A Classification Model to Evaluate the Security Level in a City Based on GIS-MCDA

The aim of this paper is to map the most favorable locations for the occurrence of robberies in the Brazilian city through the multicriteria method Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach. Considering the city divisions with alternatives and evaluating by several spatial criteria, a decision-maker is building a preference model with based previous knowledge. Next, decision rules induced from preference information are introduced to the spatial environment to get the results. The decision rules can be seen as conditional part (represented by criteria) and decision part (assignment to decision classes). The rules classify all the alternatives according to security level. Moreover, the rules help to understand the social dynamics of the city and to assist in the proposition of strategies against violence.

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Trees and their seed networks: the social dynamics of urban fruit trees and implications for genetic diversity

10.1101/2020.11.16.384388 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Aurore Rimlinger ◽

Marie-Louise Avana ◽

Abdon Awono ◽

Armel Chakocha ◽

Alexis Gakwavu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Genetic Diversity ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Central Africa ◽

Fruit Trees ◽

Urban Trees ◽

Tree Planting ◽

Urban Context ◽

Exchange Networks ◽

The Social ◽

The City

AbstractTrees are a traditional component of urban spaces where they provide ecosystem services critical to urban wellbeing. In the Tropics, urban trees’ seed origins have rarely been characterized. Yet, understanding the social dynamics linked to tree planting is critical given their influence on the distribution of associated genetic diversity. This study examines elements of these dynamics (seed exchange networks) in an emblematic indigenous fruit tree species from Central Africa, the African plum tree (Dacryodes edulis, Burseraceae), within the urban context of Yaoundé. We further evaluate the consequences of these social dynamics on the distribution of the genetic diversity of the species in the city. Urban trees were planted predominantly using seeds sourced from outside the city, resulting in a level of genetic diversity as high in Yaoundé as in a whole region of production of the species. Debating the different drivers that foster the genetic diversity in planted urban trees, the study argued that cities and urban dwellers can unconsciously act as effective guardians of indigenous tree genetic diversity.

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DYNAMIC SOCIAL INTEGRATION: SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF RELIGIOUS FOLLOWERS IN AMBON

Al-Albab ◽

10.24260/alalbab.v4i2.291 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Saidin Ernas

Keyword(s):

Social Integration ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Peace Building ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Post Conflict ◽

Long Run ◽

The Social ◽

The City ◽

Active Harmony

The social dynamics in post-conflict Ambon, Maluku, 1999-2004, indicated that even though people were segregated in the Islamic-Christian areas, gradually social integration began to occur naturally. The process of integration that occurred also gave birth to new values and inclusive views that give hope to future peace building. Using the theory of social integration of dynamic adaptation of the Parsonian structural-functional classic paradigm and combined with a qualitative research model, this study successfully formulated several important findings. First, social integration occurred in the city of Ambon could run naturally through economic interactions, consensus on political balance and inclusive religious spirit. In addition, the presence of public spaces such as offices, schools, malls and coffee shops served as a natural integration medium that is increasingly important in the dynamics of the society. Second, the new social integration has created an increasingly important meaning that leads to a model of active harmony characterized by a process of the increasingly active social interaction between different religions, as well as strengthening pluralism and multiculturalism insight due to campaign by educational institutions and civil society groups. Third, this study also reminds us that although there has been a process of the increasingly positive social integration in Ambon city, people still need to be aware of the growth of radical religious ideologies at a certain level, and also of strengthening identity politics in the long run that will potentially give birth to primordial and ethnocentric attitudes that are harmful to the development of peace.

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Se nos ha ido, como el rayo, Luz Marina.

Hábitat y Sociedad ◽

10.12795/habitatysociedad.2021.i14.19 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 353-358

Author(s):

Antonio García García ◽

Juan Francisco Ojeda Rivera ◽

Francisco José Torres Gutiérrez

Keyword(s):

Urban Geography ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Social Processes ◽

Social Environments ◽

Time And Space ◽

The Social ◽

Key Issues ◽

The University ◽

The City

Luz Marina García Herrera, professor at the University of La Laguna, colleague, teacher and friend, passed away in June 2020. A reference in Spanish Urban Geography, her contribution to the debate on the shaping of the city and the social dynamics inherent to it has opened up timely and necessary lines of work. She anchors her background in the interpretation of urban social processes under capitalism, focusing on key issues such as marginal developments, gentrification mechanisms or different facets of urban segregation. In addition she also approaches other issues in which we have been able to share time and space with her. Among them the constant and changing conditioning between physical and social environments in the city and consequences, or the reading of public spaces, their use and appropriation keys, as an indicator of cohesion as well as an instrument for the transformation of specific realities. All of this, and even more his commitment and his profound humanity, which we are proud to have learned from, motivate these lines.

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Minorities and Foreigners in a Provincial Iranian City: Bahāʾis in the Russian Consulate of Isfahan in 1903

Journal of Persianate Studies ◽

10.1163/18747167-12341297 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 107-132

Author(s):

Saghar Sadeghian

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Power Struggles ◽

The Social ◽

Iranian History ◽

Local Actors ◽

The City ◽

Previous Scholarship

This article is about the struggles of a persecuted confessional minority in Qajar Iran. It shows that the massacre of the Bahāʾis in Isfahan in 1903 was representative of the ongoing power struggles in the city. Previous scholarship that has briefly explored these events has relied primarily on a handful of British diplomatic sources. Drawing on unexplored documents in British and Iranian archives, this article provides crucial details about the social dynamics on the ground and stresses the role of key actors involved in this episode in Iranian history. In the process, the article puts together the socio-economic contexts of the events in Isfahan, explains why the Bahāʾis sought foreign protection, and analyzes the attitudes of powerful local actors such as Zell al-Soltān and Āqā Najafi.

