scholarly journals REMEMBERING IN THE CITY: CHARACTERISING URBAN CHANGE

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Temporal Change ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Space ◽  
Special Places ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The City

City form conveys two images – the experiential and the remembered. The urban environment therefore is a cacophony of complex visual stimuli experienced with the often conflicting memory associations we attribute to them. Our appreciation of the rapidly changing built environment is therefore relative rather than absolute. In this sense the temporal and spatial components of the city merge to form our interpretation of city space. This paper presents emerging retrogressive landscape analysis, from the domains of landscape planning and heritage, to examine the possibility of a city-wide assessment of its potential to create ‘double exposure’ – walking simultaneously in the past and the present. This is not simply derived from our experience of individual architectural structures (urban form), but also our interpretation of past movement routes, boundaries and morphology (urban code). For this reason it may be necessary to look beyond a heritage which focuses on distinct ‘special’ places and protected buildings and look toward a heritage of temporal change processes and ubiquitous urban evolution; since it is also our interpretation and understanding of these which contributes to our full appreciation of city ‘character’. Santrauka Miestas turi du vaizdus – tiesiogiai suvokiamą ar patiriamą ir besiformuojantį atmintyje, o urbanistinės aplinkos kompleksiškų vizualinių stimulų kakofonija dažnai konfliktuoja ar nesutampa su atmintyje iškylančiomis asociacijomis. Galima teigti, kad mums būdingas urbanizuoto kraštovaizdžio pokyčių suvokimas yra daugiau sąlyginis negu absoliutus, nes trumpalaikiai ar pastovūs erdviniai elementai ir atminties fragmentai susilieja į vieną visumą formuodami konkrečios miesto erdvės interpretaciją. Šiame straispnyje pristatoma retrogresinė kraštovaizdžio analizė, žvelgiant iš kraštovaizdžio planavimo ir paveldo apsaugos pozicijų – jame siekiama įvertinti miestovaizdžio „dvigubos ekspozicijos“ potencialą, t. y. galimybę vienu metu vaikštant po miestą judėti dabartyje ir praeityje. Ši galimybė sukuriama ne tik patiriant atskiras architektūrines ar urbanistines formas, bet suvokiant bei interpretuojant ir individualius buvusius judėjimo kelius, ribas ir morfostruktūras (urbanistinį kodą). Saugant kultūros paveldą ir atsižvelgiant į miesto aplinkos suvokimo kompleksiškumą yra būtina ne tik susitelkti į atskirų objektų ar vietų apsaugą, bet ir skirti dėmesio aplinkos naudojimo ir kaitos procesams bei urbanistinės evoliucijos respektavimui. Šie aspektai svarbūs išsamiam miesto charakterio suvokimui.

scholarly journals Cultural Memory and Urban Space in Shaping Cultural Identity

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-183
Author(s):  
Valentyna Bohatyrets ◽  
Liubov Melnychuk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
City Space ◽  
New Type ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

Nowadays, in the age of massive spatial transformations in the built environment, cities witness a new type of development, different in size, scale and momentum that has been thriving since late 20th century. Diverse transformation of historic cities under modernisation has led to concerns in terms of the space and time continuity disintegration and the preservation of historic cities. In a similar approach, we can state that city and city space do not only consist of present, they also consist of the past; they include the transformations, relations, values, struggles and tensions of the past. As it could be defined, space is the history itself. Currently, we would like to display how Chernivtsi cultural and architectural heritage is perceived and maintained in the course of its evolution. Noteworthy, Chernivtsi city is speculated a condensed human existence and vibes, with public urban space and its ascriptions are its historical archives and sacred memory. Throughout the history, CHERNIVTSI’s urban landscape has changed, while preserving its unique and distinctive spirit of diversity, multifacetedness and tolerance. The city squares of the Austrian, Romanian and Soviet epochs were crammed with statuary of royal elites and air of aristocracy, soviet leaders and a shade of patriotic obsession, symbolic animals and sacred piety – that eventually shaped its unique “Bukovynian supranational identity”. Keywords: Chernivtsi, cultural memory, memory studies, monuments, squares, identity.

