La périodisation de l’histoire urbaine à travers la collection Atlas historique des villes de France

From the definition of landscape offered in the European Landscape Convention, this study explores the various facets of the term and the many ways in which the perception of landscape by different people can be influenced by different factors, such as socioterritorial belonging and tourism promotion. The study aims to analyze and understand the perspectives of insiders and outsiders on the same territorial area. Analysis of questionnaires, qualitative interviews, and visual images reveals a different significance of the landscape and its natural and human elements. The study concludes with some reflections about the meanings that insiders and outsiders assign to different elements by virtue of the symbolic-cultural system of the community they belong to or the influence of the destination image proposed by tourist promotion.

Section: The Perspective Of Insiders and Outsidersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Different Landscape Perceptions of the Same Territorial Area: A Research Study in Italy

Pretto

2018

“…In summary, we need to question the political significance of spatialities (Keith & Pile, 1993) and the politico-economical dimensions of fear in planning in ordinary cities—as advocated by Leonie Sandercock (2002). From this perspective, Lefebvre’s (1974) theory on the (re)production of space is crucial in exploring relational/conflictual relations between “spatial practices,” institutional/hegemonic “representations of space,” and experienced “representational space.” Similarly, this article has suggested that urban fear is at once a spatial/discursive practice, the result of hegemonic representations and policies, and a trigger for less civic urban lives. We should be aware that often, {spaces of fear} are produced by factors quite different from the actual danger these spaces hold.…”

Section: From {Spaces Of Fear} To “Fearscapes”mentioning

confidence: 99%

From “Spaces of Fear” to “Fearscapes”

Tulumello

2015

The article engages with theory about the processes of spatialization of fear in contemporary Western urban space (fortification, privatization, exclusion/seclusion, fragmentation, polarization) and their relation to fear of crime and violence. A threefold taxonomy is outlined (Enclosure, Post-Public Space, Barrier), and “spaces of fear” in the city of Palermo are mapped with the aim of exploring the cumulative large-scale effects of the spatialization of fear on a concrete urban territory. Building on empirical evidence, the author suggests that mainstream theories be reframed as part of a less hegemonic and more discursive approach and that theories mainly based on the analyses of global cities be deprovincialized. The author argues for the deconstruction of the concept of “spaces of fear” in favor of the more discursive concept of “fearscapes” to describe the growing landscapes of fear in contemporary Western cities.

“…Describing the way urban space is domesticated requires the recognition of the way it is planned, organized, and represented. This is the space we can analyze at the level of Lefebvre’s (1981) Representations of Space , or De Certeau’s (1980) Readable City , that is, defined by a certain number of stable and clear characteristics. We refer to the meanings inscribed in a space and to the expected functions and the public discourses shaping it.…”

Section: Domestication Urban Spaces and Everyday Family Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, according to Gieryn (2000, p. 465), “whether built or just come upon, artificial or natural, streets and doors or rocks and trees, place is stuff.” Far from exhaustively describing the features of urban space, this physicality represents a point of departure for urban space to become concretely experienced, lived, and appropriated. Furthermore, it is an expression of power (Lefebvre, 1981) and a locus of collective memory (Connerton, 2010; Halbwachs, 1950), in addition to being subject to myriad possible interpretations. The emphasis frequently placed on materiality and the centrality of “performative” definitions of place in recent debates (Watson, 2003 ) has led to the call for ethnographic research methods to be employed in the analysis (Hurdley, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Domesticating” the City

Mandich

Cuzzocrea

2015

The aim of this article is to rethink the analysis of urban life and the practices involving the use of urban space. To that end, we focus on the value that such practices have for social enquiry by employing the concept of domestication, which was originally elaborated by Silverstone in the field of media and technology scholarship. Specifically, the potential value of such usage is to embed practices that produce space in the complexity of the everyday culture of families, and to enable an analysis of urban space in its dual articulation in both public and private culture. A discussion of how the concept has been applied in a study of how parents in a small Italian city include urban space in the domestic sphere offers an empirical substratum to our argument.