Public Realm

Australia's household sector appears to hold a greater proportion of its wealth in dwellings than do households in other countries. Average dwelling prices in Australia also appear to be high relative to household income, but dwellings in Australia are not noticeably higher in quality than those in comparable countries. This concentration of wealth in housing also does not seem attributable to government policies that encourage dwelling investment in Australia to a greater extent than is true overseas. A possible reconciliation of this pattern may be the unusual concentration of Australia's population in two large cities. Average housing prices tend to be higher in larger cities than smaller ones. Therefore, the expensive cities in Australia drag up the average level of dwelling prices more than in other countries, resulting in a higher share of wealth concentrated in housing. The increasing importance of dwelling wealth in Australia over recent years largely reflects the consequences of disinflation and financial deregulation. This is most likely a transitional effect, and the ratio of dwelling wealth to income should stabilise, or begin to grow more slowly, in the future.

With more people opting for the urban living and working, cities are becoming important for promoting economy, generating  employment and providing infrastructures. Unsustainable urban  growth, led by uncontrolled concentration of population  in the  limited  urban areas,  has numerous implications  for human living.  Globally, cities are fast  emerging as areas of  dualities and contradictions, adversely  impacting human living and nature. Prime reason for  unsustainable urban development can be attributed to non-involvement of  urban youth, despite being in majority, in the process of urban planning and management. Making cities resilient, sustainable and inclusive, would require  engaging and involving  youth  proactively  in the art and science of planning , designing and management of cities. In search for sourcing appropriate options of involving youth in urban context , paper looks at the; prevailing issues creating roadblocks in the rational growth and development of the cities ,  explains  the  role and relevance of  youth participation in the  urban context,  to address  the emerging urban challenges and  making value addition to  cities.

Socialmedicinsk tidskrif t 2/2019 183 Sedan Morag Myerscough studerade på Royal College i London under 1990-talet har det varit viktigt för henne att inte identifieras med en specifik konstnärlig inriktning. Under utbildningstiden blev hon influerad av sextiotalets design, Bauhausrörelsen och The Memphis Group. Utbildningen i sig upplevde hon som alltför lite utmanande och hon experimenterade därför med egna uttryck, inspirerad av olika discipliner. När hon lämnade universitet fick hon höra att hon varit otydlig med sitt val av yrkesroll. Vid den tiden fanns starka förväntningar på att en student skulle välja ett yrkesområde och ägna sig åt det. (Idag är det alltmer självklart med gränsöverskridande möten mellan konst, design eller arkitektur.) Även om Myerscough under en period försökte specialisera sig inom grafisk design lockades hon aldrig riktigt av att röra sig i en särskild riktning, eller av att specialisera sig på ett enda konstnärligt fält. Kritiken hade dock väckt hennes ...

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This paper explores the utilisation of sensory mapping techniques to enhance livable and inclusive urban environments, with a focus on revitalising neglected void spaces. It emphasises the importance of community engagement and renewal in these areas and highlights sensory mapping as a method to capture diverse experiences and insights. Drawing from interdisciplinary case studies, it illustrates how sensory experiences influence perceptions of urban spaces and contribute to a sense of belonging. The paper stresses the significance of inclusive design in shaping public spaces that accommodate individuals of all backgrounds and abilities, advocating for accessibility and consideration of marginalised groups. By synthesising theoretical insights with practical examples, it offers recommendations to promote collaboration, accessibility, and cultural sensitivity in sensory mapping projects, aiming to transform void spaces into vibrant, people-centred places.

Recent cooperative housing projects in Zurich have become icons of architectural design internationally. But what makes innovation in nonprofit housing possible within a largely for-profit real estate market? What has enabled Zurich’s lasting commitment to nonspeculation for more than one hundred years? How does built architecture partake in these processes — and how does its partaking expand the definition of architecture? “Cooperative Conditions” answers these questions in a systematic investigation of eight conditions that have allowed Zurich’s cooperative housing to thrive under the principles of public benefit, or Gemeinnützigkeit. By analyzing specific financial and regulatory instruments, their history, and their intersection with the built environment, this primer shows that the exceptional quality in Zurich’s cooperative housing is possible because of, not despite, the commitment to nonspeculation.

