A cooltural river in the capital of culture

Author(s): Hanna Adamiczka / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2016

Nowadays, making cities more attractive is becoming increasingly important. Cities are shrinking, which contributes to many other problems major cities are currently facing. Local governments try to mitigate their negative effects by making their cities more attractive to the young. One of the ways of doing so, is to utilize already possessed resources. In this short article, the author analyzes the promotion of the river Odra during the European capital of culture held in Wroclaw in 2016 and compares it with river themed events organized during the previous year (2015). She also analyzes the river’s attractiveness to the young, as they are the city’s target group in terms of preventing Wroclaw’s shrinkage. She also concentrates on the phenomenon of shrinking cities. In conclusion, the article tries to prove that Wroclaw’s main river, the Odra, is utilized not only by governmental bodies but also private and individual initiatives. The young inhabitants of Wroclaw see and acknowledge its importance to the city, and what is more, it has become a place for everyone, regardless of age, gender or hobby. However, its media presence should be emphasized more in the future, during international festivals or cultural events such as the European Capital of Culture.

A dărui și a primi

Author(s): Irma Walter / Language(s): German Issue: 32/2018

Coming from a foreign country, one is faced with some perspectives on the customs and traditions of the people here, of which a newcomer is very eager to learn and understand. Exactly this situation had motivated Irma Walter to meditate on „Vom Geben und Nehmen“ (Of Giving and Receiving) to put down some new observations until there comes a time when she has learned more, understood more.

A Discursive Narrative on Planning for Urban Heritage Conservation in Contemporary World Heritage Cities in Portugal

Author(s): Elisabete M. P. Cidre / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

A dynamic sense of home: Spatio-temporal aspects of mobility of young Tokyo residents

Author(s): Vedrana Ikalović,Leonardo Chiesi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

In highly industrialized and institutionalized societies aiming for maximum efficiency, individual activities must be synchronized with the daily rhythms of a city. As a spatial and institutional realm, the city imposes on people and influences their level of attachment, consequently altering their sense of home. This is most obvious in contemporary cities, where daily life involves movement, and where rest is often sought outside the living place, while on the move. By examining the spatial and temporal aspects of mobility of young Tokyo residents, this article explores how their sense of home and levels of attachment to the physical environment are affected by the city. It reveals a dynamic sense of home in which routes are more significant than roots and in which attachment is not restricted to a single location. Instead, it is understood as attachment to temporal and spatial relationships produced by the activities of people and institutions.

A great place and not yet another declining small town: The case of Clarens, South Africa

Author(s): Malene Campbell / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

Rural urban migration results in rural decline as well as in congested cities, but how can towns avoid this fate and also intercept these migrants on their way to the cities in search of perceived better opportunities? Tourism development can play a central role in the development of rural areas in South Africa, and Clarens is a success story in this regard. This research investigates what made a tourist town such as Clarens succeed whereas other towns faltered and failed. Data was collected using three different questionnaires: one for each target group to cover a broad spectrum of stakeholders in the tourism milieu of Clarens. The research indicates that allowing multinational enterprises in a small tourist town is something that should be considered carefully because it might disturb a small town’s ambience.

A jeśli nie "wrocławska piosenka", to co?

Author(s): Jacek Grębowiec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2017

The topic of the article is music that is strongly connected to the history of post-war, Polish again, Wroclaw — the city and its cultural, social and political landscape. This includes not only songs composed by artists from Wroclaw, but also songs dedicated to this city. In the article, songs from different timespans are analysed: the ones composed in the 1950s, in the pioneering period of restoration, as well as countercultural songs from the 1980s. The paper is complemented by an analysis of the newest songs that pretend to be hits or anthems of Wroclaw, although they have never gained the same fame as classical songs written by Maria Koterbska or new-wave band Klaus Mitffoch.

A közösség által támogatott mezőgazdaság vizsgálata a termelők vonatkozásában

Author(s): Balog Árpád / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3-4/2016

A kraków to… Miasto innowacji. Gospodarka kreatywna jako czynnik rozwoju miast na przykładzie Krakowa – adaptacja koncepcji 3T Richarda Floridy

Author(s): Patrycja Kumięga / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The subject of the paper is to analyze the concept of the creative class in relation to the conditions of Cracow and their impact on the local and regional development. The aim of the article is the justification that Cracow meets the requirements of a creative city and for its development are responsible the interaction of three factors (talent, technology and tolerance).

A LEADER-program Európában és Magyarországon

Author(s): Csaba Patkós / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 3/2014

With the era of globalization, regions that lag behind are becoming ever more problematic worldwide – and intervention-like central development initiatives usually fail to deal with the problems. So-called immanent programmes building on bottom-up initiatives and aiming to involve local communities have been successful alternatives for decades now. In Europe, the LEADER initiative has been operating since the early 1990s. The relevance of local knowledge in such cases is introduced via a case study coming from a successful European LEADER local action group. In our article, anomalies existing within the Hungarian experience will be highlighted as well.

A MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC CITY: CASE OF CORDOBA

Author(s): S. Evinç TORLAK,Tanzer ÇELIKTÜRK,Onur KULAÇ,Recep Arslan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

From Turkestan to Andalusia Spain, Medieval Islamic cities geographically occupied a wide area, and thus they had left their mark on the medieval era. Being one of these Islamic cities, Cordoba was seized by the Arabs in 711 and the first urbanization activities began upon moving the government centre from Seville to Cordoba. Later on, as the capital city of Andalusia Umayyad Dynasty, Cordoba became one of the most crucial cities of Spain in terms of science, art and trade. In this study, stating the features of medieval Western and Islamic cities, initially, the geographic, politic, economic and philosophic bases that took part in the establishment of the cities will be discussed and a specific focus will be made upon Cordoba city. Afterwards, information about the history, city layout and structure, city administration, socio-economic structure and cultural formation of Cordoba will be presented. This study reveals that Renaissance which is the main output of the European urbanization in medieval era cannot be considered apart from the administrative, socio-economic, cultural and architectural features of the Islamic cities within the context of Ibn Haldun’s thoughts.

A methodological approach to forecasting spatial distribution of workplaces in an industrial metropolis

Author(s): Viktoriya Viktorovna Akberdina,Oksana V. Tretyakova,Andrey I. Vlasov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2017

Many world cities retain their unique industrial status. Such a feature of the economy of an industrial metropolis imposes additional requirements on the development of the forecast of spatial distribution of workplaces. The article highlights the contradictions of the long-term development of an industrial megalopolis, which become scenic forks, when forecasted. These include optimization of the industrial and trade-service sectors of the economy, the ratio of inertial and innovative development vectors, variability of migration flows and the choice of the agglomeration model type. The article is devoted to the problem of forecasting the development of a large metropolis, where the industrial sector plays a significant role in the economy. At the methodological level, the article justifies principles of spatial development of an industrial metropolis. The article describes forecasting tools for spatial location of workplaces, based on a combination of several models. The study was performed through the example of Ekaterinburg – the industrial capital of Russia; the metropolis scenarios were justified until 2035; the forecast of spatial distribution was calculated through the example of the two sectors competing for investments – industrial and trade-service. The authors substantiate spatial distribution of workplaces taking into account the projected number of people employed, the number of population of working age and distinguishing features of transport behavior of citizens. The paper demonstrates that the number of large industrial enterprises in a historically industrial center and its first zone decreases, and the modern industry in the form of small and medium-sized businesses located in industrial parks commence gradually forming a circuit with nodes on transport routes towards the largest consumer territories.

A mi smo kak su stari rekli... Mladi u seljačkim obiteljima Prigorja i Hrvatskog Zagorja između dva svjetska rata

Author(s): Suzana Leček / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 22/1999

The article shows the role of the youth in the family economy of the peasant families of Prigorje and Hrvatsko-Zagorje between the two world wars. The period of youth has been observed through two aspects: working ability of the youth, and choosing the spouse, which is one of the most important decisions for the whole household. Contracting a marriage meant founding a new economic unit (or supporting the old one). Therefore this decision is not left up to personal attraction, but to common appraisal of the responsible members of the family (elder generation).

A munkaerő napi mozgása (ingázása) és közlekedése Budapesten és a fővárosi agglomerációban, a népszámlálási adatok alapján

Author(s): Miklós Lakatos,Gabriella Kapitány / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 06/2015

The study gives information on the daily commuting within the districts of Budapest according to demographic and occupational characteristics of persons in employment. It contains also a comprehensive picture on thecommuting between the capital, the agglomeration and the districts of the capital respectively. The main indicatorsof commuting within districts, groups of districts, agglomerations and agglomeration sections are presentedwith the aid of illustrative maps.

A munkaügyi ingázás területi mintái Észak-Dunántúlon Az ingázás jelentősége Magyarországon, Észak-Dunántúl sajátosságai

Author(s): Tamás Hardi / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 02/2015

The paper aims to outline the specific commuting paths, centres, agglomerations and evolving spatial systems of the Northern Transdanubia based on data of the population censuses of 2001 and 2011. Because of the relative economic development of Northern Transdanubia and its settlement network, commuting bears special importance there. Due to differences in spatial development, in structural and regional transformation of economy and employment, and development of the settlement network, evolution of spatial patterns of commuting may serve as example for other areas of Hungary and Central Europe as well.

A napszámtól a bérmunkáig: a mezőgazdasági idénymunka változó formái egy kelet-magyarországi példán keresztül

Author(s): András Vigvári / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 01/2016

Through a community study carried out in a settlement in Eastern Hungary, my study aims to present the integrating role of various agricultural part-time works in local societies. This paper explores the way in which different agricultural factory forms and employer-employee relationships influence the structural and ethnical layering in local societies, as well as the forms of integration they offer to members of local societies. My case study aims to shed light on the way ongoing macro-social processes shape Hungarian rural areas and, in particular, on the way they transform social and ethnical relations in local societies.

A New Synthesis on the Slavic Glotto‐ and Ethnogenesis and on the Earliest Slavic‐Romanian Relations in the 6th century C.E.

