scholarly journals Sociotope mapping: perceptions of public space at Ryerson University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Afonso Magalhaes
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mapping Tool

Sociotope mapping is a tool that has been used to identify values in public spaces, as defined by the public. By developing an original sociotope map using the sociotope map methodology, utilizing the technique created in Stockhom, Sweden, this research attempts to understand the values of public space within and around Ryerson University, while providing a critique on the utility of the tool in this context. The information collected from an online survey will be analyzed and visually displayed on a sociotope map. This may be utilized by the school administration, municipal planners, urban designers or landscape architecture professionals to understand what concerns may be provoked by the development of certain spaces and the resources valued by the public in the public realm. This project explores how different public spaces within the Ryerson University Campus are utilized and how useful is the sociotope mapping tool in inferring these values. keywords: planning; sociotope; parks planning; perceptions of space; engagement; public consultation.

scholarly journals Sociotope mapping: perceptions of public space at Ryerson University

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Afonso Magalhaes
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Administration ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mapping Tool

Sociotope mapping is a tool that has been used to identify values in public spaces, as defined by the public. By developing an original sociotope map using the sociotope map methodology, utilizing the technique created in Stockhom, Sweden, this research attempts to understand the values of public space within and around Ryerson University, while providing a critique on the utility of the tool in this context. The information collected from an online survey will be analyzed and visually displayed on a sociotope map. This may be utilized by the school administration, municipal planners, urban designers or landscape architecture professionals to understand what concerns may be provoked by the development of certain spaces and the resources valued by the public in the public realm. This project explores how different public spaces within the Ryerson University Campus are utilized and how useful is the sociotope mapping tool in inferring these values. keywords: planning; sociotope; parks planning; perceptions of space; engagement; public consultation.

scholarly journals Activating Data through Eco-Didactic Design in the Public Realm: Enabling Sustainable Development in Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4577
Author(s):  
Carmela Cucuzzella ◽  
Morteza Hazbei ◽  
Sherif Goubran
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Design ◽  
The City

This paper explores how design in the public realm can integrate city data to help disseminate the information embedded within it and provide urban opportunities for knowledge exchange. The hypothesis is that such art and design practices in public spaces, as places of knowledge exchange, may enable more sustainable communities and cities through the visualization of data. To achieve this, we developed a methodology to compare various design approaches for integrating three main elements in public-space design projects: city data, specific issues of sustainability, and varying methods for activating the data. To test this methodology, we applied it to a pedogeological project where students were required to render city data visible. We analyze the proposals presented by the young designers to understand their approaches to design, data, and education. We study how they “educate” and “dialogue” with the community about sustainable issues. Specifically, the research attempts to answer the following questions: (1) How can we use data in the design of public spaces as a means for sustainability knowledge exchange in the city? (2) How can community-based design contribute to innovative data collection and dissemination for advancing sustainability in the city? (3) What are the overlaps between the projects’ intended impacts and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Our findings suggest that there is a need for such creative practices, as they make information available to the community, using unconventional methods. Furthermore, more research is needed to better understand the short- and long-term outcomes of these works in the public realm.

Rhythms of being together: public space in Urban Tajikistan through the lens of rhythmanalysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 533-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wladimir Sgibnev
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Central Asian

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, describe and critically assess public space in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, recurring to Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis. Design/Methodology/Approach – The empirical findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork on a courtyard in a housing estate in Khujand in northern Tajikistan. Findings – The paper argues that an analytic dichotomy between the private and the public realm conceals more than it reveals, for the Central Asian case at least. The rhythmanalysis framework is presented as a possible solution to the deficiencies of dichotomic categories. Originality/value – Even if we find a series of scholarly works dealing with (post-)Soviet and/or Central Asian public spaces, they very scarcely provide a critical assessment of the roots and the usefulness of this concept for the regional setting they work in. The paper strives to close this gap and to present Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis framework as a possible solution for overcoming dichotomic categories.

