scholarly journals Urban Identity in (Post)Modern Cities: A Case Study of Kharkiv and Lviv

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Oleksiy Musiyezdov ◽  
Ksenia Maryniak (trans.)
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Manuel Castells ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

This article aims to highlight the results of an empirical study of urban identity that was conducted by the author in Kharkiv and Lviv. The theoretical underpinnings of this research are based on the ideas of Manuel Castells and Zygmunt Bauman, as well as others. They assert that under the conditions of (post)modern society, groups which are involved in one way or another in the global post-industrial economy interpret cities and their relationship with them in a variety of ways—in other words, their definitions of urban identity vary. The author’s hypothesis is generally confirmed that groups will interpret their connection to a city in distinct ways: representatives of different groups will differ in their interpretation of the question of what it means to be an “urbanite” or a “true [insert city name]-ian,” in their ways of participating in the resolution of urban issues, etc. The unique features of the sampled Ukrainian cities (Kharkiv, Lviv) are described. The confirmation of the hypothesis serves as an argument in favour of considering urban identity in the context of an “imagined community.” Under such consideration, a city comprises not a “local community” but an aggregate of groups that consider the city to be “theirs” and defend their “right to the city” based on their individual image of the world, which depends on their social, cultural, and economic conditions.

scholarly journals After Planning, the Production of Radical Social Space in Barcelona: Real-Estate Financial Circuit and (De Facto) Right to the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Pedro Jiménez-Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Apparatus

This article is based on the premise that it is possible to apply Henri Lefebvre’s critical-theoretical apparatus to complex urban processes as a pedagogical case study. From previous knowledge of Lefebvrian thought, the article provides an overview of what Lefebvre called “the science of the use of social space”, supported by a transdisciplinary methodological plurality. The starting point is that neoliberal social space is produced, prepared, and led to the imminent urban post-neoliberalism, in the midst of this movement, a sophisticated planning system appears, with the old promise of service tradition, egalitarian ethics and pragmatic orientation. But in practice, it only reproduces the impotence of being inside a wave of localized surplus-benefits that expels human residues, avoiding any reaction. The Lefebvrian apparatus and a part of its theoretical tradition guide the research on Barcelona as a paradigm of global real-estate violence. This urban phenomenon is examined in central Barcelona, in order to rescue it from the pessimism of its own inhabitants, from the harsh perception that urban centrality no longer reproduces life. In this way, the article puts into operation an analytical tool designed to sabotage the real-estate circuit through a renewed right to the production of radical social space.

scholarly journals Colonial Values and Asylum Care in Brazil: Reclaiming the Streets Through Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-161
Author(s):  
Julia Evangelista ◽  
William A. Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
The City

AbstractThis chapter shows how carnival has been used to counter the impact of Brazil’s colonial history on its asylums and perceptions of madness. Colonisation of Brazil by Portugal in the nineteenth century led to a process of Europeanisation that was associated with dismissal of non-European customs and values as “mad” and sequestration of the poor from the streets into asylums. Bringing together the work of the two authors, the chapter describes through a case study how a carnival project, Loucura Suburbana (Suburban Madness), in which patients in both long- and short-term asylum care play leading roles, has enabled them to “reclaim the streets,” and re-establish their right to the city as valid producers of culture on their own terms. In the process, entrenched stigmas associated with having a history of mental illness in a local community are challenged, and sense of identity and self-confidence can be rebuilt, thus contributing to long-term improvements in mental well-being. Further illustrative materials are available including photographs and video clips.

