De-commemoration of an urban street in Egypt: the case of Gameat-Aldowel-Alarabyia street

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona A. Abdelwahab
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Lay People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Urban Institution ◽  
Naguib Mahfouz

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the “event” of the construction of Naguib Mahfouz Square. Drawing on the memory of Gamaet-Aldowel-AlArabyia Street, it attempts to uncover the socio-cultural structures inherited in the Egyptian urban street.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts Foucauldian discourse on institutions of “knowledge and authority” to approach the power relations between the actors involved. This discourse was constructed through in-depth, unstructured interviews with architects and involved government personnel as well as other archival resources that included national newspapers and magazines.FindingsThis discourse reflected an institutional controversy between these actors over the perception and design of the Egyptian street, highlighting the alienation of the designer, and the user/lay-people, from the urban institution. Naguib Mahfouz Square presented a considerable deviation from the established norms of street design in Egypt at that time through its commemoration of a contemporary figure in literature, the architect’s involvement in the design process and the unfencing of urban space. This event thus questions the perception of the urban street beyond our socio-cultural inheritance, and towards street design as a performative urban act that embraces the everyday activities of lay-people in the street.Originality/valueThe paper utilises Foucauldian discourse on power to approach a case study of an urban event and space in Egypt, which has not previously been investigated thoroughly. It thus holds potential towards the resolution of inherited conflict between the urban street and the urban institution.

scholarly journals A Circuity Temporal Analysis of Urban Street Networks Using Open Data: A Lisbon Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 453
Author(s):  
Miguel Costa ◽  
Manuel Marques ◽  
Filipe Moura
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Street Networks ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Straight Line

Urban street networks impact urban space usage and movement across a city. Circuity, the ratio of network distances to straight-line distances, is considered a critical measurement in urban network morphology and transportation efficiency as it can measure the attractiveness of routes in terms of distance traveled. Here, we compare circuity measures for drivable, cyclable, and walkable networks to analyze how they evolved and understand whether urban changes have produced meaningful circuity changes. Our analyses rely on Lisbon data from OpenStreetMaps to explore circuity for the period 2013–2020, which we used to simulate 4.8 million routes using OpenRouteService to compute the different modes’ circuity measures. Our findings suggest that it is crucial to analyze each transport network type separately when planning or modeling urban street networks. Their composition and design differ significantly from mode to mode, such as their attractiveness to users. We identify significant changes in modes’ circuity over time, especially in cycling, following Lisbon’s cycling infrastructure expansion. Our paper demonstrates that the circuity indicator is useful when planning and modeling street networks, in particular, to optimize the location choice for interventions required to increase the attractiveness of active modes and promote sustainable mobility. At the same time, we emphasize the lack of information on walking infrastructures required for more detailed analyses.

scholarly journals The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Aurora Massa ◽  
Paolo Boccagni
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Special Attachment ◽  
Sense Of Home

Home, as a special attachment to (and appropriation over) place, can also be cultivated in the public urban space, under certain conditions that we explore through a case study in Rinkeby, Stockholm. This article analyses various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live there. It shows how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it facilitates a continuity with their past ways of living, sensuous connections with a shared ‘Somaliness’, reproduction of transnational ties, and protection from the sense of being ‘otherised’ that often creeps among them. However, homemaking in the public is ridden with contradictions and dilemmas, including those of self-segregation. The grassroots negotiation of a sense of home along these lines invites a novel approach into the everyday lived experience of diverse neighbourhoods in European majority-minority cities.

Urban street design in Ghana: a case study of Accra

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Abigail Osei Asamoah ◽  
Kelly Bertolaccini ◽  
Nicholas E. Lownes ◽  
Norman W. Garrick
Keyword(s):  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street

scholarly journals Understanding Visual Engagement with Urban Street Edges along Non-Pedestrianised and Pedestrianised Streets Using Mobile Eye-Tracking

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4251 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Simpson ◽  
Kevin Thwaites ◽  
Megan Freeth
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Limited Opportunity ◽  
Pedestrian Street ◽  
Empirical Foundation ◽  
Visual Engagement ◽  
Mobile Eye Tracking

Existing knowledge of street edge experience has often been constructed using methods that offer a limited opportunity to gain empirical insight from the first-hand perspective of pedestrians. In order to address this, mobile eye-tracking glasses were used during the current investigation to provide a detailed understanding of pedestrian visual engagement with street edges along both non-pedestrianised and pedestrianised urban streets. Through this, the current study advances empirical knowledge of street edge experience from a perspective that has previously been challenging to capture and quantify. The findings demonstrate that people visually engage with street edge ground floors more than their upper floors, that visual engagement is distributed more towards the street edge on the walked side of non-pedestrianised streets than the opposite side, and that visual engagement with street edges of pedestrianised streets is balanced across both sides. The study findings also highlight how the everyday activities of pedestrians and different streets being walked often influence the amount of visual engagement within these street edge areas. These insights provide a new understanding that develops existing knowledge of pedestrian street edge experience. Significantly, they also provide an empirical foundation from which to examine how design intervention can become more considerate of peoples’ routine use of and experiential engagement with street edges along non-pedestrianised and pedestrianised urban streets.

