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Journal articles on the topic "Daily urban spaces"
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Cernicova-Buca, Mariana, Vasile Gherheș, and Ciprian Obrad. "Residents’ Satisfaction with Green Spaces and Daily Life in Small Urban Settings: Romanian Perspectives." Land 12, no. 3 (March 15, 2023): 689. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12030689.
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The availability and accessibility of green spaces in urban settings are important factors in determining the sustainability of cities and the quality of urban life. However, the literature indicates a need for evidence-based data correlating green areas and perceived well-being in the city. This study focuses on a vignette study of the satisfaction with green spaces in a Romanian small urban setting that meets the standards of green space availability and accessibility proposed by the World Health Organization. The data obtained by applying a questionnaire to a sample of 600 residents highlight the appreciation of the local people for the characteristics, functions, and availability of urban green spaces. The study establishes statistically significant correlations between the general satisfaction with life and the distance in meters to the nearest park, between the general satisfaction with life and the distance in time to the nearest park, and between the distance in meters and the time spent in parks and green spaces. The results can be used to establish a participatory agenda for local authorities interested in gaining insight from residents for the future actions needed to develop green spaces and to provide them with the opportunity to reflect upon the correlations between outdoor activities in such spaces and people’s well-being in urban settings.
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Mareggi, Marco. "The over-familiar landscape that escapes to the absent-minded gaze." Journal of Public Space 2, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/jps.v2i1.54.
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<p>Public spaces constitute a relevant part of the landscape of the ordinary city. According to the European Landscape Convention, studies and designs of public spaces, in particular of open spaces, should appropriately focus on the different users who inhabit it and recognise themselves in these spaces. In this sense, close to the traditional studies on morphological characteristics, urban materials and equipment, it is useful to explore the performances of public spaces in innovative ways. This article proposes to come back to emphasise and highlight daily life, still today forgotten as a relevant component of a good design and planning of public spaces. It underlines the importance of the gaze on the everyday and ordinary for urbanism, through some introductory experiences of designed urban spaces and some concepts, such as ‘practices’ and ‘way of uses’. Moreover, it offers a review of different lines of studies on public life and other research interested in daily urban practices. Among these, the article focuses on rhythm and chronographic analysis, which describe practices of use, urban populations and their rhythms of presence within places. In conclusion are presented some opportunities that an adoption of the proposed approaches to everyday could bring to a better management, maintenance and planning of public spaces.<strong></strong></p>
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Liu, Bo, Zong Gang Liu, and Jianhui Yang. "Continuity of Urban History Context – Urban Open Space Design Strategy." Advanced Materials Research 374-377 (October 2011): 248–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.374-377.248.
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As an increasing numbers of people move into the cities, the need of places for community in such cities is required. Urban open spaces have already take a huge part in people`s daily life. It is expected that a high quality of places can be created for people. The urban open spaces design played an important role in modern urban design and planning. Squares and plazas developed a lot in city centres. But there is a problem that it is hard to build new open spaces in the historic city centres as the spaces is very limited. The genesis of this research came from two distinct sources. First, there are a number of factors which influence urban design. The surroundings, memories and the experiences of the city for people can be defined as contexts. ‘Contexts’ constrain and inform all areas of urban design action. Second, there was a need for people to have a special pleasure from the sight of public spaces. With a focus on the urban design, the main factors presented here are the open spaces. The role and meaning of the elements that play in urban design and the ways in which they are designed, developed and detailed are the most important elements for landscape architects to research and consider. In the end of this paper, the author developed a series of general design process and some design ideas as basis of design model of urban open space for the urban history context extending.
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Bideci, Mujde. "Exploring the Sacredness of Urban Spaces through Material Traces." Fieldwork in Religion 14, no. 1 (November 8, 2019): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.39859.
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From ancient times, some spaces have been understood to be more sacred than others. Even though many of these spaces have no specific religious meaning, there have been new religious movements which can easily be seen in daily life. In order to understand the current dynamics of religion, a focus on the material presence of religion (religious buildings, sites and artefacts in urban spaces) is a fruitful starting point. Thus, the objective of this study is to explore the potential meanings of the sacred in urban spaces, and the effects of these meanings or characterizations of the sacred have on places. Moreover, the focus is on analysing new manifestations of the religious and the sacred in urban space, as well as the ways in which material traces mediate diverse practices, discourses and effects in the various domains of the sacred. By investigating the alignments of these two fields, the city and the sacred, this study sheds new light on the metropolis of London, which manifests both religious diversity and multiple modernities via traces of the sacred in urban spaces. The results show that sacred traces in urban places have a prominent image that many residents and visitors fail to appreciate in their daily lives. The study concludes with a discussion of findings and implications.
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Donoso, Veronica Garcia, and Eugenio Fernandes Queiroga. "Social Landscape, Peripheral Inclusion and Un-Practice: Concepts for Understanding Social Housing Daily Life in Open Spaces." Sustainability 15, no. 17 (August 22, 2023): 12672. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151712672.
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This article presents new concepts for discussing urban social space, named “social landscape”, “peripheral inclusion” and “un-practice”. These concepts are based on the analysis of social practices in vulnerable neighborhoods with a high number of social housing blocks in South America. The aim of the article is to show that the complexity of social practices in vulnerable urban areas is not only the result of the urban environment, which combines social inequality, marginalization and insecurity, but also and above all of the management and maintenance of this inequality. The research method combines bibliographical research with the method of non-participant systematic observation, the latter analyzing everyday life in social housing areas of São Paulo-SP (Brazil) and Santiago (Chile). The discussion and results will lead the reader to understand not only the concepts, but also the idea that open spaces have an important role in social practices, especially public spaces. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of linking public spaces and housing in public policies for the creation of social housing, as opposed to housing policies that focus on the production of architecture disconnected from the urban and social reality.
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Patel, Tulsi N. "THE RELATION OF INTERIOR SPACES WITH URBAN CONTEXT." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 6, no. 2 (February 28, 2018): 162–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v6.i2.2018.1559.
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Space, it is the area provided for particular purpose. Space can be two dimensional, three dimensional or multi. The perception of a space is known by its functionality and quality. Space does not define the use or behavior. Space can be identified as interior, exterior, common, transition; public, personal etc. 90 percent of our daily lives are spent inside. That is our experience of the city – moving from one interior to another. So our remit is to improve the quality of life for citizen, focusing on the quality of interior spaces.
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هشام عمران الفرطاس, هيثم احمد البيرة, and جبريل جبريل. "Inter-Ethnic Interactions in Urban Public Space: The Malaysian Experience." Journal of Pure & Applied Sciences 21, no. 4 (October 3, 2022): 240–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.51984/jopas.v21i4.2170.
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Social interaction entails communal experiences between people during their daily activities. People from different ethnic backgrounds in Malaysia namely the Malays, Chinese and Indians spend their leisure time in an urban square, which offers opportunities for social interaction among three ethnic groups. However, how are public spaces utilised for leisure by people from different multi-ethnic backgrounds? Does the variety of attributes in public spaces attract people from a different background? The current aim of this research sets to establish properties and attributes of urban square characteristics such as the quality of daily activities that contribute to inter-ethnic social interactions among users in urban civic spaces. The study focused on constructing indices on how daily activity attributes, and how to investigate the diversity amongst the three ethnic groups on how the urban public space is perceived. A total of 140 questionnaires were administered to measure how the public square users perceived public space use in Batu Pahat town, Malaysia Peninsular. The analysis was facilitated through analytic tool of the Rasch Model. The study revealed that the Malays use urban squares more than Indians and Chinese. Consequently, this affects the level of the Malays social interaction among others. While on the other hand, for square activities reflecting Chinese and Indian culture makes the urban square less attractive to the Chinese and Indians. It suggests that the environmental attribute quality of the square should be improved to attract social interaction amongst the three ethnic groups.
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Alves, Fernando, Sara Cruz, Anabela Ribeiro, Ana Bastos Silva, João Martins, and Inês Cunha. "Walkability Index for Elderly Health: A Proposal." Sustainability 12, no. 18 (September 8, 2020): 7360. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187360.
