scholarly journals The role of culture in the regional development process. Sibiu - European Capital of Culture 2007

2015 ◽  
pp. 135-153
Author(s):  
Alina Stoica ◽  
Florentina Chirodea
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

In the recent years, an increased interest in the use of culture as an instrument of politics and economics has expanded and influenced regional development. This paper aims to highlight the ability of culture to generate wealth for the community, on the one hand, and on the other as a catalyst for sustainable economic recovery by developing innovative and creative sectors based on arts activities. We will, however, single out the city of Sibiu and implicitly the “European Capital of Culture”, city that aims to highlight the richness and diversity of cultures in Europe, the contribution of culture to urban development, the increasing international profile of cities and a better image in the eyes of the inhabitants.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_12_8

scholarly journals From the accidental to articulated smart city: The creation and work of ‘Smart Dublin’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Coletta ◽  
Liam Heaphy ◽  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

While there is a relatively extensive literature concerning the nature of smart cities in general, the roles of corporate actors in their production, and the development and deployment of specific smart city technologies, to date there have been relatively few studies that have examined the situated practices as to how the smart city as a whole unfolds in specific places. In this paper, we chart the smart city ecosystem in Dublin, Ireland, and examine how the four city authorities have actively collaborated to progressively frame and mobilise an articulated vision of Dublin as a smart city. In particular, we focus on the work of ‘Smart Dublin’, a shared unit established to coordinate, manage and promote Dublin’s smart city initiatives. We argue that Smart Dublin has on the one hand sought to corral smart city initiatives within a common framework, and on the other has acted to boost the city-region’s smart city activities, especially with respect to economic development. Our analysis highlights the value of undertaking a holistic mapping of a smart city in formation, and the role of political and administrative geographies and specialist smart city units in shaping that formation.

scholarly journals The university, the city and the clown: A theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Liberation Theologian

This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist scholar, and in particular the liberation theologian that is based at the public university, in his or her engagement with the city. Considering the shackles of the city of capital and its twin, the neoliberal university, on the one hand, and the city of vulnerability on the other, I then propose three clown-like postures of solidarity, mutuality and prophecy to resist the shackles of culture and to imagine and embody daring alternatives.

Urban Magic: Concluding Remarks

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis M. Ioannides
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

This chapter considers the prospect of a deeper understanding of social interactions in urban settings as well as their significance for the functioning and future role of cities and regions. It introduces broader sets of tools for exploring the properties of urban networks, from the lowest microscale up to the highest levels of aggregation. Graph theory, for example, offers a promising means of elucidating the urban social fabric and the interactions that define it, and more specifically the link between urban infrastructure and aspatial social networks. The chapter also compares individuals and their social interactions to an archipelago, a metaphor that offers a picture of the magic of the city. It concludes by emphasizing the interdependence between the creation of cities over physical space, on the one hand, and the urban archipelago and its internal social and economic structures, which are man-made, on the other.

Aristippus of Cyrene

2020 ◽  
pp. 380-411
Author(s):  
Voula Tsouna
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

“Aristippus of Cyrene” re-evaluates the evidence concerning, on the one hand, Aristippus’ alleged hedonism and, on the other, his affiliation with Socrates and the Socratic circle. The central thesis of the chapter is this: even though some sources attribute to Aristippus the sort of ethical hedonism that we know to have been held by his grandson (Aristippus the Younger), there is strong evidence that in fact Aristippus of Cyrene was not an ethical hedonist but endorsed Socratic concerns and values. These latter include philosophical inquiry focused on ethics, the paramount importance of philosophy for education and the care of one’s soul, concern to develop the virtues and assess the relative value of external goods, the crucial role of reason and prudence in ethical conduct, the ethical implications of systematically pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, and the rationalism that should determine one’s attitudes toward relatives, acquaintances, fellow-citizens, and the city itself.

scholarly journals The city to be demolished. A case study for the analysis of demolition and urban contraction costs in Italy [La città da demolire. Un caso studio per l’analisi dei costi di demolizione e contrazione urbana in Italia]

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Simone Rusci ◽  
Michele Angelo Perrone
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Construction ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Contraction, downsizing, rescaling and subtraction are all words that characterise the urban planning debate with increasing frequency. Two components can be found at the basis of their circulation and declination.On the one hand, the recognition of the vast unused and disused real estate for which regeneration, reuse and renovation are not possible; on the other hand, the will and hope to rebalance the results of the hypertrophic twentieth-century urban development. The legitimacy of these instances is the wides pread belief that demolition and contraction are low-cost operations that can be financed by the owners of the property or through the usual equalisation and negotiation mechanisms. By using a case study, this paper will clear up amis understanding; it will explain how demolition and subtraction costs, which can be put on equal footing with renovations and, in some cases, new construction are sufficiently massive making their implementation within the public and public-private policies very difficult.

