Bespoke Urban Factory

10.26686/wgtn.17072174 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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André Bankier-Perry

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Mass Production ◽

High Tech ◽

Urban Architecture ◽

Consumer Values ◽

High Street ◽

The Many ◽

Manufacturing Technologies ◽

The City ◽

The Way

A change in consumer values has resulted in the traditional factory becoming outdated and out of touch. The ever-changing rapid and exponential development in high-tech manufacturing technologies is enabling humankind to realise products and efficiencies never conceived of until recently. Mass production is a thing of the past. People want options – bespoke products and services with the ease and precision of a well-articulated assembly line. The consumer wants to understand the process, production practises and effects of the choices they make. Since the emergence of the city itself, the public marketplace has been a critical node for urban vitality and liveliness – an assemblage of skilled creative specialists liaising directly with the consumer – where the designer is the maker and the store is the workshop. With the evolution of mass production, this once unified marketplace typology has fragmented and dispersed to where manufacturing no longer lies within the consumer’s grasp. A rich historic urban architecture has been supplanted by a distant scattering of industrial warehouses and faceless high street facades. The emergence of innovative new methods of designing and making has presented an opportunity to once again close the gap between production and the consumer interface. Imagine a new architectural typology – an innovative urban marketplace that bridges the current disparity between production, consumerism and public space. It looks to explore the way in which architecture conveys emerging innovative technologies; the way manufacturing is displayed and perceived; and the relationships it has with those who engage with it. Using a local catalyst site, the research puts forward a solution as a socially and contextually relevant node within the city of Wellington, New Zealand. Architectural ideas are iteratively tested alongside a set of typological strategies – each informing the other. Throughout this process, the research seeks to understand and stitch together the many complex conditions in which to provide an inviting, engaging, public consumer destination. This is a high-tech marketplace of sorts – a new architecture for a new era of industry.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Automobility and Shame in Tbilisi, Georgia

Cultural Anthropology ◽

10.14506/ca33.3.07 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 444-472 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Perry Maxfield Waldman Sherouse

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Space ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Private Company ◽

Urban Public Space ◽

Social Actors ◽

The Public ◽

Physical Barriers ◽

The Many ◽

The City

In recent years, cars have steadily colonized the sidewalks in downtown Tbilisi. By driving and parking on sidewalks, vehicles have reshaped public space and placed pedestrian life at risk. A variety of social actors coordinate sidewalk affairs in the city, including the local government, a private company called CT Park, and a fleet of self-appointed st’aianshik’ebi (parking attendants) who direct drivers into parking spots for spare change. Pedestrian activists have challenged the automotive conquest of footpaths in innovative ways, including art installations, social media protests, and the fashioning of ad hoc physical barriers. By safeguarding sidewalks against cars, activists assert ideals for public space that are predicated on sharp boundaries between sidewalk and street, pedestrian and machine, citizen and commodity. Politicians and activists alike connect the sharpness of such boundaries to an imagined Europe. Georgia’s parking culture thus reflects not only local configurations of power among the many interests clamoring for the space of the sidewalk, but also global hierarchies of value that form meaningful distinctions and aspirational horizons in debates over urban public space. Against the dismal frictions of an expanding car system, social actors mobilize the idioms of freedom and shame to reinterpret and repartition the public/private distinction.

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Practicing Anthropology in the Urban Delta

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.13.3.j1715u8518243045 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 9-10

Author(s):

Rosalind Cottrell

Keyword(s):

Growing Up ◽

Dump Site ◽

Young Girls ◽

Medical Anthropologist ◽

Scrap Iron ◽

The 1950S ◽

The Many ◽

The City ◽

The Way ◽

Value Of Education

When I was growing up in the 1950s in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the urban Delta, the closest I came to an anthropologist was the man who dug the dump site near our home looking for old scrap iron to sell. Certainly there was no expectation for me to become an anthropologist from my grandmother, the matriarch of our family. However, she had moved to the city after the death of her husband with expectations of a better life for her four girls. Stressing education as "the way out," she told stories about her slave uncle who recognized the value of education and learned to read from two young girls he drove to school. In turn, he taught this daily lesson to his family around the fire each night. The many evenings sitting on our front porch, and on the front porch of neighbors, watching and listening to grandma's stories and the stories of others, set a foundation for anthropology in my life and led to my becoming a medical anthropologist.

