From a Barrio Chino Urban Stigma to the Raval Cultural Brand: Urban Memory and Cultural Policies in the Renewal of Central Barcelona

Journal of Urban History ◽

10.1177/0096144220981117 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 009614422098111

Author(s):

Joaquim Rius-Ulldemolins ◽

Ricardo Klein

Keyword(s):

Red Light ◽

Cultural Institutions ◽

City Center ◽

Cultural Planning ◽

Historic Center ◽

Global Tourism ◽

Change Projects ◽

Urban Branding ◽

The City ◽

Red Light District

Barcelona, and especially, its historic center, has undergone a profound transformation from an industrial city to a global tourism and services center. Some authors insist on the destructive nature of the urban regeneration of the historic Barcelona district of Raval as a process of de-identification of the city center or as an intentional falsification of its identity to turn it into a tourist space. However, as we discuss in this article, urban branding and urban change projects should address not only the infrastructural issues of transformation, but also the development of new urban branding based on recreating a memory of the place. Thus, in the case of Raval, the urban and cultural planning led by the local government and the development of cultural institutions took place as part of the construction and revitalization of the identity of the neighborhood from that of a barrio chino red-light district stigma to one of a new cultural quarter.

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'Joy': Memorialisation and the Limits of Tolerance

Public History Review ◽

10.5130/phrj.v15i0.744 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 15 ◽

Author(s):

Rae Frances ◽

Julie Kimber

Keyword(s):

Red Light ◽

The Public ◽

South Wales ◽

Marble Dust ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

The Subject ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

The City ◽

Red Light District ◽

Late Twentieth Century

While there are a growing number of ‘counter-hegemonic’ monuments in Australia, the numerous workers’ memorials commemorating heroic male figures ¬– coalminers, truck drivers, timber workers and wharf labourers – retain the exclusionary characteristic of traditional or ‘institutional’ memorialising. Many such memorials nourish a masculinist, albeit working class, vision of Australia’s nation building efforts, while commemoration of the lives of women – beyond ‘the exceptional’ – is rare in the public sphere. This article examines one such rarity: the statue of ‘Joy’ commemorating the lives of women who worked as prostitutes in the ‘red light’ district of East Sydney, an urban environment then in the later stages of gentrification. ‘Joy’ is a memorial resembling the more recent tradition of ‘new genre’ public art; art that ‘seeks to disrupt prevailing conceptions of the city’. When the larger-than-life cement, marble dust and steel statue took up her position on the street in East Sydney, New South Wales, it elicited widespread controversy. It is these different responses that are the subject of this article. They provide a snapshot of late-twentieth century Sydney views on prostitution and history.

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Dzsentrifikáció Szöul belvárosában– Cshonggjecshon

Földrajzi Közlemények ◽

10.32643/fk.145.1.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 145 (1) ◽

pp. 32-49

Keyword(s):

Local Communities ◽

Economic Damage ◽

Turn Of The Millennium ◽

City Center ◽

The Road ◽

Historic Center ◽

One Step ◽

The Cost ◽

The City

Until the mid-20th century, the historic center of Seoul was divided by a stream in a west-east direction. By the 1950s, the water of the stream had become so polluted that only the full coverage of it could solve the resulting problems. An elevated highway was built in its place. At the turn of the millennium, as part of the rehabilitation of the district, the former creek was excavated, the road demolished and an artificial natural environment created. Although the reconstruction was intended to strengthen the historic character of the city center, the artificial watercourse and the emphasized role of tourism discredited the project to socially-minded critics. In this study, we present all of this, but go one step further and interpret the socio-economic damage resulting from the disintegration of local communities in the working-class neighborhood that has develop dover the decades as the cost of renewal.

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Evaluation of the Use of a City Center through the Use of Bluetooth Sensors Network

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11041002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 1002

Author(s):

Javier Martínez Plumé ◽

Juan Marténez Durá ◽

Ramón Cirilo Gimeno ◽

Francisco Soriano García ◽

Antonio García Celda

Keyword(s):

