MEASURING PLACE ATTACHMENT, IDENTITY, AND MEMORY IN URBAN SPACES: CASE OF THE WALLED CITY OF LAHORE, PAKISTAN

Public spaces are essential for any city as they define place character; they are the meeting point for social and cultural actions. Place attachment is moulded by the tie between individuals and places. The research examines the historic streets, which are remainders of their period when the pedestrian flow was predominant and had exceptional qualities that supported social action. The changed settings nowadays might have changed people’s views and the investigation was made to question and check individual’s common memory and their sensitive ties to the historic streets. The four streets from the Walled City of Lahore were selected upon their significance of history and usage. The questionnaires were prepared and the fieldwork analysis was conducted face to face and selected streets were investigated in the terms of, place attachment, identity, and memory. The outcome proved that there is a promising feeling of attachment towards the selected streets and lacking qualities of a street can be improved if look closely at the worthy streets. The study addressed an important issue of marginalization and the results from the Shah-Almi street shows that their act will create the walled city streets to lose their identity as it is formed by its users.

How Cultural Environments Shape Online Sentiment Toward Social Movements: Place Character and Support for Feminism

This study explores the relationship between offline and online contexts in social movement discourse. We test whether local place character—the cultural reputations, values, and ideals associated with a particular location—predict support for feminism expressed on Twitter. Applying topic modeling to a unique corpus describing cities’ cultural reputations, we identify five cultural attributes of U.S. cities that constitute their place character. Then, we use these measures to predict the percentage of tweets that are positive toward feminism in each location. The results indicate that while social media may connect people from geographically distant areas, online discourse is still heavily influenced by the local spaces where users reside. Cities with a place character of Revitalization have more positive Twitter sentiment toward feminism, while areas known as Local Hubs for shopping and leisure are more negative. These findings contribute to social movement scholarship by highlighting one way that offline and online contexts are connected. Far from transcending local geographies, social movement discourse taking place online remains shaped by the cultural environment where it originates.

O lugar como elemento para a interpretação da vida cangaceira do bando dos Marcelinos na Chapada do Araripe-CE

<p>O trabalho que se segue é fruto de proposições acerca da pesquisa de dissertação a respeito da trajetória dos Marcelinos, bando de cangaceiros, na Chapada do Araripe, localizada na região do Cariri cearense. O artigo versa sobre os conceitos de lugar e memória para compreender as vivências cangaceiras do bando a partir de sua atuação, imprimindo aos itinerários percorridos um caráter de lugar, que se configurou por meio das experiências do sujeito cangaceiro no contexto histórico-cultural. Como auxílio, foram utilizadas narrativas de sujeitos partindo dos lugares de atuação do bando, buscando-se entender a representatividade da geografia do cangaço do bando dos Marcelinos presente no Cariri cearense.</p><p>Abstract</p><p>THE PLACE AS AN ELEMENT FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE “CANGACEIRA” LIFE OF THE MARCELINOS’ GANG IN THE CHAPADA DO ARARIPE-CE</p><p>The following work is the result of propositions about the dissertation research regarding to the trajectory of the Marcelinos, gang of cangaceiros, in the Chapada do Araripe, located in the region of Cariri, Ceará. The article deals with the concepts of place and memory to understand the cangaceiras experiences of the gang from their performance, giving the itineraries a place character which was configured through the experiences of the cangaceiro subject in the historical-cultural context. Narratives of subjects were used as aid, departing from the places where the gang operated, seeking to understand the representativeness of the geography of the Marcelinos’gang present in Cariri, Ceará.</p>

Cultivating Place: Urban Development and the Institutionalization of Seattle's P–Patch Community Gardens

How does culture influence the political and economic processes shaping cities? Socially rich but unprofitable land uses, such as community gardens, create a trade–off between maintaining local character and increasing exchange value. To understand how less profitable land uses can prevail in development conflicts, I examined documents and interviewed advocates for Seattle's P–Patch program, which has secured virtual permanence for its publicly owned garden sites. My historical analysis shows that the P–Patch advocates, endowed with significant cultural capital, appealed to notions of Seattle's place character and leveraged the city's legal–policy infrastructure to institutionalize community gardens within Seattle's urban planning framework. The gardens serve a wide constituency, including many low–income and minority residents, but as neighborhood amenities signifying urban sustainability, they also contribute to gentrification. My findings suggest that residents can leverage culture and local character to protect use value, but equity is far from inherent to this process and therefore requires deliberate consideration.

