scholarly journals Inclusive City Life: Persons with Disabilities and the Politics of Difference

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Prince
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
First Century ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
The City

From a disability perspective, what might a vision for the "good city" look like at the start of the twenty-first century? What does the idea of "inclusive city life" mean? This paper argues that the city is under-theorized by Disability Studies, and therefore suggests the field needs to reflect more about city life; examine the interconnections between urban settlement and disablement; and imagine the possibilities, within specific social contexts, for enhanced inclusion and citizenship in city spaces. I use Michael Ignatieff's work on the solidarity of strangers and Iris Marion Young's conception of city life as "a being together of strangers in openness to group differences" to examine ideas about social differences, democratic politics, and inclusion in the public realms of urban Canada.

Privacy, Publicity, and Reputation: How the Press Regulated the Market in Nineteenth-Century England

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Company Law ◽  
First Century ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
Business Press ◽  
The Press ◽  
City Of London ◽  
Business Journalism ◽  
The City

Many commentators believe that the business press “missed”thestory of the twenty-first century—the 2008 economic crisis. Condemned for being too close to the firms they were supposed to be holding to account, journalists failed in their duties to the public. Recent historical studies of business journalism present a similarly pessimistic picture. By contrast, this article stresses the importance of the press as a key intermediary of reputation in the nineteenth-century marketplace. In England, reporters played an instrumental role in opening up companies' general meetings to the public gaze and in warning investors of fraudulent businesses. This regulation by reputation was at least as important as company law in making the City of London a relatively safe place to do business by the start of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Karakteristik Elemen Pembentuk Fisik Kota pada Ruang Terbuka Publik di Alun-alun Cicendo Bandung

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Yuniar Rahadian ◽  
Alisha Nuur Salamah ◽  
Verina Dyah Kania ◽  
Vigia Tri Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
City Image ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The City

ABSTRAK Ruang terbuka publik pada dasarnya merupakan suatu wadah yang dapat menampung aktivitas tertentu dari masyarakatnya. Ruang terbuka Publik juga merupakan salah satu identitas citra kota atau kawasan dan indikator kualitas hidup kawasan perkotaan. Mengingat pentingnya peranan keberadaan ruang terbuka publik di dalam suatu kawasan perkotaan, maka sebuah ruang terbuka publik harus memiliki perencanaan dan perancangan sesuai dengan kelengkapan elemen pembentuk fisik kota. Kelengkapan elemen pembentuk kota tersebut juga terkait dengan desain arsitektural agar berfungsi sebagaimana mestinya ruang terbuka publik. Salah satu ruang terbuka publik di Bandung yaitu Alun-alun Cicendo Bandung yang didesain secara arsitektural dan menjadi icon kawasan Cicendo, berfungsi sebagai wadah untuk menampung aktivitas sosial masyarakat di kawasan Cicendo. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji karakretistik ruang terbuka publik berdasarkan elemen-elemen pembentuk fisik kota yang berada di kawasan Alun-alun Cicendo Bandung dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil pembahasan dapat menggambarkan bahwa kawasan Alun alun Cicendo Bandung memenuhi elemen-elemen pembentuk fisik kota dengan desain yang baik. Kata kunci : Ruang Tebuka Publik, Alun-alun, Elemen Pembentuk Fisik Kota. ABSTRACT Open Space basically is a space that can accommodate people’s activity. Open space is one of the city image and a city life quality indicator. The existence of open space in a city has an important role in an urban area so a public space needs proper planning and design with completeness an image of the city elements. The completeness image of the city elements is related to an architectural design so the public space can operate properly. Alun alun Cicendo is one of open space in Bandung that designed architecturally and become an icon of Cicendo, functions as a place to accommodate a social activity. This research aims to review the characteristics of a public space based on the image of the city elements around Alun alun Cicendo Bandung with the descriptive qualitative method. The result can describe that Alun alun Cicendo Bandung complies image of the city elements with a good design. Keywords: Open Space, Square, Image of the City Elements

scholarly journals Urban Connective Syntax: Re-Imagining the Connective Relationshops of Social Space in Toronto’s Downtown Core

