scholarly journals Soziolinguistische Perspektiven auf Praktiken des Semiotic Landscaping in Zeiten der Coronavirus-Pandemie.

2021 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 259-292
Author(s):  
Gertrud Reershemius ◽  
Evelyn Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Northern Germany ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Private Homes ◽  
The City

The Covid-19 pandemic has left an impact on the semiotic landscapes of both rural and urban environments. The present study analyses two corpora of signs which emerged as a direct result of the pandemic in the rural environment of Krummhörn, a municipality in northern Germany, and in the city of Essen (Ruhr Metropolis) between March and July 2020. In addition to regulatory and informative signage, the data revealed a high proportion of affective signs which were displayed mainly by individuals around private homes, intended as boosters of collective moral in times of crisis. The analysis shows that slightly different semiotic strategies were applied when comparing a rural with an urban environment.

Racist prejudices in different contexts. Differences between rural and urban environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Juana Maria Anguita Acero ◽  
Oscar Navarro Martinez ◽  
Angel Luis Gonzalez Olivares ◽  
Monica di Martino
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
University Students ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Rural

The purpose of this research is to analyse the presence of racist prejudices in response to certain statements in two different contexts, namely, a rural environment and an urban environment. A questionnaire was prepared using nine statements in respect to real situations of preconceived ideas regarding certain minority groups of society. Specifically, these situations refer to gypsies, Blacks, immigrants, Moroccans, beggars, refugees from Latin America or handicapped persons. The questionnaire was given to university students, who were asked to assess the racist characteristics of each statement on a scale of 1–4. The results obtained show certain differences that are detected between the two contexts in respect to participants’ perception of prejudice. The conclusion is that the presence of racist prejudices is very similar in the two contexts in which the research was carried out, with a high correlation between students’ answers. Keywords: Prejudices, university students, urban, rural

scholarly journals Functional links between rural and urban areas in the territory of the city of Banja Luka and the perspective of their development

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Milan Tomić ◽  
Sandra Rover ◽  
Bojan Pejović ◽  
Nina Uremović
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Banja Luka

Different types of interactions between rural and urban areas have the effect of improving economic, social, cultural and political dimensions in both areas, separating these two areas by their type of activity. Rural and urban types of regions have different resources and means that can be used in a complementary way. In rural-urban interaction there is a possibility of occurrence of conflict of interest of these two areas. This kind of conflict should be overcome when applying the partnership approach between rural and urban areas. The types of rural areas, depending on the proximity of the urban center and the functions of these areas, are divided into suburban, agricultural and remote type areas. By determining the functions of each type of area, the type and intensity of the interactions of rural areas with the urban center are presented. Rural entrepreneurs are able to bridge rural-urban differences, possessing certain market knowledge and descriptions of the characteristics of urban environments, while benefiting from their position. Rural entrepreneurs' interaction with the urban environment can contribute to sustainable economic relations between citizens in urban and rural areas. This paper presents the results of research related to determining the functions of certain areas, their strengths, unused and utilized resources, the frequency of interaction with the urban environment and the perspectives of suburban, agricultural and remote type areas in the context of interaction with the urban environment.

scholarly journals Behavioural Traits of Four Dogs Breeds in Czech Households

2007 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Baranyiová ◽  
A. Holub ◽  
M. Tyrlík
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
German Shepherd ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Selection Pressures ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Behavioral Aspects ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Household Members

Our study was aimed at the behavioral aspects of coexistence with people of four canine breeds in Czech households. From the original set of data in 305 earlier analyzed dogs we selected 89 animals, i.e. those concerning the four most numerous breeds, (34 Dachshunds, 16 Schnauzers, 23 German Shepherd Dogs and 16 Poodles), and compared their 85 behavioural traits and interactions with their household members. The results were evaluated using the chi-square test. Dogs belonging to these four breeds differed significantly in only 28 (32.9%) of the indicators under study. Except for a few German Shepherd Dogs all members of our group were considered to be companion animals and household members. They were no longer used as earth dogs or hunting, guarding/herding dogs. Breed characteristics were taken into consideration only exceptionally. People kept them for pleasure and not for their original skills, once carefully selected for and modified. On the contrary, these skills became undesirable in urban environment. Despite that, dog breeds are designated by their original functions and use, even though the anthropomorphic selection pressures continue. People want their dogs to adapt more and more to the intimate co-existence in rural and urban environments. Thus, canine behaviour is under massive selection pressures.

Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (13) ◽  
pp. 2980-2995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Smith ◽  
Peter Walters
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
The City

Public space is being increasingly managed by defensive architecture, surveillance and other subtle filtering mechanisms to make it more palatable and attendant to the needs of capital. This reinforces social boundaries, making space inhospitable to those people whose presence is not welcome, and serves to ‘discipline’ city inhabitants into primarily consumption based modes of interacting with and in the city. However, disenfranchised urban populations still find ways to exist in and navigate these spaces. The purpose of this article is to highlight these ways by introducing the concept of ‘desire lines’ as a means of overcoming or re-imagining defensive space. We use Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of desire as productive force, combined with De Certeau’s notion of ‘walking the city’, to explore how individuals and social movements might practically, and in a metaphorical sense, create new collective paths, creating ‘desire lines’ of resistance and change within what is often an increasingly unforgiving and dominated urban environment, created by and for capital at the expense of a vibrant public realm.

scholarly journals The quantity of information which parents and their seven-year-old children have on the affects of nutrition, oral hygiene and fluoride prophylaxis on dental health

2009 ◽  
Vol 62 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 421-426
Author(s):  
Marija Igic ◽  
Mirjana Apostolovic ◽  
Ljiljana Kostadinovic ◽  
Olivera Trickovic-Janjic ◽  
Dusan Surdilovic
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Oral Hygiene ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Oral Diseases ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Rural And Urban

Introduction. Health education plays a crucial oral in maintaining good oral health of human population and, primarily, in reducing the incidence of caries as one of the most frequent oral diseases. This implies the need for a change in the behavior of individuals, groups or the society as a whole, in terms of the following: establishing a proper nutrition regime, establishing the habit of maintaining oral hygiene and the use of fluorides. The goal of the paper is to determine the quantity of information which parents and their seven year old children have on the effects of nutrition, oral hygiene and fluoride prophylaxis on dental health in rural and urban environment. Material and methods. The survey included 450 seven-year-old children and their parents in urban and rural environments. The quantity of information about proper nutrition, oral hygiene and fluoride prophylaxis was determined based on specific questionnaires for children and their parents. Results. The quantity of information about the effects of proper nutrition, oral hygiene and fluoride prophylaxis on dental health of seven year old children is significantly larger in urban, as compared to the rural environment. The quantity of information of parents about the effects of proper nutrition, oral hygiene and fluoride prophylaxis on dental health is larger in urban, as compared to the rural environment. Conclusion. This research suggests a need to intensify health education activities, especially in the rural environment.

When the Marae Moves into the City: Being Māori in Urban Palmerston North

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1189-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pita King ◽  
Darrin Hodgetts ◽  
Mohi Rua ◽  
Mandy Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
Settler Society ◽  
The City ◽  
Ways Of Being

Through processes of colonization, many indigenous peoples have become absorbed into settler societies and new ways of existing within urban environments. Settler society economic, legal, and social structures have facilitated this absorption by recasting indigenous selves in ways that reflect the cultural values of settler populations. Urban enclaves populated and textured by indigenous groups such as Māori (indigenous people of New Zealand) can be approached as sites of existential resistance to the imposition of colonial ways of seeing and understanding the self. In maintaining everyday social practices and ways–of–being that traverse rural and urban locales, Māori preserve and reproduce cultural selves in ways that make aspects of cityscapes more homely for Māori ways–of–being. This article brings issues of place and being to the fore by investigating Māori reassemblage of cultural selves within a low SES urban environment as an ongoing resistance to colonial absorption.

scholarly journals Economic prospects for using the excursion potential of urban environments (case of Rostov-on-Don)

