Introduction to Cities: How Place and Space Shape Human Experience

Gibson, Huston

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“…People begin to build dwellings, settlements, and infrastructures where they will do their daily activities, and these activities will influence the physical structures of the cities. But they also decide what these structures mean for them and how to use the built (Gibson, 2015). At this point, the city infrastructure plays a role in influencing the city's activities and vice versa.…”

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“…A distinctive character of space distinguishes one place from another, which is seen as the uniqueness of the place (Norberg-Schulz, 1979). Built environments, whether cities, neighborhoods, or housings, have a role in influencing and shaping space's human activities (Black & Street, 2014;Gibson, 2015). Community activities and even habits and traditions of people will continue to grow and influence the built environment.…”

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Tradition of Petang Megang and Its Influence in Changing The Siak Riverside in Pekanbaru

Fatma¹,

Lukito²

2021

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Siak River is the main river in the capital city of Riau Province, and it plays a vital role in the history and the development of the city of Pekanbaru. People use the river as the source of water, transportation, and even the traditional ceremony of Petang Megang, which indicates the close connection of Pekanbaru people with the river. The Siak riverside is the center of the city, with the old town, markets, settlements, and the royal house located near the river. The community's attachment to the river can be seen through Petang Megang, which is known as a tradition to clean and purify the body and soul to welcome the holy month of Ramadan. During Petang Megang, many people go to the river, perform mandi balimau and even hold competitions and festivals that attract tourists. This paper discusses how Petang Megang reflects the connection of local people to the river and influences the spatial form of the Siak riverside. The findings show that since there are some changes in the practice of Petang Megang, such as boat competition and music festivals, the government develops the Siak riverside not only to accommodate Petang Megang but also to attract tourists. Unfortunately, the development limit access of local people to the river.

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Section: Literature Review 21 the River As An Important Infrastructure For The Citymentioning

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Tradition of Petang Megang and Its Influence in Changing The Siak Riverside in Pekanbaru

Fatma¹,

Lukito²

2021

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“…In particular, we investigate variations in the role played by LGBTQ+ spaces with a different social function. The three analytical dimensions of identity, community, and security will be used in this research as separated notions, given their distinction at a theoretical and conceptual level (Chen, Orum and Paulsen 2018). We are aware of their interdependence on an empirical level, as we will show in our conclusions, but we believe that analysing each of these dimensions separately can best bring out the features that we aimed to detect in our research.…”

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Inside a Safe Place:

Capretta,

D'Anneo,

Polignano

2024

JUE

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The influence of LGBTQ+ spaces in defining the urban experience of people belonging to the LGBTQ+ community has become the subject of a growing literature in the field of urban sociology. Our present research focuses on the perception of these urban spaces by their attendants and analyses how different LGBTQ+ spaces shape a sense of identity, community, and security among them. Using the tools of ethnographic research, such as participant observation and in-depth interview, we analysed two LGBTQ+ friendly spaces located in Padua, an Italian medium-size city with a noteworthy LGBTQ+ history. The selected spaces each have a different social function: political or recreational; one space is the headquarters of a political association, and the other one is a club. Our results show that an LGBTQ+ urban space, especially the political one, can have a positive influence on the perception of a sense of identity, community, and security. This is both thanks to its social function, because it allows for the creation of solid bonds inside a safe place, and thanks to its history, which makes it a point-of-reference for the local LGBTQ+ community.

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“…My conviction is that urban sociology does not represent a minor, insignificant, or too narrow discipline in urban studies, rather the opposite. It is well-located in the origins of contemporary reflections on cities (Madoo & Niebrugge-Brantley 2002) and it has also evolved in many fruitful directions throughout the decades, usually in close dialogue and with regular liaisons with various germane disciplines (Chen et al 2013, Gottdiener et al 2019, Harding & Blokland 2014. I also think that the use of the term 'social'-or 'sociological' to this effect-in urban studies demands rigorous concepts and theories.…”

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Introduction to the Research Handbook on Urban Sociology

Martínez

2024

Research Handbook on Urban Sociology

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In this introductory chapter my aim is to answer these two questions: Why am I editing this Handbook? What are its main contributions and contents? I jointly address them in the following six sections. TRANSDISCIPLINARY URBAN SOCIAL SCIENCESThis Handbook responds, above all, to my interest in emphasising and revealing the contributions of sociology to urban scholarship. In so doing, one first needs to map which other disciplines are related to the study of urban phenomena and the implications of this plurality for urban sociology.For some colleagues, 'urban sociology' is an outdated and fuzzy designation of a research sub-discipline within the broader fields of sociology and urban studies, respectively. Urban sociology is concerned with housing, public spaces, and social life in cities, to name a few of its usual research topics. Other academic disciplines, however, are equally interested in the investigation of topics like these. Urban studies have always been quite interdisciplinary, or better, 'transdisciplinary', as all urban disciplines can potentially nurture each other, not just sit side by side in the same train. Sociologists are only one of the groups of passengers, all helping to keep the train moving, together with, for example, geographers, anthropologists, economists, architects, urban planners and designers, historians, political scientists, social psychologists, social workers, educators, legal scholars, ecologists, philosophers, and artists. Journalists and writers such as Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs could also be named as salient figures in the history of urban theorisation.To some extent, this is a healthy and win-win development. Multiple academic insights and traditions contribute to the production of knowledge around cities and urban phenomena. We all learn from each other, at least potentially, although there is always the risk of only achieving a 'mediocre compromise' (Lefebvre 2003: 54).Transdisciplinary cooperation has been meaningful inasmuch as urban studies has been capable of amalgamating all that scholarship within the umbrella of social sciences as 'urban social sciences'. The situation changed once natural scientists also jumped in and broadened the scope of challenges. The old dream of bridging the domains of natural and social sciences (the positivist unity of all sciences, according to Auguste Comte) has recently been revived with the labels 'urban science' and 'the science of cities' (Batty 2013, Gleeson 2013, Parnell & Robinson 2017, West 2017. The rise of so called 'smart cities' and urbanism shaped by digital platforms or the environmental impacts of urban life, for example, have called in hardcore scientists such as engineers, mathematicians, biochemists, physicists, big data analysts, and health scholars. Pressing issues related to transport, energy consumption, climate warming,

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Tradition of Petang Megang and Its Influence in Changing The Siak Riverside in Pekanbaru

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