Producing Urban Space

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-112
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Village Level ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This chapter analyses the efforts to make Dimapur more city-like. Beginning with attempts to hold municipal elections with reserved seats for women in 2017, we navigate the deeply contentious politics around the classification and re-classification of space in the city. As the largest city in a tribal state, Dimapur is an experiment in the production of legible urban space in areas with customary law and constitutional protection. At present the experiment is provoking deep anxieties. Producing legible urban space from the collection of settlements, villages, barracks, commercial zones, ceasefire camps, encroached tracts, and wastelands under various socio-legal regimes is rarely coherent and often chaotic. We argue that the city is a space to challenge and transgress customary law in ways unthinkable at the village level. However, transgression was a catalyst for crisis, a scenario likely to remain constant in urban politics for the conceivable future.

Analysis of the Cadastral Assessment of Lands, Taking into Account Zoning of Lands at a Prestige in Krasnoyarsk

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Ruslan V. Romanov ◽  
Gennady S. Varaksin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Individual Housing ◽  
The City ◽  
The Prestige

The analysis of the state cadastral assessment of land based on the data of zoning of lands according to their prestige in the city of Krasnoyarsk. The need for assessing the prestige of territories of settlements is stated. On the territory of Krasnoyarsk, 3 zones were conditionally allocated in different districts of the city, where plots intended for the construction of individual residential buildings are located. The main parameters of the cadastral assessment of the lands of such territories are considered. A list of parameters is outlined by which the prestige of individual housing construction lands is estimated. The prestige of each zone is determined. Four indicators are identified that form the prestige of the zones in the cadastral assessment of land. The parameters that determine the level of land value depending on their prestige are identified. A tendency has been established to determine the prestige of zones as a result of the classification of the population of these zones by income level and the desire to live on this territory of people of equal social status. The territory of urban space must be divided into zones, according to the criteria of prestige. A comparison is made between the market and cadastral value of land plots. The comparative analysis method revealed that in the most prestigious areas of urban space, the market value of individual housing construction sites exceeds the cadastral value several times. Conclusions are drawn about the dependence of the price of land for individual housing construction on the level of prestige of the territory of urban space and location.

scholarly journals Urban motives in the work of Gregory Kvitka-Osnovyanenko

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The paper contains the analysis of the system of urban images and motifs in the writings by Hryhory Kvitka-Osnovyanenko. It is commonly thought that the urbanism in the Ukrainian literature is synonymous with modernity, in contrast to the 19th century rusticism. However, the city in the previous epochs was already the surrounding for the development of the cultural industry. The analysis of the prose written by H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko using urban studies shows a significant artistic level of understanding urban life as a mental image and as a social practice. The researchers of H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko’s prose since the nineteenth century considered as the most important contribution his innovative for the Ukrainian literature idea to introduce a rural topic and depict the characters – natives from the village – not in the Burlesque register, as it was practiced before, but using means of a high poetic style. However, H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko described not only rural life, but also the everyday life of inhabitants of cities and towns, their social practices and the constants of the urban imaginary. It is worth speaking about the reception of the baroque images of urban space in the prose of H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, especially the city as the embodiment of New Jerusalem («Kozyr-divka»); the urban topography of the hell («Ot tobi y skarb»), the travesty of constant monives in the description of the city («Konotopska widma»). In addition, the ideas of H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko concerning the urban life were embodied in the writings of the next generation of romantic writers and realists – in particular, the opposition of the village as traditional space and the city as an assimilative one. The author examines several scenarios of self-realization of peasant characters in the city – from the successful realization of their plans to moral decline. H. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko points to different points of view, avoiding a strictly positive or negative attitude towards urban space.

scholarly journals DP 0257 - International City’s Networks and Diplomacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-60
Author(s):  
Renato Balbim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
World Order ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Database Research ◽  
City Network ◽  
The City

The internationalization of cities and the constitution of a new international space of power involves a much more expressive number of cities than the usual global cities. Nowadays, dozens of international organizations are composed of regional capitals, medium, and even small cities. With diverse agendas and their own strategies of action, those organizations seek to interfere in global processes and negotiate with large corporations, multilateral organizations, and nation-states. Historically, the internationalization of cities carries strategic values such as peace, culture, and sustainability, among others discussed in this paper. More recently, the notion of the city as merchandise explains this process. Urban requalification and urban space commoditization are treated here under the conception of rugosities (Ribeiro, 2012), local and global rationality (Santos, 1995), and creative destruction (Brenner and Theodore, 2002). By hypothesis, I affirm that city internationalization is directly related to the democratic environment, degree of social participation, and local government’s autonomy. The magnitude of this process is measured confronting original database research to secondary sources and illustrated using the Brazilian scenario. Additionally, a theoretical discussion proposes an innovative classification of those networks according to their constitution, composition, agendas, and spatialization. The characteristics, agents, and means of city diplomacy are debated, and the adequacy of other terms (paradiplomacy, federative diplomacy, and metrodiplomacy). In conclusion, it summarizes notes and indications of further research aiming to deepen the knowledge about this new and important agent of the world order, the city network.

