scholarly journals Narrativas Urbanas: Acesso à moradia, organização familiar e a (re)produção do espaço urbano

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalles Vichiato Breda
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Narratives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
External Organization ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta resultados das imersões etnográficas realizadas em 2017 e 2018, em um bairro promovido pelo Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida, em São Carlos/SP. Parto da perspectiva de Agier do "fazer-cidade", compreendendo que a cidade é feita de movimentos, de relações práticas e de narrativas. Neste sentido, a (re)produção do espaço urbano é permeada de disputas, contradições e apropriações, sendo um produto histórico, social e imediato. Abordo a (re)produção do espaço urbano por meio das "famílias populares urbanas" e sua potencialidade enquanto instância ordenadora simbólica do mundo cotidiano, e suas formas de organização interna/externa. Selecionei duas famílias beneficiárias para explorar o "fazer-cidade", levando em consideração especialmente a trajetória de moradia, trabalho e lazer. Algumas considerações podem ser tecidas: os arranjos familiares têm potencial de ressignificação do espaço urbano, tanto concreto, quanto simbólico; os deslocamentos em busca de trabalho e moradia são centrais neste processo de "fazer-cidade", dialogando com as formas de expansão e produção do urbano.Palavras-chave: Produção do Espaço Urbano. Famílias Populares Urbanas. Moradia Popular. Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida. Narrativas Urbanas  URBAN NARRATIVES:ACCESS TO HOUSING, FAMILIAR ORGANIZATION AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF THE URBAN SPACEAbstract: This work presents results of the ethnographic immersions carried out in 2017 and 2018 in a neighborhood promoted by the Minha Casa Minha Vida Program, in São Carlos/SP. Starting from Agier's perspective of "making-city" (“fazer-cidade”), understanding that the city is made up of movements, practical relations and narratives. In this sense, the (re)production of the urban space is permeated with disputes and contradictions, appropriations, being a historical, social and immediate product. I approach the (re)production of urban space through the "urban popular families" and their potential as a symbolic organizing instance of the everyday world, their forms of internal/external organization. It was selected two beneficiary families to explore the "makeing-city", especially taking into account the trajectory of housing, work and leisure. Some considerations can be pointed: family arrangements have the potential to redefine urban space, both concrete and symbolic; displacements in search of work and housing are central to this "making-city" process, dialoguing with the forms of expansion and urban production.Keywords: Urban Space Production. Urban Popular Families. Popular Housing. Minha Casa Minha Vida Program. Urban Narratives

scholarly journals Speculation, segregation and (absence of) conflicts: In the production of the urban space of Palmas / TO

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carla de Lira Bottura
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Western World ◽  
New Town ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Space Production ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The City

This article introduces partial discussions from a doctoral research in progress that has as object of study the tendency to paci cation and concealment of con icts veri ed in the production process of contemporary urban space - particularly in the most recent Brazil- ian cities - as well as its strategies and mechanisms of control. As a eld of study, it is proposed the city of Palmas, capital of Tocantins, last planned capital of the twentieth century, founded on May 20, 1989, a year that symbolizes the opening of the Western world to the neoliberal economic policy. Based on the observation of the absence of signi cant movements of resistance to the urban space production process at Palmas and interpreting it as a re ection of pacifying tendency of consensus and appeasement / masking of con icts as a feature of neoliberal city, we propose the hypothesis of physical and territorial con guration of the city as a laboratory of the neoliberal model of urban management, in which socio-spa- tial dynamics gradually developed in other contemporary cities through processes historically constructed, get explicit and take place, immediately or in a very short time. Through a historical ap- proach to the context of its creation and occupation, we propose an urban space production reading based on the recognition of char- acteristics relating to its conditions of New Town and neoliberal city as well as the incipient action of the social movements dedicated to the struggles for housing as social agents in this process. 

