scholarly journals Urban Humanities and the Creative Practitioner

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Cuff ◽  
Jennifer Wolch

Creative practices are needed to address the range of issues that confront contemporary cities—issues of social justice, economic development, and environmental quality. Urban humanities emphasize innovative methods and practices, which evolve along with shifting epistemologies in multidisciplinary confluence, standing in contrast to a current dominant narrative that contemporary cities depend upon attracting a creative group of citizens. Recent efforts the LA River, driven by a motley crew of people set out to reimagine new possibilities for the river, illustrating that the city as an object of study intrinsically carries implications about action and about the future. This manifesto offers a call to action for scholars to become engaged, creative urban practitioners.

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Pante

Quezon City was founded in 1939 as a planned city and envisioned as the future capital of the Philippines, which was anticipating its independence in a few years. Led by President Manuel Quezon, Philippine politicians conferred upon the city narratives of nationhood and social justice to make it the best spatial representation of a nation-in-waiting. However, underneath these state-centric ideologies was the authoritarianism of the Quezon regime, which used urban politics to centralise power. But far from being a symbol of the President's undisputed dominance, Quezon City's inherent contradictions became weak points in the city's official narrative.


Itinerario ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Carter

Much of Harbin's early history revolved around struggles over the city's identity and also for control of the city's colonial legacy. The city's Russian past, in particular, has existed uneasily alongside its development as a Chinese city, and nearly a century after Russian control over the city ended, the competition over Harbin's identity continues to evolve. After many decades of denying and dismissing Harbin's colonial past, local, regional, and national Chinese governments are now exploiting that past as an asset for the city's economic development. Building on trends that first emerged in the 1990s, Harbin's Chinese rulers are now turning to the city's non-Chinese past as a means of competing in a global cultural and economic environment. More than attracting foreigners focused on nostalgia, however, Harbin seems eager to present itself as example of the “occidental” exotic for Chinese domestic tourists.


Author(s):  
V. Nazarenko ◽  

The paper analyses the underlying economic factors of the large cities, urban center in different geographical regions. It describes the ecological consequences of extensive land use in the urban region, determine the expenses of the city budget of the ecology related factors, such as trash collection and utilization, carbon emissions reduction, level of green areas, costs of their maintenance and sustainable development. The future projections are based on the Paris climate agreement and national or city level plan of sustainable development till 2035. The article deals with difference of income, land prices and land use models of the large cities, how they are different and like other metapolicies worldwide and in the geographical region. The paper examined the issue of how government regulate land use in the context of the large city, legal status of the cities and what role they pay in economic development. The determining economic principles that were introduced in this research are land prices for different use cases, such as industrial, commercial, and residential relative to general level of economic development of the city. Other key factors are rent prices withing the context of income and number of employees, corporations that operate in the city. Following cities Shanghai, New York, Mexico City, Paris, and Kyiv, were picked to analyze the land use patterns, ecology related expanse and future forecast modeling. In this paper we highlighted several key differences between those cities. Size of the urban land area and metropolitan areas are where most of differences are. While the geographical boundaries of the core city itself or the downtown areas produced similar results, regardless of the city geographical or economic development levels. Results of economic modeling of the ecological related budget spending, sustainable development 2035 plan, highlight that cities with larger budgets, such as NY city or Shanghai, spend relatively to the total sum less on the ecology, while cities that encountered with ecological problems, such as Mexico City, plan to spend more on the future sustainable development. At the same time, some cities in the countries that signed Paris agreement, do not have specific economical plans on future development, such as Kyiv.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Adelir Cechin Lazaroto ◽  
Elisangela Ferreira Da Silva ◽  
Lays Júlia De Jesus Ribeiro

