scholarly journals Intersectionality, Relativity and Multiple Deprivation in Upper Saponba Area, Benin City, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chike F. Okolocha
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Benin City ◽  
New Public ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City ◽  
Method Model ◽  
Purposive Sample

Intersectionality is discussed as a harvest of multiple disadvantages and deprivations by majority of urbanites. Parameters of disadvantage include cash poverty, poor health, lack of electricity, water and sanitation, proneness to crime and illiteracy, unemployment and underemployment. The study adopted a mixed method model and proceeded with a structured questionnaire administered to a sample of 1022 respondents in Upper Saponba area, the largest slum district in Benin City, southern Nigeria. Supplementary data were collected through in-depth interview with a purposive sample of 10 community members. Results seem to negate the culture of poverty hypothesis even as many poor residents express despair on the prospects of a good life in the city. This desolation coincides with new public policy by which governments withdraw from public space in the face of increasing poverty. We conclude that social intersectionality in urban Africa is a simultaneity of poverty and deprivations exacerbated by exclusionary public policies. Effectual public policy will depend on a recognition of the inter-linkages between parameters of disadvantage, deprivation and social exclusion.

scholarly journals An attempt of creating new museum narratives by the example of the exhibition project «Shevchenko by the urban tongue»

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-123
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Zubar ◽  
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Oleh Mahdych ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City ◽  
Ukrainian Society

Taras Shevchenko is one of the most researched and discussed figures in Ukrainian society. In each historical period receptions and assessments around Shevchenko` personality differentiates, depending on the public circumstances or prevailing trends in humanitarian discourse. These perceptions swayed between positive and critical judgment. Authors identified several key perceptions of Shevchenko in Ukrainian public space, for instance, «national hero», «father of the nation», «poet», «revolutionary democrat». In their opinion, modern Ukraine still faces the search for Shevchenko` new image. New forms of public honour (commemoration) are being developed, including through museum exhibition projects. Authors also analyze the significance of the museum narrative expositions and exhibitions for the creation of new public images, giving the example of the exhibition project «Shevchenko by the urban tongue», which took place in the Taras Shevchenko national museum from November 4th to January 31th in 2021. Curators attempted to explore how personal experience in the city changed due to the process of urbanization from the XIX-th century and how the urban space influenced the shaping of the Taras Shevchenko figure. Specifically, in the XIX-th century, cities ultimately transformed into an environment, which created trends, emphases of the global public development that influenced Shevchenko, since exactly in the city he gained domestic freedom, profession and widened his social circle. The city gave him a sense of understanding of the culture, its influence and importance not only for consumer purposes or acceptance but also for the creation of new meanings. According to the authors, this approach allows us to better understand the significance of Taras Shevchenko, his connection to modern Ukrainian realities and world context.

scholarly journals Evaluation of a Modernist Approach through Buildings in Kayseri, Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
Hikmet Eldek Güner
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
New Public ◽  
Modern Style ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
The City

Kayseri was an important commercial city throughout history, and with the declaration of the Republic, it continued its importance in different areas. The city has many original buildings from the Early Republican Period and was a model of modernisation set on a western ideology. Modernisation of the Republic was started with industrialisation. Consequently, Kayseri became an industrial city in the early 20th century. Investments (both economic and spatial) made by government were later continued by the private sector. Industrialisation was seen as the most important dynamic of development and key to modernisation. This situation resulted in the establishment of a new Kayseri around the industrial area and was viewed as an example for a modern Turkey. These industrial areas were constructed close to the boundary of the city centre. At the same time, the city centre was reconstructed according to modern city planning and the new style (modern style). The ceremonial ground (city square), an urban grid system, wide main transport routes, new public and municipal buildings, which were symbols of international style, were constructed by destroying the historic city centre in the Early Republic Period.The Republic was not only constructing new public buildings in a modern style; it was tried to build a new life with the modern residential areas. Instead of the traditional dwellings, modern houses were constructed to illustrate the new lifestyle together with new functional buildings such as modern education complexes, a community centre, stadium and train station were all constructed to show how to live the modern life.The city gained a new face with the changes starting from 1930. Today, many buildings, belonging to the Early Republican Period, are not being considered in the conservation of cultural heritage and are in danger. Industrial complexes, residential areas, public places are seen as a building stock destined to disappear and be replaced by new buildings. These earlier buildings hold important historical, social, economic and political values. Similarly, construction techniques and materials were also unique for that period.The aim of this study is to draw attention to the 20th century buildings in Kayseri constructed in the Early Republic Period, and classify these buildings under different headings (industry, housing, public space, educational space, open spaces) with the photographs, plans and history, thus defining their values and why they must be conserved. Republic was not only constructed new public buildings in modern style, it was tried to build a new life with the modern residential areas. Instead of the traditional dwellings, modern houses were constructed for point out of new life style and also new functioned buildings like as modern education complexes, community center, stadium, train station were constructed to show how to live in the modern life. The city has gained a new face with the changes starting from 1930. Today many buildings, belonging to the Early Republican Period, are not being considered in the conservation of cultural heritage and they are in danger. Industrial complexes, residential areas, public places are seen as a stock of a building and faced to disappear for constructed for the new buildings. They have very important values like as historical, social, economic and politic. Also construction techniques and materials were also unique for that period. The aim of this study is, to attract attention on 20th century buildings in Kayseri which are constructed in Early Republic Period, to classify these buildings in different headings (industry, housing, public space, educational space, open space …etc) with the photographs, plans and history. In general, meaning the main aim of this study is to define their values and explain why they must be conserved.

