scholarly journals El método en la investigación: imaginarios y representaciones de la forma urbana en la vida cotidiana

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Pérgolis ◽  
Clara Inés Rodríguez Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
City Life ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Resumen: La investigación urbana durante muchos años, ha centrado su interés en el estudio de los elementos físicos de la ciudad. Este trabajo se desarrolla desde un enfoque distinto al discurso de un urbanismo abstracto basado en cifras y estándares, es decir, en un urbanismo apoyado en la existencia del habitante, la ciudad, sus significados, su pertenencia y el sentido de su vida en ese territorio. El objetivo principal de este artículo es mostrar un método de trabajo basado en la identificación y el análisis de relatos urbanos y en la lectura de un texto generador de preguntas conducentes a hipótesis. La investigación en curso de la cual se desprende, utiliza dos ejercicios metodológicos particulares, uno a partir de una investigación enmarcada en la definición de “método científico”, surge de la lectura de un único libro, la pregunta que guía el desarrollo del estudio. El segundo ejercicio consiste en generar una práctica a través de la aplicación de una metodología ya experimentada en trabajos precedentes, preguntándonos ahora, ¿Es posible encontrar la esencia o el deseo que motiva un acontecimiento en el relato?; como conclusión parcial del estudio en curso, se confirma que el modo de acceder a las particularidades del espíritu del tiempo y su expresión en la ciudad y en la vida de la ciudad está presente en los relatos, que al pasar de la descripción a la narración, profundizan en las prácticas que los habitantes realizan con los espacios de su ciudad. ___Palabras clave: Deseo, relato, ciudad, ciudadano, imagen urbana, vida urbana. ___Abstract: The urban investigation for many years has centered his interest on the study of the physical elements of the city. This work develops from an approach different from the speech of an abstract urbanism based on numbers and standards, but rather an urbanism focused on the existence of the inhabitant, the city, his meanings, his belonging and the sense of his life in this territory. The principal aim of this article is to show a method of work based on the identification and the analysis of urban statements and in the reading of a generating text of questions conducive to hypothesis. The investigation in process with which it parts, uses two methodological particular exercises, one from an investigation placed in the definition of “scientific method", arises from the reading of the only book, the question that guides the development of the study. The second exercise consists of generating a practice across the application of a methodology already experienced on previous works, wondering now is it possible to find the essence or the desire that motivates an event in the statement?; as partial conclusion of the study in process, it is confirmed that the way of acceding to the particularities of the spirit of the time and his expression in the city and in the life of the city it is present in the statements, which on having gone on from the description to the story, penetrate into the practices that the inhabitants realize with the spaces of his city. ___Keywords: Desire, story, citizen, city, city life, urban image. ___Recibido enero 3 de 2014 / Aceptado marzo 12 de 2014  

scholarly journals FORKLÆDTE PENGE: En diskussion af brugerbetaling i en gratis nicaraguansk folkeskole

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Rübner Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Consequences ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
School Expenditures ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way ◽  
Marginalized Families

On the basis of data collected during fieldwork in the city of León, Nicaragua, this article discusses the paradox of many Nicaraguan parents describing their children’s school as being free of charge despite the fact that they are frequently asked to pay for it. The article shows that, in spite of the constitutional definition of education as free and equal for all Nicaraguans, parents are often asked for economic contributions. By analysing the values surrounding the school I suggest that values of responsibility and solidarity influence the way that parents conceptualize their school expenditures and, in relation to this, confirm the status of the school as free. Furthermore, the article describes how Nicaraguan parents often compare the school to their home and describe the relation between teacher and students by using family terms. Inspired by the theory of the American sociologist James Carrier, I argue that this comparison, in addition to the values of responsibility and solidarity, further influences the way Nicaraguan parents and children experience their economic contributions. Finally, I argue that even though the users of the school describe it as free of charge, it remains necessary to recognize its economic aspects, since a lack of recognition can turn out to have important individual and social consequences for the people involved, especially, for the most economically marginalized families.  

