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Tovma, N. А., and I. S. Bianchi. "METHODOLOGY OF ASSESSMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF CITY-FORMING ENTERPRISES IN SINGLE-INDUSTRY TOWNS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN." Қорқыт Ата атындағы Қызылорда университетінің Хабаршысы. Экономика ғылымдары сериясы 4 (2023): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.52081/ecj.2023.v04.i4.019.
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The urgency of the problem of development of town-forming enterprises has been facing the world for several years. The aim of the research is to develop theoretical and practical recommendations on sustainable development of town-forming enterprises. To achieve the goal, the method of content analysis was chosen, which allows to identify problematic issues and ways to solve them. The main results of the research: the development of town-forming enterprises abroad is considered, the current state of town-forming enterprises is studied, on the basis of which the coefficients of financial stability of 9 town-forming enterprises of monotowns of the Republic of Kazakhstan are calculated, the distribution of town-forming enterprises according to the criteria of financial stability is given, the mechanism of sustainable development of town-forming enterprises is proposed. The proposed recommendations will contribute to the sustainability of town-forming enterprises and promote the revival of single-industry towns in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The results of the study are aimed at further development of theoretical and practical recommendations for the development of single-industry towns in order to improve competitiveness, level and quality of life of the population.
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Waterston, Elizabeth. "Town and Country in John Galt: A Literary Perspective." Articles 14, no. 1 (August 13, 2013): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1017878ar.
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John Galt, town-planner and novelist, differed from contemporary writers such as William Wordsworth in his response to nature and to urban life. As agent for the Canada Company, he had the chance in 1827 to put some of his theories about town building into practice. Four years later, his novel Bogel Corbet presented a fictional version of that experiment in urbanism. All Galt's writings about the founding of a town emphasize community rituals and unity. His hope was that his settlement would move through an ascending order from village to town to garrison to city. The actual town of Guelph was of course unable to satisfy his ideal; in Bogle Corbet he adopts an ironic tone at the expense of the little town. But Bogle Corbet has another importance: in its random form as well as in its tone it emphasizes discontinuity. It foreshadows later treatments of small town life as well as has antecedents in English and Scottish literature. Since Galt's time, the ironic sequence sketch has proved a very appropriate literary genre for reflecting the disharmony of small Canadian towns.
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Atalan, Özlem, and Hasan Şahan Arel. "Bedestens Located in the Heart of the Commercial Center in Anatolian Cities and Their Architecture Reflections." Open House International 42, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 36–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2017-b0006.
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Commercial areas and bedestens (covered bazaars) are important public areas in Turkish cities and towns. These areas and buildings are essential in that they contribute vital economic and social characteristics to Turkish cities and towns. In the Ottoman period, these commercial areas, alongside inns, baths, mosques, and stores, were engaged in trading and manufacturing and formed a central part of life for the residents. The number of bedestens in a given city was dependent on the size of the city or town. All social, administrative, and economic activities were organized within these bedestens. Commercial structures, in which the bedestens are located, with different functions, such as arasta, inns, markets, covered markets, and stores, are the main components of the commercial districts. These structures were built by the order of the Sultan for the purpose of reviving and providing direction to the economic life of the city or town. One of the key components of these commercial structures was the bedestens. In terms of Turkish culture, a bedesten can be defined as the heart of the commercial district. Although these structures were built to sell textiles, they later functioned as places where antiques and/or valuable goods were also sold. Bedestens were usually a unique type of structure, with masonry masses between wooden stores located in the middle of the trade center of the city or town. The top of the bedesten, which was usually built as one storey and rectangular in shape, had a domed roof covered with lead. In this study, spatial analyses of these important architectural elements were conducted in terms of city planning, folk culture and commercial life. The bedestens selected for the study were those in historical cities located at major commercial road axes from the Ottoman period. The bedestens in these historical cities were examined, within the context of their planning, and assessments were made. The relations that these structures have with each other in general, and their common and different features, were also investigated.
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Lambton, A. K. S. "Qum: the evolution of a medieval city." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 122, no. 2 (April 1990): 322–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00108573.
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The history of Qum exhibits a number of features common to urban and rural life in central Persia over the centuries. It also contains features which differentiate it from other towns. Today it is known as a shrine town, but this has not always been its exclusive character. It has had a complex and varied history. In medieval times it was not distinguished from the countryside around it by the existence of a civic identity, any more than were other cities. It bore the same name as the surrounding region. Qum designated both the city and the province of which it was the centre and from which it was not administratively distinct.
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Litavniece, Lienīte, and Sandra Ežmale. "INHABITANTS’ EVALUATION OF THE TOWN ATTRACTIVENESS - A CASE STUDY OF BALVI TOWN." Latgale National Economy Research 1, no. 3 (June 23, 2011): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/lner2011vol1.3.1811.
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Due to decrease in the number of inhabitants it is very important to realize the aspects of city attractiveness in order to use them successfully and stimulate inhabitants’ positive interest in the city. Within the framework of the project “Linguo-Cultural and Socio- Economic Aspects of Territorial Identity in the Development of the Region of Latgale” inhabitants’ opinion is shown in a form of inquiry about Balvi town. Using Spearman’s correlation analysis, the statistically significant correlations with the probability of 99% were established between ‘satisfaction with life in the town’ and the factors influencing it. Then, using the method of cluster analysis, the findings of the inquiry were analyzed and conclusions about the Balvi town and its attractiveness from the point of view of the respondents were drawn.
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Đorđevic, Nenad, and Slavoljub Uzunović. "Niševljanka as a small town originated urban folk dance." Fizicko vaspitanje i sport kroz vekove 9, no. 1 (2022): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/spes2201120d.
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The subject of this paper are city (small town) folk dances in a broader sense and Niševljanka folk dance as a town game in a narrower sense. The aim of the paper was to describe Niševljanka as a town folk dance. The basic task is to write down the music, rhythm and technique of the dance. In the available literature dealing with the systematization and division of folk dances, city folk dances are nowhere to be found as a special type of dance. Maybe rightly so, since they can be traced back to the traditional, original dances. However, given the conditions and time of the origin of these dances, with the migration of the peasantry to the towns and cities, the city dances in some way distanced themselves from the traditional ones. This was influenced by new living conditions, more cramped space, mixtures of the European and Oriental culture, as well as the Europeanization of culture and way of life in general. It can be stated that city folk dances are in fact traditional - original dances that have taken on other aspects of dancing and dancing behavior. If any folk dance has marked our city, and the state in general, from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, it is undoubtedly Niševljanka folk dance. Numerous manuscripts, books, travelogues, newspaper articles from that time testify to this fact. This paper is an attempt to point this out and to find in one place the musical, rhythmic and playful record of this, undoubtedly original city folk dance.
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Petrovic, Sonja. "Town and city: Memories of daily life in pre-war Belgrade." Bulletin de l'Institut etnographique 63, no. 1 (2015): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gei1501085p.
