scholarly journals Tactical urbanism in the context of urban practices development in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Loktionova
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Tactical Urbanism ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
New Form ◽  
The City

The article presents the study of tactical urbanism phenomenon as a way of integrating a person into the socio-cultural environment of the city. The works and publications of both domestic and western researchers are considered. The research sources are outlined: from the classics of sociology to contemporaries, informational and analytical Internet resources which highlight the content of the tactical urbanism ideas. The author has revealed that the research focus of the predecessors is mainly focused on rethinking the problem of urban area spatial development. Taking into account this, the process of research definitive field theorizing is highlighted (starts from M.Castells).The content of «tactical urbanism» concept in the public discourse presented. It should be understood as targeted actions of the city authorities and the public in the field of urban environment in order to fill its traditional content. The process of urbanization movement institutionalization in the context of domestic development is presented. The domestic formal / informal local initiatives are analyzed. The basic forms and practices of tactical urbanism are demostrated, the circle of actors involved in the process of their realization is outlined. The main results of the sociological research showing the level of citizens responsibility and involvement in the process of improvement / arrangement of the city’s territory are highlighted. The features of the tactical urbanism phenomenon in the context of the domestic society development in modern conditions are generalized. It is established that the citizens involvement in the practice of tactical urbanization is fairly called a new form of civil participation. However, the results of the conducted sociological research have shown that despite the development of tactical urbanism ideas in the context of domestic urban practices implementation, the population readiness in urban changes and the level of their responsibility for these changes remains low.

Trials and Tribulations

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-97
Author(s):  
Stephen Lovell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The People ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
People Movement ◽  
The City

This chapter tells the story of public speaking in Russia from the imposition of greater restrictions on the public sphere in 1867 through to the eve of Alexander II’s assassination in 1881. It shows that in this period the focus of the Russian public switched from the zemstvo to the courtroom, where a number of high-profile trials took place (and were reported, sometimes in stenographic detail, in the press). The chapter examines the careers and profiles of some of Russia’s leading courtroom orators. It also explores the activities of the Russian socialists (populists), in particular the ‘Going to the People’ movement of 1873–4 and later propaganda efforts in the city and the courtroom. It ends by considering the intensification of public discourse at the end of the 1870s: the Russo-Turkish War saw a surge of patriotic mobilization, but at the same time the populist adoption of terrorism seized public attention.

scholarly journals An attempt of creating new museum narratives by the example of the exhibition project «Shevchenko by the urban tongue»

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-123
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Zubar ◽  
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Oleh Mahdych ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City ◽  
Ukrainian Society

Taras Shevchenko is one of the most researched and discussed figures in Ukrainian society. In each historical period receptions and assessments around Shevchenko` personality differentiates, depending on the public circumstances or prevailing trends in humanitarian discourse. These perceptions swayed between positive and critical judgment. Authors identified several key perceptions of Shevchenko in Ukrainian public space, for instance, «national hero», «father of the nation», «poet», «revolutionary democrat». In their opinion, modern Ukraine still faces the search for Shevchenko` new image. New forms of public honour (commemoration) are being developed, including through museum exhibition projects. Authors also analyze the significance of the museum narrative expositions and exhibitions for the creation of new public images, giving the example of the exhibition project «Shevchenko by the urban tongue», which took place in the Taras Shevchenko national museum from November 4th to January 31th in 2021. Curators attempted to explore how personal experience in the city changed due to the process of urbanization from the XIX-th century and how the urban space influenced the shaping of the Taras Shevchenko figure. Specifically, in the XIX-th century, cities ultimately transformed into an environment, which created trends, emphases of the global public development that influenced Shevchenko, since exactly in the city he gained domestic freedom, profession and widened his social circle. The city gave him a sense of understanding of the culture, its influence and importance not only for consumer purposes or acceptance but also for the creation of new meanings. According to the authors, this approach allows us to better understand the significance of Taras Shevchenko, his connection to modern Ukrainian realities and world context.

