scholarly journals Sonic drifting: sound, city and psychogeography

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-152
Author(s):  
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

Studying and perceiving an emerging city by listening to its sounds might be phenomenologically reductive in approach, but it can lead to a framework for understanding the fabric of the urban environment through artistic practice. This paper describes a sound work, Elegy for Bangalore, and examines its artistic processes in order to shed light on the methodologies for listening to an expanding city by engaging with multilayered urban contexts and, subsequently, evoking the psychogeography of the city through sound-based artistic practice. The paper further investigates the project’s approach, development and method to speculate on present urban conditions in countries like India experiencing rapid growth. Devising the unfolding auditory situation of an Indian city in corresponding acts of drifting, listening, recording and composing, this paper examines the processes of perceiving an apparently chaotic and disorganised urban environment with its multisensory complexity.

scholarly journals The ecological framework as part of the land and property complex of an industrial city (on the example of an urban district of Tobolsk)

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
N.V. Litvinenko ◽  
E.P. Evtushkova ◽  
Yu.E. Ogneva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Urban District ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Reconstruction Methods ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City ◽  
Property Complex

In modern urban conditions with intensive industrial production affecting the life and health of people, the authorities of many cities have thought about holding activities aimed at improving the ecological component of the urban environment. One of such activities may be the creation or improvement of the ecological framework of the city. This article discusses the features of the ecological framework in the industrial city of Tobolsk. A number of tasks that are faced by the City Administration were formulated; those must be solved using sound reconstruction methods of urban territorial and functional structures. The role of the ecological framework of the urban area is considered as the possibility of avoiding the environmental problems’ emergence and preserving the ability of the territorial system as an independent land and property complex to develop.

scholarly journals The apparatus theory: ‘Religion in the city’

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Geel ◽  
Jaco Beyers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The apparatus theory is used to challenge the interpretation of religion and also to determine whether religion is a factor to contend with in modern society. Religion could be the element that keeps the city intact or could be the one element that is busy ruining our understanding of reality and the way this interacts with society in the urban environment. Paradigms determine our relationships. In this case, the apparatus theory would be a more precise way of describing not only our relationship towards the city but also the way in which we try to perceive our relationship with religion and the urban conditions we live in. This article gives theoretical background to the interpretation and understanding of the relationship between various entities within the city. The apparatus of the city creates space for religion to function as a binding form. Religion could bind different cultures, diverse backgrounds and create space for growth.

scholarly journals Growth of Tilia cordata Mill. in Urban Forests

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Maria Martynova ◽  
Rida Sultanova ◽  
Georgiy Odintsov ◽  
Regina Sazgutdinova ◽  
Elvira Khanova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Height Growth ◽  
Landscape Assessment ◽  
Tilia Cordata ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Sharp Difference ◽  
Green Areas ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City

Tilia cordata Mill. is considered to be the main tree species resistant to urban conditions and it is widely used in the greening of cities. The aim of the study is to assess the patterns of growth and development of small-leaved linden plantations in the urban environment. The research is based on the method of sample areas where continuous enumeration survey has been carried out. The study of urban greening objects was conducted using the methods of landscape assessment and complete enumeration of trees in alley plantings. It was found that Tilia cordata Mill. grows in all districts and zones of the city of Ufa, occupying 34.4% of green areas. During this research it was found that artificially created alley plantings of Tilia cordata Mill. are more well-kept and have well-developed crowns which create a tree shade sometimes 8-10 meters wide (the average crown projection being 7 m). Since alley plantings have repeatedly been pruned, trees in this area are characterized by a large increase in diameter and strong height growth stagnation. Thus, when studying linden plantings of the same age, a sharp difference in the size and shape of trees was observed.

Belated Urban Planning in Tunis: Problems and Prospects

1974 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Micaud
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Third World ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Functional Interaction ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
The City

Tunis exemplifies the crisis of many Third World capitals. Rapid growth and a lack of planning have made the capital a problem area that can no longer be ignored. Tunis has become a primary city at the expense of a traditional urban network. This study is an analysis of the city on the basis of the most recent documentation. Tunis, like many cities with a similar history, lends itself to definition by subsystems: the historical core, the colonial city, the improvised settlements of recent immigrants, and the residential areas of the colonial and postcolonial elites. All these factors are considered—economic, political, sociological, cultural, and esthetic—that clarify the functional interaction of quarter on quarter and, thus, the interdependence of the parts of an apparently loose urban agglomeration. In a city that may reach two million by the end of the century, confirming its nascent role as the only urban fact in the nation, those analyses that are a necessary prelude to rigorous planning must take account of the city as it is. No attempt was made to treat this city by international criteria, many of which prove to be irrelevant in this and analogous urban contexts.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE URBANIZED ENVIRONMENT ON THE EXAMPLE ON SOME PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICATORS (THUJA OCCIDENTALIS) OF THE CITY OF MINSK

