scholarly journals Urbanalia jako propozycja genologiczna w ramach humanistycznych studiów miejskich

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Konończuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Legend ◽  
Land Scape

The article discusses the idea of urban genres as forms of textualization of urban spaces, as proposed by Katarzyna Szalewska in her book Urbanalia – miasto i jego teksty: Humanistyczne studia miejskie (Gdańsk 2017). The proposed category of ‘urbanalia’ describes the urban genological land scape that comprises verbal and non-verbal utterances. Szalewska redefines such urban genres as passage, anecdote, spacerownik, urban legend, faits divers, picture, physiology, and tableaux, thus completing the urban studies with the literary methodology. In addition, the forms described by the author are characterized by high artistic and folkloristic qualities.

scholarly journals Analysis of Urban Transformation Through the Use of Expanded Research Tools

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110383
Author(s):  
Ana Elena Builes-Vélez ◽  
Lina María Suárez Velásquez ◽  
Leonardo Correa Velásquez ◽  
Diana Carolina Gutiérrez Aristizábal
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Design Development ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Research Tools

In recent years, urban design development has been an important topic in Latin American cities such as Medellín due to the transformation of their urban spaces, along with the new methods used to evaluate the social, morphological, and, in some cases, economic impacts that have been brought about by the urban development projects. When inquiring about the development process and impact of urban studies, and the inhabitants’ relation to a transformed space, it is important to establish the context within which images, drawings, and photographs are analyzed, using graphical approaches triangulated with other research methods to define comparative criteria. In this article, we reflect on the expanded use of various research tools for the analysis of urban transformation, taking with reference the experience lived by a group of researchers in two Latin American cities. From this, it is intended to understand how they work and how they allow us to understand the urban transformation of these cities, the data obtained, and the vision of the researchers.

scholarly journals The Authenticity Concept of Sh. Zukin: “Schizoid” Category in Urban Studies

Inter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-28
Author(s):  
Kseniia N. Kalashnikova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Symbolic Economy ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the consideration of the concept of authenticity set forth by S. Zukin in the book “Naked City: Death and Life of Authentic Urban Spaces”. The sources of the concept are traced in the author’s early works, the main subjects described in them are: the process of gentrification; power relations forming the urban landscape; symbolic economy and the power of cultural characteristics. These subjects became the basis of the idea of authenticity. Its manifestations are described by the example of “uncommon” and “common” urban spaces. A separate place in the article is considered by the development of individual ideas of Sh. Zukin, their interpretations, as well as applications for specific studies in the work of followers. The conclusion is drawn about the variety of interpretations offered by researchers and the ambiguity of using authenticity as a tool for analyzing the city.

The Development of Towns

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Urban Foundation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines urban foundation and development in the Roman period and the issues relating to town origins and purpose in Britain. It focuses on the chartered towns and reviews relating to the three main types of urban settlement—the coloniae, municipia and civitas-capitals—and the practice of settlement categorization. The chapter also contextualizes debate on urban development by discussing aspects of the history of approach to the documentation and interpretation of Roman town foundation in Britain. It discusses the practicalities of town construction and then moves on to emphasizing the need for Roman urban studies to embrace archaeological theory in order to avoid normative assumptions in interpreting urban material and town life. In particular it argues for greater recognition of the relationship between the development of urban spaces, the lived experience within towns, and the existing significance attached to places and landscapes in prehistory.

Choreographing atmospheres in Copenhagen: Processes and positions between home and public

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110229
Author(s):  
Mikkel Bille ◽  
Bettina Hauge
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Atmosphere ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Dynamic Positioning ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The City

This article explores how people choreograph spaces to feel particular ways through material objects and intangible phenomena like light and sound. Drawing on theories of atmospheres and ethnographic fieldwork in Copenhagen, we argue that while there has been a proliferation of research on atmospheres in urban studies, we also need to attend empirically to the processes through which they come into being, consolidate and coagulate. Through exploring the interplay between domestic and urban spaces, we highlight the volatility and inherently social character of atmospheres. This entails how people’s dynamic positioning within an urban atmosphere comes to matter for people’s sense of the city. We exemplify with one such sensation of the city through the concept of ‘midding’, as the feeling of comfortably being on the perimeter of a situation. Exploring atmospheric positionings and processes enlightens our understanding of the urban atmosphere and shows how shared atmospheric moments connect people in time and space, stressing the importance of urban design to allow for such sharing.

scholarly journals Evading Time and Place in Ankara: A Reading of Contemporary Urban Collective Memory Through Recent Transformations

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-356
Author(s):  
Segah Sak ◽  
Burcu Senyapili
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Urban Issues

Based on precedent theories on collective memory and urban studies, this article develops a framework of approach to contemporary urban collective memory. Understanding urban collective memory by handling people and urban space as a system provides a sociospatial perspective for critical approaches to cities. The study initially provides overviews of theoretical approaches to collective memory and city, and then puts forth constituents of urban collective memory. Based on these constituents, contemporary urban collective memory is discussed, and a framework for analyzing contemporary cities in terms of urban space and urban experience is introduced. For a clear portrayal of urban issues within the context, the introduced framework is devised through the case of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey and the inspiring force behind this study. This framework aims to present a ground to assess people’s relation to urban spaces in the contemporary era.

scholarly journals Teaching through urban sensorium: urban spatiality as a smart learning environment

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaana Jayagopalan ◽  
Sweta Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Smart Learning Environment ◽  
Smart Learning ◽  
Smart Learning Environments ◽  
Bangalore City ◽  
Sensory Learning

