The Idea of a Socio-Cultural Regionalism. Historical-Axiological Reminiscences

This article presents selected districts of Valencia and the gradual transformation of their image. The formulation of an appropriate strategy of action and the effect of an example that were initiated by the construction of the City of Arts and Sciences have broken through the stagnation in thinking about space. Revitalisation efforts have been initiated in many of the city’s districts, as well as in its suburban zone. The great explosion of ideas and emotions also carried over to expanding the historical traditions of the city and the holistic, multi-directional approach to the subject matter of renewal, providing the city with economic stimulation. The author’s own analyses presented in the article pertain to Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences), the new development of the Poblats Marítims coastal district, the Ciutat Fallera district and the Orba district of the town of Alfafar, located in Valencia’s metropolitan area. Various proposals for transforming the spatial structure of these districts point to the possibility of conducting an experimental hybrid policy intended to reconcile economic rescaling, entrepreneurship and cultural regionalism in the planned landscape.

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Explosive Valencia – futuristic imagination and the power of tradition in creating the image of urban spaces. Competition and conflict, or coexistence and praise of diversity?

Czasopismo Techniczne ◽

10.37705/techtrans/e2020007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Elżbieta Kaczmarska

Keyword(s):

Spatial Structure ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Arts And Sciences ◽

New Development ◽

Cultural Regionalism ◽

The Subject ◽

The City ◽

The Town ◽

Gradual Transformation

Selected districts of Valencia and the gradual transformation of their image are presented in this article. The formulation of an appropriate strategy of action and the effect of an example that were initiated by the construction of the City of Arts and Sciences have broken through the stagnation in thinking about space. Revitalisation efforts have been initiated in many of the city’s districts, as well as in its suburban zone. The great explosion of ideas and emotions also carried over to enhancing the historical traditions of the city and the holistic, multi-directional approach to the subject matter of renewal, providing the city with economic stimulation. The author’s own analyses presented in the article pertain to: Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias (City of Arts and Sciences), the new development of the Poblats Maritims coastal district, the Ciutat Fallera district and the Orba district of the town of Alfafar, located in Valencia’s metropolitan area. Various proposals for transforming the spatial structure of these districts point to the possibility of conducting an experimental hybrid policy intended to reconcile economic rescaling, entrepreneurship and cultural regionalism in the planned landscape.

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15. Canadian Identity and Cultural Regionalism

Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936-89 ◽

10.3138/9781442677814-019 ◽

2002 ◽

Keyword(s):

Canadian Identity ◽

Cultural Regionalism

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The emergence of different social systems in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: urbanisation versus centralisation

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0066154600008553 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 57 ◽

pp. 131-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Özlem Çevik

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Social Systems ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

High Mountain ◽

Neolithic Period ◽

Transformational Process ◽

Cultural Regionalism ◽

City States ◽

River Valleys

AbstractThe second half of the third millennium BC has generally been accepted as the period in which urbanisation took place in Anatolia. Prominent sites of this period are described by scholars as ‘towns’, ‘town-like settlements’, ‘city-states’ and ‘proto-city-states’. The use of a variety of terms for the same type of site implies that there is no clear consensus on the conceptualisation of this transformational process. It is generally accepted that, from the Neolithic period onwards, Anatolia did not display a great degree of cultural homogeneity, both in terms of material culture and social systems. The topography of Anatolia is divided by deep river valleys and high mountain chains, and this may well have been a crucial factor in stimulating cultural regionalism. This article suggests that Early Bronze Age populations in Anatolia did not just experience the process of urbanisation, but also centralisation. Furthermore, it has been argued that certain areas of Anatolia at this time experienced neither urbanisation nor centralisation, but remained rural. This paper utilises archaeological evidence, such as settlement patterns, settlement layouts and types of material culture that have social implications, to explain these phenomena.

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Opera against the Odds

10.1093/oso/9780197600160.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 177-200

Author(s):

Katharine Ellis

Keyword(s):

Breaking Point ◽

Raw Material ◽

Centrifugal Forces ◽

Test Bed ◽

Local Color ◽

Organizational History ◽

National Opera ◽

Cultural Regionalism ◽

Grand Opera ◽

The Voice

Until 1864, provincial opera operated within a Napoleonic system designed to ensure hierarchically ordered provision for large and smaller towns nationwide and in the colonies. Discussion of how the system worked, how it was funded, how it served indirectly to erase regional difference, and how raw material from Paris (Grand Opera and the voice types it required) became too expensive, helps explain why the system was already at a breaking point by the 1830s, catalyzing heated local and local–national debates. The significance of provincial opera’s travails, its competitors in the entertainment sector from café-concert to radio, and the importance of two regional triumphs—Wagner and open-air opera—become clear in the light of this Paris-generated organizational history. Considerations of decentralization shift at this point to those of the tensions between genre of “national opera” and the centrifugal forces of cultural regionalism (with its attendant identitarian concerns), using the nature and significance of operatic “local color” as a test bed.

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Contrary Regionalisms and Noisy Correspondences: The BBC in Northern Ireland circa 1949

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/mod.2015.0096 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 26-43

Author(s):

Damien Keane

Keyword(s):

Northern Ireland ◽

The Political ◽

Northern Irish ◽

The North ◽

Political Relations ◽

Cultural Regionalism ◽

Dynamic Interplay

This essay examines the limits and possibilities of the mid-century broadcasting field in Northern Ireland, by attending to the dynamic interplay at the BBC's Belfast station of three competing regional formations: the political regionalism of the Northern Irish state; the cultural regionalism of a coterie of Northern Irish writers and intellectuals; and the broadcasting regionalism instituted as part of the BBC's policy of national programming. These contrary regionalisms each had different and, at times, competing criteria for what constituted particular and typical details of life in the North, and broadcasters had to negotiate the inexact correspondences among them with ears tuned to the political relations triangulated by Belfast, Dublin, and London. Beginning with a consideration of how broadcasters in Northern Ireland produced forms of mediated actuality both in and beyond the studio, the essay concludes with Sam Hanna Bell's This is Northern Ireland (1949), a feature that explores the tension of overspill and containment effected less by the partition of Ireland than by the contradictions inherent to the broadcasting field.

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