An approach for sustainable innovation: TRIZ

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Banu Ozkeser
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Technology Management ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Sustainable Innovation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Innovation Planning ◽  
The Way

TRIZ, a Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, is an approach for systematic innovation planning. In the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ), the overall aim is the development of an enhanced methodology for a smooth innovation mapping. It is also a way of technology management. The base of TRIZ depends on organisational ecology and sustainability concepts. Should a foundation use this scientific method, then, sustainable innovation can easily occur there. In this paper, conceptualised combinations will be further investigated, tested and applied in subsequent phases and results. The organization of this paper has four major phases. The first part is composed of general terminology, benefits of the method and rules. The second part gives information about the definition of the problem and the details of the way which is used. Concept of the third phase is about the implementation. The results, comments and recommendations form the last phase.Keywords: TRIZ, sustainability, innovation.

scholarly journals Ageing in Suburban Neighbourhoods: Planning, Densities and Place Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Ioannou
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Residential District ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
The City

The article examines the environmental qualities perceived by ageing populations in suburban low-density and car-oriented neighbourhoods in comparison to more dense and central areas. The study focuses on Nicosia, Cyprus, a city that suffers from extended sprawl and car dependency in almost every urban district. The aim of the article is to investigate how older adults perceive and evaluate their place of residence and if this assessment relates to the suburban or the city centre profile of their neighbourhoods. For this reason, the study takes five residential districts, two central and three suburban areas, as case studies. Each of the selected residential districts performs differently in terms of percentage of the population over the age of 65; scale and street layout; adequacy in supporting land uses; building density; distance from the city centre and public space availability and condition. The almost exclusive use of private cars, as the main transportation mode is a common feature of all older adults interviewed in these areas. The older adults’ perceptions of place are assessed through the Place Standard (PS), a simple recently awarded framework which structures conversations about place in regard to its physical elements as well as its social composition. PS is used as an interview tool, which allows the mapping/visualization of qualitative data. Qualitative in-depth interviews conclude to an evaluation of fourteen aspects that outline a residential district profile from mobility to green and urban image attractiveness, and from facilities to social contact and safety, covering almost every aspect of daily life. The article concludes that the neighbourhood assessment from older residents varies depending on the nature of the suburban neighbourhood. Density, layout and distance from the city centre matter according to the participants’ evaluation and there is a clear preference towards suburban low-density areas.

The Dangers of Mobility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Sopranzetti
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
City Life ◽  
The Road ◽  
Urban Periphery ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the drivers’ role in knitting together Bangkok’s territory, its daily activities, and its dwellers. It analyzes their everyday life as urban infrastructure and as producers of the channels through which the city circulates. This position requires the drivers to adjust and synchronize to the multiple rhythms of nature, urban capitalism, and city life. Bangkok is the product not only of epochal processes of construction, destruction, and layering but also of continuous assembling and reassembling through the actions of a variety of networks and actors. The drivers are pivotal to this everyday production and, as they weave the city together, they strive to move their own lives along the channels they create. Sometimes they succeed and set their own futures in motion. At other times they do not, and they find themselves stuck and exhausted at the side of the road, ready for their last ride all the way back to small, cramped rooms in the urban periphery.

Ladies, Gentlemen, Flirts, Mashers, Snoozers, and the Breaking of Etiquette's Code

Prospects ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 169-196
Author(s):  
Guy Szuberla
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Line Drawing ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
City Life ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Some time after the Civil War, writers of American etiquette books marked the rise of the city by introducing new sections on “etiquette in the street” and “conduct in a crowd.” No one should look to their texts and the accompanying illustrations for a faithfully detailed and documented history of 19th-century city life. The stiff, cutout figures that walk through city streets in these old line drawings represent a particular fantasy of social order, focused in the figure and type of the lady and gentleman. “Walk slowly, do not turn your head … and,” The Ladies' Book of Etiquette (1876) warned, “avoid any gesture or word that would attract attention.” That advice is illustrated, with punctilious care, in Gentleman Meeting a Lady, a line drawing in John Young's 1882 guide, Our Deportment (Figure 1). The gentleman and the lady make no apparent eye contact; they, in strict observance of propriety, look off and away from each other. Again, in Alice Emma Ives's Social Mirror (1886), the ladies who illustrate the way to give a gentleman “formal street recognition” grant it with averted eyes and unturned heads. Ives quite properly avoids the word “meet” (Figure 2).

