Perception and child socio-spatial appropriation of the city. The remembered space of the public square

2013 ◽  
pp. 179-206
Author(s):  
Vicente Guzmán Ríos ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Spatial Appropriation ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Reimagining mission in the public square: Engaging hills and valleys in the African City of Tshwane

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thinandavha D. Mashau
Keyword(s):  
African City ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
The Public ◽  
African Cities ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Public Square ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

This article seeks to map out the future of Christian mission in the city context. African cities like Tshwane are not only expanding, but also present the church with a new frontier that needs to be crossed without crossing geographical boundaries. This article indicates that life in the City of Tshwane is paradoxically placed. Whilst life in the valleys of Tshwane is like walking in the valley of the shadow of death, those on the high hills (the places of power) continue with their dominance and pretence as solution providers, whilst hiding the presence of those who are marginalised. This article proposes that the future of the Christian mission lies not only in identifying those powers, but also in engaging them in a transformative way so as to usher the justice and shalom of God into this highly contested space.

scholarly journals When private property masquerades as public space: the shifting face of publicness in London’s city squares

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Jessie Martin
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Land ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
The City ◽  
Spatial Identity

"Access to space is fundamentally related to social status and power...changing the allocation of space is inherently related to changing society" (Weisman, 1992)   In contemporary London, a pattern has emerged whereby private corporations create and take ownership of public space, but the type of publicness they promote is conditional. In private-public space, private property masquerades as public land with rules of inhabitation often impenetrable, unknowable until they are broken. International owners activate networks of relations beyond the local; I question how private-public space fits with local communities, and how these networks shift notions of authenticity and inauthenticity in relation to public belonging. There is a specific focus on the public square as a form of private-public space, because the city square has a long-established spatial identity that embodies notions of publicity. The public square stimulates and contains public life, and neoliberal dynamics of ownership and management threaten public assemblages. Private-public squares do not fit into the majority of theories that have been developed on place, public space and private dynamics, but they are exemplative of a type of space increasingly prominent in Britain. I focus on four private-public squares in London to examine what can be learnt when a format of space is reproduced under incompatible conditions. How do these spaces work on a quotidian level and how does this intervention in public life shift urban identities and behavioural paradigms? The basis of my research is to examine concepts of publicness and privateness and how they apply to private-public squares in London, whilst utilising the practice of photography, observation and inhabitation to gain empirical ethnographic evidence. My research intends to assemble a toolkit to facilitate understanding about pseudo-public space, rather than ascribe fixed meanings to a subject which requires specificity.

Restorative justice as a public theology imperative

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Miles-Tribble
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Faith Leaders ◽  
Spiritual Change ◽  
Familial Bonds ◽  
The City

The divine instructions in Jeremiah 29 to seek the welfare of the city followed a directive to rebuild, plant, and multiply familial bonds. It was a restorative charge to pursue living justly in the midst of demonic realities under exilic conditions. Jeremiah voiced the public charge particularly to civic and faith leaders to seek the welfare of the city, centered first on the divine will for prayerful obedience and on genuine concern for those marginalized and suffering under the yoke of displacement and continued oppression. In this article, I discuss that the circumstances of Judah’s recurrent apostasy reveal some troubling characteristics that are not unlike the divisive factors within the public ideological landscape of America’s present civic tensions. I comparatively examine the prophetic restorative charge issued with the professed authority of a divine God of created order and deliverance. I use a womanist theoethical lens to investigate restorative justice as a public-square ethos warranting further deliberation. I posit that similar restorative justice principles are expandable currently from an initial criminal justice context. I align the principles useful in a theoethical communitarian approach of public praxis. Finally, I propose a contextual placement of the Jeremiah charge in today’s prophetic resistance by framing restorative justice as a public theology imperative for us to become spiritual change agents. The divine directive to seek the welfare of the city still resonates with relevance to present intersectional crises that I refer to as Black Lives Matter times in America.

scholarly journals Museo Federico II Stupor Mundi. Palazzo Ghislieri.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Rachele Dubbini
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The City ◽  
Present Life

In July 2017 opened in Jesi (Ancona, Italy) an “experience museum” dedicated to the figure of the imperator Frederick II. According to tradition, indeed, Frederick II was born in the city center of Jesi: here his mother decided to give birth to the royal son, in a tent placed in the middle of the public square. This expedient was necessary to prove the royal lineage of the new born. Based on this famous tale, the city of Jesi has seen in Frederick II an icon of the local cultural identity since the Middle Age. Yet the collective memory seemed not strong enough to remember to the inhabitants so as to the tourists, who crowd into the region during summer, the importance of such historical figure. For this reason, a local entrepreneur decided to invest in the creation of a museum on Frederick II, which could properly present life and deeds of the imperator, even if in Jesi there was no material traces of his passage, but only the memory of the royal tent. The museum has an innovative approach, especially as concerns the communication of the historical value of the imperator, having been designed as an “immersive and multisensorial trip” across the life of Frederick II. Moreover, it is also a pioneering undertaking - in comparison to most Italian museums - since it has been conceived as a “cultural enterprise”, having as one of its main aim the social and economic development of the local territory. The massive presence of private investors has probably influenced such a choice and the result is an interesting experiment that does live up to the visitors’ expectations.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Perancangan Boneka Edukasi Terinspirasi oleh Pencipta Boneka Si Unyil

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azhari Amri
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City ◽  
Simple Materials

Film Unyil puppet comes not just part of the entertainment world that can be enjoyed by people from the side of the story, music, and dialogue. However, there is more value in it which is a manifestation of the creator that can be absorbed into the charge for the benefit of educating the children of Indonesia to the public at large. The Unyil puppet created by the father of Drs. Suyadi is one of the works that are now widely known by the whole people of Indonesia. The process of creating a puppet Unyil done with simple materials and formation of character especially adapted to the realities of the existing rural region. Through this process, this research leads to the design process is fundamentally educational puppet inspired by the creation of Si Unyil puppet. The difference is the inspiring character created in this study is on the characters that exist in urban life, especially the city of Jakarta. Thus the results of this study are the pattern of how to shape the design of products through the creation of the puppet with the approach of urban culture.

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