scholarly journals The Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum: Urban Planners, Property Developers and Fractious Left Politics in West Berlin, 1963–1974*

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Tim Verlaan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
West Berlin ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
Mainstream Press

Abstract During the early 1960s, elected officials and urban planners designated large swathes of West Berlin as redevelopment areas, most notably the district of Kreuzberg SO36. With the help of private developers, an underexamined group of stakeholders in urban planning, local residents were to be rehoused in spacious apartment blocks equipped with modern facilities. The construction history of the Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum housing complex is a classic yet understudied example of how public and private actors attempted to work together in the field of postwar urban planning. Soon after the plan was publicly announced, the public consensus on urban redevelopment altered. Criticism came from young professionals in the field of architecture and planning as well as neighbourhood action groups, who were eventually followed by public officials. This article investigates how and why the mood changed inside and outside the field of West German architecture and urban planning. Current historiography tends to neglect the role of private entrepreneurs in urban redevelopment efforts. By examining the politics leading up to the construction of the Neues Kreuzberger Zentrum, this article sheds a fresh light on the modus operandi of the West German welfare state on the local level and how it responded to bottom-up demands for democratization and transparency. The interaction between local authorities, commercial interests and the public is innovatively brought together into a single analytical framework by consulting a wide array of primary sources, most prominently articles by West Berlin’s alternative and mainstream press, architecture and planning journals and minutes from official meetings.

Political transparency matters: Citizens challenging officials via ‘have you planned X’-type questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-535
Author(s):  
Nynke van Schepen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Public

This article examines how citizens, invited to ask questions in public plenary consultation meetings within a participatory democracy procedure in urban planning in France, point at something that has not been mentioned in the public debate, thereby challenging the recipient. More specifically, this article is interested in studying, deploying the analytical framework offered by Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, a particular French linguistic turn design adopted by the citizens: variations of ‘have you planned X?’. These interrogatives are concerned with an aspect of the procedure the citizens present as relevant, but which has not been mentioned by the professionals. By adopting a turn format that requests confirmation, citizens display caution to not attribute blame overtly to the recipient for this perceived lack. At the same time, these questions make visible how citizens orient to public and political transparency as a social and political standard the recipients are obliged to uphold.

Ensuring that Others Behave Responsibly

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Mawhinney ◽  
Iorwerth Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Complex Landscape

Governance produces a complex landscape of public power that state authorities have to take account of when discharging their duties under international human rights law. A traditional model of human rights law views the state as the primary duty-holder. However, to restrict the reach of human rights law to actions carried out by state bodies is extremely problematic in a context where the private and voluntary sectors are involved in service delivery and the boundary between the public and private is hazy. This article examines the approaches taken by international and domestic human rights law to the question of the applicability of human rights law. In this examination it draws upon the recent work of Anthony Giddens as a means of illustrating the socio-political context in which human rights law must now be implemented. The article argues that an understanding of Giddens’ evolving conception of the modern state is instructive in posing questions on the appropriate response of human rights law to governance. An analytical framework comprising three possible approaches – institutional, functional or regulatory – is put forward. The article argues that the shift to what Giddens calls the ‘ensuring’ state ought to entail a corresponding shift to a ‘regulatory approach’ in the interpretation of human rights obligations.

scholarly journals Micro Nudges: A Systems Approach to Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 593-596
Author(s):  
Dan Buettner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Population Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Improve Health

The secret to longevity and healthier communities lies in a systems-level lifestyle-based approach. There are currently 5 regions across the world where people live relatively longer, healthier, and happier lives. Taking lessons from these areas, dubbed “blue zones,” we can help improve health and wellness at the population level. There are already cases of these Blue Zones Projects implemented in communities across the United States, which have had demonstrable, positive impacts on public health. Collaboration between the public and private sectors at the local level can make these changes to improve lifestyles and reduce the burden of chronic diseases on the healthcare system.

scholarly journals Private and public schools: A spatial analysis of social segregation in France

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Courtioux ◽  
Tristan-Pierre Maury
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Index ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Private And Public

This article shifts our understanding of the geographies of education away from large cities. It provides a geographical and urban analysis of the contribution of differences in enrolment between the public and private sectors to social segregation in French middle schools. Using the mutual information index, we show that the contribution of public/private divergences is rising and is higher in middle-sized urban areas and central municipalities. These geographical areas, however, are not those where social segregation is highest, nor those where the private sector is commonly regarded as the main cause of segregation. Moreover, the gaps between the public and the private sectors are stronger at the local level. This confirms the idea that the private sector is indeed a tool for circumventing France’s School Map ( la Carte scolaire) for allocating places to pupils and that private schools create additional social differences locally.

