Urban Space and City Living

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-82
Author(s):  
Quill R Kukla
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
City Life ◽  
Fast Switching ◽  
Order And Disorder ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Urban Territory

This chapter offers a philosophical account of what is distinctive about urban spaces and urban subjectivity. It proposes four features distinctive of city life that concern dwellers’ bodies and how they use and move through space: (1) proximity and shared space with many people, including a wide and diverse range of strangers; (2) unpredictability; and (3) slow locomotion combined with (4) fast switching between skills, stances, and perceptual expectations, which requires a wide, fluid, and flexible set of metaskills for moving between skill sets. Drawing on empirical sociological literature, the chapter explores how city dwellers see and judge risk and safety, order and disorder. It also develops the notion of an urban territory, and explores how territory is claimed, used, and bounded through bodily micronegotiations.

With the Declining Significance of Labor, Who Is Producing our Global Cities?

2015 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 137-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
City Life ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
Formal Employment ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
Indian Cities

AbstractThis article engages the question of what happens to labor as Indian cities become transformed into “global cities.” It does so by focusing on the convergence of three interrelated trends over the past few decades: the informalization of labor, the making of global cities, and the financialization of the economy. The article explains the effect on labor, capital, and urban space of this concatenation of trends. It challenges the conclusion of urbanization scholars who emphasize how labor has been largely excluded and bypassed by the growing urban economy. Instead, the article demonstrates, by using nationwide data as well as examples from Bangalore, that as labor is being displaced from formal employment and as wages become compressed, the urban commons is becoming a more valued terrain. On the one hand, displaced urban and rural workers must increasingly rely on subsistence practices and depend more upon the city's public spaces and goods to survive. On the other hand, these spaces, vital to city life, are becoming attractive to indebted municipal governments and aggressive financial investors for their speculative land values, and hence have led to greater insecurity and dispossession. The global city, therefore, is being built in large part with workers' wageless labor. Consequently, the struggle between capital and labor has reached far “beyond the factory” and farm, to the urban commons, sites simultaneously key to the majority's survival and integral to the urban speculative project of financialization.

scholarly journals Re-defining urban space through performance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Χαρίκλεια Μαρίνη
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Spatial Spectrum ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
City Life ◽  
Tate Modern ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dynamic Quality

This thesis contributes to discourses concerned with urban space and performancepractice. It identifies ways in which built environments become performative; how thebuilt environment performs meaning(s) within the urban context and how spatialpractices of contemporary performance engage with city-spaces. The programmingand order of urban space tends to fix meanings; increasingly regulated and singlepurposecity-spaces seem unable to react to informal or unplanned activities. However,this thesis suggests that urban space entails inherent opportunities for conceiving andpractising space otherwise and looks at a spatial spectrum – from leftover spaces toLondon’s landmarks. It analyses incomplete presences in the built environment andtheir unexpected (re)uses, which make urban space an arena of ideas, interaction andcreativity. It examines how spatial practices of performance, such as site-specificperformance, audio-walks and installations, inform our (re)thinking of space, itsmeaning and its re-appropriation. It argues that through performative concepts andactions, space manifests a changeable and dynamic quality, rather than motionlessness and inertia.The thesis involves an interdisciplinary approach employing geography, urban,architectural and performance studies. It looks at four types of built spaces that havebeen used for performance purposes; a disused warehouse at 21 Wapping Lane, theconverted power station housing the Tate Modern art gallery, the exterior of theNational Theatre’s building and the London district of Wapping. All of these sites areawaiting, or are undergoing, major alterations in their design or planning, involvingreconstruction and expansion, or total demolition. The uncertain future of these sitesand buildings, the inevitable decay of their material, and the temporality of the builtenvironment invite questions of architectural design and urban planning in terms ofperformance. The examination of these sites at this moment of change and thepotential impact of the redevelopment plans on city life make this research timely,since the thesis emphasises the imperative of re-defining concepts of space, planningstrategies, and design processes so as to imagine a less determinate, more creative urban space.

Analysis of the local communities focused around improving the quality of urban space on the example of activities in public spaces and cultural activities in Bytom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Widzisz-Pronobis ◽  
◽  
Grzegorz Pronobis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
City Life ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
Good Investment ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
The City

Bytom is a polish, post-industrial city which is looking for a new vision of the future. City dwellers are between a history related to coal and new challenges. It is not easy for them to understand that industry is a thing of the past and you need to look for yourself and your identity again. Groups of social leaders are trying to show a different picture of the city and engage more and more people to act for the city. Building the city's identity and new image are basic ideas. However, in the era of global discussion about climate change and the technologization of city life, it becomes important to become aware of the role of greenery and community. In the article I want to show how Bytom social activists promote and animate the local community in the spirit of collectivism and improving the quality of life in the city. The assumption of the described groups was the maximum involvement of residents in activities to improve the space in Bytom. In the article I want to show what tools they used and what effects they obtained. Particularly important here are activities that contribute to making the community aware of the role of greenery and pedestrian space. The effects of social activities show more clearly how important are strong communities opposing local authorities and supporting good investment decisions. Analysis of the activities of social groups showed how important local leaders play and how various methods and tools used by them gave measurable effects in the city space. The bottom-up activity helped to understand the advantages of a pedestrian city, which is Bytom, and to show how little it takes for the city to gain a new image.