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Nowadays, the elderly tend to make more trips: Health benefits resulting from their daily walking routines are an important topic in the context of urban renewal processes. Many health organizations and researchers have demonstrated the influence of the urban environment on walkability levels. This article aims to design a multifactor Walkability Index for Elderly Health (WIEH), capable of associating both the adequacy level of public spaces to elderly walkability, and physical exercise benefits while walking. The methodological approach comprised two main parts: Firstly, a literature review of main reports, legislation, and scientific articles was conducted at the intersection of ‘gerontology and physical exercise’ with ‘urban design and mobility’, leading to the selection of four aging-related studies as main contributors to the design of the WIEH; and, secondly, the development of the WIEH was undertaken, based on two premises and designed according to four steps. The first premise defined three systematic areas (urban tissue, urban scene, and safety), variables, and criteria to classify the pedestrian network; and the second premise focused on slopes and stairs in public spaces. The WIEH is divided in four steps: (1) Analyzing public spaces and characterizing their quality for walking, (2) considering the existence of slopes and stairs, (3) calculating different routes for the elderly in their daily routines, or when going to points of interest, and (4) selecting the “heart-friendly route” for elderly people. Adequate walking paths for the elderly can be identified through this innovative approach, with the aim of achieving direct health benefits during their daily routines. Ultimately, the WIEH is capable of supporting decision makers and designers in creating inclusive and age-friendly spaces.
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Mela, Athina, and George Varelidis. "Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use and attitudes towards urban public spaces." Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering 31, no. 2 (October 26, 2022): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.31.2.31545.
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The benefits of interaction with urban public space, particularly green spaces are numerous for citizens, especially those who live in metropolitan areas. The outbreak of the pandemic, as well as the restrictive measures put in place to prevent the virus's spread, caused enormous changes in people's daily lives and activities. Using a structured questionnaire, the current study intends to capture the shift in attitudes and perceptions of residents of the Attica region during the 2nd wave of restriction measures (7/11/20 – 3/7/21). During the pandemic, visitation in urban public spaces increased, according to the data. The great majority of participants preferred to visit mostly urban public areas within walking distance of their residence (up to 15 minutes), especially in the afternoon and relatively frequently, with 45 percent claiming to visit them "daily" or "3-4 times a week," and only 3% claiming “never”. The analysis showed an increase in the visits during the pandemic from participants who reported better-perceived quality of the spaces, better accessibility, safety during the day, and a feeling of relaxation in the free public spaces of their area. Additionally, those reported living in areas with many available spaces were more likely to increase the frequency of visits during the pandemic.
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Zhou, Lei, Ming Liu, Zhenlong Zheng, and Wei Wang. "Quantification of Spatial Association between Commercial and Residential Spaces in Beijing Using Urban Big Data." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 4 (April 11, 2022): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11040249.
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Commercial and residential spaces are two core types of geographical objects in urban areas. However, these two types of spaces are not independent of each other. Spatial associations exist between them, and a thorough understanding of this spatial association is of great significance for improving the efficiency of urban spatial allocation and realizing scientific spatial planning and governance. Thus, in this paper, the spatial association between commercial and residential spaces in Beijing is quantified with GIS spatial analysis of the average nearest neighbor distance, kernel density, spatial correlation, and honeycomb grid analysis. Point-of-interest (POI) big data of the commercial and residential spaces is used in the quantification since this big data represents a comprehensive sampling of these two spaces. The results show that the spatial distributions of commercial and residential spaces are highly correlated, maintaining a relatively close consumption spatial association. However, the degrees of association between different commercial formats and residential spaces vary, presenting the spatial association characteristics of “integration of daily consumption and separation of nondaily consumption”. The commercial formats of catering services, recreation and leisure services, specialty stores, and agricultural markets are strongly associated with the residential spaces. However, the development of frequently used commercial formats of daily consumption such as living services, convenience stores, and supermarkets appears to lag behind the development of residential spaces. In addition, large-scale comprehensive and specialized commercial formats such as shopping malls, home appliances and electronics stores, and home building materials markets are lagging behind the residential spaces over a wide range. This paper is expected to provide development suggestions for the transformation of urban commercial and residential spaces and the construction of “people-oriented” smart cities.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Daily urban spaces"
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Altay, Deniz. "Urban Spaces Re-defined In Daily Practices: The Case Of." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605418/index.pdf.
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This study, preconceives space as a social phenomenon, and emphasizes the fact that the urban space cannot be separated from its inhabitants. Accordingly, it suggests that the investigation of both the city and its inhabitants is crucial with respect to everyday life and practice. Hence, the study questions how inhabitants create their spaces following their needs and demands, and how the urban space is re-defined and re-produced through appropriation. Moreover, the study aims to understand how the inhabitants express themselves and how they resist through the spaces they produce in their daily practices.
With this aim, the thesis investigates a spatial activity performed by young people in Ankara, the case of &lsquoMinibar&rsquo
, for understanding the process explained as &lsquo
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of urban space. The research reveals that these spaces become possible through their spatial characteristics. These spaces transgress the established space, yet they are sustained due to their ephemerality, impermanency and flexibility. Furthermore these spaces are discovered to be a medium of expression for the inhabitants. In conclusion, this study asserts an approach towards the city and explains that through looking to the &lsquo
lived spaces&rsquo
rather than rhetorics, calculations and presumptions, we can obtain a clear and actual picture about the city and the inhabitants.
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Mortazavi, Seyedeh Atefeh. "Women Daily Living Room : Feminist Urban Planning toward Gender-Equality in Public Spaces; Case Study of Sätra, Stockholm, Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Samhällsplanering och miljö, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-241107.
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ABSTRACT In 2014, Sweden became the world's first self-defined feminist nation and a place where gender equality has a strong ideal within the country's national identity. However, the issue of gender equity remains unaddressed in some area across Sweden. Sätra district in Stockholm located between Bredäng and Skärholmen is one of those examples that women usually suffer from inequality. By considering social equality as a fundamental principle of good urbanism, the need for feminist urbanism feels necessary in this context today. Through the lens of feminist urban planning, mainly focused on women in Sätra and tried to reflect women's voices in every urbanization policies. The study is going to examine the role of gender in public space, its socio-spatial implications and create feminist participatory strategies to empower women. In this research, Mothers considered the effective groups of women as their educational role in their family and their central role in the community awareness raising is undeniable. In this way, strengthening mothers role in urban settings can have a powerful multiplier effect on urban development. So that's what has been considered in the whole process of decision-making. This would make an inclusive and women-friendly public space for girls and women where is safe and secure and responsive to the needs of all kinds of people. So that's what has been considered in the whole process of decision-making. This would make an inclusive and women-friendly public space for girls and women where is safe and secure and responsive to the needs of all kinds of people. So that's what has been considered in the whole process of decision-making. This would make an inclusive and women-friendly public space for girls and women where is safe and secure and responsive to the needs of all kinds of people.
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Rojas, Mario Benito IV. "The Impacts of Telecommuting on The Time-Space Distribution of Daily Activities." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2997.
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As major cities have aged, they have also met or exceeded their transportation infrastructure’s capacity. This has led to many negative impacts such as increased greenhouse gas emissions, delay, travel time, congestion, as well as decreased energy independence, standard of living for the cities’ inhabitants and the world as a whole. As a result, these cities will undoubtedly suffer and will struggle to meet the needs of their citizens. It is becoming more evident, and relevant, that the solution to today’s and tomorrow’s transportation problems will be overcome through the use of policy as well as innovative strategies, one of which may be telecommuting. Due to this, this thesis investigates the impacts of telecommuting on the time-space distribution of daily activities as a potential transportation demand strategy. Herein, the thesis explores topics related to telecommuting, time-space constrains, time-space prisms, and the impact of telecommuting on time-space prisms. In order to do so, the author examines the applicability of stochastic frontier analyses to estimate the time-space prism’s vertices for various telecommuting groups.
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Elnesr, Maya. "La conception des espaces urbains résidentiels et récréatifs à travers le jeu des enfants." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Grenoble Alpes, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024GRALH001.
