scholarly journals THE LAYERS OF CORDOBA: AN ANALYTICAL HISTORICAL STUDY FOR THE EFFECT OF RELIGION CONFLICT ON ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN FEATURES

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-165
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Murad ◽  
Mehmet Batirbaygil ◽  
Nuran Pilehavrian
Keyword(s):  
Southern Spain ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Human History ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Architectural Transformation ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The City ◽  
Beautiful City

This paper discusses Cordoba as one of the most iconic cities in human history and particularly in Europe. As part of the Andalusia region in southern Spain, Cordoba was the center of many conflicts that helped in shaping the European architecture and the urban fabric. Under the Umayyad rule, Cordoba was the largest and arguably most beautiful city in the World. However, the passage of time has not been very kind to it. Unfortunately, it has suffered from severely diminished of its historical and strategic value. This paper analysed Cordoba’s history through different ages. Then, we focused on the peak of the city when it was under the Islamic rule when it became the center for culture and arts. At the end, we analysed how the city has faced a drastic architectural transformation that was carried out by the Spanish when they took control of the city during the Spanish Reconquista. We found how different cultures and religions throughout history have affected the architectural layers of Cordoba. These layers have exposed either demolish, overlap or dominate of one layer over another layer. Finally, we realized that this conflict created present Cordoba; the strong cultural, economic, touristic center in Southern Spain.

scholarly journals On the Differences between English and Chinese Animal Words Cultural Connotations

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 835
Author(s):  
Rongmei Yu
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human History ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
Different Cultures

A social language could reflect culture which is correspondent and its manners show in the contents of words and vocabulary. The same to the animal words what contains rich and profound cultural customs of various nationalities and reflects the philosophical and cultural mentality of all ethnic groups profoundly.In the course of the development of human history, animals keep in touch with human beings. Many animals yet have been being human beings’ pets and friends. Many animals have formed a certain symbol in the minds of people, and are embodied in the language. Animal words are also forming a specific meaning in these processes. There are abundant words in English and Chinese with large number of animals as a metaphor. The cultural diversity of all nations around the world causes people to have different emotional attitudes towards animals in the different cultures, thus, the meaning of animal vocabulary is different in different cultures. It’s helpful to improve the communicative competence of English for the understanding of the cultural connotations of English and Chinese. To promote English learning and intercultural communication is of great practical significance.

scholarly journals “CENTOCHIESE”: A HUNDRED CHURCHES IN ROME. AN ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC PROJECT

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W15 ◽  
pp. 457-463
Author(s):  
G. Fangi ◽  
C. Nardinocchi ◽  
G. Rubeca
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The City ◽  
Christian Nation ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Ideal

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Rome is the city where two different cultures have found their greatest architectural achievement, the Latin civilization and the Christian civilization. It is for this reason that in Rome there is the greatest concentration in the world of Roman buildings, monuments and Christian buildings and churches. Rome is the seat of the papacy; say the head of the Christian Church. Every religious order, every Christian nation has created its own headquarters in Rome, the most representative possible, as beautiful, magnificent as possible. The best artists, painters, sculptors, architects, have been called to Rome to create their masterpieces.This study describes the photogrammetric documentation of selected noteworthy churches in Rome. Spherical Photogrammetry is the technique used. The survey is limited to the facades only, being a very significant part of the monument and since no permission is necessary. In certain cases, also the church interior was documented. A total of 170 Churches were surveyed. The statistics that one can derive from such a large number is particularly meaningful. Rome is the ideal place to collect the largest possible number of such cases. This study was motivated by the desire to provide technicians, architects, engineers and students with a technique that is easy to use and accessible and to show the great potential of the used photogrammetric technique. This article is a prelude to a book where all the panoramas obtained will be presented and made available to a larger public. Guidelines and tools to plot the facades will also be made available.</p>

scholarly journals DEVELOPING A NEW PARADIGM FOR PERFORMANCE OF EDUCATING CITY THEORY IN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MEGA-CITIES, CASE: TEHRAN, IRAN

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoome Amini ◽  
Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad ◽  
Mohammad Reza Bemanian ◽  
Elham Hatami Varzaneh
Keyword(s):  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The City ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Research Show

Considering the growth of the world’s population and the need for educated individuals, the development of technology among the young generation, is now felt more than ever. This issue offers countless opportunities for education. So, many urban managers and city authorities try to consider all available options to achieve this goal. Nowadays, educating cities are the framework for development on local, civil and commercial levels all over the world. Tehran as the capital of Iran is a city where people with different cultures and expectations live. This means that the city authorities must perform various programs to satisfy people’s expectations, thus the role of urban management is extremely valuable, and MPOs must make intelligent decisions in this area. The goal of this paper is to examine the current state of Tehran and the projects related to its potential as an educating city in recent years, and also to evaluate the capability of Tehran to advance to the state of the educating city. The key question is: “How does Tehran fulfill the prerequisites of the principles for educating cities?” And “Which criteria need to be reconsidered for this purpose?” The results of the research show that Tehran has a lots of obstacles had yet to be overcome to meet Educating City goals and objectives.

scholarly journals Istanbul 2003

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Keyword(s):  
Dual Role ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Numerous Book ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The City

ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2003 (April 12-27, 2003) celebrated its 22nd birthday this spring with almost 200 films from around the world. What began as Cinema Days in the eighties in this cosmopolitan city of film-lovers has now become a prestigious event that connects different cultures just as the city of over fifteen million inhabitants itself, which unites the continents of Europe and Asia with its spectacular Bosporus. The festival venue in the Beyoglu district, the ancient Pera, which has become the Soho of Istanbul, adds to this atmosphere with its numerous book and CD/DVD shops and bohemian cafes that stay open past midnight. Since the closure of the cinematheque in the eighties by the military regime of the period, the festival has shouldered the dual role of preserving the film culture while presenting the best crop of the year, which means that the main programs, the National and...

