THE MENTAL MAPS �THE IMAGE OF THE CITY� IN THE TEACHING PROCESS OF THE DISCIPLINE "URBAN GEOGRAPHY"

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Khusnutdinova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Geography ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
The City

Atomized urbanism: secrecy and security from the Gulag to the Soviet closed cities

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Asif Siddiqi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
General Public ◽  
Early History ◽  
Physical Isolation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Camp System ◽  
Spatial Terms ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

Abstract This article recovers the early history of the Soviet ‘closed city’, towns that during the Cold War were absent from maps and unknown to the general public due to their involvement in weapons research. I argue that the closed cities echoed and appropriated features of the Stalinist Gulag camp system, principally their adoption of physical isolation and the language of obfuscation. In doing so, I highlight a process called ‘atomized urbanism’ that embodies the tension between the obdurate reality of the city and the goal of the state to obliterate that reality through secrecy. In spatial terms, ‘atomized’ also describes the urban geography of these cities which lacked any kind of organic suburban expansion.

scholarly journals A cidade-santuário de Fátima: percepções do território religioso por meio da análise de mapas mentais

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Camila Benatti
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Open Field ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Sacred Heart ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City

ResumoNo ano de 1917, a manifestação de um fenômeno religioso em Fátima (Portugal) acabou por gerar transformações profundas em sua paisagem. A partir da crença neste acontecimento, nasce num descampado um dos maiores centros de peregrinação mundial, o Santuário de Fátima. Abordando os fenômenos religiosos sob a perspectiva geográfica, este artigo tem como principal intuito analisar e compreender as percepções dos alunos do Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria da cidade de Fátima em relação à cidade e ao respectivo território religioso. Como proposta de análise remeteu-se a métodos qualitativos através da elaboração de mapas mentais. A partir desta análise foi possível identificar que embora haja a carência de alguns espaços e infraestruturas direcionados às necessidades dos residentes locais, estes revelam um forte sentimento de pertença em relação ao território em estudo. Este envolvimento é refletido no reconhecimento por parte destes jovens do valor simbólico e patrimonial da cidade de Fátima enquanto lugar sagrado e religioso.Palavras-chave: Santuário de Fátima; Lugar sagrado; Percepção do espaço; Mapas mentais. AbstractIn the year of 1917, the manifestation of a religious phenomenon took place in Fatima, which turned out to engender profound changes in its landscape. From the belief in this event emerged in an open field the Sanctuary of Fatima, one of the largest world centers of pilgrimage. Approaching the religious phenomena from a geographical perspective, this research has the main purpose of understand and analyze the perceptions of the students of the College of the Sacred Heart of Mary of the city of Fatima in relation to the city and its religious territory. As proposed analysis referred to qualitative methods through the development of mental maps. From this analysis we found that although there is a shortage of some spaces and infrastructure targeted to the needs of local residents, they reveal a strong sense of belonging towards the area under study. This involvement is reflected in the recognition on the part of these young people the symbolic and heritage value of the city of Fatima as religious and sacred place.Key words: Sanctuary of Fatima; Sacred place; Perception of space; Mental maps. ResumenEn 1917 , la manifestación de un fenómeno religioso en Fátima (Portugal ) ha generado profundos cambios en su paisaje. De la creencia en este evento , que nace en un campo uno de los mayores centros mundiales de peregrinación, el Santuario de Fátima. Dirigiéndose el fenómeno religioso desde el punto de vista geográfico, este artículo tiene el objetivo de analizar y comprender las percepciones de los estudiantes del Colegio del Sagrado Corazón de María de Fátima en relación con la ciudad y su territorio religioso. Como propuesta de análisis hace utilizado métodos cualitativos a través de la elaboración de mapas mentales. A partir de este análisis fue posible identificar que a pesar de que hay una escasez de algunos espacios e infraestructuras orientados a las necesidades de los residentes locales, estos revelan un fuerte sentido de pertenencia hacia la zona de estudio. Este compromiso se refleja en el reconocimiento por parte de estos jóvenes del valor simbólico de Fátima como un lugar religioso y sagrado.Palabras-Claves: Santuario de Fátima; Lugar sagrado; Percepciones del espacio; Mapas mentales.

