scholarly journals Architectural heritage and identity of Russian cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Alexei Shchenkov ◽  
Natalia Antonova
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

The role of architectural heritage in the formation of identity of Russian cities is poorly studied. The interaction of the tangible and intangible architectural heritage is hardly covered. The article analyses the results of sociological surveys among the local population of a number of Russian historic cities. Regarding the results of these surveys, the authors reveal the specific types of the residents’ perception of the city’s architectural heritage, as well as the connection between its material and virtual components in the image of the city.

scholarly journals Adaptive Reuse of Architectural Heritage and Its Role in the Post-Disaster Reconstruction of Urban Identity: Post-Communist Łódź

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 8054
Author(s):  
Julia Sowińska-Heim
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

The article examines the role of the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage in urban identity reconstruction and strengthening undertaken after the disaster caused by a strong economic and social crisis. The main research material includes activities and projects implemented in post-communist Łódź, one of the largest Polish cities. The city developed extremely dynamically at the beginning of the 19th century as a centre of textile industry. Characteristic factories located in the city centre operated continuously until the end of the 1980s, when the transformation brought about radical political changes, as a result of which Łódź experienced a rapid process of deindustrialisation. The nineteenth-century architectural heritage played an important role in the search for ways to regenerate the city and redefine its identity. Starting from the local, i.e., historical, social or identity contexts, the reader is led to universal conclusions, concerning important problems, issues and challenges related to the confrontation of architectural heritage with contemporary needs and expectations.

scholarly journals The image of contemporary architecture of Wrocław depicted in recent tourist commercial and Internet media

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (9) ◽  
pp. 28-48
Author(s):  
Natalia Bursiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
General Opinion

The aim of the paper is to present the tourist and image potential of contemporary public architecture. Wrocław was chosen as the research subject, as it is a historical center with an extremely rich architectural heritage, which has enjoyed great interest among visitors for centuries. With the announcement of Wrocław as the European Capital of Culture 2016, and then the European Best Destination in 2018, its attractiveness increased significantly, which was reflected not only in the number of visitors, but also in the advertising materials themselves. Both before and after arrival, millions of tourists encounter a multitude of various advertising forms, both virtual and printed, which determine the direction of sightseeing and shape a specific image and perception of the city. In general opinion, Wrocław is considered a historic city, the most interesting places of which are concentrated around the Old Town and Ostrów Tumski. The Centennial Hall, built at the beginning of the 20th century, stands out from the „newer heritage”. The idea of the study, however, was to answer the question whether contemporary architecture is used in any way in the current tourist advertisement of the city. Another goal was to identify and list the most frequently appearing objects from the adopted group, and to analyze the manner of their presentation. Based on the collected materials, efforts were made to assess the role of the media in creating a tourist product in terms of promoting local architecture in recent years. At the same time, an attempt was made to evaluate the role of architecture in creating the city’s progressive brand. In the research, the author used the method of analyzing the existing statistical data, iconographic research and the method of analyzing the content of advertising materials, as well as scientific studies on cultural heritage and tourism in the city. The final part of the paper shows that modern architecture can be a significant element increasing the tourist attractiveness of the city.

scholarly journals Preferred urban public spaces through social media: historic cities of the province of Alicante (Spain).

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Martí ◽  
Leticia Serrano-Estrada ◽  
Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
City Structure ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

Understanding the role of urban public spaces in today’s historic Spanish Mediterranean cities is a key priority for researchers and urban professionals. Increasingly, social media showcases users’ preferences, a trend that can provide an indication as to why some urban public spaces are preferred over others. This research focuses on preferred urban public spaces in historic cities in the province of Alicante (Spain) and has two objectives: to identify their urban morphological features; and, to recognise similar traits in terms of their location within the urban structure. The method involved: first, analysing Foursquare social media data on user preferences about urban public spaces; second, studying spatial and functional urban attributes; and third, recognising their role within the city structure. The results demonstrate that the preferred urban spaces share morphological attributes; a central position in the urban structure; mixed-use ground floor activities; and the presence of relevant urban public facilities. 

scholarly journals O património arquitetónico e o uso das tecnologias no tour virtual 360 graus

Prisma Com ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
Pablo Matias Bandeira
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Web Interface Design ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Historic Cities

This article aims to discuss the role of architectural historical heritage in Brazil and how we can re-signify / preserve its importance using digital information technologies, more precisely a 360º virtual tour tool. The research was based on the Adaptive Web Interface Design Process proposed by Batista (2008), to create a virtualization platform. In addition to the guidelines for its construction, some tools were developed for the implementation of a 360º platform to promote the democratization of access to architectural heritage or also called historic cities

scholarly journals “I prefer to work for myself”: the entrepreneurship for migrants from Central Asia in a Siberian city (the case study of Tomsk)

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-195
Author(s):  
S.D. Dzhanyzakova
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Ethnic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Business Market ◽  
The City ◽  
Central Asian Republics