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 09024
Author(s):  
Tatiana Zainullina ◽  
Irina Kedrova ◽  
Liliya Karich ◽  
Ruslan Tikidzhyyan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
The City

The article studies the issue of analyzing the possibilities of using urban objects for excursions from the point of view of economic benefits, since the tourism component is present in the economy of any city. Tourism and excursion services bring income to the city budget, the article considers the features of using excursion services at the facilities of the urban environment of Rostov-on-Don.

scholarly journals A MÚSICA SERTANEJA COMO REFLEXO DE TRANSFORMAÇÕES DOS LUGARES DE ESCUTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Luciana Carolina Fernandes Faria ◽  
João Pedro Turino Silva
Keyword(s):  
Country Music ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Rural Exodus ◽  
Musical Elements ◽  
Society Today

This article aims to analyze and compare Brazilian country music from different decades in order to identify which elements have been preserved, which have changed over time and the possible associations between these transformations and the increase in the urban population. For this, two country songs were selected, one from 1926 and the other from 2028, in order to identify which musical elements have been transformed and which have been preserved over the time and under the influence of the rural exodus process. Through bibliographic research, we found that our country has undergone through a significant urbanization, especially since the 1960s and this fact, aggravated by the influence of the cultural industry, caused changes in habits, actions and, consequently, caused changes in people's listening places; the wiretaps that were made and produced in the rural environment differ in many of the wiretaps that are made and produced in urban environments today. Such changes directly imply people's form of expression and artistic production. Through analytical research of the narrative and musical elements, this transformation of the listening places is evident, and demonstrates the culture, practices and concepts of two very diverse contexts (rural and urban). Listening places are produced by living beings and, in reciprocity, also produces them as beings; in this way, it becomes an important research object for the understanding of society today.

scholarly journals Public Data in Crime Hot-Spots Assessment of Urban Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-85
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Burtsev
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Database Size ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Stated Problem ◽  
Media Data

A significant problem of Russian environmental criminology is the lack of access to empirical data on violations committed in the urban environments for architects and urban planners. It turns out that all the recommendations we are developing to improve the safety of cities lack the necessary thoroughness. May seems that it should be in the works of another group of researchers, those who work in law schools and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and has needed allowances. However, the spatial solutions offered by them, are extremely utilitarian and also do not stand up to criticism. The practice of using social media data to work with different urban environment features has been successfully developed in urban studies worldwide in the last decade. This article describes the attempt to create a crime and incidents database on the basis of this data type. The research method contains the creation of software tools for searching, cleaning and mapping data. Using Yekaterinburg city as an example, the author demonstrates the existing crime hot-spot and describes in detail the hot zone in the city center, whose characteristics largely coincide with counterparts, described by foreign researchers. The proposed software and the result obtained partly solve the stated problem. The work, done by the author, gives an understanding of its imperfections and the ways to improve the methods. The author concludes that it is necessary to select one type of incidents and to significantly increase the database size in order to reasonably judge the relationship between crimes and the nature of the urban environment.

scholarly journals Population potential within the urban environment and intra-urban railway network opportunities in Bratislava (Slovakia)

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavol Ďurček ◽  
Marcel Horňák
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
Population Distributions ◽  
Population Potential ◽  
The City

Abstract Urban environments in post-socialist cities have generated new challenges for urban planners and decision makers. As one example, the transport infrastructure of Bratislava has not been adjusted with respect to increasing mobility and the transit problems of its intra-urban environment. An upgrading of the conventional railway networks within the city is one of the major opportunities which might considerably improve public transit capacities available for both intra-urban and regional (suburban) transport flows of passengers. Relevant studies on the population potential of residents supporting such upgrades are still lacking. In addition, a detailed database on population distributions within the intra-urban environments of Slovak cities is not yet available. Therefore, this paper attempts to introduce one of the possible methodological approaches leading to an estimation of population potential as an elementary precondition of intra-urban railway traffic effectiveness, in a society where a detailed database on population distribution is not available.

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