scholarly journals Autopia: Notes on Banham’s Visionary Metropolis

2016 ◽  
pp. 54-63
Author(s):  
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Post War ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Reyner Banham

In 1959 Reyner Banham challenged zoned urbanism by combining the Situationist psychogeographic drift with his love for Los Angeles. His essay “City as Scrambled Egg” (Banham, 1959) effectively produced a new urban image and introduced a new outlook on postwar modernization, communication, and leisure. The radicalization of contemporary life resonated in images of the city as decentralized, free, and in motion. While Le Corbusier had compared the city to an egg with demarcating zones and boundaries, Banham argued that motorization and telecommunications had long scrambled the city; “I don’t just mean in Los Angeles. A large part of the population of Europe already lives conurbatively” (Banham, 1959, p. 21). The entire region between Amsterdam and Rotterdam was already one conurbanized arena, effectively formulating an early definition of the megalopolis.Unlike CIAM’s city of the urban core with designated outskirts, thecenter was now seen to be everywhere. For Banham, this was theterrain of contemporary urbanization that needed to be understoodby holding prejudgments at bay and instead doing, what he called,“leg-work on the territory” (Banham, 1959, p. 21). But, as his ongoing fascinations with Futurism and post-war technologies revealed, this departure from modernist imagery of the city was not a disregard of modernist urban utopias but a way to rework these ideas towards a new kind of visionary; one that is less about forecasting the new and, instead, is contingent on a new optical vision of the existing city. A key site for his development of a different way of seeing the modernized urban world was the city of Los Angeles and particularly its traffic, which he called “Autopia.”

scholarly journals PENANDA KAWASAN SEBAGAI PENGUAT NILAI FILOSOFIS SUMBU UTAMA KOTA YOGYAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Azis Yon Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
The North ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Distinct Character ◽  
The Government ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

Title: Urban Signage as Philosophical Reinforcement Main Axis of Yogyakarta The history search of space-forming structure of Yogyakarta shows an axis or pivot that forms the main hall corridor of the city. The axes are connected to the point of the city elements in the form of buildings starting from the White Pal Monument (Tugu Pal Putih) building in the north of the city, the Sultan Palace in the middle of the city, and Panggung Krapyak in the south of the Palace. The axis series are called as philosophical axis of Yogyakarta. These axes have a very important value considering to its position in the main pivot of the city. It will certainly bring its consequence on all of the physical elements that form the region. One of these referred elements is the sign elements. The definition of the sign elements is landmark buildings, gates, nodes, billboards, traffic signs, information boards, art media (murals), monuments (sculptures), and the installations of three dimension art in the public space. The result of the identification in the field shows that, the first, the presence of the signs along the axis tend to be without special characters (distinct character), so the formed character of the space is closed to the other locations. The second, the existence of advertisement media or information boards whether commercial, social, or information from the government tend to be unorganized and dominate the available spaces. The specific elements in the form of work of art installation, monuments, gates, and heritage buildings that have already existed and form a special character to the region that impressed overwhelmed by the presence of advertising media and information boards so it is felt to be lost from the sight. The rearrangement of the advertising media and information boards, also the development of sign elements that have a good synergy will contribute to the value strengthening of philosophical axis of Tugu Pal Putih and Panggung Krapyak of Yogyakarta.