Author(s): Sorin Paliga / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2013

The author tries to summarize the recent results in various fields of investigation — linguistics, history, archaeology, DNA analysis — referring to southeast Europe, mainly regarding the Romanian‐Slavic relations. He also briefly resumes the discussions referring to the so‐called ‘earliest Slavic borrowings in Romanian’, with a brief look at another interesting term, *tъrgъ, but also at the not‐at‐all clear relation between Rom. oraș and Hung. város. The hypotheses regarding the origins of the Albanians are also briefly considered as the conventionally called ‘ethnogenesis’ of the Romanians, Slavs and m Albanians is one problem with various facets, not different problems. The conclusion is that the years to come should witness a radical change in analyzing the past, specifically the period of migrations, from 4th to 10th centuries A.D., during which the social and cultural realities were more complex than currently acknowledged.

A small open inter-regional monetary spatial economic growth with the MIU approach

Author(s): Wei-Bin Zhang / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

We build an inter-regional monetary economic growth model with housing and environment for an open economy in a perfectly competitive economy. The monetary aspects of the model are based on the money-in-utility-function (MIU) approach. The real aspects of the model are influenced by the three most well-known models in the growth theory and urban economics in a multi-regional context. The industrial production follows the Solow model. Regional population distributes over the urban area according to the Alonso model and regional housing production follows the Muth model. We accept a new approach to the micro-economic foundation for determining money holding, savings, spatial location and consumption. Following the traditional literature of small open economies, we assume that the rate of interest is fixed in international market. We explicitly solve the equilibrium of the multi-regional economy. We also simulate the model and examine effects of changes in the rate of interest, the inflation policy, the preference, and amenity parameters on the long-term equilibrium structure of the multi-regional spatial economy.

A SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT (II)

Author(s): Ionuţ Anastasiu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

This paper focuses on the analyses of the concept/expression of Louis Wirth's urbanism as a way of life. Wirth characterizes modern city through three essential dimensions: number, density and heterogeneity. But Wirth is criticized because he tends to understand the city from a uniform perspective, or there are many ways to live in a city. The process of urbanization is a key dimension of the socio-philosophical perspective on the human communities. Another relatively recent socio-philosophical approach of the urban refers to the emergence of the so-called post-modern city. Its essential feature is decentralization and it is predominantly oriented to consumption, but also to highlighting of a cultural identity.

A spatial analysis of public transport accessibility in Slovenia

Author(s): Jernej Tiran,Nika Razpotnik Visković,Matej Gabrovec,Simon Koblar / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

This article analyses the accessibility of public transport in Slovenia in terms of the proximity of stops and trip frequency. By combining the Central Population Register with data on the provision of public transport services, geographic information systems were used to calculate the share of the population living within a 500 and 1,000 m radius from stops with a basic number of daily trips. The spatial differences in accessibility were analysed, and the population density data were utilized to identify the main gaps in provision. Moreover, the location of newer settlements was analysed in terms of their integration into the existing public transport network. It was determined that public transport accessibility in the country is relatively adequate within a 1,000 m radius; however, within a 500 m radius, it is adequate only in most urban areas. There are extensive areas without adequate accessibility, which is a consequence of low population density particularly in the countryside, whereas larger gaps in provision appear in suburban areas that have grown outside public transport corridors. The 2004–2020 study period revealed a trend of lower demographic growth than the Slovenian average in areas with the best public transport accessibility, whereas the areas of the greatest population growth and most intense residential construction have been only partly located in the vicinity of the public transport network. This confirms the hypothesis that current strategic spatial planning documents are not followed consistently, and that transport and spatial planning are insufficiently integrated.

A STUDY ON THE COGNITIVE LEVEL OF HEALTH EDUCATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT

Author(s): Elena Mihaela CARAUSU,Marin Burela,Iulian-Costin Lupu,Ileana Antohe / Language(s): English Issue: 55/2016

Due to particularities related to anatomy, fiziology, health and adaptability, adolescents, especially those coming from the rural environment, are an important population group, coping with specific problems and vulnerabilities. The aim of this study targetted the awareness of certain health and social aspects with regards to health education for adolescents in rural environment. The main objective is focused on the evaluation of the cognitive level of health education regarding general and oro-dental health in adolescents from the rural area. The investigated group, which was statistically representative for the studied population, comprised of 160 persons (88 males, 72 females). The maximum accepted error was ±1.68%. We are focused on main indicators of general health, oro-dental morbidity and addressability towards health services. The responses to the health education questionnaire revealed that cognitive educational level is precarious in fields: the general health and oro-dental health. The prevalence of general morbidity (51.40%), obesity (20.56%) and the prevalence of smoking (6.54%) and alcohol (3.74%) consumption was assessed for knowledge of general health status. The prevalence of the dental caries (51.55%) and periodontal disease (29.90%) was assessed in order to evaluate the oro-dental morbidity. Adolescents from the rural environment represent a highly vulnerable population group that requires the implementation of a health promotion program at community level. Adolescents’ health ought to be one of the primary concerns for the decision factors, with the purpose of ensuring an acceptable health level for future generations.