EVALUATION OF DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE VIA THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY: Cases from Konya City Center

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dicle Aydin ◽  
Esra Yaldız ◽  
Süheyla Büyükşahin Sıramkaya
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
City Center ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

Reusing pre-existing buildings for new functions and thereby ensuring the transfer of cultural knowledge and experiences to future generations contributes significantly to cultural sustainability by enhancing the city’s cultural life and the value of certain city areas. When reusing buildings the social aspect of the functions that will be assigned to these buildings that no longer serve their original function need to be considered as well, since such aspects form the basis of socio-cultural sustainability. The aim of this study was to evaluate various examples of domestic architecture at the Konya city center that no longer serve their original functions, within the context of socio-cultural sustainability. The common characteristics of these buildings, which are currently being reused as cafés or as the offices of the Conservation Board and the Chamber of Architects in Konya, is that they are all examples of authentic domestic architecture that are registered for preservation and are located in the city center. The contribution of these examples of domestic architecture to socio-cultural sustainability was analyzed by administering a questionnaire to university students and then evaluating the questionnaire results with descriptive statistics.

An Evaluation of Restoration Practices of Traditional Wooden Houses in Edirne

2013 ◽  
Vol 778 ◽  
pp. 943-950
Author(s):  
Tulay Canitez ◽  
Ilker Salih Canitez
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Wood Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Restoration Practices ◽  
The City

The protection of traditional architectural heritage that witnesses the social and cultural life of a society, and its usage with its original function while protecting its material, construction technique and design, its transmission to next generations while giving new functions if necessary, are important from the perspective of social and cultural sustainability. Edirne, which is chosen as the field of study, had been homeland of civilizations e.g. Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman for years with different national and religious values. Edirne has many traditional houses that reflect the cultural and social life of the city which should be preserved as part of the cultural and architectural heritage. However, due to current changes of socio-cultural and economical circumstances their-inappropriate usage and the wrong restoration practices, the number of traditional houses diminishes. In this study, the state of conservation of the existing wooden houses in Edirne are evaluated. As a case study, a restored building is examined in terms of its measures and practices of protection and according to the compatibility of modern conservation concepts and criteria. Keywords: Wood Construction, Restoration, Traditional House, Edirne

scholarly journals The Spaces of Nostalgia(s) and the Politics of Belonging in Contemporary Chernivtsi, Western Ukraine

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Koziura
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Second World War ◽  
City Center ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

This article is part of the special cluster titled Bukovina and Bukovinians after the Second World War: (Re)shaping and (re)thinking a region after genocide and ‘ethnic unmixing’, guest edited by Gaëlle Fisher and Maren Röger. This article explores ways in which Habsburg nostalgia has become an important factor in contemporary place-making strategies in the city of Chernivtsi, Western Ukraine. Through the analysis of diasporic homecomings, city center revitalization, and nationalist rhetoric surrounding the politics of monuments, I explore hybrid and diverse ways in which Habsburg nostalgia operates in a given setting. Rather than a static and homogenous form of place attachment, in Chernivtsi different cultural practices associated with Habsburg nostalgia coexist with each other and depending on the political context as well as the social position of the “nostalgic agents” manifest themselves differently. Drawing from my long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that in order to fully understand individuals’ attachment to space, it is necessary to grasp both the subtle emotional ways in which the city is experienced by individuals as well as problematize the role of the built environment in the visualization of collective memory and emotions of particular groups. The focus on changing manifestations of the Habsburg nostalgia can bring then a better understanding of the range and scope of the city’s symbolic resources that might be mobilized for various purposes.

scholarly journals Housing and living conditions of working youth in the plants of Buryat-Mongolian ASSR during the Great Patriotic War

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-93
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Nikolaevna Soboleva
Keyword(s):  
Living Conditions ◽  
Industrial Plant ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Poor Nutrition ◽  
The City

The object of this research is the youth of Buryat-Mongolian ASSR as most active social group within the social structure of 1941 – 1945, which was the major source for replenishment of labor reserves. The subject of this research is the examination of core financial and social problems faced by the youth working at the defense industry plants of the republic. Special attention is given to analysis of the impact of wartime struggles and hardships upon household and food procurement. It is noted that shortage of housing, low salaries, insecure life, poor nutrition, deficit of clothing and footwear often led breach of employee discipline. The article explores the important vectors in the activity of Komsomol with regards to housing and living conditions, as well as various forms of financial and psychological incentives that promote adaptation of youth to working at the industrial plant. The scientific novelty consists in introduction into the scientific discourse of a number of previously unpublished source that were collected specifically for this research. As a result of the conducted research, it was established that working youth, who for the most part came from rural localities to the city, were put in quite difficult social and living conditions, experiencing critical problems in the process of adaptation; however, they accomplished significant labor achievements and made their contribution to the common Victory.

