Monument on the square: life in the shadow of the holiday

10.12737/5596 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Евгений Кринко ◽  
Evgeniy Krinko ◽  
Татьяна Хлынина ◽  
Tatyana Khlynina
Keyword(s):  
Modern City ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The City ◽  
Communicative Space

The article is devoted to everyday practices of monument inclusion in communicative space of the modern city. On the example of the Rostov Nika – the memorial devoted to the release of the city from Nazi invaders and located at Theater Square, life of the monument after the holiday is considered. It is emphasized that outside the context of holiday the main symbol of Victory is perceived only as an element of the city architectural landscape.

Visual discoveries of an urban wanderer: August Endell's perception of a beautiful metropolis

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Building Projects ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Urban Scenes ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The City

An unorthodox and influential critique of the modern city was published in 1908 by August Endell, an autodidact in the field of architecture. Influenced by empathy theory, Impressionist ideas, contemporary sociology, and the literary and artistic circles of the time, Endell's small book Die Schönheit der Großen Stadt (The Beauty of the Metropolis) read the metropolis through a new way of ‘seeing’ [1,2]. What he saw was surprising for most readers: the city's centre was discovered in marginal sites, and its lasting identity was grasped in its fleeting moments. Although Endell never drew up encompassing schemes for the city, did not participate in the first city-building competitions of the time, and focused primarily on individual building projects, one of his major publications was entirely devoted to the city. The Beauty of the Metropolis takes the reader on a journey through a city that slowly reveals itself as Berlin. Throughout the book, Endell describes urban scenes such as streets, plazas, stations, and the margins of urbanity, such as the city's blank walls and outskirts.

scholarly journals MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND VISUAL IMAGE OF THE CITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-104
Author(s):  
A. M. Tormakhova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Asymmetric Structures ◽  
The Status ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The City

The aim of the article is to highlight the actual trends associated with architectural construction and identify ways of forming a visual image of a modern city. The solution to this goal involves not only the analysis of certain unique architectural structures, but also the outline of the existing visual practices in the city which correlate with the urban landscape. The research methodology is connected with the use of the method of synthe- sis, the use of tools of cultural analysis. The most extraordinary buildings are rarely residential buildings, much more often they are intended for public use. Their very essence is con- nected with publicity and attraction of a considerable quantity of visitors, tourists. These can be museums, libraries, concert halls, stadiums, shop- ping malls. In addition to these structures, extremely impressive structures are created in the field of transport – bridges, railway stations. The re- equipment of old objects and the creation of new ones becomes such that necessarily creates an occasion for communication, becoming a part of the media. In architecture there is a desire to circumvent the principle of statics that was inherent to it. Manifestations of this tendency in architecture were attempts to "revitalize" the building, giving them mobility through structures that visually convey the idea of fluidity (asymmetric structures, often deprived of straight angles with the prevalence of rounded parts). Creating the effect of architectural variability arises not only at the expense of innovative constructions, but also due to the equipment of the buildings by media facades, which perform as a purely aesthetic and advertising function, providing the opportunity to represent buildings in fundamentally different visual images. Scientific novelty consists in highlighting the specifics of architectural constructions claiming the status of "art" and visual practices that in- teract with them directly. The conclusion is made about the transformation of a modern city. The practical significance of the study is that features of the development of modern architectural constructions are presented and the factors influencing the formation of the visual image of the city are highlighted.

scholarly journals The ordinary, cultures, and management: the organizing processes within the handicraft sector in Piúma (ES), Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (95) ◽  
pp. 644-673
Author(s):  
Filipe Cabacine Lopes Machado ◽  
Alfredo Rodrigues Leite da Silva ◽  
Talita Almeida Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Document Collection ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
Cultural Plurality ◽  
Narrative Temporality ◽  
The City

Abstract This article aims to understand the ordinary management of the resistances and forms of survival, organized in everyday practices that are in part product and producers of cultural plurality in the field of handicrafts in the city of Piúma, Brazil. From the perspective of practice-based studies (Feldman & Orlikowski, 2011), we articulate theoretically the approach of ordinary management (Carrieri, Perdigão & Aguiar, 2014) of craft production (Sennett, 2009) and the certeaunian contributions. These contributions are directed towards the recognition of the games of force relations within a cultural plurality. In proposing the focus on this plurality, this article fills a gap, because in previous studies on ordinary management, this cultural plurality has not been specifically addressed. The proposal was supported by a qualitative research, accomplished through document collection, participant observation, and unstructured interviews with five artisans from Piúma. In the analysis of the data, we articulate the narrative practice in De Certeau (1985) and narrative temporality in Ricoeur (1994). As results, we identify different networks of force relations in which artisans are involved in organizing practices of ordinary management. In them, cultures have shown themselves as plural productions, moving away from the view of a popular culture, external to everyday practices or submissive to other external pressures. This article contributes to an alternative view at the Ordinary Management of handicrafts and other organizational actions based on cultural plurality.

