scholarly journals VERNACULAR DESIGN AS VISUAL PRACTICE OF URBAN SPACE ORGANIZATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Y. O. Butsykina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Vernacular Landscape ◽  
Crucial Characteristic

Article discusses specific status of the vernacular design in the visual style of the modern Ukrainian city, where indigenous dwellers coexist with those who came recently from the country. The vernacular regions in Ukrainian cities are analyzed as complex, eclectic and grass-roots. The vernacular design is understood within the complex cultural environment, where different traditions and cultural identities coexist. The terms "vernacular life", "vernacular landscape" are explicated. The vernacular landscape is interpreted in the context of the everyday human activities brought into the public urban spaces. The crucial characteristic (amateur, brutal, trying to be visible and being invisible, economical, tactical, irrational, anachronistic) and the main principles (constraint, thrift, durability, commonness) of the vernacular design are studied within the interpretive context of urban culture collective identity.

In a “Half-dark, Half-light Zone”: Mobility, Precarity, and Moral Ambiguity in Vietnam's Urban Waste Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh T.N. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Network ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Urban Waste ◽  
The Public ◽  
Moral Ambiguity ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
State Agents

AbstractThis article discusses the everyday practices of a mobile network of migrant waste traders originating from northern Vietnam, locating them in an expanding urban waste economy spanning across major urban centres. Based on ethnographic research, I explore how the expansion of the network is foregrounded by the traders’ dealing with the precarious nature of waste trading, which is rooted in the social ambiguity of waste and migrants working with waste in the urban order. Characterised by waste traders as a “half-dark, half-light zone”, the waste economy is unevenly regulated, made up of highly personalised ties, and relatively hidden from the public. It is therefore rife with opportunities for accumulating wealth, but also full of dangers for the waste traders, whose occupation of marginal urban spaces makes them easy targets of both rent-seeking state agents and rogue actors. While demonstrating resilience, their practices suggest tactics of engaging with power that involve a great deal of moral ambiguity, which I argue is central to the increasing precaritisation of labour and the economy in Vietnam today.

scholarly journals La bibliothèque au-delà de la bibliothèque

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Maurizio Bergamaschi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The public library of Casalecchio di Reno, a small town near Bologna (Italy), is an articulated and multifunctional space, a reference point not only for the municipality but also for the surrounding areas. This library is characterized by multiple spaces and functions, some of which are well-defi ned whilst others less, and diff erent groups of population use it. Together, its low level of regulatory framework, its geographical location and its confi guration as a «public space» make this library both a place of culture and a place of hospitality and friendliness in urban space. By analysing the everyday practices and the concrete actions performed by the subjects, the present study focused on the redefinition of space and on the practices of re-signifi cation, as well as on the manifest or latent needs that underlie such practices.

The Street as Locus of Collective Memory

10.1068/d55j ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hebbert
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Shared Memory ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Community Struggles ◽  
Physical Layout

In discussing the role of streets and urban spaces as a locus of collective memory, I draw a distinction between overt commemoration of public memory and the accumulation of group memories in the setting of the everyday street. Community struggles over postwar street clearances stimulated interest in the physical layout of the public realm as a gestalt for shared memory, a theme of earlier work on memory and urbanism by Maurice Halbwachs. I show how Aldo Rossi and colleagues put the concept onto a practical footing by making morphological analysis the basis for urban infill, repair, and extension, most ambitiously and controversially in the ‘critical reconstruction’ of modern Berlin.

scholarly journals The Neighbourhood as Home Away from Home?

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Aurora Massa ◽  
Paolo Boccagni
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Special Attachment ◽  
Sense Of Home

Home, as a special attachment to (and appropriation over) place, can also be cultivated in the public urban space, under certain conditions that we explore through a case study in Rinkeby, Stockholm. This article analyses various forms of homemaking in the public among the Somali-Swedes who live there. It shows how, in the case of vulnerable immigrants, a neighbourhood feels like home insofar as it facilitates a continuity with their past ways of living, sensuous connections with a shared ‘Somaliness’, reproduction of transnational ties, and protection from the sense of being ‘otherised’ that often creeps among them. However, homemaking in the public is ridden with contradictions and dilemmas, including those of self-segregation. The grassroots negotiation of a sense of home along these lines invites a novel approach into the everyday lived experience of diverse neighbourhoods in European majority-minority cities.

scholarly journals The square, the monument and the re-configurative power of art in postmigrant public spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-264
Author(s):  
Anne Ring Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Park ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Artistic Interventions