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Cette thèse déploie son analyse à partir de la présence de l’enfant dans les configurations variées de l’espace public urbain. Elle privilégie une lecture des ambiances pour appréhender la manière dont le corps des enfants est mobilisé par son environnement. L’étude s’attache ainsi à adopter une analyse dynamique de la façon dont l'enfant s'insère, s'émeut et s'adapte au sein de l’espace public. Le concept d’affordance établi par le psychologue James J. Gibson occupe une place centrale dans cette étude (Gibson, 1979). Il permet de déployer une lecture des propriétés du bâti en ce qu’elles stimulent, offrent ou « appellent » certaines activités. Parmi celles-ci, le jeu, librement choisi, contribue au développement global de l’enfant.Notre approche se confronte à une littérature scientifique dense et variée qui a examiné l’impact du jeu en extérieur sur le comportement et le développement de l’enfant. Au tournant des années 1970, il semble que la libre présence des enfants dans l’espace public urbain tende à se restreindre et à poser la question de l’émergence de systèmes de surveillance corrélée à l’idée d’une vulnérabilité de l’enfant dans la ville. Non sans liens, les infrastructures et environnements de jeu, qui apparaissent d’abords insuffisants, se développent pour configurer dans l’espace urbain des îlots séparés formant des aires de jeu créées par les adultes. Cette thèse envisage de repartir du corps en mouvement de l’enfant pour envisager son champ de perception et, plus loin, son rapport à la ville (Breviglieri, 2014). L’approche écologique et sensible aux ambiances permettra de poser un regard expérimental et évaluatif sur les espaces urbains présents dans le quotidien des enfants.La thèse interroge une variété de designs d’espaces (résidentiels ou proprement ludiques) de la ville dans son lien aux comportements de jeu des enfants. Pour cela, elle propose d’investiguer quatre environnements urbains hétérogènes en Égypte et en France. L’étude des dimensions récréatives et résidentielles prend alors appui sur une « approche de recherche par enquête comparative causale » et des « études de cas intrinsèque » (Groat & Wang, 2013).Cette enquête de terrain est menée en trois phases, avec des enfants « d’âge moyen» choisis au hasard, entre cinq et douze ans. Elle comprend des observations comportementales structurées centrées sur le comportement de l’enfant. Ces observationssont complétées par une étude des activités cognitives perceptuelles engagée dans l’effectuation de dessins et de photographies, et par la réalisation d’entretiens informels associés occasionnellement à des parcours commentés. Les données recueillies ont été analysées dans le cadre de la « théorie du triptyque de l'espace » et de la « théorie des affordances ». Ce cadre a pour objet de clarifier les écarts de perception et de représentation entre celles qui appartiennent au concepteur de l’environnement urbain et celles qui appartiennent à l’enfant dans son expérience physique et culturelle de l’espace. Il est possible d’extraire de cette étude des thèmes capables de renouveler certaines orientations de la fabrique de la ville. Ces thèmes convergent pour repenser à la fois la place de l’enfant dans la ville, et la manière dont celle-ci peut générer des environnements intergénérationnels favorisant le bien-être des citadins.« Une ville où l’enfant serait le prince et le père de l’homme » (Aillaud, 1972)Play is a freely chosen process that is important for the overall children development. A relatively large amount of research efforts have investigated the impact of play, particularly outdoor play in natural environments, on children's play behavior and the consequent impact on their development. However, in the recent decades, modern societies have noticed an intense declination of play opportunities in outdoor spaces especially in the local everyday community urban spaces, as living streets, neighborhoods, and recreational public spaces, due to the imposed structured activities, adult supervision, and poor playing environments such as enclosed playgrounds.To date, relatively few studies have investigated children's lived experiences in their daily urban spaces, where they can play freely. Although they have their own way of perceiving, experiencing, and living the daily urban spaces, different from adults that results in creating a gap. Thus, in order to fill in the resulted gap, this study aims to investigate the potential impact of the urban transformation of daily urban spaces on children presence and their play behavioral patterns. The second objective is to explore the associations between specific spatial physical characteristics as well as functional qualities, or “spatial potentialities” that form different configurations, and children play opportunities (Breviglieri, 2014(.The study relies on a “causal comparative survey research approach” and an “intrinsic case study” (Groat & Wang, 2013). It involves the investigation of four selected urban spaces, with different spatial configuration, (recreational and residential urban functional categories), in Paris, France and Cairo, Egypt. Fieldwork is conducted through three phases, with randomly selected “middle-aged” children, between 5 to 12 years. It included structured child-centered behavioral observations complemented with behavioral qualitative observations, perceptual cognitive skill activities as drawings as well as photography, and informal interviews associated occasionally with child- led walks.Collected data is analyzed within the shadow of both “Trialectic of Space Theory” (Lefebvre, 1992) and “Affordances theories”, (Gibson, 1979, Norman 1988, Bohme, 2017), to fill in the problematic gap. This created gap is situated between the designed spaces by adult so as designers, children perceptions depending on their capabilities, cultural, social background, as well as their previous experience, and the resulted lived space with its specific ambiance adopting children’s needs and behaviors.The study strongly suggests that spatial porosity of daily urban spaces, influence children's presence and the occurrence of different play behavior types. In addition, different spatial typologies seemed to promote different play patterns that may enhance different children’s spatial perceptions and preferences. Moreover, the study identified and outlined a set of specific spatial potentialities aspects, forming different spatial configurations, which appeared to be associated to children's sensory experiences, play opportunities, and the resulted lived ambient envelop.This study tended to enable urban planners and landscape architects to extract the essential characteristics that help creating child-friendly spaces. In order to encompass children with diversity of cultures and origins from all over the world. Hereafter, it will open a new perspective in the design, by proposing a design approach and guidelines to articulate children's spaces in the city; it is not a question of thinking of these spaces, as closed islands, but rather as child-friendly environments within intergenerational cities.“A city where the child would be the prince and the father of Man” (Aillaud, 1972)
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Riaño, Yvonne. "Social networks in space : understanding the daily behaviour of urban residents in Barrio Mena del Hierro, Quito, Ecuador." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7531.
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The subject of this thesis is the daily patterns of social and spatial behaviour in the barrios of Quito, Ecuador. Latin American barrios are low-income settlements which emerge illegally in the periphery of the cities, without basic infrastructure, and which are built progressively through the self-help efforts of owner-residents. Barrios are in quantitative and qualitative terms the most important phenomenon of Latin American urbanization. Between 25-50% of the residents of the cities live in such settlements. The social organization of barrio residents is rich, complex and distinct from other urban groups such as high-income sectors, which traditionally aspire to a North American or European way of life. Despite the fact that barrio populations have specific patterns of daily, social and spatial behaviour, urban planning by municipal authorities in Latin America has been tailored towards the lifestyle of high-income groups. The city of Quito, a capita of one million inhabitants, is no exception to this pattern. It is evident from the literature and from my own professional experience--as an educator in the barrios and later as a municipal planner--that the prevalent planning orientation towards high-income groups is partly due to a lack of common language between social scientists and planners. It is, however, also due to a lack of knowledge by planners and geographers of how the urban culture of barrio groups works. Much research has been carried out to date in the barrios but it suffers from inadequate understanding of the spatial dimensions of daily social behaviour. The social geography of barrios is indeed poorly known. I argue here that the spatial analysis of daily social interaction is a crucial component in explaining the obvious differences in spatial behaviour between low-income and high-income groups and in communicating this understanding in a practical and tangible form to municipal planners. Thus, the purpose of this thesis is to help fill this gap in knowledge through a geographical examination of daily patterns of social and spatial behaviour. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Ravalet, Emmanuel. "Ségrégation urbaine et mobilité quotidienne : une perspective internationale : études de cas à Niamey, Puebla, Lyon et Montréal." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO22010/document.
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Les métropoles contemporaines sont marquées par des regroupements et des séparations des citadins, connus sous le terme de ségrégation. Ce phénomène est généralement appréhendé sur la base des localisations résidentielles. L’importance de la mobilité quotidienne dans les reconfigurations spatiales métropolitaines et dans les modes de vie individuels nous incite alors à l’étude et la caractérisation de la relation entretenue par les citadins avec les espaces urbains. Cela permet de passer de la ségrégation résidentielle (immobile) vers la ségrégation dans les espaces de la vie quotidienne (mobile). Parallèlement, c’est l’individu, et non le ménage, qui est au cœur des dynamiques ségrégatives telles que nous les abordons. Quatre métropoles contemporaines ont été analysées avec une visée comparative. Ce choix a imposé la mise au point d’une méthodologie originale, commune aux quatre cas et basée sur des données d’enquêtes-ménages transports. Les résultats obtenus permettent de souligner l’interprétation économique des comportements individuels de proximité (immobilité et vie locale) et des accès aux pôles d’attraction (parmi lesquels le centre). La proximité, avant d’être un objectif des politiques de villes durables, est une réalité pour les populations défavorisées. Ces comportements de replis dépendent plus de caractéristiques individuelles que d’effets liés au quartier de résidence. Ces tendances fortes, communes aux quatre cas, sont complétées par diverses spécificités. Des dynamiques spatiales et sociales différentes se révèlent dans les villes du Nord et du Sud, et les effets des formes urbaines héritées de l’histoire s’affirment (en particulier à Niamey). Notre analyse permet finalement d’enrichir la perspective usuelle de la ségrégation urbaine dans plusieurs contextes urbains contrastésBoth divisions and concentrations of population characterize contemporary metropolitan areas. Known as segregation processes, these dynamics are usually studied through the analysis of residential locations. Our thesis, however, proposes another lens to uncover urban change. It focuses on daily mobility that shape urban spaces and individual ways of life. This leads us to organize the reflexion from residential segregations to daily urban spaces segregation (from immobile to mobile segregation). Furthermore, we put the individual, and not the household, at the heart of segregative dynamics. Four contemporary metropolitan areas are considered, in a comparative framework. These examples were analyzed through the same specific methodology, based on transport households surveys data. The study highlights the economic understanding of proximity individual behaviors (immobility and local life) and of attraction areas accesses. Proximity, once a measure for sustainable urban policies, indeed becomes a reality for poor citizens. Spatial isolation nowadays relates to individual characteristics rather than residential locations. Some specificities are added further to these strong tendencies. Different social and spatial dynamics clearly appear in Southern and Northern cities and effects of urban forms inherited from History are asserted (especially in Niamey). Our work finally complete the usual perspective of urban segregation in several contrasted urban contexts
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Vermeulen, Stephanie. "an architecture of daily life: the continuing evolution of Toronto's residential fabric." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2889.
