Copenhagen: contenimento della disuguaglianza o aumento della segregazione?

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Roberta Cucca
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Housing Stock ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Generous Welfare

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Copenhagen was represented as the ‘welfare city', in consideration of the high percentage of the labour force employed in the public sector, the share of social housing that characterized its housing stock and the support furnished by one of the most generous welfare systems in the world. Following a substantial financial crisis in the early 1990s and action taken by a central government ori¬ented towards introducing a more neo-laissez-faire idea of urban development for its capital, the profile of the city was greatly modified. This paper describes the major transformations that have occurred, and in particular sheds light on how, alongside a process of economic rebirth of the city, which thanks to major infrastructural interventions became the most important hub in Northern Europe as well as one of the most liveable and sustain¬able cities in the world, transformations were begun that created a serious crisis for its social model.

Sex in the City that Peter Built: The Demimonde and Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth Century St. Petersburg

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 907-930
Author(s):  
Igor Fedyukin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Associational Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The City

This article uses the materials of the Drezdensha affair, a large-scale investigation of “indecency” in St. Petersburg in 1750, to explore unofficial sociability among the Imperial elite, and to map out the institutional, social, and economic dimensions of the post-Petrine “sexual underworld.” Sociability and, ultimately, the public sphere in eighteenth century Russia are usually associated with loftier practices, with joining the ranks of the reading public, reflecting on the public good, and generally, becoming more civil and polite. Yet, it is the privately-run, commercially-oriented, and sexually-charged “parties” at the focus of this article that arguably served as a “training ground” for developing the habits of sociability. The world of these “parties” provides a missing link between the debauchery and carousing of Peter I's era and the more polite formats of associational life in the late eighteenth century, as well as the historical context for reflections on morality, sexual licentiousness, foppery, and the excesses of “westernization.”

Reconceptualizing the Public Spaces of New Urban Areas in Hanoi: The End or the New of Public-Making?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh-Tung Tran ◽  
◽  
Tien-Hau Phan ◽  
Ngoc-Huyen Chu ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Public spaces are designed and managed in many different ways. In Hanoi, after the Doi moi policy in 1986, the transfer of the public spaces creation at the neighborhood-level to the private sector has prospered na-ture of public and added a large amount of public space for the city, directly impacting on citizen's daily life, creating a new trend, new concept of public spaces. This article looks forward to understanding the public spaces-making and operating in KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) in Hanoi to answer the question of whether ‘socialization’/privatization of these public spaces will put an end to the urban public or the new means of public-making trend. Based on the comparison and literature review of studies in the world on public spaces privatization with domestic studies to see the differences in the Vietnamese context leading to differences in definitions and roles and the concept of public spaces in KDTMs of Hanoi. Through adducing and analyzing practical cases, the article also mentions the trends, the issues, the ways and the technologies of public-making and public-spaces-making in KDTMs of Hanoi. Win/loss and the relationship of the three most important influential actors in this process (municipality, KDTM owners, inhabitants/citizens) is also considered to reconceptualize the public spaces of KDTMs in Hanoi.

German Angst in a liberalised world of welfare capitalism: the hidden problem with post-conservative welfare policies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigrid Betzelt ◽  
Ingo Bode
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Welfare Reforms ◽  
Generous Welfare

This chapter provides an understanding of the emotional states of those experiencing welfare retrenchment. According to a widespread reading, Germany, subsequent to the financial crisis of the late 2000s, has seen a stunning comeback as a social model allowing for both a booming economy and generous welfare provision. However, in the recent past Germany has been facing a social crisis that is poorly understood in both the public debate and major contributions to welfare policy analysis. This crisis refers to the hostile reaction of parts of the population to the massive immigration of refugees starting in 2015, and is indicative of a more deep-seated transformation of Germany's social model — namely its creeping liberalisation. This transformation comes with a hidden problem, that is, emotional states of fear — or a new ‘German Angst’ — engendered by both path-breaking welfare reforms and a ‘de-securitised’ life course.

scholarly journals STRATEGI COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE UNTUK MEMBANGUN CITY BRANDING KOTA BATU SEBAGAI KOTA WISATA

