scholarly journals The Gothic Representations of the City through the Fl?neur in Victorian Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
Sana Chebil
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The City

The Victorian Gothic moved away from old and conventional themes and spaces of early Gothic novels such as ruined castles and evil villains into more realistic spaces and characters that went hand in hand with the issues of the era. While the conventional Gothic space centered on the castle or other forms of old buildings, the city was an important component in Victorian Gothic imagery. In an era of growing mediation between the city and the urban dwellers, the gothic representations of the urban space in Victorian literature highly depended on the 'eye' of the its fl?neurs, or walkers who see, interpret, and produce the city. The fascination with modes of perceiving and seeing the mystery of the puzzling visual experience are evident in a wide variety of the nineteenth and twentieth-century theories and researches on the urban space. The focus of this paper is to graft some insights into debate on urban visuality and other related tropes that provide a range of perspectives on the field of the visual and perception of the city. Then, drawing from Victorian novels, this paper examines Dickens’s portrayals of urban subjects such as Gothic fl?neurs who produce the city as a Gothic place.

scholarly journals Nueva York 1916. La ciudad sin límites | New York 1916. Unlimited city

ZARCH ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
José Durán Fernández
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The City

La Ciudad de Nueva York fue pionera en la aplicación de un sistema de planificación de control urbano que pusiera orden y concierto a una ciudad que rebasa los 5 millones de habitantes a principios del siglo XX. Tal complejo organismo urbano, inédito hasta ese momento, fue objeto del más ambicioso plan urbano sobre una ciudad construida.Este artículo se destina al estudio de este originario plan urbano de 1916, el cual sentaría las bases, unas ciertamente visionarias otras excesivas, de la construcción de la Ciudad de Nueva York en todo el siglo XX. La Building Zone Resolution se creó con dos fines: resolver los problemas de congestión humana en un espacio reducido, la ciudad del presente, y proponer una visión del espacio urbano en las décadas venideras, la ciudad del futuro.El artículo es un compendio de diez textos cortos y un epílogo, que junto a sus respectivos diez documentos gráficos, construyen el corpus de la investigación. El lector pues se enfrenta a un ensayo gráfico formado por pequeños capítulos que le sumergirán en los orígenes de la primera ciudad vertical de la historia.PALABRAS CLAVE: Nueva York; Planeamiento; Visión urbana.The city of New York was a pioneer in the implementation of an urban control planning system that set in order a city that exceeds five million people in the early twentieth century. Such complex urban organism – invaluable until that moment – was the target for the most ambitious urban planning on a built city.This paper focuses on the study of this initial urban planning from 1916, which would set the basis, certainly some visionary yet others excessive, for the building of New York City throughout the 20th century. The Building Zone Resolution was created with two purposes: to solve the issues related to the human bundle in a limited space, the city of the present, and to aim a vision of the urban space in the forthcoming decades, the city of the future.The article is a compendium of ten short texts and one epilogue, which in combination with ten graphic documents, frame the corpus of this investigation. Thus, the reader will face a graphic essay composed by a series of brief chapters that highlight the beginning of the first vertical city in history.KEYWORDS: New York; Planning; Urban vision.

TRENDS IN THE DESIGN AND BUILDING OF LVIV IN THE XIX-EARLY XX CENTURY

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-93
Author(s):  
Silnyk O ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Qualitative State ◽  
Practical Factors ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
The City

