scholarly journals Investigating Nordic Noir

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Sofia Alexi

<p>Scandinavian crime films and television series have become popular in recent years. This thesis explores some of the key texts in ‘Nordic noir’ through a discussion of detectives, the environment, and visual style. The emphasis in the project is on textual analysis. The first chapter examines the figures of Wallander and Lund in Wallander and Forbrydelsen respectively. I argue that the conflicts Nordic detectives often have between work and the domestic sphere are an indication of how gender stereotypes are challenged in the Scandinavian crime genre. The second chapter considers the role of the natural and built environments in Nordic noir. Features such as forests and water play a crucial role in Forbrydelsen because of the ways in which they create uncertainty, anticipation, and suspense. The urban spaces of Bron/Broen develop a sense of anonymity that recalls the function of the city in classic film noir. Rather than developing links between Sweden and Denmark, the series suggests that the Øresund bridge that spans the two countries is ultimately a disconnecting, centrifugal force that functions as what Marc Augé would call a ‘non-place’. The final chapter considers the role of colour and light in the films Insomnia and Jar City. My analysis demonstrates that Nordic noir encompasses more than naturalism and realism. Like classic and neo-noir, it includes a range of expressive aesthetic strategies that serve both narrative and thematic functions.</p>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Sofia Alexi

<p>Scandinavian crime films and television series have become popular in recent years. This thesis explores some of the key texts in ‘Nordic noir’ through a discussion of detectives, the environment, and visual style. The emphasis in the project is on textual analysis. The first chapter examines the figures of Wallander and Lund in Wallander and Forbrydelsen respectively. I argue that the conflicts Nordic detectives often have between work and the domestic sphere are an indication of how gender stereotypes are challenged in the Scandinavian crime genre. The second chapter considers the role of the natural and built environments in Nordic noir. Features such as forests and water play a crucial role in Forbrydelsen because of the ways in which they create uncertainty, anticipation, and suspense. The urban spaces of Bron/Broen develop a sense of anonymity that recalls the function of the city in classic film noir. Rather than developing links between Sweden and Denmark, the series suggests that the Øresund bridge that spans the two countries is ultimately a disconnecting, centrifugal force that functions as what Marc Augé would call a ‘non-place’. The final chapter considers the role of colour and light in the films Insomnia and Jar City. My analysis demonstrates that Nordic noir encompasses more than naturalism and realism. Like classic and neo-noir, it includes a range of expressive aesthetic strategies that serve both narrative and thematic functions.</p>


Author(s):  
Sadegh Fathi ◽  
Hassan Sajadzadeh ◽  
Faezeh Mohammadi Sheshkal ◽  
Farshid Aram ◽  
Gergo Pinter ◽  
...  

Along with environmental pollution, urban planning has been connected to public health. The research indicates that the quality of built environments plays an important role in reducing mental disorders and overall health. The structure and shape of the city are considered as one of the factors influencing happiness and health in urban communities and the type of the daily activities of citizens. The aim of this study was to promote physical activity in the main structure of the city via urban design in a way that the main form and morphology of the city can encourage citizens to move around and have physical activity within the city. Functional, physical, cultural-social, and perceptual-visual features are regarded as the most important and effective criteria in increasing physical activities in urban spaces, based on literature review. The environmental quality of urban spaces and their role in the physical activities of citizens in urban spaces were assessed by using the questionnaire tool and analytical network process (ANP) of structural equation modeling. Further, the space syntax method was utilized to evaluate the role of the spatial integration of urban spaces on improving physical activities. Based on the results, consideration of functional diversity, spatial flexibility and integration, security, and the aesthetic and visual quality of urban spaces plays an important role in improving the physical health of citizens in urban spaces. Further, more physical activities, including motivation for walking and the sense of public health and happiness, were observed in the streets having higher linkage and space syntax indexes with their surrounding texture.


