scholarly journals THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PUBLIC SPACE TO THE SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF TRADITIONAL SETTLEMENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nor Zalina Harun ◽  
Najiha Jaffar ◽  
Mazlina Mansor
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Indigenous Plants ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social

Landscape is a dynamic system in geography that has a spatial structure created by natural and cultural causes. Landscapes are made up of geophysical, which are formed by physical terrain elements (mountains, hills and water bodies and streams), living elements (indigenous plants), man-made elements (land uses, buildings, and structures), and temporary elements such as lighting and weather conditions. Traditional settlements are one of the key cultural land-uses and landscape assets in terms of history, customs, culture, and architecture. Modernization and continuous development have sometimes radically altered the physical terrain environment over time, obliterating traditional settlements in favor of more modern land uses with public facilities. Will these facilities continue to operate as a social sustainability accelerator for residents living in traditional settlements? This research aims to address the roles of the public infrastructure in determining the social sustainability of the people in two traditional settlements in Kuala Terengganu. A mixed methods strategy was used in this study, which comprised of observation and survey questionnaires. To identify the important components that determine social sustainability, a questionnaire survey was employed that collected data from 400 residents. The major conclusions emphasize three most significant characteristics of public space under the most preferred public infrastructures selected by the residents: They are: (i) adequate amenities; (ii) public spaces that support a variety of activities; and (iii) public spaces that are accessible to the general public. The research implicates that a better socio-cultural and traditional heritage will be generated and preserved as a result of a more organised settlement, underlining the value of culture and history in developing a sense of community and belonging.

scholarly journals ENLIVENING THE MOSQUE AS A PUBLIC SPACE FOR SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF TRADITIONAL MALAY SETTLEMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Najiha Jaffar ◽  
Nor Zalina Harun ◽  
Alias Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
Religious Aspects

Public spaces are vital elements of settlement fabrics that animate communities together in one place. Nevertheless, most public places are used for recreational purposes only without building on communal activities, especially in religious aspects. Therefore, to achieve robust social sustainability, this study aims to identify the key indicators for ensuring social sustainability of traditional settlements’ public spaces. This study explores the typologies of public spaces found in traditional settlements that fill the needs of the local community. A mixed methodology was used to map and observe the public spaces and the communal activities held in two traditional Malay settlements in Kuala Terengganu. The bulk of the data were randomly collected from 400 residents by using a questionnaire survey to identify the most relevant factors that influence social sustainability. The results show that mosques have been listed as the highest preference of public space in the two sampled settlements. The study outlines three key qualities that lead the community to choose the mosque as the most important public space: 1) convenient access, 2) comfortable and clean, and 3) social aspects. This paper concludes on how these findings contribute to the improvement of quality of life, social interaction and social cohesion to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) globally.

The Literary Depiction of the “Public Space”: Chen Zhongshi’s White Deer Plain Revisited

Rural China ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Zhi Gao
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

Chen Zhongshi’s novel, White Deer Plain, is a complex text revealing the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of a community in transformation in which multiple public spaces coexist and struggle to survive. As a reinterpretation of the novel, this article examines three types of public spaces: the popular, the political, and the cultural-educational, respectively. Focusing on the forms of depiction, the inner workings of the public spaces, the overlapping between different spaces and their expansion, this article aims to delineate the trajectories of the rise and fall of such public spaces and explore their entangling and association with modernity.

scholarly journals FASILITAS KEBUGARAN DAN REKREASI DI SETIABUDI

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Ariwibowo Setiawan ◽  
Dewi Ratnaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Play Area ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Working Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Belonging

