scholarly journals Landscapes of hoping – urban expansion and emerging futures in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Hauer ◽  
Jonas Østergaard Nielsen ◽  
Jörg Niewöhner
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Life Trajectories

Hope is much discussed as a future-oriented affect emerging from uncertain living conditions. While this conceptualisation illuminates the role that hope plays in shaping life trajectories, hope itself remains largely unaddressed. In this paper, we approach hope ethnographically as practice through the lens of material-semiotics. We draw on fieldwork in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where hoping turns out to be co-constitutive of peri-urban life and landscape. We challenge person-centred understandings of hope in order to bring materiality back in two ways: first, hoping in its various modes and forms is always situated in particular settings, thus, its enactment has to be reflected; and second, hoping “takes place”, it is co-constitutive of the transformation of urban life. Additionally, we consider the temporality of hoping and highlight how hoping persists through urban space. We conclude that a more profound and thoroughly materialised understanding of hoping’s generative and stabilising potential may strengthen the role of anthropology in current research on socio-ecological transformations.

scholarly journals Gay Subculture and the Cities in India: A Critical Reading of Select Works of R Raj Rao

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sriya Das ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Ultimate Objective ◽  
The City ◽  
Indian Penal Code

In delineating the painful experiences of LGBTQ individuals after the introduction of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code R Raj Rao’s works look into the struggle of these people to survive the onslaught of normative sexual discourses. Given the fact that Queer sexuality has been continuously questioned, suspected and tormented prior to its legitimate recognition in 2018, Rao draws attention to the nuances of gay urban life in India. The paper critically analyses the representation of gay subculture in the cities of India as reflected in select works of Rao. It demystifies how gay people share the urban space, manage to make room for their pleasure in the cities, and pose a threat to the dominant understanding of sexuality. The ultimate objective of this paper is to understand the role of the city in the (un)making of a subcultural identity. Textual analysis, with reference to certain theoretical frameworks, would be used as a qualitative research method.

scholarly journals ELECTRIFICATION, URBAN LIFE AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (31) ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Odette Seabra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Role Of Women

Technological innovations have significantly changed the society in many ways. This paper analyses the major changes caused by the development and the spread of electric energy utilization in the production of urban space, in labour, in the organization of family and households, in everyday life and in the role of women, such as the changes brought to the households as an outcome of the introduction of everyday technologies in them, as well as in the role they play, whether in the job market, in the artistic and political vanguards and in the fight for rights, as well as in their role of household management as the person responsible for maintaining the conditions of social reproduction of their families. This debate is supported by the notions of modern, modernization, modernity and utopia, while highlights the contradictions and inequalities that remain and permeate the life of the working class in the cities.

Transformation of Urban Space by Smart Technologies

2020 ◽  
pp. 82-113
Author(s):  
Burak Belli ◽  
Turgay Kerem Koramaz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Urban Planning And Management ◽  
The City

This chapter evaluates the Istanbul Historical Peninsula, which has been the historical, cultural, and financial core of the city, in its quest for becoming smart(er) with reference to the five principles that are put forth by Mitchell, in his 1999 book e-topia. The chapter aims to define the role of ICTs in urban planning and management of Istanbul Historical Peninsula by depicting its fields of use in redesigning the societal, financial, and cultural aspects of urban life in the area. Additionally, the transformative feature of these technologies, used in urban planning, conservation, and heritage management, will be validated whether they serve for a vision and a strategic framework of transitioning the community into an information society.

scholarly journals Shanghai’s Regenerated Industrial Waterfronts: Urban Lab for Sustainability Transitions?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-196
Author(s):  
Harry Den Hartog
Keyword(s):  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Ecological Civilization ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Huangpu River ◽  
Urban Lab