scholarly journals Analizy Space Syntax wobec zjawiska segregacji społecznej i izolacji przestrzennej obszarów mieszkaniowych

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Justyna Olesiak
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Urban Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

W wielu obszarach miejskich widoczna jest skrajna segregacja przestrzeni publicznej oraz fakt, że wiele dzielnic mieszkaniowych jest przestrzennie odizolowanych od miasta jako całości. Ponieważ tradycyjne metody analiz urbanistycznych dają słabe wytyczne w tym kontekście, podjęta zostanie próba ujęcia problemu i odmiennego podejścia do segregacji w projektowaniu urbanistycznym. Niniejszy artykuł bada, w jaki sposób teorie i metody analizy Space Syntax mogą przyczynić się do stworzenia bardziej dopracowanych opisów relacji przestrzennych w różnych dzielnicach i całym mieście. Przyjęto metodę badawczą: analizę literatury fachowej (krajowej i zagranicznej) oraz dostępnych publikacji. Analiza urbanistyczna oparta na teorii Space Syntax umożliwia wykazanie zasadniczych różnic strukturalnych między dzielnicami i określenie wpływu form urbanistycznych na zalety przestrzenne różnych obszarów miasta. Otwiera to nowe możliwości rozwiązania problemu segregacji w zakresie projektowania urbanistycznego oraz sformułowanie bardziej skutecznych interwencji antysegregacyjnych. Space Syntax analysis in the Face of the Phenomenon of Social Segregation and Spatial Isolation of Residential Areas In many urban areas there is an observable extreme segregation of public space, in addition to the fact that many housing districts are spatially isolated from the city as a whole. As traditional methods of urban analysis provide poor guidelines in this context, an attempt to investigate this problem and present a different approach to segregation in urban design was made. This paper presents an investigation about how Space Syntax theories and methods can contribute to creating more detailed descriptions of spatial relationships in different districts and in the entire city. The research method employed was an analysis of the literature (both domestic and trade). Space-Syntax-based urban analysis enables demonstrating significant structural differences between districts and to determine the impact of urban forms on the spatial advantages of different areas of the city. It provides new opportunities to address segregation in urban design and formulate more effective anti-segregation interventions.

Public installations or how to reclaim our rights as citizens

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Rana Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Places ◽  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
The People ◽  
The Face ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the importance of reclaiming our rights as citizens and our public spaces by documenting two different public installations/performances that took place in Beirut. The first took place in Spring 2018 and was organized by BePublic Lab at the American University of Beirut, and the second was the Architectural Association Visiting School that took place in Beirut in Summer 2019. Both installations led to a series of interventions on the stretch between Gemmayzeh and Mar Mikhael, an area that has been witnessing gentrification in recent years. Both projects aim to trigger political engagement and raise public awareness in the face of the lack of public space, especially for the youth, in a city that is gradually moving towards a near total privatization of its public places. They emerged as a response to the sociopolitical strategies of depriving the citizens of their basic needs by privatizing what was once everyone’s. This article argues that urban interventions are an opportunity to address sociopolitical issues through spatial and temporal public installations. These installations, tailored to a human scale and anchored in the city as both art and architecture, reflect on the power of public interventions as urban catalytic tactics that engage with the people and challenge the blasé attitude of the citizens, pushing them to claim their rights to the city.

