Million Trees for Warsaw: Managing pollution crisis through green renewal

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110095
Author(s):  
Jana Hrckova
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Mitigation Strategy ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Heating Systems ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Car Traffic ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Green Governance ◽  
The City

The article proposes the notion of a “spectacle of repair,” a carefully calibrated social technology of green governance aimed at managing the environmental degradation through control over images in Warsaw, Poland. Using case studies Million Trees for Warsaw project and a candidacy for the Green Capital of Europe and building on political ecology literature that addresses the rise of new opportunities for capitalist expansion through restoration activity, this article claims that the production of the green policy sphere allows for a creation of an array of possible “green” actions in the city that are presented as interchangeable and effectively commensurable. As the municipality heavily invests in greenery and a removal of visible signs of messiness and dirt in the city, the depoliticized spectacle of a clean and green urban space focuses on creating an image of the authorities actively combating the pollution as well as working towards making Warsaw more “livable.” At the same time, the two major roots of pollution found in ever-increasing car traffic and old coal-heating systems remain insufficiently addressed amid a lack of political will. The paper argues that mitigation strategy of the city hall thus heavily relies on a management of visibilities; attempting to alleviate the citizens’ pressure to tackle the largely invisible air pollution by delivering the tidy greenery desired by the urban elites, keeping the city fit for competing in the global neoliberal economy.

scholarly journals GRANDES EMPREENDIMENTOS HABITACIONAIS NA CIDADE DE UBERLÂNDIA – MG

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivone Tavares Batista ◽  
Julio Cesar De Lima Ramires
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Real Estate Projects ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Land Space

LARGE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CITY OF UBERLÂNDIA – MGGRANDES EMPRENDIMIENTOS HABITACIONALES EN LA CIUDAD DE UBERLÂNDIA – MGO presente artigo busca demostrar e equiparar algumas formas de ocupação do espaço territorial urbano, onde os empreendimentos imobiliários, em parcerias com o Governo Federal, trazem para os municípios os conjuntos habitacionais, que comtemplam principalmente a população de baixa renda. Este trabalho objetiva analisar os empreendimentos habitacionais de interesse social implantados ao longo de décadas na cidade de Uberlândia, os quais implicam grandes efeitos na conjuntura urbana da cidade. Utiliza-se, como metodologia principal, pesquisas de arquivos da Prefeitura Municipal de Uberlândia, tendo como resultado o número de famílias atendidas pelos programas de habitação popular, o que traz a lume o grande valor da expansão das políticas públicas em relação à casa própria. Foi destacado, como objeto de análise, o grande empreendimento implantado no Setor Sul da cidade, denominado de Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI e VII, que colaborou para a diminuição da falta de moradia no Município de Uberlândia – MG.Palavras-chave: Espaço Urbano; Conjuntos Habitacionais; Ocupações Irregulares; Governo.ABSTRACTArticle present search demonstrate and match some forms of occupation of urban land space, where real estate projects with government partnerships bring to the municipalities the housing, which will mainly contemplate the low-income population, may provide these quality a dignified life. This work aims to analyze the housing developments of social interest implanted over decades in the city of Uberlândia using as main methodology searches files of the City Hall of Uberlândia resulting in the number of families served by the popular housing programs, realizing how much is necessary expansion of public policies in relation to home ownership. It was highlighted as analyzed in the great enterprise implant in Sector South of the city, called Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI and VII, which contributed to the reduction of homelessness in the city of Uberlândia - MG.Keywords: Urban Space; Housing Estates; Illegal Occupation; Government.RESUMEN El presente artículo busca demostrar y equipar algunas formas de ocupación del espacio territorial urbano, donde los emprendimientos inmobiliarios en alianzas con el Gobierno, traen a los municipios los conjuntos habitacionales, que van a comportarse principalmente a la población de bajos ingresos. Este trabajo objetiva analizar los emprendimientos habitacionales de interés social implantados a lo largo de décadas en la ciudad de Uberlândia utilizando como metodología principal investigaciones archivos del Ayuntamiento Municipal de Uberlândia dando como resultado el número de familias atendidas por los programas de vivienda popular, percibiendo cuán necesaria es la expansión de las políticas públicas en relación a la casa propia. Se destacó como objeto de análisis el gran emprendimiento implantado en el Sector Sur de la ciudad, denominado de Shopping Park III, IV, V, VI y VII, que colaboró para la disminución de la falta de vivienda en el Municipio de Uberlândia - MG.Palabras clave: Espacio Urbano; Conjuntos Habitacionales; Ocupaciones Irregulares; Gobierno.