The creation of democratic and ecological cities is a question of radical social transformation. The city has played an important role in human life from antiquity until nowadays. We cannot think of our future without thinking of the future of our urban inhabitant. Oversimplified proposals for the abandoning of city life and retreat to small villages and rural life have either lost touch with reality, or are being influenced by primitivism and its anti-political orientation. If we are to create democratic and ecological society, we will have to rethink and remake our cities along democratic and ecological lines.

By "nothing" she referees to the term "Shunyata" used by the Buddhist´s which means something like filled emptiness. I´ll talk about experiences of the work from my own point of view, since I visited it in July 2014, some critic´s and other visitors thoughts and Abramović´s own intentions and experiences of it. I will also compare the role of the audience in this work with earlier works of Abramović and suggest an interpretation based on stigmata.

The social life, history, and customs of historic towns are all influenced by the public domain. The urban planning and architecture of the public domain establish the distinctive identity of old towns. They help to bring people together and form social bonds. In this phase, urban planning and architecture are vital. The public realm's historical character is essential for social interactions. The purpose of this study is to investigate and evaluate the impacts of conflict on the urban public realm (market places) in Mosul's war-torn region. Because they are largely responsible for the synthetic feeling of multidimensional space, the combination of urban and architectural influences was evaluated. These goals were fulfilled by employing an interpretative historical analysis methodology based on original assessment criteria. The data were used to categorize parts of the public domain that needed revitalization. By re-establishing the proper balance of economic, social, and cultural forces, revitalization programs aid in the preservation or revitalization of desirable places. The study found that the orderly and harmonious preparation of the public domain has a significant impact on people's perceptions of space.

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The concept of livability has gained prominence in urban planning and practice over the past five decades, though it remains ambiguously defined within urban studies. Livability reflects the quality of living and its impact on community well-being. Jan Gehl's work on walkable, social environments has significantly influenced the evaluation and improvement of public spaces to enhance livability. This study investigates the livability of commercial streets in Muscat, Oman, focusing on design aspects that influence community life. Using a mixed methodology, including literature review, questionnaires, and behavioral mapping, the study examines two case studies in Muscat. The analysis highlights that sense of place, aesthetic appeal, activities, and pedestrian-friendly streets are crucial for attracting people and enhancing street livability. The findings suggest that Gehl's criteria for assessing livability can be adapted to Gulf cities and similar geo-cultural contexts.

The nature of public space has changed over the time period. Its role evolved and developed as per the requirement, context, and culture of people. Public space development is an art of creating a connection between the city and people. A city without public spaces creates a city without culture and history. Public space directly contributes for socio, the economic and environmental development of the city. Its traces can be found from Agora's in the Greek period to parks and squares in contemporary times. Public spaces have been focal point of the city in past, but they lost their attention during modern urban development. It acts as a stage for translation of art and the drama of city life. Different experts from various fields have introduced different terminologies to explain the same and much work is done on the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability. In contrast, the social dimension is yet to be explored. The public space directly contributes to social sustainability thus, it's essential to understand and integrate the concept of public space in the present time. In developing countries, the shortage of public space can be addressed by its effective utilization and the city's identity can be restored by developing an association between the city and people through publicness criteria identified in the study. The intent of the study is to provide a solution to fill the social gap created during modernism and technological advancement by taking references from the past.