Center and Periphery at the Austrian-Russian Border: The Galician Border Town of Brody in the Long Nineteenth Century

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 67-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Börries Kuzmany
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
Border Town ◽  
Religious Learning ◽  
Important Center ◽  
The City ◽  
East West

Center and periphery are popular concepts to describe geographical, political, or economic power relations. Both are mostly perceived as strict and mutually exclusive categories. This article examines a Galician border town whose history illustrates the complexities of conceptualizing center and periphery relations. At first glance, nineteenth-century Brody (in today's Ukraine) would seem to qualify as a peripheral town located on the Galician border between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. An analysis of this city under Habsburg rule (1772–1918), however, shows us that during that period it constituted both an important center and a declining periphery, not only consecutively, but also simultaneously. Its situation on the country's physical and political periphery did not harm Brody's central role in Europe's East-West trade until the first twenty years of the nineteenth century. Only in later decades did the city lose its place within a modernizing commercial system, and eventually it declined in importance. If we leave aside the economic aspect and take a closer look at Brody's mostly Jewish inhabitants, we see that for centuries this city functioned as an important center for Eastern and Central European Jewry. Even though the town's centrality for Jewish history also changed over time, Brody nevertheless kept its place on Jewish mental maps, whether as a center of religious learning, as a pioneering site of political emancipation, or as a safe haven for Jewish refugees.

Maps in Minds: An Empirical Study

1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1289-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Y Wong
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Mental Map ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The City

The notion of a mental map implies that the spatial actor possesses some kind of internal mental ordering of the external environment that he consults in the process of making movement decisions or responding to environmental stimuli. The aim of mental-map studies is to elicit information about the environment from the individual in terms of the characteristics and locational relationship of spatial forms, the qualities attributed to environmental elements, as well as the preferences for and the evaluation of spatial opportunities. This paper is concerned only with the locational aspects of mental maps. A direct mapping method was employed to extract information on the way in which the spatial actor mentally structured the environment into a coherent picture. Analysis was focussed on map styles and map sophistication and their relationships with various characteristics of the respondents. Findings indicate a strong inclination towards the sequential-type maps, which are organised around major paths. This implies that most residents conceive of the city as a set of movement experiences. Most maps produced are lacking in detail, pointing to a low legibility of environmental elements in the study area. Map styles and map sophistication show statistically significant relationships with the respondents' sex, education, occupation, and income, but not with their age, length of residence, and mode of transport. The results are generally in congruence with research findings in Western cities.

Understanding software evolution with software cities

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Steinbrückner ◽  
Claus Lewerentz
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Software Evolution ◽  
System Development ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Development History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
The City

Software cities are visualizations of software systems in the form of virtual cities. They are used as platforms to integrate a large variety of product- and process-related analysis data. Their usability, however, for real-world software development often suffers from their inability to appropriately deal with software changes. Even small structural changes can disrupt the overall structure of the city, which in turn corrupts the mental maps of its users. In this article we describe a systematic approach to utilize the city metaphor for the visualization of evolving software systems as growing software cities. The main contribution is a new layout approach which explicitly takes the development history of software systems into account. The approach has two important effects: first, it creates a stable gestalt of software cities even when the underlying software systems evolve; thus, by preserving its users’ mental maps these cities are especially suitable for use during ongoing system development. Second, it makes history directly visible in the city layouts, which allows for supporting novel analysis scenarios. We illustrate such scenarios by presenting several thematic cities’ maps, each capturing specific development history aspects.

The Urban Geography of Red Power: The American Indian Movement in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, 1968-70

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1241-1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce D'Arcus
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Saint Paul ◽  
Red Power ◽  
American Indian Movement ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

Drawing on recent theories of citizenship that argue the city as the pre-eminent ‘difference machine’, this paper argues that it is also a crucial site for the production of resistance as a social identity and practice. This argument is presented through an analysis of an example from the ‘Red Power’ movement in the US in the 1960s and early 1970s. The paper examines how American Indian activism—while often dramatised in rural reservation locations and centred on rather grand abstractions quite far removed from typically urban concerns and politics—also has a profoundly urban historical geography.