Is tourism really an escape from everyday life? Everyday leisure activities vs leisure travel activities of expats and emirati nationals living in the UAE

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasa Slak Valek ◽  
Anestis Fotiadis
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leisure Travel ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Tourism Motivation ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the linkage between everyday life activities with its various aspects of leisure and the leisure-related activities undertaken when traveling as a tourist. This comparison is based on information from individuals who take on both the roles of the everyday person and the traveling tourist. Moreover, as the study is based in the UAE, a multi-cultural country, leisure activities between local residents and expatriates living in UAE are contrasted as part of the investigation. Design/methodology/approach A newly modified International Social Survey Program about Leisure Time questionnaire was used in this study to define a comprehensive list of leisure activities. This was distributed to a sample of local residents and expats living in the UAE in 2015. Pearson χ2 was used to understand the association between everyday leisure activities and travel leisure activities. Findings The results show statistically significant differences in everyday leisure activities between expats and Emirati nationals living in UAE. Moreover, a moderate (V = 0.21; p = 0.25) strength of associations between everyday activities and travel leisure activities was found in the overall sample of all UAE residents. Research limitations/implications A non-probability sampling method was used to collect the data, and no general conclusions about the segments or the total population of residents can be made at this point. However, the sample size is sufficient to examine the proposed model and understand the differences between the two resident segments (Emirati nationals vs expats) and to compare the differences in behavior between everyday leisure and tourism-related leisure activities. Practical implications These findings are recommended for consideration by tourism authorities, holiday destination managers and trip organizers when targeting UAE residents, both Emirati nationals and expats. Social implications As a relation between everyday activities and travel activities was confirmed, the typical tourism motivation assumption that people are traveling to escape the everyday should be reconsidered. In addition, a managerial conclusion is that Emirati nationals and expats should be considered as two distinct groups when devising, preparing and marketing the leisure activities for the market in the UAE. Originality/value The problem of separating tourism travel from everyday life, as the common perspective of the time, was to treat tourism simply as a temporary escape from everyday life. This research enters this same area and attempts to fill the academic gap and address this issue which, to our knowledge, no specific studies have investigated or exposed the relationship between common everyday leisure activities and special travel leisure activities.

Professional employees’ strategic employment of the managerial logic in healthcare

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gadolin
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
Professional Employees ◽  
Professional Power

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze how physicians and nurses strategically employ the managerial logic.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative case study incorporating interviews and observations.FindingsNeither physicians nor nurses were prone to strategically employing the managerial logic. However, when doing so nurses were able to acknowledge the legitimacy of managerial impact on practice, whereas the physicians were not. Consequently, physicians might find other, more subtle, ways to strategically employ the managerial logic.Originality/valueThis paper argues for and makes explicit the applicability of qualitative methods in order to delineate actors’ strategic use of available and accessible institutional logics, the conditions for such usage, as well as the multiplicity of actors’ interactions that needs to be taken into account when conducting qualitative data analysis of such occurrences. By the merits of the qualitative research approach utilized in this study, novel insights concerning the strategic use of the managerial logic in the everyday work of physicians and nurses were obtainable. These insights emphasize the necessity of acknowledging situational, organizational and institutional context, incorporating inter-professional power discrepancies and relationsvis-à-vismanagers.

scholarly journals ‘Kunemera Mufi’: Exploring Performance at Korekore Funerals

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Julia Yule ◽  
◽  
Ephraim Vhutuza ◽  
Christina Gwirayi ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practices ◽  
African People ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Definition Of

The study reconnoitred elements of performance that are found at Korekore funerals. The purpose of the study was to revisit indigenous performance practices and elaborate elements of performance that are embodied within. Korekore funerals of Guruve district, Zimbabwe were used as a case study in this article. The paper argues that Korekore funerals demonstrate the use of theatre elements where space, actors, stagecraft and improvisation are key to a ‘Kunemera Mufi’ production. We argue that the ‘Kunemera Mufi’ at a typical Korekore funeral demonstrate the fact that theatre has always existed among the indigenous African people well before the first Whiteman came to Africa. Theatre was and remains part of the everyday activities among the Korekore, not only at funerals but also in other everyday chores such as hunting, work, child games, rites of passages, rituals and ceremonies. Thus, the paper argues against the Eurocentric definition of theatre or performance by elaborating the elements of performance at a Korekore funeral.

Multimodal Level of Service Methodologies: Evaluation of the Multimodal Performance of Arterial Corridors

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (15) ◽  
pp. 142-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Zuniga-Garcia ◽  
Heidi W. Ross ◽  
Randy B. Machemehl
Keyword(s):  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Highway Capacity ◽  
Highway Capacity Manual ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Current State ◽  
Transit Capacity

The principal objective of this research is to evaluate the multimodal performance of arterial corridors using currently available multimodal level of service (MMLOS) methodologies. Eight different MMLOS approaches are applied to a case study using an arterial corridor section in Austin, Texas. The methodologies applied are: Highway Capacity Manual; Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual; Charlotte, NC, Urban Street Design Guidelines; pedestrian and bicycle environmental quality indices; assessment of level of traffic stress; bicycle compatibility index; deficiency index; and Walk Score®, Bike Score®, and Transit Score®. The analysis is focused on the assessment of pedestrian, bicycle, and transit modes. The methodologies are evaluated and contrasted. The paper provides a comprehensive review of the current state of practice of multimodal evaluation and recommendations about the most appropriate approaches to assess multimodal performance of arterial corridors.

scholarly journals Speed perception by drivers as dependent on urban street design; a case-study

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Victoria Gitelman ◽  
Fany Pesahov ◽  
Roby Carmel
Keyword(s):  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Speed Perception
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