scholarly journals Housing as an Object of Consumption: Analysis of Functional, Symbolic and Investment Value

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrius Segalovičius
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Growth Trends ◽  
Object A ◽  
Investment Value ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Value Changes ◽  
The City ◽  
Living Area

Analysis of housing as an object of consumption rests upon the concept of the value of consumer object. A set of certain features of an object constitute its value and housing is explored by analysing its functional, investment and symbolic value. The results of the empirical study allows us to reasonably state that housing as an object of consumption is recognizable in the population surveyed. The assessment of functional, investment and symbolic value aspects varies with respect to the basic characteristics of housing – location in the city, living area and type of housing. The analysis of housing as an object of consumption revealed growth trends in the relevance of investment value, changes in attitudes towards housing loans and the relevance of owner status in the housing tenure.

Human Resource Practices in the Non-Star Category Hotels in Kolkata

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Sandilyan ◽  
Sutheeshana Babu S.
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Human Resource Practices ◽  
Human Resource Managers ◽  
Large Pool ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
The City

In this empirical study, the authors made an attempt to examine the challenges faced by the human resource managers and employees as well as the benefits extended to the employees in the non-star hotel segment in the city of Kolkata It was also endeavored to ascertain the standards maintained by these hotels specifically the hygiene, safety, work environment and to mandatory legal and regulatory compliances. The results show that while these hotels were profitable and enjoyed a healthy market, the human resource practices were unhealthy and discriminatory in nature. Employees were neither provided with minimum wages and benefits nor have the establishments shown any interest in adhering to the mandatory compliances. This could largely be attributed to predominance of largely unskilled or inadequately qualified employees and a large pool of outsourced manpower.

scholarly journals Neoliberal State Intervention and the Power of Community in Urban Regeneration: An Empirical Study of Three Village Redevelopment Projects in Guangzhou, China

2021 ◽  
pp. 0739456X2199466
Author(s):  
Siu Wai Wong ◽  
Xingguang Chen ◽  
Bo-sin Tang ◽  
Jinlong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
The City

A key theme in urban governance research is how neoliberalism reshapes the state–society relationship. Our study on Guangzhou, where urban regeneration through massive redevelopment of “villages-in-the-city” uncovered interactions between the state, market, and community in local governance, contributes to this debate. Based on intensive field research to analyze three projects, we find that what really controls neoliberal growth in China is not simply the authoritarian tradition of the socialist state but also the power of the indigenous village communities. Our findings suggest that state intervention for community building is vital for rebalancing power relations between the state, market, and community.

The semiotics of the deictic field: Reckoning language and experience in East Los Angeles

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Dana Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
East Los Angeles ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Single Speaker ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
Formative Experiences ◽  
The City

AbstractThis analysis examines the ways in which a single speaker, Ana, born in mid-century East Los Angeles, organizes and reflects upon her experiences of the city through language. Ana’s story is one that sheds light on the experiences of many Mexican Americans who came of age at a critical time in a transitioning L.A., and the slow move of people who had been up until mid-century relegated largely in and around racially and socioeconomically segregated parts of L.A. These formative experiences are demonstrated to have informed the ways that speakers parse the social and geographical landscape along several dimensions, and this analysis interrogates the symbolic value of a special category of everyday language, deixis, to reveal the intersection between language and social experience in the cityscape of L.A. In this way, it is analytically possible to not only approach the habituation and reproduction of specific deictic fields as indexical of the ways that speakers parse the city, but also to demonstrate the ways in which key moments in the history of the city have shaped the emergence and meaning of those fields.

Elsewheres

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Julie Ren
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
The City ◽  
Comparative Urbanism

By examining 798 in Beijing and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Chapter 1 establishes the context for a comparative study of art spaces. Rather than empirical anomalies of their respective settings, these examples evince the capacity of art spaces to transform cities and the contested perceptions of their role in cities. The dual aims of the book are to understand how the place-making activities of art spaces add to an understanding about aspiration in the city as well as to develop a means to operationalize comparative urbanism. Beyond a critique of parochialism in urban theory, this empirical study of art spaces offers some guidance about how to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for research. An overview of the chapters is provided.