The central part of Lviv was formed over several centuries and in several stages. Favourable demographic, economic and political prerequisites in the XIX-XX centuries positively influenced the quantitative and qualitative state of urban homes. Demolition of defensive walls, the formation of a new citywide centre, measures to improve the central part of the city, regulate the street network, and increase the population are the main factors that underlie the planning and development of the city. The city was actively built up. Most of the houses were profitable. These are buildings that brought profit to their owners through rented premises and commercial parterre floors. The modern architecture of Lviv is developing under the influence of tourist infrastructure and the ordinary household needs of Lviv residents. The urban space of the central part of modern Lviv needs to be regularly updated to perform functions that are dictated by time. It is also important to preserve the existing historical centre that attracts tourists, represents the historical value and pride of the country. Professional implementation of projects requires a detailed study and analysis of the existing architecture. Since the second half of the XIX century, the development of houses parallel to the main roads of the city became popular. Dense buildings spread in concentric circles from the city centre and gradually replaced low-rise buildings in the peripheral part of the city. During this period, housing construction is carried out on a large scale. These are mostly two- or three-story houses, often with a courtyard. The size and configuration of the houses were dictated by technical capabilities, existing buildings and streets. The sites often had a complex shape, the development was carried out already in the conditions of reconstruction, which significantly complicated the solution of new projects. The houses had rectangular forms of plans, the dimensions of which averaged 400 m2 until the end of the XIX century. During the twentieth century, slightly larger plots – 570 m2 – were already allocated for construction. The built-up area on the plots ranged from 30 to 87 per cent. The density of buildings was dictated by both economic and practical factors that are relevant even today. The houses were distinguished by interesting planning solutions with a thorough set of architectural details both in the exterior and in the interior. The range of rooms includes dining rooms, offices, boudoirs, bathrooms, corridors and storerooms. During the nineteenth century, in the decisions of facades dominated Italian neo-Renaissance and neo-Baroque; in the twentieth century – secession. The style solution was based on the choice of details that were prototypes of classical architectural images. The architecture of Lviv of the XIX-XX centuries represents a wide range of artistic interpretations. The study of houses built during this period reveals both their development and the transformation of spatial planning, compositional and stylistic solutions. The necessary formative periods of historicism opened up new angles for the development of subsequent stylistic trends in the following years. The experience of architects, which is connected with the historical past of Lviv, testifies to the significant importance and place of the architecture of the XIX-XX centuries for the further development and development of the city.

Cinematic Vistas of Rio de Janeiro’s Worldly Modernity

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Maite Conde
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
The City

This chapter draws upon and contributes to discussions about the homologous relationship between early cinema and urban space. It focuses on the ways in which the introduction and development of film in Brazil was part of a project of urban transformation that took place in the country’s then capital, Rio de Janeiro, at the start of the twentieth century, which was intended to transform the city into a modern and global capital. This project of urban transformation was modeled on Haussmann’s Parisian reforms. Analyzing early actuality films, the chapter examines how the foreign medium’s arrival was inscribed and implicated in Rio’s modern transformation, helping to map and project its new image as a modern urban capital.

Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki

Urban History ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIKKI PAUNONEN ◽  
JANI VUOLTEENAHO ◽  
TERHI AINIALA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spare Time ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:The article investigates the linkages between urban transformation and informal verbalizations of everyday spaces among male juveniles from Sörnäinen (a working-class district in Helsinki) in 1900–39. Sörkka lads' biographically and contextually varying uses of slang names mirrored their itineraries across the city in the search of earning and spare-time opportunities. As a simultaneously practical and stylistic street language, the uses of slang both eroded (in uniting bilingual male juvenile groups) and strengthened (as with providers and teachers, working-class girls, upper-class urbanites and rural newcomers) existing socio-spatial boundaries. Unlike in the late nineteenth century Stockholmska slang studied by Pred, openly irreverent toponymic expressions vis-à-vis the hegemonic conceptions of urban space were relatively few in early Helsinki slang.

