Notícias de jornal como procedimento metodológico para análise episódica (1985, 1995 e 2009) de enchentes do rio Poti em Teresina – Piauí

R E S U M OO presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar, sob a utilização de notícias de jornal como procedimento metodológico, as enchentes do rio Poti na cidade de Teresina/Piauí, durante os episódios de 1985, 1995 e 2009. Metodologicamente, adotou-se: conhecimentos teóricos do Sistema Socioambiental Urbano; análise dos dados diários de chuva no período de 30 anos (1981 a 2010) manipulados pelo balanço hídrico climatológico; utilização de notícias de jornal (jornal O Dia e TV Cidade Verde); e, por fim, análise interpretativa. Dessa forma, em 1985 registrou-se o maior volume de precipitação naqueles últimos vinte anos, como expressa a capa do O Dia sobre a maior enchente dos últimos dez anos. No episódio de 1995, o Jornal O Dia destacou que após 20 dias consecutivos de chuvas o rio Poti ultrapassou em 6 metros a cota normal, em decorrência principalmente dos temporais à montante. Já no episódio de 2009, a imprensa local destacou que as chuvas são as maiores desde 2001 resultando no decreto de emergência na capital associado aos eventos pluviométricos intensos no período de janeiro a abril correspondendo a 87,7% do esperado para todo o ano. Destarte, o cruzamento de informações técnico-científicas e aquelas de notícias de jornal possibilitou compreender o processo de adensamento urbano, as dinâmicas das chuvas e como tal relação se comportou ao longo da faixa temporal, o que legitima uma série de construções e ressignificações da memória relacionando chuva, dinâmica do rio Poti e população ribeirinha.Palavras-chave: Chuva, Rio, Jornal, Episódio, Desastre, Teresina. Newspaper stories as a methodological procedure for episodic analysis (1985, 1995 and 2009) of the Poti river floods in Teresina – Piauí A B S T R A C TThis study aims to analyze, in the use of newspaper reports as a methodological procedure, the flooding of the river Poti in the city of Teresina / Piauí, during episodes of 1985, 1995 and 2009. In terms of methodology was adopted: theoretical knowledge System Social-Environmental Urban; analysis of daily rainfall data in the 30-year period (1981-2010) handled by the climatic water balance; use of newspaper reports (newspaper O Dia and TV Cidade Verde); and finally, interpretative analysis. Thus, in 1985 it was the one that registered the highest volume of rainfall in those last twenty years, as expressed the cover of O Dia of the greatest flood of the past ten years. In episode 1995 Jornal O Dia pointed out that, after 20 consecutive days of rain the Poti river exceeded 6 meters in the normal quota, mainly due to the time upstream. Already in the episode, 2009 local media pointed out that rainfall is the highest since 2001 resulting in the emergency decree in the capital associated with intense rainfall events in the period from January to April corresponding to 87.7% of the expected full-year. Thus, the intersection of technical and scientific information and those of newspaper news possible to understand the urban densification process, the dynamics of rainfall and how this relationship behaved along the temporal range, which legitimizes a number of buildings and reinterpretation of memory relating rain, dynamics and Poti river local population.Keywords: Rain, River, Newspaper, Episode, Disaster, Teresina.

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The Metonymic Urbanism of Twenty-first-century Mumbai

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098012452458 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 49 (13) ◽

pp. 2955-2973 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Andrew Harris

Keyword(s):

Policy Formation ◽

First Century ◽

Urban Research ◽

European Cities ◽

The Past ◽

Urban Analysis ◽

The City ◽

Geographical Imaginations ◽

Opening Up ◽

Research And Policy

Over the past decade, Mumbai has increasingly been understood as representative of new forms, trajectories and processes of 21st-century urbanism. This has been a welcome rejoinder to a continued predominance of North American and European cities within international urban research and debate. Yet it is important to query what theory cultures and geographical imaginations have been mapped onto Mumbai in this recent emphasis on the city. This paper argues that, unless Mumbai’s specificities and grounded realities are used to disrupt and reframe existing urban analysis, there is a risk of replicating the comparative perspectives and visions of élite policy-making. This does not mean conferring paradigmatic status on Mumbai or isolating Mumbai as an exceptional form of contemporary urbanism, but instead generating new theoretical dialogue and opening up new channels of urban research and policy formation within a wider world of cities.

