Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Margaretten
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Street Youth ◽  
City Center ◽  
Youth Population ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Options ◽  
Dignified Life

This concluding chapter presents the endings to the stories of the Point Place youth, while highlighting the connections between everyday relatedness and companionship—or nakana—on the streets. Notably, a substantial number of the Point Place youth are still seeking shelter in the city center. Some of them had happy and hopeful endings, while many had perished. However, most of them returned to the streets since they have nowhere else to go. The chapter reviews the housing options for the urban poor, emphasizing the lived disparities between political rhetoric and practice that make the basic right of dignified life, including the right to shelter, an unlikely reality for South Africa's older street youth population.

scholarly journals Dreams about an Overcome Boundary: Street Children, Venders, Urban Political Regimes in “Wars of Memories” about the City of the “Nineties”

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-136
Author(s):  
D.O. Timoshkin
Keyword(s):  
Street Children ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
City Center ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Urban Regimes ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The article analyzes the images of the Irkutsk city center in the memories of the representatives of two marginal groups — street children and venders, who lived and worked there from 1999 to 2006, as well as its mo dern images in the public statements of the urban elites. The aim of the study is to identify the functions that the city center performed during the years of deep social transformations and to reveal why today one wants to forget about it as soon as possible. The author argues that the places mentioned by the respondents and the actions performed in those places largely shaped the current ideas about the period of social chaos in the “post-Soviet” city — a period of uncertainty, violence and fear. Today, these places and functions are mostly memories, which are gradually being replaced by the simplified and emotionally rich myths about the past that are being broadcast by the urban political regimes. The latter displace marginal groups from the center and change the places they previously occupied, simultaneously altering the collective memory associated with these places. The article puts forward and justifies a hypothesis that starting from the mid-1990s and almost until the end of the 2000s these territories were used by the majority of citizens as an extra-institutional interface necessary for connecting to the city resource node. This function has become the primary cause of fierce conflicts, during which numerous enforcers tried to establish a monopoly on the collection of rents from the human and resource flows concentrated there. The image of the center as a deviant place was constructed simultaneously by the urban regimes and marginal groups: the former used it as a weapon in the struggle for the “right to the city,” the latter associated it with the collective trauma they had experienced.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KARAKTERISTIK DAN KEBUTUHAN PARKIR TERMINAL KARGO DI KOTA DENPASAR

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nyoman Gery Arishandi ◽  
P. Alit Suthanaya ◽  
D.M. Priyantha Wedagama
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Characteristic Analysis ◽  
City Center ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Traffic Jams ◽  
Loading And Unloading ◽  
Inventory Survey ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Abstract: Cargo Terminal which has 70 units space is holding control of freight passing through the city center and as a place of loading and unloading of goods vehicles which do not have a warehouse. However, the activity of loading and unloading of goods is still widely practiced in the right of way which causes traffic jams. This triggers the Denpasar government to develop Terminal Kargo Denpasar  so as to supply the demand for parking and loading and unloading activities. The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of the parking and future parking needs in developing Terminal Kargo Denpasar  . The method used to obtain data through direct surveys such as  inventory survey and survey cordon parking and secondary data obtained from the relevant agencies. The analysis shows the volume of parking of vehicles is 44,5 vehicles / hour, parking capacity is 36 vehicles / hour, parking supply as much as 372 vehicles and 4 for Parking Index that indicates there has been a problem of parking in the Terminal Cargo Denpasar. It is show Terminal Kargo Denpasar  has been unable to supply activity goods vehicles. The amount of the parking requirements for development of Terminal Kargo based on parking characteristic analysis are 101 spaces.

Placemaking and the right to the city of urban poor: a case studyin Sanandaj, Iran

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-528
Author(s):  
Kayoumars Irandoost ◽  
Milad Doostvandi ◽  
Todd Litman ◽  
Mohammad Azami
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Purpose This paper aims to present a critical analysis of placemaking by the urban poor based on the Right to the City, Henri Lefebvre’s influential theory regarding the production of space and placemaking. Design/methodology/approach This study reflects Lefebvre’s production of space and the right to the city theories and containing three main pillars including holism, the urban and praxis, and the use of spatial dialectics. Also, for collecting information in this research, along with scrutiny of documents and books, residents of the poor settlements of Sanandaj have also been interviewed. Findings In Sanandaj, urban poor who lack formal housing reclaim the Right to City by creating informal settlements. Such settlements, such as Shohada, Baharmast and Tagh Taghan, cover 23% of the city’s area but house 69% of the urban population. Originality/value This research seeks to understand placemaking in urban slums by low-income inhabitants using Henry Lefebvre’s critical theory of social production of space and the Right to the City. This case study examines the city of Sanandaj, Iran, where most residents are poor and live in cooperative informal settlements. It illustrates how the urban poor, as marginalized inhabitants, overcome the constraints of conventional planning and property ownership to creatively and cooperatively develop communities that reflect their needs. This indicates a schism between formal and informal sectors.

