scholarly journals Russian Metropolitan Railway Stations as Historical Architectural Masterpieces

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-148
Author(s):  
D. Yu. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Human Relations ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

According to the author of the article, the appearance of the first railway stations immediately became the most striking image of the time. The history of the architecture of Russian railway stations begins at the same time when the first railway in Russia was built connecting St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk. Previously existing post stations and the so-called road imperial palaces served prototypes for railway stations.The railway station is, first, a story in which both the most interesting architectural and social plots collide. The railway station offers passengers the most vivid images of our time. The architects who designed the first railway stations had to solve problems that no one had ever encountered before: to cover train sheds by a roof, to design platforms, lighting, ventilation, acoustics... All this made the railway station the most technically enriched architectural genre of its time. And in this sense, the railway station architecture is a very interesting plot, in which everything changes very quickly and where all human relations are very aggravated. Therefore, the railway station is a condensed replica of society. Therefore, at the railway station, you can always very clearly see how society is organised. For example, at imperial railway stations, division of passengers per travel classes was obvious and inherent in the architectural program itself. The imperial pavilions, the imperial rooms also make part of the story... The railway station is, first, an image of modernity, mobility and a history of boundaries between the country and the city. This is especially interesting in the case of metropolitan railway stations. 

scholarly journals PERSISTÊNCIA NO ESPAÇO URBANO DOS EDIFÍCIOS DA DÉCADA DE 1940 EM PRESIDENTE PRUDENTE-SP - A ESTAÇÃO FERROVIÁRIA: INVENTÁRIO E SALVAGUARDA

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
Aviter Bordinhon Ribeira
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Art Deco ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Building

The objective of this study is to conduct an investigation about architectural heritage of Presidente Prudente. The study approaches about the building of the railway station from the 1940s, features art-deco and protomoderno, which still remains in the city space.The first building was inaugurated in 1926 and it had to be demolished, because, a newstation, bigger and more modern building would be built at the same place; it was inaugurated in 1944. Disabling the railway in Brazil generated the abandonment and/or changed the functionality of the railway stations.;in the case of Presidente Prudente it has housed the Procon Foundation and SEMST, whose building has undergone modifications and changes to accord new uses. Therefore, the research developed the inventory of the Railway Station ranging from historical documentation, photographic surveys, architectural-metric and also the diagnosis of their current condition.

Simulating Passenger Evacuation in Railway Station under Fire Emergency using Safe Zone Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 2674 (11) ◽  
pp. 806-812
Author(s):  
Amir Hossein Salarian ◽  
Aida Mashhadizadeh ◽  
Morteza Bagheri
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Evacuation ◽  
Safe Zone ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Evacuation Time ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The City ◽  
Safe Zones

Railway stations are usually considered to be one of the main gathering centers of the city; thus, in the event of any incident, there will be significant casualties. The purpose of this study is to simulate strategies for reducing the evacuation time of the railway station in the event of fire using a safe zone approach with simulation software. To reduce the evacuation time, 18 scenarios were introduced and simulated according to (1) number of gates and exit doors, (2) width of the gates, (3) obstacles, (4) priority of the exit doors, and (5) safe zone. The results show that the best evacuation time occurs by increasing the number of exit doors from two to four and considering a safe zone simultaneously; the evacuation time is reduced by 7 min and 19 s. Using safe zones for emergency evacuation has a significant role in reducing evacuation time and improving service levels. Interestingly, the removal of gates and obstacles would increase the evacuation time of passengers. The proposed model could be used for renovating existing railway stations to decrease the consequences of accidents such as fire.

scholarly journals ARCHITECTURE OF THE RAILWAY STATIONS HOLOBY AND KOVEL IN THE WORK OF O. M. VERBYTSKYI

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Mykola Nazaruk
Keyword(s):  
Town Planning ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
General Observation ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
The World ◽  
Spatial Composition ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning

Annotation text. Architecture of the late XIX – early ХХ century causes great interest in researchers. At this time, railways and railway stations were actively built all over the world. At this time also, a new architectural style, called Art Nouveau, has distributed around the world. The representative of this style in Ukraine is the architect O. M. Verbytskyi, whose work is largely reflected in the architecture of railway station complexes. Today, the question arises of restoring the original appearance of historic architectural objects, including railway stations. Therefore, the research of  history railway, and also the research of town-planning, planning, volume-spatial structure and stylistics of the railway station complexes as a type of buildings are relevant in the framework of historical and architectural researches of Volhynia in the second half of XIX – early ХХ century. The research methodology is based on general (observation, comparative analysis, etc.), interdisciplinary (structuring, classification, etc.) and disciplinary, that inlude architectural and town-planning (analysis of the urban situation, functional structure and morphology of individual buildings and their complexes) research methods. Holoby and Kovel railway stations are original and exquisite buildings by their architecture. The volume-spatial solutions of the Holoby and Kovel railway stations are characterized by the following features: innovation, architectural expressiveness, boldness of compositional solutions, combination of curvilinear forms with rectilinear ones, Art Nouveau style. The article deals with the history of creation, planning structure, volume-spatial composition and stylistics of the railway stations Holoby and Kovel, which are designed by the outstanding Ukrainian architect O. M. Verbytskyi and built in the beginning of the ХХ century.

scholarly journals Railway and railway station as urbanistic concepts in works of S. Zhadan

