scholarly journals »Reclaiming« the City: A Collective Endeavor

Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-202
Author(s):  
Sergiy Ilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Urban Renaissance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Being Moved

Abstract This contribution elaborates upon the appropriation of urban space in spatiotemporal and procedural interventions in the example of the city of Kharkiv, as well as the impact of urban space on the process of how various groups rediscover and use various parts of the city. Being moved during collective actions - in the sense of feeling urged to move along - goes beyond routine practices by influencing the city and its perception. It seems that these general processions, celebrations, and festive activities of the residents are their contributions to the process of »urban renaissance« - the rebirth of interest in the urban way of life. Since public spaces reflect the historical inheritance of local communities, joint transformative actions such as, »appropriation «, »production«, and »governance« of urban spaces are considered. This article advocates for the practice of domestication of urban space by the local community, as well as the need for the existence of »urban lagoons« - free (unregulated) areas of the city used as resources for urban development and interaction of citizens.

scholarly journals Collective actions for reconfiguration of urban space Biały Bór, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Sergiy Ilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
World War ◽  
Complete Replacement ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Biały Bór is located in the former German territories that came to Poland after the Second World War. The almost complete replacement of the indigenous German and Jewish populations, initially by Polish and soon Ukrainian communities, was the result of the displacement of state borders by the eviction and relocation of millions of people. To do this, the authorities used certain strategies, which brought different approaches and constraints to local communities and urban spaces. The article considers the differences between the declared principles and the actual actions of the authorities in the context of “small stories” of all actors (national communities), as well as the tactics of indirect resistance of the local community to government pressure. Due to the remoteness of the place from the state center and due to its unanimity, the local community becomes the driving force of the spatial development of the city. And since the city is multicultural, the development of public spaces is influenced by the competitiveness (not confrontation) of two local communities. Therefore, the creation of public spaces is considered in the context of the rights of different groups to the city. This paper argues the conditions under which it is the collective actions of local communities that determine the change in the configuration of urban space.

scholarly journals Exploring Successful Small Urban Spaces’ Criteria with Emphasis on Cultural Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-482
Author(s):  
Parvin Partovi ◽  
Kebria Sedaghat Rostami ◽  
Amir Shakibamanesh
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The City

In the crowded cities of the present age, public spaces can provide a quiet area away from the hustle and bustle of the city that citizens can interact with by incorporating utility features and meeting human needs and Relax there. Small urban spaces are among the most important and effective urban spaces to achieve this goal. Because these spaces due to their small size and lower costs (compared to larger spaces) for construction can be created in large numbers and distributed throughout the city. In this way, citizens will be able to reach a public urban space on foot in a short time. If these spaces are well designed, they can encourage people to stay in and interact with each other. It is not difficult to identify and experience high-quality successful places, but identifying the reasons for their success is difficult and even more difficult, understanding if similar spaces in other places can be considered successful. This question is important because public space with deep social content is considered a cultural product. Public space is the product of the historical and socio-cultural forces of society. Therefore, one of the most important issues that should be considered in the study of public spaces and the reasons for their success is the cultural context. In Iranian cities that have been influenced by the values and principles of Islam,recognizing Islamic principles and their role in shaping public spaces can lead us to desirable results. The purpose of this article is to develop a conceptual model of successful small urban spaces with an emphasis on cultural issues, especially in Iranian-Islamic cities. In this regard, the effective criteria for the success of urban spaces in general and small urban spaces in particular in the two categories of Western countries and Iranian Islamic cities were examined and then, taking into account the criteria derived from cultural theorists, the conceptual model of research with 38 subcriteria is provided.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

scholarly journals Property Value, Urban Quality and Maintenance Condition: A Hedonic Analysis in the City of Naples, Italy

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 560-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo del Giudice ◽  
Francesca Torrieri ◽  
Pierfrancesco de Paola
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Property Value ◽  
Standard Requirement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The article examines the relationship between property value and level of conservation of public urban space. While many studies have examined the effect of proximity of open space, parks, and trees on property value, there has been few examination of how projects of urban revitalization and ordinary and extraordinary maintenances of public spaces can influence property values. While intuition can suggest that a low level of quality and maintenance of a public space can negatively affect property value, even if the standard requirement of public spaces and services are meet, this yet to be empirically proven.We proposes the application of a new econometric models for quantitative analysis of the characteristics of real estate property (Generalized Additive Model), to assess the impact of maintenance condition on property values, due to the better prevision that these functions can obtain in a real estate market context.The control of the formal and logical adequacy of the proposed theoretical model is referred to the case study under analysis, in the city of Naples. The results obtained show that a well preserved urban environment influences property price by approximately 6%. The experimental test of the model has provided results that, by reason of their formal consistency with the results obtained in other contexts, can be considered representative of the effectiveness of the methodology proposed.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Reproduksi Ruang terhadap Perubahan Sosial dan Ekonomi Masyarakat Setempat di Kelurahan Samata Kabupaten Gowa

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
Nur Rahmi Aulia ◽  
Nur Syam AS ◽  
Fadhil Surur
Keyword(s):  
Strong Influence ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

