scholarly journals City as mobility: a contribution of brazilian saraus to urban theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Pardue ◽  
Lucas Amaral de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
City Space ◽  
Existential Knowledge ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
The City

Abstract The article analyzes saraus movement - poetry readings in São Paulo’s periphery - as a cultural phenomenon that over recent years has transformed the city space into a vibrant socio-political project. The movement offers important insights for an anthropology of cities by highlighting the materiality of mobility and spatiality, understood here as a set of social and cultural practices that involve the existential knowledge, social networking, and local community empowerment gained from mobility between predominantly peripheral neighborhoods and urban labor centers. We examine how saraus contribute to the construction of a new imaginary of the city and public space occupied by the socially excluded and racialized peripheries. We provide an analytical and empirical contribution to city production and urban theory, and demonstrate that mobility and the encounter are not simply temporary extraneous interactions, but rather experiences constitutive of social knowledge.

Queering Bratislava: On Borders, Otherness and Public Space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Visual Sociology ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
The City

This paper follows the multiple layers of an urban fabric that is stereotypically characterised as ‘post-socialist’, yet in essence, it is subject to ongoing transitions – much like the notion of being queer. What can we learn from queer theory in relation to post-socialist urban theory? What are the methodological advancements that derive from a queer approach to research? In this light, the presentation breaks the usually logocentric academic discourse as it engages with the premises of visual sociology. Using visual material from Bratislava focusing on urban inscriptions (street art, urban interventions), it opens up a discussion about the changes in the city and the struggles of different groups.

scholarly journals Cultural Practices and Environment along the Bishnumati River in Kathmandu

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Shobha Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
River Stretch ◽  
Environmentally Sensitive ◽  
The City

The Bishnumati River is one of the major sources of water in Kathmandu city for domestic and agricultural uses. But the quality of the river environment has been degraded seriously since the last few years. This paper is an attempt to explore environmental condition along the Bishnumati River with specific focus on human activities, perception and institutional efforts in dealing with the river environment. Based on field observation, household survey, and key informant survey in eight segments along the river stretch from the city periphery to down town, the information acquired indicate that human activities related to environmentally sensitive phenomena were very much dominant in degrading the river environment. The local inhabitants were aware of the river environmental conservation. The local public agencies were however not seriousness in implementing the waste management activities, but instead they practiced environmentally sensitive activities at the riverbanks. Efforts at both local community and public agencies levels are most warranted to protect the Bishnumati river environment from further degradation. The Geographical Journal of Nepal, Vol. 7, 2009: 53-60

scholarly journals HOW ARE PUBLIC SPACES SUSTAINING CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINA’S INCREASINGLY GLOBALLY FOCUSED URBAN DEVELOPMENTS: USING A CASE STUDY OF PUTUO IN SHANGHAI

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-205
Author(s):  
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
The City

This paper explores what it means for a public space to embody the city within rapid urban change in contemporary urban development and how a space can accomplish this by embracing the culture of the city, its people and its places, using the particular case of Putuo, Shanghai in China. The paper employs mapping and empirical surveys to learn how the local community use the act of communal dance in everyday public spaces of this neighborhood, and seeks not to find generalizable rules for how humans comprehend a city, but instead to better understand how local inhabitants and their chosen activities can influence their built environment. The findings from this emphasize the importance to identify how public spaces can help to define cities with China’s emerging global presence, whilst addressing the ways in which local needs and perspectives can be preserved.

scholarly journals Reviewing Premises on Public Spaces in Democratic, Inclusive, Agential Cities, Illustrated by Amsterdam

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Maurice Harteveld
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
General View ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The People ◽  
Municipal Autonomy ◽  
The City ◽  
Global Travel

This article highlights the dynamics of values in our reasoning on public space. By means of an epistemological study, illustrated by examples in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, it tests the contemporary premises underlying our ways to safeguard the inclusive, democratic, agential city, and, as such, it aims to update our view on public space. The article raises three subsequent main questions: [i] Is the city our common house as perceived from the Renaissance onward, containing all, and consequently are public spaces used by the people as a whole? [ii] Is the city formalising our municipal autonomy as emphasised since the Enlightenment, in an anti-egoistic manner, and in this line, are public spaces owned by local governments representing the people? And, [iii] is the city open to our general view as advocated in Modern reasoning, restricting entrepreneurial influences, and synchronically, is its public spaces seen and/or known by everyone? - Inclusiveness, democracy, and agentiality are strongholds in our scientific thinking on public space and each issue echoes through in an aim to keep cities connected and accessible, fair and vital, and open and social. Yet, conflicts appear between generally-accepted definitions and what we see in the city. Primarily based upon confronting philosophy with the Amsterdam case for this matter, the answering of questions generates remarks on this aim. Contemporary Western illuminations on pro-active citizens, participatory societies, and effects of among others global travel, migration, social media and micro-blogging forecast a more differentiated image of public space and surmise to enforce diversification in our value framework in urban theory and praxis.