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Stojaković, Maja, and Elen Twrdy. "Urban Transport - Synergies between City and the Port - the Example of the City of Koper." Put i saobraćaj 70, no. 1 (March 4, 2024): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31075/pis.70.01.02.
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Koper is located in Slovenia near the Italian border and is the fifth largest city in Slovenia with 53,000 inhabitants. The history of the town is interesting because it first flourished during the Venetian Republic, when it became an important administrative and cultural centre of Istria. After the Second World War, the city underwent a different development as a harbour was built next to the old town. Today, Koper is a town that connects the old town centre with the newer surrounding settlements and is closely linked to the port of Luka Koper. The municipality covers an area of 303 km2, 48% of which is protected by Natura. Since 2017, the municipality of Koper has been implementing an integrated transport strategy aimed at ensuring sustainable and environmentally friendly mobility for its citizens. To ensure accessibility and a better quality of life, pedestrians, cyclists and public transport are promoted in particular. Residents of Koper who do not live in the old town still predominantly use private cars to get to work, school, and university. Koper is an old city that has existed since the time of the Roman Republic and has many monuments. To reduce the number of cars, the city centre has been closed to traffic, and residents of Koper's old town can use parking garages or open parking lots for a small fee. For everyone else, parking lots with P+R facilities have been set up, but there is great dissatisfaction among the population. Another problem is the increasing freight traffic coming in and out of the port of Koper. The port and the city live in harmony, but the problem of increasing freight traffic at critical times and on critical days is a big problem. In this paper we will outline the measures that should be taken in the area of public passenger transport and freight transport to ensure that the strategy is implemented.
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Caesar, Ann Hallamore. "About town: The city and the female reader, 1860–1900." Modern Italy 7, no. 2 (November 2002): 129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1353294022000012934.
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SummaryThe period after Italian Unification saw a marked increase in the volume of publications, magazines and books intended specifically for a female readership which was made up of girls and married women. It also saw the rise of the professional woman writer and journalist. Drawing on two of the most popular genres, the novel (in particular the domestic novel) and conduct literature, this article examines their representations of the city and urban life. It notes that while the physical transformation of major towns and cities was bringing in its wake far-reaching changes to the experience of urban life, the literature for women treats the city as an almost entirely abstract entity with few distinctive characteristics. Instead, the focus of these writings is on the drawing up of rulebooks designed to enable women to negotiate urban life without bringing opprobrium to bear on themselves or their families
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Nepomnyaschikh, Natalia A. "THE IMAGE OF THE CITY IN THE PROSE OF S. N. DURYLIN." Tyumen State University Herald. Humanities Research. Humanitates 7, no. 4 (2021): 136–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2411-197x-2021-7-4-136-149.
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Motivational and semiotic analysis of S. N. Durylin’s prose makes it possible to reveal in his prose motifs that are repeated in descriptions of provincial cities: a bell ringing denotes a connection between the earthly and the heavenly; gold, silver, radiance are a sign of belonging to the mountain world, bright colors are a sign of the fullness and prosperity of life, the well-being of the city and its inhabitants. The action in the novellas “Monsieur-cat”, “Notes of Yelchaninov” (“The Chamber of My Memory”) and the novel “Bells” by S. N. Durylin takes place in small district towns. These cities are arranged in a similar way, their blissful appearance contrasts sharply with the previous literary tradition of depicting the Russian province, for example, the iconic Okurov town by M. Gorky, in relation to which Durylin is polemical. Durylin’s earthly city, like all earthly life, is always a reflection of the heavenly, the higher: the model for the provincial towns — Khlynova, Kaluga, Temyan — is the invisible city of Kitezh, the image of which the writer creates back in 1916 in the Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh. The idea of the heavenly essence of the earthly appearance of each of the Durylin townships is embodied through color and sound codes. Durylin’s color and sound images are contrasted with those in the “Okurov Town” written by M. Gorky and similar images in the novel “Bells” written by I. V. Evdokimov (1926). The world of urban life in Durylin’s prose is bright, colorful and harmonious, “gloom” and darkness come to cities as a harbinger of trouble and social cataclysms, while in Gorky’s prose and the tradition that follows him, the province is a “wild wilderness”, dark in all meanings of the word.
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Pavlyukevich, Ruslan V., Mikhail D. Severyanov, and Juliya V. Elteko. "Regional Archival Sources on the History of a Young City on the Example of Divnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Region." Herald of an archivist, no. 1 (2024): 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2024-1-295-304.
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The article presents a review of the corpus of documents of the State Archive of Krasnoyarsk Krai, related to the history of Divnogorsk. The town was founded by the authorities as a settlement serving the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric power station in 1963. Divnogorsk is one of the many young industrialised small towns which appeared in the USSR during the next round of industrial modernisation. Its peculiarity is the close connection to the regional centre. Divnogorsk is a part of Krasnoyarsk agglomeration. Due to the high role of the town in the economic plans and projects of the Krasnoyarsk region development, its history is reflected not only in the town archive, but also in the documents of the regional archive collection to a great extent. A considerable part of them has not yet been put into scientific circulation. The corpus of documents related to Divnogorsk is quite complicated and chaotic. It is represented by neither one fund in particular but scattered over many others. All the materials about the town can be divided into two groups. Firstly, these are funds entirely dedicated to and related to Divnogorsk and businesses located there. These are mainly collections of party and Soviet organizations of Divnogorsk. Due to the fact that the town was a relatively small settlement, these materials reflect data on various aspects of life and development of small industrial town in Siberia. This group includes the fonds of the Divnogorsk town committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, primary party organizations of the CPSU institutions in Divnogorsk (the town's building and transport departments, the executive committee of the town council, the town committee, the low voltage plant, the housing and utilities office, the court and prosecutor's offices, and educational institutions); the fonds of the town's Komsomol organizations, and state and party control agencies. The second group comprises the fonds of the township-wide fonds, which contain information on the socio-economic development of the township. The second group includes the fonds of Krasnoyarskgesstroy Construction Directorate, Krasnoyarsk Region Planning Commission, and the local branch of the Federal State Statistics Service in Krasnoyarsk Region. The use of the krai archives collections allows a comprehensive study of the phenomenon of young cities of the USSR. The analysis of documents related to Divnogorsk in the State Archive of Krasnoyarsk region will make it possible to understand the regularity of deposition of documents on history of young towns of the Soviet period in archives, which will contribute to further search of materials to study such topics.
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Marín, Miguel Ángel. "Sound and urban life in a small Spanish town during the ancien régime." Urban History 29, no. 1 (May 2002): 48–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926802001050.
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Although urban historians have recently begun to study the city and the senses, relatively few have investigated the aural environment experienced by the ear. To a certain extent, towns are thus characterized as silent societies and sounds of whatever kind are not viewed as an integral part of urban life. This article, based on a small Spanish town called Jaca, aims to describe some of its most notable sounds during the ancien régime and to explore how inhabitants perceived them. Such an approach provides a deeper and more comprehensive insight into the totality of the urban experience of townspeople of the period, and also suggests some new lines of enquiry for future musicological research.
