Intra-European Mobility of Skilled Expatriates and Place-Identity: Interwoven Social Representations of Rome and Warsaw

This paper discusses the influence of social representations of a destination city on the motivation and development of individual mobility patterns, using questionnaires with a projective technique and guided interviews. The participants were 60 skilled expatriates in two different European capital cities: Italians residing in Warsaw and Poles residing in Rome. The study demonstrates the relevance of place-identity for the meaning of place within urban culture, in the context where global and local issues are interwoven. It also features the transformation of social representations of the two cities.

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Place-identity and social representations of historic capital cities: Rome through the eyes of first-visitors from six countries

Social Representations in the 'Social Arena' ◽

10.4324/9780203102138-19 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 333-403

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Place Identity ◽

Capital Cities

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What Urban Nightlife Feels Like

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering - Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-7004-3.ch004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 40-53

Author(s):

Irina Igorevna Oznobikhina

Keyword(s):

Technological Progress ◽

Urban Culture ◽

Controversial Issue ◽

Mutual Dependence ◽

Two Cities

The chapter focuses on the various-level experience of space of urban nightlife applying the concept of atmospheres and uncovering the mutual dependence between atmosphere and place to examine the influence of technological progress drawing to the cases of two cities: Moscow and Copenhagen. It also aims to analyse the controversial issue of the collective perception of atmospheres within the urban culture of nightlife and explore the interaffective characteristics of different locations, mainly clubs, turning to musical nostalgia as an illustrating example.

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Individual mobility patterns and real-time geo-spatial exposure to point-of-sale tobacco marketing

Proceedings of the conference on Wireless Health - WH '12 ◽

10.1145/2448096.2448104 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Thomas R. Kirchner ◽

Donna Vallone ◽

Jennifer Cantrell ◽

Andrew Anesetti-Rothermel ◽

Jennifer Pearson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Mobility Patterns ◽

Point Of Sale ◽

Tobacco Marketing ◽

Individual Mobility

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Hazard, Risk and Resilience: Overview of Two Major Urban Areas of Bangladesh

KnE Social Sciences ◽

10.18502/kss.v3i21.4994 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Moushumi Zahur

Keyword(s):

Natural Hazards ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Capital City ◽

Risk And Resilience ◽

Government Officials ◽

Management Framework ◽

Climatic Hazards ◽

Informal Interview ◽

Two Cities ◽

Global And Local

Bangladesh is known as one of the disaster-prone countries of the world. Geographical locations of the country and climate change phenomena make the country more vulnerable to a natural disaster. Most of the urban areas of the country are also susceptible to both geological and climatic hazards. These risks and vulnerabilities have been aggravated by poverty, rapid and unplanned urbanization of the country. The two major urban areas of the country including capital city Dhaka; the largest and main port city Chittagong are experiencing natural hazards, and the inhabitants of those areas are on risk. Due to the location of these two urban areas, different types of natural hazards are faced almost every year by the dwellers. The research reviewed local and global disaster framework, and recent literature works to assess the existing resilience scenario of these two cities. Informal interview of dwellers and local government officials was also conducted on both cities. This study tries to discuss the probable significant natural hazards of the two major cities of the country. The research also presents the existing resilience scenario of these two major urban areas in consideration of the global and local disaster management framework. The study will also try to suggest some recommendations to increase and improve the resilience of these significant metropolitan areas.

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE ERGONYMS AND SIGNS IN THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE OF THE CAPITAL CITY (TAKING MOSCOW AND HELSINKI AS AN EXAMPLE)

Russian Journal of Multilingualism and Education ◽

10.35634/2500-0748-2020-12-36-45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 36-45

Author(s):

E. A. Kartushina

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Capital City ◽

Linguistic Landscape ◽

Public Places ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Landscape Studies ◽

