Territorialities of Multilocality

Hannover: Verlag der ARL - Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, 2021

Book of Proceedings from International Conference „Synergy of Architecture & Civil Engineering - SINARG 2023”, 2023

Territoriality is a term that is widely used in science and other areas of human activity. Usually, this term refers to a pattern of behavior of a person or group that is based on the need to control the physical space, object or idea. It can also be seen as the user's level of tolerance and willingness to share the same spaces and content with other people. Although the phenomenon of territoriality has already been researched to a considerable extent in the field of architecture, there are fewer studies in which the presence of territoriality has been analyzed in residential spaces. The subject of this research is the experience of territoriality in the domain of residential spaces, specifically in an apartment or a house. The research starts from the analysis of the reference literature in which territoriality in residential areas was discussed, and then moves on to the analysis of the presence of territoriality among users in characteristic models of housing units (apartment for singles, for families with one, two and three generations and for co-living communities). After the synthesis of the obtained information, different levels and intensities of the experience of territoriality arising between users, facilities and visitors in the previously mentioned housing models will be compared. The aim of the research is to examine which aspects influence the emergence and change of the intensity of the experience of territoriality in the residential space, as well as to reconsider the view that the experience of territoriality in the residential space is always present, but of different intensity depending on whether a reaction occurs to the presence of visitors, facilities or other users.

Book of Abstracts from IV International Scientific Conference „Science, Education, Technology and Innovation - SETI IV 2022”, Belgrade, 2022

The notion of territoriality is very widespread and crucial in many areas of human activity. The term is usually associated with the need to delimit the space, when individuals or groups use and over which they have certain types of competencies. So far, various parameters that determine the scope of the experience of territoriality have been investigated in science, among others, regulation, security, personalization and protection of space. This paper will examine the extent to which spatial boundaries provide different degrees of privacy and enable people to control their own activities and the activities of others. Deductive methods and comparative analysis of certain characteristic examples of housing - housing communities, housing units and residential units will be used. The physical and functional framework and the social structure of space can increase or decrease the possibilities for the activities of the tenants. The aim of this research is to consider the relationship between the perception of the territoriality of an individual or group in housing and the character of the boundaries that determine the domain of the territory, ie. certain spatial levels. Also, to reconsider the thesis that one of the key parameters that affect the experience of territoriality in housing is the character of the border. If the border of the territory is more material, solid, more explicit or closed, the experience of territoriality is more present, while if the borders of the territory are more ephemeral, flexible or open, they reduce the experience of territoriality and have the opposite effect.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 2013

This research is a literature study which discusses the concept of territoriality space theory. The observation focus in the context of traditional settlement, which emphasize on the social and cultural aspect that related to the social system and physical culture in traditional settlement context. The aim of this study to seek and uncover gap knowledge of space territoriality concept or theory that has been widely studied and researched, whether it has been done in more depth in behavioral and cultural aspects of society? Is the context of the traditional settlement has been studied in more depth and comprehensively?.Traditional settlements as the physical environment or setting is unique, and the distinctiveness have not been studied and examined in more depth. Territoriality is the relationship between space with humans, the study approach with a focus on cultural norms, and different societies will generate a form and a different concept of space. Finally, the results based on literature review shows that the concept or theory of territoriality in the traditional settlements context in more depth and comprehensively in the aspects of culture and behavior has not been done. Therefore, a specify and comprehension study of territoriality space on the traditional settlement need to be done, in order to find out an adequate formula related to territoriality space on the traditional settlement.

Nordisk Arkitekturforskning Na Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, 2005

Springer Geography, 2016

The main objective of this chapter is to introduce the book as a first result of ongoing research about cultural heritage and landscape as a key for a sustainable local development. A place-based approach is useful to promote cultural territorial systems as the necessary interpretative format to understand the contemporary urban and territorial structure, which is often polarized between metropolitan areas and small and mid-sized towns.

This research is a literature study which discusses the concept of territoriality space theory. The observation focus in the context of traditional settlement, which emphasize on the social and cultural aspect that related to the social system and physical culture in traditional settlement context. The aim of this study to seek and uncover gap knowledge of space territoriality concept or theory that has been widely studied and researched, whether it has been done in more depth in behavioral and cultural aspects of society? Is the context of the traditional settlement has been studied in more depth and comprehensively?.Traditional settlements as the physical environment or setting is unique, and the distinctiveness have not been studied and examined in more depth. Territoriality is the relationship between space with humans, the study approach with a focus on cultural norms, and different societies will generate a form and a different concept of space. Finally, the results based on literature review shows that the concept or theory of territoriality in the traditional settlements context in more depth and comprehensively in the aspects of culture and behavior has not been done. Therefore, a specify and comprehension study of territoriality space on the traditional settlement need to be done, in order to find out an adequate formula related to territoriality space on the traditional settlement.

In this article I propose to analyse models of urban life (especially in large cities) by treating them as an expression of the broader social changes defined as late modernity (Giddens 1991(Giddens , 2001. I assume that the city, understood as a socio-spatial whole, distinctly reflects the main characteristics of contemporary phenomena and social processes, and that analysing urban reality can comprise an important part of the discussion on unity/plurality of culture in social life suggested by the editors of this publication. For the purposes of this text, I understand culture as models of community life, rather than as a specific set of values, ideas and norms. In spite of this rather broad view, however, this understanding does not equate culture with social life as such, but rather focuses attention on the specificity and models of the relations between the elements that constitute a given community. This is close to the position taken by Marek Krajewski, who writes: "The culture of a specific community is a particular way of linking the elements that make up that community, a kind of constantly evolving recipe which determines the relations between these parts. In speaking of a recipe I am thinking not only of reflexivised and codified rules linking together the various components constituting a certain whole, but also the objectively existing properties of these links, how they are constructed, and which constituent parts are joined. (…) Culture understood as a property of a network of links creating a certain community defines its specific nature, and this decides what it is and why, what functions and roles it fulfils, what its particular characteristics are, what distinguishes it from other communities etc." (Krajewski 2013: 32-33) I approach this issue with the roots of urban sociology in mind. This was founded on premises about the existence of a specific mentality among city dwellers as well as ways of urban life, peculiar social relations and unique mechanisms of transformation. The output of urban sociology, which developed in the United States and Europe in the first half of the 20th century, came under heavy criticism in subsequent decades. This was delivered especially by 2 scholars proposing a critical urban sociology, both in the so-called macrostructural paradigm of "new" urban sociology (cf. Frysztacki 2004) and in urban studies which analysed the city in the context of the processes of globalisation (e.g. the concept of the global city). Critics pointed to the extremely limited possibilities afforded by the qualitative approach, which according to them did not fit the reality of the city determined above all by economic and political factors at the macro level (first state, then global). Today, however, not only are the "classic" conceptions and qualitative methodologies employed effectivelysuch as in case studies (of districts, specific areas or groups of inhabitants), but we can even speak of a revival of urban fieldwork and methodology that combines the sociological, anthropological and ethnological perspectives. The works of Simmel and de Certeau are being read "anew", and very interesting and promising research on cities is taking place in the paradigm of sociology of everyday life and visual sociology. 1 In my opinion, the return towards qualitative urban research is connected to the development of studies of globalisation and the associated theories (of space, community, local development), in which this phenomenon is perceived as a process rooted in localities and with various consequences for them.