Image Of City Research Articles

PROMOTING THE IMAGE OF BANDA ACEH-INDONESIA BECOMES A POPULAR TSUNAMI-TOURISM DESTINATION CITY: THE MODERATING ROLES OF CULTURAL AND ISLAMIC TOURISM OBJECTS

This study aims to explore and analyze the moderating effects of Islamic and cultural tourism objects on the relationship between tsunami-related sites and the image of Banda Aceh city, Indonesia as a tsunami-tourism destination. Of 29.213 tourists who visited the city in 2019, 200 of them were selected as the sample of the study using a simple random sampling technique. The primary data collected through questionnaires and interviews were then analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM)-based moderated multiple regression techniques. The study documented that tsunami-related sites and Islamic and cultural tourism objects have promoted the image of the city as a tsunami-tourism destination. Additionally, the cultural and Islamic tourism objects strengthened the effect of tsunami-related sites on the city image as a tsunami tourism destination. Thus, to further promote the city image as the tsunami-tourism destination, the tsunami-related sites, Islamic and cultural tourism-related objects must be preserved and enhanced.

A Methodological Approach to Re-Image the City the Case of Galle City, Sri Lanka

‘City Re-imaging’ is a method applied in re-establishing cities’ image by assessing diverse city impressions of the users of cities. Empirical work on ‘City Re-imaging’ is lacking, particularly in the Asian context. Also, city imaging methods thus far have given more emphasis on evaluating the physical elements of a city overlooking the importance of city impressions of the users of cities. Focusing on this gap, this research applies a methodological approach to re-establish the image of Galle city in Sri Lanka by assessing the city impressions of its users. Photo Collage Technique and Web-based Photo Identification were used as data collection methods in the study and the collected date were analysed through both qualitative and quantitative approaches to re-image the Galle City. The study demonstrates key factors that influence city impression and their interrelationship through a newly developed framework. The most recognizable elements in city impression and evaluation level of city impressions in its atmosphere also identified in this study. These findings can lead planners and urban designers to better understand cities and their image.

Functions of Music Festivals in Modern Italy: “Rossini Opera Festival”

The relevance of the study. Considering the music festivals of modern Italy, it is important to identify their functionality and influence on the development of the cultural life of the country as a whole. This issue has been little studied, although, in our opinion, it is important and relevant for characterizing the festival movement in Italy.
 Main objectives of the study is to describe the International Opera Festival “Rossini Opera Festival: ROF”, its main functions.
 The methodology is based on the use of the inductive method, which, to characterize the festival process in the cultural life of Italy, involves the study of individual festival projects and provides for the use of a set of complementary research methods — historical-analytical, empirical and sociocultural. The historical-analytical method contributed to the understanding of the logic of the formation and development of the festival, the appeal to empirical and sociocultural methods made it possible to consider the features of the organization of the festival in the context of social relations in the system of music life in modern Italy.
 Results and conclusions. As an instrument of dialogue between civilizations, music is still today a fundamental lever of economic growth, able to interact with all other values: artistic heritage, cultural and tourism industry, environment and landscape. Through an integrated plan of structural interventions, services for citizens and businesses of the city, music in Pesaro becomes an engine of development, creative enrichment of cultural heritage and synergy between culture, tourism, society and education. The "Rossini Opera Festival: ROF" is a truly local indie phenomenon that draws a prepared and interested audience to Pesaro. Music as a means of dialogue between civilizations today contributes to economic growth, interaction with all other values of the region: historical and artistic heritage, cultural, tourism industry, landscape. Impressive is not only the scale of the project, but also the effectiveness of cooperation between cultural, financial, state institutions participating in its organization. Together they have developed a formula for holding Italian festivals, which provides a high result — the revival of the cultural and economic development of the region thanks to tourist flows, changing the image of cities (creating new infrastructure), interaction between public and private institutions, local authorities, professionals and art lovers. As an inseparable component of human culture, music always, in all its manifestations, acts as its memory, as a memory of history, a reminder of past events and their participants.

Reproduction, cultural symbolism, and online relationship: Constructing city spatial imagery on TikTok.

