Space Consumption Research Articles

Time and space in a dish: examining the relationship between materiality and space in the early modern saloop stall

ABSTRACT Walking in the early morning in London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries you would have come across a new consumption space, the saloop stall. These stalls operated for only a few hours before being packed away. Yet in their time they offered to labouring Londoners, its watchmen and chimney sweeps, a warm respite. Taking a microhistorical approach, this paper provides the first critical examination of these spaces. It looks to establish the temporality of these stalls and how they were situated in the broader urban routines. It also analyses the role materiality played in establishing these spatialities. This paper looks to reframe the stall’s ceramic cups and hot tea urns, demonstrating how they were crucial to creating a space of labour and sociability, removed from the domestic context they have often been associated with. This research is approached via a wide range of sources such as contemporary literature, visual culture and court testimonies. Consideration is given to material and sensorial attributes; factors that inform the creation and use of this space at every turn. It hopes to provide an example of the value taking a material and sensory-based approach when researching itinerant street traders.

Review: Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape

Review: <i>Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape</i>

Overdose Prevention and Housing: a Qualitative Study Examining Drug Use, Overdose Risk, and Access to Safer Supply in Permanent Supportive Housing in Vancouver, Canada.

The majority of overdose deaths in British Columbia (BC) occur among people using illicit substances alone in private residences. Some supportive housing in BC includes on-site access to a variety of health and substance use–related services. More recently, a number of supportive housing locations have started offering prescribed safer supply medications to people at high overdose risk, though these remain limited and under-evaluated. In this study, we describe the drug use practices — including access to and use of on-site supervised consumption, OAT, and prescribed safer supply medications — of study participants living in permanent supportive housing with integrated primary care, substance use treatment services, and supervised consumption spaces. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 30 residents of a permanent supportive housing site in Vancouver, Canada. Data were analyzed using a sequential process to identify both a priori (e.g., low-barrier substance use treatment, pandemic effects on service access) and emerging themes (e.g., using alone). Most (N = 27) study participants reported using alone in their rooms, despite having access to an on-site supervised consumption area. Reasons for using alone include the following: preference for being alone, discretion/stigma, and restrictive housing policies. Less than half (N = 12) of the study participants accessed on-site prescribed safer supply medications. Participants receiving on-site prescribed safer supply described positive benefits including reduced use of illicit opioids, and less reliance on illicit income generation activities. On-site prescribed safer supply programs within supportive housing environments are an important tool in addressing overdose risk.

영산강하굿둑 건설에 따른 음식소비공간의 변화

This study aims to clarify how the construction of the Yeongsangang Estuary dam, socioeconomic changes after the construction of the Yeongsangang Estuary dam for Myeongsan-ri and Gujinpo, which are representative grilled eel sites along the Yeongsangang River, affected the food consumption space in this area. Myeongsan-ri was very prosperous during the Japanese colonial era as there was a grilled eel restaurant along with an eel canning factory by the Japanese, but after the liberation, the Japanese withdrew from the country and failed to inherit their reputation from the past. Gujinpo has flourished since the 1960s, but its influence has weakened as the construction of the Yeongsangang Estuary dam has shifted from natural eels to cultured eels and formed a large-scale grilled eels food culture. The 4-River Restoration Project was incorporated into the existing shopping district as a road, and some of the restaurant buildings were demolished, and some of them continued to operate by moving places, but some gave up the project, significantly weakening the placeness of food culture in Gujinpo.

Gender and craft drinks

AbstractWhile it is well established that alcohol consumption is a gendered practice, the supposedly more progressive ethos of the emerging craft drinks sector suggests the possibility for great gender equality. However, as a growing body of research shows, craft drinks cultures, and that of craft beer in particular, remain heavily gendered with a number of features working to establish and maintain both the consumption and production of craft drinks as a masculine domain. In relation to consumption, research shows that assumptions about tastes and style preferences are informed by gender stereotypes, whilst branding and marketing of craft drinks products have drawn heavily on sexist imagery. The physical spaces of craft drinks consumption, such as beer festivals, brewpubs and taprooms, are heavily masculinised spaces. Similarly, the production of craft drinks is framed with reference to masculinity and imagery and language used reinforces a gendered hierarchy where female workers in the sector receive less recognition and validation. However, recent changes are noted, with a range of both online and offline initiatives seeking to empower female workers in the craft drink sector whilst challenging entrenched sexist prejudices.

