scholarly journals Memórias, narrativas políticas e dicotomias da cidade: Olhares Fílmicos sobre Recife-PE

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (45) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendell Marcel Alves da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Short Films ◽  
The Look ◽  
The City ◽  
City Film

Este trabalho analisa o objeto do olhar a cidade do Recife-PE e as suas características espaciais e sociais a partir da perspectiva antropológica e fílmica. A discussão tem como ponto de partida a questão de documentar e ficcionalizar a cidade por meio das narrativas fílmicas do espaço urbano, e também de como o olhar sobre a cidade pode ser analisada através da ótica espacial e fílmica. Considera-se, portanto, os arranjos espaciais, imagéticos, identitários e estéticos presentes no âmbito urbano para então discursar acerca do problema central deste trabalho: os olhares fílmicos construídos da cidade do Recife-PE por meio das narrativas fílmicas dos curtas-metragens pernambucanos. Dessa indagação parte-se às contribuições do imaginário urbano, da memória e da identidade como elementos que constituem a construção do olhar para a cidade.Palavras-chave: Olhares fílmicos. Cidade. Recife-PE.Memories, narrative policies and dicotomies of the city: Film Looks on Recife-PE    AbstractThis work analyzes the object of the look at the city of Recife-PE and its spatial and social characteristics from an anthropological and film perspective. The discussion has as its starting point the question of documenting and fictionalizing the city through the film narratives of urban space, as well as how the view of the city can be analyzed through space and film optics. The spatial, imaginary, identity, and aesthetic arrangements present in the urban context are then considered, and the discourse about the central problem of this work is considered: the film-based views constructed from the city of Recife-PE through the film narratives of Pernambucan short films. From this question we start with the contributions of the urban imaginary, memory and identity as elements that constitute the construction of the look for the city.Keywords: Film looks. City. Recife-PE. 

scholarly journals Student Homelessness: Sheltering Our Future: An Adaptable Approach to Underutilised City Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caryl Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Modular Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
The City

<p>The increasing housing demands from population growth creates a persistent housing shortage and unaffordability in our cities. Students are one demographic that is dramatically affected as they move closer to their education provider for study. The student influx at the start of the semester creates a large demand in the already inadequate housing market. Students with a limited budget have reduced accommodation options and this consequently drives many into a state of homelessness. A study from University of Otago measures that over a quarter of New Zealand’s homeless population are students (Amore, 2016). This considerable number of students are living in cars, tents, couch-surfing and sleeping rough for weeks during their studies. The desperate situation impinges on the student’s health and well-being and thus their academic performance.  In this context, the scope of this research focuses on the requirements of homeless tertiary students in the urban setting. Their vulnerability, insecurity and distress are explored to provide direction to solutions that will alleviate the existing problems of their insufficient living environments. As proximity to the education providers and amenities are key factors, this thesis examines underutilised and leftover spaces within the city as opportunities for inhabitation, and to create efficient use of urban space. Currently, there are successful examples of activating overlooked laneways into vibrant spaces. However, these transformations rely on the activities in the lane and the interventions are largely landscaping and installations. By investigating the successful regeneration of previously undesirable and neglected spaces through architectural re-imagination, this thesis identify laneways to be a potential site to the urgent need for shelters.  The architectural experiments and design development are informed by the combination of site challenges and programme to form an overall design-led research. The thesis tests how temporary modular design has a significant role in the design of economic and adaptable solutions for the increasing issue of homelessness. This establishes that through a critical design, we may shelter those in desperate need within the urban context. The architecture provides a safe environment that is empathetic to its users and the larger urban scale while also creating a statement and awareness to homelessness. The thesis concludes with the design framework for a single test site and assesses its suitability for future application to other leftover spaces in the city.</p>

3. Intervening with Agriculture: A Case Study of Guerrilla Gardening in Kingston, Ontario

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Crane
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
Spatial Justice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study was to analyze guerrilla gardening’s relationship to urban space and contemporary notions of sustainability. To achieve this two case studies of urban agriculture, one of guerrilla gardening and one of community gardening were developed. Through this comparison, guerrilla gardening was framed as a method of spatial intervention, drawing in notions of spatial justice and the right to the city as initially theorized by Henri Lefebvre. The guerrilla gardening case study focuses on Dig Kingston, a project started by the researcher in June of 2010, and the community gardening case study will use the Oak Street Garden, the longest standing community garden in Kingston. The community gardening case study used content analysis and semi-structured long format interviews with relevant actors. The guerrilla gardening case study consisted primarily of action based research as well as content analysis and semi-structured long format interviews. By contributing to the small, but growing, number of accounts and research on guerrilla gardening this study can be used as a starting point to look into other forms of spatial intervention and how they relate to urban space and social relations. Furthermore, through the discussion of guerrilla gardening in an academic manner more legitimacy and weight will be given to it as a method of urban agriculture and interventionist tactic. On a wider scale, perhaps it could even contribute to answering the question of how we (as a society) can transform our cities and reengage in urban space.

