scholarly journals Turystyfikacja zasobów mieszkaniowych historycznych dzielnic śródmiejskich. Przykład Krakowa

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Context Dependence ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Spatial Range ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The Times ◽  
Historic Cities

Previously a domain of tourism studies, ‘tourismification’ (or ‘touristification’) has now becomepresent in urban studies. Although diverse empirical descriptions of the phenomenon and processes oftourismification are still dominant, the article presents the stages of the development of the studies in thisarea. The contemporary debate focuses on the consequences and externalities of the development of tourism in cities (new both in terms of the forms and the range). Special attention is given to tourismification of housing resources, which – as demonstrated on the example of Krakow’s city centre district – transforms them both visibly and invisibly. The spatial range of these changes is growing not only horizontally, but also vertically. These changes occur in accordance with various sequences and mechanisms. In spite of the context dependence of tourismification and different susceptibility of urban environments to it, for many, especially historic, cities it has become ‘the sign of the times’ in the second decade of the 21st century. At the same time, tourismification can be seen as a cause, tool or consequence of various interrelated processes observed in contemporary cities.

21st CENTURY IN GERMAN LANGUAGE LEARNING : IMPLEMENTATION OF CYBERGOGY CONCEPT

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
Eldaa Crystle Wenno
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Language Education ◽  
21St Century Learning ◽  
German Language ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
The Times

As a place for learning activities, educational institutions must adapt to the times to not be viewed as a threat in the current era of education 4.0. Along with 21st-century learning needs to foster students' creative, innovative and competitive attitudes by implementing technology as an auxiliary medium in the learning process to produce quality students. This research is a descriptive case study to explore the application of the cybergogy concept about facing the challenges of learning in the 21st-century, especially in lecturing German in the courses offered by students. The sample in this study were students in semesters II, IV, and VI of the German Language Education Study Program, with 35 students. The instruments used in this study were questionnaires, interviews, and document review. Data from questionnaires, discussions and document reviews were analyzed using descriptive statistics referring to the Milles and Huberman stages. The results showed that the concept of cybergogy had been applying 30% synchronously and 70% asynchronously. On average, 93-94% of students and lecturers have used technology-based media in the German language learning process because of the availability of teaching materials and supporting facilities for information and communication technology to face 21st-century learning.

Urban Studies of Accra

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Grant
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Contact Points ◽  
Urban Impacts ◽  
Sub Saharan

Accra is one of the largest and most important cities in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this article is to assess the evolution of urban studies in Accra and its main historical and contemporary foci. Early knowledge on urban Accra is fragmentary and orientated toward European contact points and urban plans, ostensibly from the gaze of Europeans. Writings from Euro-Africans such as Carl Reindorf provide a different prism into the precolonial, indigenous, urban society, whereas most indigenous urban knowledge was situated in the oral tradition at this time. Around independence, officially appointed social anthropologists wrote about an indigenous community in Tema and surveyed the multiethnic Accra environment. From independence in 1957 until the early 1980s, social scientists viewed the urban settlement as an alien, Western intervention. Local scholarship on Accra was sidelined as the academy in a poor, emergent nation became preoccupied with the genesis of nation-state building and the establishment of viable academic departments in national universities, and growing proportions of migrants regarded “home” as somewhere else, that is, ancestral villages. In the 1970s Accra was inserted into world history and social history, and social scientists began to study residential geographies, but scholarship at the city-scale remained sparse. Engagement with world and social histories and the social sciences demonstrated that history matters, but not in linear and teleological ways. The liberalization era ushered in by structural adjustment policies (SAPs) in 1983 invigorated studies of Accra’s urban impacts and effects. Much of this research was disseminated by international scholars, as Ghanaian scholars had to contend with the negative impacts of SAPs on their own universities and households. Since the turn of the 21st century, scholarship on Accra, and African cities in general, has been increasing. Diverse research questions and a multiplicity of methodologies and frameworks seek to engage Western urban theories and other variants, undertake policy-relevant work, assess ethnic and residential dynamics, contribute to international urban debates, and advance postcolonial and revisionist accounts of urbanism. Viewed at the third decade of the 21st century, scholarship on Accra is of diverse origins, encompassing scholarship from locals, members of the diaspora, and international urbanists, and a promising tilt is local–international collaborations co-producing knowledge.

scholarly journals Activity density of carabid beetles along an urbanisation gradient

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (Suppl.) ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Simone Fattorini ◽  
Cristina Mantoni ◽  
Davide Bergamaschi ◽  
Lorenzo Fortini ◽  
Francisco J. Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Carabid Beetles ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Intermediate Disturbance ◽  
Rural Environments ◽  
Activity Density ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Several works have investigated the impact of urbanisation on carabid activity density using urban-rural gradients. Such works compared activity density recorded from green spaces located in different parts of a city and assigned to categories of increasing urban intensity, which poses two problems: (1) since the gradient is divided into categories, it is impossible to model continuous variations in biotic responses, and (2) sites representative of different urbanisation levels are not true segments of the same ecological continuum. To surpass these problems, we modelled variations in carabid activity density along an urban-rural transect within a single green space extending from the city centre of Rome to rural environments. Carabids were sampled by pitfall traps from sites distributed along the entire gradient. We used breakpoint regressions to model how (1) carabid activity density, (2) carabids/beetles ratio, (3) carabids/insects ratio and (3) carabids/arthropods ratio varied along the gradient. As already observed for various organisms in urban environments, we found that activity density of carabids and their contribution to the abundance of beetles, insects and arthropods, peaked in the middle of the gradient. This supports the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, according to which moderate urbanisation may favour diversity by increasing habitat heterogeneity.

