Theories of value, culture, and cultural spaces in the city

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-51
Author(s):  
Sara Gwendolyn Ross
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The City

The Theatrical Memory of Space: from Piscator and Brecht to Belgrade

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvija Jestrovic
Keyword(s):  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In this article, Silvija Jestrovic introduces the notion of spatial inter-performativity to discuss theatre's relationship to actual political and cultural spaces. Focusing on the Berlin of the 1920s in performances of Brecht and Piscator, then on a street procession of the Générik Vapeur troupe that took place in Belgrade in 1994, she examines how theatrical and political spaces refer to and transform one another. Silvija Jestrovic was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at York University in Toronto, and has recently taken up an appointment in the School of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. She is currently working on a book-length project entitled Avant-Garde and the City.

scholarly journals The Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consume

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igea Troiani ◽  
Tonia Carless
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Charlie Chaplin ◽  
University Marketing ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
University Town ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
The City

The shift in focus in UK higher education since Thatcherism from the production of knowledge for civic betterment to the production and consumption of knowledge by the university for revenue generation can be read through the social rearrangement of space in the university town or city. A key spatial reconfiguration emerging from the shift in economic conditions is the collapse of the modern university as a singular, ideological construct. Like ‘the city’ before it, the modern university has, at its interior, been reformed into a newly defined, fragmented public–private social space, and, at its exterior, into a devourer of the space of the local community. This article showcases excerpts from a film made by the authors entitled The Death and Life of UK Universities – a title inspired by Jane Jacobs’s critique of great American cities. Our film is a cinematic database survey of the changing space of all British universities which considers this systematic spatial reprogramming of space within the city. The two-year research project is an audio-visual critique of the way in which neoliberalism, corporatization and commercial interests have co-opted the space of the British university. Referencing the films of Charlie Chaplin and Gordon Matta-Clark and the writings of Henri Lefebvre, the film focuses on university cities, critically observing the rise of university marketing material and the consumption of the city and of local community life for university student accommodation. We ask: How are UK universities being spatially reconfigured and what are the consequences?

Spaces and Places

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-87
Author(s):  
Alisha L. Menzies
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
White Spaces ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The City

This essay is an autoethnographic account of the ways Black cultural performance, specifically Black social dance, works to produce and maintain Black cultural space in predominantly white spaces. I consider the significance of the “City Boy Wit It” song and dance as an expression of Black identity that marks Blackness in Tampa, FL. By framing my personal experiences through a discussion of Black identity and Black space, I critically examine larger issues of Black performativity and Black cultural spaces.

Vienna

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-116
Author(s):  
Andrew Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the cultural history of Vienna as a story of modernity, space, and power, from the late nineteenth century construction of the Ringstrasse to the postwar building of Red Vienna. It traces the city’s particular version of the geographical emotions of modernism, concentrating upon how the city’s architectural spaces helped shape an ‘inward turn’ in the mood or stimmung (Heidegger) of the modernism produced here, often producing notions of spatial phobias. It also analyses the importance of coffee houses as cultural spaces, and the ‘outsider’ figure of Jewish writers and thinkers in the city. After discussion of key Viennese figures such as Sigmund Freud and Robert Musil, it then traces how Anglophone visitors such as John Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison (in her Vienna Diary), Jean Rhys, and Stephen Spender (in his neglected long poem Vienna) represented the mood of the city in the interwar years. The chapter concludes with an analysis of Carol Reed’s 1949 film The Third Man.

Toward developing a sustainable regeneration framework for urban industrial heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Parsa Arbab ◽  
Gelareh Alborzi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Problem ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Decision Context ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The City