The city on social media has become a hot topic in the study of city communication and city image. From the perspective of spatial theory and the communication characteristics of social media, this paper divides the spatial imagery of TikTok into three spaces: material space-cognitive attention, mental space-mental association, and relational space-emotional involvement. Based on the content analysis of 40 videos, we analyze the process of social media using cognition, association, and emotion as the starting points to increase the material space, expand the mental space, and expand the relational space. We find that spatial imagery can be co-constructed from the material space, mental space, and relational space. Lastly, the model is changed, and the value of using spatial theory to understand how city images are made is talked about.

The Role of Globalisation in Baku's New City

This article examines the construction of Baku city, which has undergone rapid change in recent years following the effects of globalisation, and where many new and iconic buildings have been built. These buildings have influenced the formation of Baku's new city image. The study focuses on how the texture of the newly built (2009-2018) contemporary buildings, primarily medium and large-scale projects, in intense development areas have affected the city's architectural identity.The selected 27 buildings were examined according to seven developed design criteria that examine the features affecting architectural identity. The results obtained with the findings are presented in the tables. Within the examination of the architectural development of Baku, the regions where the new buildings are mostly built, the west coast of the Caspian Sea and the urban development area Haydar Aliyev Street are discussed. While the still young 27-year-old republic focused on the intense modern city image, there were losses in the interesting urban and architectural texture during the period.

Ресурсы жизнеспособности горожан: опыт сравнения двух городов

The relevance of the study is due to the identification of unique and universal viability resources of the Moscow and Surgut residents. The purpose of the research is to study the viability resources of Moscow and Surgut citizens. The study hypothesizes that there are general and unique personal and environmental factors for both cities that ensure the viability of their residents. The study was carried out on a sample of respondents aged 18–75 (N = 644) living in the two cities: Moscow (n = 359) and Surgut (n = 285). The applied methods include the “Identificationwith-the-City Scale” (M. Lally) used to identify the perception of the advantages of the city, general attachment to it, connection with the city past and orientation to it in the future. Moreover, the authors used the original questionnaires aimed at the identification of the citizens’ responsibility and their willingness to participate in the city life (T. V. Drobysheva); analysis of the emotional characteristics of the city future “Semantic differential” (T. V. Dr obysheva, S. V. Tarasov); a set of questions that reveal socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents. The research results demonstrate that there are some factors of the urban environment that reduce the citizens’ viability. These factors are common to both cities. In addition, in the Moscow sample, the experience of stress is mostly associated with external factors, while in the Surgut sample it is connected with the quality of life. The study has revealed differences in the socio-psychological resources of the citizens’ vitality: in the level of urban identity, in the type of responsibility (external for the Muscovites and internal for the Surgut residents), in readiness for various types of activity, in the image of the future city, and in the use of environmental resources. The resources of the Muscovites’ viability are based on a high level of their urban identity, on delegating responsibility for the city state to the authorities, and on a positive image of future life in the city. The Surgut residents rely on their self-confidence and feel responsible for the city state. An important viability resource for them is their willingness to take actions in the interest of the city and their tendency for active use of urban recreational resources. It is recommended to develop urban programs to attract interested citizens to planning city innovations in both cities.

A REVIEW OF THE ESSENCE OF CITY BRANDING IN ENHANCING IMAGE AND IDENTITY OF A CITY

The future of cities is at the juncture of a new reality. This poses a domestic opportunity to relook and rediscover the image and identity of the city. Cities are often viewed in the international arena, hence the authentic local essence of city image and identity is often flattened, hidden, or ignored. Therefore, this paper aims to review existing literature on city branding in order to identify characteristics that will enhance city strategies. This research is conducted using content and thematic analysis based on the Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases. Findings have identified criteria such as integrated- design, landmarks, signature architecture, city vision statement, culture and symbolic assets to be among the contributing factors. Based on the review, the domain of city branding consists of intangible and tangible city assets that must be further researched in the field. These findings shall contribute to the research in the context of cities in Malaysia.