scholarly journals THE ARCHITECTS OF MARBURG INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE SPACE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Л.Н. Панько
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
80Th Anniversary ◽  
City Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Communicative Space

Статья приурочена к 80-летию русиста, доктора филологии госпожи Барбары Кархофф. Описана практическая деятельность русистов Б. Кархофф и В. Люккеля, направленная на формирование среды межкультурного пространства Марбурга. Отмечены принципы организации межкультурной коммуникации с опорой на прецедентные имена ученых и деятелей культуры. Выявлены особенности деятельности русистов в создании особых знаков городского пространства, используемых при обучении РКИ. The article is devoted to the 80th anniversary of Barbara Karhoff, professor of Russian studies. The practical activities of the Russists B. Karhoff and V. Lykkel, aimed at forming the environment of the intercultural space of Marburg, are described. Some principles of cross-cultural communication organizing based on the names of researchers and artists are mentioned. Some particular features of the professors’ activity that has created specific signs of the city space used in teaching Russian for foreigners are identified.

scholarly journals The illustrative concept of the production of “City” by V.Pidmohylnuy

2018 ◽  
pp. 46-54
Author(s):  
N. Ivanova ◽  
А. Mykhailova
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Publishing Policy ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
Publishing Strategy ◽  
The City

The research is devoted to the analysis of the editorial and publishing policy of “Solomiia Pavlychko’s Publishing House “Osnovy”. One of the important tools of “Osnovy” publishing strategy at the present stage is the modernization of its product, which consists of the original visualization of the artistic text. In accordance with the new publishing policy, “Osnovy” launches the “Alternative Series of Ukrainian Classics” with the illustrations of young Ukrainian artists.The scientific novelty of our research is the conceptual comprehension of the publishing project “Alternative Series of Ukrainian Classics”. The visual version of the novel “The City” by V. Pidmohylnyi is of special attention. In the study, we suggest that the name “Alternative Series ...” is a successful marketing technique, as for many readers, classics is related to the official ones, sometimes boring and formalized “school” ideas about literature. So, it was planned that the concept “alternative” would become a modern slogan for the project and expand the audience of potential readers. Thus, the works of Ukrainian classics received an entirely new illustration for a modern Ukrainian.The analysis of the illustrative presentation of novel “The City” by V. Pidmohylnyi, published in “Osnovy” in 2017, affords the ground for the suggestion that the work became a truly alternative in the sense of avant-garde design. The article emphasises the idea that “The City” (2017), which is being investigated by us, is especially distinguished among other reprints of classical Ukrainian literature by the collision and dialogue of the verbal urban text of V. Pidmohylnyi (1927) with the avant-garde, postmodern, comic visual text of modern city by M. Pavliuk (2017). New meanings of the verbal text are born on the collision of two urban discourses. Thus, through the illustrative material, the modern city, described in the novel by V. Pidmohylnyi 90 years ago, becomes relevant and modern for the citizens of 2017. So, we are dealing with the postmodern illustrative design of the classical edition, which through the latest forms of visualization, creates new visions and contexts.The offered study states that “Osnovy” is not only a publishing house, creating a quality publishing product concerning the latest news, but also uses modern marketing strategies to implement its products.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES ON THE VISUAL IMAGE OF A CITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-72
Author(s):  
A. M. Tormakhova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
City Development ◽  
Modern City ◽  
The City

The aim of the article is to highlight the specificity of visual transformations that occur in the modern urban space under the influence of the development of creative industries. The research methodology involves an interdisciplinary approach and engaging a range of cultural, sociological, and philosophical works. The works of modern foreign researchers Z.Bauman, Ch. Landry, D.Hezmondhalsh are attracted.The sphere of urban planning and the problem of creative industries are being studied. Thanks to creative industries is appears new jobs, the solution of social problems (especially in poor areas), as well as the transformation of urban space. The modern city is a reflection of the transformational processes taking place in the world. There is a change in the form of regulation of the city development policy, from the state to the municipal. There are conditions for activating creative industries that can be defined as an individual creative background, skill or talent that can create added value and jobs through the production and exploitation of intellectual property. The development of creative industries has economic feasibility, but this process is accompanied by a change in the image of the city. Urban space is the text of culture, which often combines non-interconnected components. The visual image of the modern city is repulsive and attractive, it is difficult to bring it to a single concept, but it continues to be the center of human life. Scientific novelty lies in the study of the relationship of the development of creative industries in the urban space and their impact on the visual image of the city. Practical significance is connected with the emphasis on the need to invent an individual development strategy for each city as a “creative city”, where the sphere of cultural production is leading. Promising is the direction of creative industries in a single direction and minimizing the factors influencing the negative perception of the vision of the city.