AbstractSamata Urban Village is located in Gowa Regency, the emergence of new areas in the Samata Urban Village replaces the land that was originally occupied by the local community to be transformed into an elite and luxurious area, both that occurred in the city center and in the periphery. The process of rehabilitation and urban renewal is what is referred to as gentrification which in the end urban spaces are utilized by those with high income into real estate. This study aims to identify general condition, to determine the reproduction of space and the impact to social and economic. The analytical method used is superimpose analysis and descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis it was found that with the reproduction of space for the construction of economic and residential facilities that have a high value impact, so many people sell their land. Changes in social and economic conditions according to the correlation analysis of the influence of the development of the Village Samata gave a large influence on population growth with a correlation value of 0.98 with a very strong influence and job development with a correlation value of 0.80 with a very strong influence. So the influence of spatial reproduction in Samata Village has a big impact on the development of physical space in the Samata Village.

scholarly journals Private control and public openness. The development of London’s public spaces since the Mayor’s 2009 manifesto

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Camilo Vladimir De Lima Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Lived Spaces ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This research aims to analyse the ongoing privatization of public spaces in London. It also seeks to explore the impact of the 2009 Mayor’s policy document named ‘A Manifesto for Public Space - London’s Great Outdoors’ in this process. The manifesto argues in opposition to the growing ‘corporatisation’ and exclusion of privately controlled spaces and in favour of spaces that are open ‘for all Londoners’ and with a planning process overseen by the Public Sector. In order to understand if these goals were achieved, an initial inventory listed all the developments after 2009. The projects’ examination made it possible to identify the most important cases in each group. This article analyses whether these developments are private public spaces or whether they remain genuinely public, thus examining the manifesto’s effectiveness on London’s lived spaces. In order to do that, a critical approach was constructed upon the literature review, in order to confront the ideas of public space with the spatial experience. This dissection demonstrated how recent complexity of urban space production has created new phenomena in the city, that can be assembled in the concepts of Velvet Ground, Tangled Orbits and Repeated Compulsion of Space Consumption. The concepts clarify the relationship between social control, the democratic openness of public space, and citizenship. The study concludes that a new form of privatized space is taking over the city, and the proposed policies were unable to stop this tendency.

Thermal comfort and pedestrian behaviors in urban public spaces in cities with warm and dry climates

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hocine Boumaraf ◽  
Louisa Amireche
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Microclimatic Conditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to move beyond the stage of analysis of exclusively physical microclimatic phenomena and extending ourselves to the study of the impact of the microclimate environment on the user behavior in public spaces. This paper will open up new opportunities for the development of urban open spaces and facilitate the decision-making for urban decision-makers, city managers and planners to make the right urban planning decision. Design/methodology/approach The methodology for identifying the links between microclimatic quality of urban routes and behaviors was developed on the basis of the results obtained from field surveys carried out in nine public urban areas of the city of Biskra, three urban space are located in a traditional urban fabric (the medina) and the other five in new urban areas, in the two climatic seasons (winter, summer) of 2019. For this exploratory research, two types of instruments were used to collect data from environmental and human monitoring. Findings Improving microclimatic conditions in urban spaces can allow people to spend more time outside, with the possibility of increasing their social cohesion. The overall objective of this research is to better understand the impact of microclimatic characteristics on pedestrian behavior of nine selected public urban spaces in the city of Biskra, Algeria. To characterize this impact, the authors developed an approach based on crossing data of field surveys, including structured interviews with a questionnaire and observations of human activities (video recordings), as well as microclimate monitoring, conducted during the two climatic seasons (winter, summer) 2019. The analysis of the results allowed to verify the impact of the two climatic seasons (winter, summer) on the variation in the density of occupancy of the different urban areas studied and the duration of the user stations. The authors also illustrated that the number of individuals higher in the traditional urban spaces of the city of Biskra or the conditions of climate comfort are more comfortable than the urban spaces in the new urban areas of the city of Biskra during the summer, which is the season most problematic. Originality/value In recent years, there has been a proliferation of scientific studies on the subject of control of microclimatic characteristics and, in particular, on the consideration of the thermal comfort of persons by qualitative analysis, prediction and representation of the perception of external environments. Improving microclimatic conditions in urban spaces can allow people to spend more time outside, with the possibility of increasing their social cohesion. This study highlights the importance of climate-conscious urban design and design flexibility. Urban environments can be modified in summer and winter to provide a better outdoor thermal environment for users. In addition, this study also shows the importance of harmony between microclimate and urban design. Such harmony can be achieved by including requirements for a climate-conscious urban design in the planning regulations for cities in arid zones.

scholarly journals Heightened intensity: Reflecting on player experiences in Wayfinder Live

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Innocent ◽  
Dale Leorke
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The People ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Player Experiences ◽  
Augmented Reality Game