The Mechanisms of Constructing the Image of the Far Eastern Provincial City in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

The article presents an analysis aimed at identifying an axiological strategy of forming a positive image of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in different historical periods. When creating a positive image of a provincial city, a regional identity is formed, which contributes to solving one of the most pressing problems for the Russian Far East, related to the need to preserve human resources.
 The paper examines the modern stage of forming a positive image of the city based on the example of the electronic version of the newspaper “Far East Komsomolsk-on-Amur”, since the media have different functions in the modern society, including the informative and ideological functions. The identified ways of creating a positive image include building a new model of life during the construction of the city, aimed at a bright future of the city which is full of cultural events, spreading information about happy life in the city by fixing and informing the whole country about the achievements of Komsomolsk-on-Amur residents and updating information about the heroic past of the city. So far, the methods influencing the image of Komsomolsk-on-Amur have not undergone significant changes since the Soviet times. Therefore, the analysis of the texts taken from the city's newspapers has made it possible to determine the leading dominants in the axiological strategy of creating a positive image of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Image and text presentation forms in destination marketing: An eye-tracking analysis and a laboratory experiment.

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the tourism and hospitality industries worldwide. Tourism destination marketing has been an heated focus in tourism and hospitality academia, it is widely believed that it can promote the revival of industries in the post-pandemic era. But there is a lack of research on different graphic presentation forms in tourism advertisements. To bridge the gap in the related literature, this study aims at studying the impact of the image and text presentation forms of the scenic spot's name in tourism advertisements on tourists' visit intention to the tourist destination city by combining the theory of constructivism in cognitive psychology, SOR model, and affective-cognitive model to conduct a 2 × 2 between-group experiment. The study found that when the text part contains the scenic spot's name, the tourism advertisement has a significant impact on tourists' perceived advertising effectiveness, destination affective image, and visit intention. The results of eye tracking analysis also showed that fixation points are primarily distributed in the text part. Furthermore, this study explored the chain mediating mechanism of perceived advertising effectiveness and destination affective image and discovered that the impact of the text presentation form on the visit intention can be realized through the mediating effect of perceived advertising effectiveness and destination affective image. This study puts forward some suggestions for the tourism advertising and destination marketing of scenic spots with high-familiarity of destination cities with low-familiarity and improving the image of tourist destination cities.

To Investigate the Padova (Italy) Prato Della Valle Square in terms of Spatial Planning in the Historical Process

Meydanlar, geçmişten günümüze bir kentin en önemli mekânları olmuşlardır. Ekonomik ve sosyo-kültürel açıdan meydanlar, her zaman birer kent imgesi olmuşlardır. Ticaret, toplu etkinlikler, önemli duyurular ve gösteriler bu alanlarda yapılmıştır. İtalya Roma döneminden itibaren kesintisiz olarak meydan olgusuna önem vermiş, mimari açıdan birbirinden farklı tasarımı olan meydanlar oluşturmuşlardır. Padova (İtalya)’da bulunan Prato Della Valle Meydanı da 244 yıllık bir geçmişe sahip, eliptik formlu ve sahip olduğu 78 heykel ile dünyanın sayılı meydan örneklerinden biridir. Bu çalışmada, yaklaşık 2,5 asırdır değişime uğramadan günümüze ulaşan Prato Della Valle Meydanı’nın geometriksel ve mekânsal açıdan günümüzde hala kabul gören bir tasarıma sahip olmasının nedenleri incelenmiştir.

Constructing Integrated Meaning under the Perspective of Intersemiotic Complementarity in Multimodal Discourse: A Case Study of Tourism Promotional Film The World of Ding Zhen

With the development of technology, more and more places are using tourism promotional films to show their local characteristics as a new means of promotion, and those promotional films have largely increased local awareness and promoted the development of tourism. As the typical multimodal discourses, the modes in tourism promotional videos deserve study to find out the construction of meaning and the transmission of the theme. Guided by the theories of intersemiotic complementary, the study explores the construction of integrated meaning in multimodal discourse analysis based on a case study of promotional film The World of Ding Zhen, aiming to reveal the collective effect between visual image and verbal text and find out how the city image is formed through intersemiotic complementary.

