scholarly journals Towards an integrated architectural media space

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ava Fatah gen. Schieck
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Interaction Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Space ◽  
New Type ◽  
Large Projection ◽  
Display Walls

Large projection screens are becoming more and more ubiquitous in urban spaces. However, there is currently no methodology for designing media walls as an integral part of the urban built environment. This paper reviews the application of display walls and projection screens as an emergent new type of urban form in major metropolises around the world. It identifies issues related to the implementation of media walls, which perhaps form the basis for an integrated architectural media space. We suggest that in order to achieve real integration on an urban scale, we need to consider the design of space as a whole, taking into account the urban space, the dynamic visual information and the social interaction space.

How the physical characteristics may affect the social life of streets in Athens, Greece?

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charalampos Kyriakidis ◽  
Efthimios Bakogiannis
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Physical Characteristics ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Physical Features

Abstract The urban space is characterized by specific qualities that may contribute to, or mitigate the social life. These qualities were described by James Gibson as “environmental affordances”. According to that theoretical perspective, urban designers and environmental psychologists should focus on the physical features of a space in order to understand and explain the way in which it functions and the degree to which is sociable. For the scholars of road networks, this approach is particularly useful because streets shape the platform for a wide range of social interactions and experiences. Streets are by definition social spaces, which not operate always efficiently because of their form and their particular characteristics. This is one of the primary reasons why it is stated in the literature that public space is now declined and as a result it needs to recover its old glamorous prestige and importance. In the light of the above, the specific research as primarily qualitative, is focused on studies of the urban form of the Athenian streets and proposes a typology for them considering some key physical characteristics which affect with a specific way the embedded social life. Finally, an attempt is made to generalize the effects of the specific physical characteristics to the socialization of urban spaces.

THE FREEDOM OF THE AESTHETIC: MONTSERRAT ROIG’S USE OF THE CITY IN RAMONA, ADÉU

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Caragh Wells
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catalan Literature ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

This article suggests that over recent decades Catalan literary criticism has paid too little attention to the aesthetic attributes of Catalan literature and emphasised the social, political and cultural at the expense of discussions of narrative poetics. Through an analysis of Montserrat Roig’s metaphorical use of the city in her first novel Ramona, adéu, I put forward the view that the aesthetic features of Catalan literature need to be re-claimed. This article provides a critical analysis of the aesthetic importance of Roig’s representation of the city in her first novel and argues that she uses Barcelona as a critical tool through which to explore questions of both female emancipation and aesthetic freedom. Following a detailed discussion of Roig’s descriptions of how her female characters interact with particular urban spaces, I examine how Roig makes subtle shifts in her semantic register during these narrative accounts when her prose moves into the realm of the poetic. I conclude that this technique enables us to read her accounts of urban space as metaphors for aesthetic freedom and are inextricably linked to her wider concerns on the importance of liberating Catalan literature from the discourse of political nationalism.

scholarly journals Street Cries and the urban ritornelle

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Jacob Kreutzfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
The City ◽  
Fertile Area

Street cries, though rarely heard in Northern European cities today, testify to ways in which audible practices shape and structure urban spaces. Paradigmatic for what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call ‘the refrain’, the ritualised and stylised practice of street cries may point at the dynamics of space-making, through which the social and territorial construction of urban space is performed. The article draws on historical material, documenting and describing street cries, particularly in Copenhagen in the years 1929 to 1935. Most notably, the composer Vang Holmboe and the architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen have investigated Danish street cries as a musical and a spatial phenomenon, respectably. Such studies – from their individual perspectives – can be said to explore the aesthetics of urban environments, since street calls are developed and heard specifically in the context of the city. Investigating the different methods employed in the two studies and presenting Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of the refrain as a framework for further studies in the field, this article seeks to outline a fertile area of study for sound studies: the investigation of everyday refrains and the environmental relations they express and perform. Today changed sensibilities and technologies have rendered street crying obsolete in Northern Europe, but new urban ritornells may have taken their place.