scholarly journals Contrasts in Innovation: Pittsburgh Then and Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Assessments of the relationship among law, innovation, and economic growth often begin with one or more propositions of law or law practice and predict how changes might affect innovation or business practice. This approach is problematic when applied to questions of regional economic development, because historic and contemporary local conditions vary considerably. This paper takes a different tack. It takes a snapshot of one recovering post-industrial economy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. For most of the 20th century, Pittsburgh's steelmakers were leading examples worldwide of American economic prowess. Pittsburgh was so vibrant with industry that a late 19th century travel writer called Pittsburgh "hell with the lid taken off," and he meant that as a compliment. In the early 1980s, however, Pittsburgh's steel economy collapsed, a victim of changing worldwide demand for steel and the industry's inflexible commitment to a large-scale integrated production model. As the steel industry collapsed, the Pittsburgh region collapsed, too. Unemployment in some parts of the Pittsburgh region peaked at 20%. More than 100,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared. Tens of thousands of residents moved away annually. Over the last 30 years, Pittsburgh has slowly recovered, building a new economy that balances limited manufacturing with a broad range of high quality services. In 2009, President Barack Obama took note of the region's rebirth by selecting the city to host a summit of the Group of 20 (G-20) finance ministers. The paper describes the characteristics of Pittsburgh today and measures the state of its renewal. It considers the extent, if any, to which law and the legal system have contributed to Pittsburgh's modern success, and it identifies lessons that this Pittsburgh case study might offer for other recovering and transitioning post-industrial regions.

Public Perception Influence on the Reshaping Urban Heritage: A Case Study of Port Said Historic Quarters

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122110183
Author(s):  
Sara S. Fouad ◽  
Shahira Sharaf Eldin
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
North East ◽  
Local Perception ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Port Said

Cultural heritage plays an important role in reshaping cities’ current morphologies, reinforcing public sense of belonging, cultural identity, and place authenticity. Port Said, the research case study, a former colonial city located at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal at the north east Egyptian coast, is struggling between new urban sprawl that obliterates its identity and urban heritage preservation. Port Said is an important logistic city distinguished by its unique urban heritage, facing a real threat of heritage obliteration. There is a continuous fight between nostalgic memories, modern life style dreams, and aimed economic benefit. Although there is an international developing agenda for the preservation of tangible urban heritage, the local community can barely interfere with reshaping of urban heritage in the modern society. It is urgent to create public awareness and heritage guardians in developing countries as the economic benefits strongly demolish heritage, ignoring their significance and peculiarity. This research aims to investigate the city’s historical and urban development with special emphasis on buildings’ visual characteristics and architectural features. Visual preference survey research methodology is used to study public perception influence toward reshaping city historical image. The current study employs both qualitative and quantitative tactics in data collection to examine the research hypotheses and to achieve organized and rational local perception about Egyptian building heritage development. Finally, conclusions are drawn about the joining of current public perception of the Port Said heritages, urban identity and city unique reshaping and development.

The 2015 Cricket World Cup in Christchurch

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
C. Michael Hall ◽  
Alberto Amore
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Disaster Capitalism ◽  
The City

Purpose This study aims to focus on the development and upgrading of the Hagley Park cricket oval in Christchurch for the 2015 Cricket World Cup and how this hallmark event was used a catalyst to rebrand the city following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on the findings from research conducted between 2012 and 2016. Data for the analysis were collected from mainstream media, sport organisations websites and government archives. In addition, a two-round series of semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders was undertaken in the aftermath of the Cricket World Cup. Findings In the case of Christchurch, the earthquakes and the destruction of much of the downtown provided a recovery opportunity, with the 2015 Cricket World Cup used to expedite the development of a new sporting venue in the city centre and rebrand the city to international tourists and sport enthusiasts. Research limitations/implications The Hagley Park cricket oval case study provides evidence on the rhetoric of urban competitiveness and the use of hallmark sporting events to reframe urban development in post-disaster contexts. Originality/value This research provides further evidence on the logics of disaster capitalism and how cities embark on costly redevelopment projects for sports and events whilst overlooking exacerbating vulnerabilities among the local community.

scholarly journals The right to the virtual city: Rural retreatism in open-world video games

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482091711
Author(s):  
Jack Denham ◽  
Matthew Spokes
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Open World ◽  
Virtual City ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This article uses Lefebvre’s spatial triad and his concept of The Right to the City to categorise open-world video games as contested virtual spatial experiences, interconnected with the non-virtual spaces in which they are produced and played and replete with the same spatial, capital forces of alienation to be negotiated and maintained. We use qualitative gameplay data ( n = 15), unpacking players’ journeys through Lefebvre’s conceived, lived and perceived spaces, to show, respectively, how open-world games can be (1) fundamentally about space, (2) spaces interconnected with the non-virtual world and (3) disruptive spatial experiences. In utilising The Right to the Virtual City and our players’ tendency to retreat into the wild spaces of our case study game, Red Dead Redemption 2, we evoke the same alienating forces of commodification and capitalism to which Lefebvre spoke, positioning open-world video games as both contested spatial experiences and opportunities to challenge spatialised inequalities.

