scholarly journals Social-Psychological Satiety: Empirical Study of a New Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Drobysheva ◽  
Ivan Larionov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Protective Mechanism ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Behavioral Reactions ◽  
Complex State ◽  
The City

This article is devoted to the development of a new phenomenon in the field of social psychology of the city—satiety with living conditions in a metropolis. The study involved 87 people aged 18–30 years. The aim of the study was to identify and analyze the expression of the satiety of young Moscovites with living conditions in the metropolis, and its dependence on the sources of experience of this state. It was shown that satiety as a state of the human psyche performs the function of a protective mechanism from an overabundance of various stimuli from the surrounding world. The satiety with living conditions in the metropolis is a complex state that is caused by a variety of phenomena of social life in the urban environment: Excessive communication, an abundance of information, overpopulation, forced informatization of the urban environment, high rate of life, etc. It was found that satiety with living conditions in a metropolis has different forms of expression, such as emotional experiences and behavioral reactions. The article outlines perspectives for further research on the phenomenon of satiety in living conditions in a megacity in the direction of types, factors, and mechanisms of satiety.

scholarly journals Silencing the city?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Thibaud ◽  
Pascal Amphoux
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Basic Properties ◽  
Current State ◽  
Design Issue ◽  
Sonic Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The notion of silence must be handled very carefully. In addition, its use reveals the way we deal with the urban environment as well as social life. What does the notion of silence convey about the current state of the urban sonic environment? How can we clarify the various meanings and the stakes involved in silence? Three themes are developed in order to answer these questions: silence as a research topic presents three complementary perspectives (acoustic, sociocultural, technological); silence as a polysemous notion emphasises the ideas of keeping quiet, tranquillity and pause; silence as a design issue relies on basic properties and principles in order to orient the design of the urban sonic environment.

scholarly journals Young People’s Social and Psychological Satiety with Life in a Megapolis: Conceptual Approach and Research Results

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 350-357
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Drobysheva ◽  
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Ivan V. Larionov ◽  
Evgeniya B. Filinkova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Protective Function

The relevance of the study is associated with the study of viability resources of young city dwellers in the context of growing urbanization processes. The article presents theoretical and empirical research data regarding the problem of operationalization of the phenomenon of social and psychological satiety, which is a psychological state generated by peculiarities of the urban environment. The article presents concept description, gives data on its operationalization, formulates the hypothesis and shows some results of its empirical verification. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyse the interconnection between emotional experiences and preferred coping strategies with the state of satiety with living conditions in a metropolis in a group of young people. The major hypothesis of the study involves an assumption that there is a connection between feelings of satiety caused by the intense influence of the phenomena of the urban environment on the psyche and behavior of respondents, and their preferred methods of coping with the satiety situation. The study involved 159 people aged 19 to 30 years. Research methods: questionnaires developed by the authors and aimed at studying manifestations of social and psychological satiety (T. V. Drobysheva, I. V. Larionov). The questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic characteristics. It is shown that in the group of respondents the state of socio-psychological satiety with living conditions in a metropolis is experienced as a feeling of apathy, boredom, irritation caused by imposed contacts with strangers, advertising activities of trading companies and overpopulation of the city. These phenomena of urban life are perceived by young people as violating their psychological privacy and making them want, first of all, to leave, to change the environment or activity, to find new forms of leisure or other places to spend their free time. The results found in the work indirectly indicate the protective function of socio-psychological satiety, expressed through the desire of respondents (young city dwellers) to reduce the intensity of negative emotional experiences related to living conditions in a metropolis. The questionnaires developed by the authors in the course of the study are of practical importance for researchers of the urban environment.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

Living Conditions and Social Life of Migrants in the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Alden Speare ◽  
Paul K.C. Liu ◽  
Ching-lung Tsay
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Human centered development of Russian megacities: Opportunities and limitations

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Olga Vasil'evna Artemova ◽  
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Natalia Modestovna Logacheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
City Development ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
The City

