scholarly journals Roofing and thawing the sub-Arctic city. Towards the conceptualisation of wellbeing through urban surfaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Essi Oikarinen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Relationship

An increasing amount of sub-Arctic population is living in cities and settlements. Despite the urbanisation, seasonality still affects the rhythm of life and willingness to spend time outside of home, which, in turn, affects health and wellbeing of the population. In addition to built artefacts, the materiality of sub-Arctic urban environment consists largely of changing weather conditions and seasonality, including phenomena such as thawing, freezing, snow, ice and slush, which have diverse effects on humans using the urban spaces, yet are not often part of conceptualisations of urban space that are formed in southern climates. In this paper, the relationship between sub-Arctic urban form, climate and users of the urban realm is critically re-evaluated using the concept of surface. Based on a review of the literature, the proposed approach gives agency not only to the weather, but also to different types of people inhabiting the urban space. This paper argues that the proposed approach takes better into account the varied nature of sub-Arctic urban spaces and their affordances as an entity: from privatised, roofed and weather-neutralised shopping centres and arcades to sledding hills, skating rinks and other winter-related spaces. This kind of conceptualisation could be beneficial when developing soft mobility plans for northern regions. Encouraging physical activity has direct effects on the physiological health of the population, but in addition to that, the approach attempts to acknowledge personal control of different user groups as a central aspect of wellbeing, which makes the viewpoint more holistic.

scholarly journals A prática de atividade física mediada pelo meio geográfico: a distância entre as moradias e as instalações

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Dartel Ferrari Lima ◽  
Lohran Anguera Lima ◽  
Bruno Henrique Hoffmann ◽  
Rafael Eduardo Strey ◽  
Maria das Graças Anguera
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Small Cities ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Accessibility Barriers ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

OBJETIVO: Identificar comportamento de acesso de usuários a espaços públicos para a prática de atividade física recreativa (AF), considerando o distanciamento das moradias às instalações, bem como, a descrição da prática de diferentes tipos de AF sediados por esses espaços, em particular, a caminhada e a corrida. MÉTODOS: Estudo descritivo, reuniu dados transversais de investigações que exploraram, com metodologia semelhante, aspectos relacionados à acessibilidade às instalações públicas apropriadas para a prática de AF, em municípios de pequeno e médio porte situados na região Oeste do Estado do Paraná (Brasil). RESULTADOS: Foram entrevistados 98 participantes de ambos os sexos; a caminhada foi a opção de 50% dos entrevistados; 65% se deslocavam ativamente aos locais de atividade, sendo que três de cada quatro usuários se deslocavam a pé; o acesso às instalações foi predominantemente passivo para os usuários que residiam a 2 km ou mais de distância, e 80% dos entrevistados informaram residir até 2 km de distância das instalações. CONCLUSÃO: A falta de percepção de potencialidade de espaços possíveis para a prática de AF pode constituir um obstáculo para a adesão. Esta abordagem realça a importância da contextualização territorial dos espaços, dado que a relação entre a AF e o espaço urbano não se confina apenas aos locais especialmente destinados à prática de AF, mas também à sua acessibilidade. ABSTRACT. The practice of physical activity mediated by the geographical environment: accessibility barriers. OBJECTIVE: Identifying access characteristics of users to public spaces for the practice of physical activity (PA), as well as to describe the different types of PA located in these spaces, in particular, walking and running, considering the location and accessibility to the facilities. METHODS: A descriptive study which gathered cross-sectional research data that explored, with the same methodology, aspects related to accessibility to public facilities appropriate to the practice of PA, in medium and small cities located in the West of Paraná (Brazil). RESULTS: Ninety-eight participants of both genders were interviewed; the walk was the option of 50% of the interviewees; 65% were active moving to the activity places, 76% of whom did it on foot; the access to the facilities was predominantly passive for residents 2 km or more away, and 80% of respondents were residing up to 2 km away from the facilities. CONCLUSION: The lack of perception of the potentiality of possible spaces for the practice of PA constitutes an obstacle to the adhesion to recreational PA. This approach emphasizes the importance of the spaces’ territorial contextualization, once the relationship between PA and urban space is not restricted to the sites specifically directed to the practice of PA, but also to its accessibility.

scholarly journals KØBENHAVN

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunvor Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Queer Space ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Spaces ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Home Territory