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This thesis envisions a new way of living in the city of Toronto. It is a vision that evolves not from the ideologies on which Toronto was founded, set out over 100 years ago when all multi-family dwellings were called tenements and tenements were considered, among other things, immoral. Instead, it is a vision founded on a city that has seen immense change over the last century, and faces an even greater rate of change over the next. Our city prides itself on its cultural and social diversity, yet, architecturally, we still struggle to adapt within a fabric of single-family homes. The Dutch provide an edifying example of an architecture of daily life, embodied by their attitude toward issues of privacy, toward traffic, toward work and play. Based on a case study of housing in the Netherlands, a country that has successfully and creatively adapted to the demands of housing in a climate of rapid immigration and a diversifying population, this thesis proposes new, high density urban housing typologies for the city of Toronto. This new vision for the city serves not only to add the necessary density to our existing neighbourhoods, but to foster a strong community life and to provoke new ideas about urban living.
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Pehlivanoglu, Yonca. "Understanding Perceptions Regarding The Aesthetics Of Urban Public Space: Tunali Hilmi Street, Ankara." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613344/index.pdf.
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Urban aesthetics has been the concern of many academic researches, and there
have been now more than hundred definitions of urban aesthetics. It is crucial to
understand that aesthetics is more than just about the form and physical qualities
of a place. Likewise, urban aesthetics is not only the concerns of academics, but
also the concern of urbanites of cities and daily users of urban space. It is
therefore important to understand what daily users of cities understand from the
concept of urban aesthetics and what kind of aesthetically pleasant spaces they
desire in cities, especially when public spaces are concerned. This thesis aims to
find out the aesthetic qualities of urban space and understanding of urbanites on
urban aesthetics, focusing on Tunali Hilmi Street, a widely used sub-centre of
Ankara. It seeks to discover the aesthetic characteristics of the street and the
perception of urbanites. The examination is carried out on the architecture, street
furniture, floorscape, landmarks, planting and open spaces of Tunali Hilmi Street
regarding seven variables which are harmony, rhythm, balance, order, complexity,
scale and upkeep. The thesis argues that it is possible to achieve better-working
public spaces if we are also able to identify what the daily users of public spaces
envisage as an aesthetically pleasant environment.
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Castro, Matheus Fernandes de. "Os motoboys de São Paulo e a produção de táticas e estratégias na realização das práticas cotidianas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47134/tde-09022011-111013/.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa consiste em descrever as táticas e estratégias, desenvolvidas nas práticas cotidianas das pessoas que se encontram trabalhando como motoboys, na cidade de São Paulo (Brasil), para encontrarem alternativas e continuarem nessa atividade, diante de todas as adversidades da profissão e das contingências do espaço urbano. Levamos em consideração as ações produzidas por dois grupos de motoboys: o Canal Motoboy, que busca se organizar coletivamente, a partir de um projeto artístico, e produzir uma nova realidade para si e para a sua categoria profissional; e os motoboys de um grupo farmacêutico, que ganham a vida fazendo entregas de remédios pela grande São Paulo. O referencial teórico fundamenta-se em autores como Certeau, Sato, Santos e Oliva. Em termos metodológicos, valho-me da abordagem etnográfica, o que me levou a estabelecer uma convivência junto aos grupos de motoboys: com o Canal Motoboy, mantive uma convivência prolongada de mais de seis meses, no ano de 2007, frequentando, semanalmente, suas reuniões; com os motoqueiros do grupo farmacêutico, estabeleci uma convivência diária de duas semanas, em uma segunda etapa do campo, que se realizou no mês de julho de 2010. Os resultados apontam para a produção de táticas e estratégias nas práticas cotidianas que visam a estabelecer uma equilibração de forças entre os motoqueiros e o espaço da cidade: os motoboys ressignificam o espaço que se forma entre os carros, nas ruas, as determinações legais para o exercício de suas atividades de trabalho, os preconceitos sociais sobre a categoria, sua importância para o fluxo de coisas, na cidade, e tentam cumprir suas atribuições, buscando evitar os riscos dos acidentes de trânsito. Pudemos constatar, também, as articulações dos motoboys diante dos interesses de diversos setores sociais e econômicos que procuraram unir-se a eles, como: ONGs, associações da categoria, sindicatos, universidades, centros de pesquisas e empresas do setor motociclístico. Como trabalhadores onipresentes em uma das maiores metrópoles do mundo, os motoboys são alvos de interesses diversos e alguns procuram encontrar vantagens nessa situação, para se estruturarem enquanto uma rede social. Observamos ainda que os motoqueiros descrevem suas atividades cotidianas como uma luta pela sobrevivência, diante das contingências do espaço da cidadeThe objective of this study is to describe the tactics and strategies found in the daily practices of people who work as couriers in São Paulo (Brazil), to find alternatives while continuing to deal with adersities of the profession and the continguencies of urban space. We consider the actions of two distinct groups of couriers: (1) Canal Motoboy, which collectively organizes an artistic project to create a new reality for themselves and their profession; and (2) a pharmaceutical group, which makes a living by delivering medicine in Metropolitan São Paulo. The theoretical reference is based on authors, such as Certeau, Sato, Santos, and Oliva. In terms of methods, we used an ethnographic approach, which led us to establish a joint-living situation with the courier groups: with Canal Motoboy, a prolonged stay of more than six months in 2007, attending their meetings on a weekly basis; and with the bikers from the pharmaceurical group, an established daily-living situation for two weeks during the latter part of the field study held in July, 2010. The results point to the innovation of tactics and strategies in daily practices, aimed to balance the forces between the bikers and the urban space: these couriers redefined this space, made of cars on the streets, the legal frameworks that determine work ethics, the social prejudices surrounding the issue, its importance to the flow of things in the city and its attempt to fulfill its mission, all while avoiding lethal traffic accidents. We have seen, also, the shared interests of diverse social and economic sectors that have sought to unite in this movement: NGOs, workers associations, unions, universities, research centers and companies that make up the motorcycle industry. As ubiquitous workers in one of the largest metropolises in the world, couriers are targets of diverse interests and anyone looking for a chance to take advantage of the situation, while structuring a social network. We acknowledge the bikers for their daily activities, which they define as a fight for survival amongst constingencies in the urban space
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Santos, Renan Gauthier Cardoso dos [UNESP]. "A festa na metrópole: uma leitura sobre o papel dos buffets na vida cotidiana de São Paulo no século XXI." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/95614.
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Este trabalho analisa o cotidiano da cidade de São Paulo a partir dos espaços destinados a realização de festas – buffets. Delimitamos o bairro de Moema localizado na Região Sul da metrópole paulista para estudar o papel desses serviços na sua relação com a festa. O consumo realizado nesses lugares e o uso de forma temporária também aparecem imersos ao longo da análise. A produção da festa é estudada a partir do desenvolvimento da vida de bairro e da metrópole, que comporta mudanças nos hábitos de consumo para o qual a festa agora possui lugar.
The aim of this study is to investigate the daily life of the city of São Paulo by analyzing places where parties are held – the buffets. We have chosen Moema neighborhood, located in the South Region of São Paulo to study the role of such places in relation to the parties. The consumption taking place in these locations and their occasional use are also objects of this investigation. The production of parties is studied, taking into consideration the neighborhood life and metropolis development, which can shed light into the understanding of consumption habits such as the existence of parties.
Books on the topic "Daily urban spaces"
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Cabannes, Yves, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi, eds. Cities in Asia by and for the People. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462985223.
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This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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West, E. James. A House for the Struggle. University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044328.001.0001.