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Smart
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
City Core ◽  
The City

Urban metropolitan city-centers offer the most complex, socially connective environments in the built world. The social structures fundamentally embedded in city life are, however increasingly being overshadowed by an isolating system of city densification. The City of Toronto, as a territory of exploration, is one of many cities that are evolving a dense array of restrictive boundaries that increasingly challenge human connectivity, and the deep-rooted ability of these environments to establish vibrant city life. It is the role of architecture to mediate the relationships between the public and private territories and to understand how these environments are utilized and engaged by the surrounding context. This thesis has extracted critical environmental components exemplified in city, community, and building territories, and has re-integrated these defining characteristics into an alternative design strategy that establishes a balanced symbiotic relationship between the private and public realms of Toronto’s future City Core.

scholarly journals Urban Connective Syntax: Re-Imagining the Connective Relationshops of Social Space in Toronto’s Downtown Core

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Smart
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
City Core ◽  
The City

Urban metropolitan city-centers offer the most complex, socially connective environments in the built world. The social structures fundamentally embedded in city life are, however increasingly being overshadowed by an isolating system of city densification. The City of Toronto, as a territory of exploration, is one of many cities that are evolving a dense array of restrictive boundaries that increasingly challenge human connectivity, and the deep-rooted ability of these environments to establish vibrant city life. It is the role of architecture to mediate the relationships between the public and private territories and to understand how these environments are utilized and engaged by the surrounding context. This thesis has extracted critical environmental components exemplified in city, community, and building territories, and has re-integrated these defining characteristics into an alternative design strategy that establishes a balanced symbiotic relationship between the private and public realms of Toronto’s future City Core.

Designing for Opera in the Scramble: Duality in Sound and Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Helferty
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
First Century ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Pedestrian Crossing ◽  
The City

There are few art forms as comprehensive and encompassing as opera. Since its conception, opera has been used to express the deepest emotions of the human experience and it has been adapted by designers in a variety of methods and degrees to speak to each generation. In this project, I have proposed the re-imagining of public spaces as opera performance spaces and studied the resulting duality of sound and experience. To explore this topic, I looked to the public spaces on Queen’s University campus for inspiration and found it where Union and University meet. The familiar “scramble” is a central location that students cross on their way to classes many times throughout the day. It is a public space, regimented by the design of traffic lights which prioritize pedestrian crossing on a dependable and predictable circuit. I propose that this location provides an opportunity for the twenty-first century opera designer to use its existing cycle to create a dynamic and unique performance space for opera. While the idea of performing opera outside of the opera house is not new, few have designed opera in a simultaneously public and dynamic space as I am proposing. This fresh approach to opera for the twenty-first century creates an experience for passer-bys and performers that is twofold: the scramble remains a public and utilitarian space meant for getting from one place to another, but it also becomes a performance space in which spectators and performers alike “play their parts”. In short, the resulting experience of sound is hearing the city and the opera simultaneously, transforming the perception of the scramble as a public space into a heightened and transcended experience.

Jerash in the First Century A.D.

1933 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert O. Fink
Keyword(s):  
Present Form ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Good Picture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
North East ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
The City

Some fifty miles north-east of Jerusalem, on the rugged plateau between the Jordan and the desert to the east, lies a ruined city whose striking remains have attracted the interest of hardy travellers ever since the beginning of the last century—Jerash, the ancient Gerasa, in Transjordania. This district was the Decapolis of the Romans, though its cities numbered more than ten. Since that time war and the centuries have obliterated all trace of many of them; but Jerash, with its temples and theatres, its paved and colonnaded market and streets, its almost intact walls and its many Christian churches, is still beautiful and imposing. None the less, it is only very recently that its full significance has begun to be realised. Heretofore it has been usual to assume that Jerash attained prosperity and importance only under the Antonines, beginning with Trajan's annexation of Arabia in A.D. 105–6, and his assignment of Jerash to that province. This opinion was supported by the fact that the inscriptions supply dates of the second century or later for most of the public buildings; but a reconsideration of the archaeological and epigraphic evidence shows that the present plan of the city and the present form of the public buildings are due merely to alteration and rebuilding under the Antonines. From the materials which we now have it is possible to reconstruct a good picture of the flourishing and active city of the first century—further, to show that this prosperity was itself not new, but firmly based on a long and continuous past.

