scholarly journals Ambiguity and Abjection: Residents’ Reactions to a New Urban Casino

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Paula Piritta Jääskeläinen ◽  
Michael Egerer ◽  
Matilda Hellman
Keyword(s):  
Casino Gambling ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
City Image ◽  
Experience Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity

While the social and economic costs and benefits of new gambling locations have been studied extensively, less is known about how new venues are experienced in view of city residents’ spatial and sociocultural identities. This study examines residents’ opinions and expectations on a new small-scale casino in the City of Tampere, Finland, as a case of new gambling opportunities in an urban setting. Nine focus group interviews were conducted with 43 Tampere residents three years prior to the scheduled casino opening. The study points out ways in which the residents struggled conceptually with the casino project. When speaking about it, participants drew on an imagery of popular culture, drawing a sharp line between casino gambling and the everyday convenience gambling so omnipresent in Finnish society. As residents of a historical industrial urban region, the participants positioned themselves as critical towards the municipality’s aims to brand the venue in a larger experience economy entity. By drawing on the concepts of city image and city identity, the study is able to demonstrate that the cultural geographical intrusion of new physical gambling spaces can appear as harmful to the city character. In the studied case, this is likely to hamper the City of Tampere’s chances to prevail on the very same experience market, of which the new casino is part.

Social impact of a participative small-scale sporting event

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Parra-Camacho ◽  
Rómulo Jacobo González-García ◽  
Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
City Image ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Collaboration ◽  
Sporting Event ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

PurposeTo examine the social impact of a small-scale sporting event and its influence on the willingness to support future events.Design/methodology/approachA self-supplied questionnaire was used with 248 residents-sportspeople that participated in the Valencia Triathlon. Descriptive analysis, exploratory and confirmatory factorials were done through SPSS, FACTOR and EQS.FindingsThree dimensions of positive impacts were identified; sporting participation and city image, social development and human capital and economic development. The impacts in sporting participation and in the improvement to the image of the city contribute to positively explaining the willingness to support the holding of sporting events. Local sportspeople highlight their participative component and the projection of the city image as key factors to endorse holding future sporting events as a strategy for tourism.Research limitations/implicationsThe convenience sampling limits the extrapolation of the results.Practical implicationsMaking the most of the intangible aspects is recommended due to the great potential these events have to generate social capital and increase the networks of social collaboration. Give a more active role to volunteers and local organizers in an organization. Transmit the pride of the community and the sense of belonging to this community to the media and advertising communication.Social implicationsSmall scale sporting events can contribute to improving the quality of life, increasing pride, the sense of belonging of the residents, opportunities for entertainment and encouraging local participation.Originality/valueA contribution to the empirical analysis of the social impact of small-scale sporting events from the perspective of local participants.

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.

The Shape of the Secular City

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Cox
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The City ◽  
Biblical Faith ◽  
Modes Of Existence

This chapter describes the shape of the secular city, illustrating two characteristic components of the social shape of the modern metropolis: anonymity and mobility. Not only are anonymity and mobility central. They are also the two features of the urban social system most frequently singled out for attack by both religious and nonreligious critics. The chapter demonstrates how both anonymity and mobility contribute to the sustenance of human life in the city rather than detracting from it, why they are indispensable modes of existence in the urban setting. It also shows why, from a theological perspective, anonymity and mobility may even produce a certain congruity with biblical faith that is never noticed by the religious rebukers of urbanization.

scholarly journals Refugees Hosting Other Refugees: Endurance and Maintenance of Care in Ouzaii (Lebanon)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Batoul Yassine ◽  
Howayda Al-Harithy ◽  
Camillo Boano
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Spatial Mechanisms ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City

Abstract This article examines the socio-spatial mechanisms that emerge when refugees host other refugees. It argues that there is an underlying social infrastructure of care that impacts the refugees’ choice of destinations and modes of survival. When refugees host other refugees from close networks of relatives and neighbours, they create their own spatial clusters. In the process, the social infrastructure of care offers one mode of security to vulnerable refugees. Care as a concept and an approach is related to ideas of endurance and maintenance. It facilitates multiple dimensions, from space, to affection and to the everyday. It is able to reconfigure a life possible, life-enduring and a life meaningful in an urban setting. We focus on Ouzaii in Beirut, Lebanon. Ouzaii has been a destination for multiple displaced groups over different periods of time. Ouzaii currently hosts an approximate 10,000 Syrian refugees. They chose Ouzaii as their destination after they were helped by existing refugees who offered shelter and access to jobs. The resultant socio-spatial practices, flourishing businesses and leisurely facilities are evidence of successful social networks that form an infrastructure of care. They also play a role in the reconstitution of Ouzaii itself. We conclude with reflections on how urban informality may offer refugees an alternative right to the city while allowing them to escape the gaze of the humanitarian-aid apparatus that can signify their vulnerability by reducing them to only being aid recipients. Instead, they form protective socio-spatial networks that have proved to be powerful in sustaining their livelihoods, guarding them from possible social discrimination or political threats.

scholarly journals Minicities in suburbia – A model for urban sustainability?