Intersectional Avant-Garde: Paul Leni’s Rebus-Film Series and the Confluence of Experimental Visual Styles

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Erica Tortolani
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Film Series ◽  
Magazine Articles ◽  
The City

This chapter focuses on Leni’s eight-part short film series, Rebus-Film (1925-26), and the ways that it relates to various avant-garde art movements of the 1910s and 1920s. Using Rebus-Film Nr. 1 as a starting point, the essay analyses the series’ connections to contemporaneous artistic movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Dada and to cinematic styles and genres of the time, including Soviet montage and the ‘City Symphony’ films. To supplement this analysis, the essay draws upon reviews, trade magazine articles, and other written records from the period. This chapter sheds light on the ways that critics and audiences received the films and regarded Leni’s use of experimental aesthetic styles. While it is debatable as to whether Leni considered himself a modern art practitioner, a close reading of these short films shows that they are in dialogue with the visual avant-garde. This chapter also discusses the ways that the series fits into, and extends, Leni’s German and American careers.

scholarly journals Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Totaforti
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The research presented in this article adopts an urban sociology perspective to explore the relationship between spaces designed with biophilic principles and people’s pro-environmental values and behaviors. The research hypothesized that biophilic design and planning promote connectedness with nature and are positively related to pro-environmental and more sustainable values and behaviors. The contemporary city asserts the need for new paradigms and conceptual frameworks for reconfiguring the relationship between the urban environment and the natural environment. In order to understand whether biophilic design, planning, and policies can meet the global challenges regarding the future existence on earth of humans, focus groups were conducted to investigate how people’s relationship with the built-up space and the natural landscape is perceived, and to what extent the inclusion of nature and its patterns at various levels of urban planning meets people’s expectations. The results suggest that biophilic design and planning can be considered a useful paradigm to deal with the challenges that are posed by the city of the future, also in terms of sustainability, by reinterpreting and enhancing the human–nature relation in the urban context.

scholarly journals Narrative- and Space-Making in the City on the Example of Lublin

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Hudzik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
General Information ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Language Of Science ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

This paper discusses the literary, artistic, scientific, and educational narratives that are (re)created to facilitate the city’s recovery of memory in the wake of the Holocaust.This is the case with Lublin.The story of the complete destruction of its Jewish quarter in the Second World War is a tragically familiar one in Central Europe, even though it had been silenced and forgotten for decades during the communist period. I would like to analyze an essayistic project that searches for a new language about a place left empty. How could one fill the void by making it mean something to new people, becoming their own narrative, and preserving the presence of the city’s former inhabitants? How is it possible to create a new mythology of a place? I assume that such questions must have been the starting point for essays on Lublin byWładysław Panas (1947–2005), related to the commemoration in the context of urban space. My text comes in four parts. I begin with general information and historical background, as well as an introduction to the analysis of Panas’s essay Oko Cadyka (The Eye of the Tzaddik) − the main subject of my paper − which exemplifies the reflection on the creation of narrative and urban space in contemporary humanities. In the second part, I focus on and contextualize the relationship between text and city that the essay postulates. The third part deals with theoretical approaches to interpretation. The fourth part underlines the scientific and critical aspects of Panas’s text, which questions the language of science − the humanities, historiography, and theory in general. I end with a look at some artistic projects inspired by his images.

scholarly journals Assessment of communication behavior of secondary schools and of students in Radom

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 734-740
Author(s):  
Agata Bandrowska-Kaim ◽  
Marzenna Dębowska-Mróz ◽  
Renata Repeć
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
School Students ◽  
Communication Behaviour ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

Understanding the specificity of communication behaviour of individual groups of participants of the transport system is one of the most important areas of interest of urban logistics. An important problem to be solved on this occasion is to indicate the most important factors and determinants that determine the manner of displacements. Determining how these conditions change depending on the age of people carrying out urban sprawl can be the starting point for the development of an appropriate organizational offer of the transport system in the city. One of the more numerous groups moving in cities are high school students and students. For this reason, the goal set for the implementation was to learn the specificity of communication behaviour of students and students. The decisive factors in the selection of displacements to and from school / university and other dis-placements performed in the urban space have been determined on the basis of a pilot survey carried out in Radom. The obtained results and their analysis are presented in this article.

