7. the everyday formation of the urban space

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-189
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
The Everyday

Apprehending everyday rhythms: rhythmanalysis, time-lapse photography, and the space-times of street performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Rhythms ◽  
Street Performance ◽  
Time Lapse Photography

This paper develops means of apprehending the rhythms of everyday practices and performances. Emerging from the context of recent calls for more explicit engagements with issues surrounding research methods and methodologies in the doing of cultural geography, and in particular in the examination of the geographies of practices, the paper responds to critiques of recent discussions of urban and social rhythms that highlight limitations in the articulation of methods for actually apprehending everyday rhythms. As such, in conversation with Lefebvre’s portrait of the rhythmanalyst and other works interested in the significance of rhythm to social practices, the paper proposes time-lapse photography as a useful component of such a rhythm-analytical, and more generally practice-orientated, methodology. In doing so, the paper draws attention to this method’s ability to document and facilitate the reflection upon the complex durational unfolding of events and the situation of key occurrences within this polyrhythmia. This is illustrated in relation to the everyday rhythms of a specific urban space in Bath, UK and a street magician’s variously successful attempt to intervene into the everyday life of Bath.

scholarly journals La bibliothèque au-delà de la bibliothèque

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Maurizio Bergamaschi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The public library of Casalecchio di Reno, a small town near Bologna (Italy), is an articulated and multifunctional space, a reference point not only for the municipality but also for the surrounding areas. This library is characterized by multiple spaces and functions, some of which are well-defi ned whilst others less, and diff erent groups of population use it. Together, its low level of regulatory framework, its geographical location and its confi guration as a «public space» make this library both a place of culture and a place of hospitality and friendliness in urban space. By analysing the everyday practices and the concrete actions performed by the subjects, the present study focused on the redefinition of space and on the practices of re-signifi cation, as well as on the manifest or latent needs that underlie such practices.

De-commemoration of an urban street in Egypt: the case of Gameat-Aldowel-Alarabyia street

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona A. Abdelwahab
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Street Design ◽  
Urban Street ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Lay People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Urban Institution ◽  
Naguib Mahfouz

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the “event” of the construction of Naguib Mahfouz Square. Drawing on the memory of Gamaet-Aldowel-AlArabyia Street, it attempts to uncover the socio-cultural structures inherited in the Egyptian urban street.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts Foucauldian discourse on institutions of “knowledge and authority” to approach the power relations between the actors involved. This discourse was constructed through in-depth, unstructured interviews with architects and involved government personnel as well as other archival resources that included national newspapers and magazines.FindingsThis discourse reflected an institutional controversy between these actors over the perception and design of the Egyptian street, highlighting the alienation of the designer, and the user/lay-people, from the urban institution. Naguib Mahfouz Square presented a considerable deviation from the established norms of street design in Egypt at that time through its commemoration of a contemporary figure in literature, the architect’s involvement in the design process and the unfencing of urban space. This event thus questions the perception of the urban street beyond our socio-cultural inheritance, and towards street design as a performative urban act that embraces the everyday activities of lay-people in the street.Originality/valueThe paper utilises Foucauldian discourse on power to approach a case study of an urban event and space in Egypt, which has not previously been investigated thoroughly. It thus holds potential towards the resolution of inherited conflict between the urban street and the urban institution.

Ceasefire City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
The City

For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running armed conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of everyday life, lived realities of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

Scenes of Argument

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
pp. 995-1001
Author(s):  
Nijah Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Political ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Message

In a crucial moment from Henry Dumas's short story “strike and fade” (C. 1965-68), an unnamed narrator observes what is left of a city in the immediate aftermath of an urban uprising: “The word is out. Cool it. We on the street, see. Me and Big Skin. We watch the cops. They watch us. People comin and goin. That fire truck still wrecked up side the buildin. Papers say we riot, but we didn't riot. We like the VC, the Viet Cong. We strike and fade” (111). The staccato established by the short phrasings, fragments, and use of the vernacular evokes a sense of anxiety, contributing to what Carter Mathes aptly describes as Dumas's “aural portrait of black urban space under siege” (91). Dumas's careful attunement to the rhythmic feelings, or grooves, of the everyday adds texture to that opening pronouncement, “The word is out,” which, in this instance, registers a temperate disposition simultaneously alert and giving off the impression that one is maintaining the order of things. Everything will have changed by the time the phrase returns in the short story's penultimate paragraph, when the narrator and Big Skin are no longer eyeing the police but are instead woven into the collective action of an indeterminate “we.” Dumas writes, “The word is out. Burn, baby, burn. We on the scene. The brothers. Together. Cops and people goin and comin. Some people got good loot, some just hoofin it. A police cordon comin. We shadows on the wall. Light comin towards us. We fade” (115). The political message seems obvious. It's the post-Watts 1960s and disenchantment with the civil rights movement is setting in. For an emerging generation of radical black artists and activists, the time has come for people to . . . confer on the possibility of Blackness and the inevitability of Revolution. (Giovanni)

scholarly journals Die Blasiertheit der Städter*innen – Vom routinierten Umgang mit alltäglicher Komplexität

