scholarly journals The ontology of resistance: Power, tactics and making do in the Vila Rubim market

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091219
Author(s):  
Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri ◽  
Dimitris Papadopoulos ◽  
Edson Antunes Quaresma Júnior ◽  
Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Local Area ◽  
City Council ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
The City

We re-examine the relation between power and resistance by investigating the reconstruction of the Vila Rubim market, one of the established markets in the city of Vitória in Brazil. Following a fire that destroyed large parts of the market – probably the most significant event in its history – the market had to be fully rebuilt and the broader local area had to be redeveloped. Empirical materials were collected through ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and visual and archival research. The destruction and reconstruction of the Vila Rubim market unleashed a fierce struggle between the city council and the market’s traders. We argue that the traders’ resistance to urban management was most significant in shaping the outcome of this conflict by initiating a multiplicity of space-making practices. We reframe resistance as ontological, that is as the practice of creating a material position, of making a world that allows an alternative form of life to emerge beyond given power relations. Rather than in acts of protest, the stallholders of the Vila Rubim market engaged in mundane tactics which created alternative ontologies of existence in urban space.

scholarly journals Planejamento, estratégia local e complexidade: uma reinterpretação do legado do Projeto Eixo Tamanduatehy (Santo André)

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Jeroen Klink
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
The Real ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
The City ◽  
Critical Literature

R e s u m o O artigo problematiza a literatura crítica sobre o Projeto Eixo Tamanduatehy (Santo André) no sentido de enraizá-la na trajetória específica da cidade de Santo André e de contribuir com a reflexão sobre o significado das “experiências reais” de planejamento estratégico urbano no cenário atual da globalização neoliberal. Argumentamos que a ausência de uma leitura de três dimensões entrelaçadas dificultou uma compreensão adequadado legado deste projeto, isto é: (I) a construção política e contestada da escala local, além de seu significado para a disputa de hegemonia sobre a gestão urbana; (II) o planejamento estratégico,a neoliberalização e a emergência de uma representação hegemônica do espaço urbano a partirdo Projeto Eixo Tamanduatehy e (III) planos, projetos estratégicos e a emergência de novos espaços de representação.Palavras-chave Empresariamento urbano; planejamento estratégico; Projeto Eixo Tamanduatehy. A b s t r a c t In this paper the critical literature on the Project Eixo Tamanduatehyis highlighted in a problematic perspective, in the sense of embedding it within the specific trajectory of the city of Santo André, and to contribute with a reflection on the significanceof the “real experiences” of strategic urban planning in the present scenario of neoliberal globalization. Our argument is that the absence of an analysis on three interlinked dimensions has made an adequate understanding of the legacy of this project more difficult, that is: (i)the political and contested nature of scale, besides its significance for the hegemonic disputesover urban management; (ii) strategic planning, neoliberalization and the emergence of ahegemonic representation of urban space on the basis of the Project Eixo Tamanduatehy; and (iii) plans, strategic projects and the emergence of new spaces of representation.Keywords Projeto Eixo Tamanduatehy; strategic planning; urban entrepreneurialism;.

scholarly journals « It’s Never Just One Road » : Genga-Idowu et la prostitution dans l’espace urbain de Nairobi

2013 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Colomba Muriungi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
The City

My article is a reading of Genga-Idowu’s Lady in Chains with an intention to show how she attempts to rewrite the presentation of the prostitute figure in a Kenyan urban space by figuring prostitution as an institution that is useful in questioning and revising economic power relations between men and women. Genga-Idowu shows that women can reliably accumulate income from prostitution and emancipate themselves from the economic disadvantages of postcolonial Kenya. I examine specific traits of the prostitute figure and the spaces within the city that this writer utilizes to revise and disavow Kenyan male writers and socio-cultural conception of the prostitute. Thus prostitution will be projected as a business and a potential alternative road that makes women economically powerful and frees them from other kinds of disadvantages that characterize their lives.

