scholarly journals The Urban Image Conservation and Development of Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Old Town Community in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Wirut Thinnakorn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Large Trees ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Community Area ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Natural Boundaries

Nakhon Si Thammarat Old Town Community dated a thousand years old from four eras of settlement development. The community is located on an ancient beach ridge that stands until the present day. It also has an image of a community that is unique to any city. Today the community is rapidly expanding, so the importance of the old town’s various elements has been diminished. The research objectives are to analyze Nakhon Si Thammarat Old Town Community’s image and landscape and provide suggestions to preserve and develop the community’s image. The methodology is theoretical concepts of the image of the city, urban landscape, historic urban landscape, and urban conservation, including field surveys to identify problems and the community’s awareness. Visual assessments and mapping were also undertaken. Based on the study, the urban conceptual framework emphasizes the five elements of physical perception, whereas the cultural landscape concept focuses on the physical perception of the community’s core components and sub-elements that express specificity of the district, including traditional custom, which is intangible culture and a landscape element as well.  The analysis of urban image reveals that Nakhon Si Thammarat Old Town Community consists of the path in the area with Ratchadamnoen Road, Karom Road and Pattanakarn Khukwang Road as the main routes, the edge of the community divided by natural boundaries, which are various rivers and by man-made boundaries, which are canals and the old city’s embankments, and the unique district, such as Tha Wang Community, Khaek Market Community, and Nakhon Si Thammarat Old Town. The node or activity center is, for example, business activities in Tha Wang Community, Khaek Market Community and Hua It Market Community, and the tourism activities in the old community area around Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan Temple. The prominent landmark from the past to the present is Phra Borommathat Stupda. In addition, the unique physical elements in the old town are groups of large trees. Suggestions on conservation and development are to create awareness of secondary routes to reduce congestion of the main roads and connect to other attractions; to develop the old town’s border from four eras for clearer perception; to promote the main activities within each district; and to have measures to control the height, billboards, old buildings’ styles, and new buildings representing each district’s uniqueness that will not obscure the perception of the community’s landmarks. 

scholarly journals Continuity and Discontinuity in the Cultural Landscape of the Capital City: Paris and Skopje

2015 ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Maciej Falski
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The State ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Public Property ◽  
The City ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

Continuity and Discontinuity in the Cultural Landscape of the Capital City: Paris and SkopjeThe object of my reflections in this article is the question of creating a vision of historical continuity, and thus making significant the narratives about the past, in the space of the city. I treat the city as a cultural landscape par excellence; it is precisely the city that creates the best opportunities of influencing interpretation by means of creating a specific set of symbolic references and of images awakening the play of interpretation. The city is inhabited by many individuals and varied groups, which forces it into negotiations of signification. The research present herein concerns the capital cities. The capital of a nation state is a specific city, normally defined by its very legal status as capital, recognized and regulated by special edict, it is also a symbolic space of particular weight, a place to demonstrate the power of the state and of the nation, to display and consolidate identity, to present one’s image to outsiders and mould a desired self-image for the benefit of the citizens – members of one’s group. Drawing on the example of Paris and Skopje, two cities whose historical contexts are considerably different, I would like to show the specific ways of drawing conclusions adapted to the urban landscape, because despite the obvious differences, both cities allow for the discernment of a historical period in which the city itself served as an important element of the public realm and as symbolic public property. The increased significance of cities in Europe is connected without a doubt to the process of democratization, thus the capitals of France and Macedonia are good examples of the transformation that converted a privatized (feudal) space or a space interpreted along sacred lines (as land belonging to God) into a public space and public property of citizens, and/or the dominant nation.It appears that the most important agent in the capital landscape is the state. It is the bureaucracy of the state, appearing in the role of executor of the national will, deciding on the shape of the image of the city, reinforcing those values that seem to be desirable from the perspective of the represented group. The lack of that factor leads, as in the case of Skopje, to the preservation of the local past and/or to a haphazardly implemented publicly sponsored construction. In both cases discussed above, the map and the landmarks mirror the most important categories of national narrative. The shape of this narrative depends largely upon the central authorities of the nation.Ciągłość i nieciągłość w przestrzeni miasta stołecznego: Paryż i SkopjePrzedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest zagadnienie tworzenia wizji ciągłości dziejowej, a więc usensowionej narracji o przeszłości, w przestrzeni miasta. Miasto bowiem jawi się jako przestrzeń kulturowa par excellence i ono właśnie stwarza najlepsze możliwości wpływu na interpretację poprzez tworzenie specyficznego układu odniesień symbolicznych i obrazów, pobudzających grę interpretacji. Miasto zamieszkiwane jest przez wiele jednostek i różnorakich grup, co zmusza je do negocjacji znaczeń. Przedmiotem przedstawionych tu badań są stolice. Stolica państwa to bowiem miasto szczególne, co zazwyczaj podkreśla sam status prawny ośrodka stołecznego regulowany przez specjalną ustawę, staje się niezwykle ważną przestrzenią symboliczną, miejscem pokazu państwowej i narodowej siły, eksponowania i utwierdzania tożsamości, prezentowania wizerunku obcym oraz kształtowania pożądanego wizerunku na użytek obywateli – członków swojej grupy. Na przykładzie Paryża i Skopja, miast o odmiennej kontekstowo historii, chciałbym pokazać specyficzne dla przestrzeni miejskiej sposoby indukowania interpretacji, albowiem mimo oczywistych różnic oba miasta pozwalają dostrzec historyczny okres, w którym samo miasto stało się istotnym składnikiem sfery publicznej i publicznej własności symbolicznej. Wzrost znaczenia miast w Europie wiąże się bez wątpienia z procesem demokratyzacji, zaś stolice Francji i Macedonii są dobrym przykładem tej przemiany, która przestrzeń sprywatyzowaną (feudalną) bądź interpretowaną w wymiarze sakralnym (jako ziemia należąca do Boga) przekształciła w przestrzeń publiczną, będącą dobrem wspólnym obywateli i/lub dominującego narodu.Najważniejszym agensem w przestrzeni stołecznej okazuje się państwo. To biurokracja państwowa, występująca w charakterze nosiciela woli narodu, decyduje o kształtowaniu wizerunku miasta, wzmacniając te wartości, które wydają się pożądane z perspektywy reprezentowanej grupy. Brak tego czynnika skutkuje, jak w przypadku Skopje, zachowaniem lokalności i/lub przypadkowością realizowanych inwestycji publicznych. W obu omawianych przypadkach mapa i punkty orientacyjne zdradzają najważniejsze kategorie narracji narodowej, a przecież za jej kształt w znacznym stopniu odpowiada właśnie władza centralna.