Analysis of the Spatio-temporal variations of thermal patterns of Shiraz city by satellite images and GIS processing

In recent years, climate change has caused an increase in the air temperature and consequently the temperature of the earth's surface. The temperature of the earth's surface has had various effects on urban life and has caused the formation of thermal islands in cities. Thermal islands are one of the important criteria in regional planning. The city of Shiraz is considered to be a large population center in the southwest of Iran on the one hand and one of the important tourism centers of Iran on the other hand, so the purpose of this research is to monitor the spatial form of thermal islands in this city. The satellite images of Shiraz city were first collected and extracted in the hot periods of the year from 1985-to 2020 using the data of Landsat’s 4 and 5 (TM), 7 (ETM+), and 8 (OLI/TIRS). After required preprocessing, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Land Surface Temperature (LST), Normalized Difference Built-up Index (NDBI), and the urban heat dispersion index were determined by the Urban Thermal Field Variance Index (UTFVI). The regions with UHI, the variation of the temperature in the city, and the relationship between the LST and surface vegetation were evaluated based on the results of image processing to determine the UHIs of Shiraz. The temporal variations of the temperature pattern of Shiraz city indicated that about 12.76 km2 was added to the area of the fourth temperature class from 1985 to 2020. Results of NDVI evaluation in the studied period showed a decline in the vegetation from 22.28 km2 in 1985 to 17.54 km2 in 2020 due to alteration of the land use which can explain the formation and increase of the UHIs in the mentioned regions. At the beginning of the investigated period (1985), the temperature of the earth's surface was 17°Celsius and reached 21°Celsius at the end of the period (2020). The monitoring of the spatial form of the surface temperature of the earth shows that heat islands are moving from the outskirts of the city towards the city center. UTFVI also revealed that the awful regions (very hot temperatures) are mainly concentrated in the west and north-west to the south west of Shiraz (including some parts of districts 9 and 10), south east of district 7, and north of district 1.

El rediseño del Palacio del Presidente en Kazajistán

Introduction: This paper deals with the renovation process of the President’s Palace in Kazakhstan. Diversity is one of our main features expressing the nationwide experience along with its successes and failures. The spatial quality of some public spaces provided them permanence and "sustainability". The aesthetic values of architectural and urban spaces are often determinant factors for urban environmental quality. In fact, our research strategy combines the study of spatial practice and usage with the analysis of design quality. The rejuvenation of urban spaces is a promising experience contributing socially, economically, and physically to regenerating the local urban environment and leisure activity. Sustainable urban development provides city designers with criteria of social and ecological rationality that are different from those available in the market. Consequently, the concept of sustainability becomes the keystone of the urban development process. Materials and Methods: This paper puts forward a question about the global features of a public park and continues the discussion on keeping a balance between local architecture and the global ‘public park making’ trend the method employed is qualitative interviews, observations, and walking tours with public space users. An amount of data is collected for environmental assessment. Results and Discussion: The renovated park shows the new way public space is oriented. In President's Palace, a new logic of urban publicity was assembled and built into the landscape. we analyzed the social and technical means. New public spaces of this sort promulgate a conception of the public that not only combine with discourses of democratization, citizenship, and self–development and is connected ever more firmly to consumption and commercial. Conclusions: We also do research on the global features of a public park and discuss keeping a balance between local architecture and the global public park-making trend, as well as public facilities and profit, and the role of nature as a universal remedy and tool in reshaping the image of cities.

Discursive Construction of Nanjing City Image in Public Health Emergency

In this study, the function of “Nanjing Release”, the official new media platform of the Nanjing Municipal Government, is analyzed in the construction of the city image in paroxysmal public emergencies from five aspects (e.g., discourse content, discourse form, discourse subject, stylistic style, and emotional orientation) based on the framework of pragmatic identity and cultural discourse studies. This study suggests that the discourse contents of “Nanjing Release” primarily comprise pandemic notification, pandemic prevention, and control measures, saluting anti-pandemic workers, serving people’s livelihood, government notification and handling, and pandemic-related science knowledge. Moreover, the forms of discourse are classified into single-modal reports and multi-modal reports. The subjects of discourse primarily include government agencies, anti-pandemic workers, new media organizations, public institutions, and virtual characters. The stylistic styles of discourse are divided into deliberative, formal, casual, and serious styles. Furthermore, the affective orientations include neutral reports, positive reports, and negative reports. This study reveals that the government’s WeChat account, “Nanjing Release”, has built an image of a warm, loving, and grateful city fighting against the pandemic in the public health emergency. Afterward, the motivation for the discursive construction of the city image is studied.