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Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home

Critical Sociology ◽

10.1177/0896920520980522 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089692052098052

Author(s):

Ilker Ataç ◽

Kim Rygiel ◽

Maurice Stierl

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

The Other ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Special Issue ◽

Civil Society Organisation ◽

European Cities ◽

The Past ◽

The One ◽

Diverse Groups ◽

The City

Over the past years, we have seen a rise in political mobilisations in EUrope and elsewhere, by and in solidarity with migrant newcomers. This article focuses on specific examples of what we conceptualise as transversal solidarities by and with migrants, and rooted in the city, the focus of this special issue. The examples we explore in this article include: Trampoline House, a civil society organisation which provides a home to migrant newcomers in Copenhagen; Queer Base, an activist organisation in Vienna providing support for LGBTIQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) migrants; and finally, the Palermo Charter Process, a coalition of diverse groups seeking to create open harbours and ‘corridors of solidarity’, from the Mediterranean to cities throughout EUrope. While these examples are situated in and across different urban spaces, they share a common grounding in building solidarity through spaces of encounters related to ideas of home, community, and harbour. By exploring these distinct solidarity initiatives in tandem, we examine, on the one hand, how the production of spaces of encounters is linked to building transversal solidarities and, on the other, how transversal solidarities also connect different spaces of solidarity across different political scales.

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Estimation of daily runoff coefficient of the pervious surfaces for the climate conditions of the city of Lviv

Environmental Problems ◽

10.23939/ep2020.03.136 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 136-142

Author(s):

Volodymyr Zhuk ◽

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Lesya Vovk ◽

Pavlo Mysak ◽

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Keyword(s):

Return Period ◽

Daily Rainfall ◽

Curve Number ◽

Runoff Coefficient ◽

Rainfall Events ◽

Climate Conditions ◽

Method Of Calculation ◽

Geological Conditions ◽

The City ◽

Maximum Daily Rainfall

The method of calculation of daily runoff coefficients based on the SCS USDA curve number method is presented in this paper. The calculated values of daily runoff coefficients for climatic and geological conditions of the city of Lviv for maximum daily rainfall events with a return period of 0.1 – 5 years are obtained.

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Increase in the frequency of heavy rainfall events over the UK in the light of climate change.

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11025 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Cotterill ◽

Peter Stott ◽

Elizabeth Kendon

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

High Resolution ◽

Heavy Rainfall ◽

Daily Rainfall ◽

Heavy Rainfall Event ◽

Climate Projections ◽

Intense Rainfall ◽

Rainfall Events ◽

Climate Forcings ◽

The Uk

<p>We investigate the attribution of the flooding in Northern England that saw at least 500 homes flooded and over 1000 properties evacuated in flooded areas in 2019. This occurred during the wettest Autumn on record in some areas and also contained some very high daily rainfall totals. In the light of climate change, it is expected that intense rainfall events are to become more intense as a result of increased global average temperatures and the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, but here we investigate quantitatively how much climate change has increased the risk of such an event to date.</p><p>We use results from the 2.2km convective permitting high resolution local UK Climate Projections (UKCP) and observations to show that more intense rainfall events may already be occurring in Autumn in the UK. This work shows using this high resolution UKCP data that a heavy rainfall event exceeding 50mm in one day in Autumn was 33-40% more likely to occur in 2019 than 1985. Further work that looks at the HadGEM3-A simulations shows that these heavy rainfall days are more likely to occur in a climate impacted by human activity than one with just natural climate forcings.</p>

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Classification of Intense Rainfall Days in Southern West Africa and Associated Atmospheric Circulation

