scholarly journals FACTORS INFLUENCING CITIES PEDESTRIAN STREET FUNCTIONALITY AND SUSTAINABLE LAND USE

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vida MALIENE ◽  
Ruta DICIUNAITE-RAUKTIENE
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
The Public ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Pedestrian Street

The public space encourages social exchange, develops and maintains social groups and allows the exchange of public messages. When the public space and public life are not supported in the community, there is no one to communicate with, people become isolated, less inclined to help or support each other. Public space is the scene of public life that promotes a sense of community, sense of place, human connection and communication as well as dependence sensation. High-quality and well-managed public space is a benefit to the city's economy, creating shelter from the car-centred life and move to a more natural environment as well as significant urban land use. Therefore, in recent times, in order to establish the right conditions in cities for different human needs, great attention is paid not only to the development of physical infrastructure, but also to other aspects that will help to create sustainable balance of social, economic and environmental aspects. One of the quality of life in the city return ways is the release of urban spaces for pedestrians. Until these days the pedestrian zones are extended little by little, resulting in disposal of the car parking-lots and improved cycling and other transport facilities. Sustainable use of urban pedestrian zones would provide economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits only if these aspects are combined with each other. The aim of the article is to distinguish and critically analyse (on the basis of a literature review) factors influencing the functionality and sustainable development of pedestrian streets. Article object – cities pedestrian street. The study was conducted using scientific publishing content analysis and synthesis techniques. This article is an overview.

scholarly journals Public Broadcasting and Public Sphere

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
AG. Eka Wenats Wuryanta
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Public Broadcasting ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Rights ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Functions

Public broadcasting can relatively accommodate a public sphere that has autonomy and independence. It also facilitates ongoing cultural activities in various aspects of functional life. Public broadcasting as a public sphere is expected to become a new format of public life that can accommodate a variety of public interests into a shared vision in the administration of public life in an honorable and democratic manner. In the context of contemporary reforms, there should be opportunities to develop new formats for the existence of government broadcasting media (RRI / TVRI) to become autonomous and independent institutions that carry out cultural functions in the public sphere (read: public broadcast media). Within the framework of achieving public space based on fulfilling public rights in accessing, receiving, and providing information openly and responsibly.

scholarly journals Piano at the ground level

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Laura Camargo ◽  
Gabriela Tenorio
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Experience ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Potsdamer Platz ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

<p>From observing the current dynamics of cities and the development of contemporary architecture, great criticism arises in response to the creation of iconic buildings as formal experiments that do not contribute to the local experience. Motivated by this criticism, this paper aims to analyse and understand the importance and the participation of architecture in the construction of a better public realm. The analytical method seeks to understand, evaluate and manipulate the main attributes of a public space based on the features that make it a platform for public life. The analysis focuses on the public realm in three areas of study- the space resulting of the interaction between the buildings, the interstitial space and the constructed spaces. The projects chosen to analyse consisted on iconic buildings by the architect Renzo Piano, due to his international recognition - a body of work shaped by the contexts in which they operate. The projects are situated in global cities and propose new configurations of public space: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; and Saint Giles Court, London. The analysis seeks the features that make architecture successful in the sense that it aggregates people and creates interesting spaces that favour human permanence; the paper evaluates whether the projects of Renzo Piano display these features. Each project has its own particularities. Starting with the dimensions, each project contributes to the public space at a different scale. Nevertheless, the variables analysed were the same for each context, and the effects were considered regarding the proportions and the programmatic possibilities offered by each. After understanding the site and its history, the study of the public life and its local attributes, this paper highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each building and how they contribute to the specific place. The interpretation of the results took into account not only the present, but also the lifetime of each project, raising some potential problems or successes for the future. It is possible to conclude that the three projects contribute positively to the public space, stimulating urban improvements and constitute good-practice examples, each at a different intensity.</p>