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 ECOTURISMO E AÇÕES DE SUSTENTABILIDADE COMO FATORES DE VALORIZAÇÃO DA ATIVIDADE ECOTURÍSTICA EM PRUDENTÓPOLIS, PR

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Ronaldo Ferreira Maganhotto ◽  
Vanessa Alberton ◽  
Maria Beatriz Petroski Bonetti ◽  
Marciel Lohmann
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Tourism ◽  
The City

ECOTOURISM AND SUSTAINABILITY ACTIONS AS VALUING FACTORS OF ECOTOURISM ACTIVITY IN PRUDENTÓPOLIS, PRECOTURISMO Y ACCIONES DE SOSTENIBILIDAD COMO FACTORES DE VALORIZACIÓN DE LA ACTIVIDAD ECOTURÍSTICA EN PRUDENTÓPOLIS, PRRESUMODiante da realidade de que a humanidade cada vez mais se concentra nas grandes cidades, uma das alternativas encontradas é a busca pelo turismo ecológico, que tem crescido de forma significativa no Brasil e no mundo, mas principalmente nos países que apresentam diversidade de belezas naturais e riqueza de fauna e flora. A presente pesquisa, realizada no município de Prudentópolis/PR, apresenta o desenvolvimento dos atrativos ecoturísticos e as ações sustentáveis presentes em cada propriedade. Este estudo de caso foi desenvolvido entre o período de setembro de 2015 a agosto de 2016. A coleta de dados deu-se por meio bibliográfico, documental, observação in loco e entrevista semiestruturada com os proprietários dos empreendimentos. Na coleta de dados foram identificadas várias práticas sustentáveis em cada dimensão da sustentabilidade que permite apontar que essas práticas são propulsoras ao desenvolvimento socioeconômico e valorização do turismo e da comunidade local do Município de Prudentópolis.Palavras-chave: Ecoturismo; Sustentabilidade; Meio Ambiente. ABSTRACT Faced with the reality that humanity is increasingly concentrated in the big cities, one of the alter-natives found is the search for ecological tourism, which has grown significantly in Brazil and in the world, but especially in countries with a diversity of beauties and richness of fauna and flora. The present research, carried out in the city of Prudentópolis/PR, presents the development of the ecotourism attractions and the sustainable actions present in each property. This case study was developed between September 2015 and August 2016, data collection was done through bibliographical, documentary, on-site observation and semi-structured interviews with project owners. In the collection of data, several sustainable practices were identified in each dimension of sustainability, which allows us to point out that these practices are propulsive to the socioeconomic development and valorization of tourism and the local community of the Municipality of Prudentópolis..Keywords: Ecotourism; Sustainability; Environment.RESUMENAnte la realidad de que la humanidad cada vez más se concentra en las grandes ciudades, una de las alternativas encontradas es la búsqueda por el turismo ecológico, que ha crecido de forma significativa en Brasil y en el mundo, pero principalmente en los países que presentan diversidad de bellezas naturales y riqueza de fauna y flora. La presente investigación, realizada en el municipio de Prudentópolis/PR, presenta el desarrollo de los atractivos ecoturísticos y las acciones sostenibles presentes en cada propiedad. Este estudio de caso fue desarrollado entre el período de septiembre de 2015 hasta agosto del 2016. La recabación de datos se dio a través de la recopilación bibliográfica, documental, observación in situ y entrevistas semiestructuradas con los propietarios de los emprendimientos. Durante el trabajo de campo se identificaron varias prácticas sostenibles en cada dimensión de la sostenibilidad que permite apuntar que esas prácticas son propulsoras al desarrollo socioeconómico y valorización del turismo y de la comunidad local del municipio de Prudentópolis.Palabras clave: Ecoturismo; Sostenibilidad; Medio Ambiente.

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