scholarly journals Utilising Urban Gamification for Sustainable Crime Prevention in Public Spaces: A Citizen Participation Model for Designing Against Vandalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mohammed Sayed Mohammed ◽  
Yasuyuki Hirai
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
Depth Interviews

In order to create secured urban spaces, public safety need to be considered as the duty of citizens as well as official authorities. Therefore, this research focuses on the social environment of public spaces and how to encourage citizens to take prompt actions to detect, report and deter any illegal activities. Moreover, graffiti is considered as the most common type of vandalism worldwide that threatens not only our public and private properties, but also our social environment. In order to resolve the problem of graffiti, this research examines current citizen participation model applied by different stakeholders in Fukuoka City in Japan. Current model has been illustrated based on several in-depth interviews conducted with different stakeholders and citizens in Fukuoka City. Then, a new model has been proposed based on urban gamification to encourage more citizens to act as passive observers in public spaces. Proposed model has been evaluated by local communities and city hall to understand its potentials. This research found out that proposed model has the potentials to encourage more citizens to be part of the solution by being more active in public spaces. However, few obstacles regarding budget and administration might stand in the way of achieving such a concept.

scholarly journals The Politics of Gendered Spatializations: A Study of Cityscapes in Manu Joseph’s Novels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Parvathi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
City Image ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

Burton Pike (1981) terms the cityscapes represented in literature as word-cities whose depiction captures the spatial significance evoked by the city-image and simultaneously, articulates the social psychology of its inhabitants (pp. 243). This intertwining of the social and the spatial animates the concept of spatiality, which informs the positionality of urban subjects, (be it the verticality of the city or the horizonality of the landscape) and determines their standpoint (Keith and Pile, 1993). The spatial politics underlying cityscapes, thus, determine the modes of social production of sexed corporeality. In turn, the body as a cultural product modifies and reinscribes the urban landscape according to its changing demographic needs. The dialectic relationship between the city and the bodies embedded in them orient familial, social, and sexual relations and inform the discursive practices underlying the division of urban spaces into public and private domains. The geographical and social positioning of the bodies within the paradigm of the public/private binary regulates the process of individuation of the bodies into subjects. The distinction between the public and the private is deeply rooted in spatial practices that isolate a private sphere of domestic, embodied activity from the putatively disembodied political, public sphere. Historically, women have been treated as private and embodied and the politics of the demarcated spaces are employed to control and limit women’s mobility. This gendered politics underlying the situating practices apropos public and private spaces inform the representations of space in literary texts. Manu Joseph’s novels, Serious Men (2010) and The Illicit Happiness of Other People (2012), are situated in the word-cities of Mumbai and Chennai respectively whose urban spaces are structured by such spatial practices underlying the politics of location. The paper attempts to problematize the nature of gendered spatializations informing the location of characters in Serious Men and The Illicit Happiness of Other People.

scholarly journals Brazilian Children’s Understanding of the Quality of Life in Their Living Environment: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 5101
Author(s):  
Camilla Aparecida Silva de Oliveira ◽  
Andréa Maria Duarte Vargas ◽  
Fernanda de Morais Ferreira ◽  
Efigênia Ferreira e Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Social ◽  
Graphic Elements

(1) Objective: To understand the perception of Brazilian children about the Quality of Life (QoL) considering their living environment. (2) Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted with children aged 6–10 years, from a medium-sized Brazilian municipality, recruited from public and private schools. An adaptation of the “draw, write, and say” method was used to collect data. At first, all children (n = 252) drew a “neighborhood with QoL”. On the same day, the researcher analyzed the graphic elements of the representations and intentionally selected the two best-detailed drawings from each class (n = 49) and the children were invited to narrate them. The narratives were analyzed through content analysis. (3) Results: Two major themes emerged from the content analysis, namely, the physical environment and social environment. The first included the needs to live in a community, such as housing, places of leisure, essential services, and natural elements. The second was relationships with family and friends. (4) Conclusion: The children presented the meaning of an environment with QoL, pointing out essential items to have this ideal environment. The social environment and the physical environment were perceived interdependently; that is, any change in one of these aspects may affect children’s QoL.

