scholarly journals Towards Creating a Global Urban Toponymy—A Comment

Urban Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Liora Bigon
Keyword(s):  
Substantial Contribution ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Distorted Image ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
The City

This commentary points to the problems inherent in critical place names studies in terms of classic research topics, methodologies and geographies. It expounds the limits of the official “index”, that is, the variety of traditional urban inscriptions on which critical toponymy scholars rely in interpreting modern urban spatialities—e.g., lists of street names, official street signage, gazetteers, archival materials, etc. The argument is that in Southern urban contexts, where informality in planning can reach up to about 80 percent of the city, researching official naming and signage renders a distorted image of the city and its namescape production. A comment is thus made on the need to embrace more innovative and almost ethnographic research methodologies for understanding place referencing, place attachment and everyday navigational channels in Southern cities. These will generate a more substantial contribution towards the creation of global urban toponymy and a further de-colonization of Eurocentric presumptions regarding governmentality, urban management, and the accompanying role of street naming systems.

Um Sahar, the Adeni Woman Leader in al-Hirak Southern Independence Movement in Yemen

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Kevin A. Davis
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
The City ◽  
Woman Leader ◽  
Secessionist Movement

This chapter analyzes the role of Adeni women in the Southern Movement and their involvement in the formation of a southern national identity. Kevin A. Davis argues that women are critical for the Southern Movement through their symbolic roles in representing a prosperous and cosmopolitan past in the city of Aden, and framing the desires of the current secessionist movement. This study is based on ethnographic research and interviews, specifically framed through the work of Um Sahar, a prominent female activist in the Southern Movement. Her role in the nationalist struggle highlights conflicting roles and expectations for women in contemporary Aden. She represents the views of liberal and progressive Adenis who struggle against conservative social norms imposed on them by the greater Yemeni society.

The Application Research of Basic Surveying and Mapping Product in Urban Management

2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 1630-1633
Author(s):  
Hui Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Construction Management ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Application Research ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The City ◽  
Surveying And Mapping

Since the traditional urban management style has been unable to cope with contemporary challenges of the growing number of urban problems, the implementation of urban information management and urban meticulous management are important measure to improve the performance of urban management, and it is an effective way for the city to improve the production and living environment and the urban quality. Exploring of the role of basic surveying and mapping production in urban management is helpful to improve the city’s planning, construction, management and service levels. This paper summarizes the uses of basic surveying and mapping production in the management of city.

scholarly journals The Energoprojekt building in Belgrade, designed by architect Milica Šterić: High modernism as a paradigm of urban conservation

Nasledje ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Rade Mrlješ
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Urban Conservation ◽  
Analytical Basis ◽  
High Modernism ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
The City

In examining the urban heritage, which has often been fragmented in Belgrade as a result of different social and political circumstances, the issue of the choice of methodology is often raised in urban conservation. The present paper will propose to consider along these lines the role of high (second) Modernism in the architecture and urban development of Belgrade. The strategies of urban conservation focusing on the main issue of the synthesis of the historical and planned structure would be directed towards the Modernist phenomena which are established as a platform structure of the urban conservation of Belgrade's spatial cultural and historical units. The present research analyses the potential and possibilities of implementing the postulates of the Modernist creative efforts in the contemporary architectural, urban planning and conservation theory and practice, with the analytical basis in the seminal work of architect Milica Šterić (1914-1997) - the Energoprojekt building (1956-1960), located in Zeleni Venac Square in Belgrade. This study, which is based on certain aspects of the high Modernism, namely rationalism and neutrality, aims to point out a number of issues in the current globalist textualism, in which concepts of high Modernism and internationalism are evidently manipulated in the historical urban contexts of the city.

