Review: The City: Patterns of Domination and Conflict, Power and Crisis in the City, Conflict, Politics and the Urban Scene, the Politics of Location: An Introduction

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Hooper ◽  
R Harris
Keyword(s):  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City ◽  
Politics Of Location

Organic, Planned or Both: Alserkal Avenue: An Art District by Entrepreneurial Action in an Organic Evolutionary Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Damien D. Nouvel
Keyword(s):  
Hot Spot ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Evolutionary Processes ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
Evolutionary Context ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
The City

While Dubai's urban scene is dominated by planned and pre-designed developments, grassroots initiatives have always been present and have helped shape the trajectory of the city's evolution. In one case, an industrial area, Al Quoz, has seen the clustering of art businesses over a relatively short period turning it into a cultural destination. Accounting for most of such clustering, Alserkal Avenue became Dubai's art hot-spot that changed the cultural map of the city. This article describes the rise of Alserkal Avenue, not only as the result of the entrepreneurial action of the proprietors but also as a product of a complex melange of economic, cultural, and urban evolutionary processes that intertwine with the rise of the city itself.

scholarly journals Building the city as a stage, the example of Nantes

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Gangloff
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City

At a time when cities try to stand out from one another, the construction of ambiances is brought back to the foreground of urban, social and cultural dynamics in metropolises. With this contribution, we aim at taking the example of Nantes and the Machines of the Isle of Nantes to show the transformations of an industrial territory into a cultural open stage with cultural practices. Indeed, following the shutdown of the shipyards in the 1990s, the city pursued a major cultural policy to make the industrial wastelands attractive. In successive steps, the temporary artistic practices changed urban ones, based on the question of ambiances and their narrative. Favouring the implementation of projects taking place in public spaces, the city became a 360°-urban scene. As opposed to a generic city, Nantes turned urban scenography into a way to single itself out, by accompanying the creation of plots and narratives around its territory. Between artistic experiments and narrative, Nantes thus appears as a stage-city that invites to include user experiences.

scholarly journals Batna City from Organized Planning to Distortion (Case Study Biskra Road Axis - Algeria)

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Khireddine Dounia ◽  
Aichour Boudjemaa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City ◽  
Constructed Environment

The ecological processes known to the various manifestations of visual pollution, which is defined as: every element of the physical environment is affected by changes or interventions made by man to the natural and constructed environment, which leads to its distortion and harms the public health of citizens. In order to understand its reasons for reaching a balanced urban scene and thus affecting human health. Where its features appear in various visual and visual aspects of public space, especially roads, due to the misuse of this space, which stems from wrong behaviors in addition to the lack of the planning system,which leads to emptying the architectural image of the city of its content.   Received: 11 October 2021 / Accepted: 20 November 2021 / Published: 5 January 2022

Urban Nostalgia in the Music of Požoň sentimentál

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rose Lange
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Population ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
Sonic Environment ◽  
The City ◽  
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Chapter 5 discusses nostalgia and avant-garde art in Bratislava with a case study of the musical group Požoň sentimentál. This chapter argues that although nostalgia is a feature of the postcommunist urban scene, Bratislava residents and many other Central Europeans are not nostalgic. Drawing on the ideas of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the chapter proposes that Bratislava avant-gardists make postmodern reparative readings. The chapter details how during the 1990s and early 2000s, Požoň sentimentál dramatized the city as it had existed a century earlier; alongside older writers and performers such as Egon Bondy, Požoň sentimentál explored forgotten motifs of the city’s history. The chapter describes how the group’s humorous enactments provoked controversy around the artistic canon, played with the city’s sonic environment, and prompted discussion over representations of the city’s former ethnic and confessional groups, especially the Jewish population decimated by the Holocaust.