Picket lines and parades: labour and urban space in early twentieth-century London and Chicago

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUTH PERCY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
City Space ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTGarment strikes in London and Chicago provide a setting to consider the role of the city in early twentieth-century labour struggles. While strikers in the two cities shared similar experiences and confronted similar imaginings of the city, they faced different built environments. The comparative approach thus highlights the importance of considering spatial dynamics when studying strikers’ strategies. Journalists’ and other onlookers’ responses to picket lines, parades or mass meetings reflected normative understandings and expectations of workers’ behaviour, especially if those workers were young, women or ethnic minorities. The article considers the ways in which strikers in early twentieth-century London and Chicago transgressed contemporary perceptions of their cities by appropriating city space and by subverting behavioural norms in spaces where they did belong. I argue that the strikers drew attention to their struggles via their atypical use of the city streets and that occupying these spaces helped unify the strikers and thus strengthen the strike.

scholarly journals Features of the conceptual approach of contemporary Ukrainian artists in the genre of urban landscape

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Andriy Bludov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
General Direction ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Creative Person ◽  
The City

The article examines the features of the perception of the urban environment as a specific phe- nomenon. The article considers the artistic works of a group of contemporary Ukrainian artists P. Makov, A. Sai, L. Dzhuraev, A. Priduvalov in the genre of urban landscape from the point of view of a conceptual approach, which allows us to understand the general direction of development of this type of genre. The works of contemporary Ukrainian artists reflect how a modern city creates an endless combination of connections between different aspects of life and the corresponding various forms and impressions. The article analyzes the works that the authors demonstrated as their reflections on changes in the urban environment in special creative projects. The urban environment causes a creative person to strive to convey his atmosphere, images, rhythms in his own language. For centuries, artists have depicted the urban space, but it was in the twentieth century that the transformation of the urban environment into an urban one contributed to the fact that the city became a source of special inspiration for subsequent times. The theme of urbanism is specific in the work of contemporary Ukrainian artists, where the very phenomenon of the city is the basis of creative inspiration. The aim of this work is to study the conceptual and programmatic works of contemporary Ukrainian artists to reveal the theme of urbanism in painting and the main trends in displaying the city as a concept in the work of artists.

scholarly journals “Spirit of Russia” in the Song Lyrics About the City of Yelets

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-312
Author(s):  
Nataliya A. Trubitsina
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
The City

<p>The paper attempts to substantiate the opinion of Professor I.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Esaulov about the special &ldquo;spirit&rdquo; of Russia present in the urban space of the ancient provincial Yelets. The analysis uses the song lyrics of local poets of the early twentieth century, published in 1996 in the almanac &ldquo;Yeletskaya byl&rdquo;. The author comes to the conclusion that the Yelets poets in their works conveyed the unique flavor of their native land by means of contamination of the main cultural codes of the Yelets text&nbsp;&mdash; Yelets Orthodox, Yelets merchant, Yelets-a city of military glory. Local mythology played a&nbsp;major role in the formation of the Yelets text of culture. The appearance of the mother of God at Yelets to Khan Tamerlane, after which there was a miraculous escape from the ruin of Moscow and all Russia, became a &ldquo;starting&rdquo; event for the perception of Yelets as a sacred city under the patronage of the mother of God. The widespread use of Orthodox symbols in the song lyrics about Yelets emphasizes the predominance of the religious and spiritual component over the visual and secular landscape of the city.</p>

scholarly journals Automobile public transport in Kharkiv at the beginning of the twentieth century: projects and first attempts at implementation (based on materials from the local press)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Passenger Transportation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bus Service ◽  
The Cost ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Research aim is to establish the history of the first projects and attempts to organize bus passenger transportation in Kharkov at the beginning of the twentieth century. Research methodology. The article discusses the emergence and development of bus traffic in Kharkiv at the beginning of the twentieth century from the point of view of the concept of modernization of urban space. Scientific novelty. For the first time in the historiography the history of bus traffic in Kharkiv at the beginning of the 20th century became a topic of a special scientific study. The basic facts of the organization of regular bus traffic in the city in the context of the state of transport communication at that time have been established. Conclusions. The publications of the newspapers «Yuzhnyj Kraj» («South Land») and «Utro» («Morning») make it possible to identify the causes and content of the first projects of automobile passenger transportation in the city, as well as to find out that the beginning of bus traffic was closely connected with the solution of the so-called «tram issue» horse-drawn railways, which belonged to Belgian owners. Certain projects for road transport of passengers in Kharkiv - suburban bus service along the route Kharkov Measurements and delivery of the public to the hippodrome from Teatralnaya Square during the days of equestrian competitions - were carried out already in 1908-1909, but for the first time an official bus service in the city was opened along a regular route from Veterinarnaya Street to the railway station on June 6, 1910. Bus traffic existed in Kharkov during the summer-autumn of 1910, was resumed in the spring of the following year and probably lasted no longer than until the autumn of 1911. The first experience of organizing bus passenger transportation in Kharkiv was not very successful and could not compete properly with other types of urban public transport of that time - horse and electric trams. The cost of bus transportation was too high compared to the cost of horse tram and city electric trams.