Security Urbanism and the Counterterror State in Kenya

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Glück
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Strategies ◽  
Urban Impacts ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban State

This article offers a theoretical and ethnographic analysis of 'security urbanism', examining the spatial practices of the Kenyan security state and the urban impacts of the War on Terror in Nairobi. From counterterror policing to forced disappearances, demolitions, military operations and the proliferation of checkpoints and security searches, the War on Terror has left its indelible material and affective impacts in Kenya. Counterterrorist policing operations such Operation Usalama Watch have left many marginalized Nairobi residents fearful and traumatized. Meanwhile, in rich suburbs, the twin specters of terrorism and crime fuse in the imaginations and gated compounds of the affluent. I analyze the urban, state and spatial transformations produced by the War on Terror across several geographical scales (from the highly local to the neighborhood and the national). In a first section, I focus on the 'state spatial strategies' of counterterrorism and analyze the emergence of a 'counterterror state' in Kenya. In a second section, I draw on several ethnographic vignettes to demonstrate how urban residents internalize and perform fears, fantasies and politics thoroughly saturated by the imaginaries of the War on Terror. Ultimately, I argue that Nairobi's security urbanism is the material articulation of War on Terror at the scale of the city, produced through the confluence of state strategies and everyday practices of securitized urban subjects. But how stable is the new hegemony of security in the country?

Who Owned Florence?: Religious Institutions and Property Ownership in the Early Modern City

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Justine Walden ◽  
Nicholas Terpstra
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Property Income ◽  
Residential Properties ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City

Abstract This study employs a 1561 tax census to survey estimated property incomes in Florence with particular attention to lay and ecclesiastical religious institutions. Its key findings are five. First, religious institutions were collectively the wealthiest corporate entities in the city, holding one fifth of all residential properties and one third of all workshops, and drawing 20.2 percent of all property income generated within city walls. Second, many were civic- and lay-religious institutions such as confraternities and hospitals. Third, the property income of religious houses was distributed across multiple organizations while that held by the Florentine diocese was concentrated in a few. Fourth, among religious orders, Mendicant houses had a larger urban presence than the older contemplative houses. Fifth, the property holdings of the formally defunct military-religious order of the Knights of S. Jacopo signal the deftness with which some institutions adapted to new circumstances. Overall, this survey of property incomes helps quantify the shape of power in the Florentine religious universe.

Hierapolis

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde E. Fant ◽  
Mitchell G. Reddish
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy City

Hierapolis is a popular tourist site, featured frequently on travel posters and tourist advertisements because of the adjacent spectacular calcified cliffs. Equally as impressive as the white cliffs, however, are the remains of the ancient city and the excellent museum at the site. Along with Colossae and Laodicea, Hierapolis was one of the major cities of the Lycus River valley. While Colossae and Laodicea are on the southern side of the Lycus River, Hierapolis (today known as Pamukkale) is north (or northeast) of the river. The site of the ancient city is approximately 12 miles north of the modern city of Denizli. The most striking aspect of the city, in ancient as well as modern times, is the sight of the calcified white cliffs, formed by mineral deposits from the water flowing over the cliffs. From these white cliffs, which can be seen from the ruins of Laodicea, approximately 6 miles away, Hierapolis derived its modern name of Pamukkale (meaning “cotton castle”). The date of the founding of the city of Hierapolis is uncertain. Because the earliest inscription found at Hierapolis dates from the reign of Eumenes II of Pergamum (r. 197–159 B.C.E.), the founding of the city has usually been dated to the time of the Pergamene kingdom. But because of an inscription in the theater that lists various tribal names, some of which are derived from the names of members of the Seleucid family who ruled parts of Asia Minor during the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C.E. (such as Seleucidos and Antiochidos), the founding of the city should likely be moved back to the time of the Seleucid kings. Even the origin of the name of the city is uncertain. One tradition is that the Pergamene rulers named the city after Hiera, the wife of Telephus (son of Hercules and grandson of Zeus), the mythical founder of Pergamum. Another explanation is that the name means “holy city” (hieros in Greek means “holy”) and that the city was so named because of the temples located there. The latter explanation may have arisen after the mythological connection was forgotten.

Perspectives on the Women Literary Travelers

2022 ◽  
pp. 184-201
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Mendonça Oliveira ◽  
Maria Jaqueline Elicher ◽  
Márcia C. Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Place Identity ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Urban Territories ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City ◽  
Place And Identity

This chapter aims to analyze the novels Mrs, Dalloway (1925) and Quarenta Dias (2014) in the perspective of elucidating the view of the woman writer-character-traveller on the city, showing continuities and ruptures between the modern city and the contemporary city. Therefore, three paths of analysis are proposed: (1) the understanding of urban territories as a way of elaborating subjectivities and experiences; (2) the link between city and memory, place and identity; (3) the link between city and memory, place, identity, and gender. It was possible to verify that both in Mrs. Dalloway and in Forty Days, women have a central role in the construction of narratives about the city and that this is placed in a centrality-character.

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