Images of Ukrainian Cities in Wartime Narratives

The study of wartime narratives throws light on the principal factors in the creation of images ofUkrainian cities. For the purposes of this work, a narrative is a story inboth verbal andvisual form. The analysis takes into account the time of appearance of an image and the specifics of its formation, construction, and functioning. The article examines the images of Ukrainian cities in Ukrainian narratives broadcast and available in the public space since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. A threat to a city’s existence and the physical destruction of objects and landmarks, including symbolic ones, causes changes in the way of life and even its dismantling. This leads to the strengthening or weakening of some existing images, as well as to the emergence of new ones. The author particularly notes certain features of the images under study, such as the personification of cities, which are portrayed as combating the enemy, resisting, and revealing their character. A city’s image is assembled from a number of significant sites that are preserved and can be reproduced by individual and collective memory. Each city has a unique set of locations that are especially dear and important to the residents – sites that allow us to “read” the city as continuous history. The highest form of affinity with one’s city is a resident’s identification with it — symbolic inseparability, “growing into” each other. The heroic struggle of Ukrainian cities against the Russian aggressor would be impossible without preserving, first and foremost, their spiritual core, which is confirmed by the appearance of such epithets as “unbreakable” or “unconquered.” The borderland status of some of the studied cities is especially keenly felt. During the war, the frontier becomes not a melting pot of cultures, but a boundary between Us and Them. The wartime narratives emphasize the importance of borderland cities as outposts of Ukrainianness, fortress towns. Because of this, Ukrainianness becomes one of the dominant features of the images of Ukrainian cities, especially those close to the border. It becomes significant, vitally necessary. The preservation of this dominant factor in city images in wartime narratives (especially on the spiritual level) is an important marker of a city’s will to resist, its vital energy even in war.

Research on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Cultural Tourism Industry Development in Hohhot

Based on the current situation of tourism resources in Hohhot and the strategy of establishing a “regional leisure resort”, this paper puts forward solutions accordingly. By using central strategy, Hohhot gives full play to the advantages of tourism resources to form a unique city image symbol, telling a good story with tourism, and promoting the development of tourism industry.

The Dissemination Strategy of an Urban Smart Medical Tourism Image by Big Data Analysis Technology.

The advanced level of medical care is closely related to the development and popularity of a city, and it will also drive the development of tourism. The smart urban medical system based on big data analysis technology can greatly facilitate people's lives and increase the flow of people in the city, which is of great significance to the city's tourism image dissemination and branding. The medical system, with eight layers of architecture including access, medical cloud service governance, the medical cloud service resource, the platform's public service, the platform's runtime service, infrastructure, and the overall security and monitoring system of the platform, is designed based on big data analysis technology. Chengdu city is taken as an example based on big data analysis technology to position the dissemination of an urban tourism image. Quantitative analysis and questionnaire methods are used to study the effect of urban smart medical system measurement and tourism image communication positioning based on big data analysis technology. The results show that the smart medical cloud service platform of the urban smart medical system, as a public information service system, supports users in obtaining medical services through various terminal devices without geographical restrictions. The smart medical cloud realizes service aggregation and data sharing compared to the traditional isolated medical service system. Cloud computing has been used as the technical basis, making the scalability and reliability of the system have unprecedented improvements. This paper discusses how to effectively absorb, understand, and use tools in the big data environment, extract information from data, find effective information, make image communication activities accurate, reduce the cost, and improve the efficiency of city image communication. The research shows that big data analysis technology improves patients' medical experience, improves medical efficiency, and alleviates urban medical resource allocation to a certain extent. This technology improves people's satisfaction with the dissemination of urban tourism images, makes urban tourism image dissemination activities accurate, reduces the cost of urban tourism image dissemination, and improves the efficiency of urban tourism image dissemination. The combination of the two can provide a reference for developing urban smart medical care and disseminating a tourism image.

