scholarly journals Commodification of Urban Space and the Image of ‘New’ Istanbul: Decoding the prevailing discourse

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Demet Mutman ◽  
Derya Yorgancioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
State Economy ◽  
New City ◽  
Seminal Article ◽  
Planning Development ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The City

This study aims to identify the urban transformation strategy implemented in Istanbul for the last 15 years as a tool to promote the ‘new’ city discourse. This marking strategy leads to a thoroughly manipulated or re-written urban texture, constructed through concepts of identity, context and historicism. By decoding its actors, their roles, and branding images of five selected urban projects which relied on a top-down approach, the research exposes the implicit and explicit targets behind the political discourse of ‘new’ İstanbul. Through a qualitative content analysis of branding images and promotional media, the research focuses on the unseen agenda of the governing authority concerning the urban image and the state economy, which, on the contrary, undermines legitimate laws covering disaster mitigation. The conceptual framework of the study draws on Tafuri’s (1969) seminal article "Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology" to deepen our examination of the leading forces of urban ideology that are reshaping the city. The article aims to spark a debate over the ‘new’ Istanbul discourse and its planning practices through its re-reading of urban projects, the field of architecture and planning, development strategies, and their relevant actors.

scholarly journals Commodification of Urban Space and the Image of ‘New’ Istanbul

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Demet Mutman ◽  
Derya Yorgancioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
State Economy ◽  
New City ◽  
Seminal Article ◽  
Planning Development ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The City

This study aims to identify the urban transformation strategy implemented in Istanbul for the last 15 years as a tool to promote the ‘new’ city discourse. This marking strategy leads to a thoroughly manipulated or re-written urban texture, constructed through concepts of identity, context and historicism. By decoding its actors, their roles, and branding images of five selected urban projects which relied on a top-down approach, the research exposes the implicit and explicit targets behind the political discourse of ‘new’ İstanbul. Through a qualitative content analysis of branding images and promotional media, the research focuses on the unseen agenda of the governing authority concerning the urban image and the state economy, which, on the contrary, undermines legitimate laws covering disaster mitigation. The conceptual framework of the study draws on Tafuri’s (1969) seminal article "Toward a Critique of Architectural Ideology" to deepen our examination of the leading forces of urban ideology that are reshaping the city. The article aims to spark a debate over the ‘new’ Istanbul discourse and its planning practices through its re-reading of urban projects, the field of architecture and planning, development strategies, and their relevant actors.

scholarly journals Changes in the national composition and symbols of Zhovkva’s urban space as a result of the Second World War

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Vasylyna PASTERNAK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
World War ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
New City ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Before the war, urban symbolic space of Zhovkva was divided between several national groups – Ukrainians, Poles and Jews, who created the culture and history of the city. The foundations for such cohabitation were laid during the construction of the city by the Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, and survived until the start of the war, as evidenced by the memories of its inhabitants. Therefore, the article explains how the ethnic composition of the city’s population has changed and its further influence on the symbolism of the urban space. Subsequently of the dramatic events of the Second World War and the processes of resettlement of the population, two of the national groups disappeared from the urban space. The Jewish community was physically destroyed during the war, and the Poles were evicted from Zhovkva to Poland in 1944–1946. The destruction of the Jews meant the death of the whole subethnos with original culture and history. The resettlement of Poles from Zhovkva, from their homes, was extremely difficult psychologically, because they were saying goodbye to their hometown, where they lived for several generations, were deprived of their homes, property that belonged to the ancestors, they were allowed to take out only 2 tons of items social household consumption. Soviet soldiers and functionaries, peasants from the surrounding villages, who got used to living together and rebuilding Zhovkva, became “new” city dwellers. The “new” residents of the city, in cooperation with the Soviet authorities, changed the symbolic space of the city, starting with the change of name from Zhovkva to Nesterov, in honor of the Russian pilot Peter Nesterov, who died near the city in 1914. The city was built on the socialist urban model, which destroyed the historical and architectural environment of Zhovkva, founded in the XVI century. Architectural sights that testified to the multinational of Zhovkvа were destroyed or completely changed their purpose. Polish churches and monasteries were turned into warehouses or barracks for soldiers, and icons, paintings, statues, religious things were destroyed or exported abroad. Keywords Zhovkva, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Jan ІІІ Sobieski, socio-demographic processes, Poles, Jews, interethnic relations, symbolic space.