Representation of Women in the Connecting of the Public Space Area/Special Area

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Özge Gürsoy Atar
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Narrative Cinema ◽  
Special Area ◽  
Feminist Film

With the industrial revolution, the public/private distinction became even more acute. From the traditional point of view, those who make a living (men) by working outside the home in paid work are perceived as part of their participation in public life. Economically dependent people (women) were perceived as belonging to the private sphere. We see that the concept of private space is mentioned together with women. It is always criticized that the concepts of private sphere and motherhood limit women. The existing order is maintained by repeating these discourses in mass media such as cinema and television. In contemporary narrative cinema, however, this limitation of women is intended to be altered by addressing it with a different language or by going beyond conventional stereotypes. In this context, Mother! the film will be examined in the context of feminist film criticism through the representation of space.

Study on Utilization of the Space under Urban Viaducts in Harbin

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 568-571
Author(s):  
Shu Ting Li ◽  
Li Juan Guo
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Harbin City ◽  
Landscape System ◽  
Current Utilization ◽  
Coordination Function

The space under the urban viaducts is part of urban space and it is closely related to land use, city traffic, the public life, landscape system. This article focus on the space utilization under viaducts in Harbin. Through the investigation and research, this article analyzes the current utilization of viaducts space from usage mode, coordination function, landscape and management. And it introduces the construction of viaduct and building types. Then it propounds the utilization principles of the viaducts space. Finally, it point out the utilization strategies of the viaducts space in Harbin city from overall design, adaptability of area, gradient utilization of time, construction of green and landscape, planning and management.

Conceptual Model for the Evaluation and Optimization of Sustainable Land Use

2013 ◽  
Vol 718-720 ◽  
pp. 327-332
Author(s):  
Dao Xin Liu ◽  
Lu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Sustainability Evaluation ◽  
Farmland Conservation ◽  
Development And Environment

Sustainable land use plays a vital role in the process of regional development. To pursuit the sustainable use of land resources will be the effective approach to address the conflictions among farmland conservation, social development and environment protection. This paper reviewed the relevant research and studies on the field of sustainable land use including its various definitions, the sustainability evaluation and optimization of land resources, got some conclusions about the prospects in the study on sustainable land use and finally addressed the conceptual model for evaluating and optimizing sustainable land use.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE LAND USE EVALUATION BASED ON PRESERVATIVE APPROACH

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽  
pp. 653-660
Author(s):  
S. Khademi ◽  
M. Norouzi ◽  
M. Hashemi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Ancient Monuments ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Determining the manner of land-use and the spatial structure of cities on the one hand, and the economic value of each piece of land on the other hand, land-use planning is always considered as the main part of urban planning. In this regard, emphasizing the efficient use of land, the sustainable development approach has presented a new perspective on urban planning and consequently on its most important pillar, i.e. land-use planning. In order to evaluate urban land-use, it has been attempted in this paper to select the most significant indicators affecting urban land-use and matching sustainable development indicators. Due to the significance of preserving ancient monuments and the surroundings as one of the main pillars of achieving sustainability, in this research, sustainability indicators have been selected emphasizing the preservation of ancient monuments and historical observance of the city of Susa as one of the historical cities of Iran. It has also been attempted to integrate these criteria with other land-use sustainability indicators. For this purpose, Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and the AHP model have been used for providing maps displaying spatial density and combining layers as well as providing final maps respectively. Moreover, the rating of sustainability will be studied in different districts of the city of Shush so as to evaluate the status of land sustainability in different parts of the city. The results of the study show that different neighborhoods of Shush do not have the same sustainability in land-use such that neighborhoods located in the eastern half of the city, i.e. the new neighborhoods, have a higher sustainability than those of the western half. It seems that the allocation of a high percentage of these areas to arid lands and historical areas is one of the main reasons for their sustainability.</p>

THE DISRUPTED RHYTHM OF PUBLIC SPACES UNDER THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: A CASE STUDY FROM MUMBAI METROPOLITAN REGION