Humans are highly social beings with great desire for social belonging and interpersonal exchange in their life. Public space has become a cornerstone of public growth consisting economic, social, entertainment, and political enterprise. Therefore, the continuation of public interaction become very dependent on both public space existence and growth.  The inadequacy of public space in Setiabudi has provoked the community to create public spaces in their residential roads to socialize and do various activities. Nonetheless, using roads as public infrastructure for daily activities and socializing may resulted in inconvenience and hazardous situation. In addition, most inhabitants in Setiabudi are migrants with the incentive to work and settle which resulted in social discrepancy. If this problem is not anticipated immediately, social and environmental degradation may arise. From these issues, we can conclude that Setiabudi need some facilities to fulfill the social needs of inhabitants and migrants secondary needs to work and settle. The research method conducted is through literature studies, precedent studies. In addition, direct observation techniques were also carried out namely interviews and observations to several settlements, social and public facilities. Therefore, facilities such as flexible space, gym, kid’s play area, bar, and recreational space for food court and co-working space are essential. Along with the oasis-maker concept, Setiabudi Wellness and Recreation Facility undertake inclusivity of human, neutrality, and playfulness. AbstrakManusia sebagai makhluk sosial selalu membutuhkan interaksi sosial dengan sesamanya dalam daur hidupnya. Ruang publik telah menjadi latar bagi perkembangan kehidupan publik, baik dalam kegiatan ekonomi, sosial, hiburan, hingga politik. Berlangsungnya kehidupan publik dengan interaksi sosial menjadi salah satu faktor yang sangat bergantung pada keberadaan dan perkembangan ruang publik. Minimnya ruang publik di kawasan Setiabudi mengakibatkan masyarakat menciptakan ruang publik di jalan lingkungan permukimannya sebagai tempat untuk bersosialisasi dan beraktivitas. Kegiatan-kegiatan yang menggunakan jalan sebagai media beraktivitas dan bersosialiasi sehari-hari cenderung mengganggu serta berbahaya bagi warga. Selain itu, sebagian penghuni di kawasan Setiabudi merupakan pendatang dari luar kawasan tersebut yang ingin bekerja dan bermukim sehingga menyebabkan kesenggangan sosial antara pendatang dan penduduk Setiabudi. Tujuan proyek adalah mengurangi degradasi sosial dan lingkungan antara pendatang dan penghuni Setiabudi. Dari isu-isu  tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa kawasan Setiabudi membutuhkan fasilitas-fasilitas untuk melengkapi kebutuhan sosial harian penduduk dan kebutuhan sekunder pendatang yang bekerja sekaligus bermukim di kawasan Setiabudi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah melalui studi literatur, studi preseden. Selain itu, dilakukan juga teknik pengamatan langsung yaitu wawancara dan dan observasi ke beberapa permukiman, fasilitas sosial dan umum. Oleh karena itu, mereka membutuhkan fasilitas seperti flexible space (ruang serbaguna), gym, kid’s play area, bar dan ruang rekreasi dengan fasilitas pendukung seperti food court dan co-working space. Fasilitas Kebugaran dan Rekreasi ini memiliki konsep oasis-maker yang mengutamakan inklusivitas antar sesama manusia serta bersifat netral dan memiliki kesan playful.

What’s in a Name? Questions for a New Monument

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margrethe Troensegaard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Sculpture ◽  
The Social ◽  
We The People

What is the contemporary condition of the monument? In relation to the current issue’s discussion of immersive and discursive exhibition practices, this essay places itself at a slight remove; rather than to analyse and evaluate specific curatorial strategies it seeks to raise questions of relevance to such practices and begins by moving the discourse out of the museum and into the public space. The point of interrogation here is the monument, a form with a particular capacity to tease and expose the triad we find at the core of any curatorial discourse: the relation between institution, artwork and audience. Following an introductory reflection on how to describe and define a ‘monument’, a term so broadly used it all but loses its value, the text proceeds to examine three cases, Monument de la Renaissance Africaine, Dakar (2010), Danh Vo’s WE THE PEOPLE (DETAIL), various locations (2010-13), and Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, New York (2013). The sequencing of these geographically and culturally diverse works makes way for an interrogatory piece of writing that addresses the question of permanence versus temporariness of the artwork as exhibition (and the exhibition as artwork), and that of the political agency of the artistic form. Probing the social agency of the monument, the text draws lines between the symbolising capacity once held by modern sculpture and the oscillation between immersion and discursiveness as two complimentary modes of communication. The discursive content or function of the monument (i.e. what it commemorates) is activated through the viewer’s personal, immersive encounter with its form, a form that potentially places its viewer as a participant to the construction of its message rather than as a mere receiver.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC VALUE IN SLOGAN IN PANGKALPINANG CITY PUBLIC SPACE: EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-122
Author(s):  
Nurvita Wijayanti ◽  
Panggio Restu Wilujeng
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Sociology Of Communication

Nowadays, slogans in the public space have become the most significant socialist symbols and meanings that are easily accessible to the public, such as the example of writing traffic signs, billboards, information boards and other media. The problem lies in the lack of attention to the linguistic element, considering that the media contains formal slogans as a reflection of the level of standardization in the interpretation of symbols and meanings aimed at educating the public. These errors are found in a number of public spaces in Pangkalpinang City. This study aimed to describe the linguistic aspects of writing slogans in the public space as well as how to socialize about the delivery of symbols and meanings in the writing. This study also looked at how the purpose of informative education through symbols and meanings of the writing in the socialization media was interpreted by the people of Pangkalpinang. So that there are two formulations of the problem that will be elaborated in this study, namely: (1) How is the distribution of slogans in public spaces indicated to violate linguistic values ​​?; (2) How is the dissemination of symbols and meanings contained in the slogans conveyed educatively to the public? The theory used to carry out this research is the socio-phonological theory, ambiguity, and sociology of communication from Hebert Mead about symbolic interactionism. The method used was descriptive qualitative using data collection techniques, namely full observation and interviews. This research showed that there are no concepts that are misleading in conveying symbols and meanings contained in slogans in public spaces that should be formally informal because the Pangkalpinang community translates phonemes into orthographical (writing).