scholarly journals Fresh Water in Roman Law: Rights and Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 60-89
Author(s):  
Cynthia Bannon
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Water Administration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Withdrawal Management

ABSTRACTFresh water came from a variety of sources, streams and springs as well as aqueducts. Much of the Roman law on fresh water concerns its supply, regulating rights to use it with a variety of legal institutions from public and private law (e.g. ownership, servitudes, interdicts). The study of fresh water has usually followed the legal categories, segregating the public water supply from water that was private property, and consequently segregating different types of evidence. In this paper varied evidence is analysed using the ‘bundle’ approach, an analytical framework from legal scholarship on rights in the environment, in which water rights are not monolithic but are represented by component rights, including rights of access, withdrawal, management, exclusion and alienation. Analysing component rights in fresh water reveals significant continuities in the Romans' regulation of it and the impact of this regulation. Although there was no centralized water administration in the early Empire, Romans took a systematic approach to regulating fresh water based on consistent working principles and policy priorities.

scholarly journals The Innovative Trends in Architecture and Urban Planning of Health Care Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-323
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Medical Organization ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Public ◽  
Healthcare Network ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
Demographic Features

The article depicts and systematizes innovative global trends in the field of architecture and urban planning of healthcare institutions taking as the example leading countries in the field of healthcare (Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates). The territorial, administrative and demographic features that significantly affect the formation and functioning of the architecture and urban planning network of medical institutions are analyzed. The features, indicators, and structure of the public and private sectors of the medical organization of the listed countries are examined in detail. The main innovative trends in the architecture and urban planning of the healthcare network that put the considered countries on the top of the world leaders in the efficiency of healthcare organization rapidly are identified. The trends are considered in urban planning, architecture, medical, economic, environmental, technological and innovative aspects.

Urban planning decisions: an evaluation support model for natural soil surface saving policies and the enhancement of properties in disuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 699-723
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Morano ◽  
Francesco Tajani ◽  
Debora Anelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Natural Soil ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Support Model

PurposeThe present research aims to develop and test an evaluation support model for decisions alert soil surface saving to be used in the redevelopment of abandoned and degraded properties through involvement of private developers.Design/methodology/approachAdapting operations research principles to the public–private partnership features that are typical of urban planning issues, the model pursues a complex objective function, that concerns urban parameters to be attributed to properties to be recovered. An elaboration of a Pareto-optimal frontier has defined possible scenarios for different trends of the variables under consideration.FindingsThe efficiency of the model is verified through application to a real case study concerning urban renewal of a property in disuse located in a city in Southern Italy. The outputs confirm the potentialities and flexibility of the proposed model to support urban planning decisions by improving the implementation of conservation policies, in terms of a reduced impact of urban transformation projects on the available natural land surface.Practical implicationsDepending on the objectives of public sector, the model can generate a range of urban parameter combinations to be attributed to the recovered properties to achieve low consumption of natural surfaces, with bargaining between the public and private sectors around these parameters. The model can also be used in the initial phases of the renewal initiative, when it is necessary to define the costs and the revenues involved or to assess alternative solutions capable of reducing impacts on the environment.Originality/valueThe model can be applied to identify the appropriate rewards in a project that can stimulate the private developers to realize further public infrastructures and services than minimum quantities established by the current local urban regulations. In this sense, the model represents an original scientific reference in the current strategies promoted by the European Union for achievement of a “no net land take” by 2050, aimed at reducing natural surface occupied by buildings and roads.

Liberalism in the Postwar City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizabeth Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Power ◽  
Shifting Balance ◽  
Building Project

This chapter explores how the postwar reality is complicated, and a major aspect of that complexity was the different balance, in different places and moments of time, between public and private power and resources. Although there was little escaping the necessity of involving private investment in urban redevelopment, the authority of the public realm over private sector activity varied and made a difference. The chapter follows the evolution of the liberal city-building project over the postwar period, with particular attention to the shifting balance of power between the public and private realms, its implications, and, through this case, the historical evolution of postwar liberalism.