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Gunnar Røe ◽  
Inger-Lise Saglie
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Us ◽  
Big City ◽  
Car Travel ◽  
The City

In the 1970s it was argued that suburban centres in the US had developed into “minicities”, offering a wide range of possibilities for consumption, cultural events and a sense of the urban. In this article we explore to which extent this description of minicities may be valid in two cases in the suburban hinterland of Oslo. We further discuss whether the “urbanization” of these suburban centres may contribute to a more sustainable urban development, with respect to everyday travel. We conclude that the growth of these minicities may reduce car travel, either because of their excellent public transport connection to the (big) city centre and other nodes in the increasingly decentralized urban region, or because they may serve as a substitute for the city centre. However, an empirical investigation of the role of minicities must be based on a deeper understanding of the social and cultural processes that guide the everyday life of today’s sub­urbanites.

scholarly journals Conceptual Urban Planning a Prerequisite for Physical Urban Planning

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Varesi ◽  
Mahmoud Mahmoudzade
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Elements ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
The City

<span lang="EN-US">In the contemporary urban order the rational connection between the physique of the city and its non-physical elements is a major concern. Whatever happens in the existence of a city like the social, cultural, economic and political interactions are the inevitable realities through which the qualification and quantification nature of the city are determined. All occurrences in these realities, the constituent elements, are subject to the structural process which can be regulated as one of the social organization (non-physical) in urban settings, namely the social organization of the city, economic organization of the city and the political organization of the city. These organizations have the ranking in importance according to the city scale. The objective here is to identify these organizations and their contributions in conceptual urban planning. The adopted method here is descriptive-analytic. In a comparative comparison between the physical and non-physical needs of human regarding an urban setting reveals that the non-physical aspect has priority with high importance since its effect on the citizens’ satisfaction is specific and direct.</span>

scholarly journals PERUMUSAN KONSEP IDENTITAS KABUPATEN SIDOARJO UNTUK CITY BRANDING MELALUI PENDEKATAN COMPETITIVE IDENTITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
R. Bhima Danniswara ◽  
Agung Eko Budiwaspada ◽  
Naomi Haswanto
Keyword(s):  
Identity Theory ◽  
City Branding ◽  
City Image ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity ◽  
The Ideal

Identity is an important aspect in the formation of a city branding. The identity that is used as a basis in the formation of city branding must be unique compared to other cities. A positive city identity will reflect a positive city image in the minds of the audience. Formulation of city identity can be done by applying competitive identity theory to communicate positive messages to be conveyed to the audience, through the six channels of city identity. The ideal city identity must be formulated based on the facts that occur in the city itself. Result of this research is “connectedness” as representative identity for Sidoarjo. “Connectedness” can be used as a basis for Sidoarjo city branding design.

scholarly journals CCTV SURVEILLANCE AND THE CIVIC CONVERSATION: A STUDY IN PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Lett ◽  
Sean Hier ◽  
Kevin Walby
Keyword(s):  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cctv Surveillance ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The City

The captivating idea of ‘public sociology’ has recently been debated across the social sciences. Although the debate has raised significant questions about the status of sociological knowledge production, insufficient attention has been devoted to thinking about how sociologists concretely enter into a civic conversation through the research process. Addressing this gap in the public sociology literature, we present partial findings from a Canada-wide investigation of how public-area streetscape video surveillance systems are implemented in various communities to think through some of the implications of actually doing public sociology. Data gleaned from focused group interviews in the City of Kelowna, British Columbia are presented to explore the challenges of facilitating a civic conversation about public policy on streetscape video surveillance.

scholarly journals PERUMUSAN KONSEP IDENTITAS KABUPATEN SIDOARJO UNTUK CITY BRANDING MELALUI PENDEKATAN COMPETITIVE IDENTITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
R. Bhima Danniswara ◽  
Agung Eko Budiwaspada ◽  
Naomi Haswanto
Keyword(s):  
Identity Theory ◽  
City Branding ◽  
City Image ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity ◽  
The Ideal

Identity is an important aspect in the formation of a city branding. The identity that is used as a basis in the formation of city branding must be unique compared to other cities. A positive city identity will reflect a positive city image in the minds of the audience. Formulation of city identity can be done by applying competitive identity theory to communicate positive messages to be conveyed to the audience, through the six channels of city identity. The ideal city identity must be formulated based on the facts that occur in the city itself. Result of this research is “connectedness” as representative identity for Sidoarjo. “Connectedness” can be used as a basis for Sidoarjo city branding design.

scholarly journals Industrial Archaeology As Urban Informer: The Wellington Destructor

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Petrocelli
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
City Image ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Industrial Archaeology ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
New Development ◽  
Urban Discourse ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City ◽  
City Identity

The city identity, city image and the recognition of its industrial past are at question in a quickly developing post-industrial urban context. The voices of industrial archaeology, of obsolete infrastructure, of unintended industrial monument in dialogue between fast developing new urban and past locus are all ingrained in the city’s memory. This urban discourse, if allowed to happen, will inform the development of contemporary urban fabric. It is vital that continuity of the built environment structures the contemporary post-industrial city identity This thesis engages with the Industrial artifact of the Wellington Destructor and suggests a conservation strategy for the obsolete and abundant industrial built artifact that will inspire new development and integrate within the masterplan. It will activate city’s past and future dialogue and it will inform the emerging urban development while preserving the continuity of urban heritage with industrial past. Industrial Archaeology becomes agent to changing urbanity.

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