Run-Length-Based River Skeleton Line Extraction from High-Resolution Remote Sensed Image

Automatic extraction of the skeleton lines of river systems from high-resolution remote-sensing images has great significance for surveying and managing water resources. A large number of existing methods for the automatic extraction of skeleton lines from raster images are primarily used for simple graphs and images (e.g., fingerprint, text, and character recognition). These methods generally are memory intensive and have low computational efficiency. These shortcomings preclude their direct use in the extraction of skeleton lines from large volumes of high-resolution remote-sensing images. In this study, we developed a method to extract river skeleton lines based entirely on run-length encoding. This method attempts to replace direct raster encoding with run-length encoding for storing river data, which can considerably compress raster data. A run-length boundary tracing strategy is used instead of complete raster matrix traversal to quickly determine redundant pixels, thereby significantly improving the computational efficiency. An experiment was performed using a 0.5 m-resolution remote-sensing image of Yiwu city in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. Raster data for the rivers in Yiwu were obtained using both the DeepLabv3+ deep learning model and the conventional visual interpretation method. Subsequently, the proposed method was used to extract the skeleton lines of the rivers in Yiwu. To compare the proposed method with the classical raster-based skeleton line extraction algorithm developed by Zhang and Suen in terms of memory consumption and computational efficiency, the visually interpreted river data were used to generate skeleton lines at different raster resolutions. The results showed that the proposed method consumed less than 1% of the memory consumed by the classical method and was over 10 times more computationally efficient. This finding suggests that the proposed method has the potential for river skeleton line extraction from terabyte-scale remote-sensing image data on personal computers.

THE ROLE OF ANNA (ASJA) LĀCIS IN THE GENESIS OF WALTER BENJAMIN’S PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

Walter Benjamin’s collection of articles, Passagenwerk (The Arcades Project), is regarded as the quintessence of his philosophical thought and aesthetical beliefs. A forerunner of this monumental work is the travel description entitled “Napoli”, written in co-authorship with Anna Lācis, where the keyword is porosity, which is a metaphor for the specific way of thinking for Walter Benjamin. The collection of literary sketches “One Way Street” and “Moscow Diary”, created in cooperation with Anna Lācis, are also important records of the 20th century aesthetical perceptions and ideological considerations. There exists an interesting intertextual link between the images of cities in various Benjamin’s works – Naples, Rīga, Moscow. The article is an attempt to discover the “unclear” influence of Asja Lācis on the philosophical thought of Walter Benjamin and is based on Beata Paškevica’s monograph “In der Stadt der Parolen. Asja Lacis, Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht” published in Germany in 2006. The conclusion is that Asja Lācis has not had a great influence on Benjamin’s political views but on his aesthetical views. This has been metaphorically formulated by Benjamin himself in the dedication text of his book “One Way Street”.

지역특화 스포츠관광 프로그램의 체험요소가 도시이미지, 장소애착 및 만족도에 미치는 영향

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of experience factors of regional specialized sports tourism program on city image, place attachment, and satisfactionBR Method: Total of 400 questionnaires were distributed and 332 were returned usable. Techniques for data analysis were frequency analysis, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis using SPSS23.0 programs.BR Results: First, escapist experience and esthetic experience had a positive effect on the city image, while the same is not true for the entertainment experience on the city image. Second, entertainment experience and esthetic experience have a positive effect on place attachment, while the same is not true for the escapist experience on place attachment. Third, entertainment experience, escapist experience, and esthetic experience all have positive effects on satisfaction. Fourth, both the city image and place attachment have a positive effect on satisfaction.BR Conclusion: In conclusion, the regional specialized sports tourism promotion project reflects the characteristics of local tourism and combines sports tourism experience elements with the tourism infrastructure, which increases the competitiveness of local tourism, and acts as an important variable in improving the city image, place attachment, and satisfaction.