scholarly journals Farm Funds Optimisation For Community Entrepreneurship At Tobati Village Jayapura City

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 314-320
Author(s):  
Yohanis Rante ◽  
Sarlota Ratang
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
City Government ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Funds Allocation ◽  
Village Government ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The village fund is expected village government and technical institutions can realize the vision of Jayapura city government that believes, independent, unified, modern, prosperous based local wisdom.  The city of Jayapura has established the Community Entrepreneurship Agency (BKM) in each village/village/Kelurahan in order to manage the funds of the village/village/Kelurahan more effectively, efficient, precisely targeted to support the governance activities Good and transparent. The purpose of this research is to describe the management of ADD in village community empowerment as well as driving and inhibiting factors. The results showed that optimizing village funds allocation in the development of community entrepreneurship at Village Tobati Jayapura City is already running but not maximally, hence the need for strategy.  STRATEGY (W-O) makes strategy that utilizes the opportunity to overcome weaknesses, namely consist of: Government policy that makes Village Tobati as a demonstration village for tourism, this is an opportunity to add Income or family's confidentiality. The help of Village fund, ADK, ADD the average routine each year.  The commitment of the city government to improve and develop fisheries sector, especially the cultivation of fish cages very smooth and good means of transportation, and the help of the Prospect fund from the years 2016 and 2017 for the business of kiosk, sales Pinang, vegetable sales + Seasoning Kitchen, selling cold beverages + juice jacket, selling yellow rice, handicraft business, business selling pulse, oil kerosene + gasoline, net business. The opportunities mentioned above show that weaknesses in Village Tobati can be overcome well because of the very dominant opportunities in the village. Therefore the need for awareness from the local community to take advantage of the opportunities that exist for the welfare of the family in doing some very promising efforts.

scholarly journals A Review of Robert Shaw, The Nocturnal City. London: Routledge, 2018, 126 pр.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (48) ◽  
pp. 239-251
Author(s):  
Fedor Veselov
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Urban Theory ◽  
New Research ◽  
The City

This review focuses on the book The Nocturnal City written by the British social geographer Robert Shaw. The author’s major objective is to put the night at the center of the research agenda in urban studies, to contribute to urban theory in general, and to open up a new research field — nightology. The theoretical ambition for Shaw is an attempt to establish a dialogue between planetary urbanism (critical urban theory) and the post-structuralist understanding of the city (assemblage thinking). The author employs the conceptual model of ‘three ecologies’ developed by Felix Guattari; it considers the city as consisting of three interconnected layers: ‘self — society — earth’. Another important analytical tool is the post-colonial metaphor of the night as a frontier, which Shaw develops, considering specificities of the nocturnal city: infrastructures of artificial lighting and cleaning, the night-time economy, the changing aesthetics of cities at night and the experience of night-time at home, beyond the public space. The book does not offer a ready-made solution to theoretical problems and reveals just a little of the empirical diversity of nocturnal cities, but it is recommended as an introduction to a new field — nightology (especially for the Russian social sciences) — and as an elaboration of the discussion around the compatibility of critical urbanism and assemblage thinking in urban theory.

Establishing the theory and practice of a defeatured landscape

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Modigliani
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Situationist International ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The City

Chapter 4 recounts the emergence of the theory and practice of a “Defeatured Landscape,” the name given in 1970 to a new urban semiotic that would constitute photo-conceptual artists self-defined counter tradition to those cultural practices deemed uncritical, expressionist, and mythical that were explored in Chapter 3. NETCO’s Ruins (1968) and Portfolio of Piles (1968) are examined as important precursors to the defeatured landscape. Dennis Wheeler, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace and Christos Dikeakos’ art and writing are discussed as examples of defeatured landscapes in relation to their influences: American conceptual artist peers like Dan Graham; Concrete Poetry; awareness of the vehicular landscape; and Surrealism and its legacy in the psycho-geography and dérives of the Situationist International. This history is set against two contrasting examples: the real political conflicts of land development and associated financial speculation going on at the same time in the city; and an accounting of the erotic female bodies who often populate the otherwise defeatured landscapes of the photo-conceptualists. These examples show how the social politics of public space in Vancouver are left out of avant-garde representations of the city through the discursive framing of a landscape not so defeatured after-all.

