scholarly journals The unplanned city: Public space and the spatial character of urban informality

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Steffen Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Adaptive Use ◽  
The Us ◽  
Informal Urbanism ◽  
Spatial Appropriation ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
The City

The ‘unplannable’ is a welcomed exception to the formal order of urban planning. This opinion article explores some examples of informal urbanism and discusses its ambiguous relationship to public space and unplanned activities in the city. The informal sector offers important lessons about the adaptive use of space and its social role. The article examines the ways specific groups appropriate informal spaces and how this can add to a city’s entrepreneurship and success. The characteristics of informal, interstitial spaces within the contemporary city, and the numerous creative ways in which these temporarily used spaces are appropriated, challenge the prevalent critical discourse about our understanding of authorised public space, formal place-making and social order within the city in relation to these informal spaces. The text discusses various cases from Chile, the US and China that illustrate the dilemma of the relationship between informality and public/private space today. One could say that informality is a deregulated self-help system that redefines relationships with the formal. Temporary or permanent spatial appropriation has behavioural, economic and cultural dimensions, and forms of the informal are not always immediately obvious: they are not mentioned in building codes and can often be subversive or unexpected, emerging in the grey area between legal and illegal activities.

Postsocialist Informal Urbanism between Creativity and Power. Notes on Four Projects from Romania

Südosteuropa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Şerban Văetişi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Informal Urbanism ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The City ◽  
Postsocialist Transformations

Abstract The author illustrates squatting, do-it-yourself urbanism, creative re-appropriation of public space, guerrilla gardening, and artistic occupy-type intervention as forms and evolutions of informal urbanism. By interpreting examples observed in two postsocialist Romanian cities the author comments on the thin boundary between informal and authorized urbanism, and between creativity and power; he interrogates also the key matter of access to the city, with its regulations, resources, and potentialities. His perspective implies an empirical and ethnographic approach to informality, which is analysed in the contexts of privatization logics, especially in relation to the reconfiguration of the public and the private which is so specific to postsocialist transformations. The contrast between grass-roots responses and official projects is seen as decisive in understanding strategies of representations, control of resources, and capital accumulation. Additionally the author suggests the relevance of theorizing such postsocialist urban processes in fruitful but critical comparison with other non-Western forms of urbanism, notably postcolonial ones.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Street Vendors Regulation Policy in Developing their Social Order in Majalaya Area of Bandung Regency

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Indria Desti
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulation Policy ◽  
The City ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study was motivated by the problems caused by the presence of Pedagang Kaki Lima (PKL) or street vendors in public space. Their selling activity on the sidewalks and pavements around Majalaya area was considered less organized and as an inconvenience to social orderliness such as the traffic. This study aims to describe the implementation of street vendors regulation policy in developing their social order in Majalaya Area of Bandung Regency. This study applied a qualitative approach with descriptive method. The data was collected through observation, interview, and documentation study. This study found that: 1) before the regulation was implemented, there were many street vendors booths which were illegal, and the condition was actually less ordered and inappropriate thus it impaired the convenience to streetwalkers and road traffic; 2) the deliberate action by Satpol PP or the civil service police unit concerning the regulation of street vendors are to organize, foster, and discipline them according to the Local Regulation Number 5/2015 with persuasive approach to give a good comprehension and motivation. Moreover, the study also discovered that the country authority allowed them to have selling activities and build a temporary booth near the Majalaya bus station and shop grounds, and dismantled the illegal booths which besides disturbing the public orderliness but also the public concerns loyalty; and 3) the implementation of the regulation was still unmaximized since there were no feasible locations to accommodate all the street vendors, the crowds and accessibility of Alun-alun or the city square caused the street vendors tend to ignore the rules, and there was some economic factors caused street vendors find the sustenance to meet their daily needs.

scholarly journals Privacy and publicity as socio-spatial categories

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-211
Author(s):  
Lesya V. Chesnokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Female Behavior ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Spaces ◽  
Sociocultural Processes

In recent decades, there have been changes in research strategies concerning the study of space. It used to be perceived as a motionless «container», a receptacle for people and objects that does not affect social processes in any way, but now reciprocal relations between space and society are recognized. Space affects human behavior, and people transform it in accordance with the economic, political and cultural characteristics of their era. The same approach can be applied to the study of publicity and privacy. The public space is generally understood as an environment open to the public: streets, parks, etc., while the private area is primarily a place of living, a place of family life. Being sociocultural constructs, public and private spaces are not originally specified. In European societies of the Modernity, due to the processes of urbanization and individualization, the need for one’s own accommodation, closed from outsiders, is gradually increasing. Being in a public or private space affects the behavior of a person, who is forced to play a social role in public and can behave naturally in the family circle. The separation of the public and the private in the 19th century is perceived as a dichotomous example of the social order, considered to be natural. There are formed strictly differentiated gender roles that influence the norms of male and female behavior. A man should spend most of his life outside the home, earning money to maintain his family It is a woman’s responsibility to create home comfort and care for children. However, in the modern sense, social constructs of publicity and privacy are not considered «innate» or «natural». Public and private spaces always depend on sociocultural processes and therefore do not have an ontologically determined character.

