Leisure Places Research Articles

Женский досуг в фабричной повседневности: текстильные предприятия Ярославской губернии во второй половине XIX – начале XX в.

В статье изучается место досуга в фабричной повседневности текстильщиц Ярославской губернии во второй половине XIX – начале XX века. Исследование проводится с применением гендерного, регионального и микроисторического подходов. Авторами выявляются социально-экономические факторы, оказывавшие влияние на развитие промышленности, процессы труда и отдыха в рабочей среде, приводившие к трансформации идентичности городских и сельских рабочих. В статье освещается многообразие форм досуговых практик, доступных мужчинам и женщинам, а также отмечается тенденция к увеличению доли досуга в повседневной жизни текстильщиц.

Research on the Curriculum Reform of “Plant Planting Design” Based on SketchUP

With the rapid development of society, garden has become an indispensable leisure place in the city. Therefore, landscape design has become a hot professional. “Plant planting design” is the core professional course of landscape architecture specialty, which every landscape designer must learn. Plant planting design is an indispensable link in the process of landscape design, which is an important content in the process of landscape professional training. However, most engineering schools lack of teaching experience in plant planting design, which will lead to students not fully understand plant planting design. The SketchUP technology, also known as computer-aided technology, refers to the use of computers and graphics equipment to help designers perform design work, which can greatly improve people’s work efficiency and enable people to have concrete cognition of abstract things. Therefore, we must reform the course of plant planting design, which will improve students’ interest and enthusiasm, and actively use the SketchUP and other related design tools in the teaching process. First of all, this paper analyzes the problems of curriculum teaching. Then, some suggestions are put forward.

How to Have a Rest in the Arctic: Leisure Activities of the Soviet Polar Explorers in the 1930s

Mid 1930s characterized by a change in cultural imperatives: instead of the Spartan and anti-bourgeois ideals of the NEP and industrialization period the authorities proposed a lifestyle full of abundance. The words of I. Stalin: “Living has become better, comrades; living has become happier” was perhaps the most popular slogan. The 1930s were also characterized by the Arctic exploration activity peak, which was to become an objective symbol of the Soviet social experiment success. But was there a place for leisure in it? The aim of the research is to answer this question by investigating the issue of leisure practices of Soviet polar explorers. The author came to conclusion that leisure of the polar explorers was a rest in the style of socialist realism – idealized and unrealistic, practically leaving no hint of deviance or contradiction with the established cultural imperative. They listened to music from Soviet musical comedies, read the right books, played chess, not cards, studied foreign languages and were actively involved in political education. The only weaknesses available – smoking and alcohol – were the means to calmly think over the situation or celebrate a public holiday, once again realizing the importance of their work for the benefit of the socialist homeland and being inspired to new exploits.

Brazilian Children's Understanding of the Quality of Life in Their Living Environment: A Qualitative Study.

(1) Objective: To understand the perception of Brazilian children about the Quality of Life (QoL) considering their living environment. (2) Methods: This is a qualitative study conducted with children aged 6–10 years, from a medium-sized Brazilian municipality, recruited from public and private schools. An adaptation of the “draw, write, and say” method was used to collect data. At first, all children (n = 252) drew a “neighborhood with QoL”. On the same day, the researcher analyzed the graphic elements of the representations and intentionally selected the two best-detailed drawings from each class (n = 49) and the children were invited to narrate them. The narratives were analyzed through content analysis. (3) Results: Two major themes emerged from the content analysis, namely, the physical environment and social environment. The first included the needs to live in a community, such as housing, places of leisure, essential services, and natural elements. The second was relationships with family and friends. (4) Conclusion: The children presented the meaning of an environment with QoL, pointing out essential items to have this ideal environment. The social environment and the physical environment were perceived interdependently; that is, any change in one of these aspects may affect children’s QoL.

The School for us and us for the School

The main purpose of this project was to make the school more appealing, by working in the greenhouse, green spaces and leisure places. Transforming the school and making it a more active and welcoming place, was, from the beginning, the problem that was identified by the students. In their opinion, the school looked a little sad and they knew they would need help to transform it into a better place, where they could feel like home. With this purpose in mind, students attended a meeting with the local authorities and the Parents’ Association. To start the project, students made healthy gums to offer to other students, on Valentine’s Day, andthey also made soaps to sell to the community. These activities allowed us to begin the greenhouse project. The occupation of these young people’s free time became different and it was a very enriching experience. The seed of the OSOS project is germinating, and we believe that, in the future, it will continue to give beautiful flowers. Together we were able to make thedifference!

