scholarly journals The city as social sculpture

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Jale Erzen
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Street Sweeping ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The People ◽  
Joseph Beuys ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

The arguments in this paper try to show that the city is basically a social space and that before its fixed physical matter in the form of architecture and urban structures, it is the people that construct the essential character and presence of a city. The idea of social sculpture is taken as a vivid metaphor that refers back to the work and ideas of Joseph Beuys. Beuys claimed that events and actions of the people in a city were social sculptures and he illustrated this in his famous street-sweeping performance with his students. The city belongs to the people and cities are responsibilities of their inhabitants. In arguing for this, the paper refers also to the GEZİ events in Istanbul. These arguments lead to the conclusion that more vital and meaningful art of the future will have to relate to the urban context more than anything else.

Research of City Environmental Pollution and City Planning for the Future

2014 ◽  
Vol 908 ◽  
pp. 375-378
Author(s):  
Peng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Environment Problem ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

City environment problem increasingly troubles the people living in the city. What the human doings are against the city environment and damage their homes. This paper analyzes the causes of city environmental pollution and several aspects of pollution, and probes into the problems of city pollution and environmental planning for the future. The goal is to find an effective solution to resolve these problems. Finally, the solution of the problem from three aspects in city planning is proposed for improving the living environment and purifying homes.

scholarly journals La reconstrucción de Teruel: el devenir de una identidad | The reconstruction of Teruel: the evolution of an identity

ZARCH ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Miguel Sancho ◽  
Beatriz Martín
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
The City

Como consecuencia de la devastación a la que se verá sometida Teruel durante la guerra civil española gran parte del núcleo urbano se verá afectado. Esta dramática situación planteará la necesidad reconstruir la ciudad pero también la posibilidad de renovar la trama urbana. En el presente artículo se estudiaran las distintas propuestas llevadas a cabo durante este proceso, la tensión entre las ideas reformistas que entenderán la situación como una oportunidad renovadora sin prejuicios e ideas mucho más conservacionistas preocupadas por la identidad histórica de la ciudad, enfrentarán a los distintos agentes involucrados y finalmente dará lugar a la definitiva actuación propuesta. Es imprescindible conocer y reflexionar sobre una sucesión de ideas que plasmadas sobre el papel pueden decidir el futuro de un pueblo, pero también la conservación de su pasado, de su memoria.As a result of the devastation which will come under Teruel during the Spanish civil war much of the urban area will be affected. This dramatic situation arises the need to rebuild the city but also the possibility of renewing the urban fabric. In this article, the various proposals made during this process will be evaluated. The tension between reformist ideas to understand the situation as a renewed and unprejudiced opportunity and much more conservationist ideas concerned with the historical identity of the city will create a confrontation between different involved agents and ultimately lead to the final proposed action. It is essential to know and think of a series of ideas that once reflected on paper can decide the future of the people, but also the preservation of their past, their memory.

Ritual Time and Popular Expectations of Papal Rule in Early Modern Rome

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
John M. Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
Imminent Death ◽  
Early Modern Rome ◽  
The City

The political and ritual life of early modern Rome provided its inhabitants ample opportunities not only to express grievances with papal government but also to voice expectations of newly elected pontiffs. Three ritual moments in particular—each linked as a cycle related to the pope’s reign—looked toward the future. These were the papal election, the possesso (the newly elected pontiff’s procession to San Giovanni in Laterano), and the pope’s death. As the papal election commenced in the conclave, Romans communicated their hopes for a pontiff who would adhere to a traditional moral economy by keeping the city abundantly supplied with grain and other foodstuffs. The ceremonies connected to the possesso reinforced these concerns; during the pope’s procession from Saint Peter’s to San Giovanni, the people greeted him with placards, statues, and ritual shouts, which reminded him to uphold this sacred duty. A pope who failed to abide by this moral economy faced popular discontent. This took the form of murmuring and pasquinades that wished for his imminent death, thus anticipating an end to his odious reign and to the future freedoms of the vacant see, a time in which the machinery of papal government and justice halted, allowing the people to vocalize their anger. Immediately on the heels of the pope’s death came the papal election, starting the cycle anew. This paper will argue that the rhythms of papal government enabled the people to articulate their expectations of papal rule, both present and future, grounded in traditional paternalism.

scholarly journals Emerging Biophilic Urbanism: The Value of the Human–Nature Relationship in the Urban Space

