scholarly journals Neighbor connections and contemporary groups in a closed society, in the city of Hajdudoroz

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-141
Author(s):  
Tamás Sári
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Closed Society ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Temporal Focus ◽  
The City

Hajdúdorog is a local closed society, so the religious separation, the Hajdú military past and the agricultural nature of the settlement provide a specific approach to ethnographic researches. In my doctoral research, which includes this article, family and neighborhood relations are analyzed in this settlement. The temporal focus of the research is the 1940s which is the earliest decade that can be researched with informants through interviews. This article pays attention to the neighborhood of Hajdúdorog and contemporary groups, so locality is a key concept. The research question concerns the content of the relationships. How did the relationships in the environment of the neighborhood and contemporary groups, manifest themselves in Hajdúdorog in the 1940s? How did the above features affect this? The research was carried out within the framework of the ethnographic discipline. The article first presents the well-known works of the Hungarian ethnographic literature on the topic and then analyzes the empirical data. I applied the ethnographic method used in social disciplines to obtain empirical data. During the field work, I did in-depth interviews in Hajdúdorog with locals, all older than 75 years. I reached the inteview subjects using the snowball method and the interviews took place in the interviewees’ homes. The article examines the neighboring and contemporary groups separately. Based on the results it can be stated, that in Hajdúdorog the neighborly relations were daily. The tenths, the former special administrative units of the city, were still strong influencing factors in the development of relations in both groups, even during the researched period. The content of the neighborly relations was reflected in smaller household transactions, rental of tools, participation in pigslaughters (disznóvágás), assistance in fieldworks, special folk pastimes (tanyázás) which resulted in more intense relationships than with family relatives. The result of a closed society is that there was a closer relationship between those who lived within one part of the settlement than between relatives who lived in different parts of the settlement. In line with the above, the article seeks to contribute to the researches connected to locality. The subject of the article fits into the sociological neighborhood research category, such as Tönnies and Redfield's research and also fits into the neighborhood research of the Hungarian ethnography, which was also a base for this research. This work hopes to ultimately expand the row of Hajdúdorog’s literature. For further view, the article can encourage research that deals with a more detailed comparison of the role of the neighborhood and the role of neighbors and relatives in Hajdúdorog during the period that was examined in this article.

The Role of E-Government Tools in the Business Activation of Regions

2015 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Andrzej Chluski ◽  
Dorota Jelonek ◽  
Cezary Stępniak ◽  
Tomasz Turek ◽  
Leszek Ziora
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Intelligent City ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
The City

In the contemporary economy the more and more greater role is played by state and local government institutions. Offices of public administration not only create law, but more and more often become initiators of the different type of investments undertaken on the ground of their jurisdiction. Often neighbouring administrative units begin to compete between themselves in gaining of investments and resources for the purpose of its own development. In the functionality of mentioned offices the greater role is performed by IT systems building the architecture of a given unit, clearly expressed among other things in the idea of intelligent city. Applied by offices of public administration IT systems are more often opened for suppliants creating e-government tools [1]. In this paper was presented the role of e-government tools in the business activation of the region on the basis of IT systems made available by Czestochowa Municipal Office. The review of potential directions of the e-government tools usage in different areas of social-economic life of the city will be presented

scholarly journals Peran Terminal Seruni Dalam Sistem Transportasi Perkotaan Kota Cilegon

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Fitriyadi Fitriyadi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Route Network ◽  
National Activity ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

Cilegon is one of the National Activity Centre (PKN) in Banten Province. As PKN, Cilegon generate movement from out of town towards Cilegon, either using AKAP/AKDP buses and urban transportation from the place of origin. Many AKAP/AKDP bus passengers fell in the shadow of the terminal, while the urban transport passengers from the outside get into the city of Cilegon and drop off passengers . The number of outer urban transport operating in Cilegon Cilegon City area adds to congestion in Jalan Sultan and Jalan Ahmad Yani Ageng Tirtayasa , especially at rush hour. Therefor, the Government of Cilegon Municipality then implement the construction of SeruniTerminal, officially put into operation on April 1, 2013. With the expected Seruni terminal buses no longer drop off passengers at the terminal shadow, and urban transport outside the city of Cilegon not get into town. Positivistic approach and methods used in this study is a quantitative method , as well as some analysis used : (1) the analysis of the characteristics of SeruniTerminal, (2) analysis of traffic volume in Seruni Terminal, (3) analysis of urban transport route network in Cilegon, and (4) policy analysis for development of The Seruni Terminal, is expected to answer the research question, namely : " the role of Seruni Terminal in the urban transport system in Cilegon Municipality? "The results obtained from this study is the lack of Seruni Terminal has a role in urban transport systems in Cilegon. To enhance the role, it’s can be done with urban transport route A.01 Cilegon-Anyer and Merak-Cilegon M.01 directed toward Seruni Terminal, and/or the addition of a new trajectory Cilegon-JLS. Therefor, Seruni Terminal is expected to increase the role of the movement in serving urban communities in Cilegon.

