Academic literature on the topic 'Urban space'

ResumenEl Centro Histórico de Cuenca, como todas las ciudades hispanoamericanas fundadas por los españoles, está configurado por una cuadrícula, un tejido urbano regular aparentemente repetitivo. Este artículo analiza 25 manzanas del Centro Histórico, identifica y ubica aquellos elementos que rompen la regularidad de esta cuadrícula, mediante un mapeo del área de estudio que diferencia el espacio privado del colectivo. Posteriormente, se busca en estos espacios, características espaciales comunes, que permitan categorizarlos. Finalmente, se describe la configuración espacial de cada categoría, tomando como base los elementos de delimitación del espacio -recinto, portal, aula- y sus posibles combinaciones. Se identifican así 27 ejemplos de espacios, agrupados en seis categorías; las cuales que pueden servir para analizar otros casos de estudio con distintos tejidos urbanos, escalas y diversidad espacial.
 Palabras clave: Cuadrícula urbana, espacio colectivo, forma urbana, tejido urbano, diversidad espacial.
 AbstractThe Historic Center of Cuenca, as every American city founded by the Spaniards, has been developed over an urban grid -an apparently repetitive regular urban fabric-. This article analyzed twenty-five blocks of the Historic Center, identified and located elements that break this grid regularity, through a mapping that distinguished the private form the collective spaces in the study area. Subsequently, it sought for common spatial characteristics in these spaces that allowed them to be categorized. Finally, the spatial configuration of each category was described, based on the space delimitation elements -recinto, portal, aula- and their possible combinations. As a result of this process, twenty-seven examples of spaces grouped into six categories were identified. These categories can be useful in order to analyze other case studies, with different urban tissues, scales and diversity.
 Keywords: Urban grid, collective space, urban form, urban fabric, spatial diversity

This study investigates the effect of art on promoting the meaning of the urban space. After considering the semantic dimension of the urban space and the mechanism of transferring the meanings of art through the views of experts, a model is presented for examining the art’s cooperation in promoting urban space meaning. In the first stage, the categories of space meanings influenced by art were extracted using the qualitative method of interpretative phenomenological analysis, and by examining 61 in-depth interviews in 6 urban spaces eligible for urban art in Tehran. In the second stage, these categories were surveyed in these spaces through 600 questionnaires after converting to the questionnaire items. Based on the results, “experience and perception capability”, “social participation”, and “relationship with context” were the main themes of the semantic relationships between art and urban space. Further, the lower scores related to the theme of “social participation” in the quantitative investigations indicate that this theme was weaker than the other themes in promoting the meaning of the urban space through the art in the selected urban spaces.

This article investigates what happens to urban space once an open-street CCTV system is implemented, framing the analysis in terms of the wider struggle that unfolds between different urban stakeholders for the definition of acceptability in public space. It is argued that, while the use of surveillance cameras was initially seen as functional to the enforcement of tighter control and to the de-complexification of urban space so as to make policing easier, a shift has now taken place in the articulation of this goal. As a result, it has slowly progressed to affect the wider field of sociability, with troubling consequences for the public character of public space. In light of this development, the article concludes by making the case for a normative stance to be taken in order to increase fairness and diversity in the city.

Review of Popkov Yu. V., Skalaban I. A., Tyugashev E. A., Kostyuk V. G., Madyukova S. A., Persidskaya O. A., Tarbastaev I. S., Vavilina N. D., Terentyev M. N., Osmuk L. A., Deriga E. S. 2018. Sociocultural Monitoring of the Urban Interethnic Community: Methodology, Methodology, and Practice. Edited by Yu. V. Popkov. Novosibirsk: Izdatelstvo Novosibirskogo gosudarstvennogo tekhnicheskogo universiteta.

This paper explores pedestrian mobility patterns in Kypseli, a dense and socio-economically diverse neighborhood in Athens, Greece, that it is considered as a typical Greek residential area, in terms of its built environment and road network characteristics. The research method included crowdsourced geospatial data overlayed on cadastral maps, and semi-structured interviews with residents and visitors to understand the routes they usually take, the routes they could take, and the routes they would like to take. The study also applied space syntax analysis, using angular integration and choice tools, to assess how the urban layout impacts the pedestrian flow. Findings showed that the walking routes are primarily influenced by safety, accessibility, and pavement width, with well-connected streets and streets with intense mixed land-use. The study highlights the importance of urban design and land management in promoting the perceived walkability. It also recommends enhancing pedestrian spaces to create more sustainable, livable, and socially inclusive cities to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 SDG 11.