scholarly journals HETERO-TEXTUALITY AND CO-SPATIALITY: FROM THE SEMIOTICS OF THE CITY TO THE TRANS-SEMIOTICS OF THE POST-CITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Dmitry N. Zamyatin ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
General Context ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Single Text ◽  
Urban Narratives ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

Literary texts can be considered as the most attractive research material for analyzing the key features of both the semiotics of the city as a whole and the semiotics of individual cities, to which many works of art are devoted. The urban space of Modernity as a result of the processes of powerful semiotization can be considered as both textual and intertextual. The intertextuality of Modern urban spaces presupposes sets of “floating” topological signifiers corresponding to similar sets of “floating” topological signs. In the traditional semiotics of the city, the existence of two realities is assumed — the “real” reality and the “semiotic” reality, between which clear logical correspondences and/or relations can be observed and analyzed. The appearance of non-classical/post-classical urban narratives focused on the problems of dis-communication at the beginning of the 20th century became one of the important signs of the primary formation of the post-city and post-urbanism phenomena. The post-city is not a text and can not be regarded as a text; at the same time, it can generate separate texts that are not related to each other in any way. Post-urban texts, which are the communicative results of specific co-spatialities, remain local “flashes” that do not form a single text or meta-text (super-text). Hetero-textuality is a phenomenon of post-urban reality, which is characterized by the coexistence, as a rule, of texts that do not correlate with each other, relating to certain stable urban loci. Trans-semiotics in general context is understood as the study of any texts that involve the creation of sign-symbolic breaks or “gaps” with any other potentially possible correlating texts in the process of signification. Trans-semiotics of post-cities are studies of (literary) texts that involve the creation of sign-symbolic breaks or “gaps” with any other potentially possible correlating texts related to a particular urban locus in the process of signifying any urban loci. The post-city heterostructuality can be considered as the co-spatiality of mutually exclusive texts corresponding to “non-seeing” post-city loci. Post-urban trans-semiotics in the course of their development form a kind of “dark zones” that reject or neutralize any attempt at any semiotic interpretation.

scholarly journals Ordinary Fragmentation: Network Secession of Urban Centers in Jakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-266
Author(s):  
Wahyu Kusuma Astuti ◽  
Suryono Herlambang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

Drawing from the literature on ‘premium networked spaces’, introduced in Graham and Marvin’s seminal work Splintering Urbanism in 2001, this paper argues that splintering or fragmentation of networks – and ultimately urban space – is constituted in so-called premium enclaves in Jakarta. Our study exemplifies that significant land acquisition and discretionary zoning policy contribute to the splintering of Jakarta’s urban space. This paper uses the TB Simatupang corridor in South Jakarta and Puri Indah CBD in West Jakarta to illustrate the interplay between urban planning and secessionary space production in high-profile economic districts. Lastly, this paper proposes the ‘ordinary fragmented network’ as the norm and expands the idea of the splintering of marginalized parts of the city to also incorporate areas within premium network spaces as part of splintering urbanism.   Abstrak. Diambil dari literatur tentang 'ruang jaringan premium' yang diperkenalkan dalam karya mani Graham dan Marvin pada tahun 2001, Splintering Urbanism, makalah ini berpendapat bahwa splintering atau fragmentasi jaringan – dan akhirnya ruang perkotaan, dibentuk dalam apa yang disebut kantong-kantong premium di Jakarta. Studi kami menunjukkan bahwa pembebasan lahan dan kebijakan zonasi diskresioner yang signifikan berkontribusi pada pecahnya ruang kota Jakarta. Makalah ini menggunakan koridor TB Simatupang di Jakarta Selatan dan CBD Puri Indah di Jakarta Barat untuk menggambarkan interaksi antara perencanaan kota dan produksi jaringan pemisahan di distrik ekonomi kelas atas. Terakhir, makalah ini mengusulkan 'jaringan terfragmentasi biasa' sebagai norma dan menggeser ide-ide sempalan dari hanya bagian kota yang terpinggirkan untuk menggabungkan area dalam 'ruang jaringan premium' sebagai bagian dari urbanisme yang terpecah.   Kata kunci. Pusat perkotaan, jaringan terfragmentasi, jaringan jalan, Jakarta.

