scholarly journals Tokyo’s Kyōshō Jūtaku: Nature through the Inside, Outside and the In-Between

Interiority ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-176
Author(s):  
Cathryn Klasto
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Relationships ◽  
Bubble Economy ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Born out of conversations with Japanese architects, as well as intimate spatial encounters with small houses (kyōshō jūtaku) in Tokyo, this paper discusses the way in which nature emerges and functions within fourth generation small housing design. Japan’s relationship with nature has generated many interconnecting architectural layers over centuries, arising out of culture, religion and the practicalities and consequences of the country’s economy, climate and experiences of natural disasters. These layers have fostered a deep and complex connection to land, and as a result, there is still a high value placed on owning one’s own plot, no matter how small. Despite how most city-based plots are often accompanied by high taxes and complicated building regulations; the lure of the land prevails. Due to domestic plot sizes rapidly reducing after the burst of the Bubble Economy in 1992, kyōshō jūtaku became a reality for those wanting to remain within the greater Tokyo area. A consequence of this reduction was that Tokyoites had less domestic contact with nature, as gardens became a luxury that most could not afford. Therefore, architects designing kyōshō jūtaku began to creatively consider new and innovative ways nature could be reclaimed and experienced through design. Through discussing examples of Tokyo’s kyōshō jūtakuin relation to inside, outside and the in-between, this paper traces how current connective and fluid manifestations of nature contribute to the destabilisation of the public-private boundary. It demonstrates how nature plays a fundamental role in building more open relationships with the city, relationships which in turn allow small houses to function as critical micro-spaces within Tokyo’s thriving urban ecology.  

The Monuments to the War Dead in Classical Athens: Form, Contexts, Meanings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
POLLY LOW
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
War Dead ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses one of the best-known instances of classical commemoration: the public funeral and collective burial and commemoration of the Athenian war dead. Its particular aim is to explore the various contexts in which Athenian practice might be understood. How do these monuments fit into the wider picture of Athenian burial and commemoration, in terms of both form and physical location? How do they relate to the political system and ideology of the city that created them? And how might these contexts shape the way in which the monuments were used and understood by contemporary and later viewers?

Signs and Meanings in the Representations of their Home City by the School Pupils of Daugavpils

2012 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Mairita Folkmane ◽  
Ilva Skulte
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Ethnic Schools ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Daugavpils historically was the place where different ethnic groups are living together, interacting on the public spaces. The mixture of cultures is represented in the city landscape - home to every inhabitant, still having differents accents, figures and symbolical meanings. The following paper is based on the semiotic analysis of the pictures made by the pupils of different (ethnic) schools of Daugavpils, in order to understand what and how cildren "see" their city - what are the signs they use to construct the message about their city together and what do they mean - how different is a pictorial message. To do the analysis collection of the children drawings was made for an exhibition in the hall of the city munipality of Daugavpils - a material for our research. The findings show that besides of expected reference to different cultural traditions and some aestetical preferences, no difference exists between the way children represent their city. Diversity of cultural footprints in the landscape of the city and the pride for their city is present in the works of children coming from different ethnic, linguistic and cultural environments.

scholarly journals París visto por Cédric Klapisch. Entre la realidad y el simbolismo

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alba Navarro
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Investigation Area ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