scholarly journals Penalising Presence in Public Space: Control through Exclusion of the ‘Difficult’ and ‘Undesirable

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Johnstone
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
Mere Presence ◽  
Preferred Solutions

Over the last two decades and across a number of jurisdictions, new measures enshrined in criminal law and administrative codes have empowered authorities to exclude unwelcome groups and individuals from public spaces. Focusing particular attention on recent reform in Britain, this paper traces the evolution of contemporary exclusionary practices, from their initial concern with proscribed behaviour to the penalisation of mere presence. The latter part of the paper offers a critical assessment of what has driven these innovations in control of the public realm. Here consideration is given to two possibilities. First, such policy is the outcome of punitive and revanchist logics. Second, their intentions are essentially benign, reflecting concerns about risk, liveability and failures of traditional order-maintenance mechanisms. While acknowledging concerns about the over-eagerness of scholars to brand new policy as punitive, the paper concludes that any benign intentions are overshadowed by the regressive and marginalising consequences of preferred solutions.

Designing for Opera in the Scramble: Duality in Sound and Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Helferty
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
First Century ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Pedestrian Crossing ◽  
The City

There are few art forms as comprehensive and encompassing as opera. Since its conception, opera has been used to express the deepest emotions of the human experience and it has been adapted by designers in a variety of methods and degrees to speak to each generation. In this project, I have proposed the re-imagining of public spaces as opera performance spaces and studied the resulting duality of sound and experience. To explore this topic, I looked to the public spaces on Queen’s University campus for inspiration and found it where Union and University meet. The familiar “scramble” is a central location that students cross on their way to classes many times throughout the day. It is a public space, regimented by the design of traffic lights which prioritize pedestrian crossing on a dependable and predictable circuit. I propose that this location provides an opportunity for the twenty-first century opera designer to use its existing cycle to create a dynamic and unique performance space for opera. While the idea of performing opera outside of the opera house is not new, few have designed opera in a simultaneously public and dynamic space as I am proposing. This fresh approach to opera for the twenty-first century creates an experience for passer-bys and performers that is twofold: the scramble remains a public and utilitarian space meant for getting from one place to another, but it also becomes a performance space in which spectators and performers alike “play their parts”. In short, the resulting experience of sound is hearing the city and the opera simultaneously, transforming the perception of the scramble as a public space into a heightened and transcended experience.

scholarly journals The Evaluation of the Equipment and Quality of the Public Space of Poznań

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Waldemar W. Budner
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Public Toilets ◽  
Insufficient Number

Abstract The article defines the notion of public space and attempts to explain its forms and roles. The article realizes two cognitive goals: the evaluation of the equipment of public spaces in Poznań with the selected elements of landscape architecture and the quality of those spaces. Empirical research was conducted in the form of a survey addressed at 300 respondents. The research activities conducted in the course of work allow for the formulation of the following conclusions: the quality of life in a city depends on the condition of equipment of public space; the elements of landscape architecture make the public space of Poznań more attractive (contribute to its functionality, increase the aesthetics of urban space); the condition of the equipment of public space with landscape architecture is evaluated as good; the users of the public space in Poznań pointed out the problem of advertising pillars, advertisements and signboards, public toilets and the insufficient number of seats.

scholarly journals Urban mobility and public space. A challenge for the sustainable liveable city of the future