scholarly journals PENANDA KAWASAN SEBAGAI PENGUAT NILAI FILOSOFIS SUMBU UTAMA KOTA YOGYAKARTA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Azis Yon Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Three Dimension ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
The North ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Distinct Character ◽  
The Government ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

Title: Urban Signage as Philosophical Reinforcement Main Axis of Yogyakarta The history search of space-forming structure of Yogyakarta shows an axis or pivot that forms the main hall corridor of the city. The axes are connected to the point of the city elements in the form of buildings starting from the White Pal Monument (Tugu Pal Putih) building in the north of the city, the Sultan Palace in the middle of the city, and Panggung Krapyak in the south of the Palace. The axis series are called as philosophical axis of Yogyakarta. These axes have a very important value considering to its position in the main pivot of the city. It will certainly bring its consequence on all of the physical elements that form the region. One of these referred elements is the sign elements. The definition of the sign elements is landmark buildings, gates, nodes, billboards, traffic signs, information boards, art media (murals), monuments (sculptures), and the installations of three dimension art in the public space. The result of the identification in the field shows that, the first, the presence of the signs along the axis tend to be without special characters (distinct character), so the formed character of the space is closed to the other locations. The second, the existence of advertisement media or information boards whether commercial, social, or information from the government tend to be unorganized and dominate the available spaces. The specific elements in the form of work of art installation, monuments, gates, and heritage buildings that have already existed and form a special character to the region that impressed overwhelmed by the presence of advertising media and information boards so it is felt to be lost from the sight. The rearrangement of the advertising media and information boards, also the development of sign elements that have a good synergy will contribute to the value strengthening of philosophical axis of Tugu Pal Putih and Panggung Krapyak of Yogyakarta.

Le plaisir dans la cite platonicienne

Chôra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Olivier Renaut ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Program ◽  
Political Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Issue ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article aims at showing that the definition of pleasure in Plato’s dialogues cannot be separated from a political educational program and an anthropology that consider pleasure as the main vehicle towards virtue. The political use of pleasure is as important as its definition, insofar as its manifestation and content are the prerogatives of the legislator. All pleasures are politically meaningful in the Republic and in the Laws, and among them especially the triad hunger, thirst and sex ; in making pleasures a “public” issue, as pleasures are object of surveillance and political control, Plato gives several means in order to shape the way pleasures are felt in the city, and in order to make the community of pleasure and pain a fundamental role in unifying the city under the reason’s commands.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL STATUS OF THE CAPITAL OF UKRAINE - THE HERO CITY OF KYIV AS A GUARANTEE OF THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS OF UKRAINE AND THE TERRITORIAL COMMUNITY OF THE CITY

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksii Chepov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
City Councils ◽  
The Social ◽  
District Management ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The qualitative and clear definition of the legal regime of the capital of Ukraine, the hero city of Kyiv, is influenced by its legislative enshrinement, however, it should be noted that discussions are ongoing and one of the reasons for the unclear legal status of the capital is the ambiguity of current legislation in this area. Separation of the functions of the city of Kyiv, which are carried out to ensure the rights of citizens of Ukraine and the functions that guarantee the rights of the territorial community of the city of Kyiv. In the modern world, in legal doctrine and practice, the capital is understood as the capital of the country, which at the legislative level received this status and, accordingly, is the administrative and political center of the state, which houses the main state bodies and diplomatic missions of other states. It is the identification of the boundaries of the relationship between the competencies of state administrations and local self-government, in practice, often raises questions about their delimitation and ways of regulatory solution. Peculiarities of local self-government in Kyiv city districts are defined in the provisions of the Law on the Capital, which reveal the norms of the Constitution in these legal relations, according to which the issue of organizing district management in cities belongs to city councils. Likewise, it is unregulated by law to lose the particularity of the legal status of the territory of the city. It should be emphasized that the subject of administrative-legal relations is not a certain administrative-territorial entity, but the social group is designated - the territorial community of the city of Kiev, kiyani. Thus, the provisions on the city of Kyiv partially ignore the potential of the territorial community.

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