Exploring the Sacredness of Urban Spaces through Material Traces

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Mujde Bideci
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
New Religious Movements ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Multiple Modernities ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The City

From ancient times, some spaces have been understood to be more sacred than others. Even though many of these spaces have no specific religious meaning, there have been new religious movements which can easily be seen in daily life. In order to understand the current dynamics of religion, a focus on the material presence of religion (religious buildings, sites and artefacts in urban spaces) is a fruitful starting point. Thus, the objective of this study is to explore the potential meanings of the sacred in urban spaces, and the effects of these meanings or characterizations of the sacred have on places. Moreover, the focus is on analysing new manifestations of the religious and the sacred in urban space, as well as the ways in which material traces mediate diverse practices, discourses and effects in the various domains of the sacred. By investigating the alignments of these two fields, the city and the sacred, this study sheds new light on the metropolis of London, which manifests both religious diversity and multiple modernities via traces of the sacred in urban spaces. The results show that sacred traces in urban places have a prominent image that many residents and visitors fail to appreciate in their daily lives. The study concludes with a discussion of findings and implications.

scholarly journals O desenvolvimento do comércio e a produção do espaço urbano

GeoTextos ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Lucy Oliveira Freire
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
De Se ◽  
The City

Esse ensaio objetiva contribuir com os estudos acerca das articulações entre o comércio e a cidade, na medida em que o aparecimento de novas formas comerciais tem um rebatimento no processo de produção do espaço urbano. O funcionamento, as relações sociais, as mercadorias, os movimentos interno e externo, e tudo aquilo que dá vida aos mercados, feiras e outros tipos de comércio ditos tradicionais, são cada vez mais atrativos ao ponto de se tornarem, hoje, no diferente, que resiste em meio ao que se tornou homogêneo, tais como as formas que abrigam o denominado comércio moderno, a exemplo dos shopping centers. Essa dinâmica do comércio motivou uma pesquisa em andamento, sobre o papel dos mercados, das feiras, das mercearias, das galerias e diversos outros tipos de comércio no espaço urbano, os quais, historicamente, incorrem em mudanças espaciais. O ponto de partida das análises são os mercados e as feiras sobrevivendo em meio à pressão do crescimento da metrópole, uma vez transformados em centros de lazer (culturais, gastronômicos, turísticos, etc.). O texto privilegia a primeira parte da pesquisa, sistematizando um levantamento de fontes bibliográficas/teóricas, especialmente aquelas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento histórico do comércio, do desdobramento das trocas comerciais que, aos poucos, exigem abrigos para o funcionamento permanente na cidade. Abstract THE COMMERCE AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE URBAN SPACE The objective of this article is to contribute with the studies concerning the joints between commerce and city in the measure where the appearance of new commercial forms has an striking in the process of production of the urban space. Functioning, relations social, merchandises, movements internal and external, and everything what of the life to the traditional markets, fairs and other said types of commerce, they are each time more attractive to the point of if becoming, today, in different, that it resists in way what if became homogeneous, the such as the forms that shelters the called modern commerce, as shopping centers. This dynamics of the commerce motivated a in progress research, which comes studying the paper of the markets, the fairs, the grocery, the diverse galleries and other types of commerce, which, historically, they incur into changes in the city. The starting point of the analyses is the markets and the fairs surviving in way to the pressure it growth of the metropolis, a time transformed into leisure centers (cultural, gastronomical, tourist, etc.). The text privileges the first part of the research; systemize a survey of bibliographical sources/theoreticians, especially to those related to the historical development of the commerce, of the unfolding of the commercial exchanges that, to the few, demand shelters for the permanent functioning in the city.

scholarly journals CADEIA PRODUTIVA DE PAPEL E CELULOSE E TRANSFORMAÇÕES RECENTES NO SUDOESTE MARANHENSE

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Allison Bezerra Oliveira ◽  
Jesus Marmanillo Pereira ◽  
Amanda Araújo Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Paper Pulp ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
Eucalyptus Plantation ◽  
Pulp Industry ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Industrial Unit ◽  
The City

