scholarly journals Historia y arqueología de dos ciudades en los siglos VI-VIII d.C. Valentia y Valencia la Vella

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-106
Author(s):  
Albert Vicent Ribera i Lacomba ◽  
Miquel Roselló Mesquida ◽  
Josep Maria Macias i Solé
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
New City ◽  
Power Center ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
Old Roman

En Valentia y su entorno se registró una intensa actividad constructiva en determinados lugares y momentos entre los siglos VI y VIII. La construcción del monumental centro episcopal en la primera mitad del s. VI, iniciativa del obispo Justiniano, cambió el paisaje urbano. En sus edificios (catedral, baptisterio, mausoleo y otros) se aprecia el uso continuado, pero selectivo y diferenciado, según cada uno de los conjuntos, de gran cantidad de elementos romanos. A partir de mediados del s. VI la actividad edilicia en Valentia decayó. Lo único a destacar es que se urbanizó la arena del Circo, un amplio espacio de 70 por 350 metros. Estos hallazgos se conocen peor, por ser excavaciones de poca extensión que no permiten identificar ningún edificio entre los muros aparecidos, pero sí que atestiguan un proyecto constructivo unitario, aunque de menor entidad que en la zona episcopal. Los materiales arqueológicos presentan una importante proporción de importaciones orientales y africanas.A finales del s. VI, a 16 km. de Valentia surgió un nuevo asentamiento fortificado de cierta extensión, 5 hectáreas, València la Vella. Su construcción, ex novo, supuso un gran esfuerzo edilicio. Además del gran recinto amurallado se han localizado dos edificios públicos en la parte baja y otro en la ciudadela. Debió ser el centro del poder de la provincia Carthaginensis.El yacimiento se abandonó a finales del s. VII o inicios del VIII. Al mismo tiempo, se creó otro centro monumental, el importante centro de poder de Pla de Nadal, a unos 2 km. de València la Vella. Su elemento más notorio fue el gran palacio de patio central, pero los diversos edificios que van apareciendo a su alrededor, indican que sería un complejo aún por delimitar. An intense constructive activity was developed in certain places and times in Valentia and around between the 6th and 8th centuries. The construction of the monumental episcopal center in the first half of the 6th century changed the urban landscape. The new buildings (cathedral, baptistery, mausoleum and others) continuously and selectively used a large number of Roman elements. The Circus arena was urbanized from the second half of the 6th century until the middle of the 7th. These findings are small excavations. There are a lot of walls but they do not allow to identify any building. Anyway, they attest the continuity in the reuse of Roman materials. This area had less entity than the Episcopal area. In both cases, the supply of the reused material would be from the remains of the old Roman town. Archaeological materials have a significant proportion of Eastern and African imports.Valencia la Vella, a new and very important fortified settlement of 5 hectares, emerged at the end of the 6th century. The site is 16 km away from Valentia on the Turia river. This new city was made ex novo, so it was necessary a great building effort. In addition to the large walled enclosure two public buildings have been located in the lower part and another in the citadel. This site must have been the center of power in Carthaginensis province.Valencia la Vella was abandoned in the late 7th or early 8th centuries. Contemporarily another important power center was created in Pla de Nadal, about 2 km. from Valencia la Vella. Probably the recently disappeared site would be used as a quarry.

The architecture of the periphery: two views of Madrid's periphery seen through Aldo Rossi's work