The role of urban legislation in improving the mental images of the city (Erbil city as case study)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siba Taha ◽  
◽  
Alhan Ibrahim ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated System ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
City Center ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City ◽  
New Framework

The laws and legislations are the basic tools that affect the performance, accomplishment, and continuity of the developmental objectives of the organizational plans. The rules and standards regulate the resources of urbanization as a material product, in addition, to achieve a kind of harmony and regularity in the urban land scene of the city and provide more space for the cognitive and visual aspect of the recipient who he has mental images of the urban scene through which can select the shape and features of urban identity. It illustrated by the introduction of Iraqi legislation that suffers from multiple problems, evidenced by the lack of legislation in the control of urban growth, and investigating the requirements of visual sustainability not only limited to functional, economic and social aspects. It is an integrated system works to create a sustainable urban environment. Hence, the importance of the development of Iraqi urban legislation representing by preparing the urban area in a new framework, through the control and treatment of its physical components by linking them to cultural, historical and civilizational elements within an appropriate environmental framework. The paper reviewing the urban laws in Erbil city within the previous periods of time as well as the various urban policies used in the city center, to benefit from the knowledge and evaluation of problems, and identify the legislative directions that can be adopted as suggestions for the development of urban legislation within the criteria, take the factors: social, cultural, functional, environmental and aesthetic, at the level of legislation.

Smart Cities and Sustainability

2022 ◽  
pp. 848-862
Author(s):  
Caterina Mele
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Italian Case ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City

The term smart city is often synonymous with a sustainable city. The word smart implies the use of digital technology that serves to make processes and services more efficient and to connect the different actors on the urban scene. However, this is no guarantee of sustainability. A city can become sustainable if it changes its metabolism and from linear to circular as in nature's ecosystems. For this to happen, it is necessary to overcome the paradigm of quantitative economic growth based on the infinite substitutability between natural and economic capital. If smart city governance stakeholders primarily pursue profit according to the logic of the free market, the city may be smarter and efficient in the use of energy and resources, but it is not sustainable, often not even inclusive. The challenge of sustainability implies a paradigm shift and the use of digital technologies at the service of the collective good. In this context, after a general analysis of the characteristics of smart cities, the chapter focuses on an Italian case study, Turin Smart City.

City Jesus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Barron ◽  
Rhys H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City

This chapter presents a fuller history of Downtown Church and its organizational structure. Intertwined with this is a more in-depth exploration of the congregation’s goals, its marketing plans and target members, and the implicit conception used by the leadership to understand “the city.” The extent to which these are aligned with popular culture and a culture of affluent consumption is presented and analyzed. Along with cultural consumption, the association between the city and ethno-racial and cultural diversity is also explored—specifically, the efforts by church leaders to distinguish themselves as a downtown church and not an inner-city church in their efforts to become an authentic member of the Chicago urban scene.

The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in a Wider World

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT A. GROSS
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Big City ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City

Few American writers have been so rooted in a single place as Henry David Thoreau. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, sixteen miles west of Boston, Thoreau spent nearly all his short life, some forty-four years, in the vicinity of his native town – “the most estimable place in all the world” he deemed it – with only brief sojourns beyond New England. Like many of his contemporaries, he did try out the big city, living close to Manhattan in 1843, an aspiring writer, age twenty-six, with hopes of a literary career. But he quickly recoiled from the urban scene. “I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse,” he wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meaner than I could have imagined. … The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.” Homesick, he was back in Concord within six months. Only once did he stray outside the United States, for a week-long excursion to Montreal and Quebec. To this “Yankee in Canada,” it was a disappointing jaunt. “What I got by going to Canada was a cold.” Thoreau was simply happiest in his hometown, where he “traveled a good deal,” exploring the ponds, woods, and fields, observing and provoking the neighbors, and transforming his chosen ground, in Walden and in his journals, into a sacred site on the American literary landscape. Concord, he declared, is “my Rome, and its people … my Romans.”

The Landscape of Display: The Ashcan School, Spectacle, and the Staging of Everyday Life

Prospects ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 205-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Fairman
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
American City ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Ashcan School ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
The City

With the late-19th-Century rise of the metropolis came new ways of seeing in the American city. Observers attempting to decipher the “mysteries” of an urban landscape radically transformed by industrial and mercantile capitalism responded in a variety of ways: some chose to portray the “underside” of the city, some its expansive beauty, others its vast and disorienting scale. But what these different perspectives share is an assumption that one can comprehend and order the sprawling urban scene through a knowledge and experience predicated on sight; to “see” the city is, quite literally, to understand it.

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