scholarly journals Habitation, Urban Context and Psychosocial Rehabilitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruna Mota Rodrigues ◽  
Mauro César de Oliveira Santos ◽  
Ivani Bursztyn
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
The West ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
The City

This paper articulates architecture, urbanism and mental health through the study of specific habitation, called Therapeutic Residences, for people with severe mental illness who undergo psychosocial rehabilitation. The study analyzes the insertion of these habitations in the urban scheme, in relation to the possibilities of social coexistence, access to commerce, services and other public equipment through the presentation of two case studies located in the west zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Besides the considerations linked to the urban space in its physical sense, it also touches on the subjective questions inherent to the exchanges and experiences possible in this context. The methodological strategies correspond to the survey and data analysis along with a qualitative approach. Information made available by City Hall and Mental Health Office, satellite images, semi-structured interviews directed to professionals involved in assisting at the Therapeutic Residences and, in the case of the habitants, open interviews were used. The results indicate the offer of services, the location and the relation of the houses with the street as fundamental factors to the stimulus of social coexistence. It is concluded that the closed condominium model exclusive to TR, in addition to the fragility and difficulties in the urban area in which it is inserted, it hinders the process of psychosocial rehabilitation and it still refers to the idea of an asylum institution. The model of a one-story house integrated to the consolidated urban fabric suggests more possibilities of creating community ties and appropriating the urban space.

Solutions to the problem of safe pedestrian traffic flow in cities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Biliszczuk ◽  
Hanna Onysyk ◽  
Marco Teichgraeber ◽  
Robert Toczkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Car Traffic ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Odra River ◽  
Existing Bridges ◽  
The City

<p>Heavy car traffic on main streets is nowadays a major problem of modern cities. In order to improve safety of pedestrians and cyclists and at the same time maintain fluent car traffic flow, a separation of those two traffic types may be desirable in some cases. This paper presents different possible solutions to this problem implemented in Polish cities.</p><p>Underpasses or footbridges across busy streets in urbanized areas can be an alternative to pedestrian crossings. Footbridges apart from ensuring safe communication, can be attractive architectural elements of urban space. The cable stayed footbridge in Jaworzno will not only facilitate safe pedestrian communication between a large housing estate and a sports hall, but is likely to become a landmark of the city.</p><p>An attractive proposal for pedestrians and cyclists moving along crowded and polluted streets are routes marked out on riverside areas. The footbridges connecting islands on the Odra River in Wrocław not only have enabled efficient communication, but also have changed the islands into easily accessible places of relaxation. Free communication along the river embankments intersected by busy routes can be facilitated by building additional passages under existing bridges. The subject of the competition in Poznań was a footbridge over the Warta River, located close to the historical part of the city. Its implementation, apart from the main function of connecting the university campus with the city centre, will create a great recreational place for students and all citizens.</p><p>An unusual supplement for traditional means of transport in urbanized area can be an aerial tramway line. “Polinka” cable car that connects both parts of the campus of Wrocław University of Science and Technology separated by the Odra River have turned out to be an unconventional and attractive alternative to a typical footbridge.</p>

scholarly journals A luta diária dos mototaxistas em Campina Grande-PB

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anny Glayni Veiga Timóteo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Taxi Driver ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Low Education ◽  
Driver's License ◽  
Job Category ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The City