IQTISHODUNA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Uyunur Rochmawati Miladiyah ◽  
Slamet Slamet
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
City Brand ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Globalization led to tough competition among cities around the world to win the competition toattract visitors and increase investment. Therefore, not only the company, the cities are also struggling tocreate uniqueness to gain an advantage in competition. It is very important to communicate the competitiveadvantages owned by these cities to the public and all parties to ensure the achievement of objectives. Citybranding is a method used to re-brand the city as identification which is expected to reflect the advantages aswell as its uniqueness. Therefore, in 2013 Shining Batu was introduced as a city brand wich expected to bereflect the competitive advantage of Batu City. The purpose of this study is to reveal aspects of the competitiveadvantages Batu City; strategies that are used in communicating it; as well as how big the impact of thecommunication strategy for the visitors Batu City. The paradigm of this research is qualitatively by case studydesign. Data were obtained by interview and documentation. The results showed that the Batu City has threeinterrelated aspects superior to one another that supports the creation of competitive advantages: geographicand agricultural sectors are packed in the development of the tourism sector. At the same time, the governmentdeveloped the program as a means of communicating Shining Batu and reflects the benefits of the city to thepublic. Shining Batu communicated through various forms of promotion that utilizes a wide variety ofcommunication tools; a variety of Tour Package; and held aa variety of routine and incidental events.Questionnaire showed that aim to dominate the number of respondents traveled, which consists of a visitor,where recreational tourist attractions types over a favorite choice than any natural attractions. Hotel is a topchoice for a place to stay. Most visitors make a visit to Batu City more than once.

scholarly journals Perception of public managers on the sustainability of sports mega-events: the case of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Ricardo Maia de Vasconcelos ◽  
Fernando Cabral de Macedo Filho
Keyword(s):  
World Cup ◽  
Sport Event ◽  
The Public ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Sport Events ◽  
The City

The realization of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil generated meaningful transformations in the host cities. These transformations brought concerns over the sustainability of a mega-sport event. The present study tried to understand the sustainability resulting from the World Cup in the city of Natal, Brazil, from the perspective of local public managers. This qualitative, descriptive research, whose data were inductively analyzed, used a semi-open interview composed of 24 semi-structured questions in order to obtain information from the public managers at local and state levels and who are linked to the event. As a result, the managers involved concluded that the 2014 World Cup in Natal did not serve sustainability neither leave any sustainable effects. It was also observed that the lack of sustainability was due to the lack of adequate planning and technical projects, as well as to the lack of organization and social participation in the preparation and follow-up of the works and actions necessary for its accomplishment. Among the propositions of new works, there is the recommendation to analyze how the public managers and the normative regulations are dealing with sustainability in the planning and in the projects for the realization of two other mega-sport events, the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia and the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

scholarly journals A cidade de Salvador-BA no cinema contemporâneo

GeoTextos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago De Almeida Moreira ◽  
Dante Flávio Da Costa Reis Junior
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Brazilian Cinema ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
The City

O artigo trata de representações sobre a cidade de Salvador-BA no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo, com foco no espaço público da cidade, seus aspectos principais bem como suas contradições socioespaciais. O inventário de vinte e cinco filmes apresentado contribui para a linha de pesquisa das Geografias de Cinema, em estruturação no Brasil e no mundo, pois trata de análise sobre espaço público em filmes brasileiros contemporâneos, tema ainda pouco explorado no Brasil. Abstract THE CITY OF SALVADOR-BA IN THE CONTEMPORARY CINEMA The paper deals with representations about the city of Salvador - BA in contemporary Brazilian cinema, focusing on the public space of the city, its main aspects and socio - spatial contradictions. The inventory of twenty-five films presented contributes to the line of research of the Geographies of Cinema, in structuring in Brazil and in the world, because it deals with the analysis of public space in contemporary Brazilian films, a topic still little explored in Brazil.

scholarly journals The use of Exoticism Concept as Adaptive Approach in the Representation a Destination on the Official Websites: A case of DKI Jakarta

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desloehal Djumrianti
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Portal Site ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Scope ◽  
The Media ◽  
The City