With the essay collection "Mama, darf ich das Deutschlandlied singen" and the poems "Sometimes A Single Leaf," the German-Jewish writer Esther Dischereit presents an overview of her work, which has been published scatteredly since 1995. It illustrates how her poetic, journalistic, and political commitment to the perception of the dignity of "minorities" (Ceija Stojka) is fed by the reflection of Jewish experience in and with the Federal Republic of Germany. She places current racist atrocities as well as the problematic handling of right-wing violence by German authorities in the context of a fundamental discussion of "the public sphere" and in this context provides eminently valuable building blocks for a necessary debate about the value of an institution that is in danger of being damaged in the age of populism, social media, and dwindling newspaper circulation.
#public sphere #diversity #NSU #jewish identity
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GER.: Mit dem Essayband "Mama, darf ich das Deutschlandlied singen" und den Gedichten "Sometimes A Single Leaf" legt die deutsch-jüdische Autorin Esther Dischereit einen Überblick über ihr seit 1995 verstreut publizierten Schaffens vor, der verdeutlicht, wie sich ihr poetisches, publizistisches und politisches Engagement für die Wahrnehmung der Würde von «Wenigerheiten» (Ceija Stojka) aus der Reflexion jüdischer Erfahrung in und mit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland speist. Sie stellt aktuelle rassistische Unsäglichkeiten im politischen Diskurs sowie den problematischen Umgang deutscher Behörden mit rechter Gewalt in den Kontext einer grundsätzlichen Diskussion von «Öffentlichkeit» und liefert in diesem Zusammenhang eminent wertvolle Bausteine für eine notwendige Debatte um den Wert einer Institution, die im Zeitalter von Populismus, Social Media und schwindenden Zeitungsauflagen Schaden zu nehmen droht.
#jüdische Identität #Deutschland #Rechte Gewalt #NSU-Prozess #Öffentlichkeit

The urban 45 presents 3 policy ideas for each of 15 themes relating to Australian cities. The purpose of the Urban 45 summit and this resulting report was to provide brief analysis and practical suggestions for how to make our cities better and fairer places to live. At a time of unprecedented prosperity and urbanisation the Urban 45 asks how Australia can become more effective in addressing the growing problems facing our cities.

In this first Shaping Qatar's Sustainable Built Environment Special Issue, we have selected three papers that were presented at the inaugural Qatar Green Building Conference 2015. The four key themes of the conference were: 1) Passivhaus in the MENA region; 2) Retrofitting Doha; 3) Measuring the Carbon Footprint and Qatar's National Vision; and 4) Future Sustainable Cities. Maria Mühlbauer in her paper entitled "Smart building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) for Qatar," presented under the theme Passivhaus in the MENA region, proposes the application of smart buildingintegrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems to allow private residents to participate in the production of renewable energy. She describes the provision of adapted PV systems suitable for the Middle East's climatic conditions and Arabic architecture, and gives advice on dealing with both the challenging climatic conditions and the economics of the relatively low electricity price. She further describes how, by visualizing all energy flows in the buildings connected to a smart BIPV system, residents can be made aware of their energy demands and given the opportunity to replace conventionally produced energy with self-produced renewable energy. Dena Qaddumi and Ameena Ahmadi in their paper entitled "Scaling down planning in Doha towards the neighborhood and its public realm," presented under the theme Future Sustainable Cities, discuss the need for attention to the design and maintenance of cohesive and shared spaces between buildings in existing neighborhoods. They explore the question of how the built environment can preserve tradition and identity with a focus on the public realm in neighborhoods. They outline two dominant approaches to planning in Doha: rational comprehensive planning and entrepreneurial management planning. Using these approaches as a framework, they review the planning trends of the last two decades in Doha. Sarah Clarke et al. in their paper entitled "Towards a more sustainable waste management in Qatar: Retrofitting mindsets and changing behaviours," presented under the theme Retrofitting Doha, provide a thorough discussion of the current state of waste management in Qatar, while exploring the importance of technical versus behavioural solutions in improving waste management systems. They argue that technological solutions and retrofits alone will not solve waste management problems faced by Qatar unless there is an associated change in mindsets and behaviours at all levels and in all communities. Drawing on examples from individual, organisational and community-driven initiatives in solid waste management in Qatar and a survey of attitudes towards waste, they point to a need for a "retrofit" of mindsets and behavioural change to achieve a transformation in solid waste management. Collectively, these papers bring together several strands of the conference while providing important insights into the problems of planning and the built environment that will move Qatar further towards its goals of sustainable development and the social and environmental pillars of Qatar National Vision 2030.