Women, Food, and Diet in the Middle Ages

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Vaughan
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Great Book ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Food Material ◽  
Early Modern Italy ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Accounts ◽  
The City

Latini’s masterpiece of Baroque cooking and household management was the first book to publish recipes using tomatoes and chilli peppers. This first complete English translation presents the text with contextual introduction and notes to aid the reader’s understanding. The Modern Steward was published in Naples in 1692-94, when the city was a major cultural centre. It includes a wealth of recipes, plus discussions of the kitchen and serving staff, setting the table, menus, protocol, entertainment, and wines. There are also sections on health, accounts of specific banquets, and even a description of an eruption of Vesuvius. It is the last great book of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque cooking tradition. Latini was also interested in local ingredients and customs, and open to new French trends. The book will interest historians of early modern Italy, food, material culture, and the social and cultural life of the European elites, as well as connoisseurs of fine dining, and cooks.

Out of Tlatelolco’s Ruins: Patronage, Devotion, and Natural Disaster at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, 1745–1781

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ramírez ◽  
William B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Social ◽  
Promotional Efforts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bourbon Reforms ◽  
Disease Epidemics ◽  
The City

Abstract Colonial inhabitants of Mexico City were accustomed to coping with natural disasters, including disease epidemics, droughts, floods, and earthquakes, which menaced rich and poor alike and stirred fervent devotion to miraculous images and their shrines. This article revisits the late colonial history of the shrine of Our Lady of the Angels, an image preserved miraculously on an adobe wall in the Indian quarter of Santiago Tlatelolco. The assumption has been that archiepiscopal authorities aiming to deflect public worship toward a more austere, interior spirituality suppressed activities there after 1745 because they saw the devotion as excessively Indian and Baroque. The shrine has served as a barometer of eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms even though its story has not been fully told. This article explores the politics of patronage in the years after the shrine’s closure and in the decades prior to the arrival on the scene of a new Spanish patron in 1776, revealing that Indian caretakers kept the faith well beyond the official intervention, with some help from well-placed Spanish devotees and officials. The efforts of the new patron, a Spanish tailor from the city center, to renovate the building and image and secure the necessary permissions and privileges helped transform the site into one of the most famous in the capital. Attention to earlier patterns of patronage and to the social response to a series of tremors that coincided with his promotional efforts helps to explain why a devotion so carefully managed for enlightened audiences was nevertheless cut from old cloth.

The Meaningful City

2019 ◽  
pp. 465-486
Author(s):  
Ruth Yeoman
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

This chapter applies the value of meaningfulness to a philosophy of the city. It argues that philosophies of the city can supply smart and sustainable city initiatives with human values and attention to the common good which they currently lack. By bringing the value of meaningfulness into a description of city-making, the chapter shows how city people have responsibilities to make the city when the activities of social cooperation associated with discharging such responsibilities are constituted by freedom, autonomy, and dignity, and when the social interactions of meaning-making are just. The features of an ethico-normative architecture which is capable of promoting city-level meaningfulness are specified. These include three core elements: public meaningfulness; the society of meaning-makers; and agonistic republicanism. City-making organized to manifest these features will generate a rich diversity of meaning sources on which city people can draw to craft meaningfulness in life and in work.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Architectural Characteristics for Conservation Decisions of Değirmendağı, İzmir, Turkey

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 1143-1148
Author(s):  
Çağlayan Deniz Kaplan ◽  
Fulya Murtezaoğlu ◽  
Özge Akbulut ◽  
Başak İpekoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Review ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
City Center ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Area ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
The City

Historical settlements, which are integral parts of the cultural heritage, should be documented and evaluated with their local characteristics. The aim of this study is to document, analyze and evaluate the architectural, environmental and social characteristics of an urban settlement called Değirmendağı District, which has a historical background beginning with the Roman period to the present, in the center of metropolitan city of İzmir, on the Aegean coast of Turkey. The settlement is one of the earliest that was planned by local administration in İzmir and contributes to the İzmir silhouette with its location on a steep hillside in the township of Konak. Documentation methods used are sketches, photography and architectural and social questionnaires. Inventory cards were prepared to collect architectural characteristics of each building and the social questionnaires were comprised of socio–economic characteristics of the settlers. Data gathered at the site was analyzed and evaluated to develop a conservation approach, including historical review of the ancient era. Since the area is easily accessible and close to city center, the area becomes attractive. It has the advantage of the vista based on its inclined topography and grid-planned scheme. Değirmendağı District is a special area requiring special conservation within the city of İzmir. However, historical pattern has changed through the years because of changing lifestyle. The area, which is one of the most important and valuable districts in İzmir considering its history, location, and architectural characteristics should be integrated with the city and citizens. This study documents the present potentials and values of the area and forms a basis to prepare conservation approaches.

