scholarly journals Crowd-Sourced City Images: Decoding Multidimensional Interaction between Imagery Elements with Volunteered Photos

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 740
Author(s):  
Yao Shen ◽  
Yiyi Xu ◽  
Lefeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Scene Recognition ◽  
City Image ◽  
Spatial Clusters ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Adaptive Thresholds ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Spatially Varying ◽  
The City

The built environment reshapes various scenes that can be perceived, experienced, and interpreted, which are known as city images. City images emerge as the complex composite of various imagery elements. Previous studies demonstrated the coincide between the city images produced by experts with prior knowledge and that are extracted from the high-frequency photo contents generated by citizens. The realistic city images hidden behind the volunteered geo-tagged photos, however, are more complex than assumed. The dominating elements are only one side of the city image; more importantly, the interactions between elements are also crucial for understanding how city images are structured in people’s minds. This paper focuses on the composition of city image–the various interactions between imagery elements and areas of a city. These interactions are identified as four aspects: co-presence, hierarchy, heterogeneity, and differentiation, which are quantified and visualized respectively as correlation network, dendrogram, spatial clusters, and scattergrams in a framework using scene recognition with volunteered and georeferenced photos. The outputs are interdependent elements, typologies of elements, imagery areas, and preferences for groups, which are essential for urban design processes. In the application in Central Beijing, the significant interdependency between two elements is complex and is not necessarily an interaction between the elements with higher frequency only. The main typologies and the principal imagery elements are different from what were prefixed in the image recognition model. The detected imagery areas with adaptive thresholds suggest the spatially varying spill over effects of named areas and their typologies can be well annotated by the detected principal imagery elements. The aggregation of the data from different social media platforms is proven as a necessity of calibrating the unbiased scope of the city image. Any specific data can hardly capture the whole sample. The differentiation across the local and non-local is found to be related to their preference and activity space. The results provide more comprehensive insights on the complex composition of city images and its effects on placemaking.

scholarly journals Improving Understanding of City Spaces for Tourism Applications

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kheir Al-Kodmany
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Spatial Clusters ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
River Confluence ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
River City ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
The City

This paper explores a blend of digital and traditional methods to inform about a city’s popular spaces. Using locational data from social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, along with using participatory field surveys and direct observations and combining insights from architecture and urban design literature, this study reveals popular socio-spatial clusters in the city of Chicago. The locational data of photographs were visualized by using geographic information systems, and they helped in producing heat maps that showed the spatial distribution of posted photographs. The geo-intensity of photographs illustrated the areas that are the most visited in the city. The study’s results indicate that the city’s most popular places include Millennium Park, Maggie Daley Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile Gateway, the Inner Loop, the Water Tower Area, the River Confluence, Museum Campus, Urban Giants, Grant Park, and the River City complex. The findings elucidate that social media plays an important role in promoting places and thereby sustaining a greater interest and stream of visitors. Consequently, planners should tap into the public’s digital engagement in city places to improve tourism and the economy.

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

Urban Design and the Entrepreneurial City

2017 ◽  
pp. 204-227
Author(s):  
Alamira Reem Bani Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
City Image ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Entrepreneurial City ◽  
Conventional Literature ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

This chapter reviews and synthesizes literature from the many disciplines that have contributed to the creation of knowledge in the domain of place branding, moving away from the conventional literature on place marketing and looking at the fields of environmental psychology, architecture and urban planning. The chapter is structured in two main parts. Part One situates branding in theories of place identity, city image, and city design. Part Two reviews three different approaches to place branding methodology that are all centered on the study of image, reputation or perception. The chapter argues that studies of place branding to date have not given the ‘place' component the attention it deserves and the question of how place branding influences urban form has not been sufficiently addressed. Only by bringing urban design analytical methods to bear on the question of how branding manifests itself in social and physical environments will a better ‘fit' be achieved in the city, between the images projected and the reality on the ground.

Update Strategy Research Implementation Oriented in the Streets of a City with Baotou Steel Street and AErDing Street the Case

2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 879-882
Author(s):  
Yong Qiang Zhao ◽  
Yan Gao ◽  
Liang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
City Image ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Research Implementation ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Urban Streets ◽  
Update Strategy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Street as an important part of urban public space, to enhance the city image and quality plays a key role. Relative to other urban public space, the street is the most closely, and the relationship between urban residents and their most contact type of urban public space.In Baotou steel street and AErDing street of urban design as an example, summarizes urban streets to update point with plane problems, from the angle of urban design to explore suitable for baotou streets renovation theory and methods, to deepen understanding of streets to update.