Home in Biblical and Antwerp City Poems – A Journey

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolien Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
New City ◽  
Home Space ◽  
The City ◽  
At Home

AbstractSince 2003, the city of Antwerp has a poet laureate. Following the classical and Renaissance models, the Antwerp poet laureate writes, performs, and materializes poems for the city. Also in the Hebrew Bible, texts occur that qualify as city poems avant-la-lettre, even though the writers remain anonymous and the texts are part of a larger corpus with a different purpose. This article reads three Antwerp city poems alongside with biblical Psalm 137, in search for the poems’ constructions of cities as homes. The selected texts each introduce the city (i. e., Antwerp for the Antwerp city poems; Jerusalem and Babylon for the psalm) and its possible identification with a home place in ways that are conceptually and stylistically similar. The poems only differ in their final portrayals of the home, themselves connected to the different context of each poem. Throughout the texts the poets explore and question the spatial categories of ‘city’ and ‘home.’ The analysis reveals that being at home both in biblical and Antwerp city poems is connected to childhood, which allows redefining the urban space. The poems conceive cities as a mobile category that is internalized if being defined as home space. Stylistic interventions, in particular the use of inclusios and contrast, help creating and establishing the city-as-home-space in the selected city poems. The juxtaposition of old and new city poems sharing the same topic offers new insights into the textual construal of cities as homes, a process that proves to be similar for the three Antwerp city poems and the biblical psalm.

Kuala Lumpur Chinatown Pre-War Shophouses (Adaptive Re-Use) and City Image

2015 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
Yong Seng Toong ◽  
Nangkula Utaberta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
City Image ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Boutique Hotels ◽  
The City

The terminology and concept of city image is very much related to good city planning and reflects strong image which, defined by Kelvin Andrew Lynch, a town-planner. He elaborates such terminology with regarding to people perception on urban space in term of city legibility and image-ability. Elizur who has classified city image as “rich” and “poor” in his study reminds of prototype and stereotype city place respectively. City image generally refers to the characteristic of a true urban image such as skylines, landmarks and panoramas. Architects, urban designers and town-planners play a crucial role in carrying out the task of shaping the city image. However, when discussion on city image which regards to economics point of view, city image could be interpreted as active use and passive use in accordance to a paper presented by some scholars. Active use means usage of the old buildings restoration and preservation which generates incomes to cover their building’s maintenance and expenses. Examples such as cafés, boutique hotels, art galleries. Conversely, passive use does not generate substantial income but contribute to and beneficial of the community. Examples such as community library, museums and other social activity buildings. Both active and passive use are portraying adaptive re-use of the old buildings. This paper unfolds the common ground which integrates adaptive re-use of pre-war shophouse buildings as architecture concept in Kuala Lumpur Chinatown (KLC) and contributing the city image under the term of conservation. The study is conducted with photographic records, on site study, observation (visual survey technique) and analysis.

scholarly journals VERBAL ACTUALISATION OF HOLOGRAPHIC EFFECTS IN URBAN SPACE DESCRIPTION (A STUDY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF’S "MRS DALLOWAY")

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
D. Movchan
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Current State ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The City ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Space Description

This paper highlights the current state of interpreting the concept of space in literary text as a trend in present-day philological studies. This concept reflects the internal structural and compositional features of literary text and its fragments, further determining its genre features and the author’s individual style characteristics. The paper systematizes the theoretical foundations for the study of literary space, while clarifying the phenomenon of urban space, viewed from semantic and structural perspectives. It focuses on the combination and integration of various semiotic codes and modes of perception against the background of the artistic imitation of other arts, including architecture. The effect of portraying the majesty and congestion of the urban life, its noisy and vibrant nature is achieved due to combining a variety of techniques, which provides a three-dimensional description of the cityscape. The research reveals the mechanisms of verbal holography in the system of urban space representational modes in Virginia Woolf ‘s "Mrs Dalloway",  reached through implicit and explicit multimodality along with manifestations of intermediality. Describing the life of London with Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster as its symbols,  Virginia Woolf skillfully combines their audible and visual facets not only as of artifacts, but also as part of nature, emphasizing its impact on the atmosphere of the city. The research proves that   verbal manifestations of multimodality, detected in the course of analysis, reinforce each other, clearly demonstrating the liveliness and fullness of urban London. The paper concludes with outlining vectors of  further research  addressing holographic effects in spatial descriptions of cities and towns, while systematizing verbal means used to represent urban space in English literary prose of modernism, as well as defining their functions in literary works  by British and American modernist writers.

scholarly journals Consumption and Demand for Places: a Reading through the Neapolitan Case

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
Rosario Sommella ◽  
Libera D'Alessandro
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Cultural Functions ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
The City