Atmosphere ◽

10.3390/atmos11020188 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 188

Author(s):

Pierre Camberlin ◽

Marc Kpanou ◽

Pascal Roucou

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

Atmospheric Circulation ◽

Daily Rainfall ◽

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission ◽

Heavy Precipitation ◽

Reanalysis Data ◽

Intense Rainfall ◽

Rainfall Events ◽

Easterly Waves ◽

Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies

Daily rainfall in southern West Africa (4–8° N, 7° W–3° E) is analyzed with the aim of documenting the intense rainfall events which occur in coastal Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. The daily 99th percentile (P99) shows that the coastline experiences higher intensity rainfall than inland areas. Using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) rainfall data for 1998–2014, a novel way of classifying the intense events is proposed. We consider their space-time structure over a window of 8° latitude-longitude and five days centered on the event. A total 39,680 events (62 at each location) are classified into three major types, mainly found over the oceanic regions south of 5° N, the Bight of Benin, and the inland regions respectively. These types display quite distinct rainfall patterns, propagation features, and seasonal occurrence. Three inland subtypes are also defined. The atmospheric circulation anomalies associated with each type are examined from ERA-interim reanalysis data. Intense rainfall events over the continent are mainly a result of westward propagating disturbances. Over the Gulf of Guinea, many intense events occur as a combination of atmospheric disturbances propagating westward (mid-tropospheric easterly waves or cyclonic vortices) and eastward (lower tropospheric zonal wind and moisture anomalies hypothesized to reflect Kelvin waves). Along the coast, there is a mixture of different types of rainfall events, often associated with interacting eastward- and westward-moving disturbances, which complicates the monitoring of heavy precipitation.

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Spatial Contingencies in Thucydides' History

Classical Antiquity ◽

10.1525/ca.2007.26.2.171 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 171-218

Author(s):

Karen Bassi

Keyword(s):

Comprehensive Approach ◽

The Other ◽

The Political ◽

The Past ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

Abstract This paper argues that spatial contingencies, defined by the relationship between where historical actors are in the narrative and what they say, are crucial for understanding the political and ideological effects of Thucydides' History. A comprehensive approach to these contingencies is linked to two related premises. First, that the city of Athens is the principal spatial referent in the History and, second, that Athens refers both to a set of ““real”” topographical features and to a transcendent and trans-historical ideal that exceeds those features. The dynamic between these two is mediated by Athens' inevitable defeat and by the related conflict between the History as the presentation of facts about the past, on the one hand, and as the source of future predictions, on the other. Framing this analysis are the distinctive characteristics ascribed to the Athenians as a collective and to the positions of Thucydides and Alcibiades as Athenians in exile.

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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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Earthquakes in Rome during the past one hundred years

Annals of Geophysics ◽

10.4401/ag-4070 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 38 (5-6) ◽

Author(s):

A. Tertulliani ◽

F. Riguzzi

Keyword(s):

Macroseismic Data ◽

Motion Modeling ◽

Alluvial Deposits ◽

The Past ◽

Tiber River ◽

Close Relationship ◽

Local Geology ◽

The One ◽

The Right ◽

The City

We have studied the seismic response of the city of Rome using the available macroseismic data of local earthquakes which occurred during the past one hundred years. These earthquakes were generated by three dislinct seismogenic sources falling within the present extent of Rome. The comparison with the effect produced in Rome by a large Apennine earthquake (January 13. 1915) suggests that the damage patterns are similar and that they are mainly controlled by the local geology and morphology. The analysis shows that most of the damage was concentrated in buildings located on alluvial deposits of the Tiber River rather than in buildings underlain by different lithologies. In addition, the largest concentration of heavy darnage occurred in buildings located on the alluvial deposits of the right-hand side of the Tiber River valley, and particularly where the buried interface between Holocene and Pliocene deposits is steepest. This close relationship between damage pattern on the one hand, and geology and geometry of the shallowest deposits on the other hand, supports the results of ground motion modeling studies of the same area and similar observations collected in different regions of the world during large earthquakes.