Reframing Gentrification: How Tenant Shopkeepers’ Activism in Seoul Radically Reframed Gentrification

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 819-834
Author(s):  
Yewon Andrea Lee
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
New Agents ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
New Locations ◽  
The City ◽  
Radical Shift

Critical scholarship on gentrification has contributed significantly to bolstering the rights of working-class residents against the forces that price them out of the city. However, working-class residents are not the only ones who suffer from dispossession and displacement with rampant hyper-commodification of urban space. Based on the case of Seoul, I examine how new agents—tenant shopkeepers—emerged at the forefront of challenging gentrification and successfully reframed the problem of gentrification. Within the new frame, the shopkeepers who make their livelihoods by using urban spaces are pitted against the property owners who attempt to profit at the expense of their tenants. Through this case, I ask ‘How can radical shifts occur in the ways that the problem of gentrification is constructed?’ My answer draws upon the framing theory in the social movement literature which identifies conditions under which a radical departure from institutionalized ways and social norms can transpire even when the radical shift means challenging the entrenched power structure—in my case, the property-ownership-based rights regime. I highlight the importance of further developing a gentrification scholarship on social change that unravels the rise of new locations of resistance, particularly at a time when the advance of gentrification seems inevitable.

The social context and politics of large scale urban architecture: Investigating the design of Barcode, Oslo

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt Andersen ◽  
Per Gunnar Røe
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Class A ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
City Centres

The well-known and much investigated rise of urban entrepreneurial policies has fuelled a transformation of urban spaces and landscapes, and has led to changes in the social composition of city centres. This is the case for Oslo, Norway’s capital, where increasingly urban policies are designed to attract transnational companies and those in the creative class. A key strategy to achieve this has been to transform the city’s waterfront through spectacular architecture and urban design, as has taken place in other European cities. Transnational and local architects have been commissioned to design the Barcode, one of the most striking waterfront projects. This article investigates the role of architecture and architects in this process, because architects can be seen as influential generators of urban spaces and agents for social change, and because there is remarkably little published empirical research on this specific role of architects. It is argued that although there was an overall planning goal that the projects along the waterfront of Oslo should contribute to social sustainability, with the implication that planners and architects possessed information about the local urban context and used this knowledge, in practice this was not the case. It is demonstrated that the architects paid little attention to the social, cultural and economic contexts in their design process. Rather, the architects emphasized the creation of an exciting urban space and, in particular, designed spectacular architecture that would contribute to the merits of the firms involved. It is further argued that because of this the Barcode project will not contribute to the making of a just city.

scholarly journals O urbanismo e o seu outro: raça, cultura e cidade no Brasil (1920-1945)

1999 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
José Tavares Correia de Lira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Renovation ◽  
The City ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Este trabalho explora algumas matrizes do pensamento social brasileiro em sua abordagem da formação do espaço urbano no país, em particular no que concerne às relações raciais, étnicas e culturais nas cidades. Parte da hipótese de que, a partir dos anos 20, o discurso urbanístico encontra na eugenia e no regionalismo bases confiáveis ao realinhamento nacionalista de sua intervenção técnica no espaço e na cultura de cidades complexamente divididas. Tendo em vista a problemática contemporânea das renovações urbanas, examina as questões de segregação social, distribuição no espaço e identificação cultural de grupos étnicos, nacionais e regionais em estudos e trechos de estudos sobre cidades de Oliveira Vianna, Gilberto Freyre, José Mariano Filho, Donald Pierson e Samuel Lowrie. Palavras-chave: urbanismo; cidade; nação; pensamento social brasileiro; relações raciais; etnicidade; eugenia; culturalismo; regionalismo. "Urbanism and its alter: race, culture and the city in Brazil (1920-1945)" Abstract: This paper deals with some important sources of the social thought in Brazil as they refer to the formation of the urban space in the country, particularly in respect to racial, ethnic, and cultural relations in the city. It raises the hypothesis that the urbanistic discourse, from the 1920s onwards, finds in eugenics and regionalism some reliable basis for the nationalistic realignment of its technical intervention in complexly divided urban spaces and cultures. Having in mind the contemporary question of urban renovation, it specially examines matters of social segregation, spatial distribution and cultural identification of ethnic, national and regional groups in some writings of Oliveira Vianna, Gilberto Freyre, José Mariano Filho, Donald Pierson and Samuel Lowrie. Keywords: urbanism; city; nation; Brazilian social thought; racial relationships; ethnicity; eugenics; culturalism; regionalism.

