scholarly journals Immigration in Genoa: real estate demand survey in the historic centre [Immigrazione a Genova: un’indagine conoscitiva sulla domanda immobiliare nel centro storico]

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Paolo Rosasco ◽  
Leopoldo Sdino ◽  
Benedetta Sdino
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Central America ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historic Centre ◽  
New Residents ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City

Migratory flows which characterized European cities over the last decade have generated profound changes in the social and economic tissue causing a housing demand with its own characteristics. In Italy, such phenomenon is particularly evident, not only in terms of property demand by foreigner residents, but also as to the turnover produced in terms of volume. Immigration in Genoa manifested itself starting from the second post-war period through a considerable flow of people coming from South of Italy regions looking for an occupation in many state industries and companies in the city or the port. The phenomenon ceased in the ‘70s with the beginning of the deindustrialization and it has been substituted by foreign immigration coming from North Africa and Central America poorest countries. New residents settle in the urban units of Molo, Maddalena and Prè (Historic Centre) abandoned by traditional inhabitants and where the lower prices level makes the buildings more accessible to this specific demand, often characterized by reduced economic capacities. I flussi migratori che caratterizzano le città europee in questi ultimi decenni hanno generato profondi cambiamenti nel tessuto sociale ed economico causando una domanda abitativa con propri caratteri. In Italia, il fenomeno è particolarmente evidente, sia in termini di domanda di immobili da parte di residenti stranieri sia in termini di volumi di affari prodotti. Per la città di Genova il fenomeno dell’immigrazione si manifesta a partire dal secondo dopoguerra con un consistente flusso di soggetti provenienti dalle regioni del sud Italia in cerca di occupazione nelle molte industrie e aziende statali presenti in città e nel porto. Il fenomeno cessa negli anni ‘70 con l’inizio della deindustrializzazione e viene sostituito dall’immigrazione estera dagli stati più poveri del nord Africa e del Centro America. I nuovi residenti si insediano nei sestrieri del Molo, della Maddalena e di Prè (Centro Storico della città) ormai abbandonati dagli abitanti tradizionali e dove il basso livello dei prezzi rende più accessibili gli immobili da parte di questa specifica domanda spesso caratterizzata da ridotte capacità economiche

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aled Davies
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This book is a study of the political economy of Britain’s chief financial centre, the City of London, in the two decades prior to the election of Margaret Thatcher’s first Conservative government in 1979. The primary purpose of the book is to evaluate the relationship between the financial sector based in the City, and the economic strategy of social democracy in post-war Britain. In particular, it focuses on how the financial system related to the social democratic pursuit of national industrial development and modernization, and on how the norms of social democratic economic policy were challenged by a variety of fundamental changes to the City that took place during the period....

A real estate ‘market’ in Classical Greece? The example of town housing

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 329-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Nevett
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Range Of Values

In the past it has often been assumed that, although rental of real estate in Classical Greece was relatively common, sales of such property were not. This article challenges that assumption by looking in detail at a small group of inscriptions from Olynthos in the Chalkidiki, which date to the first half of the fourth century and record transactions involving houses in the city. By analysing these documents in conjunction with their archaeological contexts, it becomes evident that there was a systematic set of criteria by which such properties were valued, and that a premium was placed upon larger houses and those located close to the agora, at the centre of the social and political life of the city. This adds a new dimension to the emerging picture of the increasing use of the house as a symbol of personal prestige during the fourth century. The limited evidence available from Athens and the Attic deme centres suggests that Attic town houses had a comparable range of values and that a similar shared concept of value may therefore have been operating. It thus seems that in the case of town houses, at least, sufficient properties were changing hands for potential purchasers to have a shared concept of their value, and this may indicate that families moved between different areas of a settlement, or between different settlements.

scholarly journals Women of Fes

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Emilio Spadola
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Space ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Family Code ◽  
Mega Cities