Of time and the city: curating urban fragments for the purposes of place marketing

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Warnaby
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Place Marketing ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the place marketing potential of historic urban “fragments”, with particular reference to old corporate identity symbols still extant in urban space. Design/methodology/approach Following a discussion of theoretical context, specifically incorporating spatial semiotics and psychogeography, the paper constitutes an interpretive account of a “tour” around the city of Manchester, UK, apprehending and discussing various historic corporate identity fragments still visible in the city. Findings Historic corporate identity fragments are identified and outlined, and issues arising from their continued existence, in terms of, for example, what constitutes heritage, and how this heritage can be used for the creation of urban distinctiveness (or genius loci) for the purposes of place marketing/branding are discussed. Originality/value The potential of heritage to be incorporated into the “representation work” of those responsible for urban management/marketing is highlighted, along with the need for such heritage fragments to be “curated”, if their full potential in this regard is to be realised.

scholarly journals Socially Differentiated Urban Flood Governance in Mexico: Ambiguous Negotiations and Fragmented Contestations

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANJA NYGREN
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Risk Prevention ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The City

AbstractCities around the world are developing new ways of governing risks and vulnerabilities. In the new flood-governance measures, technological risk-prevention is linked to programmes of social resilience and cultural adaptation. By focusing on the catastrophic floods in the city of Villahermosa, Mexico, this article argues that new flood-governance strategies rely on complicated forms of neoliberal governance, in which flood governance is turned into a matter of adaptation and self-responsibilisation, while scant attention is paid to the socio-spatial distribution of vulnerabilities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in three socially differentiated neighbourhoods of Villahermosa, this article demonstrates how flood-governance strategies and the residents' responses to them vary across the city and how the production of flood risk is connected to the uneven production of urban space. The institutional acts of governing aim to render certain population groups governable, whilst being unable to eradicate dispersed contestation efforts.

scholarly journals Reflexões sobre o desenvolvimento em cidades pequenas: o caso de Esperança, estado da Paraíba

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
João Paulo Gomes de Vasconcelos Aragão ◽  
Caroline Oliveira Porto Souza
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Local Area ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
The City

The Aim of this research is to debate the apparent dissociation between the development discourse and its effectiveness in the internal context of small cities, aiming to identify its peculiarities from the case of the city of Esperança, located at the Agreste region of the State of Paraíba. This city represents in its socio-spatial dynamics the dilemmas and contradictions of development in small cities. The deductive hypothetical method was used to analyze the socio-spatial dynamics from its configurations in scales beyond the local area, to those of materialization in the intra-urban dimension. As a result, the scientific scope of the subject was verified in relation to the contribution of sciences, such as Geography, Economics and Sociology. In addition, it was observed the need of enlargement and balance between public policies that drive to the reproduction of urban space and the implementation of development, as a practice of humanity and sustainability, for all who live in small cities. The study of the city of Esperança exemplified the contradiction. First of all, between policies that restricts the perspective of development to the economic dimension of social and political life and, secondly, the mismanagement of the state on periurban spaces (urban fringes) that expose the urgency of Actions to mitigate the lack of public services, especially, to the social groups of low income.

scholarly journals Investigating urban space: Potential urban green space in dense city of Yogyakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 07002
Author(s):  
Dyah Widiyastuti ◽  
Bagus Mudiantoro ◽  
Lilik Andriyani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Urban Green Space ◽  
City Council ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Vacant Land ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
The City ◽  
Yogyakarta City

Urban green space (UGS) is essential for the city to ensure sustainability. The provision of adequate USG, however, is challenging over time, particularly at the city centre area. This study aims to offer a possible framework to identify UGS and assess the potential share from the vacant land into green space using descriptive analysis of remote sensing and secondary data. A case study is applied to assess the UGS and potential area in Yogyakarta City. The result shows that the built-up area in Yogyakarta City is covered around 85% of the total while the UGS remains halved within less than a decade. In addition, the field visit shows a potential UGS on 16.00 ha from the private vacant land. The application of the framework provides a tool for the city council in maintaining and monitoring the land cover, including identifying the UGS throughout the city. Imposing the regulation on vacant land might encourage the private sector involvement and offers less effort to the city council in providing UGS.

scholarly journals The Importance of Stakeholders in Managing a Safe City

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Wioletta Wereda ◽  
Natalia Moch ◽  
Anna Wachulak
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
City Council ◽  
City Development ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The City

Contemporary cities are complex systems in which there are many interactions and dependencies in relation to the environment. Currently, the development of cities and their safety are among the most important international socio-economic processes. The movement of people to larger agglomerations from smaller towns creates a variety of relationships between actors and often leads to very complicated lives in urban space. Features of contemporary cities include urbanization, personal development opportunities, labor markets, and infrastructure, as well as technological and cybernetic networks that optimize all the processes taking place in agglomerations. It should be emphasized that the main goal of public management in urban space is to create various solutions in the field of safety and thus to improve the quality of. In this respect, the role and influence of stakeholders on the processes of smart and safe city development are important. At each stage of activity, the City Council, local communities, economic entities, scientific institutions, and municipal enterprises are important for a city’s safety. This article emphasizes the importance of stakeholders in the process of managing a safe city. The article presents a literature review, as well as research results based on the example of Polish cities, presenting the importance of stakeholders in managing safe cities.

