scholarly journals Cosmopolitan and border experiences in the global city of zootopia.

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Ana Virginia López Fuentes

This paper analyses the Walt Disney’s animation film Zootopia (2016) within the context of contemporary cinematic representations of global cities as borderlands but also as bordering, exclusive, diverse and cosmopolitan places. Zootopia is a film about the city space, in this case, about the global city of Zootopia. The film reflects contemporary global cities in which the negotiation of space is a constant issue. It portrays a modern metropolis formed by different neighbourhoods with contrasting habitats such as Sahara, Jungle or Tundra, all comprised in the same space and separated by physical walls. Animals from every environment, size and form cohabit together in the city, but physical and metaphorical borders are erected between them. The film brings an inclusive message breaking with borders inside the global city and portraying moments of openness between the protagonists; a bunny and a fox

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6294
Author(s):  
Chenyu Zheng

Global cities act as influential hubs in the networked world. Their city brands, which are projected by the global news media, are becoming sustainable resources in various global competitions and cooperations. This study adopts the research paradigm of computational social science to assess and compare the city brand attention, positivity, and influence of ten Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) Alpha+ global cities, along with their dimensional structures, based on combining the cognitive and affective theoretical perspectives on the frameworks of the Anholt global city brand dimension system, the big data of global news knowledge graph in Google’s Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), and the technologies of word-embedding semantic mining and clustering analysis. The empirical results show that the overall values and dimensional structures of city brand influence of global cities form distinct levels and clusters, respectively. Although global cities share a common structural characteristic of city brand influence of the dimensions of presence and potential being most prominent, Western and Eastern global cities differentiate in the clustering of dimensional structures of city brand attention, positivity, and influence. City brand attention is more important than city brand positivity in improving the city brand influence of global cities. The preferences of the global news media over global city brands fits the nature of global cities.


2017 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Carolina Noriega Rivas

ResumenBilbao quizás represente uno de los mejores ejemplos europeos de la transición de una ciudad industrial de largo recorrido a una ciudad global, con lo que ello supone de cambios de actividades y de transformaciones de su espacio social y económico, incluidas las propias representaciones del mismo. Así ha sido desde principios de la década de los 90. El escenario de esta transformación total se ha vivido en la ría (actualmente espacio de éxito), cuando en la industrialización lo era de diferencia y poder.El diseño de las ciudades globales que se plasma en esta zona central, sugiere que existen signos de agotamiento, y el intento de volver a realizarlo en Zorrotzaurre podría no causar el efecto esperado. Todo parece indicar, que existe una necesidad de plantear otras alternativas de hacer ciudad, haciendo que en ese mismo lugar, haya surgido una alternativa de base social: Zorrotzaurre Art Work in Progress, con fundamentos y prácticas comunitarias basadas en la interacción de creatividad, innovación y cultura.La principal conclusión de este trabajo es que es hora, no solo en Bilbao, de hacer ciudad de ciudadanos con piezas integradas y cohesionadas entre sí para un mejor y apropiado desarrollo de la ciudad y de las personas que hacen de ella lo que es.Palabras clave  Bilbao, ciudad global, firma internacional, alternativa social, ZAWPAbstractBilbao probably represents one of the best European examples of the transition of an industrial city of length crossed to a global city, with what it supposes of changes of activities and of transformations of his social and economic space, included the own representations of the same one. This way it has been from beginning of the decade of the 90. The scene of this total transformation has been lived in its river (nowadays place of success), when in the industrialization, it difference was and power.The design of the global cities that takes form of this central zone, suggests that signs of depletion exist, and the attempt of returning to realize it in Zorrotzaurre might not cause the awaited effect. Everything seems to indicate, that there exists a need to raise other alternatives of doing city, doing that in the same place, has arisen an alternative of social base: Zorrotzaurre Art Work in Progress, with foundations and community practices based on the interaction of creativity, innovation and culture.The principal conclusion of this work is that it is time, not only in Bilbao, to do citizens' city with integrated and united pieces, for a better and appropriate development of the city and of the persons who do of her what is.KeywordsBilbao, global city, international firm, social alternative, ZAWP


2020 ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
Marta Zambrzycka ◽  
Paulina Olechowska

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.


Author(s):  
Fonna Forman ◽  
Teddy Cruz

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.


2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Bob Brown

A new urban paradigm, the global city, emerged in the late 20th Century finding acceptance in discussions of urban development. Tied into a global network of exchange, it exists principally as a place of financial speculation and transaction. It is marked by a parallel economy of culture, which underpins a re-conceptualisation and spatial re-formation of the city. Despite its widespread currency, criticisms have challenged its economic sustainability. Further questions have contested its tendency to impose a singular, homogenized space prioritizing consumption while marginalising other concerns. Post-independence Riga's recent experience provides a platform from which to critique the global city paradigm, which the city embraced as it sought to embed itself in the West not only politically but culturally and economically as well. In opposition to this model's intrinsic singular emphasis and exclusionary tendencies, this text will explore the concept of palimpsest; this proposition understands the city as a multiplicity of layers, within which convergences and divergences offer a site from which to generate synergies. This will be framed in reference to recent discourse on the sustainable city and development practice. Recent design-led inquiry situated in the context of Riga will then provide a lens on palimpsest as an alternative form of praxis.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel D. Pressick

Currently, 1 in 6 people live in slums, or informal settlements in cities throughout the developing world. They are built illegally and are characterized by lack of proper sanitation, unsafe housing, and crowded living conditions. Despite their appearance, informal settlements are legitimate communities; they are vibrant, with sophisticated social, economic and cultural networks that support the livelihoods of residents who call them home. These communities give the urban poor a physical place within the city, giving them access to the opportunities and advantages that the current age of the 'global city' can offer to any willing participant. As architects who see the responsibility in choosing the informal settlement as a realm for engagement, this thesis proposes that any architectural intervention be mindful of the importance of the networks contained within the streets and buildings of the informal settlement. By preserving the built-fabric of the settlement, the architect legitimizes the settlement's density and scale, while ensuring the urban poor have a physical place in the city. They have managed to develop their own communities without any investment from outside forces, any intervention should only support that autonomous development. These structures, as well as the people and activities with them, are vital to the survival of residents of informal settlements.


Author(s):  
Л.Н. Панько

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.


Author(s):  
Valentyna Bohatyrets ◽  
Liubov Melnychuk

Nowadays, in the age of massive spatial transformations in the built environment, cities witness a new type of development, different in size, scale and momentum that has been thriving since late 20th century. Diverse transformation of historic cities under modernisation has led to concerns in terms of the space and time continuity disintegration and the preservation of historic cities. In a similar approach, we can state that city and city space do not only consist of present, they also consist of the past; they include the transformations, relations, values, struggles and tensions of the past. As it could be defined, space is the history itself. Currently, we would like to display how Chernivtsi cultural and architectural heritage is perceived and maintained in the course of its evolution. Noteworthy, Chernivtsi city is speculated a condensed human existence and vibes, with public urban space and its ascriptions are its historical archives and sacred memory. Throughout the history, CHERNIVTSI’s urban landscape has changed, while preserving its unique and distinctive spirit of diversity, multifacetedness and tolerance. The city squares of the Austrian, Romanian and Soviet epochs were crammed with statuary of royal elites and air of aristocracy, soviet leaders and a shade of patriotic obsession, symbolic animals and sacred piety – that eventually shaped its unique “Bukovynian supranational identity”. Keywords: Chernivtsi, cultural memory, memory studies, monuments, squares, identity.


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