scholarly journals « Rabat, a Metropolitan City », Between Displayed Image, Reality of Image and Identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Hassan Kharmich ◽  
Mouna Sedreddine
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Metropolitan City ◽  
Urban Model ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Embodying for a long time the image of an administrative capital where the functionary dominate, where the urban setting is aging and where quality of life is declining, the city of Rabat has recently embarked on a frantic race to reinvent a new image: a modern, innovative and qualitative image.In order to achieve this, several projects and programs of development, embellishment and construction, has been initiated with a common feature which is greatness (large theater, high towers, large stations, large arteries, new centralities, etc.). This greatness aspect is visible through the importance of the areas involved, the volumes and the shapes designed, the modes of transport developed, the means and resources deployed in add to the promotion of architectural signatures of the renowned architects, and the modes of governance and project management. Henceforth, Rabat shows its ambition as a city of culture, as a green city and as a “city of light”.  The time of Rabat, as administrative city, is over.However, the image displayed and publicized seems controversial compared to the reality of certain urban spaces, often with high heritage value, that develop on the margins of programs and projects initiated. Real deficits are observed in terms of basic equipment and services, in terms of transport network and in terms of urban coherence and social cohesion. Everything contributes to an urban image with two facets: one more qualitative, more modern and more elitist, while the other is more spontaneous, more vulnerable and more devalued.Faced with this identity transition and this double temporality, what image and identity do we want for Rabat? What vocations do we claim for this city which aspires to become a national and international metropolis? What developments should be advocated for a capital with such a rich and diversified history? What relationship can be established between the local identity and the global identity of the city? How does the citizen apprehend his living spaces in the face of such universal urban model, where social connections as well as the spatial relationship mutate towards new practices?These questions will be enlightened through the confrontation of major projects underway and urban realities, through the analysis of the new urban model which is universal, modern and generating a new image and a new urban identity, as well as through the impact of these major projects both on the urban landscape and quality of life. It’s with these considerations in mind that this paper is drawn up: « Rabat, a metropolitan city », between displayed image and reality of image and identity.

scholarly journals The Greek Key: Getting Acquainted in Athens

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
J. Hunter Augeri ◽  
Eirene Efstathiou ◽  
Maria Michou ◽  
Jan Motyka Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Course ◽  
The City