scholarly journals Preserving the (right kind of) city: The urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2163-2180
Author(s):  
Mara Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Since re-democratisation, Brazil has experienced a slow but continuous process of urban reform, with the introduction of legal and institutional developments that favour participatory democracy in urban policy. Legal innovations such as the City Statute have been celebrated for expanding the ‘right to the city’ to marginalised populations. While most studies examine the struggles of the urban poor, I focus on middle-class citizens, showing how such legal developments have unevenly affected the ways in which different social groups are able to impact the production of urban space. The two cases explored in this study concern residents’ struggles to preserve their middle-class neighbourhoods against change triggered by projects related to the hosting of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The first looks at the Musas Street residents’ fight against the construction of a luxury hotel in their neighbourhood, while the second examines the Pampulha residents’ struggle against the presence of street vendors and football fans in their streets. My findings show that through the articulation of legal discourses, middle-class claims on the need for preserving the environment and the city’s cultural heritage are legitimised by the actions of the local state. The article thus looks beyond neoliberalism, showing that socio-spatial segregation and inequality should not be regarded solely as the product of state–capital alliances for engendering capital accumulation through spatial restructuring, but also as the result of the uneven capacities of those living in the city to access the state resources and legitimise certain forms of inhabitance of urban space.

scholarly journals O ESTADO BRASILEIRO E A POLÍTICA URBANA:

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Joabio Alekson Cortez Costa ◽  
Júlia Diniz de Oliveira ◽  
Raimundo Nonato Junior
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Basic Sanitation ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

RESUMO   No Brasil, verifica-se um crescimento populacional nas cidades, aumento da demanda por moradia, emprego, serviços de saúde, educação, saneamento básico e lazer. Dadas as limitações econômicas e a própria incapacidade das gestões municipais em lidar com essas questões, observa-se um agravamento dos problemas sociais e ambientais, com repercussões diretas na qualidade de vida da população, sobretudo, daquela parcela menos abastada. Diante disso, políticas urbanas foram adotadas pelo Estado brasileiro no intuito de orientar o desenvolvimento urbano do país. Sob este prima, o presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar algumas reflexões sobre a efetividade do Estatuto da Cidade (2001). Para tanto, inicialmente, discute-se a produção do espaço urbano e os agentes de sua produção, tomando por base as obras de Carlos (2008, 2011) e Corrêa (1989, 2011), em seguida, aborda-se a trajetória da Política Urbana no Brasil, e a exposição de algumas críticas direcionadas ao Estatuto da Cidade e o plano diretor, tendo como referência os escritos de Souza (2010) e Maricato (2001). Ao final, conclui-se que, apesar dos avanços e inovações presentes na nova lei, principalmente no que se referem à gestão democrática da cidade, questões essenciais como a permanência da estrutura fundiária e o combate à especulação imobiliária continuam irresolutas e constituem entraves ao desenvolvimento urbano justo e igualitário.   Palavras-chave: Produção do espaço. Agentes de produção. Política urbana. Estatuto da cidade. Plano diretor.   ABSTRACT   In Brazil, it turns out a population growth in cities, increasing demand for housing, employment, health services, education, basic sanitation and leisure. Given the economic limitations and the municipal administrations own inability to deal with those issues, it’s observed an aggravation of social and environmental problems, with direct repercussions on the population’s life quality, especially of that less wealthy portion. Given that, urban policies were adopted by the Brazilian State in order to guide the country urban development. Under this concept, this article aims to present some reflections on the City Statute (2001) effectiveness. To do so, initially discusses the urban space production and the agents of its production, based on Carlos’ (2008, 2011) and Corrêa’s (1989, 2011) works, then it approaches the Brazil Urban Politics trajectory, and the exposition of some criticisms directed to the City Statute and the master plan, having as reference the writings of Souza (2010) and Maricato (2001). In the end, it is concluded that, despite the advances and innovations present in the new law, especially regarding the city democratic management, essential issues such as the land structure permanence and the fight against real estate speculation remain unresolved and constitute obstacles to the fair and equitable urban development.   Keywords: Space production. Production agents. Urban policy.  City statute. Master plan.