Currently, the role of the big cities in the development of economy and society, the organization of high-quality urban space for people are widely discussed. However, there are still many unresolved urban issues with the crucial one being the need for the city-person interaction. Better interaction, diversity in satisfying the population’s needs, feedback from an active citizen who influences the development of the city are the attributes of modern metropolis that competes for any person. City’s advantages result in a greater population size and better quality of their life. Otherwise, the city shows the degradation signs and population decline. The purpose of the study is to justify the need for a multi-criteria assessment of living conditions in the Russian megalopolises under the citizens’ needs and the improvement of modern urban space. This assessment could guide the managerial decisions in defining the strategic priorities in city development. The following methodological tools were used: experts’ assessments of urban environment quality, demographic analysis of urban population movement; positioning of Russian megacities by criteria ‘urban environment quality’ and ‘population’s cost of living’, their grouping by the qualitative characteristics of urban environment; content analysis of the strategic documents for the development of the largest megacities. The novelty of the study is a new interpretation of the concept of ‘place’ in terms of the urban area. It is defined in a broader sense rather than a particular localization with the borders. It is an urban environment with a set of different opportunities to meet citizens’ growing needs. The study arrives at the approaches to a multi-criteria assessment of the living conditions in million cities under the citizens’ needs. To do this, the authors applied the methods of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities in the Russian Federation and analyzed the conditions and dynamics of the urban environment, studied the demographic processes, and evaluated the megalopolis attractiveness under the income and cost of living ratio. This revealed the challenges of the cities which could be theoretically solved in the strategic documents of megalopolis development, while the development of efficient mechanisms could help in the practical implementation of the solutions (municipal programs and projects). The article offers to analyze and constantly update the strategic documents of the million cities with regard to the public opinion and the needs of city dwellers in high-quality urban space. The authors worded the need to re-define the urban space which used to be interpreted as a place for living and the human role in its development. The results of the study could be of interest to public authorities and local governments that strategically manage the million cities. Further research is seen to be connected with the development of a comprehensive integral multi-criteria assessment for the current condition and dynamics in the urban space quality to define the megalopolis competitiveness in terms of their interest for the citizens.

THE IMAGE OF THE CITY IN KARION ISTOMIN’S ILLUSTRATED PRIMER OF 1694

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Yuliya E. Shustova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
City Image ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
Important Center ◽  
The City

The city is an important center of social life. In different historical periods of time, the role of cities was changing, as well as the city image in the picture of the world and in the society system of values. The study of the city image is one of the urgent tasks of urban studies, as well as the entire humanitarian knowledge with the involvement of various historical sources. The article sets out a task of studying the city image using the example of textbooks for teaching literacy (Primers) as books that form the initial picture of the human world. To that end Karion Istomin’s illustrated Primer was chosen. It was first created in handwritten form to teach the children of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. In 1694 it was published at the Moscow Printing Yard. Boards for that all-engraved edition were made by the engraver Leonty Bunin. A Рrimer is a combination of verbal and visual information. For the first time in it an important feature became the illustrative series was important, which was supposed to help the student in mastering letters of the alphabet. Each page of the Primer consisted of pictures with captions and a poem. They interpreted words that began with or included the letter being studied. Among the illustrations by Leonty Bunin, images of the city and city buildings occupy a significant place. As a result of the study of verbal and visual information about the city and the urban environment, the following images of the city are distinguished in the article: the city as a sacred space; the image of a city as a geographical marker (depicting parts of the world through the creation of different types of cities);image of city’s architecture (buildings for the residence of townspeople, churches, outbuildings, protective and the fortification structures); the city image as a symbol of the native land. It was important for the formation of a picture of the world among youths starting to learn to read and write. Through the visual-verbal series of the image of the city, children formed a certain perception of the urban environment, urban space – different and multifunctional.

scholarly journals A WALK ABOUT THE CITY: STALKER, THE TRANSURBANCE AND THE CITY MAP

eTopia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Tyrrhenian Sea ◽  
Port City ◽  
The Public ◽  
North East ◽  
Tiber River ◽  
Morphological Transformations ◽  
The City

In the spring of 2007, I joined a group of urban activists called Stalker on a walk along the Tiber River in Italy. The walk, conducted over 12 weeks, began in the ancient port city of Ostia, where the mouth of the Tiber meets the Tyrrhenian Sea, continued north-east through the centre of Rome, and ended at the far edge of Rome’s greater metropolitan region. Stalker’s Tiber walk was a so-called "transurbance," a mode of critical walking created by the collective. Transurbances are walks in the leftover spaces in and around the contemporary metropolis, which Stalker calls "actual territories." In the transurbance, walking is both a mode of expression and a useful instrument for learning about the ongoing social and morphological transformations in cities. Stalker’s transurbance of the Tiber was more specifically a means of engaging the individuals and communities living illegally along the riverbanks, and then conveying aspects of their living conditions to the public. Stalker was accompanied by architecture students whose aim was to produce an atlas of the riverbanks, describing the spaces and qualities of this urban environment that are typically excluded from city maps. In this context the transurbance is a kind of oppositional map, where the map is understood in two senses: as a process of investigating a territory ("mapping" as a verb) and a means of representation (a "map" as noun).

Concerning the Concept of Light-Colour Arrangement of the Urban Environment in the Central Part of Tyumen

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Nikolay I. Shchepetkov ◽  
Svetlana B. Kapeleva ◽  
Denis V. Bugaev ◽  
Gregory S. Matovnikov ◽  
Anna S. Kostareva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The City

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of outdoor lighting in the central part of Tyumen (with consideration of conducted field observations) and prospects of its development on the basis of the general plan of illumination of the central part of the city being under design. Main provisions of this general plan as well as methodological principles and assessment criteria of design solutions illustrat-ed by photographs, schemes and visualisations of the illuminated objects are described.

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