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Ravazzoli ◽  
Gian Paolo Torricelli
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Public space and mobility are two challenging topics in many contemporary cities. These topics give rise to important questions such as how does the element of public space affect the sustainability of urban mobility in contemporary cities? And how does facilitating mobility contribute to the livability of the public realm? The purpose of this paper is to attempt to answer these questions. On one hand, the paper explores the relationship between public space and urban mobility in the contemporary city, specifically by addressing the extent to which urban mobility can create better public spaces and even assist in producing a more sustainable model of mobility. Although ignored for a long time in the discourse on urban planning, the relationship between public space and urban mobility has the potential to create livable cities. Indeed, the use of public space by walking and cycling contributes to economic, environmental and social sustainability. Hence, together with economic, ecological and social indicators, public space and urban mobility also constitute relevant city components, when measuring a city’s sustainability performance. On the other hand, this paper seeks to suggest a set of measures related to public space and soft mobility that can be integrated into an already existing set of indicators commonly used to measure urban sustainability. In this regard, the paper contributes to the debate surrounding the need to invest more in public spaces and at the same time suggests to planners and policy makers that it is necessary to develop international measures for the evaluation of urban mobility and the sustainability of public space.</p>

The Influence of the Architectural and Landscape Planning on the Development of the Public Space in European Cities

2014 ◽  
Vol 1020 ◽  
pp. 669-673
Author(s):  
Malwina Tubielewicz-Michalczuk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Paper Work

This paper work, based on own findings, discusses the main directions in the field of landscape architecture representing inspirations in the pursuit of sustainable development. Directions in architecture and landscape designing were presented that are aimed at improve ment of the image, ecological conditions of soci al life, and aesthetics of European cities. The article was exemplified with selected design works of contemporary and former landscape and green landscape architects, which have contributed to meet diverse social needs of selected public spaces in Europe. Consistently, the evolution and current state of the problem concerning issues on greenery, parks, squares and urban details will be analysed.

scholarly journals ICTS AS A TOOL TO INCREASE THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF PUBLIC SPACES / IKT KAIP VIEŠŲJŲ ERDVIŲ PATRAUKLUMO DIDINIMO PRIEMONĖ

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhold Lehel Stadler
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Major Factors

Nowadays, ICTs is one of the major factors influencing urban development. Consequently, public spaces – an important urban subsystem – are shaped by interaction with the new technologies. This paper aims to present the ways, in which different ICT tools can increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of public spaces, in opposition to several approaches stating that technologies can only encourage segregation of individuals. The article is focused on possibilities to open the public realm for functions and activities that are usually regarded as private. The major roles that ICTs can play in the public space are: education, information, art and entertainment. Based on this classification various examples and proposals of ICTs interventions in public spaces are presented and analysed, including the Zaragoza’s Digital Mile, the Cloud at Athens and the concept of Flux Space. The specificity of this paper rests on a constant parallel drawn between the interventions around the globe and Romania, aiming to highlight the potential for competitiveness of Romanian public spaces, as a result of using various ICTs tools. Santrauka Pastaruoju metu IKT (informacijos ir komunikavimo technologijos) yra vienas pagrindinių miestų vystymui įtaką darančių veiksnių. Todėl viešosios erdvės – svarbus miestų posistemis – formuojamos veikiant naujosioms technologijoms. Šiame straipsnyje siekiama pristatyti būdus, kaip įvairiomis IKT priemonėmis pakelti viešųjų erdvių patrauklumą ir konkurencingumą, prieštaraujant požiūriams, teigiantiems, kad naujosios technologijos skatina žmonių atsiskyrimą. Pagrindinis dėmesys skiriamas galimybėms atverti į viešumą veiklas, įprastai laikomas privačiomis. Viešosiose erdvėse IKT priemonės daugiausia galėtų būti išnaudojamos lavinimui, informavimui, meninei veiklai ir pramogoms. Remiantis šiuo skirstymu analizuojami ir pristatomi įvairūs IKT naudojimo viešosiose erdvėse pavyzdžiai ir siūlymai: „Skaitmeninė mylia“ Saragosoje, „Debesys“ Atėnuose, „Flux erdvė“ ir kiti. Straipsnyje nuolat lyginamas patyrimas Rumunijoje ir patyrimas pasauliniu mastu, siekiant pabrėžti viešųjų erdvių Rumunijoje konkurencingumo potencialą, naudojant įvairias IKT priemones. Straispnis anglų kalba.

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