scholarly journals INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS OF THE KYIV CITY DUMA IN 1906–1910s: ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF PERIODICALS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Oleh Ivanyuk ◽  
Yana Martianova
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Political ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
The City ◽  
Transformation Processes

The article reviews the infrastructure projects of the Kyiv City Duma, which were implemented during 1906–1910s. Special attention is paid to the most ambitious programs: the development of sewers, public transport, arrangement of the streets, which contributed to the transformation processes in urban space. It has been established that the principle of development of not only the downtown, but also Kyiv suburbs, declared in the election programs, ultimately failed. The infrastructure projects announced by the City Council sometimes did not take into account the financial capabilities of the city, the bureaucratic red tape inherent in the Empire, lobbying and the influence of business on decision-making. The political struggle, the low level of technical awareness of the vowels, the dishonesty and indifference of some of the elected officials to the performance of duties, which were transformed into non-attendance and frequent disruption of meetings, significantly slowed down their implementation. The most informative source, which allows to cover in detail and quite emotionally the decision-making process and the main stages of implementation of infrastructure projects are Kyiv periodicals — “Kyivlianyn”, “Hromadska Dumka”, “Rada”, in particular.

Anti-Semitism and Urban Development in France in the Second World War: The Case of Îlot 16 in Paris

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
ISABELLE BACKOUCHE ◽  
SARAH GENSBURGER
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Second World War ◽  
City Council ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
World War ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Housing Area ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

AbstractExamining an ordinary town-planning decision made during an extraordinary period, this article highlights the interaction between the local urban redevelopment policy and the state policy of racial persecution in 1941. However, it argues that this interaction was far more complex than the implementation of an anti-Semitic ideology by two separate administrations to which it is usually reduced. Instead of trying to assess the ‘reality’ of the ‘representation’ of the housing area (îlot) as a ‘Jewish quarter’ the article takes as fact the notion that representations are realities, and vice versa, and attempts to understand if, and by what mechanisms, an ethno-religious characterisation of the îlot played a role in the redevelopment operations under consideration here.In 1921 a memo from the Seine prefecture had been presented to the city council, identifying seventeen insanitary îlots in Paris as having above-average mortality rates from tuberculosis. These îlots were to be razed to the ground and rebuilt. The sixteenth îlot on the list was located in the southern section of the fourth arrondissement. This ‘îlot 16’ was apparently known as an area where the majority of its inhabitants were foreign Jews. In October 1941, when the persecution of the Jews was at its height, the Seine prefecture began a massive redevelopment of this urban space. The issue of areas of bad housing had been nagging at officials since the beginning of the century: but how are the actions of the Seine prefecture to be explained from 1941 onwards? Why, during the Second World War, were city officials so determined to prioritise, indeed to focus exclusively on, îlot 16? Why was it that a Paris construction project of a scale not seen since Baron Haussmann's time was planned at this point, when the actors themselves described the economic and political situation as unfavourable?

scholarly journals Urban Citizenship and the Spatial Encounter between Turkish Migrants and Syrian Refugees in Berlin

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Burcu Togral Koca
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Migrant Group ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Turkish Migrants ◽  
The City ◽  
Intervening Factors

Abstract This article critically discusses how Turkish migrants as an established migrant group have interpreted and acted on the arrival of Syrian refugees in Berlin from 2015 onwards and whether their responses have resulted in new spaces in which new contestations and/or solidarities emerge. To this end, it focuses on the processes and the ways in which established groups (re-)articulate their urban citizenship and belonging to a particular urban space in relation to newcomers. Building on the analytical framework of relational and agency-centered articulation of urban citizenship and drawing on research data collected in the Kreuzberg and Neukölln neighborhoods of Berlin, the analysis has two main findings. Firstly, Turkish migrants have been involved in solidarity activities and contribute to a more inclusive urban citizenship regarding Syrian refugees. At the same time, they perceive Syrian refugees as a threat to their standing in the city and their right to the usage of urban space. This results in a more defensive urban citizenship against the refugees. Secondly, the unequal power relations and local, national and transitional dynamics act as intervening factors shaping Turkish migrants' responses to Syrian refugees and the process of urban citizenship formation.

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