Queering Bratislava: On Borders, Otherness and Public Space

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Visual Sociology ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
The City

This paper follows the multiple layers of an urban fabric that is stereotypically characterised as ‘post-socialist’, yet in essence, it is subject to ongoing transitions – much like the notion of being queer. What can we learn from queer theory in relation to post-socialist urban theory? What are the methodological advancements that derive from a queer approach to research? In this light, the presentation breaks the usually logocentric academic discourse as it engages with the premises of visual sociology. Using visual material from Bratislava focusing on urban inscriptions (street art, urban interventions) it opens up a discussion about the changes in the city and the struggles of different groups.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN RUANG PUBLIK BERBASIS UNIVERSAL DESAIN DI KOTA BANDAR LAMPUNG: Studi Kasus Taman Gajah

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Guruh Kristiadi Kurniawan ◽  
Andi Asrul Sani ◽  
Adelia Enjelina Matondang ◽  
Melati Rahmi Aziza
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Public Facility ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
City Space ◽  
The City

Abstract: Public space as part of city space cannot be separated from a city. According to Sunaryo (2004), the city system is a fulfillment of the necessities of life for the community which includes living, working and recreation. Public space has an important meaning for urban areas or regions, because the main role of public space is to harmonize the patterns of life of a city (Kustianingrum, 2013). every type of public facility must be able to accommodate the interests of all community groups starting from the conditions that are categorized as normal, small children, disabled and elderly. One strategy to be able to provide facilities that are able to meet all these needs, namely by considering the application of the seven principles of universal design. In this study the data analysis method used is descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative research aims at research that ultimately produces design solutions. In this study will reveal how the implementation of 7 (seven) Universal Design Principles in public spaces in Bandar Lampung City. It is hoped that this study can be used as a recommendation in policy making for the design of a friendly public space for all people including people with disabilities and children in the city of Bandar Lampung.Keyword: Public Space, Universal Design, DisabilitiesAbstrak: Ruang publik sebagai bagian dari ruang kota tidak dapat dipisahkan keberadaannya dari suatu kota. Menurut Sunaryo (2004), sistem kota merupakan pemenuhan kebutuhan hidup bagi masyarakat yang meliputi tempat tinggal, bekerja, dan rekreasi. Ruang publik memiliki arti penting untuk wilayah atau kawasan perkotaan, sebab peranan utama ruang publik adalah menyelaraskan pola kehidupan masyarakat suatu kota (Kustianingrum, 2013). setiap fasilitas jenis publik harus dapat mengakomodasi kepentingan semua kelompok masyarakat mulai dari yang kondisinya dikategorikan normal, anak kecil, penyandang cacat dan lansia. Salah satu srategi untuk dapat menyediakan fasilitas yang mampu memenuhi seluruh kebutuhan tersebut, yaitu dengan mempertimbangkan penerapan tujuh prinsip universal desain. Pada penelitian ini metode analisis data yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif deskriptif. Penelitian kualitatif bertujuan untuk penelitian yang pada akhirnya menghasilkan solusi desain. Pada studi ini akan mengungkapkan bagaimana implementasi 7 (tujuh) Prinsip Universal Design pada ruang publik di Kota Bandar Lampung. Diharapkan studi ini dapat digunakan sebagai rekomendasi dalam pembuatan kebijakan untuk perancangan ruang publik yang ramah untuk semua orang termasuk difabel dan anak-anak di Kota Bandar Lampung.Kata Kunci: Ruang Publik, Desain Universal, Difabel

scholarly journals Urban Commons and the Right to the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
City Space ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
The City

In the increasing cosmopolitan condition of our cities inclusionary urban commons are becoming more and more relevant as civic institutions for encounter, dialogue and collaboration. Their non-commodifiable asset experiences increasing issues of social inclusion, participation, privatisation and universal access. The papers included in this issue of The Journal of Public Space are focused on the development of the commons’ capacity firstly to contingently relate and articulate heterogeneous values and paradigms, personalities, spheres of thought and material and intangible elements; secondly to sustain equity, diversity, belonging by transforming conflicts in productive associations that counter conditions of antagonism to set up critically engaged agonistic ones (Connolly, 1995; Mouffe, 1999, 2008). They include analytical studies, critical appraisals and creative propositions—part of which documenting the City Space Architecture’s event at Freespace, the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale—which address the power of the inclusionary urban commons to support the constitution of free, open and participatory networks that enhance social, cultural and material production of urban communities by reclaiming, defending, maintaining, and taking care of the “coming together of strangers who work collaboratively […] despite their differences” (Williams, 2018: 17).

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