A Sustainable Framework for the Analysis of Port Systems

The commercial and industrial growth of the urban areas with consequent specialization of the maritime and land traffic deeply modified in the last centuries the spatial and functional relationship between port and city. Ports became a complex of functions and interactions with the city sharing its commercial, recreational, tourist, cultural, urban spaces and places for leisure. In addition to goods heavy traffic, the new port configuration also attracts important flows of people linked to the cruise sector, passenger traffic and tourism. This mix of activities, while inducing a great potential for transformation and strong changes on the urban economy, generates several externalities on the urban mobility system, such as congestion, accessibility, security and safety issues. The objective of this paper is to propose a framework for actions and measures to foster sustainability in ports. International best practices for passenger and freight port transport have been analysed with a focus on advantages and disadvantages of already implemented procedures, both in the short and in the long term. Most performing measures have been included in the framework, which classify them according to the three pillars of sustainability and the Avoid-Shift-Improve approach. The paper clearly defines the key elements needed to be taken into account when demonstrating efficiency of port systems. The methodology can be considered suitable in order to support decision making processes of port management entities and local policy makers regarding the assessment of different alternatives in the short and in the long period.

ДИАГНОСТИКА ДОСУГОВЫХ ПОТРЕБНОСТЕЙ КАК РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ ВОЗМОЖНОСТЕЙ СТУДЕНЧЕСКОЙ МОЛОДЕЖИ В ГОРОДСКОЙ СРЕДЕ

The article provides an overview of the results of the secondary and author's sociological research, which studied the leisure needs of modern student youth in the social space of the city. The features of students’ leisure activities are considered, namely: where they prefer to spend their leisure time; frequency of visits to leisure centers; level of compliance of leisure places with the needs of youth; and an attempt to assess the shortage of leisure places in the urban environment is being made.

Importancia económica, cultural, social y turística de las termas en la provincia de Pichincha

La calidad de vida y disponibilidad de tiempo incrementa la demanda de ocio y esparcimiento. Entre las alternativas, merece destacarse especialmente el turismo de salud, que está adquiriendo una extraordinaria relevancia (Prado, 2000). Éste segmento turístico está siendo impulsado hacia la promoción y el desarrollo, la cual se confirma como una interesante especialización turística. Esta investigación inicia con un diagnóstico general en los diferentes cantones de la provincia de Pichincha que cuentan con aguas termales como atractivo turístico, una alta afluencia de visitantes nacionales y extranjeros, infraestructura adecuada y facilidad de acceso para los turistas. La búsqueda del descanso y del bienestar físico de los visitantes por aprovechar las cualidades minero – medicinales del agua, se convierte en lugares de ocio ya que desde estos balnearios se promueven actividades como deportes y degustaciones gastronómicas típicas de un turismo rural.

Culture and tourism-led peri-urban transformation in China – The case of Shanghai

Culture and tourism occupy an important position in urban development strategy in both Global North and South. While most studies on culture-led development in China focus on inner city regeneration, little research has been conducted on peri-urban transformations under culture- and tourism-led approach. With two case studies in peri-urban Shanghai, this research critically examines in detail why and how culture-led development planned and implemented under the specific local context and critically reflects the implications on peri-urban transformation. Engaged with the literature on cultural instrumentisation and urban thematisation in an entrepreneurial city, this paper argues that culture-led peri-urban development in Shanghai were initiated by the local state, to serve multiple purposes of boosting land price, building a prestigious image attracting investors and tourists, and fostering cultural and creative industries. However, more often than not, culture was only harnessed as a ‘buzz word’ that provides a justification for large-scale land development, and planned cultural creative industries zones were often reduced to places for leisure and tourism based consumption.

Allergenicity of the urban green areas in the city of Córdoba (Spain)

Gardens provide from the antiquity a place of easing and leisure for the human being. The development of gardens in cities carries the creation of a green space that serves as support to the oxygenation of the air in these and participate in the mitigation of pollution. However, sometimes these parks and gardens can generate health problems in residents due to the presence of species that release high concentrations of allergenic pollen grains into the atmosphere. This work presents a study of potential allergenicity of urban green areas in the city of Córdoba (Spain) to observe if these spaces could be considered as a problem for public health due to its poor air quality. The results obtained suggest that some study spaces present a moderate-hight allergenic potential and could represent a risk to the citizens. The main causes of this rate in these areas have been the abundance of individuals of allergenic species, concentrated in a small area.

