scholarly journals Facadism: An Approach for Spatial Reconfiguration

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 631-640
Author(s):  
Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi ◽  
Nada Abdulmueen Hasan ◽  
Shireen Kamel Zedan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
And Function

Baghdad’s historical center is a rich site of heritage and cultural values, yet it suffers from urban deterioration. Many urban spaces and historical structures are aging, which has caused a decline in the vitality and function of axes and open spaces. This research is based on the principle of facadism as one of the main approaches to the preservation and rehabilitation of historic and traditional buildings. The purpose is to address urban degradation and the spatial reconfiguration of urban space in a way that promotes its sustainability and revitalization. This research aims to formulate a theoretical framework that includes a list of interference patterns and their role in spatial reconfiguration. This will be applied to the spatial reconfiguration and development of Al-Rasheed Street in the historic center of Baghdad. A questionnaire elicited the opinions of experts, designers, and implementers in academic and executive institutions on the possibility of reshaping local spaces using facadism. The results of the questionnaire showed that experts support the possibility of adopting this method in spatial reconfiguration in order to intervene in the degradation of historical environments, and also to create a homogeneous and interconnected urban environment that prevents the eradication of cultural and urban heritage. By adopting the preservation of a façade in its various forms, considerations need to be made regarding its compatibility with the nature of the problems in the study area and the ineffectiveness of the pattern of dismantling and transferring a building to another place. This is due to the importance of the historical place and the need to preserve all its historical items within the fabric, in addition to the effectiveness of some detailed patterns in different items of formation.

FEATURES OF PERCEPTION OF URBAN SPACE IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF A LARGE CITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 24-29
Author(s):  
Anna Zhogoleva ◽  
◽  
Tatyana Polukeeva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Large City ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Continuous Series ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
The City

The city develops over time, creating a continuous series of unique impressions from the perception of urban spaces. Many environmental parameters affect the perception of the urban environment, form the structures of perception and its atmospheric features. Socio-cultural knowledge of the city, expanding the glossary of architectural and urban planning theory, is engaged in the study of such parameters of the urban environment as the time factor of perception, anthropological parameters, the angle and scale of visual perception, urban gaps, which allows you to expand the idea of the city as a unique phenomenon and process. An attempt has been made to investigate the structure of the perception of the urban space of the central part of Samara.

Urban Social Movements and the Production of Urban Space

1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Finquelievich
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Urban Social Movements

This article is a brief résumé of a three years' research work on urban social movements. A theoretical framework for the analysis of urban social movements is outlined and a methodology for their study is developed. The case of Barcelona is drawn on to illustrate the conclusions, and to demonstrate that urban movements can be social, e.g. that they can modify the power relationships between social classes. In the case of Barcelona these movements started when small groups of neighbours claimed better conditions in their urban environment and collective consumption, and have developed during the last fifteen years to become one of the most important social forces in the whole region of Catalonia, a force which cannot be ignored by the local authorities.

scholarly journals The Contested Gallery: street art, ethnography and the search for urban understandings

AmeriQuests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
The Road ◽  
The City

This is a paper on street art and its role as a form of artistic insurrection that challenges popular understandings of public space and urban visual culture. I would like to think of it as a field guide to urban seeing, a means of revising the way in which we view the cityscape and its imagery. It is a way of imagining the city as a canvas onto which ideas may be inscribed and reinterpreted, where resistance percolates up to those who look for it. It is here, in what Kathleen Stewart has called a “place by the side of the road” that the work of the street artist exists, slowly gurgling up through the cracks in the sidewalk and briefly illuminated by the yellow-white glow of the street lights. Street art most often takes the form of adhesive stickers, spray-painted stencils, and wheat-pasted posters, and while it shares many similar aesthetic and cultural characteristics with graffiti, street art embodies a unique ideology. Graffiti represents a territorialization of space (‘tagging’, or reclaiming urban spaces through the use of pseudonyms as territorial markings); street art represents a reterritorialization of space. Rather than taking space, street art attempts to re-purpose the existing urban environment. This paper seeks to reflect the changing dynamic of urban space through an analysis of the practice of street art. By examining the roles that street artists play in disrupting the flow of visual noise in the city, I will illuminate the cultural value and significance of this form of urban artistic resistance.