Coffeehouses, Urban Spaces, and the Formation of a Public Sphere in Safavid Isfahan

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farshid Emami
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Topography

This essay examines the urban topography, physical structure, and social context of coffeehouses in Safavid Iran (1501–1722), particularly in the capital city of Isfahan. Through a reconstruction of the architecture and urban configuration of coffeehouses, the essay shows how, as an utterly novel institution, the coffeehouse opened up a new sphere of public life, engendered new conceptions of urbanity, and altered the social meaning of urban spaces. The essay will specifically focus on the drinking houses that existed in the Maydan-i Naqsh-i Jahan and Khiyaban-i Chaharbagh, the grand urban spaces of seventeenth-century Isfahan. The remaining physical traces, together with textual and visual evidence, permit us to reconstruct Isfahan’s major coffeehouses. This analysis not only reveals a less-appreciated aspect of urbanity in the age of Shah ʿAbbas (r. 1587–1629) but also elucidates the ways in which the public spaces of Safavid Isfahan contained and shaped novel social practices particular to the early modern age.


scholarly journals Under the bridge: autoarchaeoethnographic study of an interstitial space in supermodern Mallorca

Complutum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-215
Author(s):  
Daniel Albero Santacreu
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Interstitial Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Supermodern cities have certain spaces that escape the regulations exerted by the authorities in our living environment. This is the case of interstitial spaces, abandoned areas that are often marginalized by urban planners. This paper presents the results of an autoarchaeoethnographic study focused on the analysis of a 21st Century interstitial space located on the urban periphery of Palma (Mallorca). The methodology used to record the appropriation strategies and practices developed in this space combined direct ethnographic observation with the analysis of materiality. The study aims to address some of the practices developed in such marginal peripheral urban spaces closely related to the non-places characteristic of our current supermodern world. These practices allow us to understand how these spaces work and are conceptualized and to see how they become active elements of our landscape that are crucial for the social development of certain groups and individuals. Through the study of these practices we verified how certain sectors of society make an appropriation and active use of certain marginal public spaces that must be related to large-scale social, economic and historical phenomena. Finally, taking into consideration some of the theoretical foundations of symmetric archeology, we made an assessment of the way in which the very materiality of these spaces (and other elements with which they are associated with) enhance their use as a social space

scholarly journals Explicit and implied significance of contemporary public spaces. Part 1. Spaces of attractions

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 063-082
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dziubiński
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Beach Bar

This text presents considerations encouraged by thoughts and conclusions gained from research on several beach bars and their comparison with other urban public spaces, run in Wrocław from 2018 to 2019. The similarities and differences between the two types of spaces provoke a question about the meaning of what we call „public spaces” today. The question is also asked, somewhat perversely, about the validity of following best practices based on proxemic principles and focused on attracting and retaining people in urban spaces. The paper examines not so much the rules but the purpose, in other words the type of space we receive/can achieve as a result of applying these principles, since people in the urban space (private or public) are only guests, while their choice is reduced to the top-down offer. The above doubt also results from the conclusion regarding the most important feature determining attractiveness of a beach bar space, which in my opinion, is the freedom of behaviour for users. In it we can see deficiencies of the prevailing narrative about our participation in space and, above all, the possibility of choice, or what should be called the limitations of choice – the lack of possession/self-agency. Such a situation, largely conditioned by politics (and economics), reduces public space to the role of a  “space of attractions” (curiosities), whose action and participation is based on experiencing – on a direct experience. The clash of these two forces – standardization and individualization, erodes the current model of common spaces based on the historical (nineteenth century) one, whose images are transferred only in the form of empty clichés. Thus, the limitation of choices, the need to fall into line and appearances of a community lead to an escape upwards – enclaves for the chosen ones (omnitopia) and downwards – niches for the rebellious ones (heterotopia), while beach bars represent both ways of escape. Against this background, the purposefulness of expert/ top-down creation of public spaces, carried out in isolation from other essential values and laws, appears problematic.

scholarly journals Aktualisasi Transgender di Kabupaten Jombang

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-242
Author(s):  
Wening Purbatin Palupi Soenjoto
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Theory Of Social Action

Transgender phenomena in the community get a variety of reactions. Many cases have sprung up that need to be addressed. In this study focused on the opinions and forms of social action carried out by a student against transgender existence. To answer the researchers used the theory of social action, Max Weber. Snowball is a technique used to determine the informant with the help to the informant. This research was conducted by means of qualitative description and choose a location in the area of Jombang, East Java. Data collected by means of in-depth interviews were then analyzed inductively. Based on the results of the study, presented on the causes being a transgender. Researchers found a uniform answer as to the cause of both informants about being transgender subjectively. It can be seen that transgender is a person were has a biological disorder for example born with two genitals and some were caused by some external factors as the influence of the social environment. In addition there are internal factors that have an instinct that is different from the original gender.

‘Fear of walking home alone’: Urban spaces of fear in youth nightlife

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682094442
Author(s):  
María Ángeles García-Carpintero ◽  
Rocío de Diego-Cordero ◽  
Laura Pavón-Benítez ◽  
Lorena Tarriño-Concejero
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Face ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article provides an analysis of the perception of fear in nightlife spaces, its relationship with sexual violence and the strategies that young people implement to combat these situations in two provinces of Andalusia (Seville and Granada), Spain. To this end, qualitative research was carried out through in-depth interviews and discussion groups with 73 boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 22. The article asserts that there are gender differences in the spaces of fear. Girls are the ones who experience fear the most when they walk alone, and at specific times – a feeling that is made worse in specific public spaces. The study results show that girls’ fear is associated with sexual assault and boys’ fear with robberies or fights. Results show that three main types of strategies are used in the face of these fears: avoidance, confronting risks and empowerment. All these strategies include the use of new communication technologies. This article seeks to provide a theoretical contribution to enhancing a gender perspective in the field of urban geography.