scholarly journals PRESERVAR PARA QUEM? AS CONTRADIÇÕES NA PRESERVAÇÃO DO PATRIMÔNIO URBANO-INDUSTRIAL EM CAMPINAS (SP)

GEOgraphia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Roxo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Industrial Restructuring ◽  
Public Power ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Methodological Procedures ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Los Grupos

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a relação entre a reestruturação urbano-industrial e os conflitos na conservação do patrimônio industrial de Campinas. A análise privilegia o final dos anos 1970 até 2014, anos de intensificação dos processos destacados. Nossa pesquisa teve como procedimentos metodológicos: revisão bibliográfica, trabalhos de campo, entrevistas, pesquisa documental, produção cartográfica. O estudo mostra que, em Campinas, o elevado número de tombamentos associados à dimensão cotidiana do trabalho indica uma tendência política de preservação da memória trabalhadora, ferroviária e industrial. Entretanto, muitos dos tombamentos contribuíram contraditoriamente para a deterioração de exemplares do patrimônio industrial da cidade. Nesse sentido, os projetos e as ações impelidas pelos agentes produtores do espaço urbano de Campinas – o poder público municipal, os empresários, os moradores (antigos e novos), as instituições e os grupos políticos de defesa do patrimônio – evidenciam os conflitos pelos usos, funções e apropriação material e simbólica da cidade.  Palavras-chave: reestruturação urbano-industrial; patrimônio cultural; produção do espaço urbano. PRESERVE FOR WHOM? THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THE PRESERVATION OF THE URBAN-INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE IN CAMPINAS (SP) Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between urban-industrial restructuring and conflicts in the conservation of the industrial heritage of Campinas. The analysis privileges the late 1970s to 2014, years in which the highlighted processes were intensified. As methodological procedures, our research had: bibliographic review, fieldwork, interviews, documentary research, cartographic production. The study shows that, in Campinas, the high number of legally protected buildings associated with the daily dimension of work indicates a political tendency to preserve working, railway and industrial memory. However, many rules contradictorily contributed to the deterioration of specimens of the city's industrial heritage. In this sense, the projects and actions driven by the producing agents of the urban space of Campinas – the municipal public power, the businessmen, the residents (old and new), the institutions and the political groups for the defense of the heritage – evidence the conflicts over the uses, functions and the material and symbolic appropriation of the city. Keywords: urban-industrial restructuring; cultural heritage; urban space production. ¿CONSERVAR PARA QUIÉN? LAS CONTRADICCIONES EN LA PRESERVACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO URBANO-INDUSTRIAL EN CAMPINAS (SP) Resumen: El propósito de este artículo es analizar la relación entre la reestructuración urbano-industrial y los conflictos en la conservación del patrimonio industrial de Campinas. El análisis privilegia los últimos años de la década de 1970 hasta 2014, años de intensificación de los procesos destacados. Nuestra investigación tuvo como procedimientos metodológicos: revisión bibliográfica, trabajo de campo, entrevistas, investigación documental, producción cartográfica. El estudio muestra que, en Campinas, el elevado número de edificios legalmente protegidos asociados a la dimensión cotidiana del trabajo indica una tendencia política a preservar la memoria laboral, ferroviaria e industrial. Sin embargo, muchas de las normas han contribuido de forma contradictoria al deterioro de ejemplares del patrimonio industrial de la ciudad. En este sentido, los proyectos y acciones impulsados ​​por los agentes productores del espacio urbano de Campinas – el poder público municipal, los empresarios, los vecinos (viejos y nuevos), las instituciones y los grupos políticos de defensa del patrimonio – evidencian los conflictos por los usos, funciones y apropiación material y simbólica de la ciudad. Palabras clave: reestructuración urbano-industrial; patrimonio cultural; producción de espacio urbano.