scholarly journals Research On The Hybrid Teaching Method Of Ideological And Political Course Online And Offline In Higher Vocational Colleges Under The Background Of Internet

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05049
Author(s):  
Jihua Wen
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Era ◽  
Teaching Content ◽  
Hybrid Teaching ◽  
Vocational Colleges ◽  
The Times ◽  
Theory System

In the 21st century, the rapid development of the Internet has affected all walks of life to varying degrees. In the era of rapid development of the Internet, the ideological and political teaching of higher vocational colleges lags behind the development of the times. Whether from the aspects of ideological and political teaching content, ideological and political teaching means or teaching teachers' accomplishment, how to better use the Internet to meet the teaching requirements of the new era is undoubtedly a major problem that higher vocational colleges need to think about in the teaching industry, so higher vocational colleges should seize the opportunity, face the difficulties and comply with the requirements of the new era, Construct the teaching theory system of ideological and political course with characteristic socialism.

Editorial

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Hulya Turgut ◽  
Rod Lawrence ◽  
Peter Kellett
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Professional Expertise ◽  
Constant Flux ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
The World ◽  
Rapid Flow ◽  
Flow Of Information

The 21st century has been designated as the century of urban transition. Urban environments have become a key reflection of the changes in today's world of dynamic and constant flux as cities throughout the world experience fundamental social, cultural and economic transformation. Socio-cultural and urban identities are being radically transformed; globalization, internationalization and the rapid flow of information all play a significant role in changing cities and their people. During the last three decades significant investments of monetary resources and professional expertise have led to numerous projects and programmes concerning urban regeneration, housing renovation, and the revitalization of old neighbourhoods.

scholarly journals Male and female bats differ in their use of a large urban park

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista J Patriquin ◽  
Cylita Guy ◽  
Joshua Hinds ◽  
John M Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Prey Availability ◽  
Radio Telemetry ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Green Spaces

Abstract Understanding how wildlife respond to ever-encroaching urbanization is of great concern. Bats are the second-most speciose mammalian order and while many appear to be urban adapted, we currently have a limited understanding of their demography and habitat use within urban environments. Using a combination of captures to obtain demographic data, radio-telemetry to examine foraging and roosting behaviour, and data on diet and prey availability, we examined how big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), a synurbic species, use an urban green space (High Park) in Canada’s largest city centre, Toronto. We found that adult males outnumbered adult females more than two to one and that males were found throughout the park, while females were concentrated in an area with greater access to water, but lower prey availability. We also found that bats of both sexes were in poorer body condition than reported for other non-urban areas, including a site within southern Ontario. Our data suggest that High Park may not provide adequate resources for reproductive females as they were never found roosting in the park and beetles, their preferred prey, were limited. Although previous studies suggest urban green spaces may offer refuge to bats, most have not considered sex-specific responses to urbanization as they have largely been based on acoustic surveys. Our study therefore highlights the importance of considering demographic differences in response to urbanization to better inform urban management plans and green space development.

scholarly journals Revisiting Acoustics Education Using Mobile Devices to Learn Urban Acoustic Environments: Recent Issues on Current Devices and Applications

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimihiro Sakagami ◽  
Fumiaki Satoh ◽  
Akira Omoto
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Sound Pressure ◽  
Measurement Accuracy ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
Acoustic Environments ◽  
Noise Map

In this paper, we revisit the acoustics education program using mobile devices to better understand urban environments. We begin with a summary of our past projects to demonstrate a model case of the concept. In these projects, the output was mainly supposed to be a noise map with measured sound pressure levels (SPLs) and sound spectra. This methodology can obviously be applied to larger-scale urban studies. Including measured sound spectra can be another advantage. Next, current problems in measurement accuracy due to recent device developments are explained and the required examinations are stated. Finally, the accuracy of the current versions of the applications as well as recently available devices are discussed. The results of this study provide information regarding the measurement accuracy of mobile devices, and some suggestions for their practical use are given, which are also useful for additional studies pertaining to the urban acoustic environment.

Research into the Training of College Students’ Abilities to Create, Innovate and Pioneer

2012 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 2262-2265
Author(s):  
Su Han ◽  
Xiao Feng Han
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Knowledge Innovation ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One

The 21st century is the one in which knowledge innovation promotes economic development. Our country and society earnestly need a lot of talents who have the abilities of creation, innovation and pioneering. In order to meet the challenge of the times, it is highly necessary for colleges and universities to carry out the education to create, innovate and pioneer. Higher education should undertake the mission of training and improving college students’ such abilities so as to make good preparations for their future. In this paper, combined with the above situation, the authors analyze the characteristics of creating, innovating and pioneering talents, probe into the main points of the creative, innovative and pioneering education and put forward the concrete measures to foster such talents.

scholarly journals Historyczne mury dla nowych muzeów. Muzealna moda na początku XXI wieku

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-190
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Jagodzińska
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
The West ◽  
Good Image ◽  
Historical Museums ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Times ◽  
Post Industrial

The Author considers a trend, which comes from the west, to use post-industrial developments for museums. The article includes issues concerning adaptation of post-industrial developments for museum functions, references to history and identity of the building concerned, as well as relations of an institution — which is hosted within the historical construction — with the surroundings. The museums which have been selected for the analysis are representative for a boom observed in Poland since the beginning of the 21st century — the majority of newly-established museums are located in adapted old buildings, the museums representing almost exclusively only two categories: historical museums and contemporary art museums. The Author seeks an answer to a question whether museums must follow current trends. She concludes that a quest for success translating to a good image and high attendance is and certainly shall remain an important goal of a museum. She warns, however, of dangers related with a museum trying to be a “trendy” place to attend, especially in the times of public life commercialization, which is more and more common.

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