Recycling light-emitting-diode waste quartz sand and stone sludge for the synthesis of amine grafted mesoporous humidity control material

This article proposes a cost-effective development method to recycle two types of waste material (i.e., light-emitting-diode (LED) waste quartz and stone sludge) to produce mesoporous materials. The proposed method is simple yet effective. Extraction of the precursor liquid from the silicon and aluminum sources respectively contained in the waste quartz and stone sludge is based on the alkali fusion method, and the mesoporous material is synthesized after the hydrothermal reaction. The novelty of this work lies in our functionalization of Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41 (MCM-41) through amine group grafting (AGG-MCM-41). The results show that the structure of the mesoporous MCM-41 grafted by the amine functional groups remains orderly. The 29Si nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum confirmed that the supported surface of the MCM-41 features a large number of silanol groups, which verifies that modification of the amine functional group improved the effect. The results show that when the addition amount of amine functional group is 5 vol% (when relative humidity = 95%), the highest equilibrium moisture content of the material is 26.5 kg/kg. The wet performance of the material was studied, and it was proved that 5.0-AGG-MCM-41 complies with the standard of Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS A 1475) (equilibrium moisture content>5 m3/m3). The research results also show that the optimal equilibrium moisture content is more than 44 times that of metal-organic frameworks humidity pump. Therefore, the synthesized AGG-MCM-41 offers excellent humidity control performance in the practical application of building materials as it narrows the indoor humidity fluctuation spontaneously without any energy consumption. This creates new opportunities for smart indoor humidity control. The amine-group-grafted MCM-41 effectively reduces the shortcomings of high energy consumption, high costs, and insufficient space caused by mechanical dehumidifiers. In addition, the production of AGG-MCM-41 from LED waste and stone sludge achieves 100% recycling. Transformation of two problematic industrial byproducts into humidity-conditioning materials with beneficial technical and environmental properties represents a significant contribution towards the goals of sustainable development.

Behavior change after fentanyl testing at a safe consumption space for women in Northern Mexico: A pilot study.

Fentanyl has led to an increased number of overdose deaths in North America. Testing substances for fentanyl may be a harm reduction strategy to prevent overdose. Little is known about behavior change after fentanyl testing and the attitudes around fentanyl knowledge and testing along the US-Mexico border in the context of a safe consumption site. This was a pilot quantitative and qualitative study with 30 women who use drugs at an unsanctioned safe consumption site in Mexicali, Mexico. Women participated in a quantitative survey, a semi-structured interview, and fentanyl testing of substances. Injection behavior was observed after fentanyl testing results were provided. Qualitative data were collected to explore the meanings participants attributed to fentanyl and fentanyl testing. Half of the substances tested positive for fentanyl (n=15, 50%), and all of them were in samples of black tar heroin. Among those participants who tested positive for fentanyl, 7 (47%) subsequently used less of the intended substance, 1 did not use the intended substance, and 7 (47%) did not change their behavior (i.e., used as originally intended). In qualitative interviews, a predominant theme was a description of fentanyl as dangerous and deadly and fentanyl testing as being helpful for modifying drug use behaviors. However, participants recognized that there could be no change in behavior following a positive fentanyl test in the context of not being able to find substances free of fentanyl. We observed mixed results related to behavior change after women's intended substance for use tested positive for fentanyl. Fentanyl testing was acceptable to women, but behavior change was hampered by the inability to find substances free of fentanyl. Further research is needed to maximize the potential of fentanyl testing as a harm reduction tool especially in the context of a changing drug supply.

Vehicle axle detection from under-sampled signal through compressed-sensing-based signal recovery

In traffic data collection, sampling design should satisfy the requirements of identifying prominent pulses corresponding to vehicle axle passage. Insufficient measurement leads to signal distortion and attenuation, reducing the quality of signal pulses. This study exploits the value of under-sampled data by applying compressed sensing (CS) methods to recover signal components that are critical for vehicle axle detection. Two CS methods are investigated in this study to recover the strain signal pulses from inside-pavement instrumented sensors at high-speed traversals. The CS methods successfully recovered the signal pulses from all axles of the truck used for testing. A comparison of the measured axle distances with the reference measurements validated the effectiveness of signal recovery methods. Therefore, the CS methods have the potential of reducing the cost, energy consumption, and data storage space, and improving the data transmission efficiency in practical implementations by enabling sampling devices designed for static measurements to achieve dynamic measurements.

The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017.

The alleged homogenization of material consumption patterns in Western societies in the end of the twentieth century has been a central argument of scholars who predicted a general flattening of class inequalities. However, divisions in material consumption practices and their evolution have largely been neglected in studies of the social stratification of lifestyles. Drawing on six waves of the French Households Budget Surveys from 1985 to 2017 and Geometric Data Analysis, this article shows that the two main structuring oppositions in the French space of material consumption remained unchanged over 32 years. Those two divides are strongly but not exclusively associated with social class. The first persistently opposes integration with and exclusion from mass consumption. The second opposes connected and autonomous consumption styles. However, between 1989 and 2011, the practices associated with these divides have changed and households have experienced a major shift in their position toward the most integrated and connected poles. This study paves the way for comparisons to assess the permanence of those two polarities in material consumption—not only across periods, but also in different countries.