La ciudad en el cine es un ámbito de investigación que propone analizar la imagen mostrada por los cineastas sobre las diferentes urbes a nivel mundial. París representa uno de los lugares estelares para el rodaje de películas. Además, es importante destacar su vinculación con el nacimiento y la maduración del séptimo arte y con el desarrollo de movimientos artísticos ligados a él. En este artículo nos sumergimos en el estudio de la película Paris (2008) de Cédric Klapisch, poniendo nuestra atención en las localizaciones elegidas por el autor para desarrollar sus historias y tratando de indagar en los motivos que le han llevado a elegir unos u otros emplazamientos con los diferentes iconos parisinos. Además, estudiamos el carácter simbólico de los diversos lugares y emblemas y su influencia en el relato fílmico. En definitiva, intentamos desgranar la visión que el propio autor tiene de la metrópolis y la manera en que se la traslada al público.Abstract: The city on cinema is an investigation area which proposes the analysis of the image shown by filmmakers about many cities worldwide. Paris represents one of the star places of film shooting. It is important too to highlight its connection with the origin and the growth of the seventh art and with the development of artistic movements linked to it. In this paper we dive into studying the film Paris (2008) by Cédric Klapisch, aiming our attention into the different places chosen by the author in order to develop its stories and trying to inquire the reason behind the selection of those sites with the parisian icons. Moreover, we study the symbolic character of the different places and emblems and their influence in the filmic narration. In short, we try to approach to the vision that the author has from the metropolis and the way he gives it to the public. Palabras clave: Cine y ciudad; cine y París; Paris de Cédric Klapisch; iconos parisinos. Keywords: Cinema and city; Cinema and Paris; Paris by Cédric Klapisch; Parisian icons.

Women and the public house

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beckingham
Keyword(s):  
Double Standards ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public House ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Victorian attitudes to drinking reflected a series of double standards. This chapter looks at the way in which gendered attitudes to drink shaped the relationship of women to the public house – as workers and as customers. It focuses on the way in which the layout of pubs was manipulated in order to shape behaviour on and off the premises. It also considers the importance of age, and restrictions on child messengers who were sent to pubs to buy beer. By considering the movement of drink in this way, it argues that licensing was taken outside of the public house and into the city: the licensed city of the book’s title.

scholarly journals Caracterización de las estrategias de producción utilizadas por empresas de la ciudad de Montería [Production strategies characterization used by the Monteria city enterprises]

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ángel Chica Urzola ◽  
Alirio Estupiñan Paipa
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Production Strategies ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

ResumenLa Administración de Operaciones es una de las tres funciones principales de cualquier organización y está íntegramente relacionada con las otras funciones de negocios. Todas las organizaciones comercializan, financian y producen, para lo cual resulta clave saber cómo funciona el área de operaciones / producción de las organizaciones. Es por ello que muchos autores han estudiado cómo se organiza la gente para producir, y la forma en que los bienes y servicios son generados. De igual manera, estudiar las decisiones tomadas al administrar la producción se hace indispensable porque es una porción costosa de una organización, lo que la convierte en un proceso crítico, que tiene una fuerte repercusión en la productividad y rentabilidad de las organizaciones. La presente investigación busca evidenciar la situación actual del sector empresarial organizado de la ciudad de Montería en cuanto a las decisiones que toman para administrar sus operaciones, con el fin de determinar las debilidades, fortalezas, necesidades y oportunidades de las empresas del sector y además, servir como un referente teórico que brinde la posibilidad de realizar estudios de mayor profundidad al interior de las empresas que conforman el sector.Palabras ClaveEstrategias de Producción, Operaciones, Caracterización. AbstractThe operational administration is one of the three principal functions of any organization and it is integrally related with the other functions. Every organization commercializes, finance, and produce, to which, it is of great importance to know how the operational area/ the pro-duction of the organizations works. Therefore many authors have studied how people get organized to produce as well as the way in which goods and services are generated. Likewise, when deciding what decision should be taken to master the productions it becomes indispensable because it is a relevant part of the process, which can consequently turn into a critic process that contains high reper-cussions in the productivity and revenue of the organizations. The present investigation looks foreword to making evident the current situation enterprises sector of the city of Monteria as regard to the decisions that the public service takes to administer its operations, with the aim of determine the weaknesses, strengths, needs and opportunities of the enterprise.Keywords Production Strategies, Operations, Characterization.