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Struggles over the Use of Public Space: Exploring Moralities and Narratives of Inequality. Cartoneros and Vecinos in Buenos Aires

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x15000425 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 521-542 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

NATALIA COSACOV ◽

MARIANO D. PERELMAN

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Public Space ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Social Situations ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

The City ◽

The Way

AbstractBased on extensive and long-term ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2002 and 2009, and by analysing the presence, use and struggles over public space of cartoneros and vecinos in middle-class and central neighbourhoods of the city of Buenos Aires, this article examines practices, moralities and narratives operating in the production and maintenance of social inequalities. Concentrating on spatialised interactions, it shows how class inequalities are reproduced and social distances are generated in the struggle over public space. For this, two social situations are addressed. First, we explore the way in which cartoneros build routes in middle-class neighbourhoods in order to carry out their task. Second, we present an analysis of the eviction process of a cartonero settlement in the city.

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Ethnicity and Public Space in the City: Ethnic Precincts in Sydney

Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal ◽

10.5130/ccs.v1i1.1051 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jock Collins ◽

Patrick Kunz

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Government Officials ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurs ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Symbolic Economy ◽

Build Environment ◽

The City ◽

Little Italy ◽

The Way

Ethnic precincts are one example of the way that cultural diversity shapes public spaces in the postmodern metropolis. Ethnic precincts are essentially clusters of ethnic or immigrant entrepreneurs in areas that are designated as ethnic precincts by place marketers and government officials and display iconography related to that ethnicity in the build environment of the precinct. They are characterized by the presence of a substantial number of immigrant entrepreneurs of the same ethnicity as the precinct who line the streets of the precinct selling food, goods or services to many co-ethnics and non co-ethnics alike. Ethnic precincts are thus a key site of the production and consumption of the ethnic economy, a commodification of place where the symbolic economy of space (Zukin 1995:23-4) is constructed on representations of ethnicity and ‘immigrantness’. To explore some dimensions of the way that ethnic diversity shapes public space we present the findings of recent fieldwork in four Sydney ethnic precincts: Chinatown, Little Italy, Auburn (“Little Turkey”) and Cabramatta (“Vietnamatta”). This fieldwork explores the complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between immigrant entrepreneurs, local government authorities, and ethnic community representatives in shaping the emergence of, and development of, ethnic precincts. It demonstrates how perceptions of the authenticity of precincts as ethnic places and spaces varies in the eyes of consumers or customers according to whether they are ‘co-ethnic’, ‘co-cultural’ or ‘Others”. It explores relations of production and consumption within the ethnic precinct and how these are embedded within the domain of regulation in the daily life of these four Sydney ethnic precincts.

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La ciudad colombiana ¿futuro sin pasado?

Procesos Urbanos ◽

10.21892/2422085x.83 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 49-57

Author(s):

Luis Fernando González Escobar

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

General Context ◽

Urban Architecture ◽

The Past ◽

Cultural Conditions ◽

Urban Intervention ◽

The World ◽

The One ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The City

Resumen: La pregunta por la identidad y la tradición en tiempos de la urbanización, la velocidad y la globalización, es la que se plantea el autor para poner en cuestión qué está sucediendo con la intervención urbana en las ciudades colombianas. Se plantea un contexto general sobre las dinámicas del sistema mundo que han conducido a la denominada urbanalización y la manera como en la ciudad colombiana se adoptan de manera a crítica. Frente a lo cual el autor se pregunta si conceptos como identidad y originalidad tienen alguna pertinencia en nuestras realidades urbanas como condición de posibilidad. Una vuelta a la tradición no como regreso al pasado sino como lectura de las condiciones geográficas, paisajísticas, culturales y de memoria. Para reclamar una nueva relación pasado-presente-futuro de la ciudad y la arquitectura. ___Palabras clave: urbanización, globalización, espacio público, arquitectura urbana, formas de habitar, identidad, tradición. ___Abstract: The question of identity and tradition in times of urbanization, speed and globalization, is the one the author establishes to question what is happening with the urban intervention in Colombian cities. It arises a general context of the dynamics of the world system that have led to the so-called urbanalization and how in the Colombian city is adopted in a critical way. Against which the author wonders whether concepts such as identity and originality have any relevance in our urban realities as a condition of possibility. A return to tradition, not as a return to the past but as a reading of geographic, landscape, memory and cultural conditions. To claim a new past-present-future relationship of the city and architecture. ___Keywords: urbanization, globalization, public space, urban architecture, ways of living, identity, tradition. ___Recibido: 03 de agosto de 2015. Aceptado: 30 de octubre de 2015.

