“Little Vienna” or “European Avant-Garde City”? Branding Narratives in a Romanian City

Vesalon, Lucian; Creţan, Remus

doi:10.37043/jura.2019.11.1.2

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“…Although they are severely deprived from all kinds of state's social services, which are viewed as their rights to the city, they are not organized for demanding their rights to the city. While the existing literature showed the urban poor people's collective and organized efforts for bringing successful right to the city movements in many of the Latin American countries, like Mexico, Brazil, Chile, as well as in some European and South Asian countries (Machabanski 2013, Santos Junior 2014, Adler 2015, Málovics et al 2019, Vesalon and Crețan 2019, in the case of the urban poor of Dhaka there is hardly any such potential of RTC movements. The lack of leadership, the temporality and the uncertainty of their existence in the city are some of the valid reasons for not claiming their rights.…”

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THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

Arefin¹,

Rashid²

2021

JURA

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The urban poor experience serious discontents, harassment, eviction, police repression and local goons threatening when using urban space for living and livelihood purposes. This study pursues to understand the poor people’s negotiation strategies with different powerful agents who occupy money, muscleman and political affiliation. Following a mixed method approach, this study investigates the two biggest slums in Dhaka as case studies. Findings show that urban poor have to build different social-contract relations with various local agents as survival mechanisms while economic activities using urban space are considered to be illegal in Bangladesh. The role of the state is somewhat ambiguous in this regard. On the one hand, the state is not evicting the poor permanently from the city but it is repatriating them on other grounds and, on the other hand, it permits hundreds of informal intermediary agents to work for sustaining informal urban settlements for the poor people. We argue that these distinctive socio-structural arrangements in Dhaka city is hindering poor people from getting united and claiming their rights to the city while also not providing them proper opportunities to fully appropriate the urban space. These socio-economic relations need to be considered in order to make a just city for all, from the RTC perspective.

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THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

Arefin¹,

Rashid²

2021

JURA

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“…Toponymy is also shaped by political factors; due to the regime changes and/or shifts in political power, the new leaders thus use place naming and renaming as a means to assert their political authority and mold the landscape according to their socio-political and cultural image. This is observed particularly in post-Communist and neo-liberal contexts [27][28][29] and even extends to anthropic facilities such as sport stadiums and football clubs [30]. Some scholars have also found that the economic power held by large corporations shaped the landscape in terms of re-naming prominent landmarks bearing the company name of values associated with the organization [31].…”

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Discovering Unwritten Stories—A Modular Case Study in Promoting Landscape Education

Lim¹,

Cacciafoco²

2021

Education Sciences

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Landscapes have been and are an important aspect of any society, culture, economy and environment. Besides the role of landscape and Landscape Sciences in these arenas, there have been increasingly greater calls to incorporate landscape into the curriculum. Moreover, Landscape Education is beneficial in developing important foundations in students, particularly that of active citizenry. While the benefits of Landscape Education are evident, current research remains focused on Western, especially European, contexts. This article discusses how a leading Singapore public University incorporates Landscape Education within a relatively new module on Toponymy offered in the Linguistics and Multilingual Studies Programme. While the links between Linguistics and a course in Toponymy or even the links between Toponymy and Landscape may not be immediately apparent, an analysis of the content covered in the module demonstrates congruence to existing frameworks and principles in teaching Landscape Education and, at the same time, provides a case in point in interdisciplinarity, drawing from diverse disciplines such as Language, Linguistics, History, Geography, Landscape Sciences, Anthropological Linguistics, among many others. This study provides useful references for educational institutions in incorporating Landscape Education into their curriculum.

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“…As a response to this development, countless urban planning proposals emerged to heal the everdeteriorating living conditions in the cities [1,5] (pp. [51][52][53][54]. Among many utopias, the one proposed by Ebenezer Howard-a Garden City-was based on a particular hierarchy and specific spatial order anchored in a central park or garden as an antithesis to a suburb [5] (pp.…”

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“…This tendency dates back to the 1920s [15][16][17], was described in the 1930s [18] (p. 177), [19] (pp. [52][53], and the 1940s [18] (p. 177), [20] (p. 15) of the last century and was first observed on an enormous scale in the United States after World War II [1,5] (p. 76). Litwinska mentions that there is no single definition of the phenomenon of urban sprawl [15] (p. 146) and there are many, sometimes mutually exclusive, characteristics [21] (p. 108).…”

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“…Social participation can be thus called "the main factor influencing the outcome of the changes, people must be willing to use and participate in smart solutions" [38] (p. 10) and can be given that chance through the use of electronic means [36,50]; therefore, it is next to the environmental and economic concerns one of core elements of sustainable development. It can be even observed that at the interregional level individual cities compete with each other for the title of a smart space of dynamic growth connected to economic city branding [52], and creative and physical capital and its mobility, which appears to be measurable in economic costs-taxes income [45]. However, "place attachment is the ability to use public space [48] (p. 82), [51]; consequently, the core of urban living lies in the human and social capital [29,42,48,51].…”

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Intelligent Urban Planning and Ecological Urbanscape-Solutions for Sustainable Urban Development. Case Study of Wolfsburg

Dudek-Klimiuk

Warzecha²

2021

Sustainability

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Intelligent urban planning and ecological urbanism can be recognized as two of the key solutions to act against urban sprawl. This process is associated with suburbanization, blurring boundaries between the city and suburbs, and the undefined role of open and green spaces within new structures. It has been identified as the biggest and the most common problem worldwide. This non-central planning has a huge impact not only on economic aspects, but—most of all—on the ecological and landscaping balance within the urban area. This study covers not only the recognition of the outlined situation, but also a conceptual proposal to challenge the problems of urban sprawl. The city of Wolfsburg serves as a case study to which the tools of Ecological Urbanism and Intelligent Urbanism were applied. A corrective plan for the study area has been worked out, based on the main approaches in urban planning of the 21st century. The green transformation processes to achieve resiliency within urban areas are inevitable and will have to be conducted due to the rising number of the dwellers, steadily changing climate, and socio-economic conditions all over the world. The main solutions include mainly the system of green corridors, interconnectedness of open spaces, walkability with smart mobile options and social community as a nucleus of a local neighborhood.

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“Little Vienna” or “European Avant-Garde City”? Branding Narratives in a Romanian City

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THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

THE URBAN POOR in DHAKA: PERSPECTIVES ON THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

Discovering Unwritten Stories—A Modular Case Study in Promoting Landscape Education

Intelligent Urban Planning and Ecological Urbanscape-Solutions for Sustainable Urban Development. Case Study of Wolfsburg

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