AbstractThis paper qualitatively analyses the implication of urban sensorium as a pedagogic mode in the teaching of Urban Studies. Underpinned by the frames of smart learning environments, the paper reiterates experiencing urban ontologies as spatial learning environments. By drawing from a range of transdisciplinary and experiential modes of learning, this paper maps how an undergraduate course on Bangalore city in India served learners to critically engage with and experience spatial urban ontologies both digitally, and in real-world experiences of learning, furthering learner autonomy and reflection. The methodological prisms of this paper are autoethnography and critical reflection. It is organised around enabling learners recognize the experiential, embodied urban spaces through the urban sensorium via real-life engagements with urban spaces, and creation of digital portfolios that map this learning. Findings from the learners’ knowledge of sensory learning, the city’s intersectional aspects, and the student’s embodied and emplaced self in built environments and digital spaces are analysed via cognitive and affective-reflection levels; the course instructor's reflection is analysed via a process-reflection level. These reflections hold implications for the pedagogy of urban studies in undergraduate classrooms by foregrounding spatiality and urban sensorium as significant critical and affective pedagogic tools. The paper has also accommodated critical engagement with an external faculty member as a co-author, in order to manage any bias or researcher subjectivity in the design.

Mumbai

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Global South ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Demographic Growth

Mumbai over the past decade and a half has seen a shift within urban studies. It has moved from a relatively marginal position to becoming increasingly central in theory, practice, and imagination. This rise can be attributed to Mumbai’s size and demographic growth, its increasing connections to global circuits of capital and cultural exchange, as well as new theoretical and policy interest in the “slum” and cities of the “Global South.” Mumbai has been a part of the incipient “Southern turn” in urban studies in which mega-cities of the Global South have come to be recognized as incubators of future urbanism and as places at the leading edge of processes of globalizing modernity. Important in-depth scholarship on Mumbai has circulated widely in international urban research, triggered especially by the coverage provided by the three-volume Oxford University Press series published between 1995 and 2003. These works, among others, have allowed greater sensitivity to Mumbai’s range of distinctive urban spaces, cultural idioms, and lived experiences as well as their often chaotic and unknowable characteristics. Recent changes in the socio-spatial landscape of Mumbai have further opened up important new and alternative ways both of understanding, theorizing, and planning contemporary cities and of investigating urban life in the context of globalization.

scholarly journals How the Presence of Newly Arrived Migrants Challenges Urban Spaces: Three Perspectives from Recent Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Martina Bovo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

This article explores the notion of arrival spaces in the recent urban studies literature, and it outlines three emerging perspectives on their role and the associated processes and complexities. Recently, within changing migratory trajectories, the dimension of arrival has gained increasing relevance, and scholars have discussed the growing complexity underpinning it. Within this framework, some contributions reflect on the role of arrival spaces, which currently represent a rapidly changing research subject. However, by the term ‘arrival space,’ authors refer to various types of space, and the article argues that a clearer reference to the spatial dimension of arrival is needed. Spaces are contexts where different actors interact and intervene in the city, and their understanding represents a preliminary step for future research. In this sense, this contribution aims to unpack the previous decade’s debate on arrival spaces. It outlines three main perspectives: The first discusses the role of trans-local contexts, working as nodes in international migration networks; the second follows the debate on arrival neighborhoods; the third suggests that arrival spaces may be defined as all those parts of the urban fabric with which newcomers interact at the moment of arrival. Finally, drawing from this review, the article underlines that arrival spaces are not only specialized areas with migrant newcomers’ concentration, but they may also be ordinary urban spaces that temporarily work for arrival. Hence, future research should further deepen this perspective and more explicitly investigate the relation of arrival spaces to the city and its actors.

Projecting Post-colonial Conditions at Shanghai Expo 2010, China: Floppy Ears, Lofty Dreams and Macao’s Immutable Mobiles

Urban Studies ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (13) ◽  
pp. 2937-2953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Ee Ong ◽  
Hilary du Cros
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Administrative Region ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Administrative Region ◽  
The City

Recent years have seen increased academic attention in urban studies on the flows of city artefacts and images. Conceptualised as ‘immutable mobiles’, the Macao Pavilion and its associated objects on show at Shanghai Expo 2010 are examined for the ways they encouraged and regulated uniformed flows of people and city images. Specifically, these immutable mobiles projected Macao’s lofty dreams of paradoxical affinity to and difference from mainland China—the city is a steadfast Special Administrative Region of China, but the immigration flow of Chinese citizens has been tightly regulated. This paper unpacks the ways in which urban actants articulate and perform such contradictory imaginings of the (im)mobilities of this post-colonial territory. Accordingly, it provides a basis for further study of post-colonial conditions in Macao, and adds to post-colonial research on mobilities in and of Chinese urban spaces.

Planetary Urbanization: Mutations of the Urban Question

2019 ◽  
pp. 300-333
Author(s):  
Neil Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Theory Research

A new round of debate on the urban question is today unfolding, in relation to which key aspects of inherited urban theories, including those produced in recent decades, now appear inadequate or even obsolete. Against this background, this chapter considers the wide-ranging epistemological, conceptual, and methodological challenges posed by emergent patterns and pathways of planetary urban transformation, which are relativizing the inherited spatial dualisms (city/countryside, urban/rural, human/nonhuman) and scalar imaginaries that have long anchored the field of urban studies. The production of these dramatically rescaled urban spaces engenders major challenges for critical theory, research, imagination, and practice.

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