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Rygaard, Jette. "The city life of youths in Greenland." Études/Inuit/Studies 32, no. 1 (May 1, 2009): 33–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/029818ar.
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Abstract In traditional Greenlandic literature as among the critics of modern civilisation, modernisation and urbanisation correspond to alienation, loneliness, urban misery, and stress. On the other hand, more and more people try to get to the big cities. An urban centre like Nuuk seems to be a success. In contrast, the small remote settlements in Greenland continuously face major problems of social disorders and poverty because of extreme living costs and unemployment. In this article, life in the city is discussed through the eyes of youths from Nuuk and the rural East Greenlandic small town of Ittoqqortoormiit. The data come from three succeeding projects, CAM I-II-III, which included photos and texts from young Greenlanders between 10 and 20 years of age regarding themes such as “my school,” “my friends,” “my media,” and “my city.” An analysis of the material produced reveals that the views of these young people fit urban theories concerning life style and behaviour; rural dwellers submitting to a life with close connections and tranquillity opposite to the hectic city dwellers’ life in an urban area.
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Егорова, А., A. Egorova, Елена Викторук, and Elena Viktoruk. "The Art World of the University Town (the Example of Lawrence, Kansas)." Scientific Research and Development. Socio-Humanitarian Research and Technology 7, no. 3 (October 1, 2018): 76–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5ba39e7c527e21.74609786.
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This paper is devoted to art scene of provincial towns. The object is investigated on the example of the artistic life of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, USA. On the one hand the art scene of this local space can be described as something typical for American town (underlining of local originality and a prevalence of production of local and regional authors; prices available to representatives of middle class). On the other hand, the variety, activity and freedom of Lawrence's art life contrast with conservatism of the main territory of Kansas. The reasons of this feature were established as a result of the research.
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Hopkins, David C. "Earthquake fault movement and town planning." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 20, no. 2 (June 30, 1987): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.20.2.79-83.
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This paper is an edited version of a submission made to the Lower Hutt City Council Town Planning Hearings Committee in August 1986. The submission was made in support of an objection by the Lower Hutt City Council to a proposed ordinance which prohibited building adjacent to the section of the Wellington fault in Lower Hutt City.
The inadequacies of the proposed ordinance are examined and the issues analysed with particular reference to the protection of life and property, and the risks involved.
Earthquake risks are further analysed and the risk of damage due to shaking compared with those due to fault movement. Comparisons of earthquake risk with other risks accepted by the community are made.
The conclusion drawn is that the additional risk of earthquake damage in a potential fault zone is sufficient to warrant constraints to development, but not so large, in the context of overall risks, to justify prohibition of all development in a fault zone.
Comment and recommendation is made as to appropriate constraints to building development in such zones.
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Venedikova, Katerina. "THE TOWN OF SHUMEN UNDER OTTOMAN ADMINISTRATION." Годишник на Шуменския университет. Факултет по Хуманитарни науки XXXIIIA, no. 2 (November 10, 2022): 69–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.46687/qkfp7430.
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The article, based on documents, manuscripts, epigraphic monuments and research, traces important events and facts from the history of the city of Shumen under Ottoman rule. Data are given about the Christian and Muslim populations, about the Bulgarians and the representatives of other nationalities who live there. It is shown that the city of Shumen has carried, preserved and developed over the centuries the traditions of Bulgarian, but also of the Ottoman poetic, written, epigraphic and calligraphic art. The paper also provides information about the life and work of nobles, scientists, writers and artists who were born or worked in Shumen and wrote in Ottoman Turkish.
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Giannini, Alessandra. "Tra ruralizzazione ed urbanizzazione: progetti integrati cittŕ-campagna." TERRITORIO, no. 49 (July 2009): 171–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tr2009-049025.
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- Country life is (and has been) the object of utopian visions, set against the rise of urban living. The paradigms of the myth of rural life can be traced back to Howard's Garden City and to Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City. These examples of the paradigm blend into a broader and trans-disciplinary contemporary discourse on the myth of rural living. Since the end of the 1990s, the subject of the relationship between the rural and the urban has developed into plans that could be called ‘country utopias'. The system of agricultural production and the countryside is evolving today towards new forms of integration and hybridisation with urban areas. Planning practices are emerging today in the definition of the characters and traits of urban agriculture designed to create town and country interaction particularly in marginal areas, strips located on the borders between town and country. These modifications are leading to the definition of new rural figures, together with plans capable of giving new life to liminal and marginal areas between town and country by creating new models of ‘rururban' living.
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Popova, O. "RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FORMATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE FIRST TOWN HALLS." Municipal economy of cities 4, no. 164 (October 1, 2021): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.33042/2522-1809-2021-4-164-49-57.
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The article considers the history of the origin and formation of the town hall architecture as the first building of local governments. Over the past century, most town hall buildings have lost their historical significance. This process is due to the improvement of local government in Europe. In addition, the reason for this was the development of autonomy of city government and civil liberties. This process was also influenced by the democratization of the life management procedures of the urban community. From the beginning of its existence, the town hall was formed as the main public space of the city. This space was a place of judicial and public gatherings; the town hall was a centre of trade, as well as a core of theatrical and cultural events. Some town halls had a system of spaces of social interaction, such as closed halls, open and semi-open public rooms. The tendency of concentration of administrative institutions and service enterprises developed. This development took place through the integration of functional, spatial, organizational and technological structures into a single public-administrative complex. In modern town hall buildings, such components as assembly halls, session halls, exhibition halls, museum premises, offices of the City government and offices of fractions are kept until now.
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Dawood, Sharifah Rohayah Sheikh. "Sustainability, Quality of Life and Challenges in an Emerging City Region of George Town, Malaysia." Journal of Sustainable Development 12, no. 3 (May 30, 2019): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v12n3p35.
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High urbanization in Asia has given rise to the necessity to revisit its planning strategies towards the notion of livability and sustainability. This has called upon a need to accommodate the living capacity and ability of cities to provide welfare to their populations. Cities become complex and contradictory spaces if problems with accessibility towards basic necessities, inefficient transportation systems, environmental degradation, urban poverty, social exclusion and collapsing community values are not tackled with scrutiny of the standards needed for the urban quality of life (QoL). This paper aims to describe the urbanisation processes that challenge the livability and sustainability of George Town, the world heritage site of Penang, Malaysia. Using questionnaires and in-depth interviews with respondents, data were collected to explore the quality of life indicators and to assess the extent of urban sustainability and the challenges faced by the local communities. With the notion of an emerging mega urban region, the success of George Town in planning and projecting a sustainable urban development model is a step towards eliminating contemporary urban challenges and to promoting its cultural heritage. In this way forward, the role of the local authorities is crucial to propel George Town towards a livable city status that is culturally preserved.
