scholarly journals Public Spaces for Children in a Post-Socialist City

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Krklješ ◽  
Dejana Nedučin
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
The Times ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The City

AIM: The aim of this research is to present the outcomes of urban transformations during the post-socialist period in Novi Sad, Serbia, from the aspect of quality of public spaces for children.MATERIAL AND METHODS: This research is a contribution to the process of designing public spaces for children in the times of rapid urban changes and a step forward to creating adequate places for children’s play.RESULTS: The socialist legacy of architectural design and urban planning strategies in terms of housing was altered by the new post-socialist patterns. Residential construction became insufficiently regulated and predominantly profit-driven, which resulted in a disregard of the value public spaces for children should have.CONCLUSIONS: Upon analysing public spaces for children in the city after transition, it can be concluded that there is a significant shortage of attractive places for gathering, play and other leisure activities in many of newly built urban neighbourhoods. It also seems that architects and urban planners did not pay much attention to children’s needs. The distribution of public spaces, their proportions and dimensions, programs and contents, should all be planned with the aim to create harmony between spaces and their users, making the whole process of socialization more successful and intensive.

scholarly journals DESIGN PARTICIPATION: FROM RHETORIC TO PRACTICE (AND BACK?)

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radojka Jandrić
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Top Down ◽  
City Administration ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Cultural Infrastructure ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The City

Design participation is considered an inclusive, democratic and transparent process of urban planning and decision-making, particularly important for environments where complex social and economic realms could easily be misinterpreted in a common top-down design approach. This paper examines actual contributions of this methodology, implemented in ongoing strategies for designing and building public spaces and cultural infrastructure as part of the project Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2021, which is based on democracy, decentralisation, inclusion and citizens' participation. Now, these strategies were put into action, with several projects prepared, launched and brought closer to actual realisation. This process revealed conclusions inrespect to implementation possibilities, as well as its strengths and weaknesses in actual projects, and ephasized the need to further improve urban practice and undertake change of the slow and unprepared procedures of the City administration.

scholarly journals AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ASPECTS THAT AFFECT THE QUALITY OF REVITALIZED PUBLIC SPACES : With special reference to the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.R.M.N.L. Lankadhikara ◽  
◽  
G.R. Ratnayake
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
The City ◽  
Area Planning

Public spaces are the places where all people can come together and spend their time without any restriction and it can be defined as the “City Living Room”. Therefore, these spaces can foster social cohesion, reduce psychological stress and provide physical activities. Public spaces have unique historic and architectural values and such places can be used to enhance the place making character of the area. Planning agencies often use revitalization, restoration, regeneration, refurbishment or redevelopment as Placemaking tools which can improve the quality of such public spaces in a city. It is often acknowledged that “revitalization” can be identified as one of the viable alternatives instead of demolition of historical buildings. “Revitalization” and “Adaptive re-use” can be identified as the tools for creating public spaces which are livable, accessible and convivial places for all. The previous studies have researched on the aspects an essential method to make places functional, attractive and convivial spaces. Although researchers studied the general functional aspects of revitalized public spaces, a few studies have focused on the quality and the barriers for such revitalized public spaces. This study attempts to fill this research knowledge gap and investigates what are the barriers and areas that need to be improved in the revitalization process within the Sri Lankan context by using three case studies in Colombo. As our framework of this study, we used access & linkages, comfort & image, uses & activities to assess the quality of revitalized places. This study further found that barriers associated with the process of revitalization are regulatory, social barriers, and technical barriers.

scholarly journals EVALUATION OF THE GENERAL ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE ACCORDING TO MANY CRITERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
Feshchur R. ◽  
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Sosnova N. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Controversial Problem ◽  
Reasonable Choice ◽  
The City

Cities are constantly changing – new and existing facilities are created and reconstructed, existing ones are modernized, and new territories are developed, and, accordingly, public spaces are formed and develop in a certain way. To a large extent, this process is random and does not take place systematically, but this rather happens as a response to the urgent economic, environmental, social or other needs of city residents. Development management in the urban planning system is designed to solve the controversial problem of maintaining integrity and at the same time striving for its transformation. The use of the tools of mathematical modeling, considered in the article, allows one to solve the problems of spatial development of a city and its public spaces in a purposeful way, and to coordinate such a solution with the interests of stakeholders. When forming public spaces of a city one faces the task of streamlining competing development projects (alternative projects) for a particular area of ​​a city, taking into account the importance of their impact on the establishment of a distinctive image of the city and ensuring quality of life of its residents. To solve this problem, it is advisable to use methods of expert evaluation of design decisions, in particular, methods of ranking, valuating, and folding vector-valued criterion into a scalar criterion (integrated indicator of project weight). Ranking means assignment of a certain rank (a number from the natural series) to every project. The most important project is given the highest rank, which corresponds to number "one". The sum of the ranks given by all experts to a particular project can be considered as a generalized value of its weight. The article considers approaches to the assessment of urban public spaces on the basis of various criteria, namely urban, social, economic, environmental ones. The developed models of public space planning are designed for making a reasonable choice from a set of alternative projects subject to implementation, either according to the dominant criterion or according to many criteria in the conditions of resource constraints.