scholarly journals El debate sobre el latifundio en la Argentina de entreguerras

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-159
Author(s):  
Roy Hora
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Land Tenancy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This article analyses the agrarian debate in Argentina during the interwar period. Beginning in 1912, times of hardship for grain growers made agrarian conflict a recurrent feature in the Pampean cereal belt. As a result, large estates became the target of much criticism, both in the countryside and the city. This article explores changes in the way rural problems were depicted and discussed, focusing on the climate of ideas and the public mood rather than how individual authors analysed the agrarian question. A look at how the right and the left addressed rural issues also suggests that their contribution was of little significance. Finally, the article explores why the reformist consensus achieved during this period failed to transform the land tenancy structure.

scholarly journals Non-Affiliated Believers and Atheists in the Very Secular Uruguay

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Nestor Da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Cultural Framework ◽  
The City ◽  
Religiously Unaffiliated ◽  
The Way

In recent years, literature in the field of religion has presented attempts to understand and characterize people who define themselves as believers but are not affiliated with any religious institution, along with those who define themselves as non-believers, or “nones”. Several quantitative studies covering this phenomenon in Latin America show clear disparities between the countries of the region. This article draws on a qualitative investigation into the way in which individuals relate to the transcendental, or live as non-believers, in the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. The objective of the article is to know and analyze those who define themselves as religiously unaffiliated. In doing so, the analysis takes into account the cultural framework of Uruguay—a country that moved the religion from the public to the private sphere a century ago, establishing a model similar to French secularism and unique within Latin America.

scholarly journals Monument Des Martyrs Dans La Ville d’Abidjan : Entre Logique Urbaine Et Légitimation Politique (2002 À 2010)

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Barnabé Cossi Houédin ◽  
N’Guessan Daniel Djédjé ◽  
Tata Mariam Fofana
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Resource ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This text handles with the fate of the built monuments to the memory of victims built as martyrs in a context of crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. He is mainly interested in the way the political systems legitimize them since their construction. As regards him "Monument of the martyrs", the results show a kind of legitimization of the power in sync with the mobilization of urban logics. Which passes by the gratitude and the valuation to the deaths set up as martyrs and by the strategies of identification, resistance and identity domination. The article tends to highlight a variability of the fields of use of the monument as social resource and the representations which are associated with it, the links built between such representations and the arrangement of the city during period going from 2002 till 2010. As a matter of fact, the text shows that the legitimization of the monument in the urban dynamics favors rationalities the coherence of which strengthens the public action regarding governance, regarding production of a shape of citizenship, a type of collective identity and spatial marking

Partycypacja obywatelska jako utopijna wizja samorządzenia społeczności lokalnych… – na przykładzie miasta Krakowa

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (247) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Jaśkowiec
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Participatory Planning ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Money ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Civic participation is a term used to describe the participation of the citizens in makingand realizing decisions by the public government and administration. Civic participationcan take many forms, which in theory include different degrees of citizens’ engagementin decision making: informing, consulting, co-deciding. The catalogue of participationtechniques includes, based on the example of Krakow, many ways of civic participation, e.g.:local referendum, civic budget and participatory planning and designing. The examples ofparticipatory activities in the city of Krakow listed in this article exemplify serious problemswith the effective realization of this form of governing. It is especially important in the contextof the emerging postulates of replacing the traditional model of finances management ofa territorial self government unit with a mechanism based on the civic participation anddirect democracy. The idea in which the municipality budget is constructed by the way ofdemocratic discussion, in which every citizen can decide on what part of the public money isspent, belongs to the sphere of the impossible to realize utopia.Key words: civic participation, civic budget, Krakow self-government

scholarly journals Sebuah Refleksi Dan Introspeksi Budaya Dalam Journey International Openair Expressions 2008 Hiki

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dwi Marianto
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Technically speaking, the journey and experience during the IOE 2008 participation in Japan can be seen as a subject of aesthetic-cultural reflection. In this case, there is no boundary line between the art works that were exhibited in the event with the phenomena of the city which was very greatly attracted the artist. The way how to see and to perceive the phenomena of the nature and culture presented, such as the city center atmosphere, the open space, the spontaneous behaveor of the public, and the city sreets,directly and indirectly, were influenced by the content of the references.

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