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-384
Author(s):  
Alona Martínez Pérez ◽  
Stephen Walker
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Photographic Survey ◽  
New City ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This article brings together two distinct aspects of Aldo Rossi's urban theory and reads them against recent urban peripheral development in Madrid. By exploring the scientific method used in Rossi's work The Architecture of the City against the contemporary conditions of this metropolis, the authors examine whether and to what extent either ‘memory’ or ‘permanence’ are reflected in this new city. Additionally, the analogous city of fragments that Rossi explored in the second phase of his career is also brought into play, and considered in relation to Rossi's scientific method. Developing from Rossi's later approach, we carried out a photographic survey of these areas to understand the contemporary urban landscape. We utilise these two theoretical positions in his work as a form of critique on today's periphery, focusing on two of the Urban Action Plans (PAUs) — Las Tablas and San Chinarro — in the city of Madrid, and bridging the ideas of theory and project that were so important for La Tendenza, the group of architects to which Rossi belonged in the 1960s. These specific study areas allow a broader understanding of the patterns of urban development around Madrid, and the consequences of these projects as experienced by citizens of the city. More broadly, this analysis aims to further our understanding of the European urban peripheral condition, and points to the continuing relevance offered by the theoretical approaches of Rossi's work in today's context, a critical discourse that is felt to be necessary by the authors.

scholarly journals TRADITION OF WOODEN ARCHITECTURE –PARALLELS BETWEEN LITHUANIAN AND FINNISH EXEPTION / MEDINĖS ARCHITEKTŪROS TRADICIJA – LIETUVOS IR SUOMIJOS PATIRTIES PARALELĖS

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnoldas Gabrėnas
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Constructional Material ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Wooden Structures ◽  
New Buildings

Lithuanian architects are interested in Finnish architecture from the beginning of the 20th. century. Wooden architecture as the narrower field of creation is analyzed in this article. There are discussed some peculiarities of historical wooden architecture as base of the tradition in Lithuania and Finland. Specific examples illustrate aesthetical, constructional, functional congruencies and development similarities in historical wooden architecture of the both countries. Author is looking for the succession of the tradition in the various examples of contemporary architecture. In the last decade of the twentieth century it is possible to find more objects of wooden architecture and it is the sign of the tradition regeneration in Lithuania and Finland. These objects have various aesthetical and structural forms, in which architecture, wood is the main or integral constructional material and serves for the main artistic expression. There are often used wooden structures in the new buildings and architects are searching for the new interpretations in tradition of wooden architecture in Finland. Wood in the architecture of dominant buildings is like a forcible information about universality, aesthetics and semantics of the material. Also there are many smaller size wooden buildings like houses or public buildings which are considered to be positive in Lithuania and Finland. There are often used wooden structures in the new buildings, architects are searching for the new interpretations of traditional wooden architecture in Finland. A big attention is paid to a teaching process about this material in universities of Finland. Author notices some separate manifestations of wooden architecture in Finland which can be as a guide for creation of wooden architecture in Lithuania.

scholarly journals IDENTIFYING THE PARAMETERS OF THE MALAY CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tengku Anis Qarihah Raja Abdul Kadir ◽  
Puteri Shireen Jahn Kassim ◽  
Nurul Syala Abdul Latif ◽  
Harlina Md Shariff
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Morphological Analysis ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Classical Architecture ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Colonial Institutions ◽  
New City

As modernization and urbanization grow, there has been a rising interest in townships with historical elements in their urban landscape. The identification and classification of Malay architectural language are crucial to architects seeking to instill history and culture into the new design. The paper traced the characterizations of classicality in Malay architecture through a thorough study of palaces and aristocrat buildings in Malaysia. Morphological analysis of 50 case studies was mapped but only six palaces from different sites and eras were marked as samples in this paper. The focus of the study not only on their origins, typology, history, and stylistic characters but also on the proportions and elemental attributes of the frontal façade. These case studies were selected as sentinels or samples of successive evolutionary phases in classical Malay architecture which had a huge gap and carried different historical evolutions. It was argued that while the earlier palaces reflected all Malay style attributes, the later expression reflected the cultural pressure of globalization via colonialism diffused from colonial institutions. The study extracted the five parameters of the Malay classical architecture, whereby it was found that even under such pressure, certain features were still maintained to root the identity of the Malays and later developed as new city urbanscape.

scholarly journals Of food courts and other demons: shopping malls in Mexico as new centers for urban life

