenario, a one-time contamination occurs and not subsequently repeated. The second and third scenario assumes half board contamination, 1 year (2 scenario) and two years (scenario 3). In the fourth scenario, the pollution affected the population of amphibians constantly. In accordance with the results of simulation, much weaker than the natural populations respond to pollution - have them as an intensive population growth and its disappearance at constant pollution is slow. Changes to other parameters of the model showed that this pollution is the decisive factor -only the constant action leads to a lethal outcome for the populations. All other components of the model have a corrective effect on the population dynamics, without changing its underlying trand. In urban areas due to the heavy impact of pollution maintaining the population is only possible thanks to the migration process – the constant replenishment of diminishing micropopulations of natural reserves. This confirms the assumption that the form of existence metapopulations lake frog in the city. In order to maintain the number of amphibians in urban areas at a high level it is necessary to maintain existing migration routes and the creation of new ones. Insular nature of the placement of suitable habitats in urban areas causes the metapopulation structure of the types of urbanists. Therefore, the process of urbanization is much easier for those species whicht are capable of migration in conditions of city. In the initial stages of settling the city micropopulationis formed by selective mortality of the most susceptible individuals to adverse effects. In future, maintaining the categories of individuals is provided mainly due to migration processes metapopulisation form of the species of existence is supported). It should be noted that the changes in the previous levels are always saved in future. In the case of reorganizations of individuals we of morphology can assume the existence of extremely adverse environmental conditions that threaten the extinction of the micropopulations. 


Author(s):  
Elizaveta Derevenets ◽  
Elizaveta Derevenets

Gelendzhik is the resort town, there aren't a lot of industrial enterprises here. The main pollutant is transport. The work purpose is the assessment of a condition of the artificial landings of a pine located along the Federal highway "Don" and landings, which is nearly the sea coast. Researches were conducted to a standard technique of the General vital state (A. S. Bogolyubov). The assessment of a condition of pines was carried out during 6 years: from 2010 to 2015. For carrying out research we used 6 experimental grounds on the Markotkhsky spine and 2 control grounds within the town. We investigated 24 trees on each platform, middle age of the trees were 30 - 40 years. Results. 1. The condition of trees in the pine forests located in immediate proximity with the Federal highway "Don" (No. 1, 2, 3) is unsatisfactory. As even weak influences of the majority of atmospheric gaseous pollutants (sulphurous gas, nitrogen oxides, etc.) give effect of a necrosis and hloroz of pine needles, the condition of pines is connected with technogenic pollution. So near the Federal highway "Don" the air environment is strongly polluted by exhaust gases. Information of 2012 confirm that negative influence of the route on Markotkh's vegetation decreases at reduction of load of the route. 2. On the sites located above on a slope (No. 4,5,6) thanks to remoteness and the wind mode intensity of influence of pollutants is lower and a condition of pines the quite satisfactory. 3. Trees on the sites located near the sea (No. 7,8) are in a good shape. Small deterioration of a state is noted in very droughty years. Conclusion. Results of six years' research show that the condition of the plantings which are in close proximity with the road worsens. It is explained by increase in intensity of the movement on the road, especially during a resort season. Gelendzhik is the city with a good ecological shape, but the damage to environment is already caused. If not to take measures, we can lose a unique part of the nature in the future, recreate it will be impossible. Measures of reduction of negative impact of exhaust gases were offered. Results of researches are transferred to ecological department of the City administration of Gelendzhik.


2019 ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Marianna Kokhan ◽  
Anastasiya Mazur

The article considers the concept of startups and ecosystems of startup development. It investigates the innovativeness ratings of countries and regional ecosystems of startups and the factors influencing the successful development of startups. The article considers the ranking of the best regional startup ecosystems in the world. It covers the experience of the leading regions, whose effectiveness is driven by attention to financing, networking, expanding access to markets, attracting and nurturing talents, accumulating experience and scientific development. Particular attention is given to the impact of the specialization and effectiveness of the regional focus strategy. Based on the methodology and results of the Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2019, authors have empirically investigated the startup ecosystem of the Lviv city. Authors described and systemized the startups operating in the city, the elements, and dynamics of the urban startup infrastructure. The preconditions for successful development of startups - financing, talents, experience, connectedness, access to markets - have been identified. The effectiveness of the activity of city authorities, the local policy of promoting the startup environment development - documents, measures and results – have been investigated. The main factors of Lviv’s regional leadership in the development of digital startups in Ukraine are: the dynamic development of the IT industry, the development of digital competencies and the concentration of talent in leading universities, the development of corporate universities and innovative infrastructure, the development of infrastructure and comfort in the city. For the development of the Lviv startup ecosystem, it is recommended to focus the efforts on further accumulation and transfer of experience, retention of talents, improvement of technology transfer systems, focusing on areas of exclusive competence while expanding access to finance and the global market.


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