scholarly journals Public space or safe space – remarks during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Jasiński
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Relationship

The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak and its immediate impact on all aspects of human life have changed the way we use public space in our cities. People have been forced to adopt social isolation measures and wear masks. Street life has ground to a halt and public transport use has plummeted, while social facilities such as restaurants, clubs and cinemas have been closed. The relationship between private and public space has been reversed: public space has become deserted while private space, one of luxury, has been available only to the richest. The behaviour and interactions between people in public space have also changed. The paper analyses the above phenomena and raises questions about the future of metropolitan public spaces after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Social Topography in a Wireless Era: The Negotiation of Public and Private Space

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Public Activity ◽  
Private Activity ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Depth Interviews

Talking on the phone is usually a private activity, but it becomes a public activity when using a cellphone in certain spaces. Unlike a traditional payphone in public, cellphones do not have privacy booths. Therefore, the ways in which people respond to cellphone calls in public spaces provide markers for social topographical space. In this study I explore how cellphone users negotiate privacy when using cellphones in public space and how those within the proximity of the caller negotiate space in response to these callers. Based on a year-long study involving observation fieldwork and in-depth interviews, I discuss the flexibility with which people constantly negotiate their private and public sense of self when using and responding to cellphones in public spaces.

scholarly journals التحول في العلاقة بين الفضاء الخاص والعام في الوحدة السكنية المحلية وأثره على البيئة الحضرية

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. Ar-1-Ar-17
Author(s):  
عبد الباقي غازي حسين ◽  
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عبير قاسم جبر ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Housing Unit ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Surrounding Space ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Housing Units

The adoption of the study of the urban environment and comparing it across its different time stages gives us the possibility to understand the transformations in it and the possibility of benefiting from and reflecting them in local architecture as well as to know the importance of contextual relations to make the added part be compatible with the whole. And since the transformation takes place in the relationships as well as in the elements that make up the urban environment. therefore, the research is specialized in studying the transformation in the relationship between the private and public space in the local housing unit and according to this perspective the research problem was defined as (lack of integration of knowledge about the impact of transformations in the relationship between space Private and public of the local housing unit on the urban and built environment of our contemporary cities) Where the research took the method of analytical descriptive study by reviewing, discussing and analyzing the characteristics of models of housing units that represent the local traditional style and models of modern and contemporary housing units and a comparison between them, then focusing on the relationship that the private and public spaces are connected to in both cases to reach the desired result. The research concluded that the transformation in the relationship between the private and public space in the local housing unit was strongly reflected in the properties of the elements (the housing unit) and the surrounding space (the part level), and this transformation resulted in the overall transformation on the level of the urban environment as a whole as it consists of combining these elements together. (All level).

Reconceptualizing the Public Spaces of New Urban Areas in Hanoi: The End or the New of Public-Making?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh-Tung Tran ◽  
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Tien-Hau Phan ◽  
Ngoc-Huyen Chu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Public spaces are designed and managed in many different ways. In Hanoi, after the Doi moi policy in 1986, the transfer of the public spaces creation at the neighborhood-level to the private sector has prospered na-ture of public and added a large amount of public space for the city, directly impacting on citizen's daily life, creating a new trend, new concept of public spaces. This article looks forward to understanding the public spaces-making and operating in KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) in Hanoi to answer the question of whether ‘socialization’/privatization of these public spaces will put an end to the urban public or the new means of public-making trend. Based on the comparison and literature review of studies in the world on public spaces privatization with domestic studies to see the differences in the Vietnamese context leading to differences in definitions and roles and the concept of public spaces in KDTMs of Hanoi. Through adducing and analyzing practical cases, the article also mentions the trends, the issues, the ways and the technologies of public-making and public-spaces-making in KDTMs of Hanoi. Win/loss and the relationship of the three most important influential actors in this process (municipality, KDTM owners, inhabitants/citizens) is also considered to reconceptualize the public spaces of KDTMs in Hanoi.

scholarly journals The birth of public space privatization: How entrepreneurialism, convivial urbanism and stakeholder interactions made the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, ‘privatization-ready’