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Loysa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
New City ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Shopping malls are a global phenomenon that has transformed the urban landscape towards a division in homogenized spaces worldwide throughout the last decades. We find malls in almost every bigger city. They offer a space where everybody, no matter where they are from, knows one’s way around. Especially Mexico seems to offer a fertile ground for the success of malls as they offer a presumably needed safe and prestigious space for social encounter. Furthermore, they often provoke the consolidation of whole new city districts. In consequence, what makes this phenomenon interesting for an anthropological study, are the socio-spatial practices that go beyond the intended use of a mall. This article wants to give a brief insight on the impact that malls can have on Mexican cities, using the city of Puebla as an example. Therefore it shall be questioned what makes malls so attractive and how this changes social dynamics in the urban landscape.Keywords: Shopping Malls. Urban Anthropology. Globalization. Public Space. Social Exclusion.

scholarly journals Structural features of the streetscape of Macau across four different spatial scales based on historical maps

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258086
Author(s):  
Youping Teng ◽  
Shuai Yang ◽  
Yue Huang
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Historical Landscape ◽  
New City ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
The City

In the analysis of complex historical layering, studies on how to avoid theoretical analysis and use quantitative methods of display and analysis are scarce. Therefore, we used space syntax to fill this gap in historical layering analysis. We established a spatial digital model by combining the urban historical landscape theory with the space syntax analysis method. Then, we quantitatively analysed the streetscapes in the four historical periods of Macau and the value-related development of the city’s economy, society, and culture. To this end, we used the theory of urban historical landscape to interpret the streetscape of Macau. We reviewed urban development under different spatial scales, which represent different states of historical layering. Changing ideological trends of construction have induced changes in the city, which have led to changes in the city style. The analysis considers the dimensions of space and time, and its results can guide the continued benign growth of the urban landscape and solve protection problems in practice. Meanwhile, the results of this work also indicate that the unique streetscape of Macau bred by the development of the city does not affect the newly constructed roads. The newly reclaimed areas and the streetscape of the new city are on the verge of homogeneity and cannot reflect the unique regional characteristics of Macau. Therefore, we used the historical map of Macau as a carrier, used space syntax to analyse the structure of Macau’s streetscape, and explored the apparent characteristics and value associations carried by the streetscape of Macau under different historical slices. Our results can help retrieve the value of Macau’s historical streetscape and devise a targeted protection strategy that can help pass on the historical streetscape of Macau to posterity.

scholarly journals Sense of place and the city: the case of non-native residents in Lisbon

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-155
Author(s):  
Vicente Tang ◽  
Albert Acedo ◽  
Marco Painho
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Short Term ◽  
New City ◽  
The City ◽  
Over Time

When immigrants move to a new city, they tend to develop distinct relationships with the urban landscape, which in turn becomes the new setting of their routine-based activities that evolve over time. Previous works in environmental psychology have quantitatively examined non-native residents' development of sense of place towards their new environment. In this paper, we introduce the spatial perspective into studying the sense of place experienced by non-natives in an urban context. We study the person-place bonds, relationships, and feelings cultivated by non-native residents living in the city of Lisbon (Portugal) through an online map-based survey. Then, we carried out spatial analysis aimed at distinguishing and visualizing the different facets of sense of place developed by two participant groups: short-term residents and long-term residents. Results showed that while short-term residents reported bonds with places, long-term residents' senses of place were more intense and broader throughout the city. The correlations, associations, and relationships between participant groups and the dimensions of sense of place allowed us to observe features and patterns that were previously described in the literature, although adding the spatial lenses can potentially provide better insights for urban planning, community development, and inclusive policies.