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Dzielnica jako miejsca afektywne – Cwaniary Sylwii Chutnik i Królowa Salwatora Emmy Popik

Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze ◽

10.15290/bsl.2020.16.03 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 51-63

Author(s):

Katarzyna Szalewska ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Right To The City ◽

Affective Experience ◽

Urban Novels ◽

The Status ◽

The Right ◽

Ideological Tensions ◽

The City ◽

The Way

The article analyzes two urban novels Cwaniary by Sylwia Chutnik and Królowa Salwatora by Emma Popik. Both present the vision of city as an affective place. Their strongest similarity is in the way they project emotions upon the city and the transformations of public space which they document. The author of the article proposes to concentrate on a number of questions. These include the affective experience of urban space, polis as the space of ideological tensions, relationship between the centre and periphery, postmodern understanding of locality, and finally, the status of a district as the site of settling in, which allows one to claim “the right to the city”.

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THE FAVELA SPACE AND ITS IMPACTS IN THE STRIVE AGAINST COVID-19: a discussion on the literary texts

Revista Observatório ◽

10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n3a12en ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. a12en

Author(s):

Elisabete da Silva Barbosa

Keyword(s):

Field Work ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Spatial Representations ◽

Literary Representations ◽

Literary Field ◽

Mortality Probability ◽

Starting Point ◽

The Many ◽

The City ◽

The Way

The objective of this work is to take literary representations of the shanty towns to discuss the way the unequal occupation of spaces impacts the contagion index of COVID-19, which in Brazil represents a higher mortality probability among the Afro-descendant population, which is mostly resident of degraded spaces in the city. To this end, spatial representations developed in the literary field work as a starting point for reflections on the center and periphery relationship and, consequently, for analyzing how the many discourses generated can make some places and, thus, their residents invisible.

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No Sunshine in the City

Uncontrollable Blackness ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655734.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 26-57

Author(s):

Douglas J. Flowe

Keyword(s):

African Americans ◽

Working Class ◽

Public Space ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Police Brutality ◽

Housing Discrimination ◽

The City ◽

New Yorkers ◽

The Way

Chapter 1 addresses the ways Jim Crow social and economic customs and policing impacted the way African Americans used public space. By looking at work and housing discrimination and the fact that white and black working-class New Yorkers often lived close together, the chapter argues that public space was precarious, conflicts ignited frequently, and blacks needed to be inventive to survive. The chapter also charts how blacks protested, and sometimes fought back, against hostile neighbors, unfair policing, and police brutality.

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PLACEMAKING RUANG JALAN KORIDOR KOMERSIAL KOTA SURAKARTA

Arsitektura ◽

10.20961/arst.v14i2.9128 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Patrani Victorya T ◽

Rizon Pamardhi Utomo ◽

Galing Yudana

Keyword(s):

Social Interaction ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Public Space ◽

Joint Activities ◽

Commercial Activities ◽

The City ◽

The Way ◽

Informal Traders

Placemaking is an attempt to form a space into a place that has meaning for its users. The concept of placemaking motivated by all the existing space in the city, both of street and public space that can have meaning as a place where it will occur at the site of social interaction and communication among users of space. Street in a commercial corridor in Surakarta is an important infrastructure to support commercial activities, but the function of the cause of street becomes passive and less interested in the community to conduct joint activities in that space. This shows that street is still not able to accommodate other activities simultaneously and social interactions that lead to placemaking. The problem in this study is whether placemaking already happening commercial corridor street and how much street placemaking commercial corridors. Scope of this research include the way to commercial corridor Surakarta with sample corridor commercial there are six . The method used to determine how much placemaking happened in the commercial corridor of street to be reviewed based on variables derived from placemaking elements, namely comfort and image, accessibility and linkage, uses and activities, as well as sosialibility. The research proves that placemaking has occurred in the commercial corridor of street in Surakarta. But the realization of placemaking in commercial corridor street is still weak, as indicated by the lack of availability of means of supporting activities in the form sitting group. Pedestrian walkway used for informal traders activity and social interaction has not been evenly occurs in the entirety of the commercial corridors in the city of Surakarta. Keywords: placemaking, street, commercial corridor.

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