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Newspaper buildings such as the Tribune Tower and Daily News headquarters have long stood as evidence of Chicago’s twin status as a media and architecture capital. But what might we discover if we focus our gaze not on these iconic sites of media power but on the media outlets, and media buildings, that primarily served the city’s African American communities? Moving these sources and spaces from the margins to the center, A House for the Struggle provides a bold new history of Chicago’s Black press through the lens of the built environment. Focusing on two landmark Black press enterprises—the Chicago Defender and Johnson Publishing Company—but drawing on a wide range of publications and media concerns that includes the Associated Negro Press, the Broad Ax, the Chicago Bee, the Chicago Whip, and Muhammad Speaks, this book demonstrates how the buildings of Chicago’s Black press became key sites in the cultural and political geography of Black Chicago. As activist hubs, community centers, art galleries, and tourist hotspots, Black media buildings served as key symbols of racial protest, Black achievement, and community advancement. Concurrently, the relationship between editorial and spatial politics—between Black media buildings and the publications they housed—helped to write new geographies of Black urban life into existence.
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Jarjour, Tala. Edessan Christians in Hayy al-Suryan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190635251.003.0002.
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THIS CHAPTER SETS the foundation necessary for appreciating Urfalli Suryani religious emotionality through essential elements in the local musical experience. It draws on the history of the Syrian Orthodox Church, on Syriac liturgy and theology, and on living Lenten practices rooted in early asceticism, to underscore survival. The chapter locates the Syriac chant of Edessa not only historically in relation to early Christianity but also in the contemporary context of Aleppo and its social space. Through the example of a chant that accompanies daily bowing, the narrative situates living practice simultaneously in the church’s early roots and in its contemporary urban surrounding. Here, the body, and its (in)significance, will emerge as essential to local forms of knowledge, value, and musicality in Hayy al-Suryan, to which the next chapters will turn.
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Tércio, Daniel, ed. TEPe 2022 - Encontro Internacional sobre a Cidade, o Corpo e o Som. INET-md, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53072/ilic8040.
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Os contextos pandémico e pós-pandémico vêm impondo às cidades outras dinâmicas, outros sons, outros ecos, outros percursos, outros visitantes humanos e não humanos. Durante o confinamento, o encerramento de espaços teatrais e expositivos – bem como, durante o desconfinamento, as limitações para a sua utilização - têm tido consequências penosas nas programações artísticas e efeitos dramáticos nos quotidianos dos seus agentes (artistas, técnicos, programadores, curadores, etc.). Ao mesmo tempo, a desaceleração da vida da cidade (do trânsito, do ritmo nas ruas, do frenesim produtivo e de consumo, etc.) veio contribuir beneficamente para uma diminuição das emissões de CO2. Neste quadro, a cidade - mais concretamente as suas zonas públicas a céu aberto – surgem mais nitidamente como espaços de circulação e de interferência (ou de suspensão de interferência) entre pessoas. O que aprendemos com a experiência de confinamento e desconfinamento? Em primeiro lugar, que a cidade tem uma densidade flutuante, na medida em que as concentrações populacionais se esvaem quando nos encerramos em casa. Em segundo lugar, que o encontro com o outro (uma das prerrogativas da cidade) pode acontecer em outras escalas que não apenas a dimensão cultural. Em terceiro lugar, que o medo pode ser um sentimento público capaz de fazer implodir as próprias cidades, se não for transformado numa força para a vida. Como é que, neste processo, os artistas se organizam e se constituem como agentes na cidade? Como é que a cidade passou a ser representada? Que cidade é aquela que desejamos? Este congresso surge assim da necessidade de intensificar o diálogo entre a cidade e a arte, em particular as artes performativas. Este encontro efoi o culminar de dois anos de investigação consistente e consolidada no âmbito do projecto TEPe (Technologically Expanded Performance). Ao longo destes dois anos, desenvolvemos atividades com a comunidade com o intuito de promover um diálogo intercultural e transdisciplinar, e proporcionar o encontro com vivências urbanas variadas. Através das diferentes propostas de percursos pela cidade, mapeámos acontecimentos, hoje invisíveis, mas ainda assim presentes: desde “memórias soterradas” a “caminhadas sensoriais”, passando por registos íntimos de confinamento. O encontro visou partilhar as experiências realizadas com a contribuição de duas equipas: a portuguesa, em Lisboa, e a brasileira, em Fortaleza. Para além de apresentarmos as conclusões das pesquisas realizadas, lançamos esta chamada para apresentações, especialmente destinada a artistas e estudiosos de performance art, historiadores das cidades, antropólogos, urbanistas, geógrafos, estudiosos da escuta e do som e a todxs aquelxs a quem interessa pensar (e projectar) a vida na cidade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The pandemic and post-pandemic contexts have imposed on cities other dynamics, other sounds, other echoes, other routes, other human and non-human visitors. During the lockdown, the closure of theatrical and exhibition spaces - as well as, during lockdown unlocking, the limitations for their use - have had painful consequences in artistic programming and dramatic effects in the daily lives of its agents (artists, technicians, programmers, curators, etc.). At the same time, the slowing down of city life (traffic, the pace of the streets, the frenzy of production and consumption, etc.) has made a beneficial contribution to a reduction in CO2 emissions. In this context, the city - and more specifically its open-air public areas - emerge more clearly as spaces for circulation and interference (or suspension of interference) between people. What have we learned from the experience of national lockdown and unlocking? Firstly, that the city has a fluctuating density, insofar as population concentrations fade when we shut ourselves indoors. Secondly, the encounter with the other (one of the prerogatives of the city) can take place on other scales than the cultural dimension alone. Thirdly, fear can be a public sentiment capable of imploding cities themselves if it is not transformed into a force for life. How, in this process, are artists organised and constituted as agents in the city? How did the city come to be represented? What kind of city do we want? This congress thus arises from the need to intensify the dialogue between the city and art, particularly the performing arts. This international meeting is the culmination of two years of consistent and consolidated research within the TEPe (Technologically Expanded Performance) project. Throughout these two years, we have developed activities with the community to promote intercultural and transdisciplinary dialogue and provide an encounter with varied urban experiences. Through the different proposals of walks through the city, we have mapped events, today invisible, but still present: from "buried memories" to "sensorial walks", passing through intimate records of confinement. The meeting aims to share the experiences carried out with the contribution of two teams: the Portuguese, in Lisbon, and the Brazilian, in Fortaleza. Besides presenting the conclusions of the researches carried out, we launch this call for presentations, especially addressed to artists and scholars of performance art, historians of cities, anthropologists, urban planners, geographers, scholars of listening and sound and to all those who are interested in thinking (and projecting) life in the city.
Book chapters on the topic "Daily urban spaces"
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Duarte, Fábio, and Carlo Ratti. "What Urban Cameras Reveal About the City: The Work of the Senseable City Lab." In Urban Informatics, 491–502. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8983-6_27.
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AbstractCameras are part of the urban landscape and a testimony to our social interactions with city. Deployed on buildings and street lights as surveillance tools, carried by billions of people daily, or as an assistive technology in vehicles, we rely on this abundance of images to interact with the city. Making sense of such large visual datasets is the key to understanding and managing contemporary cities. In this chapter, we focus on techniques such as computer vision and machine learning to understand different aspects of the city. Here, we discuss how these visual data can help us to measure legibility of space, quantify different aspects of urban life, and design responsive environments. The chapter is based on the work of the Senseable City Lab, including the use of Google Street View images to measure green canopy in urban areas, the use of thermal images to actively measure heat leaks in buildings, and the use of computer vision and machine learning techniques to analyze urban imagery in order to understand how people move in and use public spaces.
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Buhler, Thomas, Matthieu Adam, Hakim Ramdani, and Pauline Jobard. "Press Discourse on Cycling Before, During, and After the First Covid-19 Lockdown in France. The Rise of the User-Group Voice." In The Urban Book Series, 71–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45308-3_4.
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AbstractIn this chapter we explore what a “crisis” event (here the first lockdown related to Covid-19 in France) means in terms of (i) the balance of power among actors expressing themselves in the daily press and of (ii) the main messages that the more prominent of these actors disseminate. In order to analyze changes in press discourse on city cycling in France, we examine a corpus that spans the period from September 2019 to September 2020, i.e., six months before the first lockdown (March 17, 2020) and five months after the end of the month-long lockdown (May 11, 2020). The discourse analysis has been conducted on 578 press articles from five regional newspapers (Rennes, Montpellier, Besançon, Paris, and Lyon) and one national press title (Libération). This entire corpus was analyzed using textometry, a computer-assisted method for analyzing quantitative textual data. This enables us to identify a discursive change. Two elements characterize that change: (i) the balance between actors who “talk” or who “are talked about” in the articles shifts gradually. During this period, cycling organizations appear to be the actors whose position is strengthened in the media discourse; (ii) these actors are strengthened in their traditional mission of lobbying for cycling, but with a focus on new issues (e.g., wearing a face-covering or not for cyclists, calling for the reopening of green public spaces to allow the transit of bicycles, etc.). The first Covid-19 wave appears to have been the accelerator of a wider process that has led cycling organizations to professionalize since the 2000s, to move away from ecologist, anarchist, and anticapitalist discourses and to promote instead the idea of everyday cycling as a tool for improving public health. The Covid-19 crisis has further established cycling organizations as reference actors for bicycle mobility in French cities.