scholarly journals Produção e Planejamento do Espaço Urbano da Metrópole Matogrossense: Análise sobre o acesso a terras urbanizáveis na Cidade Ilegal segundo os Planos Diretores

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Anna Luiza Garção Oliveira ◽  
Deusa Maria Rodrigues Boaventura ◽  
Aristides Moyses ◽  
Dandara Cristine Alves de Amorim ◽  
Regiane Lima Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Operation Mode ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

O planejamento do espaço urbano brasileiro por meio de ferramentas ordenadoras do território - como Planos Diretores e Instrumentos Urbanísticos - constituem um modo de operação que, desde a década de 1960 vem passando por significativas mudanças e melhorias na tentativa de propor não apenas grandes marcos urbanísticos, como também programas progressivamente mais aplicáveis aos espaços urbanos. Nesse sentido, atrelada a discussão teórico/metodológica sobre o Planejamento Territorial Brasileiro por meio de Planos Diretores e a função social da cidade, este artigo pretende analisar como a temática do ordenamento urbano foi implementada em Cuiabá a partir de 1960 até os tempos atuais, entendendo como estes instrumentos atuaram na seguridade do acesso as terras urbanizáveis na capital mato-grossense, com especial foco para as áreas ocupadas ilegalmente que constituem a Cidade Ilegal. Production and Planning of the Urban Area of Metrópole Matogrossense: Analysis of Access to Urban Land in the Illegal City According to the Master Plans The planning of the Brazilian urban space through spatial planning tools - such as Master Plans and Urbanistic Instruments – has been in an operation mode that, since the 1960s, undergone significant changes and improvements in order to approach not only remarkable urbanistic landmarks, but also develop programs progressively more applicable to urban spaces. In this regard, taking into account the theoretical/ methodological discussion on the Brazilian Territorial Planning with basis on Master Plans and the social function of the city, this article aims to analyze how the urban planning theme has been implemented in Cuiabá from 1960 until the present time by understanding how these instruments have influenced on tenure security to urbanizable lands in the capital of the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso, with a special focus on the illegally occupied areas that form the so-called Illegal City. Producción y Planificación del Espacio Urbano de Metrópole Matogrossense: Análisis Sobre el Acceso a Tierras Urbanizables en la Ciudad Ilegal Según los Planes Directores La planificación del espacio urbano brasileño por medio de herramientas ordenadoras del territorio -como Planos Directores e Instrumentos Urbanísticos- constituyen un modo de operación que desde la década de 1960 viene pasando por significativos cambios y mejoras en el intento de proponer no sólo grandes marcos Urbanísticos, así como programas progresivamente más aplicables a los espacios urbanos. En este sentido, vinculada a la discusión teórico / metodológica sobre la Planificación Territorial Brasileña por medio de Planes Directores y la función social de la ciudad, este artículo pretende analizar cómo la temática del ordenamiento urbano fue implementada en Cuiabá a partir de 1960 hasta los tiempos actuales, entendiendo Como estos instrumentos actuaron en la seguridad del acceso a las tierras urbanizables en la capital mato-grossensse, con especial foco para las áreas ocupadas ilegalmente que constituyen la Ciudad Ilegal.