From neighbourhood self-organisation to city building: the case of Bathore, Kamëz (Albania)

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
Ledio Allkja
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
The State ◽  
Dynamic Evolution ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
Informal Development ◽  
The City

This chapter delves in the evolution of the city of Kamëz from a small town in the suburbs of Tirana, the capital of Albania, to a city of over 90,000 inhabitants. Practices of self-built are analysed in three main timeframes reflecting the different socio-political conditions of Albania. Initially, experiences of self-built are analysed in the pre-1990s in Kamëz during the dictatorial regime. Afterwards, the analysis is focused on the dynamic evolution of the area of Bathore, a neighbourhood in Kamëz, in a complete absence urban management by the state and where citizens through informal development populated the whole area. In the end, the chapter is focused on a project for the improvement of the neighbourhood which afterwards became a common practice for the evolution of the city through self-built practices. The main focus of the analysis is on the role of state, non-state and citizens in the process of self-built experiences in Albania.

scholarly journals An Attitude of Gratitude: Older Japanese in the Hopeful Present

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Iza Kavedzija
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Meaningful Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Meaningful Existence ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

In this article I explore ideas of the good and meaningful life in older age, based on ethnographic research with older Japanese in the city of Osaka. Some of my interlocutors and friends in the field spoke about the approaching end of their life. When speaking about the time remaining, many expressed their sense that the future ‘will somehow turn out [all right]’ (nantonaku). This statement of quiet hope acknowledged change and encapsulated a desire to support others; it also shifted emphasis away from the future. This is not to say that the experience was for my interlocutors primarily marked by an orientation towards the past: by reminiscing and recollection. Inhabiting the moment was equally important. While reminiscing and narrating past events clearly relate to meaning-making, then, what is the role of dwelling in the moment for maintaining a meaningful existence? I will argue that dwelling in the moment allows for the cultivation of an attitude of gratitude, which lends meaning to a life. This attitude of gratitude binds together both reflection on the past and attention to the present moment in its fullness. It also, I suggest, opens up space for a particular kind of hope, grounded in the moment. Thus, the sense of the good and meaningful life that my older friends conveyed encapsulates an attitude of gratitude as a way of inhabiting the present, rather than dwelling in the past or leaping towards the future. 

PROBLEMS OF STRAY ANIMALS IN NOVOSIBIRSK

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Elena E. Rinchinova ◽  
Diyara A. Takumova ◽  
Irina I. Bochkareva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
The City

The article discusses main issues of organizing activities for the treatment of stray and street animals in the city of Novosibirsk. The important role of successful solving the problem of stray animals in ensuring environmental comfort and safety of the urban population is noted. Definitions of the concepts “stray animals” and “street animals” are given, the differences between them are emphasized. The main regulatory and legal documents governing the handling of stray and street animals are listed. The ways in which domestic animals get into a stray state are described briefly. The results of the collection and analysis of information on the activities of shelters for stray animals in Novosibirsk are described. The information on the quantitative indicators of the shelters are given. Conclusions on how to solve the problem of stray animals, relying on the latest regulations are drawn.

Crossing the Pomerium

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Koortbojian
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Religion And Law ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

The ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city—a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation. This book explores, by means of images and texts, how the Romans used social practices and public monuments to assert their capital's distinction from its growing empire, to delimit the proper realms of religion and law from those of war and conquest, and to establish and disseminate so many fundamental Roman institutions across three centuries of imperial rule. The book probes such topics as the appearance in the city of Romans in armor, whether in representation or in life, the role of religious rites on the battlefield, and the military image of Constantine on the arch built in his name. Throughout, the book reveals how, in these instances and others, the ancient ideology of crossing the pomerium reflects the efforts of Romans not only to live up to the ideals they had inherited, but also to reconceive their past and to validate contemporary practices during a time when Rome enjoyed growing dominance in the Mediterranean world. The book explores a problem faced by generations of Romans—how to leave and return to hallowed city ground in the course of building an empire.

Peranan Ketua Pengurus dan Manajer Dalam Penyusunan dan Penerapan Laporan Keuangan Berbasis SAK ETAP Pada Koperasi di Kota Palembang

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Riza Syahputera ◽  
Martha Rianty
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Regression Test ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractThis study aims to determine the effect of the role of the Chairperson and Cooperative Manager in the preparation and application of Financial Statements based on SAK ETAP in cooperatives in the city of Palembang. This research is a quantitative study using data obtained from questionnaires and measured using a Likert scale. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. The sample used in this study was the Chairperson of the cooperative and the manager of the cooperative in the city of Palembang. The cooperatives studied were 203 cooperatives. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression test. The results showed that the role of cooperative leaders and managers had a significant positive effect on the preparation and application of SAK ETAP-based financial statements.Keywords : chairman, manager, SAK ETAP, cooperative

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