Forme e strategie per la campagna urbana: spunti a partire dal Vimercatese

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Anna Moro ◽  
Christian Novak
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Dense Network ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Urban Services ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
The City

The Vimercate landscape rests on two geographical constants which shape the natural and man-made structure of the area: the river and valley corridors which cross the area from North to South and the dense network of agricultural paths which form the framework of the agricultural plains running from East to West. These features become the support for a potential reticular public space consisting of routes, natural areas and services, a reconstituted margin between the city and the countryside, an agricultural space which becomes once again a builder of landscape quality. The construction of a new ‘geratio' is therefore proposed, based on productive and ecological infrastructures in the landscape, thereby attributing a social role to agricultural areas as a multifunctional space of agricultural production, but which is also for leisure: a space where urban services, inhabited centres and natural and agricultural environments meet.

scholarly journals A pauta na capa: a mídia corporativa como porta-voz do controle e ordem social na cidade do Rio de Janeiro │ The agenda on first page: corporate media as the spokesman for control and social order in the city of Rio de Janeiro

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcio Castilho ◽  
Tatiana Da Silva Lima
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The City

RESUMO Busca-se avaliar o enquadramento jornalístico feito pelos jornais da mídia corporativa que legitimam e medeiam a pauta pública e a estratégia da política de segurança pública do Rio de Janeiro, recorrendo à cobertura de notícias sobre os protestos realizados nas ruas da cidade durante o “Junho Furioso”. A partir do uso de semânticas estereotipadas para noticiar o fato jornalístico pela imprensa, será avaliada a criação de um imaginário social coletivo como espaço público de disputa de hegemonia conforme a concepção gramsciana, criminalizando midiaticamente as áreas pobres da cidade do Rio de Janeiro para obtenção de um controle da ordem pública.Palavras-chave: Mídia corporativa; Hegemonia gramisciana; Política de Segurança Pública; “Junho Furioso”; Controle e ordem social.   ABSTRACT This article evaluates the journalistic framing by corportative media, which legitimize and mediate the public agenda and Rio de Janeiro's public security policy strategy, using the news coverage of the protests in the city streets ​​during the "Furious June". Drawing on the stereotypical use of semantics for journalistic fact reporting by the press, the creation of a collective social imagination will be evaluated as a public space of dispute for hegemony as in Gramsci's conception, mediatically criminalizing the poor areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro with the aim of controling public order.Keywords: Corportativa media; Gramsci's Hegemony; Public Security Policy; " Furious June "; Control and social order.

Spectacle, Fear, and Protest

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-73
Author(s):  
Anton Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

The history of the city in twentieth-century Latin America can be seen as a long contest over the exercise of urban public space. While the nature of this space is often less physical than it is social and situational, the struggle between different elements of the city to manipulate its politics and control its daily life has often been violent, leaving deep imprints in the collective memories of places as culturally and physically diverse as Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Bogotá, and Rio de Janeiro.If approached from the perspective of contested space, the urban milieu offers an intriguing site for the historian interestedin exploring changing relations of power, class conflict, opposing visions of the future, breakdowns of social order, gendered spaces, health and disease, visual culture, spectacle and symbolic codes, and ultimately, the creation of community. Yet until the 1980s, most Latin American historians who were interestedin these themes confined their studies to the countryside. As late as 1975, Jorge Hardoy (1975:44) could write that “the urban history of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth is virtually unknown, in spite of the extremely rich material left to us by innumerable travelers, scientists, and men of state.” While historians and social scientists working from the 1950s through much of the 1970s delineated the complex relations between peasant villages and national states, the ideologies of rural rebellion, and the sources of identity and community in a countryside transformed by the demands of export capital, cities in twentieth-century Latin America were accorded secondary treatment, sometimes at the level of popular anecdotal narratives.

Reconstruction Of Urban Parks Of Culture And Rest Of The Soviet Period

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Senior Citizens ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Functional Zoning ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
The City

This article analyzes the main problems of urban public spaces, because today public spaces can determine the future of cities. It is noted that parks are multifunctional public spaces in the urban environment, as they are an important element of the citywide system of landscaping and recreation, perform health, cultural, educational, aesthetic and environmental functions. The article notes that the need for easily accessible and well-maintained urban parks remains, however, the state of parks in many cities of Russia remains unsatisfactory, requiring reconstruction. A brief historical background of the Park of Culture and Rest of the Soviet period in Omsk is expounded, the analysis of the existing territory of the Park is presented. It is revealed that the Park, being the largest public space in Omsk, does not meet the requirements of modern urbanism, although it represents a great potential for designing the space for the purpose of recreation of citizens. Performed functional zoning scheme of the territory of the Park in question, where its division into functional areas destined for active recreational users of the Park is presented, considered the interests of senior citizens, people with limited mobility, etc. Reconstruction of Parks of the Soviet period can provide the city with additional recreational opportunities, as well as increase its tourist attractiveness.