This chapter explores how art in public spaces shapes, and is shaped by, disagreements and conflicts resulting from the need to tackle »togetherness in difference« (Ien Ang), and how contemporary artistic practices play out in postmigrant public spaces, understood as plural domains of human encounter impacted by former and ongoing migration, and by new forms of nationalism. The chapter focuses on two art projects in Copenhagen, Denmark. The first one is The Red Square, a part of the public park Superkilen in the multicultural Nørrebro district. Designed by the artist group Superflex (in collaboration with architects from Bjarke Ingels Group and Topotek1), Superkilen opened in 2012. The second project is Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle's collaboration on the sculpture I Am Queen Mary. Installed outside an old colonial Warehouse in Copenhagen harbour in 2018, it is the first monument in the country to commemorate Danish colonialism and complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. Borrowing a term from Chantal Mouffe, these projects could be characterized as »agonistic« interventions into public urban space. The chapter argues that they may provide us with some much-needed answers to the important question of the much debated yet crucial role of public art in democratic societies, particularly how works of art may form a possible loophole of escape from dominant discourses by openly contesting, or subtly circumventing, monocultural understandings of national heritage and identity, thereby helping us to imagine national and urban community otherwise, i.e. as postmigrant communities. The chapter examines what the re-configurative power of art might accomplish in postmigrant public spaces by considering the following questions: How can public art open up a social and national imagination pervaded by anxieties about (post)migration to other ways of thinking about diversity and collective identity? Furthermore, is it possible to identify a common pattern - i.e. a particular postmigrant strategy - that underpins and interconnects various types of artistic interventions into public spaces and debates, which, on the surface, present themselves as radically different kinds of projects?

scholarly journals MENAS VIEŠOSIOSE MIESTO ERDVĖSE: KŪRĖJO, UŽSAKOVO IR PUBLIKOS VERTYBIŲ SANDRAUGOS KLAUSIMAS

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elona Lubytė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
New Left ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Art Object ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
Art Objects

Public urban spaces reflect the values of society (authors, customers and the public). During transition from the soviet state-planned economy towards market-driven relations, or, in other words, moving from the politically-determined way towards a democratic variety of creative expression, a system of centralized state contracts is being substituted by a more liberal way of contracting works of art in public spaces. As a consequence, nowadays a public urban space should turn into a platform for representation of various artistic programs that are based on different world outlook values. However, in so far, relations between the authors of various artistic programs, their contracting authorities, and the public are undergoing rather the stage of “cold war” than democratic tolerance (those who are not with us are against us). While examining the reasons of this phenomenon by research methodologies of social sciences (marketing, management), including PEST, SWOT, case analyses, the paper discusses links of the world outlook values of the author, customer and the public with expression of the contemporary sculpture in public urban spaces (starting with monumental representation and moving towards the site-specific art objects and socially engaged art). To this end, the focus is turned to the reasons of contradictions between values in various contemporary artistic programs and partnership patterns (post-soviet, liberal, new left-wing, learning from Las Vegas, political appropriation). Santrauka Viešosios miesto erdvės atspindi vertybines visuomenės (kūrėjo, užsakovo ir publikos) nuostatas. Pereinant iš sovietmečio planinės ekonomikos į rinkos santykius, nuo politiškai reglamentuotos link demokratinės kūrybinės raiškos įvairovės, centralizuotą valstybinių užsakymų sistemą keičia liberalesnė meno kūrinių viešosiose erdvėse užsakymo sistema. Todėl šiandien viešoji miesto erdvė turėtų tapti skirtingų pasaulėžiūrinių vertybinių meninių programų pateikimo platforma. Tačiau kol kas santykiams tarp skirtingų meninių programų kūrėjų, užsakovų ir publikos būdinga ne demokratinė tolerancija, o šaltojo karo (kas ne su mumis, tas prieš mus, t. y. mūsų priešas) pozicija. Ieškant šio reiškinio priežasčių, pasitelkus socialinių mokslų (vadybos, marketingo) tyrimų metodus (PEST, SSGG, stebėjimą ir atvejų analizę), pranešime aptariamos kūrėjo, užsakovo ir publikos pasaulėžiūrinių vertybių sąsajos su šiuolaikinės skulptūros viešosiose miesto erdvėse raiška (nuo monumentalios reprezentacijos link skirtų konkrečiai vietai meno objektų (site-specific art object) ir socialiai angažuotos (socially engaged) kūrybos). Tuo tikslu sutelkiamas dėmesys į skirtingų nūdienos meninių programų ir partnerystės modelių (jie yra tokie: posovietinis, liberalus, naujosios kairės, mokymosi iš Las Vegaso, politinės apropriacijos) vertybių prieštarų priežastis.