Location-based games use smartphones and other location-aware devices to incorporate their players’ actions in everyday, physical spaces – the streets and public spaces of the city – into the virtual world of the game. Scholars and designers of these games often claim that they reconfigure their players’ relationship with the people and environment around them. They argue these games either engage and immerse players more deeply in the spaces of the game or distance and detach them from the physical environment through the screen interface. To date, however, relatively few detailed empirical studies of these games have been undertaken to test out and critique these claims. This article presents a study of the 2017 iteration of the location-based augmented reality game Wayfinder Live, in which players use their phones to search for and scan urban codes hidden across Melbourne’s laneways, alleys, and public spaces. Players of the game were interviewed and invited to reflect on their experience. This article relates these experiences to the design and development of the game, particularly to five play design principles that characterize its approach to haptic play in urban space. We begin by outlining these principles and the motivations behind them. Then, drawing on an analysis of the player interviews, we evaluate the impact of the game on their perception of the city.

scholarly journals STREET SPACE FROM THE VIEW OF HUMAN INTERACTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristián Čulík ◽  
Alica Kalašová ◽  
Zuzana Otahálová
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Street Space ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
And Function ◽  
The City

The dramatic increase in automobile transport over the last few decades has often led to the degradation of a basic element of the urban space – streets, the essential part of every urban area – to simple transport corridors. Life in the street is a dramatic stage on which we all are participating actors. The meaning of streets goes beyond the fact that they lead somewhere else and thus hold the city together, but the streetscape has a meaning in and of itself – we are out in the street because we want to be there. Like other components of the urban space, streets have a spatial dimension but, perhaps uniquely, also have their temporal element. In my contribution I would like to characterize a street in a town and its role in the modern way of life. Streets and public spaces are important elements that make up a city. The rapid increase of number of vehicles brought changes in the character and function of the street space. The streets were perceived primarily as a space reserved for transport, to the detriment of its residential, social and aesthetic function. Vehicles in motion and mainly parked cars gradually occupied a larger part of public areas and they do not allow other activities.

scholarly journals A cidade das mulheres feministas: uma cartografia de Goiânia (GO)

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Talita Cabral Machado
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Feminist Leadership ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Mapping Techniques ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
The City

Resumo Este estudo trata das apropriações do espaço urbano de Goiânia (GO), realizadas pelas mulheres que participam ou participaram de grupos dos movimentos feministas locais. Objetivo é compreender diferentes processos de apropriação, produção e qualificação do espaço da cidade realizados por militantes. A metodologia adotada utiliza-se das narrativas de lideranças feministas, por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas e de técnicas de mapeamento. Os pressupostos teóricos são baseados em leituras sobre as questões de gênero no espaço urbano. As ações feministas nos lugares acontecem a partir da vivência entre as mulheres, onde elas se constroem como feministas e constroem, ao mesmo tempo, os feminismos. Em meio a uma série de limitações, em uma relação com e entre os lugares da cidade, as mulheres os criam e recriam. Através do mapeamento dos locais presentes nas narrativas, há a constituição de um mosaico de representações espaciais. Por fim, é possível entender, por meio de suas ações coletivas, que as mulheres intervêm de diferentes formas no processo de construção do urbano. Palavras-chave: Mulheres; Espaço urbano; Movimentos feministas; Cartografia   Abstract This research deals with appropriations of the urban space of Goiânia, GO, by women who take or took part in local feminist groups or movements. The work aims at understanding different processes of appropriation, production and qualification of urban spaces by women militants, The chosen methodology makes use of feminist leadership narratives, by means of semi-structured interviews and mapping techniques. The theoretical assumptions are based on readings about gender in urban sapace. The feminist activity on these places happens based on their experiences between them, by which they constitute themselves as feminists and, at the same time, shaping various feminisms. Amid a number of limitations, in a relation with and between the spaces of the city, the women create and recreate them. There is a constitution of a mosaic of spacial representations, achieved by mapping the places noted in the narratives. Lastly, it is possible to understand, by means of their collective actions, that women intervene in various ways on the process of urban framing. Keywords: Women; Urban space; Feminist movements; Cartography   Resumen El estudio trata de la apropiación del espacio urbano en Goiânia (GO), llevadas a cabo por las mujeres que participan o han participado en grupos de movimientos feministas locales. El objetivo es comprender los diferentes procesos de apropiación, producción y calificación del espacio urbano realizados por las militantes. La metodología utiliza las narrativas de líderes feministas, a través de entrevistas semiestructuradas y técnicas de mapeo. Los presupuestos teóricos se basan en enfoques teóricos sobre la cuestión de género en el espacio urbano. Las acciones feministas en estos lugares suceden de experiencias entre las mujeres, donde si construyen como feministas, mientras construyen, al mismo tiempo, los feminismos. En medio de una serie de limitaciones, en relación con los lugares de la ciudad, las mujeres crean y recrean estos lugares de manera activa. Mediante la cartografía de los lugares presentes en las narrativas hay la creación de un mosaico de representaciones espaciales. Por último, es posible comprender, a través de sus acciones colectivas, que las mujeres participan de diferentes maneras en el proceso de construcción de lo urbano. Palabras clave: Mujeres; Sspacio urbano; Movimientos feministas; Cartografia

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