Author(s):  
Hoe Su Fern

This chapter examines the role of the arts and artists in rejuvenating urban spaces in Singapore, where place management ideas are currently being used to rejuvenate parts of the city centre. Coexisting alongside state-driven initiatives are artist-led strategies where local art practitioners and organizations activate latent and/or under-utilized spaces. Through an analysis of policy documents and qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this study explores the interplay between top-down aspirations and formal place management efforts, and the organic ways artists have activated and engaged with spaces. Ultimately, I argue that there is a need to balance formal governance structures with more support for artists engaging in organic, ground-up initiatives.


2008 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 5-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayfer Bartu Candan ◽  
Biray Kolluoğlu

Abstractİstanbul has undergone a neoliberal restructuring over the past two decades. In this paper, we focus on two urban spaces that we argue to have emerged as part of this process—namely Göktürk, a gated town, and Bezirganbahçe, a public housing project. We examine these spaces as showcases of new forms of urban wealth and poverty in İstanbul, demonstrating the workings of the neoliberalization process and the forms of urbanity that emerge within this context. These are the two margins of the city whose relationship with the center is becoming increasingly tenuous in qualitatively different yet parallel forms. In Göktürk's segregated compounds, where urban governance is increasingly privatized, non-relationality with the city, seclusion into the domestic sphere and the family, urban fear and the need for security, and social and spatial isolation become the markers of a new urbanity. In Bezirganbahçe, involuntary isolation and insulation, and non-relationality with the city imposed through the reproduction of poverty create a new form of urban marginality marked by social exclusion and ethnic tensions. The new forms of wealth and poverty displayed in these two urban spaces, accompanied by the social and spatial segregation of these social groups, compel us to think about future forms of urbanity and politics in İstanbul.


The article considers the features of development of territorial branding in the city of Kazan and in the Republic of Tatarstan. The stages of creation of brands of Kazan, Sviyazhsk and Bolgar, as well as the brands of the Republic of Tatarstan “Heritage of Tatarstan” and “Visit Tatarstan” are researched. The main components of the brand “Heritage of Tatarstan” have been identified and described. The paper shows, that in order to improve the efficiency of territorial branding, the new brand “Visit Tatarstan” was created in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2016. It is designed to complement and strengthen the brand “Heritage of Tatarstan”, which has already existed since 2014. The article reveals the most important tasks of the brand “Visit Tatarstan”, and defines the features of its visual style. The implementation of the project involves two directions - external and internal. The first is based on the advertising program, the second combines all the components of tourism: souvenirs, national attractions and travel agencies.The role of territorial branding in the development of various types of tourism in the Republic of Tatarstan is shown. Thus, the article concludes that the formation of modern territorial brands can give a big return in the form of creation of effective tourist destination in the region. Moreover, this positive experience in the near future can be successfully used not only in the Republic of Tatarstan, but also in other regions of the Russian Federation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Gregorius Andika Ariwibowo

AbstrakPeriode 1950-an secara global disebut sebagai abad atom. Pada periode ini terjadi modernisasi dalam gaya hidup dengan berkembangnya peralatan-peralatan elektronik dalam lingkup rumah tangga. Pada periode ini pula masyarakat Perkotaan Jakarta mengalami transformasi dalam lingkup rumah tangga, perkembangan peralatan rumah tangga modern mengubah kebiasaan sehari-hari kehidupan rumah tangga perkotaan.. Tulisan ini membahas bentuk gaya hidup masyarakat Perkotaan Jakarta terutama terkait dengan perkembangan budaya makan di lingkungan rumah tangga. Selain itu tulisan ini juga membahas mengenai kebijakan dari pemerintah yang turut memberikan warna dalam perkembangan budaya makan di lingkungan rumah tangga perkotaan. Kajian ini menggunakan konsep Pendidikan selera. Pendidikan selera merupakan proses pengenalan dan perkembangan sajian, selera, dan budaya makan akibat persinggungan dan asosiasi antarbudaya, serta perkembangan budaya modern. Kajian ini menarik kesimpulan bahwa terdapat empat faktor memengaruhi perkembangan budaya makan di Kota Jakarta pada periode 1950-an. Faktor-faktor tersebut yakni, perkembangan pendidikan; interaksi sosial dan kekerabatan yang terjalin antarrumah tangga urban; perkembangan industri pengolahan makanan; dan melalui peran Lembaga Makanan Rakjat (LMR).  AbstractIn the 1950s period was globally referred as an atom century. This period witnessed the modernization of lifestyle with the development of electronic equipment in the domestic sphere. In this period the people of Urban Jakarta also undergone a transformation in the domestic sphere, the development of modern household appliances which was changed the habits of everyday life of urban households. This paper discusses the shape of people's lifestyles of Urban Jakarta primarily associated with the development of the culture of eating in a domestic environment. In addition, this paper also discusses the policies of the government that also provide the variety in the development of eating culture in the neighborhood of urban households.  This study uses the concept of Education tastes. Taste of education is a process of introduction and development of the dish, tastes and culture of eating due to the intersection and inter-cultural associations, as well as the development of modern culture. This study draws the conclusion that there were four factors that was influencing the development of the culture of eating in the city of Jakarta in the 1950s. These factors were the development of education; social interaction and kinship that exists between urban households and the development of food processing industry; and through the role of the People's Institute of Food (LMR).