The Sustainable Development of Ecological High-Rise Building Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 465-469
Author(s):  
Bai Tao Mao
Keyword(s):  
Building Design ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Rise Building ◽  
The Social ◽  
Special Symbol ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

A city high-rise building of the environmental balance, and its prominent position in the image and the place has a special symbol. However, high-rise buildings developed to reduce the symbolic value that it has attributed to the relevant system of architectural forms. As more and more dense urban high-rise buildings stand, we should be carefully evaluated: its ecological evvironment, will be the effect? Because of its height and volume, a high-rise building than in the top or bottom is likely in terms of physical environment on the social environment and the impact is much greater. Disturb the existing high-rise buildings in varying degrees between the various functions of the city, increasing the city high-rise buildings in the moment, how to properly control the rapid of high-rise buildings in order to maintain a sustainable ecosystem, is a question worth considering.

scholarly journals Brześć – the city of an eastern borderlands, architecture of the 2nd Republic of Poland

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Krystyna Paprzyca
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Object A ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The City

The borderland, often called „ land lost” are becoming the places we often return to in our memories, the need of rediscovering them arises. The past might be described in a different way: through pictures of different life styles, architecture, people, tradition. It is natural they create longing and sorrow caused often by the lack of acceptance of modern life styles. Because borderland towns are located abroad, their architecture, tradition, culture, literature are our cultural heritage and we shall not forget it. The phenomenon of the lack of bond of people and places observed today, makes “places with no soul”. Steering and controlling people, people’s needs, emotions, make a person an object. A man loses oneself, loses one’s soul. Many places are being ruled by a moment, similarity, rush and loneliness There are no history, past in them, there is only the present moment and they are characterized by the similarity. We cannot interpret them and we have no bonds with them.

scholarly journals LIFE-PURPOSE ORIENTATIONS AS A PREDICTOR OF STUDENTS ‘ RESILIENCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
T.A. Guryanova ◽  
◽  
E.A. Skorlupina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Life Purpose ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the problem of resilience in adolescence. The study examines life-purpose orientations as predictors of resilience. The empirical study was conducted with students of secondary specialized educational institutions of the city of Barnaul. There is evidence that young men with a high level of resilience have more meaningful living goals, clearer plans for life and higher satisfaction with the results. The majority of students are dominated by family values. And such indicators as the effectiveness of life, the locus of control - I and communicative meanings are predictors of the resilience of students.

scholarly journals Attractiveness of megalopolis public spaces as evaluated by its residents (through the example of shopping and entertainments centers and park zones of Yekaterinburg)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga V. Notman ◽  
Anna P. Bagirova
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Wealth Status ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The City

This paper presents an analysis of the perceptions of public spaces by megalopolis’ residents. The research aim was to reveal the degree and criteria of urban public spaces’ attractiveness (shopping and entertainment centers and park zones), as well as to identify demographic and socio-economic determinants of residents’ preferences. Based on the results of a survey of Yekaterinburg residents (N=3570), the authors draw up the attractiveness rating of the objects on the city map where the positions are justified in terms of basic characteristics of focal public spaces (accessibility, multifunctionality, "service" equipment, etc.) and propose a typology of public spaces’ consumers according to a variety of objects needed for multiple public activities. The authors reveal explicit disparities in the practices of public spaces’ use.  Choices of shopping and entertainment centers depend on respondent’s age and wealth status. Choices of recreation facilities depend on respondent’s occupation, education level, wealth status, whether respondents have pre-school or school-age children. The more active users of one type of urban public spaces tend to use the other one more frequently. The practical significance of the obtained results is connected with the possibility to use them for the improvement of certain objects and for municipal strategic planning and development in general. Acknowledgment. The study was part of the research project “Formation of the concept of prospective development of community areas of the municipal settlement “the city of Yekaterinburg” until 2035 (municipal contract № 15/2016-2 dated November 17th, 2016). The work was supported by the regulation no. 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation, contract no. 02.A03.21.0006.