The Fair that Never Was

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-25
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Shanken
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Richard Neutra ◽  
The City

The unbuilt proposals for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair offer a cross section of designs put before the public in a formative moment just before modernism came to dominate architectural discourse and production. Projects by luminaries Bernard Maybeck and Richard Neutra joined projects by Joseph Strauss and Henry Killam Murphy. Here were architectural hopefuls at the nadir of the Great Depression attempting to draw their way into the commission of a lifetime. Thus, a Beaux-Arts bohemian competed with a sincere modernist, a self-promoting engineer, and America's leading practitioner in China. At the same time, the proposals were part of the larger economic and political landscape of San Francisco, as neighborhood associations and politicians used them to attract the fair to their part of the city. More than pie in the sky, these designs show in amplified form the way architecture is embedded in public discourse as a form of persuasion, a kind of politics by other means through which elites and other stakeholders argued for their preferred reality. As tools of intra-urban boosterism, these plans reveal the competing interests within San Francisco at a pivotal moment in its development, when its future lay in the formation of a regional metropolis that could compete with Los Angeles for commerce on the West Coast and beyond.

‘Natural’ No More?

2018 ◽  
pp. 185-209
Author(s):  
Ravi Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Flood Plains ◽  
The Public ◽  
Face Threats ◽  
River Yamuna ◽  
The City ◽  
Indian Cities

Rivers in fast-changing and expanding Indian cities have become contested natural features. Though central to such human settlements for long, which have depended on them for water security, livelihoods, biodiversity and cultural life, more recently they face threats from new urbanization of their flood plains, water pollution, and loss of biodiversity as the city encroaches upon them. Based on a case study of the river Yamuna flowing through the mega city of Delhi, the article brings forth the limited understanding of such natural features in urban planning and the public discourse in general. It explores in detail the changing landscape, its implication on the long-term sustainability and the wider implications of their destruction in urban settings.

To Build or Not to Build: Examining the Public Discourse Regarding St. Petersburg’s Stadium Plan

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Mondello ◽  
Richard W. Schwester ◽  
Brad R. Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Tampa Bay ◽  
Good Argument ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The City

Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays have proposed constructing a facility on the St. Petersburg waterfront. The projected cost of this stadium is $450 million, which will be financed partially by the Rays’ ownership. The remaining cost will be financed through tax revenues generated from the private redevelopment of Tropicana Field—the Rays’ current facility. Using content analysis, this article examines the public discourse regarding the proposed stadium. A pillar of controversy surrounding the stadium plan centers on opportunity-cost issues. Furthermore, in the context of the public-good argument, there is empirical evidence among bloggers that the stadium would stimulate awareness, improve the city’s image, or simply give the city a platform to showcase its amenities. This study aimed to provide a better understanding of the prevailing themes characterizing support for or opposition to this stadium plan and generate testable research hypotheses.

scholarly journals The public university and the retreat from globalisation: An economic geography perspective on managing local-global tensions in international higher education

2020 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2095908
Author(s):  
Eric Knight ◽  
Andrew Jones ◽  
Meric S Gertler
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Public University ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City

As a growing backlash against globalisation gathers momentum, internationally oriented public universities face a period of great unrest. In particular, they find themselves caught between the narrowing local agendas of their public funders and the global outlook of their researchers and students. We suggest that an economic geography lens provides a powerful perspective for how universities might navigate these tensions. Specifically, we show how local-global tensions can be managed through strategies engaged at the city and regional level. Our contribution seeks to inform current debates in the higher education sector and bring economic geography more centrally into public discourse on this topic.