RUANG KEBUGARAN DI PLUIT

Urban where life is full of busyness, forcing people to choose to do everything instantly. Problems that arise include the absence of a social life and lifestyle that does not support the quality of public health. According to a Zipjet Company survey, Jakarta is categorized as the most stressful city and has an impact on deteriorating health and quality of life. Open Architecture is an architectural proposal that discusses The Third place or an intermediate space that is expected to serve the needs of modern urban society. Pluit, North Jakarta one of the areas that has a third place character. The location directly adjacent to the first place and second place in PLuit is one of the reasons for site selection, so presenting a third place project here is expected to be a solution to the regional problem. Projects that provide a platform for the community to be able to come entertain themselves for a moment from the busyness or problems they face. Prioritizing sports programs with the intention of increasing interest in health, with the concept of wellness that is also adjusted to the needs of the surrounding community. So that this project becomes a place of fatigue that also supports the improvement of quality of life. With sports, an activity which in its development can be carried out as an entertaining and enjoyable activity, individuals between individuals can also meet and have the same motivation so that it can also create a community that further strengthens social life among surrounding communities. Abstrak Perkotaan dimana kehidupan di penuh kesibukan, memaksa masyarakat memilih untuk melakukan semua hal dengan instan. Permasalahan yang muncul antara lain adalah tidak adanya kehidupan bersosialisasi dan pola hidup yang kurang mendukung kualitas kesehatan masyarakat. Menurut sebuah survey Perusahaan Zipjet (2017), Jakarta masuk dalam kategori kota paling stres dan berdampak pada kemerosotan kesehatan serta kualitas hidup. Open Architecture adalah sebuah proposal arsitektur yang membahasa mengenai The Third place atau ruang antara yang diharapkan mampu melayani kebutuhan masyarakat kota modern. Pluit, Jakarta Utara salah satu daerah yang memiliki karakter third place. Lokasi yang berbatasan langsung dengan first place dan second place di PLuit ini menjadi salah satu alasan pemilihan tapak, Sehingga menghadirkan proyek third place disini diharapkan menjadi solusi permasalahan kawasan. Proyek yang memberi wadah bagi masyarakat untuk bisa datang menghibur diri sejenak dari kesibukan atau masalah yang di hadapinya. Mengutamakan program olahraga dengan maksud meningkatkan minat terhadap kesehatan, dengan konsep wellness yang di sesuaikan juga dengan kebutuhan masyarakat sekitar. Sehingga proyek ini menjadi sebuah tempat pelepas penat yang sekaligus mendukung peningkatan kualitas hidup. Dengan adanya olahraga, sebuah kegiatan yang dalam perkembanganya dapat dilakukan sebagai kegiatan yang menghibur dan menyenangkan, individu antar individu juga dapat bertemu dan memiliki motivasi yang sama sehingga dapat pula tercipta sebuah komunitas yang semakin mempererat kehidupan sosial antar masyarakat sekitar.

Blurring Lines and Intersecting Realities in Barbara Kopple’s Fictional Work

In addition to Barbara Kopple’s recognized contributions to documentary filmmaking, she directed several fictional works for both television broadcast and theatrical release. Although she often refers to herself as a director of both non-fiction and fiction, since both are important to her, very little critical attention has been paid to her fictional work such as the television episodes she directed for Homicide: Life on the Street, the PBS production Keeping On (1983), based on a screenplay by Horton Foote, and the independent feature Havoc (2005). This chapter examines the ways that she uses documentary techniques associated with cinema verite to establish a sense of place, character, realism, and social engagement within fictional stories. Rather than see her fictional work as an addendum to her acclaimed documentaries, the chapter argues that there is a continuum in which dramatic form and documentary practice inform one another as part of her style and approach to filmmaking.

BUILDING OPENING DESIGN CONTRIBUTING TO TRADITIONAL STREETS’ WALKABILITY CHARACTER IN MELAKA HISTORIC CITY

The street as a public space plays an essential role in representing the character of a city. Therefore, it is vital to create streets that are pedestrian friendly. However, rapid urbanisation has increased reliance on motorised modes of transport, especially in developing countries. This has created urban street environments unfriendly for walking, which diminishes the place character. This study thus aims to determine the ground-level building opening design concepts of the traditional street that promote street interaction via a case study of Jalan Tukang Besi, Jalan Tukang Emas, and Jalan Tokong in Melaka Historic City. The study applies a mixed-method approach with a survey, in-depth interviews of street users, observation, and review of historical documents to identify the character of the traditional street within the design of ground-level building opening. The findings reveal that the building opening design concept should correspond to the building function. The design concept for a commercial use building should be more transparent compared to a residential building, which is more private in character. The findings inform designers and planners on the importance of referring to our traditional street design and to apply the concepts in the design of new or existing streets, thereby preserving the local character.

A Sense of Place within Landscape Cultural Settings

This paper presents an on-going progress of a study on landscape elements in the context of culture. The study has sought to discover people’s perception, experience and responses towards their surroundings based on elements that relate to their culture and norms. Eventually, new developments do not seem to recognize and respect the importance of cultural aspects resulting disoriented buildings. An extensive reviewed of the literature was conducted to rediscover the fundamental notions of place, perception and experience. Therefore, the background review to structure the work concluded places that add value contribute to establish the urban setting and place context. eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. Keywords: place; character, experience; culture.