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KONSTANTINOVA, ALFIYA. "LIFE STRATEGIES OF GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR VETERANS - RESIDENTS OF CLOSED ATOMIC TOWNS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE TOWN OF LESNOY, SVERDLOVSK REGION)." Культурный код, no. 2023-1 (2023): 126–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.36945/2658-3852-2023-1-126-133.
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The article deals with the life path of Great Patriotic War veterans, who lived in the town of Lesnoy, one of the Ural closed administrative-territorial formations (CATF) of the nuclear industry. The hypothesis is expressed that professional self-realization became significant for veterans in planning life goals. The results of this research show that their life strategies in peacetime were focused on success in the implementation of the USSR atomic project (including prevention of events similar to the recent war) and commitment to raise standards of living and quality of life in their town. In addition to labor activity, veterans were often engaged in social work: they participated in city events, in patriotic education of the younger generation, and were the authors and implementers of various initiatives.
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Gaponova, Zhanna K. "ERGONYMS ON THE SIGNS OF A PROVINCIAL CITY: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ASPECT." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 23, no. 4 (2020): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2020-4-23-99-104.
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The nominative space of a provincial town is the subject of the author's attention in the proposed article. An important aspect in consideration of functioning of signs, posters, and other objects in town space is a linguoculturological aspect meaning the analysis of interrelation of the language environment of the town and its inclusiveness into a sociocultural situation. The article analyzes various terminological designations of the names of urban objects in linguistics: urbanonyms, ergonyms, emporonyms, firmonyms and others. The author, referring to the opinions of well-known onomatologists, focuses the attention on the term ergonym, justifying the need to use it to denote the names of shops and institutions. The rethinking of names, according to onomatologists, actualizes the processes of the sociocultural life of the town associated with linguistic problems including games with graphemes. The work examines the current language process reflected in the language of the provincial town – the use of Cyrillic letters in the names of shops and institutions. The study of the naming trends of the provincial town allowed the author to talk about the cultural value of the names. The updating of Cyrillic letters on signs has become a means for forming the value and meaning space of a provincial town, on the one hand, and the process of creating errors on the other. The article describes linguistic contradictions: combinations of modern borrowings with pre-revolutionary graphics, mixing of graphic styles, processes of Eurolatinisation and retrorization, inconsistent use of graphemes. The author of the article concludes that as a result of rethinking the usual nominations in the spirit of pre-revolutionary design of urban space, a special linguistic and cultural phenomenon of a provincial town is formed, striving during globalization for authenticity and identity, which is perceived differently by citizens.
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Tong, Shuai, Jianjie Gao, Fengyu Wang, and Xiang Ji. "Research on Township Industry Development under GEP Accounting—A Case Study of Hanwang Town in Xuzhou City." Land 12, no. 7 (July 21, 2023): 1455. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12071455.
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The protection and utilization of ecological environment are very important for urban and rural development. At present, a large number of relevant theoretical and practical explorations have been carried out, which confirms the important conclusion that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. The sustainable development of ecological environments is based on coordination with human production and life. In this paper, by constructing an accounting system for the gross ecosystem product (GEP) applicable to Hanwang town, using the market value method, the alternative cost method, the travel cost method, the willingness to pay method and other technical methods, the GEP of Hanwang town is calculated from three aspects: product supply, regulation service and cultural tourism. Finally, the spatial distribution characteristics of value are used to guide the development and layout of ecological industry in Hanwang town. The results showed that the total ecosystem product value of Hanwang town in Xuzhou was relatively high, reaching 1.165 billion CNY, with per capita reaching 30 million CNY, which was 49.16% of the town’s GDP in 2020. The value of cultural tourism is 820 million CNY, the value of regulatory services is 239 million CNY, and the value of product provision is 106 million CNY. The ecological value of Hanwang town varies greatly in spatial distribution. On the whole, the price is low in the southwest, but high in the northeast. The high-value areas are mainly concentrated in three areas: Yudai River Riverside, Xuzhou Paradise in the north, Hanwang Scenic Spot in the middle and the Panaxi Valley tourist spot in the south. Based on the principle of ecological value transformation, combining with the spatial distribution characteristics of ecological value in Hanwang town, four modes of promoting ecological value transformation were proposed: ecological industrialization management, ecological governance and value promotion, ecological resource index trading and ecotourism. This paper preliminarily explores a method to calculate and transform the value of ecological space, which provides feasible concrete strategies for the protection of ecological space and the development of ecological industry in towns.
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Gross, Alexander Jones, Dhiraj Murthy, and Lav R. Varshney. "Pace of Life in Cities and the Emergence of Town Tweeters." SAGE Open 7, no. 4 (October 2017): 215824401774511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244017745113.
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Long-standing results in urban studies have shown correlation of population and population density to a city’s pace of life, empirically tested by examining whether individuals in bigger cities walk faster, spend less time buying stamps, or make greater numbers of telephone calls. Contemporary social media presents a new opportunity to test these hypotheses. This study examines whether users of the social media platform Twitter in larger and denser American cities tweet at a faster rate than their counterparts in smaller and sparser ones. Contrary to how telephony usage and productivity scale superlinearly with city population, the total volume of tweets in cities scales sublinearly. This is similar to the economies of scale in city infrastructures like gas stations. When looking at individuals, however, greater population density is associated with faster tweeting. The discrepancy between the ecological correlation and individual behavior is resolved by noting that larger cities have sublinear growth in the number of active Twitter users. This suggests that there is a more concentrated core of more active users that may serve an information broadcast function for larger cities, an emerging group of “town tweeters” as it were.
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Djimantoro, Michael Isnaeni. "Pengaturan Perubahan Fungsi pada Kawasan Perumahan Konservasi: Studi Kasus Kawasan Konservasi Cisangkuy, Bandung." ComTech: Computer, Mathematics and Engineering Applications 1, no. 2 (December 1, 2010): 1012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/comtech.v1i2.2657.
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Human life is more complex with more and diverse human activities, requires an adjustment function on an area of the city. City areas will be abandoned later died at a city area with many buildings that are not maintained anymore. Therefore it needs adjustment function, a function of the new requirement is necessary to maintain the vitality of an area. This principle applies generally to the entire region, including the old town conservation area. Many examples of successful for the revitalization of old town that is how the old town area can adapt to the needs of the new society. Cisangkuy area is part of the initial planning of Bandung city, which is planned as a residential area for officials Dutch East Indies. Current conditions, the region has experienced a change to suit the needs of society. On the other hand, this region also have the value - historical value can still be inherited by future generations. Therefore, the necessary arrangements for the changes that occur to meet the needs of today's society does not damage the characteristics of the region as a whole.
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FAIRE, LUCY, and DENISE MCHUGH. "Twelve shades of grey: encountering urban colour in the street in British provincial towns, c. 1945–1970." Urban History 46, no. 2 (August 7, 2018): 288–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392681800038x.