PRODUCTIVE CHAIN OF PAPER AND CELLULOSE AND TRANSFORMATION IN SOUTHWEST MARANHENSECADENA PRODUCTIVA DE PAPEL Y CELULOSA Y TRANSFORMACIONES RECIENTES EN EL SUDOESTE MARANHENSEO presente trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar transformações no espaço maranhense ocorridas nos últimos anos, mais precisamente entre 2008 e 2015, tomando como ponto de partida a implantação da Suzano Papel e Celulose na cidade de Imperatriz - MA. Para tal abordagem, utiliza a cadeia de papel e celulose e suas variáveis produtivas como fator importante na compreensão das formas como o espaço é produzido e organizado para atender às lógicas de acumulação e concorrência deste setor produtivo. Por meio de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e documental sobre o processo de implementação de unidade industrial da referida fábrica e também com a utilização de mapas, serão explanados os principais aspectos da indústria de papel e celulose no Brasil e analisados os impactos da implantação da Suzano Papel e Celulose nos espaços de produção e áreas de plantio de eucalipto no sudoeste maranhense, bem como a reorganização do espaço urbano da cidade-sede.Palavras-chave: Cadeia Produtiva de Papel e Celulose; Atividade Industrial; Imperatriz - Maranhão.ABSTRACT The present work has the objective to present transformations in the Maranhão space occurred in the last years, more precisely between 2008 and 2015, taking as a starting point the implementation of Suzano Papel e Celulose in the city of Imperatriz - MA. This approach uses the pulp and paper chain and its productive variables as an important factor in understanding the ways in which space is produced and organized to meet the logic of accumulation and competition in this productive sector. Through a bibliographical and documentary research, on the process of implementation of the industrial unit of said factory, and use of maps will explain the main aspects of the paper pulp industry in Brazil, and analyzed the impacts of the implementation of Suzano Papel e Celulose on the Production spaces and eucalyptus plantation areas in southwest Maranhão, and reorganization of the urban space of the host city.Keywords: Productive Chain of Pulp and Paper; Industrial Activity; Imperatriz - Maranhão.RESUMENO presente trabajo tem por objetivo mostrar transformaciones no espacio maranhense ocurridas en los últimos años, más precisa entre 2008 y 2015 tomando como punto de partida una implantación de Suzano Papel y Celulosa en la ciudad de Imperatriz - MA. El sistema de asignación utiliza una cadena de papel y una celulosa y sus variantes productivas como un factor importante en la comprensión de las formas como el espacio creado y el organizado para el cumplimiento como lógicas de acumulación y la competencia de este sector productivo. Por medio de una investigación bibliográfica y documental, sobre el proceso de desarrollo industrial de la fábrica de referencia, el uso de mapas sobre explicación de los principios de la industria de papel celulosa no Brasil, y el análisis de los impactos de la implantación de Suzano Papel e Celulose sobre os Espacios de producción y áreas de plantación de eucalipto no sudoeste maranhense, y reorganización del espacio urbano de la ciudad sede.Palabras clave: Cadena de Producción de Pasta y Papel; La Actividad Industrial; Imperatriz - Maranhão.

scholarly journals Le Corbusier’s early urban studies as source of experiential architectural knowledge

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristopher Schnoor
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Architectural Knowledge ◽  
The City

Abstract: In the year between April 1910 and March 1911 Le Corbusier – then Charles-Edouard Jeanneret – composed maybe the most comprehensive piece of writing of his career: a manuscript entitled “La construction des villes” which took on to systematically investigate the architectural elements that the city is made from. Taking Camillo Sitte’s Der Städte-Bau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen of 1889 as his intellectual starting point, Jeanneret developed a complex and convincing thesis within several months, however never published it himself. One of the topics that appear throughout Jeanneret’s manuscript is the quality of space as enclosure. This paper takes this observation as a starting point to ask how the manuscript that was put aside after March 1911 (and only shortly picked up again by Jeanneret in 1915) may have influenced Le Corbusier’s architectural thinking. In order to achieve this, the chapter “The Illusion of the Plan” from Vers une architecture is investigated as a link between La construction des villes and Le Corbusier’s houses. Finally, the Maison La Roche-Jeanneret and the Villa Savoye are read as buildings that very strongly incorporate aspects of thinking urban space in a way that way that closely relates to his studies back in 1910.  Keywords: La construction des villes; Städtebau; urban space; architectural space; Maison La Roche-Jeanneret; Villa Savoye. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.1547

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document