Ephemeral venues: Architectural illustrations and depictions of the masses in Perón’s ‘New Argentina’

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Patruno
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The City

During the Peronist years (1943‐55), architect Jorge Sabaté designed several exhibitions and ephemeral installations to be erected in the central streets of Buenos Aires. These interventions were aimed at transforming the face of the city, repurposing its spaces for unprecedented uses and expressing the right ‘the people’ had gained to free time, outings and leisure. In this article, I examine the architectural illustrations that Sabaté appended to the rest of his plans. The incorporation into his drawings of the social practices of metropolitan strolling is one of the ways in which the Peronist exhibitions designed by Sabaté relate to urban culture. By staging the masses in these materials, Sabaté proposes a whole new form of conviviality in public space and depicts the popular sectors aspiring to a new lifestyle made possible by the intersection of technological progress and expanded access to consumer goods.

scholarly journals Kompleksitas Ruang Publik (Public Space): Agora, Yunani dan Forum, Romawi

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1359
Author(s):  
Yosica Mariana
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Market Formation ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

The city that grows unplanned usually arises because of the conurbations of a culture, such as Agora in Greek and Forum in Roman. The “unplanned” city grows in strategic places, such as around the harbor, business places, worship places, or other activity centers. The city growth due to cultural centers is usually characterized by the growth of services as the economic support of the city activities. The service center develops a community center in the form of public facilities, such as public spaces and public buildings. Western understanding about this kind of design is oriented to functional vision illustrated from several illustrations of history that developed in the world of architecture. Understanding of cosmology in typology and morphology that affect the built environment, especially the face of a city, can be described by reviewing some of the phenomena that have been developed in connection with cosmological concept that affects the embryo of market formation, ie public open spaces which became the center of city residents to the commercial, political, recreational activities, and others resulting from the interaction of community activities. 

scholarly journals EFFECT OF SCALE, PROPORTION, AND WALKABILITY TO VISUAL TROTOAR QUALITY UNDER THE TERAS CIHAMPELAS

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 182-195
Author(s):  
Arvin Tekadtuera ; Anindhita N. Sunartio
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Visual Evaluation ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
The Road ◽  
New Public ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
Maximum Comfort ◽  
The City

Abstract - The introduction the new infrastructures in the city of Bandung is being executed in order to tacklevarious urban problems, such as the lack ofpedestrian-friendly spacse and the lack ofpublic spaces throughoutthe city. In 2017, the Local Government of Bandung opened Teras Cihampelas, which is a skywalk-type ofinfrastructure that was built above Cihampelas Street in order to relocate the street vendors that had beenoccupying the pedestrianway in Jalan Cihampelas and to become a new public space. The new structure, in fact,affects the scale and proportion ofthe spaces between buildings along the road and reconfigurated the visualqualities ofthe existing street. Therefore, the visual experiences in the pedestrianway throughout CihampelasStreet had also affected by the changes of those factors.The method used in this research is a qualitative triangulation method which can be done by mappingthe typology of the space between buildings based on the existing buildings’ intensity for further analysiswhich consist ofscale and proportion analysis, and walkability analysis that was based on visual evaluation. Theanalysis of each typology will then be mapped and merged in each pedestrianways to provide the visualexperiences of the pedestrian in Cihampelas Street.The visual quality in Cihampelas Street appears to slightly exceed the minimum comfortability standardbut still far from the maximum comfort for a pedestrianway. This problem appears because there are lacks oflegibility and imageability that the pedestrian can grasp in most parts of the pedestrianway. But aside fromthose factors, other factors like transparency, complexity, and coherence in Cihampelas Street are highly achievedso that the pedestrianway can still be comfortably walkable by the pedestrian. sKey Words : scale, proportion, visual quality, walkabillity, visual experience, pedestrian, qualitativetriangulation method, Cihampelas Street

scholarly journals The Garbage in the Public Space: Sensitization by Science Teaching Using Virtual Reality

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 313-325
Author(s):  
Márcio Silveira Nascimento ◽  
Henrique Oliveira Lima ◽  
Janny Christiny Fernandes Lima ◽  
Aline Zorzi Schultheis de Freitas ◽  
Andréa Pereira Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The City