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Urbanismo Colaborativo

Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística ◽

10.20868/ciur.2017.115.3680 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Carmen Moreno Balboa

Keyword(s):

Living Conditions ◽

The Other ◽

General Interest ◽

The Real ◽

The Past ◽

Government Functions ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Subject ◽

The One ◽

The City

¿Ha cambiado el concepto de ciudad en tan sólo 2400 años? Si la ciudad la componen los ciudadanos ¿son éstos distintos de los ciudadanos de las antiguas polis? Si el ciudadano es quien participa en las funciones de gobierno de su ciudad, ¿quién es ahora realmente, ciudadano? ¿Quién quiere serlo? y quién quisiera participar de dichas funciones, ¿cómo podría conseguirlo?En la sociedad actual se producen dos situaciones antagónicas que afectan al desarrollo de la ciudad, por un lado las administraciones, actuando orientadas al interés general, reconocen pero congelan las posibilidades de participar de la población en el urbanismo y la creación de ciudad; y por otro lado la sociedad se mueve y actúa al margen de las administraciones en la mejora de su entorno y sus condiciones de vida, desde las denominadas iniciativas urbanas. Cuáles son los motivos de esta situación y cómo hacer que ambos movimientos coincidan en la generación del denominado “Urbanismo Colaborativo”, es el objeto de este trabajo.AbstractHas the concept of city changed in only the past 2400 years? If the city is the one consisting the citizens, are these any different of the citizens ancient polis? If the citizen is one participating in his city’s government functions, who is the real citizen now a days? Who wants to be one? Who wants to participate in those functions? How could someone acomplish that?In today’s society, there are two antagonistic situations that are affecting the development of the city, on the one hand the administrations, acting orientated to the general interest, they recognize but freeze the possibilities that the citizens have of participating in urbanism and the creation of the city. And on the other hand, the society moves and acts outside of the administrations for the improvement of their environment and their living conditions, doing this from the named urban initiatives. What causes this situation and how to put together both movements and for them to agree in the generation of the named “Collaborative Urbanism” is the subject and what this study wants to acomplish.

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DECOM JOB: NOTES ON THE DECOMMUNIZATION OF CITY SPACES

Mìsto ìstorìâ kulʹtura suspìlʹstvo ◽

10.15407/mics2017.02.152 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 152-165

Author(s):

Svitlana Shlipchenko

Keyword(s):

Public Spaces ◽

Public Parks ◽

The Public ◽

Contentious Issue ◽

The Past ◽

Complete Ignorance ◽

Historical Heritage ◽

Monuments And Memorials ◽

The One ◽

The City

Following Maidan-2014 and subsequent political changes, the processes of de-communization in Ukraine have considerably accelerated and received the new impetus. The Parliament adopted a number of laws and legal acts concerning toponyms, monuments, and memorials, communist symbols, etc. thatwere to be removed from public spaces. The new legislation applied equally to open public spaces of the cities and villages (streets, squares, piazzas, public parks) and to the spaces of public use (municipal and government buildings, museums, underground stations, universities, schools, etc.). Leaving certainlacunas (e.g. using communist symbols in mass consumerist culture) and not specifying the ways and means the laws were to be implemented, the parliamentary acts gave way to numerous conflicts and misunderstandings, when the incessant confrontations with a painful past shape political attitudes.Furthermore, these processes call for re-conceptualizing the ways the past is set into the work of memory and represented in the city spaces. In the same breath, it resulted in mostly spontaneous, even hectic application of the provisions, and remains the contentious issue for the public, experts andlocal authorities alike. On the one hand, we see démontage, removal or dismantling/demolition of the objects that the experts tend to see as a part of the cultural or historical heritage, but which so far are not listed or assigned as such. While on the other hand, it works towards complete ignorance from the part of local authorities if not setting the conflicts between local communities. The paperwill look at certain cases and practices of ‘de-communization’ in Ukrainian cities and analyze its pro-s and contra-s.

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