The public rights to the sidewalk in a smart city framework: The case study of Surabaya

The pedestrian transformation in Surabaya smart city system encountered critical problem for pedestrians because transformation as a public space has reduced citizens’ rights to the city. Dominant forces tend to subordinate street vendors or Pedagang Kaki Lima (PKL), who require public space. The city or urban government produces pedestrians as public spaces to support the ‘Smart City’ concept. This study explores the government’s ability to guarantee citizens’ rights to the city. In addition, this study seeks to observe the process of public space transformation in cities that implement smart city systems and analyze spatial street vendors’ practices in the pedestrian space. This research applies the right to cities and public space from a Marxian spatial perspective. This research is a case study that uses a qualitative method and interpretive analysis. Research findings indicate pedestrians’ paradox due to the government’s dispossession process to protect pedestrians through ‘furniturization’ policies that reduce smart city implementation. In conclusion, there are dynamics of spatial practice and social expression as pedestrian problems. The smart city system’s implementation causes the loss of fulfillment of the poor and street vendors’ needs and rights to participate inclusively in the social and political process in managing the city’s public spaces.

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The (No-)Public Space. Reviewing the Transformation of Al-Qaed Ibrahim's Urban Image

The Journal of Public Space ◽

10.32891/jps.v5i1.1257 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 177-192

Author(s):

Iman Hegazy

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

The Political ◽

Urban Image ◽

Political Conflicts ◽

Political Events ◽

The One ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

Public spaces are defined as places that should be accessible to all inhabitants without restrictions. They are spaces not only for gathering, socializing and celebrating but also for initiating discussions, protesting and demonstrating. Thus, public spaces are intangible expressions of democracy—a topic that the paper tackles its viability within the context of Alexandria, case study Al-Qaed Ibrahim square. On the one hand, Al-Qaed Ibrahim square which is named after Al-Qaed Ibrahim mosque is a sacred element in the urban fabric; whereas on the other it represents a non-religious revolutionary symbol in the Alexandrian urban public sphere. This contradiction necessitates finding an approach to study the characteristic of this square/mosque within the Alexandrian context—that is to realize the impact of the socio-political events on the image of Al-Qaed Ibrahim square, and how it has transformed into a revolutionary urban symbol and yet into a no-public space. The research revolves around the hypothesis that the political events taking place in Egypt after January 25th, 2011, have directly affected the development of urban public spaces, especially in Alexandria. Therefore methodologically, the paper reviews the development of Al-Qaed Ibrahim square throughout the Egyptian socio-political changes, with a focus on the square’s urban and emotional contextual transformations. For this reason, the study adheres to two theories: the "city elements" by Kevin Lynch and "emotionalizing the urban" by Frank Eckardt. The aim is not only to study the mentioned public space but also to figure out the changes in people’s societal behaviour and emotion toward it. Through empowering public spaces, the paper calls the different Egyptian political and civic powers to recognize each other, regardless of their religious, ethnical or political affiliations. It is a step towards replacing the ongoing political conflicts, polarization, and suppression with societal reconciliation, coexistence, and democracy.

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Edible public space. Experimenting with a socio-environmentally just urbanism

TERRITORIO ◽

10.3280/tr2012-060007 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 39-43

Author(s):

Chiara Tornaghi

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Urban Agriculture ◽

Critical Geography ◽

Space Project ◽

Social Environmental ◽

The Right ◽

The City

This paper presents an English case of urban agriculture, the Edible Public Space Project in Leeds, contextualised in a context of urban agriculture initiatives committed to social-environmental justice, to the reproduction of common goods and the promotion of an urban planning which promotes the right to food and to the construction of urban space from the bottom up. The case study emerged as the result of action-research at the crossroads between urban planning policies, community work and critical geography. As opposed to many similar initiatives, the Edible Public Space Project is not intended merely as a temporary initiative hidden within the tiny folds of the city, but rather as an experiment which imagines and implements alternatives to current forms of urban planning within those folds and it contextualises them in the light of the ecological, fi nancial and social crisis of the last decade.

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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

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism ◽

10.3846/20297955.2016.1210045 ◽

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.