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT IN LUMUT CITY, PERAK, MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Ismail Isa
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
City Image ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Waterfront Development ◽  
Environment Quality ◽  
Secondary Information ◽  
And Function ◽  
The City

This study on the evolution of waterfront development in Lumut through physical improvement serves as one component in the formation of a city from the economic, social and environmental aspects. The current study aims to review the elements of urban design that offer an alternative to the revitalisation of the waterfront city in Lumut, Malaysia, particularly to upgrade the physical environment quality and economic vibrancy of cities. The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) examine the consideration and perceptions of urban design aspects given by the respondents related to the evolution of a Lumut waterfront city, and (2) identify urban design elements that have evidence of significant contributions to the revitalisation of the aforementioned city. This research comprises two components. The first component explains the analysis based on observation and the obtained secondary information. The second component is the inventory study and analysis related to the city design in the study area. The theoretical study involves city image enhancement concepts, basic methods and principles in improving the structure of city elements. It also elaborates that any improvement or modification that should be done in any of the city elements must proceed through a proper channel and adhere to improvement or modification steps that have been proposed by design experts. The reason is to create harmony between the city elements with their surroundings to form an image that has identity, structure and meaning. With effective consideration, the proposed development must be closely assessed for its use and function before any project is endorsed and enforced. Issues discovered by this study will facilitate the formulation of strategies and suitable proposals, and automatically ensures improvement of the economic, social and environmental conditions.

Urban Design and the Entrepreneurial City

2017 ◽  
pp. 88-111
Author(s):  
Alamira Reem Bani Hashim
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
City Image ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Entrepreneurial City ◽  
Conventional Literature ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

This chapter reviews and synthesizes literature from the many disciplines that have contributed to the creation of knowledge in the domain of place branding, moving away from the conventional literature on place marketing and looking at the fields of environmental psychology, architecture and urban planning. The chapter is structured in two main parts. Part One situates branding in theories of place identity, city image, and city design. Part Two reviews three different approaches to place branding methodology that are all centered on the study of image, reputation or perception. The chapter argues that studies of place branding to date have not given the ‘place' component the attention it deserves and the question of how place branding influences urban form has not been sufficiently addressed. Only by bringing urban design analytical methods to bear on the question of how branding manifests itself in social and physical environments will a better ‘fit' be achieved in the city, between the images projected and the reality on the ground.

Book reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Evinc Dogan ◽  
Efe Sevin
Keyword(s):  
Food Culture ◽  
City Image ◽  
Culture Consumption ◽  
The City

Corvo, Paolo (2015). Food Culture, Consumption and Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN: 9781137398161)Dogan, Evinc (2016). Image of Istanbul: Impact of ECOC 2010 on the City Image, London: Transnational Press London (ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7)

The impact of a mega-event on city branding: The European Capital of Culture 2010 and the image of Istanbul

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evinç Doğan ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
World City ◽  
City Branding ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Symbolic Production ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This study examines the ways in which the city image of Istanbul is re-created through the mega-events within the context of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2010. Istanbul “took the stage” as one of the three ECoC cities (Essen for the Ruhr in Germany and Pécs in Hungary), where the urban spaces were projected as the theatre décor while residents and visitors became the spectators of the events. Organisers and agents of the ECoC 2010 seemed to rebrand Istanbul as a “world city” rather than a “European capital”. With a series of transnational connotations, this can be considered as part of an attempt to turn Istanbul to a global city. In this study we examine posters used during the ECoC 2010 to see whether this was evident in the promoted images of Istanbul. The research employs a hermeneutic approach in which representations, signs and language are the means of symbolic meaning, which is analysed through qualitative methods for the visual data (Visual Analysis Methods), namely Semiotics and Discourse Analysis. The analysed research material comes from a sample of posters released during the ECoC 2010 to promote 549 events throughout the year. Using stratified random sampling we have drawn 28 posters (5% of the total) reflecting the thematic groups of events in the ECoC 2010. Particular attention is also paid to the reflexivity of the researchers and researchers’ embeddedness to the object of research. The symbolic production and visual representation are therefore investigated firstly through the authoritative and historically constituted discourses in the making of Istanbul image and secondly through the orders of cultural consumption and mediatisation of culture through spectacular events. Hence enforcing a transnationalisation of the image of the city where the image appears to be almost stateless transcending the national boundaries. Findings and methodology used in this study can be useful in understanding similar cases and further research into the processes of city and place branding and image relationships. 

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