Two Cities ◽

Specific Source ◽

Sample Method

The article presents the results of analysing the elements of the linguistic landscape (LL) i. e. ergonyms, inscriptions and signs of two capital cities – Moscow and Helsinki. The main objective of the study is to track the elements from other languages in the linguistic landscape of these cities. Another task of the study involves reviewing of the methods of linguistic landscape studies and considering the reasons for the penetration of foreign language elements into the LL of a certain city. The LL research methods include observation and contextual analysis. Comparative studies of LL are presented fragmentarily, which determined the purpose of this work: to compare LL of two cities – Moscow and Helsinki, and to analyze foreign language elements in the LL of these two capital cities. Focusing on foreign language elements allows to determine which languages play a more or less significant role in the LL of a certain city. The relevance of the research topic is undeniable as the linguistic landscape of capital cities is constantly changing, and the importance of a comparative research in this area can hardly be overestimated. Research materials include 204 contexts (ergonyms, advertisements) from public places of Moscow and 198 examples of similar linguistic functioning in the urban environment of Helsinki. The contexts were selected using a continuous sample method. The author examines the main approaches to defining the concept of a linguistic landscape, which confirms the theoretical significance of the work. As a result of the study, conclusions are drawn about the foreign language elements which are present in the linguistic landscapes of both capital cities. The degree of spreading some foreign language elements from a specific source language is also considered, as well as the ways of representing foreign language elements in the linguistic landscapes of the cities under study.

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On the importance of trip destination for modelling individual human mobility patterns

Journal of The Royal Society Interface ◽

10.1098/rsif.2020.0673 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (171) ◽

pp. 20200673

Author(s):

Maxime Lenormand ◽

Juan Murillo Arias ◽

Maxi San Miguel ◽

José J. Ramasco

Keyword(s):

Recent Literature ◽

Human Mobility ◽

Mobility Patterns ◽

Individual Mobility ◽

Scaling Relationship ◽

Wide Range ◽

Shopping Trips ◽

The Relationship ◽

Travel Distances ◽

Individual Human

Obtaining insights into human mobility patterns and being able to reproduce them accurately is of the utmost importance in a wide range of applications from public health, to transport and urban planning. Still the relationship between the effort individuals will invest in a trip and the importance of its purpose is not taken into account in individual mobility models that can be found in the recent literature. Here, we address this issue by introducing a model hypothesizing a relation between the importance of a trip and the distance travelled. In most practical cases, quantifying such importance is undoable. We overcome this difficulty by focusing on shopping trips (for which we have empirical data) and by taking the price of items as a proxy. Our model is able to reproduce the long-tailed distribution in travel distances empirically observed and to explain the scaling relationship between distance travelled and item value found in the data.

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Evaluative Dimensions of Urban Tourism in Capital Cities by First-Time Visitors

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7766-9.ch041 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 524-538

Author(s):

Annamaria Silvana de Rosa ◽

Laura Dryjanska ◽

Elena Bocci

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Urban Tourism ◽

Previous Knowledge ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Integrative Framework ◽

The Social ◽

Before And After ◽

Implicit And Explicit ◽

First Time

This chapter evaluates the social representations of historic European capital cities, comparing it before and after the first-time visit that took place in the period from 2011 to 2013. Based on the set of empirical data, it presents and discusses the integrative framework for evaluation of a city conceived as a resource in responsible urban tourism. In particular, the social representations of Madrid, London, and Warsaw by 420 visitors from seven different EU and non-EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States) are examined according to the modelling approach to the theory of social representations, focusing on the evaluative dimension present in an implicit and explicit way. Understanding how tourists assess the resource that they access, based on previous knowledge as opposed to direct experience, shall lay ground for enabling the policy makers and city planners to take into account the expectations of visitors while pursuing urban tourism development in the geo-cultural locations of European capital cities.

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Evaluative Dimensions of Urban Tourism in Capital Cities by First-Time Visitors

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch352 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 4064-4076

Author(s):

Annamaria Silvana de Rosa ◽

Laura Dryjanska ◽

Elena Bocci

Keyword(s):

Social Representations ◽

Urban Tourism ◽

Previous Knowledge ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Integrative Framework ◽

The Social ◽

Before And After ◽

Implicit And Explicit ◽

First Time

This chapter is dedicated to evaluative component of the social representations of historic European capital cities, comparing it before and after the first-time visit that took place in the period from 2011 to 2013. Based on the set of empirical data, it presents and discusses the integrative framework for evaluation of a city conceived as a resource in responsible urban tourism. In particular, the social representations of Madrid, London and Warsaw by 420 visitors from seven different EU and non-EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom and United States) are examined according to the modelling approach to the theory of social representations, focusing on the evaluative dimension present in an implicit and explicit way. Understanding how tourists assess the resource that they access, based on previous knowledge as opposed to direct experience, shall lay ground for enabling the policy makers and city planners to take into account the expectations of visitors while pursuing urban tourism development in the geo-cultural locations of European capital cities.

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