Introduction

Lindner, Christoph; Meissner, Miriam

doi:10.4324/9781315163956-1

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“…This early conception of the urban imaginary favored a top‐down planning approach and understood city dwellers merely as passive perceivers of urban spaces (cf. Lindner & Meissner, 2019, p. 3).…”

Section: Urban Imaginariesmentioning

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Introduction: Perceiving and conceiving the Asian city¹

Holwitt

2023

City & Society

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Asian cities are the setting of a vast agglomeration of transportation devices and services. These means of transport are inseparable from distinct concepts and images of the city. Interventions into modes of urban transport are inspired by visions for the future of urban life and quotidian practices of traversing urban space foster particular experiences that produce distinct ideas about the city. This special issue takes the multiplicity of mobility practices in Asian cities as a point of departure to interrogate connections between embodied experiences and collective representations. Drawing on three bodies of literature that deal with the topics of urban imaginaries, infrastructures as well as the body and the city, this introduction provides a theoretical framework for the study of connections between perception and conception of cities that informs the contributions to this special issue. It sets the stage for a set of three interconnected questions that guide the contributions: How do people affectively engage with urban spaces through practices of bodily movement? How are these practices of movement related to and generative of specific ideas and representations of the city? How do these practices of movement transform, challenge, subvert, or conform to dominant ideas and representations of the city?

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Section: Urban Imaginariesmentioning

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Introduction: Perceiving and conceiving the Asian city¹

Holwitt

2023

City & Society

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“…In the context of environmental crimes relating to waste disposal, some sectors have stood out for known cases of incorrect behaviour. The problem of the improper disposal of used tyres has emerged, often abandoned in inappropriate places, causing environmental and health risks [6][7][8]. Others have also been involved in the illegal dumping of construction waste, contributing to soil and water pollution [9,10].…”

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The Contribution of Open Source Software in Identifying Environmental Crimes Caused by Illicit Waste Management in Urban Areas

Massarelli,

Uricchio

2024

Urban Science

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This study focuses on the analysis, implementation and integration of techniques and methods, also based on mathematical algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), to acquire knowledge of some phenomena that produce pollution with an impact on environmental health, and which start from illicit practices that occur in urban areas. In many urban areas (or agroecosystems), the practice of illegal waste disposing by commercial activities, by abandoning it in the countryside rather than spending economic resources to ensure correct disposal, is widespread. This causes an accumulation of waste in these areas (which can also be protected natural areas), which are then also set on fire to reduce their volume. Obviously, the repercussions of such actions are many. The burning of waste releases contaminants into the environment such as dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls and furans, and deposits other elements on the soil, such as heavy metals, which, by leaching and percolating, contaminate water resources such as rivers and aquifers. The main objective is the design and implementation of monitoring programs against specific illicit activities that take into account territorial peculiarities. This advanced approach leverages AI and GIS environments to interpret environmental states, providing an understanding of ongoing phenomena. The methodology used is based on the implementation of mathematical and AI algorithms, integrated into a GIS environment to address even large-scale environmental issues, improving the spatial and temporal precision of the analyses and allowing the customization of monitoring programs in urban and peri-urban environments based on territorial characteristics. The results of the application of the methodology show the percentages of the different types of waste found in the agroecosystems of the study area and the degree of concentration, allowing the identification of similar areas with greater criticality. Subsequently, through network and nearest neighbour analysis, it is possible to start targeted checks.

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“…Urban imaginaries have been developed as part of critical spatial theory, and a growing body of research on urban visions documents how they play a role in shaping global urban futures (Lindner and Meissner, 2018). Lynch stated that 'we must consider not just the city as a thing in itself, but the city being perceived by its inhabitants' (Lynch, 1960: 3).…”

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A performing arts centre for whom? Rethinking the architect as negotiator of urban imaginaries

Goudsmit,

Kaika,

Verloo

2023

Urban Studies

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In this study, we interpret architecture not as a single imaginary stemming from architects and architectural patrons, but as the result of negotiating urban politics and urban imaginaries between different stakeholders, including policymakers, citizens, and developers. We focus in particular on the role of architects within this process as mediators between different stakeholders, who nevertheless have their own specific agenda to pursue. We draw on an empirical case of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre, a cultural flagship project built in Taiwan and designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Through a review of internal documents, interviews, and content analysis on archival data, we expose the controversy over the integration of the historical ‘low culture’ local food market into the design for the new ‘high culture’ Performing Arts Centre. Although the architects imagined and pursued the integration of the new centre into the existing local culture, both policymakers and local citizens contested this attempt. The study concludes that, despite claims from both policymakers and architects of representing ‘the people’, there were often misunderstandings, deliberate or otherwise, regarding the needs of ‘the people’ or indeed of who ‘the people’ are.

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Introduction

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Introduction: Perceiving and conceiving the Asian city¹

Introduction: Perceiving and conceiving the Asian city¹

The Contribution of Open Source Software in Identifying Environmental Crimes Caused by Illicit Waste Management in Urban Areas

A performing arts centre for whom? Rethinking the architect as negotiator of urban imaginaries

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