Archeology and the City,

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua J. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
The City ◽  
Actual Life

The complexities of city life in the Roman period and the rich varieties of urban existence during that time have not always been revealed by the spade of the archeologist. Much mentioned in the literary sources of the time has not been uncovered in archeological excavations and even when perchance it has been, it has not always been correctly identified. In any case, the limitations of present-day research often make such identification all but impossible. For example, literary sources, both Jewish and non-Jewish, mention buildings or monuments in Late Roman period Caesarea. We know, however, very little about what this city or the buildings in it looked like. Moreover, there are dozens of unidentified “public buildings” that have been uncovered in the course of archeological excavations that await some shred of additional information or keen analysis to determine or to corroborate their purpose or function. Thus, it would be the lucky archeologist who would discover and excavate a tavern (kapelia) or a prison, for instance, in one of the Roman-period cities of the Land of Israel. And even if by chance he did discover a structure that fulfilled one of these functions, it is doubtful that he would ever really be able to prove it. Moreover, Roman-period cities were built to accentuate the public aspects of city life, and this type of building did not always tell the full story of urban life. Interurban competition and the occasional economic windfall often resulted in spurts of public building activity of a monumental and elaborate nature. There was often more form than substance behind this type of building, and occasionally this form was more vain, sterile, and ostentatious than the actual life of the city. The archeologist by nature, however, gravitates toward excavation of the grand. It is the public life of cities that archeologists try to reveal, and even this might be more fleeting than they are willing to admit. The more private aspects of urban existence often remain hidden or within the realm of the historian, not the archeologist.

Waterfront in Despair

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Intestinal Diseases ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The City ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This chapter explains how the twenty-first-century floating pool became an idée fixe for the author. It reviews records and historic newspaper articles that were leading to the demise of the public and private floating baths. It also discusses the pollution in 1907 that had become the major topic for concern as the baths that were founded to clean the great unwashed became a place of accumulating filth. The chapter refers to the Merchants Association of the City of New York that added its voice against polluted baths as it was bothered by any conditions at the commercial waterfront that might deter trade. It mentions the publication of the report “Pollution of New York Harbor as a Menace to Health by the Dissemination of Intestinal Diseases through the Agency of the Common Housefly,” which provided graphic details of what it must have been like to swim in the floating baths.

IMAGING AMMAN THROUGH REAL-ESTATE ADVERTISING DISCOURSE

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Majd Musa
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Real Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Real Estate Advertising ◽  
The City

This article investigates the role real-estate advertising discourse of early-twenty-first-century megaprojects in Amman, Jordan, plays in creating an image of the city. It addresses power relations through which real-estate advertising in the city is produced and interpreted, including the power of corporations and the public. The research draws upon major theoretical understandings of discourse, analyses texts and images of advertisements and marketing brochures of three megaprojects designed for the city in the 2000s – The New Downtown of Amman (Abdali), Jordan Gate, and Sanaya Amman, and interprets the city residents’ readings of advertising materials, which were sought through in-person interviews. The article finds that real-estate advertising discourse that promotes recent megaprojects in Amman constructs the city as a competitive regional and global centre. The article infers that advertisement of Amman’s megaprojects hides the real power relations involved in the production of these developments, where the private developers have the greatest agency followed by the agency of state and city officials. The article concludes that although the city inhabitants have the least agency in the generation of megaprojects and advertising discourse surrounding them, they exercise some power as they make sense of the advertisements, sometimes resisting and other times accepting the developers’ preferred reading of these advertisements. In addition to testing the applicability of discourse theories to advertising in Amman, this article helps stimulate critical readings of real-estate advertisements, which can undermine the role advertisement texts and images play in shaping the city’s built environment and its perception.

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