This paper recounts the experience of a teaching project, entitled "Virtual Reality in Science Teaching", which aimed to support future science teachers to plan actions addressing the issue of garbage in public spaces from a context, and the use of technologies, with a view to strengthening citizenship and public health. Initially, we contextualize the problem in the garbage in the public spaces from theorists and data that demonstrate the real situation of the world and the city of Manaus. Then it was presented how virtual reality can help educators in the teaching-learning process in the face of the technological environment that is being established in education. Through the use of Google form, we check the development of the students on the subject. According to the students themselves, the tool proposed here has the ability to transport the person to the middle of the problem, causing real awareness and change of attitude.

scholarly journals Implementasi Kebijakan Publik Dalam Pembangunan Ruang Publik Pantai Losari Makassar

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondang Surjana
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
Public Policy Implementation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Main Attraction

ABSTRAK Kebijakan publik serta implementasinya merupakan sebuah program yang  komplek karena perlu melibatkan seluruh stakeholder, yaitu pihak pemerintah, publik dan swasta. Kebijakan publik terdiri dari banyak aktor dengan berbagai kepentingannya tetapi publik sebagai target sasaran sehingga menjadi aspek yang paling penting. Ruang publik merupakan salah satu sarana fisik yang dalam pembangunannya memerlukan sebuah kebijakan publik. Ruang publik adalah sebuah barang publik yang dibangun oleh pemerintah bagi kepentingan publik. Ruang publik dapat diakses bebas dan digunakan oleh seluruh warga kota dan fungsi utamanya sebagai tempat interaksi sosial. Keberadaan ruang publik sangat penting bagi warga kota dan merupakan salah satu elemen kota. Ironisnya, jumlah ruang publik di kota kota besar menurun. Pantai Losari, Makassar, adalah salah satu ruang publik yang paling populer dan paling banyak dikunjungi masyarakat setempat maupun dari daerah lain. Ruang publik tersebut merupakan ruang publik utama di Kota Makassar serta sebagai landmark kota. Daya tarik utamanya adalah lokasinya yang strategis berada di pinggir pantai.  Ruang publik pantai Losari dibangun dengan menggunakan gaya arsitektur modern dipadukan dengan elemen elemen estetis tradisional. Tujuannya agar dapat mengakomodir beragam etnis di kota tersebut. Pada dasarnya pantai Losari adalah hasil implementasi kebijakan publik. Kata kunci: kebijakan publik, implementasi, ruang publik, arsitektur modern.    ABSTRACT Public policy and its implementation is a complex program because of the need to involve all stakeholders, namely the government, public and private. It consists of many actors with different interests but the public as a target to become the most important aspect. Public space is one of the physical facilities in a city which its development requires a public policy. Public space is a public goods built by the government for public purposes. It  can be free accessed and used by citizens and its primary function as a place of social interaction. The existence of public space is very important for the citizens of the city and is one important elements of the city. Ironically, the amount of public space in big cities declined. Pantai Losari, Makassar, is one of the most popular public space and most visited by local communities and other areas. This is a major public space in  Makassar city  as well as a city landmark. Its main attraction is its strategic location at the seaside.  Pantai Losari  built using modern architectural style combined with traditional aesthetic elements. The goal is to be able to accommodate diverse ethnicities in the Makassar. Basically, Pantai Losari is the result of the implementation of public policy.   Keywords: public policy, implementation, public space, modern archtecture.

scholarly journals Planning for hospitable public spaces and the changing city: A content analysis of the city of Sunderland Unitary Development Plan

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-290
Author(s):  
Ian Joseph Morton ◽  
James Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
New Public ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
The City

A plethora of new public spaces have been developed in central areas of many British cities. There is evidence of the emergence of new tourism and hospitality developments (particularly hotels) close to public spaces, which could influence how the spaces are used. Whilst an ongoing discussion of the hospitable city is prevalent within the literature, no study to date has focused specifically on the symbiosis of tourism, hospitality and public space in planning policy documents. To gain a better understanding of how cities plan for a productive relationship between tourism and hospitality and public space and hotel development this article presents a content analysis of the city of Sunderland’s Unitary Development Plan entitled UDP Alteration No. 2 (Central Sunderland) Adopted Policies, this being the central legal urban planning policy document that guides change in the city. The results of the content analysis suggest three central themes of prestige, variety and vibrancy.

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