scholarly journals The Transformation of MDMC Social Piety in Forming Public Spaces in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Sadikin Sadikin
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Disaster

This journal aims to find out how the process of transforming social piety to a disaster management center (MDMC) in the reconstruction of public spaces in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. So far, research on MDMC has shown more functions in disaster management, mitigation, preparedness, emergency response and post-disaster rehabilitation. In a broader scope, it has neglected the two most important issues, namely the sociological impact and the formation of a democratic public space from the social transformation process. Therefore, further research is needed on the transformation of MDMC's social piety in reconstructing public spaces in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive study of the transformation of social piety to MDMC volunteers in reconstructing public spaces in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia. By using this qualitative research design, researchers can identify a group of people; study them at home or at work; and develop a general picture of the group, noting how they behave, think and speak. Within the epistemic framework, this study considers several theoretical perspectives on the Covid-19 problem in Indonesia, which has paralyzed the public space, such as grounding the humanitarian movement, caring for Islamic values ​​socially, solidarity in helping and caring for people who suffer from misfortune without expecting it. compensation, giving something to victims who are hit by the disaster based on collective awareness, helping victims who are physically hit by the disaster to reduce the ongoing burden, providing material assistance to victims who are hit by the disaster based on their needs and cooperating in post-disaster rehabilitation.

Revisiting the End of Public Space: Assembling the Public in an Urban Park

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Madden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Development

A case study of the renovation of New York City's Bryant Park, this article revisits the end of public space thesis. the renovated park signifies not the end of public space but the new ends to which public space is oriented. in Bryant Park, a new logic of urban publicity was assembled and built into the landscape. the social and technical means by which this transformation was achieved are analyzed. New public spaces of this sort promulgate a conception of the public that is decoupled from discourses of democratization, citizenship, and self–development and connected ever more firmly to consumption, commerce, and social surveillance. If such places do not herald the end of public space, they do represent “publicity without democracy.”

Public Libraries, Real Space and Social Change: Some Old and Some New Coincidences

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor Haywood
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Importance

Public libraries grew out of a 19th century liberal tradition that favoured the enlightenment of the people. This is now threatened by changes in political and social priorities and the subordination of an ‘idealist’ society, which gives priority to a world of values, to a ‘sensate’ society, which locates its values in what can be experienced by the senses. As a result of this, of the wiring of society and of increasing pressures on time, the social importance and moral status of the public library have suffered, and human connectivity has suffered with it: people retreat to their homes and ‘drop out and log on’. Technology has both liberated us and brought new forms of enslavement. Public libraries, as perhaps the last great public space, could yet become agents for transforming a private and selfish technology into a public and benevolent one.

scholarly journals Road Accident Data Analytics Using Map – Reduce Concept

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1032-1037 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
Mining Algorithms

In recent years, the accidents on road have been increasing exponentially on yearly basis because of heavy traffic which has increased great concerns across the world. The enormous growing drift of motorization and the improvisation of the social and economic position of the people have influenced the annoying road safety scenarios with wounded and eternally disabled injuries. This paper has an extensive in-depth study through the accidents and its causes due to the reasons like weather Conditions, Age, Lighting, Vehicle Conditions, Road conditions etc. Data mining algorithms are applied to the provided dataset and factors which cause accidents. Utilization of this paper is to find out the factors which cause accidents and it can be given to the public so that the accidents can be reduced. This paper has established a linkage from the causes to the consequences with event classification of certain cases during the duration2009-2014.

scholarly journals Film Intervention in Public Space. A Phylogenetic Spatial Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Taher Abdel-Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Function ◽  
The City

Cinema has taken up the role of a social agent that introduced a variety of images and events to the public during critical times. This paper proposes the idea of using films as a tool to reclaim public space where a sense of belonging and dialogue restore to a meaningful place. During the January 2011 protests in Egypt, Tahrir Cinema, an independent revolutionary project composed of filmmakers and other artists, offered a space in Downtown Cairo and screened archival footage of the ongoing events to the protestors igniting civic debate and discussions. The traditional public space has undergone what Karl Kropf refers to as the phylogenetic change, i.e. form and function that is agreed upon by society and represents a common conception of certain spatial elements. Hence, the framework that this research will follow is a two-layer discourse, the existence of cinema in public spaces, and the existence of public spaces in cinema. Eventually, the paper seeks to enhance the social relationship between society, spaces, and cinematic narration – a vital tool to raise awareness about the right to the city.

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