Ceasefire City

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
The City

For a city in India’s northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia’s longest-running armed conflict, Dimapur remains ‘off the map’. With no ‘glorious’ past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken place, Dimapur’s essence is experienced in oral histories of events, visual archives of everyday life, lived realities of military occupation, and anxieties produced in making urban space out of tribal space. Ceasefire City captures the dynamics of Dimapur. It brings together the fragmented sensibilities granted and contested in particular spaces and illustrates the embodied experiences of the city. The first part explores military presence, capitalist growth, and urban expansion in Dimapur. The second part presents an ethnographic account of lived realities and the meanings that are forged in a frontier city.

scholarly journals O ESTADO BRASILEIRO E A POLÍTICA URBANA:

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-194
Author(s):  
Joabio Alekson Cortez Costa ◽  
Júlia Diniz de Oliveira ◽  
Raimundo Nonato Junior
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Basic Sanitation ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

RESUMO   No Brasil, verifica-se um crescimento populacional nas cidades, aumento da demanda por moradia, emprego, serviços de saúde, educação, saneamento básico e lazer. Dadas as limitações econômicas e a própria incapacidade das gestões municipais em lidar com essas questões, observa-se um agravamento dos problemas sociais e ambientais, com repercussões diretas na qualidade de vida da população, sobretudo, daquela parcela menos abastada. Diante disso, políticas urbanas foram adotadas pelo Estado brasileiro no intuito de orientar o desenvolvimento urbano do país. Sob este prima, o presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar algumas reflexões sobre a efetividade do Estatuto da Cidade (2001). Para tanto, inicialmente, discute-se a produção do espaço urbano e os agentes de sua produção, tomando por base as obras de Carlos (2008, 2011) e Corrêa (1989, 2011), em seguida, aborda-se a trajetória da Política Urbana no Brasil, e a exposição de algumas críticas direcionadas ao Estatuto da Cidade e o plano diretor, tendo como referência os escritos de Souza (2010) e Maricato (2001). Ao final, conclui-se que, apesar dos avanços e inovações presentes na nova lei, principalmente no que se referem à gestão democrática da cidade, questões essenciais como a permanência da estrutura fundiária e o combate à especulação imobiliária continuam irresolutas e constituem entraves ao desenvolvimento urbano justo e igualitário.   Palavras-chave: Produção do espaço. Agentes de produção. Política urbana. Estatuto da cidade. Plano diretor.   ABSTRACT   In Brazil, it turns out a population growth in cities, increasing demand for housing, employment, health services, education, basic sanitation and leisure. Given the economic limitations and the municipal administrations own inability to deal with those issues, it’s observed an aggravation of social and environmental problems, with direct repercussions on the population’s life quality, especially of that less wealthy portion. Given that, urban policies were adopted by the Brazilian State in order to guide the country urban development. Under this concept, this article aims to present some reflections on the City Statute (2001) effectiveness. To do so, initially discusses the urban space production and the agents of its production, based on Carlos’ (2008, 2011) and Corrêa’s (1989, 2011) works, then it approaches the Brazil Urban Politics trajectory, and the exposition of some criticisms directed to the City Statute and the master plan, having as reference the writings of Souza (2010) and Maricato (2001). In the end, it is concluded that, despite the advances and innovations present in the new law, especially regarding the city democratic management, essential issues such as the land structure permanence and the fight against real estate speculation remain unresolved and constitute obstacles to the fair and equitable urban development.   Keywords: Space production. Production agents. Urban policy.  City statute. Master plan.

scholarly journals Empreendedorismo urbano periférico e os ícones urbanos: a lógica da máquina de crescimento em Natal/RN

GeoTextos ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugênio Ribeiro Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Real Estate Investment ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

