scholarly journals The history of the Kharkiv city landscape formation: experience and methodological features of the study

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gis Methods ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
The City

Purpose of the article is to study the history of mapping the formation of the landscape of the city of Kharkiv from the beginning of active urban development to the present day (the end of the XVIII - the beginning of the XXI century), which was carried out in view of the prospects of involving the results in the process of territorial planning of the city's modern development. Methods. The research was based on the application of the principles of diachronic and comparative-historical methodological approaches and the use of cartographic, geoinformation, historical-geographical method and the method of historical sections. Results. The methodological features of carrying out of historical and geographical research are best taken into account by means of the use of GIS. The article presents the results of cartographic modeling of the development of the city's territory, the difficulties in conducting this operation and the probable errors caused by the methodology of the operation. outlined the possibility of using such studies to solve the problems of urban planning practice. The approach outlined in this article allowed researchers from different scientific fields - historians of the city, archaeologists, demographers, economists, etc. - to interpret phenomenology of cities according to different thematic keys. Conclusions. The methodology used in this study allows the effective use of GIS methods for solving applied constructive and geographic tasks, namely, the study of the evolution of urban landscapes on the basis of the analysis and synthesis of cartographic works for the entire period of city formation.

scholarly journals Shaping the image of a city on the example of a development of parts of waterfront in Bydgoszcz - a relation of Rother’s Mills and Nordic Haven buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 1203 (2) ◽  
pp. 022061
Author(s):  
Iga Grześkow
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
River Bank ◽  
History Of ◽  
Street Furniture ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Abstract According to Alexander Wallis, the city's cultural values relate to its historic and architectural, symbolic and religious, artistic and prestigious values. They are represented by individual buildings, monuments, sculptures, street furniture and entire urban complexes - streets, squares, parks, engineering works, and finally entire districts and urban landscapes. [1] In Bydgoszcz these values are represented by the Mill Island. After years of neglect, together with its immediate surroundings it has been re-incorporated into the city's structure, becoming a full-fledged, attractive and highly prestigious social area. The article presents a history of creation, functions and mutual relations of revitalized historic Rother’s Mills complex and Nordic Haven - a modern residential and commercial development and also aims to analyze the impact these buildings had on the space and surroundings of the Mill Island. The two architectural ensembles, arranged in mutual spatial relations, shape the landscape of the downtown, river bank part of Bydgoszcz on different principles. These buildings, as part of a historical urban layout of the city, represent extremely different methods of developing its areas requiring special protection and attention.

Global-City-Formation, Immobilienwirtschaft und Transnationalisierung

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christof Parnreiter
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Global City ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Office Space ◽  
The City

Global-City-formation and the making of a new “corporate geography“: The case of Mexico City. The paper argues that global-city-formation is a key driving force in the transformation of urban landscapes and in the globalization of real estate markets. Taking Mexico City as a case study it is shown that the growing presence of a) foreign companies and b) advanced producer sector firms increases demand for office space, in particular in the high end spectrum of the market. This demand is met by the production of a new CBD in western parts of the city. Mexico City’s corporate geography is, thus, characterized by two CBD, with the new one housing the majority of firms that entered the Mexican market in the last 15 years. The paper also argues that the new corporate geography is marked by processes of de- and transnationalization, becoming thus step by step detached from the urban fabric.

Urban theory with an outside

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tariq Jazeel
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Spatial Process ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
City Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Value ◽  
The City ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

This paper critically engages planetary urbanization’s claim that it generates ‘Urban Theory Without an Outside’. It argues planetary urbanization is part of the broader ideological terrain of urban studies whose textual field reifies the city, the urban and urbanization as objects and processes of analyses through a kind of ‘methodological urbanization’. The paper argues the conceptual and political value of delineating views from outside urban studies and planetary urbanization – in particular from domains like area studies – that unmoor the primacy of the city, the urban and particularly urbanization in understandings of socio-spatial processes across planetary space. It suggests how these perspectives can usefully act as ‘supplements’ indifferent to urban studies, reminding urban studies of the limits of its own forms of knowledge production in relation to socio-spatial process and city formation. To do this, the paper sketches an anti-colonial history of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

scholarly journals Gender and sexuality in contemporary Greek theatre: red-light landscapes and city legends

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Lina Rosi
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

The article explores the representation of female sexuality, in particular prostitution and its association with urban landscapes. The subject forms part of a wider research venture examining the different ways in which contemporary Greek theatre depicts and discusses the female body, female discourse and women’s experiences. The analysis of recent productions focuses on two major points: first, on the mise en scène of the prostitute body and, second, on the way in which each production exposes the association between the characters’ biography and the geography and history of the city. Our aim does not lie in discussing the productions’ ideological views on the issue of prostitution and the contemporary sex industry, but in exploring the mode in which the stage narrative operates as a field in which the life story of these women is first heard and performed and then incorporated into the collective narrative of the city’s history. The productions discussed are Η τελευταία μάσκα–Fallimento (The Last Mask–Fallimento), based on a text by Kostas Logaras, adapted for the stage and directed by Thodoros Terzopoulos (2006); Η γυναίκα της Πάτρας (The Woman of Patras), based on a text by Giorgos Chronas and adapted for the stage and directed by Lena Kitsopoulou (2010); and Γκάμπυ (Gaby), based on Gabriella Ousakova’s autobiography, adapted for the stage by Anastasia Tzellou and Kirki Karali and directed by Karali (2015).

THE URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL CITY CENTRES: HOLY KARBALA AS A CASE STUDY

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabeeh Lafta Farhan ◽  
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem ◽  
Zuhair A. Nasar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transformation ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
City Centres

Karbala is one of the metropolitan cities in Iraq, its historic and religious centre has a long history, yet many of its buildings are under threat because of unclear conservation management due to urban transformation. The history of religious rituals and processions reflects an array of values, concepts and planning philosophy that has used the power of religion and holiness of the city as a source of homogeneity and integration. By looking at the mass-pilgrimage spatial practices to the Holy Shrines in Karbala city centre and the adaptation by its residents of their domestic neighbourhoods, this paper analyses the spatial conditions of the city and offers insights into a set of factors that have shaped its historical evolution and urban spaces.    The paper is in three parts; first, it discusses the causes of the urban transformation in this holy city. Secondly, it documents a set of everyday practices and problems in Karbala city, focusing on the urban level (the traditional fabric), following the analytical method of the historic evolution of Karbala as a religious centre as well as the incompatibility of the modern development with the centre’s historical heritage.  Thirdly, it analyses the transformation of the urban structure by discussing the characteristics of the historical centre and the role of legislation in urban transformation of traditional city centres.

Recovering Roman London

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Dominic Perring
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Urban Archaeology ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

This chapter presents a short history of relevant archaeological research in London. It traces a long story of discovery that was born of seventeenth-century antiquarianism, stimulated by opportunities for discovery in rescue archaeology during Victorian rebuilding in the City of London, and came to maturity in England’s post-war development-led urban archaeology. This historiographic review explains how archaeological research has been organized in London, and how opportunities for study are a product of programmes of urban regeneration. The complex dialogue between archaeologists and developers has made a major contribution to the study and management of historic urban landscapes. It is explained that many hundreds of archaeological excavations have taken place in London over the last 400 years, but that many of the more important results remain relatively inaccessible.

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document