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Totaforti
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Biophilic Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The research presented in this article adopts an urban sociology perspective to explore the relationship between spaces designed with biophilic principles and people’s pro-environmental values and behaviors. The research hypothesized that biophilic design and planning promote connectedness with nature and are positively related to pro-environmental and more sustainable values and behaviors. The contemporary city asserts the need for new paradigms and conceptual frameworks for reconfiguring the relationship between the urban environment and the natural environment. In order to understand whether biophilic design, planning, and policies can meet the global challenges regarding the future existence on earth of humans, focus groups were conducted to investigate how people’s relationship with the built-up space and the natural landscape is perceived, and to what extent the inclusion of nature and its patterns at various levels of urban planning meets people’s expectations. The results suggest that biophilic design and planning can be considered a useful paradigm to deal with the challenges that are posed by the city of the future, also in terms of sustainability, by reinterpreting and enhancing the human–nature relation in the urban context.

scholarly journals The cost of building for the future: the reconciliation of sustainable housing issues in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adam Erlichman.
Keyword(s):  
Urban Context ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Although some green housing elements have become more commonplace in residential renovations in Canada, the undertaking of complete green retrofits is relatively uncommon. This paper explores the barriers to green retrofits, such as affordability and bureaucracy, in the urban context of the City of Toronto. The research was informed by one main case study, one supplementary case study, and six interviews with sustainable housing experts. The research has yielded nine recommendations that are directed towards three levels of government and related public and private housing organizations. These recommendations have been made in the hopes of making sustainable housing more ubiquitous in Toronto.

scholarly journals But in the night we are all the same

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sally Hartin-Young
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The People ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City ◽  
Gender Specific

But In the Night We Are All the Same, a critical dystopian novel, explores the creation and perpetuation of power structures, gender identity, and desire. The protagonist, Lemon, is a member of the oppressed class. She lives in a nameless city where she and her peers are kept endlessly alive by "hospital machines," a technology that cures every illness and prolongs life. The ruling group (the Those That) uses mindcontrol technologies known as noodles and stroodles to compel the oppressed class to buy the items they see advertised and to make them perform various violent, sexual and degrading acts for the Those That's amusement. Although the people of the city dislike aspects of their lives, most worship and admire the Those That as much as they fear them. Lemon's partner and love interest Astrix, once a member of the Those That, has had his memory erased and must struggle to find out his identity and to come to terms with who he is once he remembers his past. Lemon and Astrix help each other to resist and to determine their identities. Like other modern dystopian novels, this one focuses on an individual's struggle to resist the society and ends with a hopeful conclusion that shows that a better society can exist in the future. Additionally, this novel uses a female protagonist to illustrate the ways in which a person can be oppressed in both gender-specific and non-gender-specific ways. It also illustrates the power structures that lie beneath social systems, and examines how people's desires can be manipulated into a form of social control.

scholarly journals The cost of building for the future: the reconciliation of sustainable housing issues in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adam Erlichman.
Keyword(s):  
Urban Context ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Although some green housing elements have become more commonplace in residential renovations in Canada, the undertaking of complete green retrofits is relatively uncommon. This paper explores the barriers to green retrofits, such as affordability and bureaucracy, in the urban context of the City of Toronto. The research was informed by one main case study, one supplementary case study, and six interviews with sustainable housing experts. The research has yielded nine recommendations that are directed towards three levels of government and related public and private housing organizations. These recommendations have been made in the hopes of making sustainable housing more ubiquitous in Toronto.

scholarly journals The City as a Laboratory of Shadows: Exposing Secret Histories While Thinking of the Future

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Physical Nature ◽  
Port City ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City ◽  
Radical School

This paper lays out a particular way of ‘seeing’ or looking at cities – one that allows us to see beneath the physical surface of buildings and infrastructure and which thus opens the door to considering the ‘shadows’ of a city as a source of inspiration. In these shadows, it suggests, we can see the city as a ‘laboratory of ideas.’ Specifically, the paper examines the city of Liverpool but its themes are applicable worldwide. It aims to expose Liverpool’s ‘poetic’ qualities and suggests that those best placed to understand it, and guide its development, may not be architects or planners, but rather those that inhabit it most intensely – its people. As a result, the paper becomes a tale about time and movement and the everyday (and night) life of a port city with a history stretching back over centuries. Despite this history, the city has over the past two decades received a whole range of development grants that have and are, right now, changing the physical nature of its urban environment radically. In the context of these physical, externally funded changes to the city’s make-up that mirror conditions found in cities across the world, it is perhaps more important than ever to redirect our thoughts to what lies beneath the surface – to the city’s social, economic and cultural heart. The thinking and experience that underlies this suggestion began in the 1960s when architecture was taught alongside sociology. Imagine a radical School of Art & Design with a sociologist on the staff, in which Richard Hoggart’s The Uses and Misuses of Literacy was on the agenda, and the writings of the Marxist social theorist Raymond Williams were essential reading – Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society , in particular. This author comes out of this tradition, and it is in this tradition that this paper sees the future of cities to be a future without architects or, at least, a future in which architects do not dictate to the people for whom they design. It is an argument applicable across the globe.