In this article I present findings of a phenomenological study of the relationship between urban space, sexuality and gender. I have investigated conditions of urban spaces in which social gatherings established among equal and perceptived adults expressing their sexual lusts and pleasures are allowed and encouraged. I have characterised these urban spaces as queer spaces. In the first part, I present circumstances that have imperative significance to the existence of queer spaces, and I argue that queer spaces exist in the metropolis and because of the metropolis. Hereafter, I expound the yearnings that are related to queer spaces and point out that for some individuals queer space equals an emancipated and at the same time an oppositional space to other urban spaces. For other individuals queer space is taken as a parallel space to other urban spaces. These different connotations to queer spaces are related to a dichotomy of either keeping a queer sexuality a secret or being open about it. Finally, I suggest that queer space serves as home territory recognised by being something in between the wide, open urban space, and the intimate, private space, and this unique trait of queer space contributes to a redefinition of the positions of men and women in their sexual performances in public.  

scholarly journals Du retrait à la reconquête : pratiquer la ville après un épisode psychotique

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Zoé Codeluppi
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Recovery Period ◽  
Recovery Process ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Abstract. The article aims to provide a better understanding of the urban practices of young people living with a diagnosis of psychosis while recovering. I show the way practices are adjusted according to the temporal dynamics of psychosis. I argue that the continuous variability of symptoms over the recovery period implies alternately practices of withdrawal and reconquest of the urban space. I first outline participants' reconquest of urban spaces, which starts in well-known places and then extends to less familiar ones. In doing so, I point out the diversity of urban spaces inhabited by participants during the recovery process which includes institutional, private, as well as public places. I then outline the various material, relational and sensory resources available in these spaces. I show how participants use them according to the temporal dynamics. I finally highlight the way participants are gradually getting involved in the relationship with a large array of resources as the intensity of symptoms is reducing. My analysis is based on a three months ethnography in a therapeutic institution in Lausanne.

Urban Form, Everyday Life, and Ideology: Support for Privatization in Three Toronto Neighbourhoods

10.1068/a3948 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Alan Walks
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Welfare State

One of the trends marking neoliberalism and the attack on the welfare state from the right is the move toward the privatization of public services. Recent research in both the United States and Canada suggests that residents of the suburbs of large urban regions are more likely to vote for political parties on the right and to support neoliberal policies such as privatization, while the opposite is true for inner-city dwellers. However, the reasons why such a spatial division should occur have received little academic attention. This paper seeks to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing the relationship between residential location, spatial factors, and attitudes toward privatization, using survey data collected in the Toronto region. Results suggest that the way urban space influences residents' daily routines and personal experiences may then mediate their perception of the uses of public services and the efficacy of government spending, factors which are found to affect spatial disparities in support of and/or in opposition to privatization. Thus, there is some evidence that urban spatial form is important for understanding the geographic unevenness of support for neoliberalism, and thus ultimately for the production of ideology.

scholarly journals Faded Red Paradise: Welfare and the Soviet City after 1953

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-615
Author(s):  
MARK B. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Company Town ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe provision of social welfare and the shape of the Soviet city profoundly influenced each other, especially in the post-Stalin period. This article explores the relationship between welfare and city in the USSR after 1953 by focusing on four particular urban or exurban spaces: the company town, the microdistrict, the pensions office and the city's rural hinterland. After the ideological visions of the Khrushchev era faded, welfare moved even closer to the heart of Soviet urban life. It determined some of the contours of urban form, while the resulting urban spaces contributed fundamentally to the way that people understood Soviet power and the nature of their citizenship.

scholarly journals Mobility and Urban Space in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Luca Zenobi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Multisensory Experience

Abstract Early modernists have explored a range of mobile practices taking place in cities: from religious and civic rituals to the multisensory experience of traversing streets and squares. Research has also shown the pivotal role played by cities as hubs where people came and went, ideas circulated, and goods passed through. Yet mobility did not just “take place” in cities. In presenting a new collection of articles on the subject, this paper suggests that urban spaces were more than just a stage for the streams of trade and migration. Rather, mobility had a transformative effect on cities: it assigned new meaning to urban locations, altered the ways in which space was ordered, and often refashioned the built environment itself. In addition, the paper argues that the relationship between movement and urban spaces was reciprocal: by channelling the flow of people through spaces of control and reception, cities shaped mobility as much as mobility shaped cities.