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ABSTRACTThis article examines the neglected sensory experience of visual physical colour in the city/town centre or what is now referred to as the Central Business District. It focuses on the post-war period when reconstruction, town planning, new architecture, novel materials and technologies, and investment were all transforming British city centres. The research uses film, photographs, planning documents, oral history and social media reminiscences to research the users’ experience of colour in the city centre streets. It argues that, although new materials in construction opened up the possibilities of bright, ‘non-natural’ colours in the urban built environment, the visual experience of colour was found mainly in the ephemera of everyday life. Furthermore, it argues that colour was an important component in constructing people's sense of place and belonging in the city.
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Mastalerz, Anna. "Classification and analysis of social participation initiatives in a post-industrial city – a case study of Pabianice." Urban Development Issues 61, no. 1 (April 12, 2019): 51–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/udi-2019-0002.
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Abstract This paper deals with the transformations of (post)industrial towns in Poland, which took place during the transition from a centralised communist economy to liberal capitalism. As a consequence, a number of areas became redundant. These malfunctioning spaces represent serious spatial, social and economic problems. The complex multifaceted nature of towns means, however, that there were no simple solutions leading to immediate improvements. Investments focused on particular, isolated areas appeared to be far from sufficient interventions. Therefore, comprehensive programmes aimed at holistic urban regeneration are more common nowadays. Since local community wellbeing is one of the key factors in these renewal schemes, social participation is a crucial part of the process. This allows residents to have an influence on the regeneration of their town, which (if well carried out) is expected to improve space, economy and quality of life. The above-mentioned issues will be analysed on the basis of a case study of Pabianice, a post-industrial town in the province of Lodz. The aim of this study is to examine the social participation initiatives implemented during the preparation of the Regeneration Programme for Pabianice – to classify them and to compare them with models regarding the level of social involvement and power in the urban regeneration process described in the paper.
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Santy Paulla, Dewi, and Kurniawati Wakhidah. "Gentrification Impact to the Community’s Quality of Life in Semarang Old Town." E3S Web of Conferences 202 (2020): 02004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020202004.
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The revitalization of the Old Town of Semarang is to support the Old Town as a heritage tourist destination and to overcome environmental problems such as tidal flood, slums, old buildings that are not maintained, and street vendors. Revitalization efforts have positive and negative impacts on the people in it. The positive impact caused by the existence of tourism activities in the Old Town area is the developing economy of Semarang City. While the negative impacts caused are physical, economic, and social gentrification; and affect the quality of life of local people. So it is necessary to study the relationship between gentrification and the quality of life of the community. The analysis to achieve that goal is the identification of revitalization, gentrification, and quality of life of the communities. Data collection methods were questionnaires, field observations, interviews, and document review, and also analysis techniques in the form of spatial planning. Based on the results of the study, there is relationship between gentrification and revitalization. That is, the facilities in the Old Town area cannot reach all levels of the people who live there. Besides, the presence of gentrification worsens the quality of life of local people. The government is still only focused on the physical development of the Old Town but has not considered the community's economic and social revitalization.
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Røe, Bjørn. "The good, the bad and the evil Athens: Quality of life in cities." Ekistics and The New Habitat 69, no. 412-414 (June 1, 2002): 123–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200269412-414396.
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The author is Professor, Department of Town and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Fine Arts, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion"Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001, and is mainly based on Paper 2000:1 by the author published by the Department of Town and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, which was made available to the participants at the same Symposion.
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Volkov, E. V. "ORENBURG COSSACKS AS RESIDENTS OF A COUNTY TOWN (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE TOWN PHILISTINE BOOK OF CHELYABINSK, 1861)." Вестник Пермского университета. История, no. 3 (62) (2023): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2219-3111-2023-3-54-63.
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The article is devoted to the social characteristics of the class group of Orenburg Cossacks who lived in the middle of the 19th century in Chelyabinsk, a county town of the Orenburg province. Using the City Philistine Book for 1861 and a number of other sources, data on the Cossack population of Chelyabinsk (about 5% of the urban population), the social status of homeowners (10% of the total number of homeowners), their marital status, real estate and business activities, etc. were identified, systematized and analyzed. Based on the studied facts, using the concept of “social development” of the Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka, the article contains a thesis about the specifics and significant social changes in the life of the Cossack citizens of the county town. In the city, unlike the countryside, the Cossacks lived in small families. A significant percentage of Cossack women acted as homeowners and economic actors. Many male Cossacks, in their free time from service or in retirement, in addition to agricultural activities, were actively engaged in trade, crafts, maintenance of inns and drinking houses. At the same time, the Cossack townspeople were, as it were, simultaneously in two social communities with their own networks of interactions. On the one hand, they were representatives of the Cossack military class with its traditional attitudes and rules. On the other hand, they lived in the space of the town, where other rules and more active economic and social life existed. Often, conflicts arose between the Cossacks and the city authorities over economic activities and the payment of various taxes.
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Tomicka, Aleksandra. "Obraz XVIII-wiecznego miasta polskiego w „Sprzeczkach” Jakuba Jasińskiego." Prace Literackie 57 (July 12, 2018): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0079-4767.57.1.
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Image of eighteenth-century Polish city in Jakub Jasinski’s poems Quarrels Sprzeczki Jakub Jasinski in the mock-heroic Quarrels places action of story in one of the provincial towns in the vicinity of Krakow. The architectural image of the eighteenth-century city that emerges from the poem shows the problems of Polish realities that urgently needed reforms. During this time, outside the capital, which grew fast, the cities of Poland were mired in poverty. There were many, but existed on the verge of collapse, were often deserted, standing in the ruins. In Western Europe city life was cultural and economically prosperous, and town`s people lived in well-being. The poem from Jasinski’s hand shows Polish reality subjected to criticism, which formed the basis of his political program based on the Enlightenment slogans of social reform and rationalism.
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Svitich, Luisa, Olga Smirnova, Alla Shiryayeva, and Mikhail Shkondin. "Thematic Model of City Newspapers of Megalopolises (Сontent-Analytical Study)." Theoretical and Practical Issues of Journalism 7, no. 3 (July 10, 2018): 371–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17150/2308-6203.2018.7(3).371-393.
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The article presents the results of a comparative content-analytical sociological study of city newspapers of thirteen million-strong cities in comparison to editions of six small and four medium-sized towns of Russia. The research, conducted by Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2013-2017, shows that thematic models of these city newspapers issued in different localities along with common features also have essential distinctions. In megalopolis newspapers, in general, the thematic field is very wide, though editorial offices do not pay equal attention to different subjects. Two thematic disproportions were found in the content of newspapers of million-strong cities. The media picture that prevails in their content is generally concentrated on the sphere of leisure and consumption, hardly mentioning productive, professional life of citizens. The second disproportion is connected with the fact that the main attention is paid to social problems of everyday life, the habitat, infrastructure of big cities, but not the person, persons inner world, values, morals, psychology, and relationship with other people. Media of million-strong cities rather work in line with a commercial paradigm. The research has shown that the smaller the town is, the closer newspapers are to requirements and problems which concern inhabitants, they try to light the most important spheres of their life and more evenly distribute the attention to different aspects of activity of the readers, including history, traditions, national crafts. Newspapers of the medium-sized and small towns reflect objective needs of citizens; help to solve specific problems, to keep traditions and basic values.