scholarly journals Electrification of Urban Three-Wheeler Taxis in Tanzania: Combining the User’s Perspective and Technical Feasibility Challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Mirko Goletz ◽  
Daniel Ehebrecht ◽  
Christian Wachter ◽  
Deborah Tolk ◽  
Barbara Lenz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Charging Infrastructure ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Quantitative Data Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Vehicle Market ◽  
Empirical Field

AbstractThis study assesses the feasibility of electric three-wheelers as moto-taxis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from a socioeconomic and technical point of view. The analysis is based on three pillars: (i) the acceptance of users (the moto-taxi drivers) for adoption, (ii) the vehicle specifications incl. battery type and size, and (iii) the role of the charging infrastructure. Findings are based on data from empirical field-work; methods used are qualitative and quantitative data analysis and modelling. Main findings include that moto-taxi drivers, who we see as most important adopters, are open towards electric mobility. They request however that vehicles should have similar driving characteristics than their current fuel-vehicles. As the market is very price sensitive, keeping the vehicle cost is of high importance. A high potential to lower these costs is seen by offering opportunity charging spots around the city. If such an infrastructure is being implemented the combination with suitable, cost competitive vehicles makes the transformation of the vehicle market towards electrification possible.

scholarly journals Role of COVID-19 and motionless communication on expected trends of mobility: an evidence from Italian and Turin data

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Claudia Caballini
Keyword(s):  
Travel Demand ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Web Traffic ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Local Mobility ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
The City

The 2020 pandemic has been changing for months the everyday mobility of part of the world: we concentrate on one of the first areas hit by COVID-19, soon after China. One of the main elements of change is the consolidation of teleworking, which further prompted motionless communications. The emergency-induced reduction of the systematic travel demand has been counterbalanced by the increased volume of web traffic. As a result, communications which formerly required commuting or travel missions have been regularly performed motionless during the lockdown. All this is known, also by experience. The novelty is that this paper quantifies this phenomenon, with a focus on the city of Turin, Italy, and makes hypotheses on the post-COVID. Local mobility data, so as trends before and during the lockdown are presented, thereafter compared. Implications for the “new normal” ahead are fully elaborated, to reply to a pre-existing research question on the role of motionless communications in the future urban mobility management. Eventually, the paper provides directions to advance and create a reference for further transport policies, within the general research goal to contribute to advance scientific knowledge in this new transportation study topic.

scholarly journals Costabili Palace and the Architecture “All’Antica” in Ferrara at the End of the XV Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (special issue) ◽  
pp. 173-198
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Building Site ◽  
Eastern Area ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Stylistic Elements ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
The City ◽  
Masonry Units

Costabili Palace, also known as Ludovico “il Moro” (Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan) Palace, is located in Ferrara on the ancient Ghiara road, occupying the corner that it forms with via Porta d'Amore, in the south-eastern area of the city. Attributed to the architect Biagio Rossetti (1447-1516) it represents, by size and formal wealth, begun but never completed, the most ambitious palace of the Renaissance in Ferrara. Commissioned by Count Antonio Costabili (1450-1527) at the end of the Fifteenth century, the construction was interrupted in 1503. Of four sides of its court only two were built in their rich and cultured architectural language, and only half of the main façade was sketched. Through the unpublished archival research carried out, crossed with the direct study of the building by surveying the relevant stylistic elements, helped by a proportional analysis and the reading of the stratigraphic masonry units, this doctoral research retraces the history of the construction. This work has clarified the role of the artists involved and their relationship with the strong personality of the client Antonio Costabili, ambassador in Milan of the Duke of Ferrara (Ercole I d’Este) from the year 1496 until the year 1499, one of the most representative intellectuals of his time thanks to a solid humanistic and artistic education. From a systematic study of an unfinished building site the precise design of the Costabili Palace will emerge as expression of a clear linguistic and lexical intention, called “all’antica”, inspired to the Roman classical architecture. The proposed research is wondering about the real contribution that the architectural culture in Ferrara at the end of the Fifteenth century, highly represented by the Costabili Palace, offers to the broader context of the Renaissance courts.