Smart Cities ◽

Low Cost ◽

Motor Vehicles ◽

Connected Vehicle ◽

City Center ◽

New Classification ◽

Urban Network ◽

Historic Center ◽

High Level ◽

The City

In order to achieve the objectives of Smart Cities, public administrations need to take measures to regulate mobility, which undoubtedly requires a high level of information and sensorization. Until the implementation of the connected vehicle takes place, it is still necessary to install sensors to obtain information about mobility. Bluetooth sensors are becoming a useful tool due to the low cost of equipment and installation. The use of Bluetooth sensors in cities, with short distances between sensors, makes it necessary to propose new classification algorithms that allow the trips of pedestrians and vehicles to be differentiated. This article presents the study carried out in the city of Valencia to determine the use of motor vehicles in the historic center and propose a new classification algorithm to distinguish between an onboard Bluetooth device and the same device carried by a pedestrian when it is not possible to use the travel time for the classification due to the short distance between sensors. This causes very similar or even indistinguishable travel times for vehicles and for pedestrians. We also propose an algorithm that allows vehicles to be classified according to what type of trip is made always through the historical center of Valencia, whether it is to make a shorter itinerary through the city or to access the center for any type of business. This algorithm would enable the Origin-Destination matrix of an urban network with short distances between sensors if they are available in all entries and exits. Likewise, the results obtained have allowed to positively evaluate the algorithm defined to distinguish between trips made by a pedestrian or a vehicle in a city, using the MAC address of their mobile devices with very short distances among sensors. The results of this study show that it is possible to use Bluetooth technology, with low cost installations, to evaluate the use of the city by motor vehicles.

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Viewing Rome in the Latin Literature of the Ventennio Fascista: Francesco Giammaria’s Capitolium Novum

Fascism ◽

10.1163/22116257-00802002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 153-178

Author(s):

Nicolò Bettegazzi ◽

Han Lamers ◽

Bettina Reitz-Joosse

Keyword(s):

Detailed Analysis ◽

Latin Literature ◽

City Center ◽

Christian Mission ◽

Historic Center ◽

The Third ◽

The City

Abstract This article analyses Francesco Giammaria’s Capitolium Novum, a Latin poem describing a tour of the historic center of Rome in 1933, in its historical, architectural, and intellectual contexts. It offers a detailed analysis of three key sections of the poem, which deal with the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine, and the Ara dei caduti fascisti respectively. The authors show how Giammaria’s poem responds to urbanistic interventions in the city center during the ventennio, and specifically to the Fascist ‘recoding’ of the city as the ‘Third Rome’, with a narrative emphasizing the historically layered nature of Rome. Giammaria offers his own interpretation of the respective importance and interrelation of the city’s historic layers: the rhetoric of his poem is aimed at superimposing Catholic Rome over pagan Rome, and at framing all historical layers of the city, including the Fascist one, as part of its Christian mission and destiny. Thus, Capitolium novum resonates with efforts of intellectuals gathered around Carlo Galassi Paluzzi’s Istituto di Studi Romani, who aimed to promote a cultural reconciliation between Fascism and Catholicism.

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APPEARANCE PRINCIPLES OF HIGH RISE BUILDINGS IN THE CITY CENTER: VISUAL EFECT TO HISTORICAL HERITAGE, REGULATION PROPOSALS / AUKŠTYBINIŲ PASTATŲ MIESTO CENTRE ATSIRADIMO PRINCIPAI: VIZUALINIS POVEIKIS ISTORINIAM PAVELDUI, REGLAMENTAVIMO SIŪLYMAI

Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis ◽

10.3846/mla.2016.866 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 13-28

Author(s):

Lina Panavaitė

Keyword(s):