Religio und Pax: Lutherische Konfessionalisierung in Wort und Bild am Wittenberger Rathaus

2005 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
Margit Kern
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Other ◽  
Town Hall ◽  
Good Works ◽  
Lutheran Theology ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
The Catholic Church

ABSTRACTUp until now, researchers have strictly made connections between the program of images on the 1573 balcony of the Wittenberg town hall and the office of those who wield authority. And in fact this interpretation is documented by the German inscriptions on the front of the structure. However, another dimension of the program has not been taken into account: The Latin distichs pertaining to the figures of the virtues relate not to the city councilors and political transactions; rather, they characterize the role of virtue and good works in the life of the Protestant Christian in general. It is particularly emphasized that Christ and not good works effect redemption. In contrast to the goal of the German inscriptions, the Latin distichs provide no guide to carrying on daily business. Instead, they paraphrase the Lutheran doctrine of justification. With this pointed reference to Lutheran theology, the commissioners of the program distanced themselves, on the one hand, from the Catholic church; on the other, they rejected contested theological positions within Protestantism, such as the theses of Johann Georg Major. The coat of arms of the territorial ruler and the personifications, Peace and Religion, give evidence that the Wittenberg city council wished to display prominently its agreement with the strict Lutheran position of the prince, Albertine Elector August.

scholarly journals Port-City Transition: Past and Emerging Socio-Spatial Imaginaries and Uses in Rotterdam’s Makers District

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 166-180
Author(s):  
Maurice Jansen ◽  
Amanda Brandellero ◽  
Rosanne Van Houwelingen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
The Other ◽  
Maker Movement ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Port City ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Economic Foundations

This article explores old and emerging socio-spatial imaginaries and uses of Rotterdam’s Makers District. The district comprises two urban harbors—Merwe Vierhavens and Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij—historically in use as bustling trade, storage, and ship yarding nodes of the city’s port activities. At the turn of the millennium, technological advancements made it possible to move many port-related activities out of the area and farther out of the city, gradually hollowing out these harbors’ port-related economic foundations and opening opportunities for new uses and imaginaries. This article traces the transition by detailing how the boundary between the city and the port has become more porous in this district. It does so by offering original empirical evidence on the flows of users in and out of the area in recent years, based on location quotients, while also applying a content analysis of the profiles of companies and institutions currently inhabiting and working in these transformed port-city spaces. On the one hand, the results show how the ongoing port-city transition in Rotterdam’s Makers District combines carefully curated interventions and infrastructure plans seeking to progressively adapt the area to new purposes, while maintaining some of its former functions. On the other hand, they highlight the pioneering role of more bottom-up initiatives and innovative urban concepts, springing from the creative industries and maker movement. The article offers insights into the emerging uses and imaginaries attached to the district, while also showing the resilience and adaptation of port legacies.

scholarly journals CITY IN DISCOURSE OF SEMIOTICS

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
N. O. Anisimov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

The article examines the semiotic field of the city and its influence on the formation of a specific socio-cultural space. The author considers the city as a historically and culturally developed space, continuously producing cultural information. According to the author, urban space is a special subject-object environment, where an individual, a citizen, is in the role of an actively cognizing subject, and the city is in the status of an object, on the one hand, passively cognizable, on the other hand, actively giving itself to identify, reveal with the help of specific techniques, called us semantic-semiological practices. Semiotic meanings of urban space appear before us in the form of a cultural code that a person is able to read.

scholarly journals Los relieves de la urbanización social de la ciudad: Valparaíso, 1820-1880

2015 ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Leonardo Cortés Estay
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Residential Location ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Role ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Los Grupos

Este trabajo es parte de una investigación mayor, titulada El relieve de la pobreza urbana: conformación de la barriada en Valparaíso, 1820-1880. Tesis para optar al grado académico de Magíster en Desarrollo Urbano, Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2013ResumenEste artículo se enfoca en las causas de la localización residencial de laurbanización informal, particularmente en el espacio de las quebradas y sus laderas, en Valparaíso entre los años 1820 y 1880. El texto busca reconocer el rol estructural de la urbanización informal, producida principalmente por los grupos provenientes de la ruralidad chilena, en la conformación de la ciudad de Valparaíso. Por otro lado, se pretende relevar la relación entre relieve físico del suelo y su valor comercial, entendiéndolo como uno de los principales factores que determinaron, y determinan actualmente, la configuración del suelo urbano en esta ciudad.Palabras clave: Urbanismo, Relieve, Valparaíso, Localización residencial. Aspects of social development in the city:Valparaiso, 1820-1880AbstractThis article focuses on the causes of informal urbanization settlements, particularly in ravines and hillsides in the case of Valparaiso between 1820 and 1880. The text is aimed to recognizing the structural role of informal urbanization in shaping the city of Valparaiso mainly by groups from rural Chile. On the other hand, it is aimed to relieving the relationship between physical contour of the land and its commercial value, understanding it asone of the main factors that have determined –and currently determines– theurban land setting in this city.Keywords: Urban development, relief, Valparaiso, residential location.

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