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Private Governance ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Management Scheme ◽  
Political Objective ◽  
Stakeholder Interactions ◽  
Private Management ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the vigorous debate on the extent, modalities and impacts of public space privatization, there have been few analyses of the processes of its emergence in specific places. Based on 36 stakeholder interviews and desk research, this paper does so through an analysis of how the Martim Moniz square, in Lisbon, became the city’s first square under private management in 2012. To do so, the paper goes through the local governance context and the importance of convivial public spaces as a political objective, leading to regular partnerships with non-state actors. The square is adjacent to Mouraria, a derelict neighbourhood that was a testing ground for the city’s new urban policies. The square’s private management scheme – branded the Mercado de Fusão – rather than a rupture with existing practices, is the result of a coincidence of interests of both actors. Moreover, it reassembles typical local policy responses and the company’s expertise in a unitary management scheme. The seamless implementation of the Mercado is made possible by the pre-existing relationship between the company and the municipality. The paper thus shows that there is no fundamental shift towards private governance in Lisbon. Rather, it is the generalized commodification of public spaces resulting from the emergence of conviviality as a political objective that opened up the conditions for the square’s privatization. The relationship between conviviality as a political objective and privatization is presented as a promising subject for further research.

scholarly journals Uma trilha sonora no largo da carioca: caminhadas de escuta e observação como método de investigação dos espaços públicos/A soundtrack on the Largo da Carioca: listening and observation walks as a public spaces investigation method

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-253
Author(s):  
Renato Coimbra Frias
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Political ◽  
Audio Recording ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Investigation Method ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMOO presente trabalho discute a relação existente entre sons, política e espaços públicos. Tal discussão é conduzida pela análise dos dados obtidos em um trabalho de campo realizado no Largo da Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, que consistiu no mapeamento das diferentes atividades que ocupam esse espaço público e no registro em áudio dos sons ao longo de uma caminhada pelo Largo da Carioca. A análise evidencia como o som produzido por camelôs, artistas de rua e outras atividades observadas em campo exerce um importante papel no jogo de posições entre elas, configurando-se como importante fator na geografia política dos espaços públicos.Palavras-chave: Espaços Públicos, Caminhadas Sonoras, Paisagens Sonoras. ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the relationship between sounds, politics and public spaces. This discussion is conducted by the analysis of data obtained in a fieldwork in Largo da Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, which consisted in mapping the different activities that occupy this public space and in the audio recording of the sounds present on a walk along the Largo da Carioca. Our analysis shows how the sound produced by street vendors, street performers and other activities observed in field plays an important role in the positions established between them, becoming an important factor in the political geography of public spaces.Keywords: Public Spaces, Soundwalks, Paisagens Sonoras.

Study on Internal Layout of UK's Day Care Unit for Older People

2014 ◽  
Vol 507 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Da Ke Wei ◽  
Hong Jin ◽  
Hong Yuan Mei
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Basic Type ◽  
Relative Location ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
Internal Circulation ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Storage

This study focuses on the internal layout of premises of UKs day care unit for older people, including possible combinations of rooms and spaces, access and circulation. All day units require a minimum of a dining/activity space, a kitchen, (a) toilet (s) and storage space, these rooms and spaces are combined into the basic type of premises. Depending on the aims of the unit, the number of places provided, and users' needs, many of the disadvantages associated with basic premises can be overcome if the premises have extra spaces. From the above analysis we can see that, in existing day unit premises, the number and type of rooms and spaces and how they are grouped together vary considerably, ranging from simple to complex arrangements. Also, the relationships between rooms and spaces in layouts for all day unit premises need to be pondered over, including distances between key rooms/spaces, the relative location of spaces in terms of their functions, the relationship between private and public spaces and the views within and between rooms, and from external windows. In addition, access and circulation of a day unit need to be considered carefully, including access to the day unit premises and the reception space and internal circulation.