Greek Key: Exploring Athens as a Cultural Landscape serves as an interdisciplinary course aimed at giving students a first-hand understanding of an authentic Athens by way of guided walks. The modern facade of the city is leveraged by taking into account history, politics, socio-economic influences, as well as alternative approaches to studying the urban landscape. Learners are encouraged to respond to their immediate experiences and observations in a variety of expressive media. These involve writing in an effective voice, the compilation of a personal narrative of a selected route with non-textual means, the construction of a photomontage, as well as formal academic responses.  Readings selected both from the international critical discourse on contemporary urban culture as well as from Greek literary production assist students’ critical focus on their study abroad experience of Athens. Placing under discussion not only particular aspects of Greek society but also the ways individual background shapes each person’s perceptions of cultural difference the class aims at providing learners with the skill and enthusiasm of exploring a foreign culture as this is inscribed on its physical real physical environment. Along the way, Greek Key learners become acquainted not only with the city of Athens but also with themselves, challenging their very own cultural expectations and beliefs. 

scholarly journals A Philosophical Topography of Place and Non-Place: Lithuanian Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
Odeta Žukauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Drawing on French anthropologist Marc Augé and his seminal book Non-Places (1995) the author pays attention to the transformation of contemporary urban landscapes. In thinking trough the dialectic of place and non-place, this paper aims to account for the apparent sense of placelesness in our cultural landscapes and in increasingly globalised world. If we want to ask fundamental questions about what has happened to our urban landscape and to the spirit of cities during the last decades then the concepts of place and non-place help us to describe the actual changes. Besides, Augé’s work gives us the methodological tools to address philosophical questions about the nature of supermodernity and the relationship between modernity and postmodernity moving toward new conditions of globality. This article will attempt to apply anthropological and philosophical concepts of place and space to the context of Lithuania, comparing the ways of spreading of non-places (non-lieu) in the Soviet modernity and contemporary global, hyper-visual and liquid cultural landscape.

scholarly journals PRESERVATION OF URBAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: CASE STUDY OF ROJI IN KAGURAZAKA, TOKYO

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benika Morokuma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Municipal Governments

The Landscape Law, introduced in Japan in 2004, has granted the municipal governments the regulatory power to protect cultural landscape they wish to preserve. Due to its wider coverage, the law can technically protect the landscape developed through the secondary and tertiary industries, which theoretically includes the urban cultural landscape. However, until today, no significant cultural landscape is officially designated in its capital city Tokyo, although, such urban neighborhoods with historic sense of place still exist and are highly appreciated. By examining the fifteen-year community’s effort to preserve roji (alleys) and its landscape in Kagurazaka in central Tokyo as a case study, this paper aims to examine the achievement and limitation of the community’s advocacy efforts. In conclusion, this urban community has rather viewed its landscape as a favorable living environment than cultural resources, while the academic research recognized it as historic resource and urban cultural landscape. To better preserve the urban landscape as living environment with authenticity of the place, two approaches need to be combined in the future.

scholarly journals A quinta, a capela e o portal: análise do potencial de uma paisagem histórica inserida no conjunto arquitetônico da cidade de São Luís do Maranhão

CEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Ariadne Ketini Costa de Alcântara
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
The City

Quinta das Laranjeiras, owned by the merchant and military José Gonçalves da Silva, is part of the landscape of the outskirts of the city of São Luís do Maranhão from the time of its construction, in 1789, until the present day. Located at the end of the old Caminho Grande, now Oswaldo Cruz street, the Quinta has a private chapel and an imposing portal decorated with lioz stones, which reproduces the coat of arms of the Portuguese merchant. Functioning as landmarks of the boundaries of this site, these architectural elements remained during the 19th and 20th centuries as a reference for the urban evolution of São Luís, even after the various stages of the uncharacterization of the Quinta and its surroundings. In this sense, this article intends to discuss the concept of historical urban landscape attributing to Quinta das Laranjeiras the necessary patrimonial potential for a case study that understands the derivations of this category. Using UNESCO and IPHAN definitions of cultural landscape as parameters, we will analyze the formation of a stratification of meanings that have been accumulated through the historical and economic processes, in addition to punctuating the effects of the toppling of Quinta das Laranjeiras.

PLANNING STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING THE TOURISM POTENTIAL OF RİZE DEREPAZARI

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (21) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Çiğdem BOGENÇ
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Study Groups ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Cultural Data