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Haitham El Sharnouby

Egyptian urban spaces suffer from a chaos that is the result of crowded and disordered pedestrian sidewalks, streets and shop signage. This chaos creates a negative effect on, both, the image of the city and the quality of life within these urban spaces. Many legislations and regulations in Egypt attempted to deal with these issues. Similarly, the Egyptian government established many organizations and authorities in order to deal with these issues with little success. The National Organization of Urban Harmony (NOUH) is one of those organizations established by the government to take the responsibility of dealing with pedestrian sidewalk and shops’ signage while the municipality deals with road occupations. These organizations should perform their responsibilities through the Egyptian legislations. The research at hand aims to find a solution to that particular problem which has influenced the quality of the street and its reflection to the quality of life as result. In order to find a solution, the research attempts to find a mechanism to boost the role of shop signage as an element of urban spaces in order to emphasize street quality. Thus, the research well be divided into four parts: part one reviews the quality of urban spaces and the meaning of its terms while part two reviews the concept of the quality of life and the relation between the quality of life and urban spaces. Part three demonstrates the urban quality of life through tangible and intangible approaches. Finally, part four reviews the Egyptian legislations that deal with research issues and attempts to find the difficulties that faced when enforcing laws. Finally, the research conclusion illustrates the most important issues in the research and their proposed solutions.


2018 ◽  

This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.


Author(s):  
Neil Brenner

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. How can these transformations be deciphered? In this book, critical urban theorist Neil Brenner argues that confronting this challenge requires not only intensive research on urban restructuring but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an approach that breaks with inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded settlement unit—the city or the metropolis—and explores the multiscalar constitution, political mediation, and ongoing rescaling of the capitalist urban fabric, from the local and the regional to the national and the planetary. New Urban Spaces offers a paradigmatic account of how rescaling processes are transforming inherited formations of urban life, the role of multiscalar state spatial strategies in animating them, and their variegated consequences for emergent patterns and pathways of urbanization. The book also advances an understanding of critical urban theory as radically revisable: key urban concepts, methods, and cartographies must be continually reinvented in relation to the relentlessly mutating worlds of urbanization they aspire to illuminate.


Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-605
Author(s):  
MARKIAN PROKOPOVYCH

It is somewhat surprising that music has only recently become a serious subject for urban historians. Musicologists and music historians, urban geographers, planners and all others who deal with diverse aspects of local development, cultural industry and the built environment have fared much better in tackling the fundamental social implications of music in a particular locality. It is not an accident that, for example, the recent volume ofBuilt Environment, ‘Music and the city’, edited by an economic geographer, Robert C. Kloosterman, deals with urban spaces of creativity and the role of black music today, some of which have by now an ascribed ‘urban’ adjective in North America.1It is also only natural, however, that Kloosterman's enquiry should concentrate on music in the city of the present and rarely venture into the time periods before World War II.


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