MEDIA ARCHITECTURE IN URBAN SPACE: PROBLEMS AND NEGATIVE PRACTICES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.П. Птичникова ◽  
О.В. Королева ◽  
О.В. Черничкина
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
The Media

Статья посвящена исследованию проблем интеграции объектов медиаархитектуры в сложившееся городское пространство. Являясь частью нового, творческого и интеллектуального обогащения городской среды, медиаархитектура оказывает значительное культурное, социальное и экологическое влияние на городское окружение. Целью работы являются определение и классификация проблем, связанных с негативным воздействием объектов медиаархитектуры на окружающую среду в контексте общественных пространств, а также ночной городской среды. The article is devoted to the study of the problems of integration of media objects in the existing urban space. As part of a new, creative and intellectual enrichment of the urban environment, the media architecture has a significant cultural, social and environmental impact on the urban environment. The aim of the work is to identify and classify the problems associated with the negative impact of media architecture objects on the environment in the context of public spaces, as well as the night city environment.

Extreme Informatics

2011 ◽  
pp. 437-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Shepard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Urban Informatics ◽  
Ambient Displays ◽  
The City ◽  
Display Systems

What happens to urban space given a hypothetical future where all information loses its body, that is, when it is offloaded from the material substrate of the physical city1 to the personal, portable, or ambient displays of tomorrow’s urban information systems? This chapter explores the spatial, technological and social implications of an extreme urban informatics regime. It investigates the total virtualization of the marks, signage, signaling and display systems by which we locate, orient ourselves, and navigate through the city. Taking as a vehicle a series of digitally manipulated photographs of specific locations in New York, this study analyzes the environmental impact of a pervasive evacuation of information–at various sites and scales–from the sidewalks, buildings, streets, intersections, infrastructures and public spaces of a fictional future De-saturated City.

POST-SOVIET TRANSFORMATIONS OF PUBLIC SPACES IN LITHUANIA: CASES OF ŽIRMŪNAI AND LAZDYNAI RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS / TARYBINIO LAIKOTARPIO VIEŠŲJŲ ERDVIŲ TRANSFORMACIJOS LIETUVOJE. VILNIAUS ŽIRMŪNŲ IR LAZDYNŲ ATVEJIS

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Grunskis ◽  
Matas Šiupšinskas
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Soviet Period

The article deals with the question of public space transformations during the last two decades in Lithuania. It is the part of broader research of the topic. Authors focus on the issue of main public spaces in Žirmūnai and Lazdynai residential districts in Vilnius, which are under the process of structural and spatial development. The article also analizes the problem of post-Soviet urban space quality and its transformations, as well as raises the question of preservation practices of urban (modernistic) heritage from the Soviet period. Authors analize and expose systems of public spaces and their hierarchy in these districts, which have been created according to modernistic principles and now are considered as highly valuable. Structural, compositional, functional and spacial developments of these spaces are analized in detail evaluating negative impact of such developments on the quality of modernistic urban space. Santrauka Straipsnyje aptariama tarybinio laikotarpio viešųjų erdvių kaita per pastarąjį dvidešimtmetį. Jame telkiamas dėmesys į Vilniaus Žirmūnų ir Lazdynų gyvenamųjų rajonų pagrindines viešąsias erdves bei jose esančius visuomeninius kompleksus. Tekste analizuojamos ir apibūdinamos tarybinio laikotarpio urbanistinės erdvės kokybinės kaitos ir urbanistinio paveldo teisinės apsaugos klausimas. Taip pat įvardijamos ir analizuojamos šių gyvenamųjų rajonų viešųjų erdvių sistemos bei jų elementų hierarchijos. Tekste detaliai analizuojama šių viešųjų erdvių kaita urbanistinės struktūros, tūrinės erdvinės kompozicijos ir funkciniu požiūriais. Keliama urbanistinės erdvės, kaip paveldo ir apsaugos objekto, problema.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

A New French-Based Register in Japan? An Analysis of Commercial Naming in Public Space in Japan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Kida ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
French Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Commercial Products ◽  
Primary Form

This paper focuses on the influence of French language on the naming of shops and commercial products that are found in public spaces in Japan. The contemporary urban environment promotes linguistic signs, which themselves designate the names of shops or products on storefronts and packages and constitute the ‘text’ of an urban space. As Barthes (1970) observed, Japanese modern life is a remarkable source generating a multiplicity of signs. However, in the current globalization, such a process gives rise to a massive presence of foreign languages in public space, such as French in Japan. Data collected through fieldwork is analysed to show features specific to Japanese society and/or language (e.g. word coinages, affection of Japanese words, a primary form of creolization). Although these linguistic signs contain regularities and variations as a device of ‘hypocorrection,’ the paper argues that French is becoming a specific register in Japan, and that people have begun to assimilate its formal part, in enriching their lexicon with a certain epilinguistic dimension. The motivation and identity of stakeholders behind such a process will be also discussed.