While youth media production work has increased dramatically over the past two decades, researchers still lack an adequate theorization of how institutionally-mediated youth production programs instigate democratic acts. Central to this deficiency are shortcomings in the two dominant frameworks typically used to conceptualize the democratic potential of young people's media work. In response to this, I turn to the work of Hannah Arendt and use her conceptualization of public action as framed in relation to a "pedagogy of natality" to assess the relationship between creative youth practice and democracy. While Arendt's framework offers a compelling vision of democratic action, her model is also invaluable for mapping how production work affects adolescents' democratic experience. It focuses the analytic lens on agonistic struggles that expand the way youth register and pay heed to plurality.

Baird-Frampton In the rise of contemporary architectural theory, Kenneth Frampton (b. 1930) and George Baird (b. 1939) were among the key theorists and critics who sought to grasp and recover the meaning of architecture in terms its sociopolitical relation to the public realm. For Frampton

Baird-Frampton In the rise of contemporary architectural theory, Kenneth Frampton (b. 1930) and George Baird (b. 1939) were among the key theorists and critics who sought to grasp and recover the meaning of architecture in terms its sociopolitical relation to the public realm. For Frampton and Baird, modern architecture's crisis of meaning stems from the loss of an inherent relation to the public realm, and therefore to the possibilities for an affirmative human politics at once critical of, and alternative to, the hegemony of capital. Frampton and Baird look to the phenomenological political philosophy of Hannah Arendt to understand how architectural making, insofar as it contributes to the constitution of a common world, is a precondition for the possibility of acting politically and thus a means of potentially recovering an authentic public realm. 2 (Holmquist, 2020) On the other hand, Frampton in his 'The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects' 3 (Frampton, 1979) which he presented, is included in the book produced after the conference, Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Public World. 4 (Arendt, 1979) Baird is together with Frampton the two first scholars from the field of architecture to understand the value of Arendt's writings for the field of architecture. But where Frampton mainly focuses on Arendt's distinction between labor and work, more or less neglecting the notion of action, criticizing the economical and processual turn in architecture, Baird is, in his writings, much more focused on the political dimension of design as well as the issue of public space. Frampton's and Baird's architectural theories are therefore marked by a profound ambivalence as to architecture's capacity to take what Baird calls the "ethical risk" of acting towards the political possibilities of others.

The paper introduces the concept of “co-designing publics” by
examining what lies at the potent intersection of the public realm and
informal urbanisms, within the specific contexts of the cities of the
global south. I define the public realm as interconnected spatial
networks of public spaces intertwined with political structures that
weave a city together, while informal urbanisms are the transactional
conditions of ambiguity that exist between what is acceptable and
what is unacceptable in cities. At their intersection are publics, who
never simply exist because they are always created on an ongoing
basis. In fact, publics are co-designed [i.e. co-created in inventive and
multifarious ways] around common concerns or desire through
volitional inquiry and action. I contextualise these discussions by paying
particular attention to the cities of the global south, because place
matters in shaping urban thinking and practice. There is an increasing
interest in thinking and practicing from cities of the global south rather
than just about them. The viewpoint then describes how these ideas
were further investigated through grounded examples in different cities
and articulated through interactive and collaborative events in the Co-
Designing Publics international research network, funded through a
grant awarded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. I then
conclude with some thoughts on the implications of this work for urban
theory and practice, which are applicable to cities in the global south as
well as in the global north.