O desenvolvimento do meio urbanizado tem crescido de forma acelerada a ponto de fazer com que haja um desequilíbrio de fauna e flora, e assim podendo atingir a qualidade ambiental da cidade. Um método para avaliar o grau de impacto de uma determinada região é a partir do levantamento de bioindicadores encontrados no local, ao analisá-los há a possibilidade de desvendar os possíveis problemas encontrados na região. Neste trabalho a família Drosophilidae foi usada como base para o diagnóstico da qualidade ambiental da cidade de Ariquemes/RO, uma vez que são mais apropriados por possuírem facilidade em detectar mudanças que podem ocorrer em elementos como, temperatura, umidade e outros. Foram coletados 3.042 insetos e 75,4% foram identificados como Drosofilídeos, o restante foi composto por artrópodes classificados nas ordens coleóptera, himenóptera, hemíptera, ortóptera, lepidóptera, neuróptera, blattaria e dípteros. Para a coleta desses artrópodes foram escolhidos método e armadilha propostos por Tidon e Sene (1988). A partir dos resultados pode-se concluir que há um alto nível de degradação devido à urbanização exagerada. Abrindo margens para novas pesquisas que podem ser desenvolvidas futuramente por pessoas que possuam interesse no assunto. ABSTRACT: The development of the urbanized environment has grown rapidly to the point of causing an imbalance of fauna and flora, and thus achieving the environmental quality of the city. A method to assessing the degree of impact of a given region is from the survey of bioindicators found in the site, when analyzing them there is the possibility of unraveling the possible problems found in the region. In this work, the Drosophilidae family was used as a basis for the diagnosis of the environmental quality of the city of Ariquemes/RO, since they are more appropriate because they are easy to detect changes that can occur in elements such as temperature, humidity and others. 2.477 insects were collected and 69,8% were identified as Drosophilidae, the remainder composed of arthropods classified as Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Neopoptera, Blattaria and Diptera. For the collection of these arthropods were chosen traps made with PET bottle(1). From the results it is assumed that there is a high level of degradation due to exaggerated urbanization. It is still suggested that an afforestation project be developed, aiming at improving the health of the population. Opening margins for further research that may be developed in the future by people who have an interest in the subject.


2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Kerstens ◽  
R. De Ridder ◽  
A. Hof ◽  
J. Alberts ◽  
D. Mulhall ◽  
...  

The city of Almere (The Netherlands) has a current population of 190.000 residents. Because of its attractive location (close to Amsterdam and Utrecht) Almere was designated by the national government to expand its population with 160.000 residents (60.000 houses) between 2010 and 2030, becoming one of the fastest growing European urban areas. Almere has formulated the “Almere Principles” containing ambitious goals to achieve this future development, aspiring to become a landmark in sustainable urban development. The “Almere Principles” are based on the Cradle to Cradle® philosophy in which improvement of public health and environment is emphasized, rather than limiting negative impacts of the future expansion of Almere. Thus, a distinction is made between the conventional interpretation of sustainability, focusing on eco-efficiency and the Cradle to Cradle® approach, focusing on eco-effectiveness. These principles are used by relevant stakeholders to formulate a vision of the future sanitation system. Following, design criteria based on sustainability pillars People, Planet and Profit are formulated, thus translating the vision into tangible scenarios, which are then mutually compared. In this paper the methodology and preliminary outcomes of the development of the sustainable sanitation system for Almere are presented.


2017 ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yasin

The article is devoted to major events in the history of the post-Soviet economy, their influence on forming and development of modern Russia. The author considers stages of restructuring, market reforms, transformational crisis, and recovery growth (1999-2011), as well as a current period which started in2011 and is experiencing serious problems. The present situation is analyzed, four possible scenarios are put forward for Russia: “inertia”, “mobilization”, “decisive leap”, “gradual democratic development”. More than 30 experts were questioned in the process of working out the scenarios.


2007 ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Bogomolov

The article reveals the influence of the spiritual and moral atmosphere in the society on economic development. The emphasis is put especially on the role of social confidence and social justice. The author indicates also some measures on improving the worsening moral situation in Russia.


Moreana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (Number 193- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
Nicolas Tenaillon

As a renowned jurist first and then as a top politician, Thomas More has never given up researching about a judicial system where all the fields of justice would be harmonized around a comprehensive logic. From criminal law to divine providence, Utopia, despite its eccentricities, proposes a coherent model of Christian-inspired collective living, based on a concern for social justice, something that was terribly neglected during the early 16th century English monarchy. Not only did History prove many of More’s intuitions right, but above all, it gave legitimacy to the utopian genre in its task of imagining the future progress of human justice and of contributing to its coming.


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