Experience of Design and Plastic Light Environment Modelling. Part 1 Space and Light, Urban Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Marina A. Sokolova ◽  
Natalya V. Bystryantseva ◽  
Marina A. Silkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Experience Of Inclusion

The paper is devoted to the history of cooperation between the Department of Architectural Environment Design of the Moscow Architectural Institute and the ITMO University international educational program “Lighting Design”. It reveals the experience of inclusion into the educational process of the ITMO University international educational program “Lighting Design” of a lecture-practical unit dedicated to the modern principles concerning the lighting instruments operation in urban spaces of various sizes and purposes, as well as familiarizing with the basics of urban planning and urban development, types of open public spaces cities and components of urban fabric. The paper discusses a technique for modelling the compositional interaction between light and an urban tissue fragment, taking into account the peculiarities on the light instruments work in urban space characterized by various scales and typology, urban environment of various nature and compositional arrangement. In the process of work, students gained experience in identifying the structure and geometry of public spaces in the urban tissue, creating light routes and scenarios, and forming a system of light dominants. Conclusions are made about the significance of the design-plastic light modelling results and their influence on the design concept formation; the need to correlate the light-composition design search and the urban lighting components of various levels, as well as the meaning of lighting parameters such as the distribution of brightness and direction of luminance flux, the features of diffused and directional light and other components that affect human perception in order to create a multimodal design solution.

scholarly journals Laughter in the context of urban soundscapes

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-140
Author(s):  
Daria Vasileva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Social Tension ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

Fifty people compiled diaries in which they described the sounds of their daily life in cities around the world. Of the 940 hours of observation there were 200 entries that referred to sounds of laughter, both live and recorded. The participants of the research always identified laughter sounds explicitly, unlike other urban sounds. The sound of laughter has a powerful cultural-symbolic superstructure. Learning how we use laughter, what we hear and how we react when someone laughs can help us to understand the key processes taking place in the urban space today. Laughter can at once attract and repel, signal danger and relieve social tension. It can lead equally to social agents’ inclusion and exclusion in the situation of interaction, and can largely determine the form and extent of their inclusion. A citizen’s interpretation of the sound of laughter depends directly on the media technologies which predominate in the urban environment and channel their cultural experience and sonic imagination.

ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURAL AND SPATIAL MARKETING IN THE FORMATION OF THE CITY ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
Е. В. Хорохова
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Environmental Objects ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
The City

Постановка задачи. Необходимо выявить элементы архитектурно-пространственного маркетинга при проектировании городской среды для решения проблемы формирования комфортного городского пространства. Данная необходимость связано с потребностью реализации стратегии пространственного развития России и выполнения приоритетного федерального проекта «Формирование комфортной городской среды». Повышение качества городской среды на сегодняшний день является важным условием для социально-экономического развития городов и улучшения жизни граждан. Результаты. Выявляется грань между рыночным и социальным приоритетом маркетинга при проектировании средовых объектов. Рассмотрены примеры из истории архитектуры и градостроительства некоторых зарубежных городов, в формировании которых отмечается действие элементов архитектурно-пространственного маркетинга. Отмечены некоторые российские города, которые стали использовать средства маркетинга для своего развития. Выявлена связь между рассмотренными городами. Выводы. Отмечается, что применение элементов архитектурно-пространственного маркетинга необходимо для создания комфортной среды городов, а также для составления обновленных концепций развития городской среды. Statement of the problem. It is necessary to identify the elements of architectural and spatial marketing in the design of the urban environment to solve the problem of creating a comfortable urban space. This is associated with the need to implement the strategy of spatial development of Russia and the implementation of the priority federal project “Formation of a Comfortable Urban Environment”. Improving the quality of the urban environment today is important for the socio-economic development of cities and improving the lives of citizens. Results. The borderline between the market and social marketing priority in the design of environmental objects is identified. Examples from the history of architecture and urban planning of some foreign cities are considered, during the formation of which the presence of architectural and spatial marketing elements is noted. Some Russian cities that started using marketing tools for their development are noted. The connection between the considered cities is revealed. Conclusions. It is established that the use of architectural and spatial marketing elements is necessary for designing a comfortable urban environment as well as for drawing up updated concepts for the development of the urban environment.