Arcology, Arcosanti and the Green Urbanism Vision

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Ruth A. Rae
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
The Past ◽  
Green Urbanism ◽  
Pedestrian Transportation ◽  
The City ◽  
Central Arizona

Arcosanti is a prototype city being built based on the visionary architect Paolo Soleri’s principles of Arcology which integrates architecture with ecology. Arcology proposes a compact three-dimensional urban form to provide a lean alternative to the unsustainable urban sprawl city form found in most of America. In its reduction of dependence on the automobile, reliance on pedestrian transportation, proximity to nature and proposal to have agriculture integrated into the city, Arcology is a vision of Green Urbanism. The design of Arcosanti incorporates Biophilic principles that preserve the biodiverse natural landscape, has a compact organic form, and functions with a circular metabolism that is analogous to nature when complete. Arcosanti, located in central Arizona, was begun in 1970 as an urban laboratory, and has been constructed by over 7,000 workshop volunteers over the past 45 years. Following Soleri's death in 2013, the Cosanti Foundation has established a Strategic Planning Steering Committee to help guide the continued development of Arcosanti as a prototype Arcology. The Strategic Plan will provide a framework for future organization and development. This article examines how the concept of Arcology and the development of the Arcosanti prototype encompasses principles of Green Urbanism and sustainable development.

scholarly journals "Wszystko już tu było, od samego początku" - "Mikrokosmosy" Claudia Magrisa jako triesteńska auto/bio/geografia

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 183-199
Author(s):  
Natalia Chwaja
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Role ◽  
Active Factor ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
City Space ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The City

„It was all there already, from the beginning” – Microcosms by Claudio Magris as a Triestineauto/bio/geographyAbstractThe aim of my article is to study the relation between the subject and the city, focusing on thecase of an autobiographic essayistic novel by a contemporary Italian writer Claudio Magris.The space of Trieste, author’s native city, plays a multiple role in the Microcosms narration.On one hand, it works as a “mnemotechnical pretext” for the protagonist’s sentimentaljourney into the past, both individual and collective. On the other hand, the city space canbe seen as an active factor, shaping the hero’s “triestine” state of mind and reflecting itself inthe novel’s poetics. In my analysis, I refer to some essential categories of geopoetics (“auto/bio/geography” by Elżbieta Rybicka, Tadeusz Sławek’s and Stefan Symotiuk’s interpretationsof genius loci), as well as to Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, which I consider one of the mostimportant Microcosms’ intertexts.Keywords: Claudio Magris, Trieste, city, auto/bio/geography, space, genius loci

The Grid Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Francesco Rotondo
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The South ◽  
Central Places ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
The City

The pattern of the grid city now seems dated and far from the metropolisation phenomena that characterize contemporary cities. In fact, as already happened in the past, the grid cities manage to evolve favoring the needs of its contemporary inhabitants. In this chapter, the authors try to understand some phenomena that characterize the transformation of the urban form of the grid city, highlighting its own ability to evolve between tradition and innovation. During these 200 years, the grid city, its buildings, and its public spaces were created, lived, and processed in multiple ways: built, replaced, drawn, renovated, restored. Here, the authors do not want to describe these planning and building tools, but they want to discuss the possible implications of the different transformation modes used in the grid city can have on urban and architectural perception of the physical space, the quality of life, and viability of these central places for the city's identity. The city of Bari, on the Adriatic Coast, in the South of Italy, is used as a case of study to represent concepts developed in the chapter.

scholarly journals Le trasformazioni urbane nella Tbilisi post-sovietica

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Zenobi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City ◽  
The Rose

After the Rose Revolution, a process of transformation of the city begins. Very different public and private architectures from the past arise, while the strategies for the conservation of old Tbilisi are matter of discussion. To understand the factors that determine the creation of new urban spaces we first need to focus on two factors: the process of Institution Building that follows the Rose Revolution and the emergence of a political narrative that combines modernisation and nationalism. The hypothesis is that these two factors create the ground for developing the specific practices of transformation of the city and for the emergence of a new urban form.