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Zapata-Barrero, Ricard, and Zenia Hellgren. "Intercultural Citizenship in the Making: Public Space and Belonging in Discriminatory Environments." In IMISCOE Research Series, 111–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25726-1_7.
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AbstractPublic space is essential to foster a sense of belonging among immigrants and racialized groups. This is especially true for groups who are still framed as different in relation to an abstract but taken-for-granted notion of we-ness that remains strongly connected to colonial thinking (Mayblin & Turner, 2021), according to which people perceived as white and western represent the norm in European societies. In this chapter we assume that there is an interrelation between the concepts of discrimination and interculturalism that is essential for the life conditions of immigrants and racialized groups. On the one hand, ethnic discrimination constitutes an impediment for the fulfilment of interculturalist policy goals, while on the other hand, interculturalism, understood as a strategy promoting contact among people from different backgrounds, including nationals, may potentially constitute a fruitful political and discursive tool to combat discrimination (Hellgren & Zapata-Barrero, 2022). In this chapter we defend that intercultural citizenship is a useful conceptual framework to analytically examine how such belonging could be constructed in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods, understanding multiplicity of linkages across ethnic divides as a key element. For such multiple ways of understanding contact (including formal/informal, conventional/unconventional, and also nonverbal communication, body language, eye contact, gestures and even silence (Samovar et al., 2015) to fulfil the conditions of citizenship-making and developing a sense of belonging need to take place under conditions of equality and power-sharing or be discrimination-free. We contend therefore that these people-to-place linkages in diversity settings are even more important than the probably more traditional people-to-people linkages that usually define interculturalism (Zapata-Barrero, 2017). For instance, migrants tend to use open public spaces, community gardens, and parks to gather and congregate in ways that are reminiscent of their home country, transforming the parks of their adoptive community into familiar spaces, creating an “autotopography” that links their daily practices and life experiences to a deep sense of place (Agyeman, 2017).
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Grassi, Paolo. "1,460 Days of Love and Hate: An Ethnographic Account of a Layered Job." In The Urban Book Series, 99–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19748-2_7.
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AbstractBuilding on four years of ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the office of the Mapping San Siro action-research group (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Milan) in one of the main social housing neighbourhoods of Milan, in this contribution I will investigate the role and meaning of the Urban Living Labs (ULL) from an ‘internal’ perspective. An ongoing process of building relationships and caring for a space has allowed me to develop a reflection on multifaceted dimensions of daily life in the neighbourhood. Moreover, through anthropological literature, I will critically analyse the frustrations often experienced by researchers involved in fieldwork and planning. These frustrations highlight issues that go beyond the neighbourhood, showing the territorial dimension of the space. I will then highlight some ethical implications as clues that offer a more grounded understanding of daily life, rather than solving those implications with ready-made answers.
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Han, Sumin, Kinam Park, and Dongman Lee. "Discovering Daily POI Exploitation Using LTE Cell Tower Access Traces in Urban Environment." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 81–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60975-7_7.
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Abstract Point of interest (POI) in an urban space represents the perception of city dwellers and visitors of a certain place. LTE cell tower access trace data is one of the promising data sources which has the potential to show real-time POI exploitation analysis. However, there is not much discussion on how it is correlated to diachronic POIs and their exploitation pattern. In this paper, we first show that the access trace pattern from the LTE cell tower can be used to discover which types of POIs exist in a certain area. Then, we propose a daily POI exploitation discovery scheme which can extract patterns of how POIs are daily used. Our analysis can provide a good insight into future urban space-based services such as urban planning and tourism.
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Park, Sunme, Kanggu Park, and Euiseok Hwang. "Day-Ahead Load Forecasting Based on Conditional Linear Predictions with Smoothed Daily Profile." In 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space, 97–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28925-6_9.
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Capanema-Alvares, Lucia. "Marginalization Through Mobility and Porosity: How Social Housing Dwellers See and Live the City." In The Urban Book Series, 141–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19748-2_10.
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AbstractUrban mobility in its broader meaning has become fundamental in neoliberal times, for it determines who gets what, how often, and at what cost. While motility is a component of mobility—together with connectivity and reversibility—defined by Kaufmann (2014) as a quality of the actor and/or of the dialectical relation between the self and the field of the possible, and accessibility concerns the structures necessary to take part in this possible, porosity is a quality of the territory and/or of the dialectical relation between space and society. The three of them inseparably carry the city dwellers’ possibilities of fulfilling their projects and wishes in the city territory. In order to start picturing how the society–space dialectic based on motility, accessibility, and porosity shapes daily social relations, especially where spatial justice is at stake, this study—part of the all-encompassing Action Research Project Mapping San Siro—surveyed 100 inhabitants of the Milanese neighbourhood. The resulting picture is a snapshot, a working scenario which helps bottom-up initiatives understand and focus on the most problematic, sometimes underlying aspects of marginality. While the quantitative results point to low-income inhabitants who work hard, use public transportation on an everyday basis, have few, if any, professional dreams, and feel reasonably welcome in a city they did not choose to live in, a number of qualitative results show that mobility (as a whole social phenomenon) problems can be deeper, not yet surfaced or voiced.
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Blokland, Talja, and Robert Vief. "Making Sense of Segregation in a Well-Connected City: The Case of Berlin." In The Urban Book Series, 249–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64569-4_13.
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AbstractThis chapter analyses socioeconomic segregation and segregation by migration background for Berlin, Germany. Berlin’s history of division and reunification affected suburbanization patterns and the unequal economic restructuring of the city over time. Within this historical context, we present our empirical results on segregation, and we reflect on the implications of segregation for the daily use of the city. Arguments that segregation affects access to amenities (as in the literature on ‘food deserts’) or reduces access to jobs (as in spatial mismatch theories) are not so useful for Berlin with its strong public transport infrastructure. We find that socioeconomic segregation was moderate and stable for the working-age population between 2007 and 2016, whereas segregation of poor children increased. At the same time, segregation of foreigners and segregation by migration background strongly declined. And yet, even though segregation levels are low and public services are present everywhere, the social use of the city, we argue, may be more segregated than statistical indicators suggest. Drawing on various case studies, we suggest that the use of the overall city reflects segregation patterns of the use of space for other reasons than commonly suggested.
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"Urban Spaces Re-Defined in Daily Practices – ‘Minibar’, Ankara." In Encountering Urban Places, 79–96. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315579481-10.
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Boynton-Jarrett, Renée. "Healthy Places to Play, Learn, and Develop." In Urban Health, 102–11. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190915858.003.0012.
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The urban environment is characterized by human-made spaces, by environments that are created to allow large numbers of people to coexist. These spaces literally shape where and how we play and work, representing an enormous opportunity for urban spaces to influence all aspects of our daily life—including our health. Although abundant urban areas have emerged over the past decades that disincentivize healthy living, innovation around the world is providing examples of approaches to urban design that generates healthy and safe places to play and work. This chapter provides a framework for thinking about the creation of urban spaces, about how the physical environment influences health, and how, to that end, we can create healthy physical environments to improve the health of urban populations.
Conference papers on the topic "Daily urban spaces"
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Li, Shuai. "Children-friendly design of urban public space based on the study of Shanghai, China." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/znxx7695.