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ANÁLISE DO ESPAÇO PÚBLICO URBANO: o caso do Parque Mangal das Garças

InterEspaço Revista de Geografia e Interdisciplinaridade ◽

10.18764/2446-6549.2019.11068 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (16) ◽

pp. 11068

Author(s):

Fernanda da Silva de Andrade Moreira ◽

Karen de Nazareth Santos Nogueira

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Right To The City ◽

Social Production ◽

Urban Public Space ◽

Physical Sense ◽

Theoretical Support ◽

The Social ◽

The Right ◽

The City

ANALYSIS OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACE: the case of Mangal das Garças ParkANÁLISIS DEL ESPACIO PÚBLICO URBANO: el caso del Parque Mangal das GarçasOs espaços públicos urbanos têm sido objeto de estudos frequentes, pois, são nesses espaços que ocorre a produção social da cidade. Entendem-se como espaços públicos, em seu sentido físico, a praça, a rua, os parques entre outros. O presente estudo tem como objetivo central analisar o espaço do Parque Mangal das Garças, investigando os conceitos de espaços públicos e suas novas formas de exteriorização, no intuito de perceber de que maneira a população de Belém o percebe como espaço público no seu sentido mais amplo: o de instrumento para a promoção do direito à cidade. A metodologia utilizada foi a de entrevista orientada com 20 transeuntes no dia 18 de setembro de 2017 aplicada sob o suporte teórico de estudiosos da área.Palavras-chave: Urbanização; Espaços Públicos; Produção Social; Acessibilidade.ABSTRACTThe urban public spaces have been the object of frequent study, since it is in these spaces that the social production of the city occurs. They are understood as public spaces, in their physical sense, the square, the street, the parks among others. This study aims to analyze the space of Mangal das Garças Park, investigating the concepts of public spaces, and their new forms of exteriorization, in order to understand how the population of Belém perceives it as a public space in its broadest sense the instrument for the promotion of the right to the city. The methodology used was an interview with 20 passers-by on September 18, 2017 applied to the theoretical support of scholars in the area.Keywords: Urbanization; Public Spaces; Social Production; Accessibility.RESUMENLos espacios públicos urbanos han sido objeto de estudio frecuente, pues, son en esos espacios que ocurre la producción social de la ciudad. Se entiende como espacios públicos, en su sentido físico, la plaza, la calle, los parques entre otros. Este estudio tiene como objetivo central analizar el espacio del Parque Mangal das Garças, investigando los conceptos de espacios públicos, y sus nuevas formas de exteriorización, con el fin de percibir de qué manera la población de Belén lo percibe como espacio público en su sentido más amplio : el de instrumento para la promoción del derecho a la ciudad. La metodología utilizada fue la de entrevista orientada con 20 transeúntes el día 18 de septiembre de 2017 aplicada al soporte teórico de estudiosos del área.Palabras clave: Urbanización; Espacios Públicos; Producción Social; Accesibilidad.

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Growing public spaces in the city: Community gardening and the making of new urban environments of publicness

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098020972281 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004209802097228

Author(s):

Paul Milbourne

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Urban Environments ◽

Community Gardening ◽

City Community ◽

Space Transformation ◽

The Usa ◽

The Uk ◽

Dominant Narratives ◽

The City

The demise of public space in cities across the Global North has received considerable scrutiny from urban scholars in recent years, with accounts of the loss, privatisation and increased regulation of public space prevalent within the academic literature. This paper seeks to complicate these dominant narratives of public space transformation by exploring the complexities of existing public spaces and the emergence of new spaces of publicness in the city. It uses a case study of community gardening in mundane and everyday neighbourhood spaces to provide a more nuanced and progressive reading of the relations between publicness and space in the city. Drawing on empirical materials from recent research on community gardening projects in 15 cities in Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA, the paper highlights how community gardening is creating new environments of publicness across public, private and in-between spaces that complicate both the end of public space discourse and conventional understandings of public space within urban studies.

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THE NEED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREET VENDORS MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SPACES AT SURAKARTA CITY

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pmjournal.v17.i10.636 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Murtanti Jani Rahayu ◽

Imam Buchori ◽

Retno Widjajanti

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Entry Point ◽

The Other ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Shared Space ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

The Right

The presence of an activity in a public space should not obstruct the right of other users. In order to create an ideal public space as a shared space, the existence of various activities such as street vendors (SVs) must be properly managed. SVs, as well as other activities, should strengthen the function of public spaces and not the other way round. Stabilisation is implemented by regulating several characteristics of SVs location and activity as a form of SVs management in public spaces. This idea became the entry point for SVs improvement, although so far SVs conditions have not been optimally improved. Some new components/ indicators of arrangement will enrich the efforts for stabilisation. In this study, the analysis technique of partial least square (PLS), which negates a variety of assumptions was applied to test the effect of stabilisation on the change or improvement of SVs’ welfare, behaviour, and location. The results show that the enrichment of components in stabilisation arrangement has a positive and significant effect on the three elements of SV improvement. The effect of stabilisation on SVs’ behavioural changes had the highest value if compared to that of welfare and location changes.