The Doors of Dynamic Thermal Perception

2018 ◽  
pp. 182-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Vasilikou
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Thermal Perception ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Seamless Transition ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Hybrid Methodology

The thermal experience of people moving in urban spaces in everyday life is characterised by multiple qualities and perceptions. This seamless transition from one perception to another in itself creates a multisensory network of dynamic thermal boundaries, which could act as assessment mechanism in the way we perceive quality of urban space and urban design. Using a hybrid methodology of situated interactions between thermal perception, microclimate, and urban morphology, this chapter builds a simulated narrative of the everyday, perceptions, and ‘haptics' of moving in urban spaces, taking into account both physical and non-physical spaces, exploring the sensory potential and thermal dimension of urban wandering. This approach contributes to understanding the link between environmental quality in urban spaces and urban microclimate, proposing a series of design tools for multisensory assessment with thermal perception as a starting point for the creation of high-quality city spaces.

scholarly journals Territórios da política em Caracas: usos e representações do espaço público

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Lorenzo González Casas
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Events ◽  
City And Regional Planning ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Democratic System

Os eventos políticos que tiveram lugar em Caracas desde meados do século XX acarretaram a aparição de formas inovadoras de utilização do espaço público e o desenvolvimento de territorialidades urbanas diferenciadas. A incorporação de grandes multidões à urbe, a luta pelos direitos de cidadania, o surgimento dos partidos políticos e outras formas de organização da sociedade e a transformação dos espaços públicos aos fins do debate político são alguns dos fenômenos que têm caracterizado a modernidade caraquenha. Com a crise do sistema democrático, a politização da vida cotidiana e a reformulação dos esquemas de participação política têm acentuado os processos de segregação espacial e provocado o surgimento de novos mapas de percepção da metrópole. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é examinar desde uma perspectiva histórica a evolução no uso e representação do espaço público utilizado para os fins da participação política, suas implicações para o planejamento urbano e a introdução em tempos recentes de novas cartografias urbanas por efeito de processos de mudança política, programas de descentralização governamental e debates patrimoniais.Palavras-chave: planejamento; política; espaço urbano; Caracas. Abstract: The political events that took place in Caracas from the middle of the 20th century have supposed the apparition of novel forms of utilization of the public space and the development of differentiated urban territorialities. The incorporation of large multitudes to the metropolis, the claim of civic rights, the apparition of political parties and other forms of social organization, and the transformation of public spaces for political debate, are some of the phenomena that have characterized the Caracas’ modernity. With the rise and crisis of the democratic system, the politicization of the everyday life as well as the re-formulation of the schemes of political participation have supposed an accentuation of the processes of spatial segregation and the development of new maps of urban perception. The main objective of this work is to examine, from a historic perspective, the evolution in the use and representation of the public space. It examines how space has been used for political participation, its effects on city and regional planning, and the introduction of new urban cartographies in the midst of political change, programs of governmental decentralization, and heritage debates.Keywords: planning; politics; urban space; Caracas. 

scholarly journals Pop Up Cafe as a Creative Generator in Jakarta

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Albertus Prawata
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Capital Intensive

The government has a strong role to make plans and shape the city. The planning establishment by the government is based on capital-intensive strategic actions, so they can shape the urban spaces according to acertain set of values. These values are made clearly in the patterns of resource consumption. However, they often create a hierarchical gap between the people and the communities. In the city, the economy becomes the basis of how the urban spaces are shaped and created. New economic activities often have the impact in degrading the quality of the spaces. As a result, the city will lose its attractions, and people feel alienated and they become aesthetically unpleasant. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the interaction and appreciation of creative users and the citizens of the city towards the urban spaces, and how they will encourage endless collaboration amongst local citizens to create thoughtful and meaningful designs for the public. The discussion and arguments will be based on some creative activities such as pop up café/store. It has the importance to be a creative generator and become the urban fabric that support the city and be a part of the sustainable cityconcept. The engagement and ideas from the creative activities can be a strong foundation of a good urban space, that have the power to re-shape the city spaces to be more livable. Therefore, it can also bring a new identity and vibrant atmosphere to a certain area as well as to the city.

scholarly journals Impact of Different Types of Physical Activity in Green Urban Space on Adult Health and Behaviors: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-275
Author(s):  
Alessia Grigoletto ◽  
Mario Mauro ◽  
Pasqualino Maietta Latessa ◽  
Vincenzo Iannuzzi ◽  
Davide Gori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Time Restrictions ◽  
Walking Activity

This systematic review aimed to investigate the type of physical activity carried out in green urban spaces by the adult population and to value its impact on the population’s health. Additionally, another purpose was to examine if the presence of outdoor gyms in green urban spaces can promote participation in physical activity among adults. Searches of electronic databases, with no time restrictions and up to June 2020, resulted in 10 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. A quantitative assessment is reported as effect size. Many people practiced walking activity as a workout, which showed improvements in health. Walking is the most popular type of training due to its easy accessibility and it not requiring equipment or special skills. Outdoor fitness equipment has been installed in an increasing number of parks and has become very popular worldwide. Further, outdoor fitness equipment provides free access to fitness training and seems to promote physical activity in healthy adults. However, other studies about outdoor fitness equipment efficiency are needed. People living near to equipped areas are more likely to perform outdoor fitness than those who live further away. The most common training programs performed in green urban spaces included exercises with free and easy access, able to promote physical health and perception.

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