scholarly journals A Walk Through the City of Edmonton

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Author(s):  
Vienna Chen ◽  
Wanda Goulden ◽  
Joy Tolsma ◽  
Christina Tatarniuk ◽  
Kenzie Vie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Data Logging ◽  
Materials Engineering ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Summer Research Program ◽  
Infrastructure Services ◽  
Direct Results ◽  
The City

As an industry placement through the WISEST Summer Research Program, an opportunity was provided to work with the City of Edmonton in an exploration of careers in engineering and architecture. The focus and scope of this placement was mainly centred around the Integrated Infrastructure and Engineering Services at the City. Through shadowing multidisciplinary engineers, technologists and architects, experience in both administrative and more hands-on work was gained. Some career pathways that were explored include materials engineering, geotechnical engineering, facilities (structural, mechanical and electrical) engineering, environmental engineering, geomatics engineering, and architecture. Throughout the duration of the program, information about the different roles and their collaboration with each other was gathered. Instead of performing research in labs, absorption of information was conducted mainly through means of observation. The City of Edmonton provided opportunities to attend various site visits, building and lab tours, and even to meetings in downtown. Tasks such as reviewing reports and drawings, attending meetings, and sitting in on business calls, all demonstrated the administrative nature of engineering and architecture. On the other hand, the more hands-on aspects of engineering were also emphasised through tasks such as assisting with field work, on-site testing, sample collecting, and data logging. With Integrated Infrastructure Services (IIS), the collaborative and interconnected nature of these careers were displayed, as each branch worked in conjunction with each other. The role of each different type of engineering and architecture is further defined in sequential order of the stages that leads to the life cycle of a construction project. This shows the direct results of each career field in contributing to the development, progression and completion of a project.

Local Autonomy in China During the Cultural Revolution: The Theoretical Uses of an Atypical Case

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn T. White
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Leadership Analysis ◽  
Shanghai City ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
The City ◽  
Local Party ◽  
Local Leaders

This article explores the extent to which Shanghai City, and its subordinate units, have been politically independent of higher authorities in the Chinese government. Evidence from the ‘fifties and early’ sixties suggests increasing managerial and cultural independence at the city level. Evidence from the early Cultural Revolution however suggests conceptual problems in the connection of usual notions of “autonomy” with substantive issue areas, and in their connection with local and central patterns of factions. The slow reconstruction of a local Party hierarchy in Shanghai was paralleled by a decentralization of some commercial and industrial decisions. Shanghai's role as a model in Party rebuilding increased the fully national role of the city's top leadership. Analysis of autonomy, power, or dependence in administrative units is affected when strong local leaders acquire national ambitions. Suggestions are made about the characteristics of an organization these words might describe.

Cities, institutional entrepreneurship and the emergence of new environmental policies: The organizing of waste prevention in the City of Gothenburg, Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrik Zapata ◽  
María José Zapata Campos
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Waste Prevention ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Public ◽  
Entrepreneurship Theory ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City

Informed by institutional entrepreneurship theory and based on the case of waste prevention projects in the City of Göteborg, this paper examines the role of cities in shaping new environmental policies. Structured by the research question, ‘How do cities shape novel environmental policies and practices?’, the paper illustrates how cities become agents of environmental change and institutional entrepreneurship through mobilizing and recombining resources (i.e. human, financial, and spatial), rationales (by reframing symbols, challenging taboos, and transforming waste socio-materialities), and relations (via internal and external collaboration and by creating new institutional arrangements, roles, and expectations). Emerging environmental policies, such as waste prevention, represent the structuring of an incipient environmental policy field. This new generation of environmental policies expands the scope of the public sector (the so-called publicness), reshapes the public/private distinction, and challenges taboos such as the intrusion of publicness into privateness.

scholarly journals A PEDAGOGIA DA EDUCAÇÃO INFANTIL CONSTRUÍDA NO COTIDIANO: IDEAIS, CONCEPÇÕES, TENSÕES, DESAFIOS E POSSIBILIDADES

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Maria Das Graças Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Children Education ◽  
The City