Three recent scenes in the affective life of gentrification in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402094955
Author(s):  
Damon Scott ◽  
Trushna Parekh
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Brass Band ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gay Bars ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Urban Territory

Drawing on the ‘reparative turn’ in queer feminist scholarship, we situate a commemorative march that took place in late March 2018 in the Polk Gulch neighborhood of San Francisco as an entry point into the affective conditions of living in and through a period of intensifying urban development. Complete with a brass band, drag queens dressed in mourning, and black banners, participants stopped at the sites of former gay bars and other commercial establishments where they laid wreaths, offered eulogies, and affectively asserted the social and historical significance of these places. Nine months later, we interviewed organizers and participants and analyzed recordings of the event in order to register the sensate conditions that preceded, pervaded, and followed in the wake of the March. In so doing, we unravel the ‘undecidability of the urban’ in which residents call into question the impacts of gentrification. Through our tripartite engagement with the affective contours of the March, we situate the procession less as a discrete ceremonial event to re-inscribe collective memories in urban space or to lay claims to a right to urban territory, than as a momentary effort to work out and through the ongoing, shared feelings of loss in an increasingly unlivable city. By attending to the felt conditions of urban development, we argue for foregrounding shared sentiments as a viable pathway to opening up relief from, if not alternatives to, the ongoing displacements and dispossessions of the neoliberal city.

scholarly journals Corpos dissidentes afro-diaspóricos e suas poéticas contemporâneas no espaço urbano

Revista Prumo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 110-123
Author(s):  
Paola Barreto Leblanc ◽  
Lucas Brasil Vaz Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Urban Territory

In this paper, we develop a brief analysis of the relationship between afro-diasporic dissident bodies, urban territory, and contemporary art. To investigate these categories, we start from an interdisciplinary framework, analyzing, from a decolonial perspective, counter-hegemonic subjectivities traversed by the body experience — racialized, gendered, unclassified - as well as specific artistic practices that tension such experiences. Key-Words: decoloniality; afro-diasporic bodies; contemporary art; urban space.

scholarly journals Urban Space and Gender Performativity in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger and Cora Sandel’s Alberta and Freedom

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Unni Langås
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Male Subject ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
City Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Outer Appearance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The City

In this article, I discuss the combination of city life and gender performativity in two Norwegian classics, Knut Hamsun’s Hunger (2016) [Sult, 1890] and Cora Sandel’s Alberta and Freedom (1984) [Alberte og friheten, 1931]. These are modernist novels depicting lonely human subjects in an urban space, the first one featuring a man in Kristiania (now Oslo) in the 1880s, the second one a woman and her female acquaintances in Paris in the 1920s. I interpret and compare the two novels by focusing on their intertwined construction of gender performativity and urban space. Gender norms of the city life are critical premises for how the subjects manage to negotiate with different options and obstacles through their modern existences. To both protagonists, inferior femininity is a constant option and threat, but their responses and actions are different. The strategy of the male subject in Hunger is to fight his way up from humiliation by humiliating the female other; the strategy of the female subject in Alberta and Freedom is instead to seek solidarity with persons who have experiences similar to her own. Hamsun’s man and Sandel’s woman both perceive their own bodies as crucial to the interpretation of their physical surroundings. However, while the hero in Hunger must deal with a body falling apart and a confrontation with the world that depends on a totally fragmented bodily experience, the heroine in Alberta and Freedom instead sees herself as a body divided between outer appearance and inner inclinations. Both novels stage a person with writing proclivities in a city setting where the success or failure of artistic work is subjected to the mechanisms of a market economy. Their artistic ambitions are to a large extent decided by their material conditions, which seem to manipulate Hamsun’s hero out of the whole business, and Sandel’s heroine to stay calm and not give up. Yet the novels share the belief in the body’s basis as a denominator for the perception and interpretation of sensual and cognitive impressions of the world.

scholarly journals INCLUSIVE DESIGN AS A COMPONENT OF CITY DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
V. Shkuro
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Full Range ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Inclusive Design ◽  
City Life ◽  
The City