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Urban Place ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the important subject of modern cultural study – to the studying of meanings of the urban terms «railway» and «railway station» in fiction. The research is interdisciplinary, because it’s based on the idea of the death of author by famous literary critic and thorist roland barthes. Moreover, the article engages in discussion of the problem historians, philosophers and other humanities. Such approach allows overflow the traditional biographical analyze and interline the works of the author in wider context. The resources of the article are the fiction by famous ukrainian writer serhiy zhadan, which was written during last 25 years. For the analyze were used not only prose, but poems and even songs. Fiction by s. Zhadan was chosen for research because the narrative created by him can be called popular among the different groups of peoples, and then it can be called the depository of collective meanings. Besides this, we need to stress, that in the article the research of the meanings articulated by author was analyzed not through his biography but through the general discourse, which – according to r. Barthes – is described in the fiction of writer. That is why the author’s narrative, which is conditioned by discourse, transformed into the vocabulary of common meanings of society, who create this discourse. During the work on the article the next meanings of the concept «railway» was stressed: the point of the begin and the end, the place of transit, the special place as «the city in the city», the element, which changes urban place around it and gives it new associations. The «railway station» as a concept is understanding in literature as the process of travelling, it symbolized the moving and transferring states of subject (as individual, and as collective). The meanings which were find were comparable with the architectural view of the ukrainian railway stations and with this how the appearance of railway and railway station changed the urban logic of city. Due to this comparable the several practice ideas about the place of railway in urban space were found.

scholarly journals 15-Min Station: A Case Study in North Italy City to Evaluate the Livability of an Area

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10246
Author(s):  
Fabio Borghetti ◽  
Cristian Giovanni Colombo ◽  
Michela Longo ◽  
Renato Mazzoncini ◽  
Leonardo Cesarini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Lombardy Region ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Railway System ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

The goal of this work is to apply the idea of the city in 15 min to railway stations that can become the starting point of the analysis as they represent the “gateway”, where users start their last mile of travel after getting off the train. Within the research, 11 railway stations located in the Lombardy Region in Italy were identified and analyzed. To perform the analysis, an analytical index was implemented and determined for each station: this index summarizes the main features of the station itself in relation to the territory in which it is located. The adopted approach is comparative: it is not important the absolute value of the index of each station, but the comparison between the different indices. In this way it is possible on the one hand to classify the stations and on the other hand to identify and propose possible interventions to improve the role of a railway station in a territory. The proposed model is expandable and replicable: it is possible to add other useful indicators for the calculation of the index of each station and it is also possible to perform the analysis in different territorial contexts. In fact, it is a decision support tool able to provide indications and information for the planning and programming of the railway system and of the city; among the potential users of the proposed model there are railway station managers and administrations.

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.

Review: Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina en LA by Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl Villa, and Michael J. Dear (eds.)

1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-128
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The City ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

Throughout the twentieth century (and now the twenty-first), the specter of a Latina/o past, present, and future has haunted the myth of Los Angeles as a sunny, bucolic paradise. At the same time it has loomed behind narratives of the city as a dystopic, urban nightmare. In the 1940s Carey McWilliams pointed to the fabrication of a “Spanish fantasy heritage” that made Los Angeles the bygone home of fair señoritas, genteel caballeros and benevolent mission padres. Meanwhile, the dominant Angeleno press invented a “zoot” (read Mexican-American) crime wave. Unlike the aristocratic, European Californias/os of lore, the Mexican/American “gangsters” of the 1940s were described as racial mongrels. What's more, the newspapers explicitly identified them as the sons and daughters of immigrants-thus eliding any link they may have had to the Californias/os of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or to the history of Los Angeles in general.

Appreciation of the importance of pregravid preparation and reproductive attitudes of women of childbearing age in the city of Omsk

GYNECOLOGY ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
E N Kravchenko ◽  
R A Morgunov
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Childbearing Age ◽  
Childbearing Age ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Perinatal Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group A ◽  
Group B ◽  
Complicated Pregnancy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The aim of the study. Assess the importance of pregravid preparation and outcomes of pregnancy and childbirth, depending on the reproductive attitudes of women in the city of Omsk. Materials and methods. The study included 92 women who were divided into groups: group A (n=43) - women whose pregnancy was planned; group B (n=49) - women whose pregnancy occurred accidentally. Each group was divided into subgroups depending on age: from 18 to 30 and from 31 to 49 years. For each patient included in the study, a specially designed map was filled out. These patients were interviewed at the City Clinical Perinatal Center. Results. Comparative analysis revealed the relationship between the reproductive settings of women of childbearing age and the peculiarity of the course of pregnancy and childbirth in these patients. Summary. The majority of women of fertile age are married: in subgroup AA - 25 (96.2%), AB - 13 (76.5%), BA - 25 (92.6%), BB - 20 (91.0%). The predominant number of women of fertile age have one or more abortions: in subgroup AA - 12 (46.2%), AB - 6 (35.3%), in subgroups of comparison BA - 8 (29.6%), BB - 6 (27.3%). More than half of the women of fertile age surveyed have a history of untreated cervical pathology (from 40.8% to 64.7%). The course of pregnancy in women planning pregnancy in most cases proceeded without complications: in subgroup AA - 13 (50.0%), AB - 11 (64.7%). The most common cause of complicated pregnancy in women whose pregnancy occurred accidentally is the threat of spontaneous miscarriage: in subgroup BA - 15 (55.6%), BB - 16 (72.7%). The uncomplicated course of labor more often [subgroup AA - 19 (73.0%), AB - 12 (70.6%)] was observed in women whose pregnancy was planned and they were motivated to give birth to a healthy child.

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