Theatre and Urban Space: the Case of Birmingham Rep

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-147
Author(s):  
Claire Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

In NTQ61, Deborah Saivetz described the attempts over the past decade of the Italian director Pino DiBuduo to create ‘invisible cities’ – performances intended to restore the relationship between urban spaces and their inhabitants, through exploring the actual and spiritual histories of both. Earlier in the present issue, Baz Kershaw suggests some broader analogies between the theatre and its macrocosmic environment. Here, Claire Cochrane, who teaches at University College, Worcester, narrows the focus to a particular British city and the role over time of a specific theatre in relation to its urban setting. Her subject is the history and development of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in relation to the city – of which its founder, Barry Jackson, was a lifelong resident – as an outcome of the city's growth in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, which made it distinctive in terms of its manufactures, the workers and entrepreneurs who produced them, and a civic consciousness that was disputed yet also shared. She traces, too, the transition between old and new theatre buildings and spaces which continued to reflect shifting class and cultural relationships as the city, its politicians, and its planners adapted to the second half of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Do estuque ao tijolo: as formas de produção do espaço urbano de Vitória – ES entre o final do século XIX e inicios do século XX. \ From stucco to brick: the forms of production of the urban space of Vitória - ES between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (56) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
Vanderson Moreira Silva Alves ◽  
Carlos Teixeira de Campos Júníor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
De Se ◽  
Construction Activity ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Space Production ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

O presente artigo tem como objetivo discutir a produção do espaço urbano da cidade de Vitória (ES) por meio da construção imobiliária entre o final do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX.  Vitória foi construída com a finalidade rentista e tal lógica se evidencia desde quando se utilizava o trabalho do escravo na construção de moradias na cidade. A prática do aluguel de escravos na atividade de construção elevou o preço do trabalho de construir e impediu o acesso deste trabalho especializado à população mais pobre, difundindo a produção doméstica entre os mais pobres e restringindo a construção por encomenda aos mais ricos.  Vitória seguiu crescendo de maneira desigual, com uma paisagem heterogênea marcada tanto pelo traçado irregular das moradias e das vias quanto pelas contradições de uma lógica rentista de se produzir a cidade. Desta forma, busca-se compreender a produção do espaço da capital capixaba considerando o trabalho, as formas de produção da construção civil e o processo de urbanização da cidade no período supracitado.Abstract This article aims to discuss the production of the urban space of the city of Vitória (ES) through real estate construction between the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Vitória was built with the rentier purpose since when it was used the work of the slave in the construction of houses in the city. The practice of renting slaves in the construction activity has raised the price of labour to build and prevented the access of this specialised work to the more impoverished population, spreading the domestic production among the poorest and restricting the construction by order to the rich. Why, even after the end of slavery and the use of slave labour in construction, did Vitória continue to grow unevenly and excludable? The forms of production of the construction industry, real estate, and the process of urbanisation of the city are the references by which one seeks to understand the production of the space of the capital of Espírito Santo state.Keywords: space production; real estate construction; slavery; rental of real estate.

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