PurposeRegeneration of industrial heritage aims to display the patrimony assets by launching measures to convert them into cultural spaces associated with sustainable initiatives for satisfying environmental, social and economic demands in the city. The adaptive transformation and reusing process of industrial heritage constitutes a crucial cultural objective and consequently must be identified in a way that simultaneously integrates preservation with conversion and conservation with refurbishment. Hence, this paper explores to develop a framework for the sustainable regeneration of industrial heritage in cities.Design/methodology/approachBy reviewing the current literature, research and experiences on urban industrial heritage, including existing approaches, frameworks, and case studies, this study brings a theoretical and conceptual approach to sustainable regeneration of industrial heritage, which is a fundamental start point for conducting further research and performing practical projects.FindingsThree key phases of the Initiation as decision context, including understand the characteristics and assess the significance, the Planning as decision problem, including study the feasibility, develop a policy, and prepare a proposed reuse plan, and the Execution as decision output, including implement the plan, monitor the results and review the plan should be considered regarding the sustainable regeneration of urban industrial heritage.Originality/valueThe suggested framework considers sustainable regeneration of industrial heritage in cities as a decision-making process, which requires defining the decision context, analyzing the decision problem, and finally, results in the decision output. Accordingly, it seems to help bridge the gap between various discourses and planning perspectives and make all stakeholders' involvement easier, more effective and efficient regarding the sustainable regeneration of industrial heritage in cities.

‘The city in our hands’: urban management and contested modernity in nineteenth-century Belgrade

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
MILOŠ JOVANOVIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Urban Populations ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

ABSTRACT:This article examines the image of the city and notions of urban management in the discourse of elite groups in Belgrade between 1830 and the late 1860s. It focuses on the negotiation of modernity in heterogeneous cultural spaces, particularly looking at the textual interplay of power, orientalized exoticism and notions of backwardness. These discourses were integral to the processes of managing urban populations and homogenizing the cityscape. The city's specific political situation as a site of dual authority, however, left room for minor acts of contestation which questioned the primacy of exclusion and dispossession as bases for modern urban transformation. This dynamic interplay framed the city as a site of conflict between mutually defining forces of ‘Europeanization’ and ‘backwardness’.

scholarly journals PROMOTING CULTURAL SPACE OF KAMENKA AS AN ELEMENT OF KRASNOYARSK TOURIST DESTINATION ON THE MARKET OF TOURIST SERVICES

2018 ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
Татьяна Бутова ◽  
Tatyana Butova ◽  
Наталья Бекетова ◽  
Natalya Beketova ◽  
Артём Казаков ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Krasnoyarsk Krai ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Leisure Facilities ◽  
The City

In recent years cultural and public spaces developing in Russia are involved in the formation of a comfortable environment for the city residents and attracting new tourist flows. The role of the capital of XXIX World Winter Universiade complicates the task of providing attractiveness of Krasnoyarsk for potential tourists. This requires creation of an attractive tourist offer and the identifica- tion of tourism potential for existing cultural organizations and other leisure facilities. Cultural space Kamenka founded in 2013 recently has gained popularity among the population of Krasnoyarsk and other districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai and Siberian Federal District as a leisure attraction. In this regard, it has the prospects of transformation into a tourist destination. Accordingly, the study of the perspective of the Kamenka’s transformation into a tourist destination is of great practical importance, and it can also help to find a methodological tool for developing marketing strategies that ensure the success of this process. The authors reveal the segment of the Kamenka target market, presented by the potential tourists of the regional tourist services markets, and identify the specificity of the tourist potential of the commodity offer and the reasonably local centered scenario of Kamenka development as a tourist destination. Cultural and educational spaces of Russia and the cultural space Kamenka as innovative destinations use modern promotion technologies based on Internet technologies, effectiveness of which has been evaluated according to the D. Khaldilov's methodology of the social networks effectiveness assessing, adapted to cultural spaces. On this basis the authors give the proposals to improve social networks, which can ensure Kamenka’s successful transformation into the tourist destination, helping the city of Krasnoyarsk to become attractive for tourists, not only while holding the Universiade, but also after it. The authors are grateful to the team of the Cultural space of Kamenka, especially to Anna S. Ivanova and Alina A. Tokmakova for their support in the research.

scholarly journals Sociocultural aspects of studying the Moscow metro as a phenomenon of architecture in extreme environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Maria S. Valdes Odriozola
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Environments ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Personal Contribution ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