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At present, more than 50% of children live in big cities. But with the increasing number of motor vehicles and shrinking public spaces , children have less and less opportunities for outdoor activities, resulting in obesity and sub-health problems. Therefore, it is very important to build children-friendly public spaces in metropolis. This study takes the Shanghai,china as an example.Firstly,through questionnaires,it is found that ensuring the safe movement of children and inspiring their spontaneous activities are key points to build children-friendly public spaces. Meanwhile, The public spaces near the home are the most used environment by children. Therefore, open spaces in metropolis areas need to be planned carefully for children near their homes. Then it is way much better to make sure children's places of daily life, such as homes, schools, green spaces, sports venues and so on, can be connected in a safe path. Secondly, for building the safe path for children ,the safety of each spot along the path is analyzed by SP method, which is a mathematical algorithm , in order to find the risk factors and to avoid them in the future. Then we establish the action plan of "line space + point space" to build the children-friendly urban public space system. Line space refers to meeting the basic safety space needs of children through the improvement of the routes to school, including reducing the impact of motor vehicles, safe road facilities, and enhancing road lighting system. "Point space" refers to the promotion of children's outdoor activities through the arrangement of multi-level outdoor children's playgrounds and green spaces, including safe green parks, security platforms and so on. Finally, it is hoped that the "Safety Line Space + Interesting Point Space" plan will establish a safe and inspiring path for children to travel, linking home, school, green space and sports venues, which they use mostly in their daily life. Then we can ensure the safe movement of children and inspire children's spontaneous games in big cities for a children-friendly goal
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Araújo Lima, Cristina de. "Configuração urbana e o sistema BRT de Curitiba – Brasil: investigando a qualidade espacial do entorno de terminais: uma metodologia em construção." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de la República, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6145.
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Otimizar o consumo de espaço e recursos naturais é uma meta recomendável para atingir maior sustentabi-lidade urbana, assim como racionalizar e gerenciar eficientemente os fluxos urbanos. O presente artigo apresenta uma etapa de uma pesquisa no campo do Desenho Urbano que questiona como se configuram os espaços do entorno de terminais de ônibus. O objetivo é refletir sobre resultados e consequências de projetos urbanos (urban design), principalmente aqueles que afetam parcelas significativas da população, como as condições de mobilidade em centros metropolitanos. Curitiba é pólo de uma região metropolitana formada por 29 municípios, sendo que 13 deles são abrangidos pelo sistema de transporte integrado RIT, que transporta diariamente cerca de 2 milhões de usuários. A justificativa para o estudo deriva da ampliação do sistema RIT em face à expansão periurbana, limitações ambientais e otimização do uso do solo urbani-zado. A metodologia é de pontuação por categorias de elementos existentes e escala de valores, como primeira etapa para obter indicadores para gestão ambiental urbana. Optimizing the occupation of space and the use of natural resources is a recommended goal in order to achieve greater urban sustainability, and so is rationalizing and managing efficiently urban flow. This article presents a step of a research in the field of Urban Design that questions how are urban spaces configured in the surroundings of bus stations. The objective is to reflect about results and consequences of urban pro-jects (urban design), especially those affecting a significant part of the population, such as mobility condi-tions in metropolitan centers. Curitiba is the pole of a metropolitan area composed by 29 municipalities, but 13 of them comprised by the integrated transportation system known as RIT, which transports approximately 2 million users daily. The study is justified by the upcoming extension of the RIT system in face of peri-urban growing, environmental limits and the balance for urbanized soil needs. The methodology is of punctuating per categories existing elements and scales of values as first stage as to obtain pointers to manage the ur-ban environment.
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García Ruiz, Dulce Esmeralda, Alessandra Cireddu, and Verónica Livier Díaz Núñez. "HERRAMIENTAS DIGITALES, MOVILIDAD Y SEGURIDAD URBANA. Propuesta conceptual de una App para barrios con segregación socio-espacial en áreas metropolitanas." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Grup de Recerca en Urbanisme, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12006.
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The disorderly and excessive expansion of Latin American cities in the last five decades has been accompanied by a growing fragmentation and socio-spatial segregation that is aggravated by the lack of integrated, efficient public transport, hindering mobility and daily life of the cities. People, in addition to their safety in public spaces and routes. The design of a digital tool with a gender perspective can help improve the daily life and urban safety of women who live in segregated areas of the city, also allowing diagnoses of routes and relationship spaces that could be useful for future interventions and proposals. of improvement. Keywords: Digital tools, mobility, urban security, segregation La expansión desordenada y desmedida de las ciudades latinoamericanas en las últimas cinco décadas ha sido acompañada por una creciente fragmentación y segregación socio-espacial que se ve agravada por la falta de un transporte público integrado, eficiente, dificultando la movilidad y la vida cotidiana de las personas, además de su seguridad en los espacios públicos y recorridos. El diseño de una herramienta digital con perspectiva de género puede ayudar a mejorar la vida cotidiana y seguridad urbana de mujeres que habitan en áreas segregadas de la ciudad, permitiendo además hacer diagnósticos de recorridos y espacios de relación que pudieran ser útiles para futuras intervenciones y propuestas de mejora. Palabras clave: Herramientas digitales, movilidad, seguridad urbana, segregación
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Villac, Maria Isabel, Volia Regina Costa Kato, Lizete Maria Rubano, and Edison Batista Ribeiro. "CULTURAS E CIDADE: TEORIA E PROJETO. Formas outras de se constituir a ação e o conteúdo projetual." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Grup de Recerca en Urbanisme, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.12702.
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Between the times of life and the urban spaces (Lefebvre, 2009) emerges the invention of the project as an expression of resistance, claims and other possibilities of appropriation of time, space and desire. The project, thus thought, reaffirms the importance of alterity, of collective subjects and of the event as horizons of imagination. In Brazil, the construction through form - architecture and cities - resides, historically, in the field of representations: what we see in our cities is segregation, inequality, absence of public spaces for life. How to socially build a project culture that considers processes of recognition, appropriation, desires, universalization of rights highlighting its emancipatory power? We seek an approach to the ways of living the space, through daily life, through the construction of practices, through the experiences of cultural collectives and civil society organizations, considering the multiplicity of actors, domination, oppression and resistance that configure the contemporary world. Keywords: project, daily life, collective subject, urban space Entre os tempos de vida e os espaços urbanos (Lefebvre, 2009) emerge a invenção do projeto como expressão de resistências, reivindicações e possibilidades outras de apropriação do tempo, do espaço e do desejo. O projeto, assim pensado, reafirma a importância da alteridade, dos sujeitos coletivos e do acontecimento como horizontes da imaginação. No Brasil, a construção pela forma - arquitetura e cidades - reside, historicamente, no campo das representações: o que vemos em nossas cidades é segregação, desigualdade, ausência de espaços públicos para a vida. Como construir socialmente uma cultura de projeto que considere processos de reconhecimento, apropriação, desejos, universalização de direitos destacando sua potência emancipatória? Busca-se uma aproximação às maneiras de viver o espaço, pela vida cotidiana, pela construção das práticas, pelas experiências de coletivos culturais e organização da sociedade civil, considerando-se a multiplicidade de atores, dominações, opressões e resistências que configuram o mundo contemporâneo. Keywords: projeto, vida cotidiana, sujeito coletivo, espaço urbano.
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Barcelos Jorge da Silveira, Victoria, Diego Moreira Souza, and Fabrício Peixoto Alvarenga. "Urban Landscape in the Historic Center of Campos dos Goytacazes:the effect of oil royalties on the use of public and private spaces between 1996 and 2020." In 7th International Congress on Scientific Knowledge. Perspectivas Online: Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25242/8876113220212431.
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The analysis of space comes from its importance in people's daily lives, to carry out their optional, necessary and social activities. In addition to the geographic field, with its divisions and connections, space also influences social bonds, due to its imposition on segregating aspects imposed on society, reproducing it and supporting its relationships, being dynamic and ephemeral according to time . Thus, it is unquestionable that the historic center of a city is commonly defined by its ability to seduce its users, being a central place in relation to the rest of the built area, still remaining as commercial attraction areas and with a large number of developments. This demand causes an increase in the value of properties located in this region and also a dispute for space where the private ends up overtaking the public, for personal interests or groups of people. This dispute for space by non-equivalent forces has resulted directly in the urban landscape. The analysis of public spaces in the historic center of the city of Campos dos Goytacazes, in the period in which its budget had a high bias, especially fostered by the amounts received from the transfer of royalties for oil exploration, aims to verify the changes that occurred in these spaces. The methodology developed for this work involves the review of scientific literature, the collection of primary sources such as users, permit holders and concessionaires of public spaces and a detailed on-site survey of some urban elements such as walkways and roads;number of private spaces for vehicles, kiosks and stalls in public areas. Based on the suggested surveys, it will be possible to verify if the last relevant economic cycle that occurred in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes -the transfer of royalties for oil exploration, was responsible for the modification of the urban landscape in its Historic Center.
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Wang, Siyi. "Design of Rural Public Cultural Activity Space." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002345.
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Rural public cultural activity space is an important space for villagers to communicate with neighbors. It is also the main place for villagers to conduct daily communication and participate in public affairs. However, at the time of rural development and construction, there has been a situation of integration of rural community space construction and urban space construction. Faced with these problems, this article takes Jinxing Village in China as an example. Starting from the cultural needs of community residents, this article conducts a specific investigation, research and analysis of the current situation of the use of public cultural activity space, in order to deeply explore the public cultural activities and community activities of community residents. It also provides reference and ideas for the design and renewal of other rural public cultural spaces.