Urban geography II: Materially important cities

This report reviews recent literature that provides a new understanding of the material formation of urban space in the context of carbon/post-carbon urbanism. First, it discusses the concept of extractivist urbanization, which links the excavation of terrestrial materials to a wider agenda of data mining. Second, it considers the relationship of cities to material flows, including debates around how ports and corridors might relate to the urbanization of both ‘circular’ and waste intensive commodity chains and consumption spaces. Third, it traces the relationship between climate change, the redesign of cities and the topographic profile of the Anthropocenic city.

Are updatable learned indexes ready?

Recently, numerous promising results have shown that updatable learned indexes can perform better than traditional indexes with much lower memory space consumption. But it is unknown how these learned indexes compare against each other and against the traditional ones under realistic workloads with changing data distributions and concurrency levels. This makes practitioners still wary about how these new indexes would actually behave in practice. To fill this gap, this paper conducts the first comprehensive evaluation on updatable learned indexes. Our evaluation uses ten real datasets and various workloads to challenge learned indexes in three aspects: performance, memory space efficiency and robustness. Based on the results, we give a series of takeaways that can guide the future development and deployment of learned indexes.

전주시 원도심 공간의 의미 변화

This study examines the process in which a specific space in the Old downtown of Jeonju City is called differently and meaningfully by local residents according to the changes of the times. The area of Jungang-dong, Jeonju City, Called0 ‘Wedding Street’, was a commercial and administrative center from the 1950s to the 1990s. Administrative agencies were concentrated near ‘Wedding Street’, so public officials, teachers, and the wealthy used to purchase and repair watches and precious metals. In addition, the street was called “Jewelry Street” because gold and silver shops were concentrated, and it was signified as a women-centered consumption space due to its connection with nearby markets and changes in consumption culture. In “Jewelry Street,” hanbok, brand clothing, precious metals, and expensive luxury goods were mainly traded, and these were linked to the ritual of marriage. So it made the marriage-related industries concentrated on this street. In the 2000s, urban revitalization policies were implemented amid the stagnation of old downtown, and local governments named the street area “Wedding Street” and implemented street maintenance projects. Since then, space reorganization has intensified around marriage-related industries, Accordingly, the consumption and semanticization process of local residents in this street has also been centered on marriage. Wedding Street fell into recession again amid changes in the consumer culture related to marriage. However, with the recent popularity of “-ridan-gil,” it has been called “Weridan-gil,” and the composition of the space has changed into that composed of the restaurants, bars, and cafes aimed to the consumption culture of young merchants and Consumers, and the process of meaning is emerging through SNS. As such, this study reveals the interaction between the subject that makes meaning according to the change of the times and the factors that influence the change of meaning. In addition, This study also showed the dynamics of space composition and practice from the socio-cultural perspective. In addition, it will provide implications for the implementation of various policies to revitalize the original city center nationwide by revealing that administrative-led policy implementation cannot take precedence over voluntary interaction of local people.

‘Creative City’ R.I.P.?

‘Creative City’ R.I.P.?

İSTİNYEPARK İZMİR ALIŞVERİŞ MERKEZİNİN KAMUSALLIK İLKESİ ÇERÇEVESİNDE İNCELENMESİ

It is accepted that shopping centers, which are built to accommodate different functions and claim to be an alternative to the city center, present the public space interpretation of the postmodern era. This article talk over the İstinyepark İzmir Shopping Center by its public space qualifications. It was developed, in addition the classic multi-storey shopping mall setup, as an alternative 'life center' to the urban space with referments to the 'traditional public neighbourhood-market experience', a 'public street' and 'public city park'. As a result of the examination, it was concluded that the project could not go beyond being a consumption space. Because it has not carry the principles of equality and accessibility; was adopted an enclaved approach in design decisions, contradicting the publicity; the city park is arranged as a passive green space that does not promise any activity to the citizens; the spatial organizations that imitate the urban space are just a decor-like representation. Therefore, although İstinyepark İzmir AVM may be a consumption center, it does not carry a public space atmosphere for an alternative to the city center.