The city of Fes, the once “bourgeois citadel” (J. Berque’s words) of Moroccoand once the world’s most populous city (1170-80), has in modernity beenunhappily bypassed for coastal trading hubs and global mega-cities. Materialand symbolic elements of Fassi power persist, however, and anthropologistRachel Newcomb’s finely researched and written ethnography identifies them in upper-middle-class women’s gender identity. In so doing, Women ofFes helps the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, and Islamicstudies to illuminate the often-neglected power of class to shape gender in theMuslim Middle East and North Africa, demonstrating, not pointedly, thatclass divides women within as much as across cultures.Newcomb’s book concerns women of, not merely in, Fes, namely, a classof women of “original” Fassi families navigating the social ruins and newopportunities of daily urban life. Its disparate topics – urban rumors, women’sNGOs, reforms of the Moroccan Muslim family code (mudawanah), flexiblekinship, public space, a dépassé lounge singer – shift the book’s centerfrom class to gender and public life. Her skillful identification of class issueswithin the latter, however, gives the book a necessary coherence ...

scholarly journals A DISPERSÃO URBANA NO ESPAÇO METROPOLITANO DE BELÉM-PA: uma análise a partir dos assentamentos residenciais na Ilha de Mosqueiro

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (18) ◽  
pp. 15788
Author(s):  
Sandro Brito Ferreira ◽  
José Queiroz de Miranda Neto
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Urban Dispersion ◽  
Administrative District ◽  
Geographic Scale ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Social ◽  
State Agents ◽  
The City

THE URBAN DISPERSION IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF BELÉM-PA: an analysis from the residential settlements on Mosqueiro IslandLA DISPERSIÓN URBANA EN EL ÁREA METROPOLITANA DE BELÉM-PA: un análisis de los asentamientos residenciales en la isla del MosqueiroRESUMOEste artigo tem como objetivo analisar a dispersão metropolitana de Belém, tendo como recorte empírico o distrito administrativo de Mosqueiro, espaço suburbano tradicionalmente utilizado como espaço de lazer. A Ilha de Mosqueiro, como também é conhecida, passa por importantes redefinições ligadas à influência metropolitana, sobretudo a partir da instalação de novos assentamentos residenciais. No presente trabalho, parte-se da ideia de que a dispersão metropolitana é produto e condição da reprodução das relações sociais de produção do capital em uma escala geográfica mais ampla, pois é na metrópole que se encontra boa parte das condições objetivas de realização do trabalho. Como resultados, entende-se que a dispersão da metrópole de Belém ocorre por razões outras que não se explicam, em princípio, apenas pela lógica formal de acumulação do capital imobiliário. Para tanto, o recorte espacial considerado é Mosqueiro que, embora faça parte da área de expansão do município de Belém, não foi afetado pela ação direta das empresas imobiliárias que atuam nos municípios da RMB e pelas políticas habitacionais do Estado, agentes responsáveis pela expansão da fronteira urbano-imobiliária. Há, portanto, uma expansão que ocorre por meio de formas não integralmente capitalistas de produção imobiliária.Palavras-chave: Dispersão Metropolita; Belém; Ilha de Mosqueiro.ABSTRACTThis article aims to analyze the metropolitan dispersion of Belém, having as empirical cut the administrative district of Mosqueiro, a suburban space traditionally used as leisure space. Mosqueiro Island, as it is also known, undergoes important redefinitions linked to the metropolitan influence, especially since the installation of new residential settlements. In the present work, one starts from the idea that the metropolitan dispersion is product and condition of the reproduction of the social relations of production of the capital in a wider geographic scale, since in the metropolis one finds a good part of the objective conditions of accomplishment of the work. As results, it is understood that the dispersion of the metropolis of Bethlehem occurs for other reasons that are not explained, in principle, only by the formal logic of accumulation of real estate capital. To do so, the spatial reduction considered is Mosqueiro, which, although it is part of the expansion area of the city of Belém, was not affected by the direct action of the real estate companies operating in the municipalities of the RMB and by the housing policies of the State, agents responsible for the expansion of urban-real estate frontier. There is, therefore, an expansion that takes place through non-integrally capitalist forms of real estate production.Keywords: Metropolitan Dispersion; Belém; Mosqueiro Island.RESUMENEste artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la dispersión metropolitana de Belém, teniendo como recorte empírico el distrito administrativo de Mosqueiro, espacio suburbano tradicionalmente utilizado como espacio de ocio. La Isla de Mosqueiro, como también es conocida, pasa por importantes redefiniciones ligadas a la influencia metropolitana, sobre todo a partir de la instalación de nuevos asentamientos residenciales. En el presente trabajo, se parte de la idea de que la dispersión metropolitana es producto y condición de la reproducción de las relaciones sociales de producción del capital en una escala geográfica más amplia, pues es en la metrópoli que se encuentra buena parte de las condiciones objetivas de realización del trabajo. Como resultados, se entiende que la dispersión de la metrópoli de Belém, ocurre por razones otras que no se explican, en principio, sólo por la lógica formal de acumulación del capital inmobiliario. Para ello, el recorte espacial considerado es Mosqueiro que, aunque forma parte del área de expansión del municipio de Belém, no fue afectado por la acción directa de las empresas inmobiliarias que actúan en los municipios de la RMB y por las políticas habitacionales del Estado, agentes responsables por la expansión de la vivienda fronteras urbanas-inmobiliarias. Hay, por lo tanto, una expansión que ocurre por medio de formas no integralmente capitalistas de producción inmobiliaria.Palabras clave: Dispersión Metropolitana; Belém; Isla de Mosqueiro.