The Planning and Architectural Design Research about Guang'an Temple Based on Ritual Culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Bin Cheng ◽  
Jia Ping Liu
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Building Community ◽  
New City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Confucian Temple ◽  
Complete Concept

The temple as a city of ritual significance type, has a complete concept of architectural culture. In the project's decision-making for Guang'an Temple planning and design, Designer has the problem of how to position, including the function, the temple complex space positioning and construction temple ranks .Paper based on the Confucian temple ritual culture, combined with the new city park functional requirements, according to the site topography and landform, determine the spatial structure of building community; Through comparison of its kind in sichuan, to determine the rules of construction; The planning and design of the temple are integration of the area of urban design, create a new urban landscape, so as to provide reference for the design of the same kind of antique buildings.

scholarly journals ON THE LOCALISATION OF THE CRONICLE CITY UNENIZH

2017 ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Ivan Kedun ◽  
Oleksiy Parkhomenko
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Residential District ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
New City ◽  
Small Period ◽  
Rule Out

The article explores the problem of localization of the chronicle city of Uneniz, which, from one of the existing points of view, relates the origin of the modern city of Nizhyn. The authors analyze the historiography of this issue (MM Karamzin, MA Maksimovich, OM Lazarevsky, MP Vasilenko, MN Petrovsky, etc.) and provide data on the history of the archaeological study of the area traditionally identified with Unizez. It is an archaeological study in the residential district of the modern Nezhin in the tract of the Commune (primary place name - Gorodok) by V. Kovalenko (1981), who first tried to confirm the hypothesis of the presence of an ancient Russian settlement here, the excavation of Y. Sitogo (1989–1990) and I. Kedun and O. Parkhomenko (2011–2013). Based on the analysis of the available archaeological materials, the authors confirm the existence in the area of ​​the Commune of the ancient Russian settlement. However, it had rather primitive fortifications (a moat with a palisade established at the bottom), most likely to have arisen in the XII century. and a rather small period was used. As such simple fortifications are atypical for the ancient settlements of Russia, it is concluded that it was most likely a fortified settlement.This thesis is supported by a comparative analysis of the number of ceramic fragments found in the Commune and in the settlement of Novo Mesto, which is closest to it. On the investigated 12.4 square meters of the New City the number of fragments of ceramic vessels was 618, while 87 square meters of excavations in the Commune, their number, together with the lifting material, amounted to 285 units. On the basis of such a comparison, we can speak of a weak saturation of the cultural layer in the territory of the Commune, which does not allow, according to the authors, to assume the existence of a large ancient Russian settlement here, which could be correlated with the Chronicle of Unise. However, the authors do not rule out that the future expansion of the research area may significantly change the findings.

Risen from Ruins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Stangl
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
East German ◽  
New City ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The City

This book examines city building in East Berlin from the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, until the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961—a period of great interest in reshaping the city to express new political ideals. It examines how key decision-makers were influenced by their worldview and political ideology; beliefs about the relationship between urban form and society including formal theories; political strategizing at municipal, national, and international levels; and assessments concerning the deployment of limited resources. The book emphasizes how extant discourses acted as “pathways of memory,” shaping the way key actors attributed meaning to different elements of the urban landscape. The East German approach to creating a new city and a new society did not neatly mimic the Soviet model, and it did not emerge in a creative flash. Rather, the city planning and building depended upon the selective application of existing discourses based on cultural and political leaders’ personal knowledge, beliefs, and preferences, their assessments of contemporary political and material conditions, and their view regarding long-term development. Novelty would arrive in how cultural and political leaders combined these elements and how some frameworks were adapted over time.

Study on the LED Media Facade in Urban Space Using Analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 712-715 ◽  
pp. 850-853
Author(s):  
Fang Gu ◽  
Yan Gu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Urban Atmosphere ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
New City ◽  
Space Art

The LED media facade as a new art form, to create a new urban landscape of modern cities. The LED media facade already become an important window to set art, advertising, media and city information. Through dynamic screen display screen video content, and generally exist in the appearance of a large new building, but also for artists to create urban space visual arts, a new design concept and art design platform for people to create a new city arts space. With more and more state-of-the-art multimedia equipment and improvement of LED technology, The LED media facade became beautify the urban environment and enhance the urban atmosphere, shaping urban space art tools.

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