“ADULTS SEE POLITICS AS A GAME”: POLITICS OF KURDISH CHILDREN IN URBAN TURKEY

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haydar Darıcı
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article explores the political subjectivity of Kurdish children in urban Turkey. Often referred to as “stone-throwing children,” since the early 2000s Kurdish children have entered Turkish public discourse as central political actors of the urban Kurdish movement. I suggest that the politicization of children can be understood in the context of transformations in age and kinship systems within the Kurdish community that were shaped by the forced migration of Kurds in the early 1990s. Focusing on the experiences of Kurdish children in the city of Adana, I argue that memories of violence transmitted by displaced parents, combined with the children's experiences of urban life, including exclusion, discrimination, poverty, and state violence, necessitate a reevaluation of how childhood is conceived and experienced within the Kurdish community. In a context where Kurdish adults often have trouble integrating into the urban context, their children frequently challenge conventional power relations within their families as well as within the Kurdish movement. In contrast to a dominant Turkish public discourse positing that these children are being abused by politicized adults, I contend that Kurdish children are active agents who subvert the agendas and norms of not only Turkish but also Kurdish politics. The article analyzes the ways Kurdish children are represented in the public discourse, how they narrate and make sense of their own politicization, and the relationship between the memory and the postmemory of violence in the context of their mobilization.

Antidemocratic Populism in Turkey after the July 2016 Coup Attempt

Populism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius M. Rogenhofer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bharatiya Janata Party ◽  
New Form ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Political Realm ◽  
Coup Attempt

AbstractPresident Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) fundamentally transformed the Turkish political realm: The AKP was elected in 2002 on promises of economic liberalisation and accession to the European Union (EU). Over sixteen years it steered Turkey from being perceived as a “model” western-style democracy to autocracy. Instrumental for this transformation was Erdogan’s use of a new form of right-wing, religiously legitimated populism that systematically undermined the institutions of democracy by polarising society, capturing the public discourse and disregarding constitutional principles. This article examines the emergence of the AKP’s right-wing, religiously legitimated populism through three analytical lenses: First, the historical development of democracy in Turkey and its shortcomings; second, the antidemocratic effect of Erdogan’s post-coup attempt policies; third, a comparison between the AKP’s brand of populism with political strategies employed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India, the Law and Justice Party (PiS) in Poland and Putin’s Russia.

scholarly journals Urban (co)participatory practices (case Dnipro City)

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 96-104
Author(s):  
A. V. Demicheva
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Consensus Conference ◽  
Tactical Urbanism ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Formal Level ◽  
Local Initiatives ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
Participatory Practices ◽  
The City ◽  
Territorial Group

The study tested, that participatory urban practices are a form of social practices, implemented in city areas and connected with the process of (co)participation of the citizens, both collectively and individually, in the city’s vital activities. Those practices can be implemented on the three levels: formal, semi-formal, informal. Wherein, it is stated, that on the formal level of the implementation of participatory practices, citizens recreate themselves in a form of territorial group, on the semi-formal – as a community, and on the informal – as a togetherness. There is a whole spectrum of various participatory practices on the formal level – a city referendum, general citizens’ meeting at the place of residence, local initiatives, public hearings and councils, bodies of self-organization of the population, etc. To semi-formal one can include the budgets of participation, city participatory projects, etc., to informal - the local actions of like-minded people, who unite around space. The study notes, that since the 2000’s, the gradual activation of collective participatory forms has begun. Even though, the researches have shown, that those practices nowadays are vital only for a small part of the territorial community. Probably, the main reason for that is the habitus of modern Ukrainian that is a combination of strong distrust towards government, including the local one; distrust that people are capable to influence the decisions of officers, paternalism of mindset, etc. Therefore, the leftovers of Soviet world perception don’t let the modern citizens actively use legal schemes in urban participatory practices. On the other hand, the informal practices follow the concept of tactical urbanism. Its main idea is that people change the city themselves, only they can improve the surroundings through the action that don’t require neither a lot of time, nor money, just a bunch of enthusiasts. Moreover, the study proved that today institutionalization of urban participatory practices takes place both «from the bottom and from above». The main prerequisite for the emergence of new practices is the impossibility of the old (traditional) to fully meet the demands of actors in achieving certain goals. In this regard, new practices arise, for example, a consensus conference, a consultative survey, an open office, a public panel, etc. The actual and potential level of participation of residents of the city of Dnipro in the life of the city is revealed. The results of four national surveys, studies of the Department of Sociology recorded that the residents carry out routine actions based on the habit, believing in the fact that there is a certain order of action, but not much efficiency in them. Regarding semi-formal and informal practices, the readiness for their implementation is inherent in the Dnipro City, not to a significant extent.

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