<p>A atual conjuntura da Educação Infantil no Brasil denota, cada vez mais, a necessidade de produção de saberes acerca da pedagogia que se delineia no cotidiano das instituições públicas de ensino do país. Desse modo, perguntas são postas a todo instante sobre esses saberes pedagógicos, como: quais são as possibilidades existentes nas práticas pedagógicas desenvolvidas no dia a dia com as crianças que legitimam o seu direito a uma educação coletiva de qualidade? Outra questão emerge dessa primeira: quais são as limitações existentes nessas práticas que dificultam o cumprimento do objetivo de consolidar esse direito das crianças, para que elas possam viver as suas infâncias em contextos que respeitem as suas especificidades? Neste artigo, serão abordadas essas duas questões a partir das análises dos dados de uma pesquisa de doutorado realizada em duas creches públicas, na cidade de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Para tanto, será utilizada a abordagem da sociologia da infância, que nos permite ver as crianças, as professoras e as famílias como coautoras dos processos pedagógicos na construção da pedagogia da infância, cotidianamente, nas relações e interações de uma com as outras. As práticas educativas desenvolvidas com crianças de zero a três anos de idade, as tensões, os desafios e os embates entre esses atores sociais, na creche pública, também serão aqui descritos. Os resultados mostram que se delineia, nesse contexto, uma pedagogia participativa permeada por contradições acerca das seguintes concepções: da função da creche, da educação familiar na educação coletiva e dos cuidados à criança na creche pública.</p><p> </p><p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p><p>The current situation of Children Education in Brazil increasingly denotes the necessity to produce knowledge on the pedagogy regarding the daily life of public institutions of education in the country. In this sense, there are questions to be made about this pedagogical knowledge at all times, such as: what are the existing possibilities in the teaching practices developed day-by-day with children that affirm their right to a quality collective education? From this question emerges another: what are the existing limitations in these practices hampering the assurance of this right, so that the children may live their childhood in respectful conditions to their peculiarities? In this article, those two questions will be approached from the data analysis of a doctoral research carried out in two public daycares in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. For this purpose, The Childhood Sociology approach will be employed, which allows us to see the children, the teachers and the families as coauthors of the teaching processes in the construction of the childhood pedagogy, in their relationships and interactions with each other in the daily living. The teaching practices developed with 0-to-3 year old children, the tensions, the challenges and the conflicts between these social actors at the public daycare will also be here descripted. The results demonstrate that, in this context, a participative pedagogy takes shape, permeated by contradictions around the following conceptions: the role of the daycares, of the family in the collective education, and of children care at the public daycares.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Childhood Pedagogy. Daily Life. Participation.</p>

scholarly journals Genius loci and/or city-forming enterprise: scientific centre as assemblage point (case study of the city of Apatity)

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-256
Author(s):  
V.P. Kliueva
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
Murmansk Region ◽  
Northern Cities ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The City

Based on the theory of resilience, the author analyses the role of science in the life-sustaining practices of northern cities on the example of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KSC RAS) in Apatity (Murmansk Region). The resilience of the territory is considered as a successful adaptation to changing conditions manifested in a crisis situation. The stability of the sociocultural resilience subsystem is ensured by the presence of the scientific community in the city. According to the typology of Arctic cities, Apatity is classified as a non-capital intracontinental university centre; the criterion for inclusion in the category is the presence of the KSC RAS in the city. It is the only RAS structure located in the Arctic. In the Kola Peninsula, the scientific institution has existed since 1930; since 1961, the majority of scientific institutions has been located in the Apatity Akadem-gorodok (Science Campus). Narrative interviews with residents of Apatity and Kirovsk became the source base of the study. The analysis of the interviews was conducted by coding method. The sample included citizens — em-ployees of the scientific centre and those not related to it. Thirty interviews have been conducted. As a hypothe-sis, the thesis was put forward that, at the heart of the local community of Apatity, there have been and still re-main scientists and people with an understanding of the activities of the KSC. Subsequently, this part of the popu-lation forms behavioural practices and sociocultural values for all residents of the city. The key research question was whether the presence of the KSC RAS was noticeable for different categories of citizens, and above all, for non-scientists. The city’s community considers separately KSC as a scientific organization, and Akademgorodok as a central urban neighbourhood. On the mental map, there is the Akademgorodok, which plays the role of Ge-nius loci. The Kola Scientific Center is perceived as a city-forming enterprise, although it has not been anymore since the early 1990s. The Kola Scientific Center is seen by the Apatity citizens as a place of attraction and a point of assembly of the urban community, without which it can lose the core factor of its sociocultural identity and merge with the neighbouring industrial Kirovsk.

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