Co-Designing Publics brings together a mix of academics, activists, and practitioners to discuss and debate discourses from scholarly research, grassroots activism, and design ideas for future action. The “Co-Designing Publics” global research network, funded by a grant awarded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, has a sustained focus on the public realm and its production through informal strategies in cities of the global south. As cities are increasingly confronted by multiple crises [e.g. Covid-19 pandemic, climate crisis] and conditions of precarity [e.g. urban inequality, inadequate public infrastructure], such circumstances call for more interactive, collaborative, and creative approaches for [re]designing their public realm. Based on these premises, the book integrates discussions of three critical and interrelated phenomena: creative ways of mobilising communities around common concerns and desires [i.e. co-designing publics], deployment of grassroots tactics and social innovations [i.e. informal strategies], and production of spatial networks of public spaces intertwined with their ongoing governance [i.e. public realm]. Contextually grounding these discussions in cities of the global south enables us to learn how innovative co-design practices operate around issues such as homelessness and affordable housing, sustainable and equitable energy systems, waste management, cooperative models of property ownership, the promotion and protection of human rights, and the production of peace in contexts of violence. The book thereby draws from and presents public conversations between academic research and case studies of activism [from Bogota, Bengaluru, Cape Town, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and Sao Paulo].

In recent studies, public spaces are defined as living organisms that are subjected to continuous change. These changes affect the different uses of the urban space, its composition and design aspects, in order to cope with the users’ changing needs. Rather than that, users intervene in the space formation either formally, by including the community and stakeholders in the design process fully or partially; or informally, by small or big actions done by the space users in order for the space to satisfy their current needs. Several spaces in Cairo are dealt with as leftovers of the buildings design and construction process. These spaces have passed through several changes that affected and was affected by the Cairines (Cairo citizens) and their culture of dealing with public spaces to accommodate their changing needs. The deficiency in public spaces in Cairo urban spaces is reviewed. And the inability of the formal designed/planned spaces to respond to the spaces’ users with their ch...

Kentte yer alan ara mekânlar, kendiliginden aktivite ve karsilasmalarin zemini olarak mekânsal ve sosyal olarak birtakim tecrubeler sunar. Ara mekânlar ve arayuzler kent dokusu icerisinde tasarlanmayan sinirlarin arasinda kalan iletisim ve baglanti noktalaridir. Şehircilik ve mimarlik arasinda islevsel baglanti kuran bu noktalar mekân ve zamansal sureklilikleri saglayarak kamusal yasami guclu kilar. Kamu ve ozel alan arasinda kalmis arayuzler hiyerarsik olarak duzenlenmesi durumunda kentte esnek, gecirgen mekânlar olusmasini saglar. Bundan dolayi, sadece planli uretimin disinda kalan artik alanlar degil, iyi tasarlanmis surdurulebilir kamusal mekân tipleri icin, kentin arayuz ve ara mekân potansiyelleri aciga cikarilmalidir. Bu arastirmada, arayuz ve ara mekân kavramlari kentsel olcekte aciklanmistir. Kamusal mekân kalitesini olcmek amaciyla, Willliam Whyte tarafindan gelistirilen Project for Public Space (PPS) Yontemi ve Jan Gehl tarafindan gelistirilen GEHL Yontemi’ nden faydalani...

Based on traditional spatial gravity interaction models, urban quality and the time it takes for people or goods to move between cities are strongly correlated and the extent to which cities are integrated or have the capacity to become integrated into an interconnected urban network changes as travel time between cities changes. This paper analyses China's Pearl River Delta (PRD) megacity region based on a modified gravity model combined with spatial analysis. It also analyzes economic relations between cities within the PRD megacity region, and compares China's recent 'new-style' urbanization planning in Guangdong Provincethe region's largest and economically most important provincewith planning for Guangdong that pre-dated China's 2014 National New Style Urbanization Plan. The results show that PRD is now a bi-polar megacity region dominated by Guangzhou and Shenzhen and that four out of six cities the province planned to integrate into the core after 2005 have been integrated, but two have not. In order to build a successful global urban region, PRD needs to continue to improve its core, accelerate the integration of city clusters that can realistically be integrated, continue to study the integration potential of cities with less development potential and pay attention to balanced development of peripheral cities.