Diante da diversidade de ocupações trabalhistas encontrada no meio urbano de Campina Grande- PB surge uma nova categoria de trabalho: os mototaxistas. Utilizando a motocicleta como meio de trabalho, estes são responsáveis pelo deslocamento de passageiros na cidade. Muitos usuários preferem utilizar esse meio de transporte para fugir dos congestionamentos. Iniciando a partir de uma empresa privada, os mototaxistas ganharam as ruas da cidade. Com o crescimento exorbitante dessa categoria, a prefeitura juntamente com a Superintendência de Trânsito e Transportes Públicos (STTP) iniciou um cadastro para esses trabalhadores. Foram detectados três tipos de mototaxistas: aqueles cadastrados, os que prestam serviço na empresa privada e ainda os clandestinos. A atividade surge como possibilidade de trabalho acessível para pessoas com baixa escolaridade, exigindo-se apenas uma carteira de habilitação indicada e a motocicleta. Dessa forma a hipótese que norteia esse estudo baseia-se no surgimento da categoria “Moto-taxi” como uma forma de inserir homens e mulheres no mercado de trabalho urbano.Palavras- Chave: Trânsito. Moto-táxi. Trabalho. Motorcycle taxi driver´s daily struggle in Campina Grande-PBAbstractGiven the diversity of labor occupations found in the urban space of Campina Grande – PB, comes a new job category: the motorcycle taxi drivers. Using the motorcycle as working mean, they are responsible for the locomotion of passengers in the city. Many users prefer to use this means of transport to escape traffic. Starting as a private company, the motorcycle taxi drivers took to the streets of the city. With the incredible growth of this category, the city hall along with the Office of Traffic and Public Transport (STTP) started a registry for these workers. Were detected three types of motorcycle taxi drivers: those registered, those who serve in private enterprise and the illegal ones. The activity comes as the possibility of work accessible to people with low education, requiring only a driver's license and the motorcycle. Thus the hypothesis that guides this study is based on the birth of the "Moto-taxi" category as a way to put men and women in the urban labor market.Keywords: Traffic. Motorcycle taxi. Work

scholarly journals The capibaribe park project, Recife: using the river to reinvent the city

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-353
Author(s):  
Fabiano Rocha Diniz ◽  
Luiz Vieira Filho ◽  
Roberto Montezuma
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Coherent Image ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Recife is an amphibious city whose urban development does not value its rivers. In the past, the city’s main watercourse, the river Capibaribe, was understood to play a key role in structuring urban spaces and providing connectivity. Since then, this understanding has dwindled, and the resulting situation is a cause of great concern. Recife City has turned its back on the banks of its rivers and neglected both their capacity to smooth and shape urban space, and their potential to create a coherent image of the city. Recife is one of those cities in the world that are most vulnerable to climate change, ranking 16th in the list of world hotspots. In order to confront these challenges and rethink the role of the river that runs in the heart of Recife, researchers, architects, engineers, and sociologists from Research and Innovation for Cities — Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (INCITI-UFPE) were invited by the Recife City Hall to draw up plans for a park stretching along the river’s banks. Capibaribe Park Project attempts to answer one key question: How can we use the river to transform the city? The park project is based on a structural approach to landscape and is guided by the precepts of sustainability and regeneration of public spaces, in line with the emerging paradigm that combines a cross-disciplinary and cross-sector approach with water-sensitive design and social participation. The present article presents an overview of the main characteristics and development of this project, its theoretical and methodological underpinnings, its contribution to society, and the results achieved so far. It shows how, in addition to the planned park, the project also envisages the installation of a much more extensive system of parks, as a first stage towards the creation of park-city by the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Recife, in 2037.