Hybridization in contemporary urban projects: A descriptive analysis study of the types, mechanisms and characteristics of urban hybridization

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Shereen Kamil Al nedawi
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
New Type ◽  
City Systems

The hybrid urban system emerged within the cities to define the contemporary urban space, and todefine a new type of social interaction within, as the results and outcomes of the rapid development of humanthought in city systems and infrastructure have changed the daily life of the urban environment, as well as changedthe environmental conditions (which did not exist within traditional urban spaces), which require certain solutions.the research aimed to explain the concept of urban hybridization and define its most important vocabulary, throughthe discussion and analyzing of previous literatures, which turned out to clear " there is a lack of some knowledgeaspects related to the concept of "urban hybridization" and its applications related to its mechanisms, types andcharacteristics " and the hypothesis of the research "urban hybridization at the level of physical, intellectual andtemporal dimension can be achieved throw specific patterns according to mechanisms of hybridization to outputcharacterized by urban hybridization", the hypothesis of research was proved in two selected contemporary urbanprojects, that adopted a clear design for hybrid urban space. The results of the study revealed that the variation ofurban hybridization types according to the mechanisms, forming therefore a relation characterized by characteristicsof urban hybridization.

scholarly journals Roofing and thawing the sub-Arctic city. Towards the conceptualisation of wellbeing through urban surfaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Essi Oikarinen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Relationship

An increasing amount of sub-Arctic population is living in cities and settlements. Despite the urbanisation, seasonality still affects the rhythm of life and willingness to spend time outside of home, which, in turn, affects health and wellbeing of the population. In addition to built artefacts, the materiality of sub-Arctic urban environment consists largely of changing weather conditions and seasonality, including phenomena such as thawing, freezing, snow, ice and slush, which have diverse effects on humans using the urban spaces, yet are not often part of conceptualisations of urban space that are formed in southern climates. In this paper, the relationship between sub-Arctic urban form, climate and users of the urban realm is critically re-evaluated using the concept of surface. Based on a review of the literature, the proposed approach gives agency not only to the weather, but also to different types of people inhabiting the urban space. This paper argues that the proposed approach takes better into account the varied nature of sub-Arctic urban spaces and their affordances as an entity: from privatised, roofed and weather-neutralised shopping centres and arcades to sledding hills, skating rinks and other winter-related spaces. This kind of conceptualisation could be beneficial when developing soft mobility plans for northern regions. Encouraging physical activity has direct effects on the physiological health of the population, but in addition to that, the approach attempts to acknowledge personal control of different user groups as a central aspect of wellbeing, which makes the viewpoint more holistic.

scholarly journals Managing Egypt’s Poor and the Politics of Benevolence, 1800-1952

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Author(s):  
Gregory Starrett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Poor Women

In Egypt and elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire, the social safety net representedby the extended family branched off in many directions. By Mamluktimes, it encompassed the patronage of wealthy and noble families who distributedfood to the poor on religious festivals and during times of hardship,and who sponsored the construction of bridges, waterworks, and publicfountains. In addition, mosques sometimes housed schools, soup kitchens,and hospitals; merchants regularly fed beggars; Sufi lodges housed travelers;and waqf endowments sponsored various religious and charitable activities.Ruling dynasties, including their women, created funds that sponsoredorphans’ homes, paid the dowries of poor women, and provided pensions forthe widows and children of soldiers killed in battle.As Ener shows in her valuable and carefully researched book, the valuesof ihsan (generosity) and sadaqah (almsgiving) have been applied accordingto ideas about charity’s legitimate beneficiaries (e.g., clerics, the poor,orphans, and women without family support). Ener traces the fortunes of thepoor, the changing constellation of institutions available for their relief, andthe transformation in Egyptian understanding of those entitled to such care.By the middle of the nineteenth century, the traditional “mixed economy”of relief (p. 9), which incorporated countless donors and institutions,operated alongside a more centralized set of interests and practices intendedto control poor people’s movement and activities. Such practices had notbeen common previously (p. 15) and appear to have been unique in theMiddle East (p. 29). Authorities began to distinguish between the deservingand the undesirable poor and sought to prevent able-bodied men fromencroaching on urban space as beggars or “fake” mendicants and from usingpublicly available forms of assistance. In nineteenth-century Cairo andAlexandria, such men and peasants “absconding” from the countrysidewere often arrested, sent back to their home regions, and pressed into involuntaryagricultural, industrial, or military service. The growing modern statewas increasingly interested in controlling crime, immigration, and the flowof disease through internationalized urban spaces ...

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