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PENERTIBAN PEDAGANG KAKI LIMA OLEH SATUAN POLISI PAMONG PRAJA KOTA SIBOLGA

Jurnal Pemerintahan Dan Keamanan Publik (JP dan KP) ◽

10.33701/jpkp.v1i1.713 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 35-49

Author(s):

Wilbert Ramonray Butarbutar

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Civil Service ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Street Vendors ◽

City Street ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

The Right ◽

The City ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Problem Data

This article based on research aims to determine the process of public ordering street vendors conducted by the Civil Service Police Unit of the City of Sibolga. The root of the problem of the disorder of street vendors and the right solution to overcome the root of the problem. Data collection in this study uses a descriptive method with an inductive approach. The source of the author’s data is the Civil Service Police Unit of Sibolga City, street vendors, and the community of Sibolga City. The instruments used are interviews, observation, and documentation. The data analysis technique used is the problem tree analysis technique. The results showed that the process of public ordering street vendors in the protocol road area by the Sibolga City Civil Service Police Unit had not been carried out optimally. This is due to the lack of personel in the Sibolga City Civil Service Police Unit compared to the large number of points of violation by street vendors in Sibolga City, as well as the lack of agricultural products in Sibolga City which includes the coastal areas of North Sumatera. Keywords: Street Vendors; Public Order; Public Space

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THE NEED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF STREET VENDORS MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC SPACES AT SURAKARTA CITY

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pm.v17i10.636 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 ◽

Author(s):

Murtanti Jani Rahayu ◽

Imam Buchori ◽

Retno Widjajanti

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Entry Point ◽

The Other ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Shared Space ◽

Analysis Technique ◽

The Right

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The right to live in the city

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy ◽

10.1108/ijssp-10-2014-0088 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 35 (7/8) ◽

pp. 550-564 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Melanie Krebs

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Urban Life ◽

Social Rules ◽

Content Type ◽

The Public ◽

Official Control ◽

New Research ◽

The Right ◽

The City

Purpose – Moral values and behavioural codes that governed the urban life and the appropriation of urban spaces changed significantly in Baku over the last two decades leading to conflicts over the right behaviour in the city and about the question who has the right to set the rules in public spaces. The purpose of this paper is to explore the current political as well as social rules that govern the public spaces in Baku and how they are discussed in order that the city should appear “European” in contrast to “oriental”. Design/methodology/approach – The author focuses on everyday practices of people acting in the public sphere, how they use the space and which discussions emerge around different behaviour in public places. The paper is based on observations and interviews the author made between August 2010 and May 2012. Findings – The paper shows new ways of appropriation of public space and dealing with social as well as official control. Originality/value – The paper presents new research on a quickly changing post-Soviet city.

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Public Spaces, Private Spaces, and the Right to the City

International Journal of E-Planning Research ◽

10.4018/ijepr.2014010105 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 51-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Stefano Moroni ◽

Francesco Chiodelli

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Right To The City ◽

Political Debate ◽

Public And Private ◽

Private Spaces ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

The Right ◽

The City

Two arguments have recently strongly influenced the theory and practice of planning: (i) public space is what basically characterises any city (the citizen's right to the city is first and foremost a claim on public space); (ii) public space is crucial because it provides the physical fulcrum for public interaction and political debate. This article takes a critical look at these two ideas, highlighting: (i) that private spaces have also crucially contributed (and continue to do so) to defining and determining what a city is – the city cannot be conceived without considering both public and private spaces and the crucial synergy between these two spheres; (ii) that the public sphere does not come into being solely in public spaces (as testified by the Internet); furthermore, public spaces perform other roles and functions (besides making debate and confrontation possible), and these various roles may at times clash with each other. All these aspects suggest a more balanced approach to the understanding of urban spaces and their importance.

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