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Capilla, Vicente Collado, and Sonia Gómez-Pardo Gabaldón. "URBAN LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.6020.
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URBAN LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT Vicente Collado Capilla1 and Sonia Gómez-Pardo Gabaldón21Servicio de Infraestructura Verde y Paisaje. Generalitat Valenciana. Ciutat Administrativa 9 D'Octubre-Torre 1, C/ Castán Tobeñas 77, 46018 Valencia; 2Servicio Territorial de Urbanismo. Provincia de Valencia. Generalitat Valenciana. Prop I, C/ Gregorio Gea, nº 27, 46009 Valencia. E-mail: vcc.arq@gmail.com sgpg.sgpg@gmail.com Key words: urban_landscape, streetcape, landscape_value, andscape_assessment, landscape_preferences. The urban landscape assesment as an important element in the quality of life and the sustainable development of the city constitutes an incipient field of investigation from a new perspective that adds meanings and values. An analysis of the different methodological developments and national and international experiences in the assessment of these landscapes will highlight its importance as a strategic element to improve the quality of the city. It starts from the concept of assessment as a system where tangible and intangible values are considered by the population and the experts. These include among other formal, economic, environmental, social, cultural issues (…) and the relationships between them. Consideration of the opinions of experts from different points of view such as urbanism and architecture but also environment, economy, geography, history, archeology, sociology, social assistance, etc. Together with the preferences expressed by the population regarding the spaces they inhabit on a daily basis and their aspirations, strengthen the sense of belonging and the identity of the place as key elements in the perception of the urban landscapes that allows to contribute new qualities, integration criteria and contemporary values to any type of intervention. These are strategies and intervention procedures that start from the complexity of the city as a system and incorporate the perception that citizens have or will have of their immediate environment. References: Czynska Klara and Pawel Rubinowicz (2015). ´Visual protection Surface method: Cityscape values in context of tall buildings´. SSS10 Proceedings of the 10 th International Space Syntax Symposium. Paquette Sylvain (2008). Guide de gestion des paysages au Québec. Université de Montréal Pallasmaa, Juhani (2005). The Eyes of the Skin. Architecture and the Senses. New York: John Wiley. Ministry of Environment and Energy The National Forest and Nature Agency (1997). International Survey of Architectural Values in the Environment. Denmark . The Landscape Institute and Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (2013). Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment. Third Edition, London: Routledge.
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DOMLESKY, ANYA. "Infrastructure Corridors: Leveraging Linear Systems for Public Life." In 2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.21.33.
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The community benefits of public open space were made ever more apparent during lockdowns in U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parks and open streets became outdoor living rooms, birthday party venues, protest sites, meeting places, date spots, restaurants, and safe group gathering locations. Their function as necessary social infrastructure in the sense that sociologist Eric Klinenberg has defined it, became visible daily. At the same time a racial reckoning and climate emergency pressed for action while municipal budgets strained to meet basic needs. We know public space provision is key to democratic life for both dissent and community building. We also know we need to densify cities and make urban spaces livable and desirable if we want to reduce climate impacts and individual carbon footprints. Developing linear parks and open space systems that take advantage of existing infrastructure corridors is one promising option to meet these goals. These spaces utilize infill sites either by reuse or co-use of transportation infrastructure and due to their long form, have lots of edge which provides access to a greater number of people than a traditional parcel. And also, like all parks, they have the capacity to mitigate adverse urban impacts like heat, noise, and flooding. Our practice- based research group has studied four infrastructure types that were generated from the dominant transportation infra- structures of past waves of economic activity: port, river, rail, and road. Looking at over 400 precedent projects across the globe, we have distilled out five main strategies that inform the design, development, and use of these corridors and their associated storage areas. Contextualizing urban design and open space projects through the lens of their originating infrastructural footprint has not been attempted to date. This research paves the way for understanding the catalysts for infrastructure reuse or co-use, the unique benefits of linear systems, lessons learned from accompanying development patterns, exclusive funding streams, and political returns of investing in this type of open space. The research has been impactful in making the case for linear parks and systems as high-benefit, lower cost method of open space provision for American metro areas.
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Rocha, Eduardo, Carolina Barros, Cristiane Nunes, Débora Allemand, Glauco Munsberg, Ivan Kuhlhoff, Luana Detoni, and Lucas Bittencourt. "O para-formal no centro da cidade: o caso de Salvador, Bahia, Brasil." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Instituto de Arte Americano. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.5863.
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O texto foi escrito a partir da investigação dedicada a mapear a “para-formalidade” no centro da cidade de
Salvador/Bahia/Brasil, através de cartografias urbanas, fazendo uso de recursos infográficos e sendo
divulgado em tempo real por meio de website. A oficina foi realizada no "Corpocidade 3", e dividiu-se em
errâncias e intervenções. A pesquisa se volta para os espaços não regulados, onde se produzem atividades
que tendem a subverter as leis da economia tradicional, do urbanismo e das relações humanas, gerando
mudanças importantes, tanto teóricas como práticas, na maneira de pensar e planejar a cidade. Para essa
pesquisa, o para-formal são todas as atividades (comerciais, culturais, moradia, etc.) encontradas no
espaço público da cidade, que não faz parte de seu desenho urbano (original), mas que “agora” – na
contemporaneidade – fazem parte de seu cotidiano. Até agora, os principais resultados obtidos giram em
torno do corpo, do espaço e do tempo no centro das cidades. The text was written from research devoted to map the "para-formalidade" in the center of Salvador/Bahia/Brazil, through urban cartography, making use of infographics and being released in real time via the
website. The workshop was held in "Corpocidade 3", and divided into walkers and interventions. The research turns to the unregulated spaces where activities occur that tend to subvert the traditional laws of
economics, urban planning and human relations, generating important changes, both theoretical and practical, in thinking and planning the city. For this research, the "para-formal" are all activities (commercial,
cultural, housing, etc.) found in the public space of the city, which is not part of its urban design (original), but that "now" - nowadays - do part of their daily lives. Until now, the main results revolve around the body, space and time in the center of the cities.
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caramelo gomes, Cristina. "Colour? What Colour? A difficult understanding between urban environment' professionals and users." In 5th International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004128.
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The built environment witnessed in the last years significant challenges and changes. From the growing of population inhabiting urban areas, natural disasters, and a pandemic context, built environment disclosers its impact in human experience. Based on the concepts of human centred design and social and cultural sustainability, urban solutions have been developing to improve and qualify user experience. The layout of public and private spaces has been challenged in its formal configuration, dimensions, and equipment, by means of research, available data, and the success of some practices. This movement has been beneficial to city centres, but it is expanding to dwelling peripheries, boosting multifunctionalities and solutions oriented to human requirements and expectancies answering to a need well recognised and experienced during the pandemic context.Despite the changes and the good examples, colour as a vital parameter of visual communication, is still neglected and applied as a simple aesthetic component. Repeatedly, the chromatic palettes are based on (inter)national fashion trends, disregarding the geography, climate, and culture of the place. Colour focus and/or blur our attention, while emphasising and/or disguising an element in its context, organising the space, aiding in orientation while communicating messages and symbols that illustrate the identity of the place and the community. Colour has the ability of challenge the perception of the volumes - despite their nature and scale – and spaces regarding their formal shape, proportions, visual weight, and texture. Furthermore, colour as an element of urban environment, expresses the hierarchy of the elements and their order in the environmental composition with respect to function, structure, etc. Furthermore, colour defines how individuals visually experience the environ, and as a medium it gives significance, emotional attitude, and functional information, emerging as a crucial attribute in human perception of the built environment.Numerous reasons can justify the repeated negligence in the use of colour in urban environ: the fear of using colour, unawareness, (or lack of skills) about how to use it, the copy of international and/or awarded models, and the use of finishing materials and colour tendencies, among others. However, this is a common reality for designers and architects, which sets the hypothesis of these professionals are unaware of the roles performed by colour and its impact in human daily living, while experiencing environments, products, and communication systems.The aim of this research paper is to raise the discussion regarding the way colour is neglected in the design of urban space although its importance to define the user experience. From the discussion we expect to have a better understanding of the problem and propose some guidelines to minimise it. To achieve the expected results, this piece of research will be supported by literature review related with the identified keywords and the analysis of some case studies in the Portuguese context. Literature review aims to explore the concepts and justify its importance not only for this study but in the urban planning, and the case studies to illustrate the (un)aware use of colour and its impact in place and community identity.