scholarly journals Art in Urban Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Karimimoshaver ◽  
Bahare Eris ◽  
Farshid Aram ◽  
Amir Mosavi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Interpretive Phenomenology ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

The present study investigated the effect of art on promoting the meaning of the urban space. In this regard, after considering the semantic dimension of the urban space and the mechanism of transferring the meanings of art through the views of experts, a model is presented for examin-ing the art’s cooperation in promoting urban space meaning in Tehran. In this study, a mixed method was used. In the first stage, the categories of space meanings influenced by art were ex-tracted through using the qualitative method of interpretive phenomenology and by examining 61 in-depth interviews in six urban spaces eligible for urban art in Tehran. In the second stage, these categories were surveyed in these spaces through 600 questionnaires after converting to the questionnaire items. Based on the results, "the possibility of the experience and perception", "social participation", and "the relationship with the context" were the main themes of the se-mantic relationship of art and urban space. Further, the lower scores related to the theme of "so-cial participation" in the quantitative investigations indicated that this theme was weaker than the other themes in promoting the meaning of the urban space through the art in the selected urban spaces.

scholarly journals Appropriation and political expression in urban public spaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Luis Abrahão
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
The Relationship

There are many, diverse issues that determine the relationship between citizens and their public urban spaces and, consequently, the significance that these spaces acquire for society as a whole. In totalitarian regimes however, the use of streets and parks as places of protest and resistance against sequestered freedom is not permitted. However, in democratic regimes, the reflections and discourse of architects, urbanists, researchers and policy makers regarding the manner in which public urban space is (or should be) appropriated by the population, has revealed a systematic reinterpretation of these spaces. Indeed, ever since the last decades of the past century, it has become recurrent to associate these physical spaces with the space of political realization. The intention of the present article is to bring the meaning of this association into debate, above all due to the insurgencies from certain segments of our population, which have taken place over recent years, manifestly in the streets, parks and avenues of our cities.

scholarly journals CASE STUDY ON HOLISTIC ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITY AND SQUARE

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Duygu Turgut Turgut
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Trafalgar Square ◽  
Transportation Routes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

While the squares have been in the network of relations with the political, social and religious structure of the society since the early days of history, today, they have been associated with the cars, speed and technology in the process formed with the modernization movement. In some squares, there are tramways, public transportation routes and stops, and there are also motor vehicles. The squares have turned into places where there is a continuous flow with fast traffic except for waiting at the bus stops and railway station. With this change, our needs also changed, and with the introduction of motor vehicles in our lives, the squares remained as neglected urban spaces in an effort to create a transportation network. The use of the squares belongs to the period in which people have habit of being together, but now squares use belongs to a period in which we are not together even if we are side by side. Within the scope of this study, nowadays, approaches and practices for the squares that is an urban space in the world have been investigated. According to the results of sections, the criteria for evaluating the completeness of the city-square relationship in today’s conditions are set out in a table. The selected from the Trafalgar Square, Bryant Park and Taksim Square samples consecutively examined in the context of these criteria.

scholarly journals WALKABILITY IN HISTORIC URBAN SPACES: TESTING THE SAFETY AND SECURITY IN MARTYRS' SQUARE IN TRIPOLI

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khairi M. Al-bashir Abdulla ◽  
Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem ◽  
Gehan Selim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Secure Environment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Much of the built environment design literature focuses on a composite of walkable spaces variables such as density, diversity, and destination accessibility.  One of the most effective factors in walkability is “safety and security”. There is an evident gap in understanding the perceived ability of Libyan public spaces to support walkability. This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of “walkability” in traditional Libyan urban spaces and analyse the relationship between walking, a safe and secure environment, and its impact on a heritage site in Tripoli city centre. The perceived personal safety of 140 users of the heritage site “Martyrs' Square” were measured; this research is studying the quality of environment and users’ interaction with their environmental issues relating to the study area. Mixed methods were used in this research: this study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to gather information; the quantitative took the form of a questionnaire; and the qualitative took the form of observations. Analysis of quantitative data was conducted with SPSS software; the survey was conducted from August 2016 to September 2016. The results of this study are useful for urban planning, to classify the walkable urban space elements, which could improve the level of walkability in Libyan cities and create sustainable and liveable urban spaces.

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