scholarly journals Preserving the (right kind of) city: The urban politics of the middle classes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2163-2180
Author(s):  
Mara Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Since re-democratisation, Brazil has experienced a slow but continuous process of urban reform, with the introduction of legal and institutional developments that favour participatory democracy in urban policy. Legal innovations such as the City Statute have been celebrated for expanding the ‘right to the city’ to marginalised populations. While most studies examine the struggles of the urban poor, I focus on middle-class citizens, showing how such legal developments have unevenly affected the ways in which different social groups are able to impact the production of urban space. The two cases explored in this study concern residents’ struggles to preserve their middle-class neighbourhoods against change triggered by projects related to the hosting of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The first looks at the Musas Street residents’ fight against the construction of a luxury hotel in their neighbourhood, while the second examines the Pampulha residents’ struggle against the presence of street vendors and football fans in their streets. My findings show that through the articulation of legal discourses, middle-class claims on the need for preserving the environment and the city’s cultural heritage are legitimised by the actions of the local state. The article thus looks beyond neoliberalism, showing that socio-spatial segregation and inequality should not be regarded solely as the product of state–capital alliances for engendering capital accumulation through spatial restructuring, but also as the result of the uneven capacities of those living in the city to access the state resources and legitimise certain forms of inhabitance of urban space.

scholarly journals Perancangan Buku Resep Masakan dan Jajanan Tradisional Khas Tana’ Taliang

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Rizkillah Lestiannina ◽  
Sunardy Kasim
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Buffalo Milk ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
City Center ◽  
The West ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Taliwang is the city center of a new district, West Sumbawa district, which is on the island of Sumbawa in the West Nusa Tenggra (NTB) province. West Sumbawa is one of the tourist destinations in the NTB province, apart from having beautiful tourist objects, West Sumbawa also has a wide variety of traditional food destinations. Palopo is one of the unique specialties whose basic processing process uses buffalo milk is one of the uniqueness of traditional snacks typical of Taliwang, West Sumbawa. To introduce these traditional Taliwang snacks, especially for the younger generation, a cookbook was designed with qualitative methods and a design thinking approach to get the right problem-solving solutions in designing works, by conducting observations and semi-structured interviews. The results of this study used two media, namely media. primary cookbook and traditional snacks and secondary media namely xbanner and merchandise. By designing this illustration book, it is hoped that it can attract the interest of the younger generation to want to learn about and preserve the traditional dishes and snacks of the region.

scholarly journals City of Permanent Temporality

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-49
Author(s):  
Elma Van Boxel ◽  
Kristian Koreman ◽  
ZUS Zones Urbaines Sensibles
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
City Center ◽  
Tolerance Zone ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

On July 22nd, 2001, there was the third shooting in a month. The municipality of Rotterdam declared the area around Rotterdam Centraal Station a zero-tolerance zone, installed 360o security cameras, and imposed the umpteenth ban on disreputable bars and clubs; thus, another twenty meters of boarded-up shop fronts. It was 2001; a strange year in which the rise of the right-wing populist politician Pim Fortuyn coincided with Rotterdam’s celebration of cultural diversity as the Cultural Capital of Europe and the announcement that multiculturalism was a failure in the Netherlands. And finally, there was 9/11. On the Hofplein, a major traffic junction in Rotterdam’s city center, these expressions of hope and hopelessness came into sharp focus. Citizens, in search of an appropriate city square, took to occupying the Hofplein roundabout to celebrate or to mourn. The administrative nervousness that arose in this confused period was repeatedly expressed in even stricter policies to keep the city and especially its streets ‘clean, well maintained, and safe.’ Ensuring a lively atmosphere on Rotterdam’s streets was difficult enough, never mind the additional measures being deployed to systematically remove the last traces of the informal use of the public domain.

scholarly journals THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamsul AREFIN ◽  
Tamanna RASHID
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
The State ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

The urban poor experience serious discontents, harassment, eviction, police repression and local goons threatening when using urban space for living and livelihood purposes. This study pursues to understand the poor people’s negotiation strategies with different powerful agents who occupy money, muscleman and political affiliation. Following a mixed method approach, this study investigates the two biggest slums in Dhaka as case studies. Findings show that urban poor have to build different social-contract relations with various local agents as survival mechanisms while economic activities using urban space are considered to be illegal in Bangladesh. The role of the state is somewhat ambiguous in this regard. On the one hand, the state is not evicting the poor permanently from the city but it is repatriating them on other grounds and, on the other hand, it permits hundreds of informal intermediary agents to work for sustaining informal urban settlements for the poor people. We argue that these distinctive socio-structural arrangements in Dhaka city is hindering poor people from getting united and claiming their rights to the city while also not providing them proper opportunities to fully appropriate the urban space. These socio-economic relations need to be considered in order to make a just city for all, from the RTC perspective.

Financing Low-income Housing in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: Implications for the Right to the City and Inclusivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Average Chigwenya
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Abstract Accessing finances for housing has been a major problem for people on low-incomes and this has been weighing heavily on them as they try to access housing. Financial institutions in the city of Bulawayo are failing to come up with financial products that suit low-income clients. There are an estimated 110000 low-income residents among the estimated 250000 residents of Cowdray Park low-density residential area in Bulawayo. This has also affected their right to the city as they have been excluded from the housing delivery system. There are so many initiatives that have been available to those on a low-income but these initiatives have rarely benefited the urban poor of the city. This research has examined how the financial services that exist in the housing sector have been crafted to benefit the urban poor. The research employed a mixed methods approach to the inquiry, where a questionnaire was the main quantitative method used and in-depth interviews and observations were the qualitative methods that complemented it. The research found that there are various financial services that are available in Zimbabwe, but these financial facilities rarely help the urban poor. The majority of the poor have been managing without any financial support and this has been stalling their access to housing. Most housing products are fashioned along neo-liberal economic principles that have very little to offer the urban poor. This has therefore denied the urban poor in the city of Bulawayo their right to the city. Most cities in Zimbabwe are struggling to satisfy their housing demand as they have long housing waiting lists. Research therefore recommends the crafting of financial facilities that are best targeted on the urban poor, and are specially adapted to their financial conditions.

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