Urban Design ◽

City Center ◽

Design Concepts ◽

Historic Center ◽

High Rise ◽

Virtual City ◽

Historical Heritage ◽

Visual Impact ◽

Methodological Principles ◽

The City

High rise buildings is the phenomenon of XXI century, the expression of city’s economic and political power. This is the reflection of contemporary, modern and attractive city. Very often high rise buildings, who are characterized by a unique morphology, the parameters of high, density and intensity, are built near the historic center areas and cause irreversible visual impact on the historic sites, fundamentally altering the silhouette of the city. As a result, new problems and challenges appear. In this article the evolution of high rise buildings according to London, Jerusalem, Ottawa, Vilnius cities examples is analysed, the latest methodological principles which are applicable to control the development of high-rise buildings in the central parts of the city, while providing preservation and representation of cultural heritage are discussed. The latest computer technologies which are applied in urban regulations are presented. In case of Lithuania, high-rise building spatial development, general, spatial planning documents, urban design concepts, and monitoring of virtual city panoramas are reviewed. Comparative analysis in order to find out the essential methodological differences between cities regulation systems is done. Aukštybiniai pastatai – XXI a. fenomenas, miestų ekonominės, politinės galios išraiška. Tai šiuolaikinio, modernaus ir patrauklaus miesto atspindys. Labai dažnai aukštybinis užstatymas, pasižymintis savita morfologija, aukščio ir tūrio parametrais, dideliu užstatymo tankiu ir intensyvumu, atsiranda istorinių centrų prieigose, sukeldamas negrįžtamą vizualinį poveikį istoriniam paveldui, iš esmės pakeisdamas miesto siluetą. Dėl to atsiranda naujų problemų ir uždavinių. Straipsnyje nagrinėjama aukštybinių pastatų reglamentavimo evoliucija pagal Londono, Jeruzalės, Otavos ir Vilniaus miestų pavyzdį. Norint suvaldyti aukštybinių pastatų plėtrą šių miestų centrinėse dalyse, taikomi naujausi metodologiniai principai, numatant išsaugoti ir reprezentuoti ir kultūros paveldo objektus. Aptariamos naujausių kompiuterinių technologijų taikymo galimybės reglamentuojant miestus. Lietuvos atveju apžvelgiama Vilniaus miesto aukštybinių pastatų statybos raida, bendrojo, specialiojo planavimo dokumentai, parengtos koncepcijos, virtualių miesto panoramų monitoringas. Atliekama lyginamoji analizė, norint išsiaiškinti esminius metodologijų ir reglamentavimo skirtumus miestuose.

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WhatsApp and Cell Phones Among Sex Workers in India: The Impact of ICT in the Banaras Red-Light District

American Behavioral Scientist ◽

10.1177/0002764220952110 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (13) ◽

pp. 1834-1849 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laura Minestroni ◽

Edoardo Elia Avio

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technology ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Sex Workers ◽

Red Light ◽

Symbolic Violence ◽

National Scale ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Red Light District

The aim of this work is threefold: first, to show how, in the context of the gentrification process in the city of Banaras (now Varanasi) in India, social networking, and in particular WhatsApp video calls, make up an attempt by young sex workers in the red-light district (i.e., Shivdaspur) to overcome the spatial entrapment, physical and identity displacement issues resulting from the policies of “beautification,” and urban development of the city. For young sex workers, information and communication technology represents an opportunity toward an unprecedented self-reflexive drive which, beyond a misrecognition of their profession and the symbolic violence it represents, could reinforce their understanding of the outside world to position themselves better within their surrounding society; second, to describe the testimony of older sex workers, according to whom, the Internet “normalizes” sexual violence on a national scale where it is strictly connected to the spread of pornography on the web; finally, to analyze, through an emic approach based on informal interviews, the complexities and potentiality of the information and communication technology for development in this context to shed more light on the design of research and intervention.

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Genesis of a red-light district: prostitution in Nantes between 1750 and 1810

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926813000308 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 22-41

Author(s):

MARION PLUSKOTA

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Red Light ◽

Provincial City ◽

Judicial Archives ◽

The City ◽

Red Light District

ABSTRACT:This article examines the origins of a red-light district in a French provincial city before the implementation of official regulation. It aims at redefining the role of prostitutes, police and society in the development of ‘reserved districts’. Based on the study of judicial archives over a 60-year period, the mapping of the spatial distribution of prostitutes in Nantes reveals the spread of prostitution in most of the city's districts. However, the migrations and movement of prostitutes within the city show a gradual clustering over two districts: this was motivated by economic rationales and was initiated by the prostitutes and, only later in the century, encouraged by the police and community.

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Modernism, Space and the City

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633470.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Thacker

Keyword(s):

Built Environment ◽

Joseph Conrad ◽

Jean Rhys ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Cultural Institutions ◽

European Cities ◽

Blaise Cendrars ◽

Stephen Spender ◽

Christopher Isherwood ◽

The City

This innovative book examines the development of modernism in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. Focusing upon how literary and cultural outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect, mood, and literary geography to offer an original account of the geographical emotions of modernism. It considers three broad features of urban modernism: the built environment of the particular cities, such as cafés or transport systems; the cultural institutions of publishing that underpinned the development of modernism in these locations; and the complex perceptions of writers and artists who were outsiders to the four cities. Particular attention is thus given to the transnational qualities of modernism by examining figures whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles, or strangers. The writers and artists discussed include Mulk Raj Anand, Gwendolyn Bennett, Bryher, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selon, and Stephen Spender.

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