KEBAHAGIAAN PADA WANITA PLARI DEPO (Studi Kualitatif-Deskriptif Di Kabupaten Sikka Nusa Tenggara Timur)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marhisar Simatupang
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
First Year ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract. This study aims to determine the description of the happiness of Plari Depo women. The method used in this study uses a descriptive qualitative approach by presenting the socio-cultural background that occurs in Sikka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The informants in this study were couples who married without following the marriage procedures in accordance in Sikka District etnic, which numbered 30 pairs and had only been married for less than 3 years. The 30 pairs were randomized for in-depth interviews to get the real data. 7 families were selected as primary informants consisting of young and old ages. The results found that the level of happiness of Plari Depo women in the first year was classified as low due to negative responses from the social environment, loss of family support and conflict with partners. In the third year the level of happiness began to improve due to the presence of children and women who do not care about the environment that gives a negative effect.   Keywords: Happiness, Plari Depo Women     Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran kebahagiaan wanita plari depo. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan menyajikan latar sosial-budaya yang terjadi di Kabupaten Sikka Nusa Tenggara Timur. Informan dalam penelitian ini adalah pasangan yang menikah tanpa mengikuti prosedur perkawinan sesuai dengan adat di Kabupaten Sikka yang berjumlah 30 pasang dan baru menikah kurang dari 3 tahun. 30 pasang tersebut diacak untuk dilakukan wawancara secara mendalam untuk mendapatkan data yang sesungguhnya. 7 keluarga terpilih menjadi informan primer yang terdiri dari usia muda dan tua. Hasil penelitian menemukan bahwa tingkat kebahagiaan wanita plari depo pada tahun pertama adalah tergolong rendah disebabkan adanya respon negatif dari lingkungan sosial, hilangnya dukungan keluarga dan terjadinya konflik dengan pasangan. Pada tahun ketiga tingkat kebahagiaan mulai membaik disebabkan kehadiran anak dan wanita sudah tidak perduli terhadap lingkungan yang memberikan efek negatif. Kata Kunci: Kebahagiaan, Wanita Plari Depo

scholarly journals Racism in multicultural neighbourhoods in Chile: Housing precarity and coexistence in a migratory context

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Macarena Bonhomme
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Chile is one of the countries with major destination flows from Latin America. In such a context, new distinctions and racial formations have emerged, establishing different forms of social exclusion and racism that are performed in the everyday interaction and socio-cultural practices that take place in residential neighbourhoods. This research is based on one of the most multicultural boroughs in Santiago, Recoleta, historically located in a territory called ‘La Chimba.’ The aim is to examine the intercultural coexistence in increasingly multicultural neighbourhoods in the context of South-South migration, in order to discuss the emerging social conflict, understanding how housing policies and limited access to decent housing by migrants reproduce everyday racism. Drawing on a larger research project that consisted in a 17-month ethnography, 70 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with migrants and Chileans between 2015 and 2018, this article shows and discusses how public spaces are racialised through social practices and interactions, and how the making of ‘race’ in urban spaces have an impact on the way in which migrants inhabit and navigate urban spaces and negotiate their ‘right to the city’ in the everyday.

Rhythmanalysis: Rethinking the politics of everyday negotiations in ordinary public spaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110200
Author(s):  
Marie Gibert-Flutre
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Time Sharing ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
The Public ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Depth Interviews

The nature of everyday life in metropolitan public spaces is an unprecedented entanglement of activities, emerging from the presence of multiple actors competing for a limited space. Making sense of this complexity is a longstanding challenge in the social sciences: how can such a mesmerizing ‘urban ballet’ be explained in the absence of overall orchestration? I hypothesize thatthis urban rhythm – the temporal alternation of activities in the public spaces of a city – is not neutral, but reveals entrenched power relations which are renegotiated and reaffirmed on a daily basis. Building on the notion of rhythmanalysis, I develop a methodology combining a visual timeline called ‘urban tempo’ with in-depth interviews. I present a case study of a market in pericentral Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), where local actors negotiate access to more or less valuable time slots and spaces throughout the day. I show that such negotiations pertaining to time result in a very practical sense in the production of ordinary public spaces. The findings reveal four types of actors, classified according to their negotiating power. Broadly, the rhythmanalysis presented here reiterates our understanding of power as relational, highlighting the unequal conditions of negotiations in public spaces at a micro-level. By adding a temporal dimension to the politics of the everyday, it also opens up a promising research agenda, inviting comparisons of ‘time-sharing regimes’ across metropolitan contexts.

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