Christoph Colomb'un 1492'de tesadüfen keşfi sonucu başlayan süreç günümüzde dünyanın ırk, etnik köken ve kültür yönünden en çok çeşitliliğe sahip devletinin ortaya çıkmasına sebep olmuştur. Bu çeşitliliği başlarda asimile ederek ana damara dahil eden ve bu çerçevede bir kimlik oluşturan Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, ilerleyen süreçte artan göç dalgalarının toplumsal yapıda sebep olduğu değişimleri asimile edememiş ve çokkültürlü politikalar benimsemiştir. Bu çalışmada, tarihsel süreç içerisinde dil, din, ırk, etnik köken, ideoloji gibi çeşitli bileşenlerle meydana gelmiş olan Amerikan kimliğinin oluşum ve evrimini ortaya koymak amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla hazırlanan çalışmada, tarihsel ve betimsel araştırma yöntemlerinden yararlanılmıştır. Çalışmada, Amerika Kıtası'nın keşfinden başlayarak günümüze kadar Amerikan kimliğinin evrimi incelenmiştir. Çalışmanın sonunda, Amerikan kimliğinin koloni ve bağımsızlık sonrası dönemde modernizmin de etkisiyle monist, homojen ve üstten verili şekilde tanımlandığı, ancak 1965 Göç Yasası'nda yapılan düzenlemeler sonrası gerçekleşen göçler ve postmodernizmin de etkisiyle etnik ve kültürel kimliklerin ön plana çıkması neticesinde Amerikan kimliğinin tanım ve bileşenlerinin değiştiği sonuçlarına varılmıştır.

Belfast THRI[VES] is a pilot collaboration between Ulster University’s Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment, the School of Psychology, and Bamford Centre for Mental Health & Wellbeing, working with Operational Partners from Belfast City Council’s City Regeneration & Development Division and The Department for Infrastructure. The project was funded through Belfast City Council via the Department for Communities COVID-19 Recovery Revitalisation Programme, and the Department for Infrastructure. The report represents the overall project findings, literature reviews, case studies, lessons and recommendations. Examining how the City Centre can be an improved, inclusive, and innovative place for future generations, THRI[VES] argues for liveability as a unique framework to evaluate and deliver projects within and/or impacting on the public realm, primarily, through enhanced wellbeing priorities. It also investigates the role of public-private engagement to reframe wellbeing-based criteria and more effectively connect statutory and tactical regeneration process to more informal bottom-up evidence-based considerations that can collectively address and develop innovative solutions to tackle health, climate-change, and socio-economic stresses.

Tarihsel olarak imparatorluklarin bunyesinde varlik gosteren cokkulturluluk, Vestfalya antlasmasindan itibaren ortaya cikan milliyetci akimlar sebebi ile imparatorluklardaki yasam alanini kaybetmeye baslamis ve ulus-devletlerin hâkim konuma yukselmesi ile birlikte birkac yuzyil boyunca etkisini neredeyse tamamen kaybetmisti. Ancak kuresellesme sureci ile birlikte, ulus-devlet dusuncesine bir meydan okuma bicimde yeniden ortaya cikan cokkulturluluk, modern donemde, ulus-devletlerin yetersiz kaldigi noktalarda alternatif uretebilmeyi amaclayan yeni bir siyaset fikri olarak ortaya cikmistir. Bu dusunce ile sekillenen calismamizda, cokkulturlulugun ara donemi olarak adlandirilan ulus-devlet dusuncesi ve milliyetciligin yukselisine, akabinde ise cokkulturlulugun modern donemde yeniden sahneye cikisi ve gelisimine temas edilmesi amaclanmaktadir.