scholarly journals LINEAR CITY: INDEPENDENT AMERICAN PROJECTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-155
Author(s):  
Vasily D. FILIPPOV
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The City ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Linear Concentration ◽  
Linear City

Two projects of the Linear City, which appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, in the United States, regardless of the project implemented earlier in Spain by Arturo Soria, are described. The technical and town-planning features of the Roadtown project by Edgar Chembless and the social ideas underlying it are given. The reasons for the failure of this project, as well as similar projects that appeared later, are analyzed. The history of the project of Milo Hastings and his idea of a linear concentration of dwellings in the city are given. Although this project was also not implemented, the reasons why its town-planning ideas found application in the post-war construction of the American suburb and social ideas in the New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt are shown.

scholarly journals Strip plazas in the suburbs: a redevelopment framework for convenience centres

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Elizabeth Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Suburban Communities ◽  
The People ◽  
Post War ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Convenience centres are a prominent retail form in the suburban communities of Toronto. Built to satisfy the goods and service needs of the people who inhabit the suburbs, convenience centres were first built in the post-war era, and consist of one-story retail units connected by a shared canopy. They have one or more rows of parking adjacent to the street and are designed to create a convenient experience for drivers. Convenience centres in Toronto typically occupy real estate along the Avenues and major arterial roads: areas designated in the City of Toronto Official plan to support future intensification, density, and housing. Therefore, the research in this project describes a set of recommendations in the form of a framework for redevelopment of convenience centres. It also outlines a case study for a site in Scarborough, Ontario, in which this framework was applied. Key words: retail; strip plaza; convenience centre; suburbs; redevelopment; Toronto;

scholarly journals Performance Evaluation of Real Estate Sector to Fulfill Urban Housing Demand: A Case Study of Monsurabad Housing Estate Pabna, Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Mazed Parvez
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Real Property ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Sector ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The City

Bangladesh is one of the in large part populated countries in the sector. With the urbanization fashion, the populace within the city location is increasing every day. These days the population is about 30 million, and on the 12 months 2040, it has miles anticipated at about two hundred million. With the growing city population, housing calls for in will increase every day. However, the call for will increase the high-quality of urban housing decline. Pleasant residence with a better carrier facility cannot be ensured. Non-public housing gives first-rate city housing, which is needed. The real estate area contributes to quality housing to fulfill city housing demand. Pabna is one of the quickest growing cities in Bangladesh. The city has a populace of about 116305 with this huge populace like different towns of Bangladesh, Pabna cannot provide suitable housing to the city dwellers. Monsurabad housing estate, a real estate corporation placed at Pabna, affords housing facilities to urban dwellers. This observation aimed to determine the contribution of real property zone most of the urban housing and the overall performance of housing facility presents through the real estate region. From this overall performance assessment, a new manner will emerge with the aid of which the private sector contribution to fulfill the city housing demand might be determined and cannot apprehend the fine of housing furnished through the real estate area. This has a look at also consists of some lacking of actual estate quarter and recommends overcoming the missing. Subsequently, the examination could explain how the low- and middle-magnificence-income level humans may be afforded on the entire real estate.

