scholarly journals Volumetric urbanism: The production and extraction of Singaporean territory

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Air Conditioning ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Controlled Environments ◽  
Key Sites

This paper examines how state territorial development strategies, financial and regulatory practices and architectural and engineering expertise shape ‘volumetric’ urban space. In doing so, it frames the built environment as being an envelope through which state accumulation strategies are materialized through both the technical manipulation of territory and the metrics that accompany it. It focuses on a key site of post-Independence Singaporean urbanism, the Marina Bay area, to examine how dimensional urban development has been combined with governance practices to produce and extract new territory. The paper illustrates this through three processes: the engineering of land platforms that could be developed to expand the logistical productivity of Singaporean territory; the deployment of ‘atmospheric engineering’ such as the use of air-conditioning technologies in creating controlled environments that maximize the value of interiorized territory; and the creation of a calculative regime for governing underground space. It describes how Singaporean state agencies have deployed experts in engineering, surveying and architecture, as well as implementing new legislation and regulation in producing these volumetric affordances. It is argued in conclusion that the calculative manipulation of key sites in the built environments of global cities such as Singapore should be accorded more significance within studies of nation-state territorial strategy, and the geopolitics of cities.

scholarly journals Underground space and contemporary museum

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-203
Author(s):  
Ivan A. Grinko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Underground Space

Recently, museum designers engaged in exploring dungeons, following archaeologists and diggers. Such interest in transformation of the underground space into a museum space has not yet been sufficiently analyzed, so the article considers a variety of examples from the modern practice of turning underground spaces into museums. In addition to sociocultural examples related to the special features of the urban space or the preservation of a unique landscape, I would like to draw special attention to the importance of archetypes associated with underground spaces when designing a modern museum exposition.

scholarly journals Research on the Development and Utilization of Underground Space in Small and Medium-sized Cities in East China Based on Case Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04076
Author(s):  
Zhinan Gao ◽  
Wanfeng Liu ◽  
Xusheng Li ◽  
Yun Wei
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
East China ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
Space Capacity

The development and utilization of underground space is an effective way to solve the shortage of urban space capacity. It is also an inevitable choice for the sustainable development of urban underground space. The development and utilization of underground space in small and medium-sized cities in China started relatively late and lacked practical basis. This paper selects three representative small and medium-sized cities in east China to study the status quo, contents and achievements of underground space development and utilization, makes a comparative analysis, and puts forward the overall characteristics of underground space development and utilization in small and medium-sized cities, hoping to provide reference for the development and utilization of underground space in small and medium-sized cities in the future.

scholarly journals Exploring Challenges in Space Syntax Theory Building: The Use of Positivist and Hermeneutic Explanatory Models

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akkelies van Nes ◽  
Claudia Yamu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Market Rationality ◽  
High Degree

The planning and building of sustainable cities and communities yields operational theories on urban space. The novelty of this paper is that it discusses and explores the challenges for space syntax theory building within two key research traditions: positivism and hermeneutics. Applying a theory of science perspective, we first discuss the explanatory power of space syntax and its applications. Next, we distinguish between theories that attempt to explain a phenomenon and theories that seek to understand it, based on Von Wright’s modal logics and Bhaskar’s critical realism models. We demonstrate that space syntax research that focuses on spatial configurative changes in built environments, movement and economic activities can explain changes in a built environment in terms of cause and effect (positivism), whereas historical research or research focusing on social rationality, space and crime or cognition seeks to develop an understanding of the inherent cultural meaning of the space under investigation (hermeneutics). Evidently, the effect of human intentions and behaviour on spatial structures depends on the type of rationality underlying these intentions, which is the focus of this study. Positivist explanatory models are appropriate for examining market rationality in cases that entail unambiguous intentionality and that are associated with a high degree of predictability. By contrast, other kinds of reasoning require a hermeneutic understanding.

Overview of seismic methods for Urban Underground Space

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Zhenning Ma ◽  
Rongyi Qian
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Active Faults ◽  
Seismic Profile ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Underground Engineering ◽  
Active Source ◽  
Seismic Methods ◽  
Ambient Noise Method ◽  
Wave Methods

The development of Urban Underground Space (UUS) has become an effective way to solve the problem of urban space. Seismic methods have achieved good results in underground engineering construction, active faults detection, urban geological structure detection and other fields. Active source seismic methods in UUS include reflection methods, refraction methods, surface wave methods and vertical seismic profile (VSP) methods and so on. Ambient noise method is also rising gradually, which becomes an important method of urban underground space detection in the future, because it overcomes the problem that the active source method is interfered by urban noise. We briefly summarize these methods and introduce the application examples of UUS.

scholarly journals Brand Identifiers as a Tool of Territorial Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-143
Author(s):  
Ella Mitina ◽  
Natalia Kalkova ◽  
Olga Yarosh
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
Information Labor ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City