The contribution starts from the historical importance of the commercial function in Naples in structuring the urban space, a function to which it is possible largely to trace the long-lasting relationship between consumption and demand for places, as well as many changes in the urban image. Retail organized the city not only on the main streets but also at the scale of non-minoritarian and widespread micro-spaces in the various neighborhoods, in a Naples that, especially in the twentieth century, was transformed according to macro logic very different from today’s. Today the element that seems to most order the structure of places and the urban landscape is consumption, mixed with living and related activities, walking and cultural functions: elements mediated by local authorities, which in turn must deal with new phenomena. The question arises in territorial terms, as retail and consumption (and their protagonists) claim places and public space. The case study will be that of the metropolitan territory in an extended sense and will be analyzed through four scales chosen as the most exemplary of the change: the upgraded/touristified city-centre; the historical centre in its marginal parts; the metropolitan interstices; the small and medium-sized centers at the metropolitan scale. Demands of products and places that become the expression of a new demand for cities bring out the potential, contradictions and conflicts of a Mediterranean city in transition.

scholarly journals VIOLÊNCIA HOMICIDA: uma análise dos índices de homicídios no núcleo Cidade Nova, Marabá (PA) nos anos de 2014 a 2016

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 131-163
Author(s):  
Anne Karolinne Menezes Martins ◽  
Marcus Vinicius Mariano de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
New City ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Official Data

Violência e criminalidade estão se tornando elementos fundamentais para discussão acerca do espaço urbano no Brasil. A cidade de Marabá, assim como as demais cidades brasileiras, carrega em seu arcabouço histórico a materialização da violência em suas diversas faces. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar e compreender os elevados índices de homicídios no núcleo Cidade Nova, nos anos de 2014 a 2016. Segundo o Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) o município de Marabá está em 11º no ranking das cidades mais violentas do Brasil, e através de dados oficiais fornecidos pelo Comando de Policiamento Regional II (CPR II) foi possível identificar o crescimento demasiado dos índices de homicídios no núcleo Cidade Nova, visto que a cidade de Marabá é polinucleada contendo cinco núcleos (Marabá Pioneira, Cidade Nova, Nova Marabá, São Félix e Morada Nova), sendo que a Cidade Nova é o local que teve maior crescimento do índice de homicídios. A partir das análises foi possível espacializar a localização das ocorrências, o que mostrou a maior presença de homicídios nos bairros mais periféricos, bem como foi possível delimitar um perfil da violência homicida, correlacionando a espacialização com outras questões, como horário, meio utilizado e perfil das vítimas. Palavras-chave: Violência. Criminalidade. Homicídios. Marabá. Cidade Nova.   HOMICIDAL VIOLENCE: an analysis of homicide rates in the New City nucleus, Marabá (PA) in the years 2014 to 2016 ABSTRACT Violence and crime are becoming fundamental elements for discussion about urban space in Brazil. The city of Marabá, like other Brazilian cities, carries within its historical framework the materialization of violence in its various faces. According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), the municipality of Marabá is in 11th place in the ranking of the most violent cities in Brazil. This study aims to analyze and understand the high homicide rates in the Cidade Nova nucleus, from 2014 to 2016. According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research , and through official data provided by the Regional Policing Command II (CPR II), it was possible to identify too much growth of homicide rates in the Cidade Nova nucleus, since the city of Marabá is polynucleate containing five nuclei (Marabá Pioneira, Cidade Nova, Nova Marabá, São Félix and Morada Nova), with the Cidade Nova being the one with the highest growth rate of homicide rates. From the analyzes, it was possible to spatialize the location of the occurrences, which showed the greater presence of homicides in the more peripheral neighborhoods, as well as it was possible to delimit a profile of homicidal violence, correlating the spatialization with other issues, such as time, means used and profile of the victims. Keywords: Violence. Criminality. Homicides. Marabá. Cidade Nova.   VIOLENCIA HOMICIDA: un análisis de los índices de homicidios en el núcleo Cidade Nova, Marabá (PA) en los años 2014 a 2016 RESUMEN La violencia y la criminalidad se están convirtiendo en elementos fundamentales para la discusión sobre el espacio urbano en Brasil. La ciudad de Marabá, así como las demás ciudades brasileñas, lleva en su marco histórico la materialización de la violencia en sus diversas caras. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar y comprender los elevados índices de homicidios en el núcleo Ciudad Nova, en los años 2014 a 2016. Según el Instituto de Investigación Económica Aplicada (IPEA) el municipio de Marabá está en el 11º en el ranking de las ciudades más violentas de Brasil (CPR II) fue posible identificar el crecimiento demasiado de los índices de homicidios en el núcleo Cidade Nova, ya que la ciudad de Marabá es polinucleada que contiene cinco núcleos (Marabá Pionera, Cidade Nova, Nova Marabá, São Félix y Morada Nova), siendo que la Cidade Nova es el local que tuvo mayor crecimiento del índice de homicidios. A partir de los análisis fue posible espacializar la localización de las ocurrencias, lo que mostró la mayor presencia de homicidios en los barrios más periféricos, así como fue posible delimitar un perfil de la violencia homicida, correlacionando la espacialización con otras cuestiones, como horario, medio utilizado y perfil de las víctimas. Palabras clave: Violencia. Criminalidade. Homicidios. Marabá. Cidade Nova.