Potential classification of Smart Village – Smart Economy with Deep Learning methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Runanto Runanto ◽  
Muhammad Fahmi Mislahudin ◽  
Fauzan Azmi Alfiansyah ◽  
Maudy Khairunnisa Maisun Taqiyyah ◽  
Eneng Tita Tosida
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Development Program ◽  
City Development ◽  
Target Class ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

Development gap in the city and village is still happening on Indonesia. It happened because of the massive urbanization factors. Poverty in the Indonesian villages are relatively higher than on the urbans. In order to reach the maximal city development, Ministry of Village, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration of Indonesia created a sustainable village development program namely Village’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and optimized the village potential data. This study aimed to design the smart village – smart economy classification system by using deep learning methods on village potential data on Indonesia at 2020. The method used in this study is data mining processes namely KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data mining). The result in this study showed the best models were obtained which consisting of 2 hidden layers and each layer is 128, 128 layers which using target class from the process of calculating the score is able to reach 94.93% of the accuracy from the training process and 96% on the testing process and succeeded to classify the potentials of smart village – smart economy.

scholarly journals The socialities of everyday urban walking and the ‘right to the city’

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This paper explores the socialities of everyday urban walking. The paper begins from the starting contention that a wide range of social and cultural theory, urban planning and transport literatures position walking as a practice that unproblematically encourages ‘social mixing’, ‘community cohesion’ and ‘social interaction’. Through the analysis of in-depth interview and diary data from research on urban walking in London, this paper engages with a series of underexamined questions. What, for example, is the nature of social interactions on foot? Who are they with, what initiates them and how do they unfold? How do these interactions relate to how we understand the relationship between walking and urban space? Attention is drawn to verbal and non-verbal interactions of strangers as they walk and to the significance of the practical accomplishment of walking together. However, an examination of the discursive organisation of diary and interview data extends existing work concerning the practical organisation of everyday pedestrian mobilities by considering the significance of participants’ accounts of their walking experiences. This analytic move foregrounds a counterposition to dominant discourses surrounding everyday walking practices that is situated in the context of broader concerns with everyday urban politics and the ‘right to the city’. This approach contributes to a clearer engagement with the socialities of urban walking whilst raising important questions concerning the ways in which particular walking discourses inform urban scholarship. The paper concludes that in the promotion of walking as a form of low-carbon active travel greater account should be taken of pedestrian encounters.

Spaces of the City

Global Cities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gottlieb ◽  
Simon Ng
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The chapter analyzes and compares the different uses of urban space – whether public space, open space, or privatized space -- in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. It contrasts the modernist spatial strategies that cater to the automobile and traffic flow and the desire for speed with an alternative view about a more walkable, bikeable, and transit friendly urban environment. It compares the immigrant and different ethnic experiences – a Latino immigrant urbanism in Los Angeles, elderly women dancing in the streets of the city in China, or the immigrant communities constructed in the village-in-the-city enclaves in places like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It describes the rise of the gated communities in all three places in contrast to the growing advocacy around the right to the city for everyone.

scholarly journals Inspection problems of rural stone churches

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 74-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Igorevna Cherkasova ◽  
Aleksandr Glebovich Paushkin ◽  
German Valer’evich Alekseev
Keyword(s):  
Rural Churches ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Emergency Condition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The authors describe the reasons for the destruction and the difficult process of restoring old stone churches built before 1917. The article notes the difference between these processes in the village and in the city. In the villages a large number of churches are in emergency condition, but continue to be operated as intended, i.e. for divine service. The article gives the classification of the causes for the destruction process of old rural churches. At the present time old temples usually destruct due to the lack of timely rehabilitation works. Recovery is hindered by the high cost of a comprehensive inspection and restoration. The work can be greatly reduced if the goal is not restoration, but conservation and prevention of an emergency condition. The authors come to the conclusion that the survey of rural churches as opposed to urban ones has the main goals: to determine the state category, to provide space in which the religious services may be held, for example, in the summer, and to provide materials for preservation of the part of the building, the operation of which is impossible. The problems of preservation of the architectural decor and restoration of items are not considered in such an inspection. Such a survey can be called “Express survey”. Express survey is conducted for a short time with a small group of specialists. The examination includes visual examination, thorough photographic images, study of the geological history of the area, interviews with the residents, description of the defects, which reduce the reliability of the building, recommendations for the strengthening of structures, conservation and monitoring frequencies. The works on measurement and determination of the strength of materials must be minimized. For more efficient operation, it is proposed to amend the regulations or create a separate document in addition to the known norms regulating the work using a rapid survey.

scholarly journals Urban Renewal Design-A Probe into the Reconstruction Mode of Urban Villages in Xi’an

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojie Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Future ◽  
Reconstruction Mode ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Villages

Theproblemofvillagesinthecityisaproblemleftoverbythehistoryofdifferentstages of urban development.Itislikeapieceof” urban psoriasis”that affects the construction of the future city. How to explore a reasonable urban village reconstruction mode is of great significance for the future development of the city. In this paper, based on the investigation and analysis of the existing urban village construction environment in Xi’an, the author proposes the imagination of future living space mode of the village in the city, and explores how to transform the existing construction environment space of thevillageinXi’anCitytoreconstructthenewurbanpubliclivingspace,thus effectively driving the urban regional vitality, reasonably integrating villages in the City into the existing urban space development, and giving the village a new function and vitality.

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