Transnational Habitus and Sociability in the City: Zimbabwean Migrants’ Experiences in Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khangelani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
The City

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

Ukraina Wschodnia jako przestrzeń symboliczna w prozie Serhija Żadana – na podstawie powieści Woroszyłowgrad i Mezopotamia

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Marta Zambrzycka ◽  
Paulina Olechowska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
City Space ◽  
Current Events ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

The subject of the article is an analysis of the three aspects of depicting urban space of Eastern Ukraine, focusing specifi cally on the Donbass region and the city of Kharkov as depicted in the novels Voroshilovgrad (2010) and Mesopotamia (2014) by Serhiy Zhadan. The urban space of Eastern Ukraine overlaps with the most important values that shape a person’s personality and aff ect her or his self-identifi cation. The city space is also a “place of memory” and experiences of generations that infl uence current events. In addition to the historical and axiological dimension, the imaginative aspect of space is also important. This approach is used by the author to describe the urban space as a functioning imagination or stereotypes associated with it as opposed to its realistic depiction.

Categorias analíticas do espaço e Turismo: o exemplo da Fortaleza de Santa Cruz, Niterói/RJ

GEOgraphia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ângelo Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Guanabara Bay ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Spatial Dynamic ◽  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
The City

O objetivo que permeia a presente pesquisa é utilizar a Fortaleza de Santa Cruz, localizada no bairro de Jurujuba, em Niterói, construída em 1555, na entrada da barra da Baía de Guanabara, como foco de antílise, ressaltando a importância deste fixo social enquanto atração turística e de lazer, incluindo a cidade de Niterói no circuito destas atividades, complementares à cidade do Rio de Janeiro; além de abordar conceitos e categorias analíticas, oriundos das ciências sociais, principalmente provenientes da Geografia, pertinentes ao estudo das atividades em tela. Neste contexto, na dinâmica espacial da cidade de Niterói, o processo de mudança de função dos fixos sociais têm sido extraordinário. Residencias unifamiliares, prédios e até mesmo fortificações militares, verdadeiras monumentalidades, foram refuncionalizadas, passando por um processo de turistificação. Assim, a refuncionalização da respectiva Fortaleza em espaço cultural toma-se um importante atrativo da história, do patrimônio, da cultura, marcando no espaço urbano sua expressões e monumentalidade, criada pelo homem como símbolo de seus ideais, objetivos e atos, constituindo-se em um legado as gerações futuras, formando um elo entre passado, presente e futuro. Abstract This paper focuses on Santa Cruz Fortress, built in 1555 in Jurujuba (Niterói), to guard the entrance of Guanabara bay, and stresses its role as a towist attraction and leisure' area, as a social fix which links the city of Niterói to the complementary circuit of these activities in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The study uses important concepts and analytic categories fiom social sciences, particularly fiom Geography.In the spatial dynamic of the city of Niterói, change in functions of social fuces has been extraordinary. Single-family dwellings, buildings and even military installations have been re-functionalized, undergoing a process of touristification. In that way, the refunctionalization of the Fortress as a cultural space provides an important attraction in the domains of history, patrimony, and culture, providing the urban space with an expression of monumentality, created by man as a symbol of his ideals, aims and actions, a legacy to future generations forming a link between past, present and future.

Global Justice at the Municipal Scale

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fonna Forman ◽  
Teddy Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Global City ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Cities or municipalities are often the most immediate institutional facilitators of global justice. Thus, it is important for cosmopolitans and other theorists interested in global justice to consider the importance of the correspondence between global theories and local actions. In this chapter, the authors explore the role that municipalities can play in interpreting and executing principles of global justice. They offer a way of thinking about the cosmopolitan or global city not as a gentrified and commodified urban space, but as a site of local governance consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitan moral aims. They work to show some ways in which the city of Medellín, Colombia, has taken significant steps in that direction. The chapter focuses especially on how it did so and how it might serve as a model in some important ways for the transformation of other cities globally in a direction more consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitanism.

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