“We are all republicans”: Political Articulation and the Production of Nationhood in France's Face Veil Debate

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Laxer
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
The Face ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn July 2010, following a year-long nationwide debate over Islamic veiling, the French government passed a law prohibiting facial coverings in all public spaces. Prior research attributes this and other restrictive laws to France's republican secular tradition. This article takes a different approach. Building on literature that sees electoral politics as a site for articulating, rather than merely reflecting, social identities, I argue that the 2010 ban arose in significant part out of political parties’ struggles to demarcate the boundaries of legitimate politics in the face of an ultra-right electoral threat. Specifically, I show that in seeking to prevent the ultra-right National Front party from monopolizing the religious signs issue, France's major right and left parties agreed to portray republicanism as requiring the exclusion of face veiling from public space. Because it was forged in conflict, however, the consensus thus generated is highly fractured and unstable. It conceals ongoing conflict, both between and within political parties, over the precise meaning(s) of French republican nationhood. The findings thus underscore the relationship between boundary-drawing in the political sphere and the process of demarcating the cultural and political boundaries of nationhood in contexts of immigrant diversity.

Strengthen the "Non-Visual Perception Experience" in the Design of Public Space

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 3083-3086
Author(s):  
Jun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Major City ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
The Relationship

Since human beings are living in the dynamic environment which requires multi-perceptional experiences, multiple perceptions prevail in every aspect of people’s life. In this article, the writer is concerned with the problems revealed in the design of public space environment, and the important role non-visual perceptional experience plays in the relationship between human being and environment. In the procession of their design, it is necessary for the designers to pay attention to the users' requirements on the non-visual perceptional experience. Making use of several cases of major city public spaces as example, the writer conducted careful survey into the current situation of the actual practice of non-visual perception experience and validates its essential function.

scholarly journals Laboratory Environmental Conditions Influence Patent Inventors’ Creative Self-efficacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Shih-Hao Wang ◽  
Chung-Lin Tsai ◽  
Han-Chao Chang
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Wireless Cloud ◽  
The Relationship

A comfortable experimental environment usually enables stress relief among inventors, allowing them to focus on inventing. However, to facilitate smooth and continuous experimental procedures, the public spaces and computing environments of conventional laboratories are usually replete with heavy instruments and interconnected wires; consequently, inventors have limited space to conduct complex experiments. These public spaces and computing environments negatively affect the creative self-efficacy (CSE) of inventors. Based on CSE theory and modified information layout complexity theory, in this study, 100 inventors who had obtained patents were recruited. The results indicated that a wireless cloud public space and computing environment positively moderated and enhanced the relationship between low layout complexity and inventor CSE; conventional public spaces and computing environments featuring cables negatively moderated and weakened the relationship between high layout complexity and inventor CSE. More than 40% of participants highly supported using one electronic tablet to manipulate multiple instruments. The results also revealed that approximately 64% of participants did not think they were essential in promoting critical mass in the laboratory. This finding was significantly different from the degree centrality of creativity perspective. Critical indicators of inventor CSE were found to be inventors’ decision-making capabilities regarding innovative research directions and their communication skills with supervisors.

“Something like Happiness”

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-468
Author(s):  
Adrienne M. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Velvet Revolution ◽  
The Family ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Privately Owned

This article uses the medium of film to analyze masculinities at the intersection of the regionally specific with the typical: the peripheral factory town with the universalizing panelák, or apartment block. This article addresses how the private spaces in industrial regions achieve new meaning when the role of the factory or public space, idealized in communist propaganda, has undergone a dramatic transformation. After the narratives that made spaces “great” became irrelevant in 1989 and the paneláky and factories lost their metaphorical meanings, they became simply apartment buildings and privately owned worksites. Within these spaces, many working-class men in industrial regions have faced more difficult transitions than women because they, as idealized workers under socialism, were more invested in the system and lost more from its collapse. Through an analysis of common themes in films released roughly fifteen years after the Velvet Revolution, the author asks how these men relate to the panelák, or private space, when excluded from the masculine, public space of the factory. How does the employment situation impact the family unit? What solutions do directors present to these men who find themselves ill-equipped for life in the industrial periphery after the post-1989 transition? This article draws from and contributes to recent work in the field of Czech gender studies and functions as a Czech case study on the relationship between gender and space in the former Eastern Bloc.

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