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Świątkiewicz, Anna, Marcin Połom, and Krystian Puzdrakiewicz. "Changes in the Spatial Development of a Satellite Town under the Impact of a Metropolitan City—Evidence from Pruszcz Gdański (Poland)." Land 10, no. 8 (July 29, 2021): 800. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10080800.
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Nowadays, large cities are becoming troublesome to live in in many respects. Due to the high prices of real estate, they are not attractive to young people. The literature often presents analyses of the phenomenon of urban sprawl to suburbia, but the subject of the impact of a metropolitan city on the functioning and changes in spatial development of satellite towns is rarely discussed. This study attempts to describe and to determine factors conducive to this process by identifying, through participant observation, the potential phenomenon of the influence of Gdańsk as a city with metropolitan functions on Pruszcz Gdański, a town directly adjacent to it. The article uses two main groups of methods: (a) a comparative analysis of orthophotomaps from 2005–2020 which allowed for recreating the dynamics of housing development, supported by land mapping as part of field research; (b) a structured internet survey on a sample of 393 residents which allowed identifying the factors influencing the spatial development of Pruszcz Gdański and the perception of this phenomenon, as well as an in-depth interview with a group of 6 residents which allowed obtaining detailed information on the quality of life in Pruszcz Gdański and the factors that determine living in this town. The proximity of both cities and much lower real estate prices in Pruszcz Gdański, which still has most of the functions of an independent town, is beneficial to settling down of migrants from the core of the metropolis. This process particularly applies to young people of working age who cannot afford to buy a new flat in Gdańsk. Building new multi-family housing estates close to the border with Gdańsk has created a kind of new service band or, in a sense, a “town within a town”.
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Zhang, Jun. "Research on Sustainable Renewal Design of Commercial Streets in Bengbu Old Town." Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 10 (October 23, 2022): 85–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/fhss.v2i10.2381.
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THE PACE OF urban development will not stop. Only through sustainable renewal can street space adapt to the development of the city and maintain the vitality of the space. The old city street is one of the most important public Spaces in the city. The renewal of street space is of great significance for the improvement of city quality. This study takes the commercial streets in the old urban area of Bengbu City as an example, and on the basis of studying relevant theories, puts forward the sustainable design method of commercial streets, which mainly includes the following points: 1. The use of sustainable design ideas for the whole life cycle. 2. Humanistic display improves the cultural connotation of streets. 3. Humanized design strategy. 4. Construct continuous commercial street space.
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ZAYATS, Andriy. "THE VOHYNIAN TOWN OF HOROKHIV IN THE 15TH – THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY (SKETCHES TO HISTORY)." Вісник Львівського університету. Серія історична / Visnyk of the Lviv University. Historical Series, no. 54 (November 3, 2022): 65–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/his.2022.54.11603.
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The article traces the origins of Horokhiv’s urban status and the way of its getting to the estates of the princely family of Sanguszko, and later to Kilian Wilhorsky. The mechanism of the populating and its border formation is shown. The small population of Horokhiv allows to classify it as a small town. The Horokhiv had a castle, and its urban fortification was wooden and earthwork. The town had two gates and the most of the buildings were wooden. Better houses were located on the market place near the town hall. Among the religious buildings of Horokhiv are mentioned: Orthodox and Catholic churches and also synagogue. There was a Jesuit college in the city. Urban self-government was granted with the privilege of the Magdeburg Law (1600). The number of town councilors and lay judges (ławnicy) was normal for the Volyn cities. The importance of trades and fairs in Horokhiv’s economic life is revealed. The town has been repeatedly leased and mortgaged. The difficult relations of the burghers with the nobility are analyzed. The socio-economic level of Horokhiv’s development, combined with the educational and religious buildings in the city, turned it to a center for its surrounding region.
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Gonina, Natalia V. "Role of the Norilsk Nickel Smelter in Formation of Norilsk Urban Environment in 1950–70s." Herald of an archivist, no. 2 (2023): 540–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2073-0101-2023-2-540-552.
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Existence of the cities above the Arctic Circle is a topic that is gaining importance. Most scholars adhere to economic approach, some to urbanistic, and rarely to social. However, it is the sociocultural situation that distinguishes a city from a settlement near a plant, the quality of the urban environment playing a decisive role in preservation (or loss) of population. Urban environment is a multidimensional notion. This paper aims to correlate the elements of the urban environment of Norilsk created with direct involvement of the Norilsk Nickel Smelter with those evolved entirely without its intervention. The paper demonstrates that absolutization of departmentalism in city life can camouflage essential features of the urban environment, while the widely used notion of “single-industry town” (monogorod) contradicts the very essence of the city. The work is based on archival materials and memoirs of the Norilsk citizens, some are being introduced into scientific use. The authors employed “new urban history” approach, in particular, works of Henri Lefebvre. The paper analyses the sources and specific character of urban population growth, investigates the driving forces of Norilsk development and improvement. The paper also shows constructive and destructive influence of the smelter upon the urban environment. The paper explores the ways in which residents contributed to city development. Additionally, it considers natural and climatic factors. The authors conclude that it is wrong to overemphasize the activities of the Norilsk Nickel Smelter in creation of Norilsk and to contrapose city and plant. Though there are clear physical boundaries for both town and plant, their social and cultural spheres are interconnected. The development of plant and town are like two sides of a coin. Those who inhabited the town and those who worked for the smelter or managed it were with few exceptions the same people. The plant organized and financed city construction and development, but realization was in the hands of its citizens. Even if the initiative belonged to the plant administration, side issues of municipal improvement were settled by dint of citizens’ activities. The geographical position of Norilsk influenced its specific lifestyle. It was impossible to cope individually with existential threats of living beyond the Arctic Circle. In this respect, the smelter paternalism was natural. Simultaneously, the difficulties of everyday life united people and formed collective spirit that remained even when people left the town. The same hardships promoted construction of health and wellbeing resources, contributing to urban development, organized and sponsored by the smelter. Altogether, the paper argues that the development of the smelter and the town was interrelated. It became a crucial factor for survival in extreme environments.
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Chattopadhyay, Swati. "Blurring Boundaries: The Limits of "White Town" in Colonial Calcutta." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59, no. 2 (June 1, 2000): 154–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/991588.