scholarly journals The Cultural Constituents of the urban environment; the impact on the patterns and nature behavior (University space as a model)

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-45
Author(s):  
Ameera Jaleel Ahmed ◽  
Saba Jabbar Neima
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Impact

Human's relationship with the environment is strong and mutually beneficial, with thedevelopment of this relationship, a person develops and increases his awareness. The urban environment isa natural, physical, social and cultural milieu that a human lives in it, and get from him the life Constituents.As well as it is a product of human interaction with it, so the urban environment represents what has animpact on human behavior. It effects on human physiology and psychology then represented the relationshipconceptually, socially, and physically. the Cultural Constituents of the urban environment plays a criticaland essential role in user behavior, because they are part of the project they must be included in making thedesign decision as well as in treatment of urban spaces. on the other side, the comprehensive behavioralstudies are still few in this field, especially those studies that are based on ecological behavioral trend andthrough observing of behavior in the urban environment .The current study seeks to draw out a theoreticalmodel for developing ecological behavior measures, to evaluate the role of Cultural Constituents indetermining patterns and nature of human behavior through the experimental approach. Through theprevious literature has been identified the main research problem is represented ) There is a lack ofknowledge in the distribution of behavioral patterns in urban environments that have a high aestheticquality, also there are few objective measures that can be used as an indicator to evaluate the aestheticquality of the urban environment before its development and presenting urban designs in urban space andspecial organization (.According to the research problem, the goals and hypothesis of the research weredetermined, and an inductive experimental approach was defined theoretical and practical axes, also theresearch samples were identified (ten urban spaces in University of Babylon) were observing during (2018-2019),furthermore survey questionnaire sent to the experts In architecture, urban design and psychologyfield .Finally, the results were analyzed and the research found that aesthetic quality plays an important andmajor role in determining patterns and nature of behavior.

Quality assessment of open urban spaces based on the integral indicator of comfort in the urban environment.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Semenov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Given ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Integral Indicator

The paper presents a method of point automated assessment of a person’s comfort in an urban environment. A distinctive feature of the developed method is that the peculiarities of the individual’s perception of the main factors that determine the comfort level at each of the given urban space points are taken into account when evaluating the indicators of the comfort of the urban environment. This approach makes it possible to increase the correspondence of the obtained estimates to the goals and objectives of urban environment development and the significance of their use in managing the development of territories. The use of open data within the proposed method ensures the promptness of calculating urban space quality indicators. The implementation of the developed method is based on open source software. In the framework of testing the proposed method, the integral indicator of comfort was calculated and visualized for the territory of Vasilievskiy Island in St. Petersburg.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility and social investment in the urban environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 01021
Author(s):  
Valeria Grishina ◽  
Daria Amelicheva ◽  
Nikita Tikhanov
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Western Experience ◽  
Corporate Social

The article examines the phenomenon of social investment, reveals the advantages, and overviews the potential of impact investments. Implementation of corporate social responsibility as a trend followed by international corporations is reviewed, and its role as the most widespread direction of ESG approach is discussed. The definition of social urban space that most fully meets modern trends is proposed; the trends relevant to the organization of urban spaces are considered in the article. A comparison is made between the Western experience of using social investments and Russian practice. The most promising directions of using social investment for the development of the social urban environment are proposed.

scholarly journals Investigating Users Changing Needs in Relation to Non-designed or Unplanned Public Spaces in Cairo

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Joseph Milad Namar ◽  
Mohamed A. Salheen ◽  
Ayat Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
City District ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Formal Design