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Berding
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract. In everyday life, people will act pragmatically. Continuing their routines as they move through the urban space. To enable people to deal with the everyday complexities and diversity of everyday life, people develop routines to help simplify their existence. These daily routines contain distinctive processes and a certain “blasé attitude” to normal or trivial behavior. Using the example of my ethnographic research at Düsseldorf-Oberbilk it could be argued that this kind of behavior repertoire is crucial for successfully dealing with diversity and complexity of urban life.

scholarly journals The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Aurora Massa ◽  
Paolo Boccagni
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Special Attachment ◽  
Sense Of Home

Home, as a special attachment to (and appropriation over) place, can also be cultivated in the public urban space, under certain conditions that we explore through a case study in Rinkeby, Stockholm. This article analyses various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live there. It shows how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it facilitates a continuity with their past ways of living, sensuous connections with a shared ‘Somaliness’, reproduction of transnational ties, and protection from the sense of being ‘otherised’ that often creeps among them. However, homemaking in the public is ridden with contradictions and dilemmas, including those of self-segregation. The grassroots negotiation of a sense of home along these lines invites a novel approach into the everyday lived experience of diverse neighbourhoods in European majority-minority cities.

“Tell Him I’m Gone”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Brahinsky
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Black Geographies ◽  
American Cities

This chapter illustrates how Baldwin unmasked reality in one important case, using James Baldwin’s commentary on 1960s San Francisco to consider racial capitalism’s urban consequences years later. Arguing that urban space plays a key role in shaping the bounds of racial justice, both in Baldwin’s time and beyond, Rachel Brahinsky uses Baldwin to foreground a politics of place that seeks to move toward urban justice. Brahinsky’s essay further reflects on how urban policy has intersected with the everyday black geographies that Baldwin investigated, with a call for a revisioning of those same geographies. Through reseeing place, she argues, we may also reimagine racial marginalization in American cities.

scholarly journals Miron Białoszewski jako miejski rytmoanalityk. O roli spojrzenia w Chamowie

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szalewska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Housing Estates

The article analyzes Chamowo, a journal by Miron Białoszewski, in which the writer recounts his experience of the block housing estate in Lizbonska street in Warsaw. The leitmotive in the text is the function of the gaze as Białoszewski devotes special attention to the action of looking through the window of his new flat. By concentrating on this apparently prosaic activity, the author of the article reflects upon the ways in which a city can be perceived and lived in. She also analyses the ways of narrating the urban space and representing the everyday of block housing estates, to include finally the rhythmanalysis of the urban space.

scholarly journals Narrativas Urbanas: Acesso à moradia, organização familiar e a (re)produção do espaço urbano

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalles Vichiato Breda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Narratives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
External Organization ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta resultados das imersões etnográficas realizadas em 2017 e 2018, em um bairro promovido pelo Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida, em São Carlos/SP. Parto da perspectiva de Agier do "fazer-cidade", compreendendo que a cidade é feita de movimentos, de relações práticas e de narrativas. Neste sentido, a (re)produção do espaço urbano é permeada de disputas, contradições e apropriações, sendo um produto histórico, social e imediato. Abordo a (re)produção do espaço urbano por meio das "famílias populares urbanas" e sua potencialidade enquanto instância ordenadora simbólica do mundo cotidiano, e suas formas de organização interna/externa. Selecionei duas famílias beneficiárias para explorar o "fazer-cidade", levando em consideração especialmente a trajetória de moradia, trabalho e lazer. Algumas considerações podem ser tecidas: os arranjos familiares têm potencial de ressignificação do espaço urbano, tanto concreto, quanto simbólico; os deslocamentos em busca de trabalho e moradia são centrais neste processo de "fazer-cidade", dialogando com as formas de expansão e produção do urbano.Palavras-chave: Produção do Espaço Urbano. Famílias Populares Urbanas. Moradia Popular. Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida. Narrativas Urbanas  URBAN NARRATIVES:ACCESS TO HOUSING, FAMILIAR ORGANIZATION AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF THE URBAN SPACEAbstract: This work presents results of the ethnographic immersions carried out in 2017 and 2018 in a neighborhood promoted by the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, in São Carlos/SP. Starting from Agier's perspective of "making-city" (“fazer-cidade”), understanding that the city is made up of movements, practical relations and narratives. In this sense, the (re)production of the urban space is permeated with disputes and contradictions, appropriations, being a historical, social and immediate product. I approach the (re)production of urban space through the "urban popular families" and their potential as a symbolic organizing instance of the everyday world, their forms of internal/external organization. It was selected two beneficiary families to explore the "makeing-city", especially taking into account the trajectory of housing, work and leisure. Some considerations can be pointed: family arrangements have the potential to redefine urban space, both concrete and symbolic; displacements in search of work and housing are central to this "making-city" process, dialoguing with the forms of expansion and urban production.Keywords: Urban Space Production. Urban Popular Families. Popular Housing. Minha Casa Minha Vida Program. Urban Narratives

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