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Roman S. Bondaruk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Biological Rhythms ◽  
Vital Activity ◽  
Water Metabolism ◽  
Thuja Occidentalis ◽  
Physiological Indicators ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In large cities a special temperature condition is formed, which is characterized by the increased temperatures that affects the duration of the growing season of plants. A decrease in the relative humidity of the air in the city is of great ecological importance for plants; this is especially noticeable in the summer. In urban conditions, a leveling of winds and the increased turbulence of air flows, which is associated with the planning features of urban development, lead to the accumulation of harmful atmospheric impurities. Smoke and dust content of the air in urban conditions retain up to 20 % of solar radiation, which has an adverse effect on the vital activity of plants. The urban environment is characterized by the features of the light regime, which disrupts the natural biological rhythms. In cities, the soils are exposed by a strong transformation and go through a complex anthropogenic impact. Compaction and contamination of the soil as well as asphalt coating negatively affect the temperature conditions, air and water exchange of the soils, and, as a result, the state of vegetation. The urban environment is distinguished by the originality of environmental factors, the specificity of technogenic impacts, leading to a significant transformation of the environment. Plants are the main factor in the ecological stabilization of the urban environment due to their vital activity, photosynthesis and the ability to accumulate pollutants. In this regard, it seems relevant to study the resistance of various plant species to urban conditions. Assessment of the ecological plasticity of plants and determination of their adaptive potential allows solving various ecological and practical problems. In the process of studying the influence of the urbanized environment on the example of the city of Minsk on some physiological indicators of thuja occidentalis plants, it was found that a change in cellular metabolism manifests itself in an increase in the permeability of cell membranes, a change in water metabolism of plants, an increase in peroxidase activity by 35% and a decrease in catalase activity by more than 1,6 times.

scholarly journals 5G-Enabled Security Scenarios for Unmanned Aircraft: Experimentation in Urban Environment

Drones ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Erina Ferro ◽  
Claudio Gennaro ◽  
Alessandro Nordio ◽  
Fabio Paonessa ◽  
Claudio Vairo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Telecommunication Industry ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Recognition Of Objects ◽  
The City

The telecommunication industry has seen rapid growth in the last few decades. This trend has been fostered by the diffusion of wireless communication technologies. In the city of Matera, Italy (European capital of culture 2019), two applications of 5G for public security have been tested by using an aerial drone: the recognition of objects and people in a crowded city and the detection of radio-frequency jammers. This article describes the experiments and the results obtained.

scholarly journals Vitality structure of Acer negundo populations in an urban environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 895 (1) ◽  
pp. 012030
Author(s):  
G Yu Morozova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
High Plasticity ◽  
Urbanization Gradient ◽  
Acer Negundo ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City

Abstract The results of a comparative analysis of the vitality structure of Acer negundo populations during ontogenetic development in an urban environment are presented. The vitality structure of A. negundo populations is changing from prosperous to depressive, with the changing living condition of individuals and the quality of populations in urban conditions. The quality index of A negundo populations was in the amplitude from 0.5 to 0.166 along the urbanization gradient. High plasticity and variability of A negundo in combination with the dynamic vitality structure on the background of anthropogenic impacts provide active colonization of this invasive species in the city.

scholarly journals Using the lichen Parmelia sulcata Taylor in the urban environment monitoring

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
N. Istomina ◽  
O. Likhacheva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Parmelia Sulcata ◽  
Species Population ◽  
Urban Conditions ◽  
The City ◽  
Vegetative Propagules ◽  
Different Parts

<span lang="EN-US">The article presents the results of the long-term research of the lichen species population<em> </em>in urban environment. The tolerant species <em>Parmelia sulcata</em> Taylor was chosen as an indicator of urban conditions. The study was conducted in different parts of the city of Pskov (Russia) varying in degree of air pollution. The analyses of species’ urban habitats, substrate diversity, thalli location in relation to the points of the compass, abundance and projective cover are discussed. Attention is also focused on the morphological parameters of the lichen’s thalli (thalli size, presence or absence of apothecia, vegetative propagules, thalli color and presence of necro spots on the lichen individuals etc.) in different environmental conditions. Received data will serve as a base for monitoring <em>Parmelia sulcata</em> population change continuously.</span>

Concerning the Concept of Light-Colour Arrangement of the Urban Environment in the Central Part of Tyumen

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Nikolay I. Shchepetkov ◽  
Svetlana B. Kapeleva ◽  
Denis V. Bugaev ◽  
Gregory S. Matovnikov ◽  
Anna S. Kostareva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Design Solutions ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The City

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of outdoor lighting in the central part of Tyumen (with consideration of conducted field observations) and prospects of its development on the basis of the general plan of illumination of the central part of the city being under design. Main provisions of this general plan as well as methodological principles and assessment criteria of design solutions illustrat-ed by photographs, schemes and visualisations of the illuminated objects are described.

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