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Scholars assume colonial Calcutta was a dual city split into "black" and "white" towns. The critical aspect of colonial Calcutta, however, did not lie in such divisions, but in the blurring of boundaries between the two. The rhetorical categories of "white" and "black" towns were used to sustain the British desire to maintain difference in a city in which everyday life compromised such distinctions. The central argument of this essay rests on an analysis of a clearly distinguishable "pattern" of nineteenth-century colonial buildings that borrowed from indigenous as well as foreign sources. It is only by juxtaposing the spatial analysis with written and pictorial documentation that we can understand how these spaces operated in everyday practice. The attempt is to bridge the gap between rhetoric and practice, and to suggest that the spatial structure of Calcutta, from the building scale to the city scale, spoke of the hybrid conditions of colonial culture-a hybridity that did not simply reside in the native body and the native city, but one that the colonizers themselves inhabited.
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Talivee, Elle-Mari. "The Beginning of Estonian City Writing – a Bird’s-Eye Overview." Interlitteraria 16, no. 2 (December 31, 2011): 464–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2011.16.2.6.
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“The city is a state of mind,” observed the American urban sociologist Robert Ezra Park (Bennett et al. 2008: 35). The mapper of several literary cities, the Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, concludes in his memoir about his home town Istanbul that, instead of the southern sun, it is the warmth of people that glows around this city. Nowadays Estonia is mainly characterized as an urbanized country. Although the city was for some authors a happy space as early as in the 19th century, beginning with C. R. Jakobson, it was generally common practice to disapprove of the city and city life in 19th century Estonian poetry and this lasted for quite a long time, until the 1920s (Kepp 2003: 378). How was the city portrayed in prose? This article concentrates on the beginning of city writing in Estonian literature: the transition from village stories to early urban prose. The first known original Estonian literary work was a poem, a lamentation titled “Oh, ma vaene Tarto liin!” (Oh Me, the Poor Town of Tartu!), dedicated to the town of Tartu, which had been ravaged in the Nordic War. The sacristan from the Puhja parish church, named Käsu Hans, wrote it in 1708, probably also inspired by a Biblical parallel, the destruction of Jerusalem. However, it was almost two hundred years later that the first equivalent efforts in prose occurred, during the original flourishing of Estonian literature of the National Awakening, in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Nirmal, Sandip B. "Applications of Drone and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Surveying for Planning For Cities." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 12, no. 3 (March 31, 2024): 885–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2024.58897.
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Abstract: The field of town planning is one of the many areas in city life where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and drones could find use. When compared to traditional surveying options, drones may offer planners a more accurate, precise, flexible, and economical means of obtaining information. Unfortunately, current Indian government restrictions around the use of drones, particularly in the town planning sector, are vague and prioritize safety above advancing technology toward a system that is more efficient. To maximize the public benefit from the use of drone technology in town planning, town planners and surveyors require flexible, practical drone regulations that address the numerous concerns surrounding the use of UAVs in urban areas. This research discusses the present applications of UAVs in many areas of urban planning.
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Ünal, Fatma. "Town-Gown Relationships: Perceptions and Expectations about Bartın University Town-Gown Relationships." Journal of Higher Education and Science 11, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 14–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5961/jhes.2021.424.
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Universities have missions to conduct scientific research, produce information and technology, fulfill the function of qualified human power needed by the societies at the universal level, as well as lead the transformation of the region and the city regarding social, cultural and economic perspective. The growth and development of universities and effective fulfillment of their functions are associated with the people’s perception about universities’ economic and social contributions to society along with getting approval and support from them. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions, evaluations and expectations of Bartın people towards Bartın University, which celebrated the 11th anniversary of the foundation in 2019. In the study, which used a mixed research method, 255 people were reached by using the criterion sampling method and the data were collected by demographic information form, scale and interview form. Findings revealed that Bartın people had little participation in the activities organized by the university and were not aware of these activities sufficiently. Findings also showed that socio-cultural activities organized by the university had enriched the social life, the development of the university had increased the possibilities of transportation both in the city and intercity and the increase in the number of the students positively affected the tradespeople. Additionally, it was concluded that the trainings and activities organized in the university contributed to the personal and professional development of the society. Moreover, the activities should be increased and cityoriented researches should be conducted. Participants, who stated the rapid development of the university as the most powerful aspect of the university, shared the suggestion that the academic staff should be increased in quantity and merit should be taken as the basis for the improvement.
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Phuong, Nguyen Thi Hoai. "The Port City of Haiphong, 1874–1940: The Position of the Chinese Community in a French Colonial City." Lembaran Sejarah 17, no. 2 (November 25, 2022): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.79415.
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This article discusses the position of the Chinese community in Haiphong, the largest port city in Northern Vietnam during the French colonial period. The Chinese had arrived and lived in Haiphong, as well as many other places in Vietnam long before the advent of the French. Nevertheless, a large-scale influx of Chinese migrants to Haiphong only happened after the French established colonial rule over Indochina and took full control of the town in the late nineteenth century. Haiphong became a strategic port in the transportation system of French Indochina, as well as within the French colonial empire. In Haiphong, the Chinese gathered in a separate residential quarter having the social and cultural life distinct from the French and Vietnamese communities. Yet, they were actively engaged in various economic activities of the town, notetably trade, intrustry, and financial services. The bombardment and occupation of Haiphong by the Japanese army in late 1940 caused great damages and casualties to the Chinese community. The prolonged warfares and the establishment of the communist regime in Vietnam after 1945 virtually ended the economic hegemony of the Chinese in Haiphong, as well other cities in Northern Vietnam.
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Tayeng, Ratna. "Pasighat: The Oldest Town of Arunachal Pradesh." Dera Natung Government College Research Journal 3, no. 1 (2018): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.56405/dngcrj.2018.03.01.06.
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Pasighat is the most well known town of Arunachal Pradesh. Words fall short to define the beauty and the generosity of this town. It is on this place that the British first set foot to conquer Arunachal Pradesh and established administrative centre one hundred year back. Over times, it has sheltered people from different walks of life from outside the state to different tribes of this border state. At present it is the second biggest town of Arunachal Pradesh next to Itanagar. The town celebrated its centenary year in 2011. Besides, on June 2017 it also gets selected for smart city mission after a heartycompetition under the Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. In this paper an attempt is made to understand the empirical reality of urbanization and related socio-economic changes in the town.
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Sánchez, María, Pedro Pablo Godoy, and Leon Krier. "Ciudad Cayalá, a New Extension of Guatemala City." Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, no. 2 (November 10, 2021): 126–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.51303/jtbau.vi2.506.
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In 2003, Estudio Urbano in partnership with master planner Leon Krier, proposed a new traditional town as an extension of Guatemala City: Ciudad Cayalá. Its goal is to create a humane, hospitable urban environment that fosters a strong sense of community, while generating local employment opportunities and a vibrant commercial and civic life. Paseo Cayalá is the first built quarter that is intended to serve as a model for future growth. It revives Guatemala’s unique architectural identity and offers a way of life radically different from the typically disconnected, car-oriented developments. The principle of mixed-use and programmatically-tuned architectural variety has laid the foundation for a robust emerging public realm. Paseo Cayalá celebrates local identity and has become a place of hope and happiness.