Purpose: This article aims to develop the landscape planning and design decisions of Derepazarı within the scope of the Eastern Black Sea Tourism Master Plan strategies. Method: The method of the study has been designed, taking into account the features of the district with three different landscape features. The first stage of the method is to examine the planning strategies over the area. The second stage is the natural-cultural data analysis. The third stage consists of developing landscape planning and design suggestions for the study area and examining the suggestions by the study groups. Findings: As a result of the studies, the following data were obtained: Derepazarı preserves its natural and cultural features, the tourism master plan is included in the scope of the plateau corridor, the presence of local flavours, the agricultural production is carried out with traditional methods, the intact coast, the presence of usable landscape character quality, the lack of tourism master plan of Derepazarı, the lack of different types of tourism activities, the lack of presentation, lack of urban image, the fact that recreational areas prevent different recreational activities, and individuals living in the city lack of urban living manners. Conclusion: The results of the study based on the hypothesis, which is the fact that “the natural-cultural data analysed successfully contributes to the tourism of the region by directing the landscape design process and enabling the development of original and sustainable designs,” showed that landscape analysis can positively affect the planning/design process and that natural and cultural landscapes can be included in planning/design by establishing a conservation-use balance. All kinds of planning/design to be carried out in this context will improve the tourism of Derepazarı while ensuring the sustainability of natural-cultural landscape values. While planning/designs made in line with the tourism planning strategies developed will contribute to the urban image of Derepazarı, it will also improve its economy by increasing its recognition under the influence of tourism.

scholarly journals Urban space, political identity and the unwanted legacies of state socialism: Bucharest's problematic Centru Civic in the post-socialist era

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Light ◽  
Craig Young
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
National Salvation ◽  
Romanian Revolution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Nicolae Ceausescu

This paper explores the relationship between the urban cultural landscape of Bucharest and the making of post-socialist Romanian national identity. As the capital of socialist Romania, central Bucharest was extensively remodelled by Nicolae Ceauşescu into the Centru Civic in order to materialize Romania's socialist identity. After the Romanian “Revolution” of 1989, the national and local state had to deal with a significant “leftover” socialist urban landscape which was highly discordant with the orientation of post-socialist Romania and its search for a new identity. Ceauşescu's vast socialist showpiece left a difficult legacy which challenges the material and representational reshaping of Bucharest and constructions of post-socialist Romanian national identity more broadly. The paper analyzes four attempts to deal with the Centru Civic: developments in the immediate post-1989 period; the international architectural competition Bucureşti 2000; proposals for building a Cathedral of National Salvation; and the Esplanada project. Despite over 20 years of proposals central Bucharest remains largely unchanged. The paper thus deals with a failed attempt to re-shape the built environment in support of national goals.

Landscape Regeneration Strategy of Waste Quarries in Urban Area

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2018-2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Tang ◽  
Shou Yun Shen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Functional Requirement ◽  
Regeneration Strategy ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Landscape Transformation ◽  
Human Landscape

This article analyzed the abandoned quarrys negative impact on urban landscape and the development of the abandoned quarrys landscape transformation in Western countries and China. Then it constructs the theory, which combine the ecology domain and cultural landscape domain, to work with the damaged ecosystem and to satisfy the new functional requirement of abandoned quarry. This article would take Dakengding, one of abandoned quarries located in Zhongshan city, China, as an example and create quarry landscape regeneration strategy, which involves quarry ecological restoration and human landscape construction. Fund guarantee method for Abandoned quarries landscape transformation in urban area and post-custody are also discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Urban Culture of the Crimea during the Soviet time: symbolic dominants of cultural space

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Anna Vadimovna Kostromitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Cultural Dialogue

The article describes the peculiarities of Crimean culture of the Soviet period through analyzing the key images and symbolic dominants of the cultural space of Soviet society and cultural landscape of the peninsula. The object of this research is the cultural landscape of Crimea as a system of unique cultural codes of symbolic nature; while the subject is the symbolic dominants of Crimean cultural space, most vivid markers of cultural space and meaningful structures of semiosphere of the Crimean cities. Methodological framework is based on the systematic approach that allows studying urban landscape as a set of interrelate elements, such as architecture, monuments, parks, toponymy, nature as a component of cultural landscape, information and communication specificities of interaction between the center and periphery. Analysis is conducted on the nature of the symbolic dominants of Crimean cultural landscape of the Soviet period based on the semiotic models of R. Barth, Y. Lotman, U. Eco, as well as research of the contemporary authors. It is established that symbolic space of the  Crimean cities reflects the “new cultural construction”, in which priority is given to infrastructural transformations; attempt of the cultural dialogue between the city and rural areas, the center and periphery; changes in the social and ethnic structures; image of the Soviet city is now based on the technics, technology, and man. The author identifies the symbolic dominants that resemble the specifics of the Soviet culture formed in the cities of the peninsula, which defined the novelty of this research. The acquired results reveal the current state of the Soviet text on the culture of Crimean cities as a part of cultural memory of the Crimeans, and can be valuable for determining the specificity and mechanisms of the use of urban space by modern urban community. The images of the “Soviet city” and “Soviet Crimea” depicted in the article can be implemented in the strategies for the development and advancement of territories

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