O presente artigo é fruto de uma pesquisa sobre a produção do espaço urbano natalense com foco nos seus ícones urbanos, na perspectiva do que aqui se chama de empreendedorismo periférico. Partindo da abordagem clássica da cidade enquanto máquina de crescimento, é possível visualizar os rumos que a cidade tomou, nos últimos anos, com a construção de ícones concentrados nas áreas mais enobrecidas da cidade, ou seja, no eixo de investimento imobiliário. Evidenciou-se, portanto, que as escolhas das sucessivas gestões públicas estiveram ligadas antes à racionalidade econômica e às oportunidades momentâneas, do que ao processo de planejamento propriamente dito. Abstract PERIPHERAL URBAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE ICONIC BUILDINGS: THE LOGICAL OF THE GROWTH MACHINE IN NATAL/RN This article is the result of a research on the urban space production of Natal with a focus on its urban icons, from the perspective of what here is called peripheral entrepreneurship. Starting from the classical approach of the city as a growth machine, it’s possible to see the direction that the city has taken in recent years, with the construction of iconic buildings in the most ennobled areas of the city, in other words, in the real estate investment axis. With the analysis of the strategic plans, it became clear that the successive public management choices were linked before to the economic rationality and momentary opportunities, instead to the planning process itself.

scholarly journals VERTICALIZAÇÃO URBANA DE TERESINA-PI: considerações a respeito da produção do espaço a partir da construção vertical

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 9104
Author(s):  
Sara Raquel Cardoso Teixeira de Sousa ◽  
Bartira Araújo da Silva Viana
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

URBAN VERTICALIZATION OF TERESINA-PI: considerations regarding the production of the space from the vertical constructionVERTICALIZACIÓN URBANA DE TERESINA-PI: consideraciones a respeto de la producción del espacio a partir de la construcción verticalO presente artigo traz informações a respeito da verticalização urbana da cidade de Teresina-PI e considerações sobre a produção do espaço. O objetivo principal foi analisar a construção dos empreendimentos verticais e a produção do espaço urbano a partir desse tipo de construção, destacando como a mesma se espacializou no decorrer da evolução histórica da cidade de Teresina-PI. Esta pesquisa apresenta algumas considerações importantes a respeito da verticalização e da discussão teórica que envolve a temática, podendo contribuir para pesquisas futuras que visam apreciar a evolução histórica da verticalização na cidade de Teresina, tanto para profissionais da Geografia como também da História e Arquitetura.Palavras-chave: Verticalização; Espaço Urbano; Teresina-PI.ABSTRACTThis article presents information about the urban verticalization of the city of Teresina-PI and considerations about space production. The main objective is to analyze the construction of vertical enterprises and the production of urban space from this type of construction, highlighting how it has been spatialized in the course of the historical evolution of the city of Teresina-PI. This research presents some important considerations regarding the verticalization and the theoretical discussion that surrounds the theme, being able to contribute to future researches that aim to appreciate the historical evolution of the verticalization in the city of Teresina, for professionals of Geography as well as History and Architecture.Keywords: Verticalization; Urban Space; Teresina-PI.RESUMENEl presente artículo trae informaciones sobre la verticalización urbana de la ciudad de Teresina-PI y consideraciones sobre la producción del espacio. El objetivo principal es analizar la construcción de los emprendimientos verticales y la producción del espacio urbano a partir de ese tipo de construcción, destacando cómo la misma se espacializó en el transcurso de la evolución histórica de la ciudad de Teresina-PI. Esta investigación presenta algunas consideraciones importantes acerca de la verticalización y de la discusión teórica que envuelve la temática, pudiendo contribuir a investigaciones futuras que apuntan a apreciar la evolución histórica de la verticalización en la ciudad de Teresina, tanto para profesionales de la Geografía como también de la Historia y la Arquitectura.Palabras clave: Verticalización; Espacio Urbano; Teresina-PI.