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Sadatiseyedmahalleh, Seyedehelham, Suraiyati Rahman, and Aldrin Abdullah. "Analyzing Street Art to Present the Heritage of George Town, Malaysia." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 2, no. 4 (July 31, 2015): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v2i4.17.
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Street art comprises all kinds of art developed in public locations. This form of art has spread to all heritage streets in George Town, the capital of Penang Island, which is also a known UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, instead of its heritage, food, and interesting past life and structure, the rapid multiplication of street art in George Town has created a new and unusual art that attracts tourists. Street art has spread to small roads and heritage streets in the city. This art increases the awareness of spectators by introducing them to the rich history of these streets and inducing a lively concept in the inner city of George Town. Accordingly, the impact of iron rod sculptures and murals, which comprises approximately 90% of street art in George Town, were determined to explore and identify the effects of this street art on this world heritage site. The findings were obtained from 263 out of 306 questionnaires accomplished by tourists in George Town. The results confirm that tourists prefer murals over iron rod sculptures. Iron rod sculptures are designed to tell the history of the street, whereas murals are designed to create aesthetic value. The findings indicated that similar to iron rod sculptures, more control should be exercised on the subjects of murals.
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Liu, Fang. "Analysis of the importance of art elements in the construction of ecological environment in the new era." Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S 28, no. 4 (December 1, 2021): 597–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eces-2021-0039.
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Abstract With the development of economy, people have higher and higher requirements for living art. A good ecological environment is the guarantee of creating an aesthetic environment. Taking the ecological environment construction of ecological town as an example, this paper analyses the importance of integrating artistic elements into the ecological environment construction in the new era from the perspective of environmental aesthetics. Based on the concept of "three life integration" and "garden city theory", this paper creatively puts forward the construction methods and models of ecological environment in contemporary small towns. Based on the height of environmental aesthetics, this paper analyses the planning and construction process of characteristic town and the evaluation and acceptance criteria of ecological environment design, summarises its successful experience and main problems, and makes a retrospective summary and reflection. This paper analyses the importance of the integration of art elements into the ecological town in the new era. The results show that in the new era of ecological environment construction, the integration of art elements can not only improve the quality of ecological environment construction, but also improve the common people's cognition of ecological beauty.
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Raszkowski, Andrzej. "Dzierżoniów Town in the eyes of its residents – a study report." GeoScape 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2015): 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geosc-2015-0005.
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Abstract Dzierżoniów’s residents definitely represent one of its most valuable resources. Its development and improvement of the generally approached life quality depends on their involvement in solving social and economic problems, their entrepreneurship and creativity. It should also be emphasized that the vast majority of surveyed residents are in favour of their city development. This phenomenon is based on the principle of mutual dependencies, i.e. the better the city functioning, the better living the conditions provided for its residents. On the other hand, the more active and involved the residents are the more effective is their support for the city development (e.g. by their involvement in NGOs’ activities). The presented article was prepared based on the survey studies ordered by Dzierżoniów’s Town Office and conducted in the period July–August 2013 which covered, among others, the city residents (422 respondents). The research was carried out within the framework of one of the stages in developing Dzierżoniów’s Local Sustainable Development Strategy for the period 2014-2020. The purpose of the study is to discuss and assess the selected functional areas of Dzierżoniów Town (geographic environment, economy, technical infrastructure, social infrastructure, city management) based on its residents’ opinions.
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Kus, Józef. "Propinae, dona honoraria, kontentacje, przywitania i dary w siedemnastowiecznym Lublinie. Korupcja czy element kultury?" Studia Archiwalne 7 (2020): 47–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/17347513sa.20.003.14503.
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Problematyka artykułu dotyczy obdarowywania przez mieszczan lubelskich króla, urzędników królewskich, dowódcom wojsk, przystawów poselstw zagranicznych, duchownych, w okresie staropolskim. Podstawowym źródłem, z którego korzystał autor, były księgi rachunkowe oraz opublikowane przez Jana Riabinina w 1935 r. lauda miejskie. Propinae, dona honoraria, Contentment, Greetings, and Presents in the 17th century Lublin The subject of the article concerns those spheres of town life which favored corruption in the form of repeatedly handing over money, gifts, funding lavish parties for king’s officials, military leaders, guard officers of foreign diplomatic mission, or priests in return for desisting from functions of executing the town obligations from the towns. The basic source which the author used were the account books and city resolutions (lauda) published by Jan Riabinin in 1935. Summing up, the author pointed to the popular old Roman principle of reciprocity do, ut des (I give so that you may give) used in the 17th century Lublin.
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Sewell, Jessica. "Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830 (review)." Technology and Culture 47, no. 4 (2006): 826–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2006.0253.
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Miller, Marla R. "Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830 (review)." Journal of the Early Republic 26, no. 4 (2006): 676–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jer.2006.0073.
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BORSAY, PETER. "Nature, the past and the English town: a counter-cultural history." Urban History 44, no. 1 (February 10, 2016): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392681500098x.
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ABSTRACTIn investigating urban culture, historians have understandably tended to focus on the man-made and the modern, and have paid less attention to the role of nature and the past, which seem the opposite of what the town stands for. This survey, which takes as its case-study England, argues that nature and the past have always been part of urban life, but as urbanization gathered pace, particularly from the eighteenth century, they became if anything an even more important element in city and town culture.
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Berlin, Michael. "Civic ceremony in early modern London." Urban History 13 (May 1986): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926800007975.
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The ceremonial life of the early modern town has emerged as an important area of study for urban historians. Ever since the publication of Charles Phythian-Adams' innovative study, attention has focused on the elaborate series of processions, pageants and rites of passage which were a constant feature of the yearly cycle of town life. In the wake of his work other studies of the ceremonial life of late medieval and early modern towns have added to the urban historian's awareness of the importance of ritualized forms of behaviour as a symbolic thread which helped bind together the social fabric of the townscape. The research done thus far forms one of those areas of scholarship in which the cross-fertilization of the interdisciplinary approach, so beloved of the ‘new’ urban history, has proved particularly fruitful. It might be surprising then that London, the largest of English towns, has yet to receive similar treatment. There have been, of course, several important studies of the capital in the early modern period, and they have something to say about the ceremonial life of the city. These have largely concentrated on topics such as the structure of government, the nature of London's ruling elite, and social mobility within the city's craft organizations. While providing important sidelights on ceremony, these treatments have tended to place ceremonial events in the background, as the ‘icing on the cake’. At the same time there have been many important studies by art and literary historians of ceremonial occasions such as coronations, royal entries or the Lord Mayors' Shows, but these have tended to concentrate on ceremony as an expression of dynastic propaganda or as a development in dramatic form rather than as part of the social history of the city. The object of this article will be to attempt to rectify this gap in our knowledge by applying some of the framework bequeathed by Phythian-Adams, and so try to assess the relevence of his conclusions about urban society in this period to the particular case of London.