scholarly journals Urban water bodies as the basis for functioning of public spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 02005
Author(s):  
Valentina Kurochkina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
High Rate ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Recently, housing construction in cities has been carried out at a high rate. Increasingly, urban abandoned and flooded depressive spaces near water bodies (often rivers), which were previously used as industrial facilities or temporarily used, are becoming the sphere of architectural and landscape transformations. The restoration of such territories helps to improve the quality of urban space and improve its ecological properties. Correct development of territories near rivers and various water bodies has a great health-improving effect on the urban environment, improves its natural and climatic conditions. In addition, social and economic factors play an important role in this process, since such transformed territories and territories adjacent to them significantly increase investment attractiveness. This paper examines modern approaches to the development of urban public spaces, based on the formation of architectural environments that ensure the relationship of urban development with water bodies and adjacent territories. The paper notes that water bodies are not only an important component of the natural-ecological framework, but are also the basis for the framework of urban-planning natural-technogenic systems as a whole. And the creation of a continuous urban fabric is impossible without the organization of a ‘water’ line of development, provision of compositional, functional and communication interconnection of open urban and water spaces, which is actively being introduced today in architectural and urban planning practice. The paper examines the role of water bodies in the ecological system of the city, as well as in its structure as a whole. The aim of the study is to identify the features of the formation of a public urban space, to determine the patterns of its development, to identify criteria that reflect the nature, scale and features of the impact of urbanization on a water body. Some principles of revitalization of coastal areas, as well as the creation of a system of publicly accessible, compositionally expressive spaces are considered. The principles of space transformation aimed at the formation of a holistic image of the city, as well as the impact of such a spatial arrangement of urban and water bodies on the safety and quality of the urban environment are considered.

scholarly journals Cycling in the city: Novi Sad on its way to become more bike-friendly city through the social activism

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Ivana Komadina
Keyword(s):  
Social Activism ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Policy ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Different Parts

Novi Sad is a city with great potential for becoming a major cycling city. However, there have been certain obstacles standing in the way. Via survey, people who cycle expressed their satisfaction with the number of parking spots, storage space at home, safety in traffic, quality of cycling paths, and density of cycling paths. On the other hand, a group that does not cycle was asked for reasons behind it as well as for their opinion on how to involve more cyclists. Furthermore, we tried to illustrate the importance of social activism in promoting cycling as well as its role in implementing new social policies. This paper offers an insight into the origins of the present issues while presenting potential solutions based on already implemented methods from other major cycling capitals. Overall we propose novel approaches to tackling this issue with the hope of using this research for making the future policy more coherently and continuously. Only with a multidisciplinary and integrative approach from different parts of the community, Novi Sad can fulfill its potential to become a safe and efficient area for cyclists.

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.

Art and social displays in the branding of the city: Token screens or opportunities for difference?

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Nevárez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Times Square ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Professional Class ◽  
The Times ◽  
The City

Even though urban screens can be seen as digital substitutes to public space image display, it is my contention that they are additional public spaces that as windows offer the potential of broadening use and participation. Most urban screens such as billboards have the purpose of displaying products for consumption within a cultural logic designed to address consumer audiences. The different strategies used to entice the consumer individual are varied, relying on culturally informed responses that advertisement agencies research. These strategies are also included in the way in which cities – through urban development initiatives – seek to generate a brand that will provide a competitive edge in attracting both a professional class of residents and tourists, to the city. This paper seeks to illustrate the uses of screens designed for the display of art in Times Square, NYC, their content as well as their role in the branding of the city with the aid of the Times Square Alliance that exemplifies trends in the privatisation of public space. By looking at the Panasonic Screen used by Creative time to display video art in that part of New York City, this paper will: 1) determine the content, purpose and possible meanings that emerge from the use of screens to display art and social issues as well as possibilities for other kinds of community and cultural contents different from the sole purpose of advertisement. A critical assessment of the content these images might offer, the inclusion of context and other pertinent information that could provide a broader perspective in the understanding of the images can be – it is my contention – acquired through the conceptualisation of screens to include the public spaces where they are located as an extension, a physical site for dialogue and public engagement.

scholarly journals Zlín: Public Art and the City

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Jana Snedarova
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modernist Architecture ◽  
A Site ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

In this article, the topic of public art in an urban environment of the post-industrial city is viewed in the context of one place – Zlín. Contemporary artworks integrated into the city spaces show the city as a site, in the context of its Modernist architecture and urbanism. They reflect both the past and the present-day changes in society and the way how we see and experience the world. Public art in Zlín has become part of the transformation and regeneration of public spaces fostering the enhancement of the quality of lives of local urban residents. It is evident from the research that Zlín can be perceived as a place with great potential for new art projects and for the public’s participation and engagement.

scholarly journals Interrelationship of public spaces and built-in corner buildings based on the examples of modernism in 'Mali liman' area in Novi Sad

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-153
Author(s):  
Milena Krkljes ◽  
Vladimir Kubet ◽  
Ksenija Hiel
Keyword(s):  
Specific Problem ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
And Function ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Urban Matrix

Corner buildings, according to their position in an urban block, can be more freely shaped than other built-in buildings. Due to their position and perception, above all, from surrounding public spaces, they dominate inside an urban matrix of a residential area and very often represent urban model of cities. Relationship of these buildings to public spaces, which are in their immediate environment, represents a specific problem. Regarding the observed period of Modernism, the problem of the origins and transformation of corner buildings, was treated in different ways, and therefore surrounding public spaces had different characteristics and values. Buildings, originating in the above mentioned period in the territory of Novi Sad and their interrelationship to public spaces are subjects of the research, according to different parameters of shape and function. On the basis of the conducted analysis the quality of interaction of buildings and public spaces is being evaluated, from the viewpoint of their morphological, architectural, and urban structure, but also through programs, social, psychological and environmental values.

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