scholarly journals Supervía poniente: conflicto social y visión urbano-ambiental / West Superhighway: Social Conflict and Urban-Environmental Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam C. Alfie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Compensation Mechanisms ◽  
Sociedad Civil

En este texto se analiza el conflicto socio-espacial suscitado por el proyecto conocido como la “Supervía”, con objeto de explorar cómo se ha transformado el perfil de la Ciudad de México en aspectos tales como la movilidad, los espacios públicos y la infraestructura, así como en relación a la diversidad de nuevos actores sociales, organismos de defensa de derechos humanos y organizaciones de la sociedad civil, entre otros. Se rescata la concepción del espacio urbano marcado por la desigualdad y el conflicto, donde confluyen procesos productivos de urbanización y construcción con elementos sociales de  producción, intercambio y reproducción. El texto contribuye a entender el desarrollo del conflicto en torno al proyecto de la Supervía, la construcción de movimientos a su favor y en su contra, las identidades adquiridas y la falta de planeación urbana, así como los graves problemas de vialidad que presenta la Ciudad de México. Especial atención recibe el impacto ambiental que la carretera urbana ha provocado, así como los mecanismos de mediación y compensación practicados en la negociación del conflicto. AbstractThis paper analyzes the socio-spatial conflict caused by the project known as the “Superhighway,” in order to explore how it has transformed the profile of Mexico City in aspects such as mobility, public spaces and infrastructure and the link with the range of new social actors and human rights and civil society organizations. It explores the conception of urban space marked by inequality and conflict, where urbanization and construction coexist with social elements of production, exchange and reproduction. The text helps to explain the development of the conflict over the Superhighway project, the creation of movements for and against it, the identities acquired and the lack of urban planning, as well as Mexico City’s severe traffic problems. Special attention is paid to the environmental impact of the urban highway as well as the mediation and compensation mechanisms implemented during the negotiation of the conflict.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SPACES BASED ON THE SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATION OF ELEMENTS OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
M. Gavrilova ◽  
A. Gavrilov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Symbolic Interpretation ◽  
Vegetation Water ◽  
Public Environment

One of the important design topics is the formation of the urban environment based on modern comfort requirements, considering the historical content and identifying the special uniqueness of the place. The use of symbolic interpretation of characteristic elements of the environment: such as the earth's surface, various forms of relief, vegetation, water structures and small architectural forms when creating urban open areas allows to create a bright expressive image of public space. The application of this principle contributes to the strengthening of the information content of the historical urban environment and the creation of a special memorability of the transformed space. The use of symbolic compositions in urban space increases the figurative characteristics of the environment, revealing its individuality and consolidating its identity. The methods of transmitting certain information using signs and symbols to create stable visual priorities in the public environment are identified. It is noted that the methods of transformation of public spaces presented in the study provides increasing the figurative characteristics of environments without significant urban planning changes, to reveal its identity and to increase the environmental sustainability of urban space. Examples of the use of symbolic interpretation in the Russian and foreign experience of creating new public urban spaces are given.

scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF DISCOURSE ABOUT CITY IMPROVEMENT IN THE MINDS OF OMSK

PRIMO ASPECTU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Svetlana OVODOVA ◽  
Roman CHUPIN ◽  
Anna TSATURYAN
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
City Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Urban Discourse ◽  
The City

The article analyzes the urban discourse on the improvement of the city of Omsk. The results of a qualitative sociological study conducted with city activists are compared with the results of a survey of residents of Omsk aimed at identifying satisfaction with the improvement of the urban environment. The analysis found that the dominant type of urban discourse of urban activists is the discourse of creative urbanism (creating comfortable and beautiful public spaces), and the discourse of left-wing urbanism (improving the social environment) is less relevant. The results of the survey showed that the residents of the city of Omsk are also dominated by the discourse of creative urbanism, and the discourse of the left urbanism is weakly expressed. Both the urban community of activists and the residents of the city of Omsk absolutely did not show the discourse of high industrial urbanism associated with the development of industry in the region. The degree of satisfaction of Omsk city environment is determined. The actions of key discourse actors, determined by the request of communities to increase the degree of improvement of urban space, are characterized and systematized. The conclusions are formulated about the dominance of the stereotypical concept of urban improvement, which causes a discursive conflict and affects the request of citizens in relation to the quality of the urban environment.

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