One of the promising areas of scientific research today is branding of territories. This issue is widely covered in the context of territorial marketing. Brand influence on recipient’s behavior is a significant brand management goal. That is why branding is actively used today in economy, in particular, when creating a territorial image. The development of urban space is predetermined by the need to form strategic guidelines that are adaptive to the existing competitive potential of the territory, dynamically changing environmental conditions, and toughening competition in the investment, information, labor, event, tourist and other markets. In this regard, the issues of territory’s promotion in the domestic and intercountry spaces by means of creating a recognizable urban brand which is associated with the most significant competitive advantages of the territory become more and more crucial. The importance of understanding the category of territory branding in the economic context is determined, in our opinion, by the formation of a territory brand, which helps to significantly strengthen the regional identity aimed at the elimination of various contradictions of religious, national character, as well as solution of problematic issues connected with the coexistence of various social groups within the same region. In order to determine the influence of brand identifiers on the economic development of the region, the authors have conducted a marketing study among the population of the Republic of Crimea, in which 242 respondents from various social and age groups took part. The survey reveals: respondents’ awareness of regional symbols depending on their age; respondents’ emotional perception of the logo of the city of Yalta; associative perception of the logo of the city of Saki; visual perception of the logo of the city of Kerch; knowledge of the logo of the city of Sudak; associative perception of the logo of the city of Feodosia; attitude of the population of the Republic of Crimea to the logos of cities in the region.

scholarly journals ESSENCE AND PRINCIPLES OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF URBAN SPACE

2018 ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
V. A. Dianova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Comprehensive Planning ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Current State ◽  
The City

Rational planning of urban space is an important task, the level of resolution of which largely determines the quality of life of citizens. In addition, the rating of the city as the most convenient for life, or having a developed infrastructure has an impact on its investment attractiveness and, as a consequence, on the employment of the population in the production of goods and services. Therefore, the standard of living of people living in this municipality depends on how well and strategically planned the urban space is. The principles of the organization of life support systems of economic structures, basic management methods, urban planning of public works, the distribution of funds for their implementation and monitoring of implementation are fundamental to effective management. The article deals with the modern management of the city through the prism of the concept of spatial development, the use of which is necessary for regions with heterogeneous spatial structure. Since in the system of management of complex socio-economic development of the city is a fragment of the current state machine, the objectives of the management of the city - is the implementation of the tasks that can be carried out only within the framework of comprehensive planning of the state territorial development. The essence of strategic planning of the city should be considered as a social Corporation, reflecting and defending the interests of its citizens, urban communities, organizations and enterprises.

scholarly journals Greening Design of Urban Semi-underground Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 03025
Author(s):  
Chen Yu
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Ecological Design ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Green Wall ◽  
Design Scheme

Urban space greening is of great significance for improving urban underground space environment. At present, the design of urban underground space in China mostly involves the design of underground space. However, very rare research has been conducted on the design of semi-underground space greening to date. Through case study and survey research, this study focuses on the design of domestic semi-underground space, the preliminary semi-underground space greening design scheme, and the concrete implementation process of the semi-underground public space green wall greening design. The current study employs the green wall project in a semi-underground space environment as an example to illustrate the application of greening design in urban semi-underground space, and provide guidance for future ecological design of semiunderground public space.

scholarly journals Killing Images: Iconoclasm and the Art of Political Insult in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Portuguese India

Itinerario ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-489
Author(s):  
Jorge Flores ◽  
Giuseppe Marcocci
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Key Sites

The article builds on a succession of visually disturbing events that occurred in Goa—the capital city of Portuguese India—during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the early years of the Portuguese conquest (1510), Goa went through a redefinition of its urban space, which implied the appropriation and re-semantization of buildings and other key sites of the old Muslim city. This process included the spread of images and symbols related to several Portuguese viceroys, soon-to-be targets of acts of political insult and even political iconoclasm performed by their Portuguese opponents in a context of growing factionalism. We speak namely of episodes of protest against places of memory associated to different clans, encompassing statues (both official and bogus), textual inscriptions, and viceroys’ portraits. These were European phenomena to a large extent, but coloured by significant local and native elements. The article engages with a grid of questions that places real statues, satirical effigies, and erased faces (and the diverse reactions they have aroused) in dialogue with current debates on popular politics; high and low vis-à-vis the colonial social fabric; the uses of public space; verbal, written, and visual insult; political languages; and disputed authority in an imperial setting.

Picket lines and parades: labour and urban space in early twentieth-century London and Chicago

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH PERCY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
City Space ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTGarment strikes in London and Chicago provide a setting to consider the role of the city in early twentieth-century labour struggles. While strikers in the two cities shared similar experiences and confronted similar imaginings of the city, they faced different built environments. The comparative approach thus highlights the importance of considering spatial dynamics when studying strikers’ strategies. Journalists’ and other onlookers’ responses to picket lines, parades or mass meetings reflected normative understandings and expectations of workers’ behaviour, especially if those workers were young, women or ethnic minorities. The article considers the ways in which strikers in early twentieth-century London and Chicago transgressed contemporary perceptions of their cities by appropriating city space and by subverting behavioural norms in spaces where they did belong. I argue that the strikers drew attention to their struggles via their atypical use of the city streets and that occupying these spaces helped unify the strikers and thus strengthen the strike.

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