The City of London and the Politics of ‘Invisibles’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aled Davies
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Post War ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter considers the resurgence of the City of London as an international financial centre in the late twentieth century. It highlights the role played by a campaign to promote the revival of the City as a post-sterling international financial centre. The Committee on Invisible Exports campaigned for the recognition of the City’s contribution to Britain’s balance of payments through its ‘invisible earnings’, and argued that this could be increased by reducing impediments on its activities. The invisibles campaign was a distinct product of the post-war preoccupation with the balance of payments, which challenged the fundamental belief, embedded in economic policy since the war, that the route to national prosperity was in expanding industrial production. The campaign sought to reconceptualize Britain as a historic commercial and financial, rather than industrial, economy. In doing so it undercut a core principle on which the social democratic political–economic project was based.

scholarly journals Modern Transformations in the Urban Social Structure in Muscat City

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Belgacem Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
The Social ◽  
Residential Quarters ◽  
Social Amenities ◽  
The City ◽  
Official Data

This study intends to gauge the framework of factors and mechanisms that contributed to the restructuring of social setup of Greater Muscat and the thereof ensuing economic, social and environmental disparities between the different residential quarters of the city. In order to produce an approximated model of the old and contemporary social structure of the city, the study used field surveys, interviews, real-estate values and types of housing, in addition to available official data. The study demonstrates clearly that locational criteria of the distribution of households in urban space have shifted from the traditional social values and practices towards predominantly economic estimates that are governed by the environmental comparative advantage of the site, the location attributes, the social content and the level of social amenities. As a result, socio-spatial fragmentation became very conspicuous in the urban space. The study suggests a number of recommendations as regarding urban sprawl, real-estate speculation, gated communities, and the renovation and rehabilitation of deteriorating residential quarters. 

scholarly journals The Motif of Mastery in Modern Traditionalism: Features of the Author’s Representation

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Kovtun
Keyword(s):  
Personal Contact ◽  
The Real ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Opening Up

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyze the motive of mastery in modern artistic traditionalism. Results. The works of F. Abramov, V. Shukshin, and V. Rasputin as representatives of the socio-moral, existential, and ‘mystical’ lines of development of this movement were chosen for our research. We separate the motif of craft and the the actual creative act, and analyze the effect of luminophany typical to the latter. In Shukshin’s work, the motive of skill correlates with the plot of civilization, the characters leave the countryside in search of wisdom. In the early texts, the city is presented as a promising space for the formation of personality, in the later ones, on the contrary, the image of the city gets a tragic resolution, the master chooses the path of a hired craftsman who repeats other people's patterns. The real hero here is ‘strange’, ‘foolish’, who does not know how to make practical use of the skill. He creates his world as a miracle, a refuge where you can escape from the cruel present. In Abramov’s work, the themes of labor and skill are key, the social efforts of masters are important, they strive to transform the house, the countryside, and Russia here and now. There is an ethicization of labor, labor becomes a commandment, a prayer, the masters themselves belong to the fabulous chronotope, perform the functions of demiurges, opening up to the profane crafts, culture, and the vertical. Women often show skill in men's professions, which is due to the unique traits of the post-war period. The motif of skill in Rasputin's later texts correlates with the motif of death. The theme of the master and his fate unfolds in the story Izba, where the question arises about a new hero who can lead the nation out of the spiritual impasse. Rasputin, disappointed in the possibilities of a patriarchal man, leaves the chance for the renewal of the universe to a woman whose feat is set off by the presence of the master Savelii, whose image is enhanced by the figure of Orpheus. When the masters no longer have a place, in reality, they establish personal contact with time, and Eternity resonates with the question of man. Conclusion. Over the centuries, the experience of searching for ‘secret freedom’, the creation of the master of light, accumulates, is transmitted from generation to generation, which determines the existence of culture.

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