In China, Shanghai often serves as a place to introduce and try out new ideas. This is certainly the case with experimental urban planning and design solutions and sustainability transitions. This article identifies and evaluates the role of pilot projects and demonstration zones along the Huangpu River. These clusters and zones are supposed to guide the urban regeneration of the former industrial waterfronts and to accelerate innovative development in Shanghai and the wider Yangtze Delta Region. The Huangpu River as a whole is considered an urban lab and a showcase of ecological civilisation policies, with a strong ‘people oriented’ focus on improving the overall quality and attractiveness of urban life. Following three decades of rapid urban expansion, Shanghai’s urban development model is shifting toward one that emphasizes densification and the reuse of existing elements. The motto of Shanghai’s latest master plan is “Striving for an Excellent Global City.” One of the pathways to realize this expectation is the creation of thematic clusters for creative industries, financial institutes, AI, and technology, media and telecommunication industries. These clusters are high-density investment projects meant to support and accelerate the transformation of Shanghai into a service economy. There are important similarities between these projects in Shanghai and the role of urban labs in theories of sustainability transitions. Drawing on these theories and those of ecological civilization, this article examines how these so-called ‘experimental’ urban megaprojects along the river contribute to Shanghai’s effort to take the lead in developing sustainable urban transitions.

scholarly journals The contemporary importance of the Old Canal area for the centre of Bydgoszcz and its influence on the city’s cultural landscape

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Iga Grześkow
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Canal Area ◽  
The City

European cities are centuries-old connections of social and cultural interrelations in which the history and heritage of generations have formed a specific model of collective life and culture. The nature, prestige and signs of urban life in these cities are best indicated by their public spaces and their structure and inclusion in the urban tissue. Being presentable areas as well as places of social intercourse and activity, public spaces form multipurpose areas which establishe the city’s cultural landscape. Simultaneously, the game for urban areas in the city and related economic interests, and market all activities promoting the city's image and interfering with the city’s structure, pose a threat to the sensible development of the most valuable parts of the urban space. Globalisation processes contribute to the unification and standardisation of any forms of life, including space. The need for maintaining the continuity of urban tissue requires that its historical traces be cultivated. In this context, the contemporary role of the Old Canal area for downtown Bydgoszcz and its influence on the development of the city’s cultural landscape are part of the current strategies for the cultureforming regeneration of urban space.

scholarly journals POLITICA HABITACIONAL E O CAPITAL PRIVADO EM PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE- SP

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 446
Author(s):  
Sibila Corral de Arêa Leão Honda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Relationship

POLITICA HABITACIONAL E O CAPITAL PRIVADO EM PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE- SP Este artigo visa à discussão da implementação da habitação social em cidades médias, no Brasil, na década de 2000, refletindo na produção do espaço urbano. A ênfase encontra-se no papel do Poder Público local e sua articulação com a iniciativa privada para a produção de moradias de baixa renda. Discute a relação entre as políticas urbanas e habitacionais e a implantação de empreendimentos pela iniciativa privada, seus mecanismos e efeitos na produção do espaço urbano, tendo como estudo de caso empreendimentos financiados pelo Programa de Arrendamento Residencial (PAR) da Caixa Econômica Federal, na cidade de Presidente Prudente, localizadano oeste do Estado de São Paulo. No caso tratado, a política urbana com ausência de diretrizes claras para a política habitacional induz a uma atuação direta do capital privado, que contribui para a produção de espaços segregados e excludentes.Palavras-chave: política urbana, expansão urbana, segregação socioespacial, habitação de interesse social; programa de arrendamento residencial.HOUSING POLICY AND THE PRIVATE CAPITAL IN PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE-SPAbstract: This article seeks the discussion of the implementation of social housing in medium-sized cities in Brazil in the 2000s decade, reflecting in the production of urban space. The emphasis is on the role of Local Government and its relationship with private enterprise for the production of low-income housing. It discusses the relationship between the urban and housing policies and the enterprises implementation by private initiative, its mechanisms and effects on the production of urban space, taking as study case projects financed by the Residential Leasing Program (PAR) of Caixa Econômica Federal, in the city of Presidente Prudente, located in the west of Sao Paulo state.In the case dealt, the lack of urban policy with clear guidelines for housing policy leads to a direct action of private capital, which contributes to the production of exclusive and segregated spaces.Keywords: urban policy, urban expansion, sociospatial segregation, social interest housing, residential leasing program.