MURAL, KEKUATAN MODAL, DAN MASYARAKAT

DeKaVe ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akbar Annasher
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
The People ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mural Art ◽  
The City ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Special Region

Broadly speaking, this paper discusses the phenomenon of murals that are now spread in Yogyakarta Special Region, especially the city of Yogyakarta. Mural painting is an art with a media wall that has the elements of communication, so the mural is also referred to as the art of visual communication. Media is a media wall closest to the community, because the distance between the media with the audience is not limited by anything, direct and open, so the mural is often used as media to convey ideas, the idea of ??community, also called the media the voice of the people. Location of mural art in situations of public spatial proved inviting the owners of capital to use such means, in this case is the mural. Manufacturers of various products began racing the race to put on this wall media, as time goes by without realizing the essence of the actual mural art was forced to turn to the commercial essence, the only benefit some parties only, the power of public spaces gradually occupied by the owners of capital, they hopes that the community can view the contents of messages and can obtain information for the products offered. it brings motivation and cognitive and affective simultaneously in the community.Keywords: Mural, Public Space, and Society.

DEVELOPING HYBRID MEDIA INSTALLATION GAME IN TAMAN GAJAH TUNGGAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Agatha Maisie Tjandra ◽  
Lalitya Talitha Pinasthika ◽  
Rangga Winantyo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Interactive Installation ◽  
City Parks ◽  
The City ◽  
Media Installation

In the recent five years, City parks have been developing rapidly in urban cities in Indonesia. Built in 2007, Taman Gajah Tunggal is one of the city parks located in Tangerang. This park is situated at The Center of Tangerang City on the edge of Cisadane River. Like many public spaces in Indonesia, this park has littering issues by visitors’ lack of care. This re- search is offered to develop social marketing by using a digital game for gaining awareness of Taman Gajah Tunggal’s visitors age 17-30 years old about littering issues. This paper focused on developing the prototyping process in iteration design method by using a digital game to suggest possibilities design for future development interactive installation design in public space which can bring a new experience.

CONCEPT OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF A KEY PUBLIC SPACE (USING THE EXAMPLE OF «ALLEY OF ARCHITECTS», VORONEZH)

2020 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
С. Л. Подвальный ◽  
О. А. Сотникова ◽  
Я. А. Золотухина
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Territory Design ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Intensive Growth

Постановка задачи. В настоящее время формирование современной комфортной городской среды приобретает особое социально-экономическое значение и выдвигается в число приоритетных государственных масштабных программ. В связи с этим необходимо разработать концепцию благоустройства ключевого общественного пространства, а именно: определить основные и сопутствующие функции данной территории, создать эскизное предложение проекта благоустройства с учетом всех необходимых норм и стандартов, внедрить современные технологии. Результаты. Выполнен эскизный дизайн-проект «Аллеи архитекторов» по ул. Орджоникидзе г. Воронеж, включающий в себя основные элементы по зонированию территории, проектированию акцентных объектов и внедрению инновационных технологий «умного города», позволяющих повысить уровень комфорта горожан. Выводы. Благоустройство населенных мест приобретает особое значение в условиях дискомфорта среды. С выполнением комплекса мероприятий, направленных на благоустройство, и с внедрением современных технологий значительно улучшается экологическое состояние, внешний облик города. Оздоровление и модернизация среды, которая окружает человека в городе, благотворно влияет на психофизическое состояние, что особенно важно в период интенсивного роста городов. Statement of the problem. Currently the formation of the modern comfortable urban environment is gaining a special social and economic value and moving forward in the priorities of state large-scale programs. The purpose of development of the concept of improvement of public space is definition of the main and accompanying functions of this territory, design of the outline offer of the project of improvement considering all necessary norms and standards and implementation of modern technologies. Results. The conceptual project of “Alley of Architects” includes the basic elements of territory zoning, design of accent objects and implementation of technologies of a “smart-city”. These elements allow one to increase the level of comfort of inhabitants. Conclusions. Improvement of the inhabited places is of particular importance in the conditions of discomfort of the environment. Carrying out a complex of the actions directed to gardening and improvement, introducing modern technologies, the ecological condition, the physical appearance of the city considerably improves. Improvement and modernization of the environment which surrounds the person in the city influences a psychophysical state well that especially important during intensive growth of the cities.

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