The Politics of Fear, Mobility, and Media Discourses

Transfers ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Stjernborg ◽  
Mekonnen Tesfahuney ◽  
Anders Wretstrand
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Media ◽  
Politics Of Fear ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The City

This study focuses on Seved, a segregated and socioeconomically “poor” neighborhood in the city of Malmö in Sweden. It has attracted wide media coverage, a possible consequence of which is its increased stigmatization. The wide disparity between perceived or imagined fear and the actual incidence of, or exposure to, violence attests to the important role of the media in shaping mental maps and place images. Critical discourse analysis of daily newspaper articles shows that Seved is predominantly construed as unruly and a place of lawlessness. Mobility comprises an important aspect of the stigmatization of places, the politics of fear, and discourses of the “other.” In turn, place stigmatization, discourses of the other, and the politics of fear directly and indirectly affect mobility strategies of individuals and groups.

scholarly journals Gênese e dimensões da rede de vilas e núcleos de ocupação na Bahia no setecentos

GeoTextos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil Carlos Silveira Porto
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

A recomposição de uma geografia histórica tem sido feita por muitos pesquisadores no âmbito da ciência geográfica. Dentre os estudos realizados nessa perspectiva, aqueles voltados aos estudos urbanos são realizados com maior frequência, embora haja maior dificuldade à medida que se volta mais no tempo. O presente artigo é uma contribuição aos estudos da geografia urbana histórica na Bahia, cujo objetivo principal é discutir a formação de uma rede de assentamentos densa no setecentos, para além do Recôncavo Baiano. A consulta a relatos de viajantes, documentos estatísticos históricos, relatórios dos presidentes da província da Bahia e mapas históricos auxiliou na recomposição dessa rede pretérita, além do acesso a livros, artigos, dissertações e teses que dispunham de informações sobre o quadro demográfico, econômico e social da província da Bahia. As condições naturais, a presença da monarquia lusitana e da Igreja, a existência de caminhos, bem como a dinâmica populacional e econômica evidenciam o processo de formação dessa rede no período da mineração dos sertões baianos, tendo sido Rio de Contas e Jacobina nós dessa incipiente rede. Abstract GENESIS AND DIMENSIONS OF THE NETWORK OF VILLAGES AND NUCLEI OF SETTLEMENTS IN BAHIA IN THE 1700s The reconstitution of a historical geography has been done by many researchers within geographical science. Among the studies conducted with this approach, those aimed at urban studies are conducted with a frequent scope, although there are more difficulties as they go back further in time. The present article is a contribution to the studies of historical urban geography in Bahia, and its main purpose is to discuss the formation of a dense settlements network in the 1700s, beyond the Recôncavo Baiano, the region surrounding the city of Salvador and Todos os Santos Bay. The investigation of travel memoirs, historical statistics, Bahia Provincial Presidential Reports and historical maps, as well as books, articles, dissertation and theses that provided an overview of the demographic, economic and social situation in the Province of Bahia, aided to reconstitute this bygone network. Natural conditions, the presence of Lusitanian Monarchy and the Church, the existence of paths, and also population and economic dynamics are evidence of the process of formation of this network in the mining period in the backcountry of Bahia, in which Rio de Contas and Jacobina were important villages in this incipient network.

scholarly journals Geographical Analysis of Ruralization Phenomenon in Rania City and Impact on Their Urban Enviroment

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-109
Author(s):  
Bestun Ahmed Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Infrastructure Services ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Ideal

Ruralization of Urban areas is one of the most important topics of Urban Geography as it is one of the issues of urban areas and a major contributor to other urban issues; therefore, researchers need to look at this issue with caution. Ranya city has experienced this issue to a great extent mostly due to population growth and urban expansion. Ruralization has caused major issues such as infrastructure issues in terms of education, health, transportation and increased crime rates in different parts of the city. This research addresses this issue and aims to investigate the causes and characteristics of ruralization in Ranya city. This effort will help the local government to look for solution to address this issue. This research has used descriptive and analytical methods.The research concludes that ruralization has caused some drastic consequences when it comes to providing and delivering different public and infrastructure services. The paper recommends to authorities that preparing a master plan for the city would be the ideal resolution for this issue and other issues in the city.

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