Urban geography 1: ‘Big tech’ and the reshaping of urban space

2021 ◽  
pp. 030913252110219
Author(s):  
Donald Mcneill
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Market ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Global Platform ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Spatial Impacts ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

This report draws on the burgeoning geography literature on ‘big tech’ and how scholars have responded to its spatial impacts. First, it traces the revival in locational geographies and the role of global platform firms in shaping urban market geographies; second, it traces work on the urban governance and regulatory challenges posed by different types of capital; and technology entrepreneurship and start-up firms; third, it identifies work that has traced the impact of apps and platforms on the conduct of urban life, from delivery drivers to taxis to dating to real estate rental.

POST-SOVIET CITY AS A PALIMPSEST

2020 ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Elena A. Kosovan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
The Coordinator ◽  
Post Soviet Period

The author of the publication reviews the photobook “Palimpsests”, published in 2018 in the publishing house “Ad Marginem Press” with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. The book presents photos of post-Soviet cities taken by M. Sher. Preface, the author of which is the coordinator of the “Democracy” program of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Russia N. Fatykhova, as well as articles by M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush, which accompany these photos, contain explanation of the peculiarities of urban space formation and patterns of its habitation in the Soviet Union times and in the post-Soviet period. The author of the publication highly appreciates the publication under review. Analyzing the photographic works of M. Sher and their interpretation undertaken in the articles, the author of the publication agrees with the main conclusions of N. Fatykhova, M. Trudolyubov and K. Bush with regards to the importance of the role of the state in the processes of urban development and urbanization in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, but points out that the second factor that has a key influence on these processes is ownership relations. The paper positively assesses the approach proposed by the authors of the photobook to the study of the post-Soviet city as an architectural and landscape palimpsest consisting mainly of two layers, “socialist” and “capitalist”. The author of the publication specifically emphasizes the importance of analyzing the archetypal component of this palimpsest, pointing out that the articles published in the reviewed book do not pay sufficient attention to this issue. Particular importance is attributed by the author to the issue of metageography of post-Soviet cities and meta-geographical approach to their exploration. Emphasizing that the urban palimpsest is a system of realities, each in turn including a multitude of ideas, meanings, symbols, and interpretations, the author points out that the photobook “Palimpsests” is actually an invitation to a scientific game with space, which should start a new direction in the study of post-Soviet urban space.

Sharing Seoul: Appropriating Alleys as Communal Space through Localized Sharing Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Im Sik Cho ◽  
Blaž Križnik
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Communal Life ◽  
Relationship Networks ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Communal Space

Sharing practices are an important part of urban life. This article examines the appropriation of alleys as communal space to understand how sharing practices are embedded in localities, how communal space is constituted and maintained, and how this sustains communal life. In this way, the article aims to understand the spatial dimension of sharing practices, and the role of communal space in strengthening social relationship networks and urban sustainability. Seowon Maeul and Samdeok Maeul in Seoul are compared in terms of their urban regeneration approaches, community engagement in planning, street improvement, and the consequences that the transformation had on the appropriation of alleys as communal space. The research findings show that community engagement in planning is as important as the provision of public space if streets are to be appropriated as communal space. Community engagement has changed residents' perception and use of alleys as a shared resource in the neighbourhood by improving their capacity to act collectively and collaborate with other stakeholders in addressing problems and opportunities in cities.

scholarly journals John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the Privatization of New York City, 1969-1973

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-577
Author(s):  
Joe Merton
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Urban Problems

Focusing on the collaboration between Mayor John Lindsay and business advocacy group the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), this article illustrates the utility of public and elite anxieties over street crime in legitimizing new, privatized models of urban governance during the early 1970s. ABNY’s privatized crime-fighting initiatives signified a new direction in city law enforcement strategies, a new “common sense” regarding the efficacy and authority of private or voluntarist solutions to urban problems, and proved of lasting significance for labor relations, the regulation of urban space, and the role of the private sector in urban policy. It concludes that, despite their limitations, the visibility of ABNY’s initiatives, their ability to construct a pervasive sense of crisis, and their apparent demonstration of public and elite consent played a significant role in the transformation of New York into the “privatized” or “neoliberal” city of today.

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