scholarly journals PRODUÇÃO DO ESPAÇO, ORDENAMENTO DO TERRITÓRIO E CRIMINALIDADE: o caso da cidade da Praia, Cabo-Verde

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Gilson Bento Correia ◽  
Carlos Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Cabo Verde ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
City Space ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The City

O artigo aborda uma discussão sobre a produção do espaço, ordenamento do território e criminalidade na cidade da Praia com base nas análises tendo como referência os conceitos do espaço e território. O trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a forma como o espaço da cidade da Praia é produzido, ordenado e como isso pode influenciar na prática dos crimes. Os resultados obtidos mostram que diferentes atores produzem ações no espaço urbano da cidade de acordo com as relações do poder, e a maioria dessas ações realizadas no espaço da cidade da Praia não estabelece uma norma no ordenamento do território, principalmente nas áreas urbanas informais/espontâneas, tornando um fator preponderante na prática de alguns crimes. Palavras-chave: Produção do Espaço; Ordenamento do Território; Criminalidade; Cidade da Praia.   SPACE PRODUCTION, SPATIAL PLANNING AND CRIMINALITY: the case of Praia city, Cape Verde Abstract The article discusses a discussion of the production of space, regional planning and crime in Praia city based on the analysis by reference to the concepts of space and territory. The study aims to examine how the Praia City space is produced, ordered and how it can influence the practice of crimes. The results show that different actors produce actions in the urban space of the city according to the power of relationships, and most of these actions taken on Praia city space does not establish a standard in spatial planning, especially in informal / spontaneous urban areas making a major factor in the commission of certain crimes. Keywords: Space Production; Spatial Planning; Criminality; Praia City.   PRODUCCIÓN DEL ESPACIO, ORDENAMIENTO DEL TERRITORIO Y CRIMINALIDAD: EL CASO DE CIUDAD DE PRAIA - CABO VERDE Resumen  El artículo aborda la discusión sobre la producción de espacio, ordenamiento del territorio y criminalidad en la ciudad de Praia con base en los análisis teniendo como referencia los conceptos de espacio y territorio. El trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar la forma como el espacio de la ciudad de Praia es producido, ordenado y como eso puede influenciar en la práctica de los crímenes. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que diferentes actores producen acciones en el espacio urbano de la ciudad de acuerdo con las relaciones de poder, y la mayoría de esas acciones realizadas en el espacio de la ciudad de Praia no establecen una norma en el ordenamiento del territorio, principalmente en las áreas urbanas informales/espontaneas, convirtiéndose en un factor preponderante en la práctica de algunos crímenes. Palabras-clave: Producción del Espacio; Ordenamiento del Territorio; Criminalidad; Ciudad de Praia.

scholarly journals Vectors of City Development in Kosovo in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Origins and Consequences

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (48) ◽  
pp. 179-210
Author(s):  
Denis Ermolin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Behavioral Models ◽  
City Development ◽  
Spatial Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ideological Attitudes ◽  
The City

The article explores the social and spatial phenomena in the development of three cities on the territory of Kosovo (and Metohija) — Pristina, Prizren and (Kosovska) Mitrovica in the history of the region in the 20th and 21st centuries. All these cities used to contain Turkish, Albanian, Serbian (and more broadly Slavic-speaking), Jewish and Gypsy quarters with shared urban (as opposed to rural) identities. The paper argues is that the interweaving (sometimes even conflicting) of two vectors — “inner logic” and “the logic of the victor” — forms the image of the city, thereby largely determining the everyday life and behavioral models of its inhabitants. Moreover, the evolving urban space itself can be viewed as an actor segmenting various social, ethnic and confessional communities. Thus, the author poses the following questions: What are the historical prerequisites for the transformations of the sociocultural landscape of the cities of Kosovo at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries? What spatial changes in urban space have followed the new social realities and the armed conflict in Kosovo? How can urban space be used to form and broadcast ideological attitudes by political elites?

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