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol SP-1 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
Sanjukta Sattar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Road

The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed public life world-wide. The need for maintaining physical/social distance has led to a change in the order and nature of human activities across public spaces. As a result, the usual rhythm of activities in public spaces has come to be disrupted. Taking this into consideration, the study delves into the disrupted rhythm of the urban public spaces under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequently imposed lockdown. By adopting a case study-based approach, an in-depth analysis has been carried out to comprehend the change in the daily rhythm of a local road in the wake of the pandemic and lockdown. Lefebvre’s technique of ‘rhythmanalysis’ has been applied to carry out this study, as it is highly suited in studying the flow of everyday life in a spatiotemporal context. The article traces the change in the rhythm of activities in the study area during the pandemic and lockdown in comparison to the usual rhythm of activities that existed in the area before the pandemic. The findings of the study reveal that the pandemic has taken a toll on the study area, where the pre-existing rhythm of the public space has been overtaken by a disrupted rhythm that has given rise to chaos and confusion.

The Changes in Character of the City Center in Sofia

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Nanitchkova-Ozturk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City

This paper aims to provide insight into the repercussions of the recent changes in power structures and economic system in Bulgaria on the architectural features of public spaces in the city center. Within the general instability and confusion, increasing deterioration of the public domain is observed and this is interpreted as a field of opportunities through which the meaning of architectural environment as support of public life and its social significance could be regained. Whether and how this potential can turn into quality depends on a variety of factors, some of which are suggested as areas of inquiry. These include value systems of the society and the architectural practice respectively and their relationship. The architectural environment cannot fully determine the public life of a city, rather it can support the attainment of the practical and spiritual needs of people, expanding experience while allowing for dwelling. In a general condition of confusion and deterioration observable in almost every aspect of life in Bulgaria resulting from the fragmentation of power, the change of the economic system and the instability of values, the weight of responsibility concerning the qualities of public space tends to shift. It is important to identify the changing features of public space in relation to the forces effecting them. Thus directions of inqulry into conditions promoting positive developments could be recognized in terms of aspects of cultural wealth of the society as well as in terms of reassessing the role of the architect-planner.

Memorial mania: remembering and forgetting Sir Robert Peel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Wyke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Public Statement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Political Symbolism

The transformations which took place in the urban environment during the Victorian period gave the public space of towns and cities new meanings, and Terry Wyke’s essay on Sir Robert Peel, examines how political lives and reputations were shaped by the commemorative culture of public portrait statues and busts. Peel's death in 1850 and his subsequent memorializatiom marked the start of a significant trend in public life, expressed in the commissioning of outdoor portrait statues to celebrate prominent local and national figures. Peel's image, 'forged' by the contemporary press, was absorbed by a broader Liberal bourgeois narrative in cities like Manchester, as a public statement of the reputation and achievements of the Anti-Corn Law League, with which Peel was so strongly associated. Such portraiture, replete with political symbolism, played an important part in defining a new civic landscape in the Victorian period, a material narrative of political life that had been largely forgotten by the second half of the twentieth century, although it remains a rich source of evidence deserving of greater attention.

Withdraw the Bungling Hand of Government

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gergely Baics
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Residential Location ◽  
Neighborhood Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Market Regime ◽  
Food Economy ◽  
Retail Food

This chapter examines the geography of food access under the new free-market regime. It maps the retail food economy in relation to the city's land-use environment and broader commercial geography, while also situating food access within its local neighborhood context. In general, the analysis reveals the development of a novel, highly fragmented, and differentiated provisioning landscape, whereby residential location increasingly defined one's options of food access. At the end, the narrative returns to Catharine Market in the mid-nineteenth century, finding the public market's status as the economic, social, and cultural hub of its area compromised by the emerging retail corridor of Catharine Street as the new center of consumption and public space in the neighborhood.

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