scholarly journals Potential directions of the 'town-to-town' migration in Vojvodina

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Savic
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Internal Migrations ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Population of Vojvodina is showing the characteristics of late demographic transition. The main characteristics of that phase are low mortality rate, slow decrease of fertility rate, increased number of older people etc. This phase is connected to fourth development phase of migrations with significant migrations from one city to another and inside the city area. The purpose of this paper is to define the basic characteristics of potential internal migrations in the region of Vojvodina between cities, most of all towards Novi Sad as economic, political and cultural center. The sample of 2.000 respondents was formed and survey was conducted in the 15 largest cities in the region. The data were analyzed with methods of descriptive and multivariate statistical analysis (rank correlation and MDS analysis). Basic conclusions are that theory of transitional migration is confirmed in Vojvodina, the size of the city is not the only factor for potential migration movements and Novi Sad is by far the most desired destination for significant portion of population in the region, especially of population aged between 20 and 40 years because around 40% of that cohort wish to move to Novi Sad. That will cause significant urban, economic and social problems, not only in the city of Novi Sad but also in the cities where immigrants are coming from. .

scholarly journals Rethinking Multicultural Planning: An Empirical Study of Ethnic Retailing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Metropolitan Regions ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Legislative Structure ◽  
The City

The recent waves of immigration have dramatically impacted urban landscapes and economies of Canada’s largest metropolitan regions. One notable phenomenon is the rise of ethnic retail strips and centers as physical markers of increasing multiculturalism. The dynamics of ethnic retailing pose various opportunities and challenges for municipalities; yet, our knowledge of its complexities is limited and current literature on multicultural planning offers little useful guidance in planning practice. This study examines three retail strips in the inner city of Toronto, namely East Chinatown, the Gerrard India Bazaar, and Corso Italia, and one suburban Asian theme mall, the Pacific Mall in the City of Markham in an attempt to identify the role of urban planning in responding to the rise of ethnic retail neighbourhoods. The findings of the four cases indicate that urban planners have been unable to intervene actively in ethnic retail and direct its development and growth. The planning legislative structure and the lack of policy support hinder planners’ capacity to be proactive. Planners cannot work alone to build multicultural cities. This paper concludes on the importance of municipal intervention interdepartmental collaboration as useful implications for multicultural planning practice. Résumé: Les récentes vagues d'immigration ont considérablement affecté les paysages urbains et les économies des plus grandes régions métropolitaines du Canada. Un phénomène remarquable est la montée de bandes ethniques de détail et des centres en tant que marqueurs physiques de multiculturalisme croissant. La dynamique du commerce de détail ethnique posent diverses opportunités et des défis pour les municipalités, et pourtant, notre connaissance de sa complexité est limitée et la littérature actuelle sur la planification multiculturelle offre peu d'indications utiles pour planifier la pratique. Cette étude porte sur trois bandes de détail dans le centre-ville de Toronto, à savoir East Chinatown, le Gerrard India Bazaar et Corso Italia, et un centre commercial de banlieue thème asiatique, Pacific Mall dans la ville de Markham dans une tentative d'identifier le rôle des villes la planification pour répondre à la hausse des quartiers ethniques de vente au détail. Les résultats de ces quatre cas indiquent que les urbanistes ont pu intervenir activement dans ethnique détail et orienter son développement et sa croissance. La structure de la programmation législative et le manque de soutien politique entravent la capacité des planificateurs d'être proactif. Les planificateurs peuvent pas travailler seul à construire des villes multiculturelles. Cet article conclut sur l'importance de l'intervention municipale et la collaboration interministérielle comme conséquences utiles pour la pratique de planification multiculturelle.

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