scholarly journals RUANG BERMAIN KOTA KAWASAN EPICENTRUM

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1077
Author(s):  
Kevinn Sukhayanto ◽  
Tony Winata
Keyword(s):  
City Community ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Play as a way for breaking the routine, rupturing the space that isolated individuals from the community, to give a feeling of fun, to rejuvenate individuals from their routines, Therefore Play is the best way to give the feeling of fun and joy also to restore the relationship between individuals with their community. City community needed an activities knot that fastens every activity within the city, in the city context this knot referred to as a platform, in the form of an object architecture. In-Play, architecture objects have a role to maintain the perspective of every individual, various ways to interact as well as a distinctive interpretation of architectural elements, so that makes architecture is not a limit or a barrier between program. Creating architecture space that is inclusive to all those. With great planning and design hopefully in the future Urban Playscape at Epicentrum will bring more vibrant life to the district and introduce a real meaning of ‘play’  to the people with a simple yet sustainable design.Abstrak Jakarta sebagai kota metropolitan dengan intensitas kegiatan tinggi, seringkali memberikan tekanan pada masyarakatnya. Kegiatan berintensitas tinggi dan berulang ini yang akhirnya memunculkan permasalahan-permasalahan mental seperti stress dan depresi, juga permasalahan mental kegiatan repetitif ini juga menyebabkan permasalahan sosial, yang mengisolasi setiap individu pada masyarakat kota pada ruang rutinitasnya masing-masing. Permainan menjadi sarana pemecah rutinitas, memecah ruang yang mengisolasi individu dari komunitas, memberikan perasaan menyengankan, sebagai sarana penyegaran individu dari rutinitas mereka, bermain menjadi solusi terbaik untuk memberikan rasa senang serta mengembalikan hubungan antara individu dengan komunitasnya. Masyarakat kota membutuhkan sebuah platform yang dapat memberi “jeda” dari rutinitas mereka. Sebuah platform yang menyediakan ruang bagi masyarakat kota untuk berisitrahat, bermain, dan bersosialisasi bersama dalam rangka penyegaran diri. Sebagai platform penyegaran yang ideal bagi masyarakat kota diusulkan sebuah ruang bermain kota yang berlokasi di kawasan Epicentrum, kawasan Epicentrum ini memiliki ruang-ruang penting berlangsungnya rutinitas kota seperti kantor, universitas, serta perumahan vertikal. Ruang Bermain ini memiliki macam kegiatan dari yang sifatnya aktif (olahraga) hingga pasif (terapi), proses perancangan melalui pertimbangan berbagai pola dan alur kegiatan yang mungkin terjadi di dalamnya sehingga menghasilkan ruang-ruang kegiatan yang multiguna serta dapat digunakan semua orang dari berbagai macam rentang usia dan latar belakang. Dengan perencanaan dan perancangan Ruang Bermain Kota di Kawasan Epicentrum diharapkan dapat menjadi sebuah simpul kegiatan baru bagi kawasan yang inklusif, serta memberikan warna baru pada kehidupan kawasan Epicentrum.

scholarly journals Kebijakan Formulasi Sanksi Pidana Kerja Sosial terhadap Orang Membuang Sampah Dari Kendaraan di Kota Jambi

Wajah Hukum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Reza Iswanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Criminal Sanctions ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

Garbage is a problem in people's lives, especially in the people of Jambi city, so it is necessary to deal with waste related to the waste itself. For this reason, there should be a re-arrangement related to sanctions for people who dispose of waste from vehicles. When viewed from the problem, the research method is normative legal research with a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. The research materials are primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials with data collection techniques using documentary studies and qualitative analysis techniques. The regulation of fines for people throwing garbage from vehicles is regulated in Article 46 paragraph (3) letter c Jambi City Regional Regulation Number 5 of 2020 concerning Waste Management. Then the implication of social work criminal sanctions for people throwing garbage from vehicles, namely providing a deterrent effect as well as giving lessons to perpetrators and the policy of formulating social work criminal sanctions for the future is that social work criminal sanctions should be applied in Jambi City Regional Regulation Number 5 of 2020 concerning Management Garbage because it is an effort to overcome so that in the future there will be no more people in the city of Jambi who throw garbage from their vehicles.

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