THE SIZE OF CITIES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-719
Author(s):  
Kirkpatrick Sale ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Optimum Size ◽  
Human History ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Eye Blink ◽  
City Planner ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The City

. . . records of urban populations suggest that for most of human history cities did not generally grow beyond the 50,000 to 100,000 range. For most of its celebrated life the city of Athens hovered around 50,000 people, though at periods of particular power the surrounding state may have grown to 150,000 or 200,000. The Italian cities that nurtured the Renaissance were no larger than 80,000, and most of them held closer to 50,000—the Rome of Michelangelo had perhaps 55,000 people, the Florence of Leonardo 50,000, and Venice, Padua, and Bologna at their height probably 50,000 to 80,000. Boston and Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution did not have more than 30,000 people, New York had even fewer. In fact, it seems that only rarely did historical cities go much beyond 100,000, and then only temporarily when serving as the capitals of empires. . . . The very existence of giant cities is so recent as to be a mere eye-blink in recorded history. It was not until 1800 that any city grew to more than one million people—that was industrialized London—and by 1900 there were only ten others of that size. The conclusion of the great Greek city planner Constantine Doxiades, who spent his life categorizing such things, seems on the mark: "If we look back into history . . . we find that, throughout the long evolution of human settlements, people in all parts of the world have tended to create urban settlements which reached an optimum size of 50,000 people."

Editorial

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Ayona Datta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Built Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Globalising World

The dynamics of globalisation as the increasing interconnectedness between all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political spaces have seen an unprecedented focus on migrants across the world. Far less discussed though has been the connections between spaces and places during migration - how conceptualisations of proximity/distance, inside/outside; native/migrant; past/present; memories/experiences produce and shape buildings, streets, and urban environments. While it is suggested that the unprecedented movement of people in a globalising world will be particularly significant for cities and urban life, it is also argued that such movement has led to a problematisation of ‘home’ as a particular type of built form in a physical location. This special issue is therefore interested in making the links between three important processes in a globalising world-home, migration, and the city - and their significance for built forms and built environments across the world.

scholarly journals PESONA DANAU SITU GEDE DI KOTA TASIKMALAYA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haikal
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Music ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
West Java ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The City

There are many countries in the world that are beginning to rebuild their country from the tourism sector. Indonesia is one of a hundred. With a thousand beauties, it has over 100,000 thousand different islands with a thousand different candidates on each island. Indonesia is a big country from Sabang in Aceh to Merauke in Papua. And also different cultures and lifestyles. From the beginning, Indonesia was known as a paradise country. It takes an entire life to explore Indonesia. And Tasikmalaya, West Java is one of the small towns in Indonesia located in the south of Java island and at the foot of Mount Galunggung which holds many local heritage, culture, unique language, delicious traditional food, beautiful scenery, traditional music that is easy to hear and dancing and more. With Sundanese songage, big lake is located in the city of Tasikmalaya, West Java. With its own characteristic of the big lake has a very mysterious story with various myths that berkembangan in the surrounding community, not only mythical stories just gede lake decorated in a beautiful and very beautiful in mixed with the pine forest on it. But not only the view of the lake gede also many culinary variety that can arouse your appetite with a variety of traditional cuisine tasikmalaya.

Lyon – UNESCO’s Creative City of Gastronomy?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Avelino Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Brand Positioning ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Creative Cities ◽  
Marketing Program ◽  
Creative City ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

The fast urbanization in many regions of the world has generated a high competition between cities. In the race for investments and for international presence, some cities have increasingly resorting to the territorial marketing techniques like city branding. One of the strategies of recent years has been to use of creativity and / or labeling of creative city for the promotion of its destination. This phenomenon raises a question whether the city branding programs have worked in accordance with the cultural industries of the territory or if such labels influence the thought of tourists and locals. This paper begins by placing a consideration of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) and the strategies of the Territorial Marketing Program of the city of Lyon in France, Only Lyon. It also raises the question the perception of the target public to each of the current actions through semi-structured interviews which were applied between May and August 2015. Finally, I will try to open a discussion the brand positioning adopted by the city of Lyon

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

‘Otherwise in London’ or, the ‘Essence of Things’: Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Julian Wolfreys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Thomas De Quincey ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Representation ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is explored by familiar texts of urban representation such as by Thomas De Quincey and William Wordsworth, as well as through less widely read authors such as Sarah Green, Pierce Egan, and Robert Southey, particularly his fictional Letters from England.

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