The subject of the research is the essence and specificity of socio-cultural aspects of the first stages of construction of the Moscow metro as phenomena of architecture in extreme environments. The object of research is the socio-cultural aspects of the architecture in extreme environments. The study provides their classification. The author relies on the principles of heterotopy research proposed by Paul-Michel Foucault while drawing upon a number of research methods, such as micro-urbanism, the study of the city in its “details”; visual sociology (visual anthropology); a systematic approach for collecting and analyzing materials, as well as thesaurus analysis of culture, allowing to systematize the results obtained by other methods. The paper identifies the features of creating socio-cultural spaces in an extreme environment on the example of the Moscow metro. The author focuses on the methods of creating a psychologically comfortable environment in the metro, as well as the possibility of architectural and artistic components of underground stations as translators of values and meanings. For the first time this paper examines the socio-cultural component of Moscow metro stations in the context of studying the essence and specifics of socio-cultural aspects of the architecture in extreme environments. The author's personal contribution is that, basing on the principles of research of socio-cultural spaces and the methodology of her own, she managed to detect specific features of creating the socio-cultural space of the Moscow metro first stations.

scholarly journals Dinâmica locacional dos espaços públicos de lazer na cidade de Teresina-PI / Locational dynamics of public leisure spaces in the city of Teresina-PI

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Laudenides Pontes Dos Santos ◽  
Silvia Aparecida Guarnieri Ortigoza
Keyword(s):  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The City

<p>Este artigo visa analisar como o lazer tem sido vivenciado na cidade de Teresina-PI, através da caracterização da dinâmica locacional dos espaços públicos utilizados para esse fim. Os objetivos foram constatar os tipos de espaços mais presentes, verificar a distribuição destes nas zonas e bairros e analisar as causas de tal distribuição. Como procedimento metodológico adotou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental e pesquisa de campo através de entrevistas junto aos órgãos de planejamento da cidade e moradores, visitas e mapeamento dos espaços. Como resultados verificou-se uma má distribuição desses espaços dentro das zonas, ou seja, alguns bairros centralizam os espaços enquanto outros não os possuem. O espaço em maior número são as praças, há uma centralização dos espaços culturais e que a zona com menos equipamentos é a Sudeste, apesar de apresentar uma forte expansão urbana.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chaves:</strong> Espaços Públicos. Lazer. Teresina-PI.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article aims to analyze how leisure has been experienced in the city of Teresina-PI, through the characterization of the locational dynamics of the public spaces used for this purpose. The objectives were to verify the most common types of leisure spaces, to verify their distribution in the areas and in the neighborhoods of the city and to analyze the causes of such distribution. As a methodological procedure were adopted a bibliographic research, documentary research and field research through interviews with the planning sectors of the city and residents, visits and mapping of the spaces. As a result, it was verified a poor distribution of these spaces through the areas of the city, in other words, some neighborhoods concentrate such spaces while other neighborhoods have none of them. The most found leisure spaces present in the city are squares, there is a centralization of cultural spaces and the area with the least number of equipment is the Southeast region of the city, although this region has a strong urban expansion.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Public Spaces. Leisure. Teresina-PI.</p>

Horizontes: Pinturas e desenhos de Belo Horizonte

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Monteiro de Menezes
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Individual Activity ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
The Will ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

HORIZONTES is a tribute to the city Belo Horizonte. The drawings and paintings that make up this tribute were presented in individual and collective exhibitions in art galleries and cultural spaces in the capital of Minas Gerais. The peaces bring scenes from the daily life of the city, its mountains seen in the distance, as well as representing some of its buildings. The creative process begins with drawings and sketches developed on the spot, using graphite pencils, colored pencils, ballpoint pens, a pad of paper and a good shade to protect from the sun. The buildings are drafted on the spot on small sheets of paper, allowing you to choose the best viewing angles and seeking to experience the space, smell the scents, hear the sounds, perceive the warmth and life of each place. The drawings made in the place offer important and necessary information to help organize the perception and better understanding of the object in space. The observation drawing activity involved in this creative process is of great importance, as it is a conventional, personal and individual activity, involving the discovery of forms and their communication. The observation drawings developed at the site are more than just a passive container of the author's eye. They are a powerful medium that influence thinking just as they are influenced by the thinking of the designer. The result seems to represent, more and more, the will and the attempt to paint not only the visible world, but the memory, the history, the winds, the sounds, the smells, the city and the life, with all the symbolic aspect.

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