Representation of a tourist destination on the media which able to reach around the world is very crucial in order to introduce and promote it to the large scope of the public. The internet, particularly website is one of the media to let people recognise and realise a destination as the place to visit. A study found most tourists visit and explore an official website and then to respond as if they were planning to travel to the destination (Jeon, et.al, 2017). This indicates that the official website still plays an important role in tourists’ decision making pre-visiting. Jakarta, for example, as one of a tourist destination, at once is also a capital city of Indonesia, central of business in Indonesia and a modern city. Therefore, the concepts of representation play an important role to depict Jakarta as a destination, for example, the use of themes to represent Jakarta as a holiday place on the website, such as focusing on the traditional and modern Jakarta (Djumrianti, 2016). Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how the exoticism concept is used through twenty-five photos and fourteen sections of texts on the official websites which last update in 2014. The study found exoticism idea is one of the strategies used by the Jakarta government in the representation of the city on the Enjoy Jakarta website and the Portal Site of Jakarta Capital City. This concept influences on the commercialisation of Jakarta as a whole a tourist destination.

Health Considerations During the COVID-19 Outbreak

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Eduard C. Milea ◽  
Vlad-Mihai Tiucsan ◽  
Diana A. Dorobantu ◽  
Vlad Nicolae ◽  
Maria M. Tudorica ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Effects ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
The City

SARS-CoV-2, the name given to the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, was first reported in the city of Wuhan from the Hubei region of China. Officially recognised at the beginning of 2020, it rapidly spread from Wuhan to the rest of China, eventually taking hold in the rest of the world despite global efforts to contain it. Of these efforts, the most notable is the implementation of lockdown policies which were meant to reduce as much as possible the spread of the virus, thus reducing the burden on the healthcare systems ("flatten the curve"), as well as buy time to develop more effective treatments. This paper intends to study the mental and physical effects exerted by these policies on people worldwide. The online survey has collected responses from 1,586 individuals from across the world, on which the authors employed varied statistical methods such as confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and multivariate analysis. The findings presented in the paper suggest that several effects, such as problems focusing, insomnia, feelings of guilt or pessimism, can be directly attributed to the lockdown-induced changes in people's behaviours and routines. The findings are not only indicative of the need for social interaction and physical activity, but also of the importance of factual information available to the public during such crises, and of the emotional support and assistance required by people to cope with situations like this.

The Montreal International Jazz Festival

Popular Music ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-255
Author(s):  
Bruno Deschênes
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Film Series ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
The City ◽  
Musical Styles

The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montreal International Jazz Festival), which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 1999, has become one of the most popular music festivals in the world, attracting in just twelve days more than a million and a half people. Most visitors are Canadians and Americans, but Europeans are attending in greater numbers each year.The first Festival, held in the summer of 1979, lasted less than a week. Since then, it has progressively expanded and has moved from one site to another several times to accommodate the growing number of visitors. At its current site in downtown Montreal, in the neighbourhood of the Place des Arts, it now lasts a full twelve days. In 1998, thirty-six concert series and two film series were offered for a total of 411 events. Of these, 103 were paying concerts, and 298 were free concerts held for the most part out of doors. Jazz presented in more than twelve bars all over the city also forms part of the event.From noon to 6 pm, a free outdoor concert is held every hour. From 6 pm to midnight, two more free concerts are performed simultaneously. During the day, street bands give strollers a taste of a wide range of musical styles. For more than twelve hours the public can hear music nonstop by moving from one venue to the other. The downtown site is big enough to avoid the overlapping of music from simultaneous performances. At the end of the afternoon and in the evening, Festival-goers can enjoy the indoor paying concerts.

Reading the city via the public central library in the sociocultural context: A comparative study between the Hong Kong Central Library, Shanghai Library and Taipei Public Library

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 458-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lo ◽  
Kevin K.W. Ho ◽  
Bradley Allard ◽  
Shih-Chang Horng ◽  
Yan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Spaces ◽  
The City

Public libraries across the world are well-known for the promotion of literacy and lifelong learning. However, at the same time, they are important social and community spaces in which community members can engage with each other. With this in mind, this study looks at the ways in which public libraries in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong fulfil these roles in their respective communities. The public libraries chosen for this study were namely: Shanghai Library, Taipei Public Library and Hong Kong Central Library. A total number of 788 responses were collected from all three libraries. Results from the surveys indicated that public libraries in these communities were seen as being important for providing cost-free materials, entertainment, and, especially, contributing to the overall culture of the community at large. Results indicated that the public libraries chosen for this study have social and cultural values alongside its function as an information centre. These findings will be important in understanding the sociocultural roles of public libraries in East Asia.

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