The article presents theoretical analyze the importance of implementation the concept of inclusive design in urban space; the relevance between the implementation of inclusive design and the quality of life of citizens of the settlement. Inclusive design is design that considers the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference. Increasing the number of elderly people (9,4 mln people over 60 or 22% of the population of Ukraine), people with disabilities (2,6 mln people – 6% of the population), families with young children, pregnant (4 % of the population) makes to the city, its design and infrastructure new challenges. These groups risk becoming effectively excluded from significant parts of city life, suffering marginalisation, exclusion and isolation. Limiting a city's access to just a part of the population while ignoring a significant other part, is economically, socially and politically unsustainable. Inclusive design at the city create the opportunity to guarantee equal access to fundamental rights; improve the quality of life of its population and ensure that everybody - regardless of age, mobility or ability - has equal access to all the resources and pleasures cities have to offer. Inclusive design creates an opportunity to support and create equal living conditions for the most vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, the elderly, families with young children). Implementation the ID to the urban space also support development economical sustainability of the city: increase the level of employment people and reducing unemployment, accordingly increasing the purchasing power of citizens, local business development, increase income to the budget; reduction the level of social exclusion, isolation and therefore increase the degree of independence of the client and the reduction of funds for social welfare and individual support. Creation access to the education facilities will increase the level of education. As the results, better education support better employment and higher salary. Creation accessibility also support of tourism attraction of the city. Creation inclusive design in the urban space support to improve the quality and sustainability of municipal services. Inclusive design ensure involving citizens to the city life.

Characteristics of the Poreyonymes in the Onymic Sector of Ufa’s Urban Space

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Эльвина Салихова ◽  
Elvina Salikhova ◽  
Лейсан Дильмухаметова ◽  
Leysan Yarmukhametova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Functional Characteristics ◽  
Modern City ◽  
City Life ◽  
Language Area ◽  
Transport Modes ◽  
Speech Situation

The study of the speech of the modern city life with the use of different approaches and methods – socio- and psycholinguistic methods, traditional structural and functional characteristics of the speech situation “Transport” and its components make it possible to describe the ethno-social “portraits” of participants in the designated area, provides researchers with a vast field for the study of specific speech behavior of people in the capital, serving in various roles (passenger or driver and not only public but also private vehicles, car owners, the original name is their property). In Ufa language landscape official and unofficial nominations coexist, poreyonums (the name of public transport modes) are among them and the interest to which is determined by their place, role and functions in toponymical sphere of Ufa language landscape. Existing in language area of RB cities unofficial names are formed both from the names of foreign and domestic automobile makes, and moreover the main ways of forming aliases are the same in both cases and are typical for speaking sphere. Vernacular words, units of youth slang and thieves’ argot are actively used when naming. The main tendencies of the existence of automobile unofficial names are inherent to all Russia cities.

scholarly journals The Impact of Assay Design on Medicinal Chemistry: Case Studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 247255522110262
Author(s):  
Joshua R. Born ◽  
Vinoth Kumar Chenniappan ◽  
Danielle P. Davis ◽  
Jayme L. Dahlin ◽  
Juan J. Marugan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Medicinal Chemistry ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Retrospective Case ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Cellular Assays ◽  
Successful Execution ◽  
Assay Design ◽  
The Impact

A diverse range of biochemical and cellular assays are used by medicinal chemists to guide compound optimization. The data collected from these assays influence decisions taken on structure-activity relationship (SAR) campaigns. Therefore, it is paramount that medicinal chemists have a solid understanding of the strengths and limitations of each assay being used to characterize synthesized analogs. For the successful execution of a medicinal chemistry campaign, it is our contention that an early partnership among assay biologists, informaticians, and medicinal chemists must exist. Their combined skill sets are necessary to not only design and develop robust assays but also implement an effective screening cascade in which multiple orthogonal and counter assays are selected to validate the activity and target(s) of the synthesized compounds. We review multiple cases of drug and chemical probe discovery from collaborative National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/National Institutes of Health projects and published scientific literature in which the evaluation of compounds in secondary or orthogonal assays led to the discovery of unexpected activities, forcing a reconsideration of the original assay design that was used to discover the biological activity of the compound. Using these retrospective case studies, the goal of this Perspective is to hedge toward the development of physiologically relevant assays that are able to capture the true bioactivity of compounds being developed in a medicinal chemistry campaign. Graphical Abstract

scholarly journals Identidade, Pertencimento e Sociabilidade no espaço urbano: observações sobre a percepção dos usuários do bairro Cidade Baixa em Porto Alegre

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Nascimento da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Territory

Este artigo busca contribuir para os estudos sobre percepção urbana elaborando uma narrativa das formas de ocupação e usos de uma parcela do território urbano da Cidade de Porto Alegre, de importante perceptibilidade local, o bairro Cidade Baixa, um cenário marcado pela diversidade de atores.Procura-se compreender os conceitos e os sentimentos de pertencimento, identidade e sociabilidade vivenciados pelos moradores e freqüentadores locais através de suas narrativas enquanto informantes dessa parcela de território urbano. Palavras-chave: Identidade. Pertencimento. Sociabilidade. Bairro. Cidade Baixa. Identity, Belonging and Sociability in the Urban Space: Comments on the users' perception of the Lower Town neighborhood in Porto Alegre AbstractThis article seeks to contribute to the studies on urban perception elaborating a narrative of occupancy forms and uses a portion of the urban territory of the City of Porto Alegre, the perceptibility important location, the Lower Town neighborhood, a scenario marked by a diversity of actors.It seeks to understand the concepts and feelings of belonging, identity and sociability experienced by local residents and patrons through their narratives as informants of this portion of urban territory. Key-words: Identity. Belonging. Sociability. Neighborhood. Cidade Baixa. 

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