Virtual Cairo: An Urban Historian's View of Computer Simulation

Leonardo ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nezar AlSayyad
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computer Visualization ◽  
Visualization Technology ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

Recent advances in computer-visualization technology have brought urban historians new tools for analyzing the growth of historic cities. This paper examines both the prospects and problems involved in using this technology to map the development of urban form. Using a computer model of Cairo in two different periods of the Middle Ages, the author has attempted to reconstruct the physical reality of the city and to animate the city so that modernday observers may experience its principal streets. While the work has shown computer simulation to be a significant tool for helping urban historians understand the built environments of the past, it has also exposed possible pitfalls in the seductive potential of such simulations.

PRINCIPLE OF CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN WAYFINDING OBJECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
V. А. Vorozheykina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Path Finding ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Good Level ◽  
City Space ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
Street Furniture ◽  
The City

Questions concerning the study of the phenomenon of urban wayfinding are particularly relevant nowadays, since there is a number of problems related to orientation in the city. As bearers of light and colour, urban wayfinding objects help pedestrians and drivers to quickly navigate in a complex city environment. Urban wayfinding refers to special constructions that are installed in certain places and contain visual information in the form of text and signs. There are complex wayfinding systems consisting of several types of structures, as well as individual navigation elements with different visual designs. In addition to special guiding structures, many objects in the city space affect the path finding: architectural structures, monuments, street furniture, advertising objects (large banner structures), etc. At night, objects with a good level of illumination serve as a means of orientation. The article analyzes the objects of the city environment in terms of their navigational potential and provides a classification of urban wayfinding objects by their degree of dynamism.

“MORE THAN ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE”: FRIEDRICH ENGELS IN INDUSTRIAL MANCHESTER

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aruna Krishnamurthy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Abstract Knowledge ◽  
City Space ◽  
Privileged Structure ◽  
Friedrich Engels ◽  
Early Text ◽  
The City

IN HIS BOOKMarxism and the City, Ira Katznelson, while lamenting the disappearance of spatial elements within Marxist thought, points to Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England as an ur-text that is able to provide “positive specification of the mechanisms linking base and superstructure” (56). As a corrective to the narrowly “scientific” strain of Marxism that privileged “structure” over “agency,” Katznelson views Engels’s early text on the industrial city of Manchester as the bearer of a double message: “Writing at the precise branching moment of the emergence of the modern industrial city, [Engels] connected the development of this new urban form to the epochal changes of the industrial revolution; he showed how changes in organization of city space affected social relationships within and between classes; and he tied this social geography to the suffering and coming to consciousness of the new proletariat” (144). In this critical exchange between “base” and “superstructure,” where Marxism becomes a tool for reading the city, and the city a space for revising Marxist method, class consciousness gets redefined as “urban consciousness,”1 thus supplanting the site of praxis from the arena of production to the psycho-social experience of space.

scholarly journals Korzenie pamięci. O Mirabelce Cezarego Harasimowicza

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
City Space ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The City ◽  
Plum Tree

The article attempts to interpret the novel Mirabelle in the light of hauntology, taken from Jacques Derrida’s works, existing in the Polish literary studies first and foremost thanks to the works of Jakub Momro and Andrzej Marzec. Harasimowicz’s novel recounts the history of Warsaw from the 1920s until the present-day period. The mirabelle plum tree growing on one of the backyards in Warsaw tells the story of the following generations of the city dwellers who fade away and fall into oblivion. The Holocaust, depicted in the beginning of the novel, does not, however, become the past. The recollection of the genocide is inscribed in contemporary Warsaw, in the city space and the consciousness of its inhabitants. The phantoms of the former dwellers of Nalewki, the Jewish district in Warsaw, visit their homes, little stores, and workshops, trying to end unfinished businesses and engaging with the representatives of the present-day citizens. The gesture of remembrance, which is the replanting and redeveloping a new mirabelle tree in the place of the damaged one, gives people hope for the restoration of balance and strengthens the bonds between the living and the dead.

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