VALUE OF HANDMADE ART IN THE CULTURE OF VOLGOGRAD: COMMUNITY AND PRACTICE

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Екатерина Елистратова ◽  
Ekaterina Elistratova ◽  
Наталья Шипулина ◽  
Natalya Shipulina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
City Image ◽  
City Community ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
City Culture ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
New City ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The City

According to the opinion of the authors, the main component of the urban culture of Volgograd is realogic identity. They argue the idea that being and existence of things in connection with the life of citizens, which is expressed in the creation, exchange, representation of material objects in handmade art format can serve as an important resource for gaining the new city image and culture of the city status. The article reveals the cultural function as a specific phenomenon of handmade artisan creativity and its importance as a special form of activity of the creative community in the culture of modern cities on the example of Volgograd. In addition to the universal (in the urban sense) creative functions and upcycling (empowering new life of old things in the so-called “repair society” by hand makers), as well as self-realization and self-handmade-presentation, the article highlights such previously unexplored handmade functions as communicational, consolidating and accumulative and representational functions associated with the ability to combine creativity handmade urban master craftsmen in community and even the community, successfully contributing to promote the image of the city of Volgograd as a culture and to express the identity of the city, acting as a symbolic and realogic brand Volgograd. They explore the basic directions of handmade in Volgograd in the aspect of micro-urbanism, as well as ways and forms of existence of real practices, folding in the city community and environment in real and virtual cultural and urban space. The authors analyze the handmade practice and Volgograd community, linking them to the specific characteristics of the modern city culture, urban identity and opportunities for urban planning and development in the field of regional cultural policy and tourism and, ultimately, with the prospect of Volgograd become a city of culture on the basis of use realogic resource handicraft handmade creation.

Transgender Narrative in Public Service Announcement

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Anna Puji Lestari ◽  
Yuliyanto Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
City Government ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Public Service Announcement ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Feminine Style ◽  
New City ◽  
The City

After changing its city branding several times, Semarang now has a new city branding, namely "Semarang Variety of Culture." However, the city branding reaped contra from academics and cultural figures because Semarang was considered not sufficient yet in terms of representing its cultural diversity. Responding to this, the Semarang City Government and the Semarang City Public Works Department created a public service advertisement on CCTV socialization for flood control in the city of Semarang with a transgender figure as the ad star. This research was qualitative research designed with Seymour Chatman's Narrative Analysis. The research found a commodification and objectification of transgender people who imitated the feminine style of women in the advertisement. In other words, the public service announcement of Semarang CCTV socialization lowered the femininity, which is synonymous with women.The public service advertisement also violated the moral codes adopted by the majority of the Indonesian people.

Transnational Habitus and Sociability in the City: Zimbabwean Migrants’ Experiences in Johannesburg, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Khangelani Moyo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Networks ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Transnational Migrants ◽  
Telephone Calls ◽  
The City

Drawing on field research and a survey of 150 Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this paper explores the dimensions of migrants’ transnational experiences in the urban space. I discuss the use of communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook as well as other means such as telephone calls in fostering the embedding of transnational migrants within both the Johannesburg and the Zimbabwean socio-economic environments. I engage this migrant-embedding using Bourdieusian concepts of “transnational habitus” and “transnational social field,” which are migration specific variations of Bourdieu’s original concepts of “habitus” and “social field.” In deploying these Bourdieusian conceptual tools, I observe that the dynamics of South–South migration as observed in the Zimbabwean migrants are different to those in the South–North migration streams and it is important to move away from using the same lens in interpreting different realities. For Johannesburg-based migrants to operate within the socio-economic networks produced in South Africa and in Zimbabwe, they need to actively acquire a transnational habitus. I argue that migrants’ cultivation of networks in Johannesburg is instrumental, purposive, and geared towards achieving specific and immediate goals, and latently leads to the development and sustenance of flexible forms of permanency in the transnational urban space.

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