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Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World: An Introduction

IMISCOE Research Series - Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-67365-9_1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Catherine Lejeune ◽

Delphine Pagès-El Karoui ◽

Camille Schmoll ◽

Hélène Thiollet

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Multiple Scales ◽

Collective Identities ◽

Exclusionary Practices ◽

The Social ◽

And Migration ◽

Globalized World ◽

The City

AbstractGlobalization and migration have generated acute and often contradictory changes: they have increased social diversity while inducing global homogenization; they have sharpened differentiation of spaces and statuses while accelerating and amplifying communication and circulations; they have induced more complex social stratification while enriching individual and collective identities. These changes happen to be strikingly visible in cities. Urban contexts, indeed, offer privileged sites of inquiry to understanding the social dynamics of globalization, informal belonging and local citizenships, transient and multi-layered identities, symbolic orders and exclusionary practices. But cities are also material sites and they create multisensorial scapes that shape experiences of globalization and social change. They operate through multiple scales, connecting horizontal extensions and vertical layers of the city with generic, landmark, interstitial and neglected places. Far from being mere contexts, cities are both changing and being changed by migration and globalization.

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“HOUSING Frankfurt Wien Stockholm”: Exhibition of 1920s–1930s Housing Initiatives

Urban Planning ◽

10.17645/up.v4i3.2442 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 346-355

Author(s):

Chiara Monterumisi ◽

Alessandro Porotto

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Dwelling Unit ◽

Architectural Analysis ◽

Crucial Feature ◽

The Social ◽

Living Together ◽

Historical Viewpoint ◽

The City ◽

Selection Of ◽

Provided Examples

Frankfurt, Vienna and Stockholm: three European cities which played a fundamental role in the housing policies implemented during the inter-war period. The research projects and teaching activity carried out at the EPFL in the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation focuses on this specific historic context. The experiences of these three cities with regard to housing are well documented from a historical viewpoint that, however, show many shortcomings with regards to the architectural analysis. The provided examples sum up simultaneously the social dynamics, the cultural milieu, as well as the adopted intentions and political programme. The exhibition aims at producing fresh knowledge of the three contributions to modern housing available to students, scholars, professors and architectural practitioners. The goal is to compare a selection of remarkable housing neighbourhoods through the different scales of the project, ranging from the relation with the city till the dwelling unit layout. The produced drawings and documents show the morphological and typological variety. Frankfurt, Vienna and Stockholm equally illustrate different ways of designing the collective space—that is the intermediary space in-between the communal and private – which is a crucial feature of the “living together”.

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Trees and their seed networks: The social dynamics of urban fruit trees and implications for genetic diversity

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0243017 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. e0243017

Author(s):

Aurore Rimlinger ◽

Marie-Louise Avana ◽

Abdon Awono ◽

Armel Chakocha ◽

Alexis Gakwavu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Genetic Diversity ◽

Social Dynamics ◽

Central Africa ◽

Fruit Trees ◽

Urban Trees ◽

Tree Planting ◽

Urban Context ◽

Exchange Networks ◽

The Social ◽

The City

Trees are a traditional component of urban spaces where they provide ecosystem services critical to urban wellbeing. In the Tropics, urban trees’ seed origins have rarely been characterized. Yet, understanding the social dynamics linked to tree planting is critical given their influence on the distribution of associated genetic diversity. This study examines elements of these dynamics (seed exchange networks) in an emblematic indigenous fruit tree species from Central Africa, the African plum tree (Dacryodes edulis, Burseraceae), within the urban context of Yaoundé. We further evaluate the consequences of these social dynamics on the distribution of the genetic diversity of the species in the city. Urban trees were planted predominantly using seeds sourced from outside the city, resulting in a level of genetic diversity as high in Yaoundé as in a whole region of production of the species. Debating the different drivers that foster the genetic diversity in planted urban trees, the study argues that cities and urban dwellers can unconsciously act as effective guardians of indigenous tree genetic diversity.

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Xenophobia and Class Conflicts Among Venezuelan Migrants: An Ethnographic Study in the City of Ibarra, Ecuador

Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences ◽

10.33422/jarss.v3i4.530 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Jorge Mantilla

Keyword(s):

Social Dynamics ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

The Other ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Intergroup Dynamics ◽

The Social ◽

Local Residents ◽

The One ◽

The City ◽

Shed Light

In recent years, the city of Ibarra, Ecuador has received nearly 10,000 migrants from Venezuela. In this municipality, the relations between locals and migrants are quite complex. In January 2019, a group of local residents physically assaulted several Venezuelan migrants (Case Diana). These acts had a xenophobic nature. Through ethnographic research, this article analyzes the social dynamics at this city in the months after these events. The research showed that, on the one hand, after these events migrants criticized homogenizing discourses, highlighting the group's own heterogeneity. On the other, migrants also strengthened cooperation networks based on belonging to Venezuelan nationality. The article is aimed to shed light on intergroup dynamics in intermediate cities in the context of the ever-growing Venezuelan migration in Latin America.

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THE CONCEPT OF OPEN PUBLIC SPACE OF THE CITY AS AN OBJECT OF DESIGN

International scientific journal Internauka ◽

10.25313/2520-2057-2021-9-7425 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Oktyabrina Chemakina ◽

◽

Oleg Kuzmin ◽

Stanislav Adamenko ◽

Maria Ralko ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Social Component ◽

The Social ◽

Spatial Environment ◽

The Subject ◽

Sociological Studies ◽

The City

The article examines the concept of public space, traces its interpretation in individual sociological studies. The types of public spaces, their relationship with the social component of cities are analyzed; the main approaches to the design of the subject-spatial environment of public spaces of cities.

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