CONSUMO DE ALIMENTOS PROCESSADOS E ULTRAPROCESSADOS POR ESCOLARES DE ARROIO DO TIGRE, RS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-164
Author(s):  
Rubiane Inara Wagner ◽  
Patrícia Molz ◽  
Camila Schreiner Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Private School ◽  
Food Habits ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cereal Bars

O objetivo deste estudo foi comparar a frequência do consumo de alimentos processados e ultraprocessados e verificar a associação entre estado nutricional por adolescentes do ensino público e privado do município de Arroio do Tigre, RS. Trata-se de um estudo transversal realizado com adolescentes, com idade entre 10 e 15 anos, de uma escola pública e uma privada de Arroio do Tigre, RS. O estado nutricional foi avaliado pelo índice de massa corporal. Aplicou-se um questionário de frequência alimentar contendo alimentos processados e ultraprocessados. A amostra foi composta por 64 adolescentes com idade média de 12,03±1,15 anos, sendo 53,1% da escola pública. A maioria dos adolescentes encontravam-se eutróficos (p=0,343), e quando comparado com o consumo de alimentos processados e ultraprocessados, a maioria dos escolares eutróficos relataram maior frequência no consumo de balas e chicletes (50,0%) e barra de cereais (51,0%), de 1 a 3 vezes por semana (p=0,004; p=0,029, respectivamente). Houve também uma maior frequência de consumo de alimentos processados e ultraprocessados como pizza (73,5%; p0,001), refrigerante (58,8%; p=0,036) e biscoito recheado (58,8%; p=0,008) entre 1 a 3 vezes por semana na escola pública em comparação a escola privada. O consumo de suco de pacote (p=0,013) foi relatado não ser consumido pela maioria dos alunos da escola particular em comparação a escola pública. Os dados encontrados evidenciam um consumo expressivo de alimentos processados e ultraprocessados pelos adolescentes de ambas as escolas, destacando alimentos com alto teor de açúcar e sódio.Palavras-chave: Hábitos alimentares. Adolescentes. Alimentos industrializados. ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to compare the frequency of consumption of processed and ultraprocessed foods and to verify the association between nutritional status by adolescents from public and private schools in the municipality of Arroio do Tigre, RS. This was a cross-sectional study conducted with adolescents, aged 10 to 15 years, from a public school and a private school in Arroio do Tigre, RS. Nutritional status was assessed by body mass index. A food frequency questionnaire containing processed and ultraprocessed foods was applied. The sample consisted of 64 adolescents with a mean age of 12.03±1.15 years, 53.1% of the public school. Most of the adolescents were eutrophic (p=0.343), and when compared to the consumption of processed and ultraprocessed foods, most eutrophic schoolchildren reported a higher frequency of bullets and chewing gum (50.0%) and cereal bars (51.0%), 1 to 3 times per week (p=0.004, p=0.029, respectively). There was also a higher frequency of consumption of processed and ultraprocessed foods such as pizza (73.5%, p0.001), refrigerant (58.8%, p=0.036) and stuffed biscuit (58.8%, p=0.008) between 1 to 3 times a week in public school compared to private school. Consumption of packet juice (p=0.013) was reported not to be consumed by the majority of private school students compared to public school. Conclusion: The data found evidenced an expressive consumption of processed and ultraprocessed foods by the adolescents of both schools, highlighting foods with high sugar and sodium content.Keywords: Food Habits. Adolescents. Industrialized Foods.

Listening for the “Still Small Voice” of Mendelssohn’s Domestic Elijah

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-77
Author(s):  
Peter Mercer-Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Second Phase ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Will To Live ◽  
Three Phases

The notion that there might be autobiographical, or personally confessional, registers at work in Mendelssohn’s 1846 Elijah has long been established, with three interpretive approaches prevailing: the first, famously advanced by Prince Albert, compares Mendelssohn’s own artistic achievements with Elijah’s prophetic ones; the second, in Eric Werner’s dramatic formulation, discerns in the aria “It is enough” a confession of Mendelssohn’s own “weakening will to live”; the third portrays Elijah as a testimonial on Mendelssohn’s relationship to the Judaism of his birth and/or to the Christianity of his youth and adulthood. This article explores a fourth, essentially untested, interpretive approach: the possibility that Mendelssohn crafts from Elijah’s story a heartfelt affirmation of domesticity, an expression of his growing fascination with retiring to a quiet existence in the bosom of his family. The argument unfolds in three phases. In the first, the focus is on that climactic passage in Elijah’s Second Part in which God is revealed to the prophet in the “still small voice.” The turn from divine absence to divine presence is articulated through two clear and powerful recollections of music that Elijah had sung in the oratorio’s First Part, a move that has the potential to reconfigure our evaluation of his role in the public and private spheres in those earlier passages. The second phase turns to Elijah’s own brief sojourn into the domestic realm, the widow’s scene, paying particular attention to the motivations that may have underlain the substantial revisions to the scene that took place between the Birmingham premiere and the London premiere the following year. The final phase explores the possibility that the widow and her son, the “surrogate family” in the oratorio, do not disappear after the widow’s scene, but linger on as “para-characters” with crucial roles in the unfolding drama.

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