Архівні горизонти катеринославців ХІХ – початку ХХ століття

Identifying the features of the history of regional archival aff airs is an urgent task. Therefore, the aim of the article was to present the process of formation and evolution of archival culture of Katerynoslav of the XIX – early XX centuries in the context of the genesis of regional historical culture and the formation of the urban spiritual and cultural landscape. The research methodology is based on ideas about the historical culture of society as a space of production, consumption, translation and preservation of knowledge/ideas about the past in a particular cultural space. An integral segment of the historical culture of society is its archival culture, which is perceived not only as a set of professional and social practices, but also as an area of the ideal – projects, programs, plans, dreams, which may be referred to as «archival horizons». The scientifi c novelty of the study is determined by the fact that historical and archival stories set in the context of historical urbanism, intellectual and new social history, broad and extensive fi eld of memory studies, regional historiography and historical culture can acquire completely new sounds and meanings. It is important here to study the ideal segment of archival culture, which is proposed to defi ne the concept of «archival horizons». Under this term for the XIX – early XX centuries can be understood as a set of knowledge and public ideas about the role, place, value and opportunities for the use of manuscript heritage in the scientifi c, social and spiritual-cultural space. Prospects for further study of «archival horizons» and «archival dreams» as segments of archival and historical culture of society are associated with the involvement of the history of archival aff airs in close interdisciplinary cooperation. The result of the study was the identifi cation of three periods in the evolution of Katerynoslav archival culture, determining their content and features.

Spatial dynamics and urban morphology in a medium-sized brazilian city

Contemporary urbanization entails urban transformations of several kinds, especially spatial and economic changes. In the Brazilian urban network, this situation is visibly expressed in medium-sized cities due to their population growth and economic growth that promote regional centralization. Therefore, this article analyzed the expansion of the city of Montes Claro from 1970 to 2020 and the transformations of the urban morphology arising from that process, through geographical data derived from satellite images. The study area was chosen due to the role this city plays in the regional urban area in Northern Minas Gerais. Besides, the attraction of people and capital to that city causes its intra-urban space to undergo an ongoing metamorphosis. As the urban area expands, the formation and consolidation of new centralizations stem from its internal dynamic. As the population density increases and economic activities expand and are relocated, new spaces for consumption and appropriation emerge, engendering new urban habitats and redefining the center and the periphery.

Transformation of Rural Space under the Impact of Tourism: The Case of Xiamen, China

Tourism plays a key role in sustaining economic development. Previous research has established the connections between tourism and urban growth, as well as the influence of tourism on population and social structure, and the impact of tourism on the landscape. Fewer studies have been conducted on the impact of tourism on the process of rural development change, especially how rural spatial transformation and local community development are driven through tourism. This paper investigates the link between tourism and rural spatial development in China, using in-depth interviews. The research demonstrates that the ambiguity of collective land ownership in China is a key factor in the process of village development. The transformation of villages from “production space” to “consumption space” is driven by tourism based on the land institution arrangement. It is hoped that this research will contribute to a deeper understanding that tourism should be valued in the future as part of the village development process, especially when tourism plays a long-term role in promoting village development.

DIVISÃO SOCIAL DO ESPAÇO E FRAGMENTAÇÃO SOCIOESPACIAL EM MOSSORÓ/RN/BRASIL

This paper addresses the production of urban space in Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte State, through an analysis that articulates the social division of space and socio-spatial fragmentation. The hypothesis is that, in the context of contemporary urbanization, the fragmentary urban logic plays a significant role in structuring and restructuring urban spaces. The center-periphery contradiction is redefined, associated with the production of new spaces for consumption and the profusion of popular housing forms and closed residential spaces. For this, the mapping and cross-referencing data from these same spaces, the forms of habitation and, consequently, interviews with inhabitants, were fundamental for the analysis So, this article highlights the study of socio-spatial fragmentation as an expressive possibility to understand contemporary Brazilian urbanization. It concludes on spatial practices and the appropriation of space as a fundamental element to understand the fragmentation process in Brazilian medium-sized cities. Keywords: Sociospatial Fragmentation, Urban Centrality, Social and Territorial Division of Labour, Mossoró, Brazil.

A New Classification Scheme Based on Extended Kalman Filter and Support Vector Machine

In the field of power quality monitoring, due to the extensive quantity of measurements data, it is preferred that the detection, identification and classification of Power Quality Disturbances (PQD) can be performed automatically. This paper proposes a new efficient classification scheme based on two powerful techniques, the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and the Support Vector Machine (SVM). The feature extraction step plays the most important role, where, the EKF has a good advantage in reducing time computation by dispensing with the segmentation step. Moreover, only three suitable features are extracted from the parameters estimated based on the EKF, thus conserve memory space and time do without need for feature selection step. After the normalization of the extracted features, in the second step, the SVM classifier is applied to classify these disturbances into their specific categories. Simulation results are examined under different Gaussian white noises to prove the efficiency of the proposed classification diagram. Moreover, performance comparisons with other methods proposed in the literature are conducted, to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in term of, consumption of memory space, computation time, implementation complexity, and classification accuracy.

Behavior change after fentanyl testing at a safe consumption space for women in Northern Mexico: A pilot study

Behavior change after fentanyl testing at a safe consumption space for women in Northern Mexico: A pilot study