scholarly journals A study on family opinions concerning services provided in special education centers

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Necla Isıkdogan Ugurlu ◽  
Nilay Kayhan
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
City Center ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Special Education Process ◽  
The City

This study is to diagnose and evaluate children with different special needs medically and educationally, and as a result of those evaluations, to identify families’ expectations, opinions and suggestions concerning the special education process, services and the functioning of special education institutions. The mothers of 5 children who attended special education centers located in the city center of Nicosia in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, were included. The data of the study was gathered through semi-structured interviews and the study has been designed with the research method qualitatively. The opinions of mothers were gathered under 5 main themes. The study results show that children who were diagnosed/evaluated at an early stage were integrated into education earlier and benefit more from special education institutions compared to other children. Furthermore, another conclusion of the study is that mothers’ anxiety and stress decreases as the social support they receive increases.

scholarly journals Parameters for Public Space Architecture. Informal Commerce Dynamics, as an Opportunity to Stimulate Urban Scenarios. Case Study Cali-Colombia

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Gustavo Arteaga ◽  
Edier Segura ◽  
Diego Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
City Center ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Space Architecture ◽  
The City

In the last decades, the occupation of the pedestrian routes and in general of the public space in the city center of Cali Colombia, have been evidencing diverse phenomena, which to a great extent respond to the accelerated growth of the urban population, where the migrations that have occurred in the interior of the country (fruit of the social conflicts of the last decades), have particularly marked the realities. In Cali, on 10th and 15th streets, near the Government Building, the Palace of Justice and the Municipal Administrative Center - CAM, the public space in general terms has been stressed in a particular way, which has generated conflicts in the surfaces designed for the pedestrians, since they are occupied by vendors in the midst of the informality routines, forcing the pedestrian to use the automobile tracks being a notorious and interesting phenomenon, when observing the factors that produce it and using them as parameters in the design of architectural spaces that contribute to improvement.

Penilaian Kawasan Industri Kariangau Menggunakan Indeks Keberlanjutan Kawasan Industri Tepi Air (IKKITA

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Agus Fitrianto ◽  
Abdul Rachman Rasyid ◽  
Slamet Trisutomo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Industrial Estate ◽  
Protected Forests ◽  
The Social ◽  
Indicator Variables ◽  
The Status ◽  
Spatial Analysis Method ◽  
The City

Kawasan Industri Kariangau yang terletak dikota Balikpapan merupakan kawasan industri terintegrasi, dimana kawasan ini bersinggungan dengan teluk, aliran sungai Wain, hutan lindung, serta pemukiman masyarakat. Perkembangan kawasan industri perkotaan mengakibatkan berbagai dampak terhadap lingkungan salah satunya alih fungsi lahan, kemudian pergerakan ekonomi dan perkembangan sosial kemasyarakatan. Penelitian yang dilakukan pada kawasan industri Kariangau khususnya ditepi air bertujuan untuk mengetahui status keberlanjutan kawasan, dengan menggunakan metode analisis spasial yang divalidasi dengan data observasi dilapangan dan rujukan, kemudian dinilai berdasarkan Indeks Keberlanjutan Kawasan Industri Tepi Air (IKKITA), melalui 9 variabel indikator dari pilar utama keberlanjutan, yaitu aspek sosial, ekonomi dan lingkungan yang sudah dirumuskan pada penelitian sebelumnya. Hasil dari penilaian keberlanjutan kawasan industri Kariangau ditepi air dapat dikategorikan dengan status berkelanjutan, namun telah ditemukan salah satu indikator dari aspek sosial yaitu Indikator Ketersediaan Sumber Air PDAM memiliki skor dibawah 0,75 yang berarti tidak berkelanjutan, sehingga status berkelanjutan kawasan menjadi tidak mutlak.   Abstract Kariangau Industrial Estate, located in the city of Balikpapan, is an integrated industrial area, where this area intersects with the bay, the Wain river, protected forests and community settlements. The development of urban industrial areas has resulted in various impacts on the environment, such land use displacement, economic movement and social development society. This research was helded in the Kariangau industrial area, especially on the waterfront, to determine the status of the area's sustainability, using a validated spatial analysis method with field observation and reference data, then the assessment based on The Sustainability Index of Waterfront Industrial Estate (IKKITA), there are 9 indicator variables from the main pillars sustainability, the social, economic and environmental aspects, those are have been formulated in previous researche. The results of the sustainability assessment of the Kariangau industrial area is can be categorized as sustainable, but it is founded that one indicator from the social aspect, the Indicator PDAM Water resource Availability is has a score below 0.75 which means it is not sustainable, so that the sustainable status of the area is not absolute

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