Together with educational migrants, foreign citizens from Central Asian republics come to Tomsk for the pur-pose of earning, focusing on construction business, market trade, and wage labour and entrepreneurship ser-vices. The article presents three cases of business activities of labour migrants in Tomsk. Field data was collected in 2016 and 2018–2019. Research methods include biographical interviews of migrants from Tajikistan and Kyr-gyzstan in their workplace, and ethnographic observation of their enterprise. As a result, the main pathways of the interviewees in entrepreneurship have been identified. It has been found that migrants accumulate experience, develop social ties, form networks around themselves, and only then they go autonomous and open their own business. Moving from one country to another, changing employment areas from unskilled hard physical labour to business ownership in Russia, they demonstrate the ability to respond flexibly to changing hosting society and market conditions. The role of Russian citizenship for opening and registration of business has also been consi-dered. As a result, the strategy of “union with locals” has been identified, which provides the business and its owner with social and material resources, as well as juridical legalization. A significant conclusion of the research into migrant entrepreneurship in catering, retail and provision of various types of services is that such businesses do not appear as an ethnic locale and a migrant space, but are rather integrated into the city-wide infrastructure. The activities of such “spots” are primarily aimed at representatives of the local population who live or work in walking distance from the enterprises. The study has revealed that ethnicity and migrant status are used by busi-nessmen depending on the situation, yet they do organize all social networks and connections primarily through interaction with those who are easy, beneficial, whom they trust, with whom they intersect in space, which pre-sents a problem when applying the theory of ethnic entrepreneurship to analyse the Russian case of migrant businesses.

Kharkiv: The Past Lives On

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-351
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Kravchenko
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Local Population ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
The City

Why was Kharkiv assigned the role of an alternative political capital of Ukraine during the Euromaidan revolution of 2014? Why did this plan fail? In this article the author tries to answer these questions by exploring Kharkiv’s role and place in the regional context of ongoing Ukrainian nation-state building in the historical perspective, focusing on the period after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Issues of regional geopolitics on the Ukrainian-Russian border as well as the changing symbolic landscape of the city are explored. The proactive role of the central authorities as well as specific local traditions and identity played their roles in keeping Kharkiv on the sidelines of the “hybrid war” that engulfed the Donbas. The modernization matrix that promoted Kharkiv’s growth from a provincial town into a regional leader prevailed over the rhetoric of Russian nationalism employed by Putin’s regime during the annexation of the Crimea. At the same time, social apathy and national ambivalence, so typical of a borderland zone, also prevented the local population from falling into political extremes. Kharkiv’s cultural space continues to be a battlefield of competing discourses, each of which has been projected into the past and the future.

scholarly journals Rehabilitation and reconstruction of Islamic Architectural Heritage in China: the example of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Huang Lijun ◽  
François N. Dubé
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

<p>The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, located in Northwestern China, has the highest concentration of Hui Muslims in China: around 34% of the local population is Hui Muslim. Following the anti-religious campaigns of the communist regime and the wide destruction of the Cultural Revolution, Hui Muslims began gradually to reclaim their Muslim heritage in the late 70's. A major aspect of the rediscovery of their Islamic heritage was the Rehabilitation and reconstruction of Islamic Architectural buildings. As of today, Ningxia counts 4,500 mosques and other religious buildings. The present article seeks to introduce the architectural tendencies at play in this reconstruction, specifically the role of competing Arabic and Chinese influences.</p>

scholarly journals Evolutionary processes in the modern cultural space of the region

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
S. Vytkalov
Keyword(s):  
Chamber Orchestra ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Available Information ◽  
The City

The relevance of the issue lies in revealing the role of regions in modern cultural practice, because in those regions many interesting artifacts are concentrated and many initiatives are born, the implementation of which helps them gradually come to the forefront of cultural practice of the state. The methodology. A biographical method was applied, with the help of which it was possible to reconstruct the origins and cultural potential of Rivne conductor H. Fiskov and to reveal his potential opportunities in art. The method of content analysis helped to compare the available information with the reaction of public to the concerts held in the city and to clarify the role of the chamber orchestra “Brevis” in the system of cultural services for the local population. The historical method was used during the correlation of information about the development of creativity (composition and translations of popular world’s hits) for the existing orchestra of H. Fiskov. And all this helped to create a specific creative portrait of a regional musician who is able to respond to modern challenges. The scientific topicality. The cultural potential of the region is revealed through the prism of artistic and organizational-cultural activity of Rivne instrumental conductor and teacher H. Fiskov, his potential creative characteristics are analyzed, the main parameters of which allow the artist to actively position himself in the space of modern art culture. Referring to the creative potential of the artist, changes for the better in this situation in the region are predicted due to the need to create a number of organizational structures, which will help normalize the existing artistic life, give it significant professionalism and thus significantly affect the level of artistic culture of the local population. The practical significance of the study is to share this information among the artists from other regions of the country, an attempt to change the existing potential of artistic groups in the regions, subordinating it to general issues of state or regional cultural policy.

scholarly journals Museu, patrimônio e cidade: camadas de sentido em Paraty

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Chagas
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sacred Art ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

The role of museums in strategies for preservation of historic cities included in the category of heritage is the guiding thread of this text which, on the other hand, recognizes that these cities are themselves and one time, as well as museums, places of memory and forgetting, power and resistance. The museums here are understood as social practices, havens for relationship and storytelling devices that are constructed through spatiality, temporality, images, information, experiences and cohabitation handled simultaneously as goods, representations and cultural events. The study focuses on a museum located in a city-heritage, the Museum of Sacred Art in the city of Paraty. Keywords: conservation; museums; heritage; urban heritage

A Court in Decline? Examining the Regality Court Records of Melrose, Roxburghshire, 1657–84

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vivienne Dunstan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Seminal Work

McIntyre, in his seminal work on Scottish franchise courts, argues that these courts were in decline in this period, and of little relevance to their local population. 1 But was that really the case? This paper explores that question, using a particularly rich set of local court records. By analysing the functions and significance of one particular court it assesses the role of this one court within its local area, and considers whether it really was in decline at this time, or if it continued to perform a vital role in its local community. The period studied is the mid to late seventeenth century, a period of considerable upheaval in Scottish life, that has attracted considerable attention from scholars, though often less on the experiences of local communities and people.

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