In recent studies, public spaces are defined as living organisms that are subjected to continuous change. These changes affect the different uses of the urban space, its composition and design aspects, in order to cope with the users’ changing needs. Rather than that, users intervene in the space formation either formally, by including the community and stakeholders in the design process fully or partially; or informally, by small or big actions done by the space users in order for the space to satisfy their current needs. Several spaces in Cairo are dealt with as leftovers of the buildings design and construction process. These spaces have passed through several changes that affected and was affected by the Cairines (Cairo citizens) and their culture of dealing with public spaces to accommodate their changing needs. The deficiency in public spaces in Cairo urban spaces is reviewed. And the inability of the formal designed/planned spaces to respond to the spaces’ users with their changing needs is investigated throughout the research. In order to focus on a public space in Nasr city district in Cairo, sequential mapping to the area over different ages is carried on, examining the changes -formally and informally- in the space to cope with area users. That is accompanied by surveys and questionnaires that aim to determine the needs of the users in the space and whether they are met or not. The questionnaire also aims to measure the level of intervention and satisfaction of the users in this space, to explain how its users intervene in adapting to the existing formal design, and to find out how these interventions shape and affect directly and indirectly the dynamism of the space as a formal planned public space. The paper aims to review and find out theories and practices that provide solutions for dealing with non-designed open spaces development in terms of users changing needs and contributions. The results from the study show some development considerations that need to be respected in Cairo public spaces with more concern for people’s usage and interaction with the space.

scholarly journals Organizational Practices in the Constitution of the Right to Culture and to the City: Understanding the Struggle for the Rights of a Cultural Organization in Goiás City, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (53) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Lara Rezende Ferreira Camargo ◽  
Josiane Silva de Oliveira ◽  
Euna Cristina Lima Mendes ◽  
Thayane Ramos Gomes ◽  
Gisele Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Organizational Practices ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The objective of this paper is to discuss how the organizational practices in the field of culture constitute the development, promotion and access to rights to culture and to the city in Goiás city, Goiás, Brazil. We bring the theories of the field of Studies Based on Practices (SBP) closer to the Law in order to understand the non-institutionalized legal phenomena of the organizational processes. From a multi-sited ethnography carried out in the Historic Center of the city of Goiás, Goiás, a place classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO between August 2014 and December 2015, we highlight the processes by which organizational practices, as producers of spaces in cities, constitute Rights when recognizing or neglecting the occupation of the urban space by certain social groups. We emphasize how the analysis of organizational processes can contribute to a debate on Rights from a perspective of legal pluralism from the daily life of cities and highlighting the relevance of understanding the occupations of urban spaces as a way of reconfiguring relations between the State and civil society.

scholarly journals Urban space classification of squares in Kazan

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
T. A. Latypova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
Urban Activity

Purpose: The author's classification of open spaces of urban activity.Research findings: Existing theories and concepts about urban space are studied and analyzed, modern global trends and approaches to the classification of urban spaces are identified, three city squares in Kazan are studied and analyzed.Research implications: The compiled classification of architecture and urban planning can be used in urban planning of territories with new buildings when introducing spaces of urban activity.

Cultural Planning for Urban Spaces: Cultural Turn of Contemporary Urban Planning

2013 ◽  
Vol 790 ◽  
pp. 492-496
Author(s):  
Ling Huang ◽  
Wan Min Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Target System ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Cultural Planning

Urban cultural crisis becomes a common phenomenon under the background of current globalized wave and rapid urbanization; the traditional city planning emphasizes on shaping material spatial form and lacks deep understanding and respect towards city culture, leading to the loss of city characteristics. It mainly because the cultural values of the urban planning are not clear and the urban spatial planning is divorced from cultural planning seriously. This paper starts with the cultural duality of urban space, puts forward that it is inevitably logical to integrate the cultural planning into the urban planning system; It discusses the theories and methods of cultural planning for urban spaces from the target system construction, main content and operation system, stressing that the core of cultural planning for urban spaces is the combing of cultural spatial factors and spatial cultural structure, then propounds the way to melt it into existing city planning system to enhance urban planning to the new stage of cultural consciousness and initiative.

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