Redefining the concept of the 24-hour city and city nightlife for holy cities, with the use of Islamic instructions: A Case study of the holy city of Karbala

The development of the 24-hour city includes the development of infrastructure, and economic, cultural and social planning. The approach taken in most of the western cities has been considered compatible with the lifestyles prevalent in those countries, and has three main parts: people, place, and creativity, and three basic principles: providing a safe city centre for people and their places of leisure, developing the night economy, and improving the city’s image.The interaction between proponents and opponents of 24-hour cities and their effects on the planning of the cities is also one of the challenges in cities in Islamic countries. Most proponents tend to encourage the creation of new urban places and the introduction of special activities compatible with nightlife. However, some cities already provide opportunities for attendance and activity at all times of day and night without formal organisation, including areas such as Karbala and Mashhad where the focal point is a holy shrine.Islam has a special view of urban life and lifestyle and therefore defines its own favoured activities, entertainment, residency, and purpose, proposing special times and places for all things. Reviewing the concept of the 24-hour city in light of the Islamic lifestyle using examples of holy cities can thus help redefine the 24-hour city and produce new patterns for it that are more compatible with the needs of Islamic countries.This research thus tries to answer the following questions using a qualitative method and surveys to develop a case study of Karbala city: What are the connections between an Islamic lifestyle and 24-hour city life? What capacities of the city are lost, based on the current local nightlife? The aim of this study is to begin to redefine the 24-hour city concept to make it compatible with both Islamic culture and local capacity.

РОЛЬ СУЧАСНИХ НАРАТИВНИХ МУЗЕЇВ У МІСЬКОМУ ПРОСТОРІ

The article has examined the revision of the social functions of museums associated with changes in social structures, which began in the second half of the last century. This process caused a wide-ranging discussion about changes in the place and role of museums in society, which led to the emergence of museum institutions whose scope went beyond the gathering, study, conservation, and exhibition of collections. The authors pay attention to the role of museum institutions within the physical spaces and local communities in which the museum exists, considering it in the context of the impact on urban space. The article analyzes the process of tourism development in the second half of the twentieth century and its impact on the beginning of the "museum boom". In this context considered the process of museums transformation into tourist attractions, their formation of cultural space, and the infrastructure of settlements. Particular attention paid to the role of the modern museum in the formation of an attractive image of cities and regions. The authors presented the role of the modern museum in the revitalization of urban physical space. Also, they analyzed the experience of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and its role in transforming the post-industrial depressed city into one of the centers of European and world tourism and culture. Based on the experience of Polish narrative museums, the authors examined the process of revitalization and changes in the urban space, after the emergence of a modern museum. Particular attention paid to the analysis of sociological studies that exploring the impact of modern narrative museum on tourist attractiveness, security, investment attractiveness and infrastructure development processes of modern urban space. Also, the authors paid attention to the role of the modern museum in the development of social capital, which leads to the process of transforming museums into places of leisure, building around themselves a space of values, local and global communication.

Исследование культурно-досугового пространства и культурно-досуговых практик горожан Поволжья в годы Первой мировой войны: возможности региональной периодики

The article analyzes the newspaper materials published in the Volga region during the First World War as a source for studying culture and leisure. Emphasis is placed on the use of publications that were not official. It is noted that newspapers were the main type of regional periodicals. With their diversity, it has been revealed that publications on the topic were in promotional content (announcements of the institutions activities, their programs); in special columns on the topic bearing characteristic titles (“Sport,” “Theater and music”); in op-ed and critical articles, which were placed in the local chronicle (reports or reviews of events with their description, including the authors’ personal views); as photo with caption (an announcement of the upcoming event). Depending on publication, the structure and arrangement of materials varied. It is noted that periodicals are available in several databases, including digital ones, and can be used by researchers as a source for comprehensive and systematic study of the topic. According to materials of regional periodicals, during the First World War there was a wide range of leisure and cultural programs in the towns of the Volga region. They were typical for uezd and gubernia centers, but the number of leisure facilities (theaters, cinemas, restaurants, park areas) was larger in the gubernia cities. It is revealed that leisure of citizens included active forms of participation (organization) and passive ones (visits). It is proved that materials of regional periodicals can be used in reconstructing and analyzing the cultural and recreational space of the towns. Reconstruction is possible on the basis of the enumeration of data on cultural institutions and places of leisure. The analysis is based on studying the content of programs, composition of visitors, organizers, prices.

A cidade na sala de aula: estudo sobre os espaços de lazer com jovens do ensino médio

The relation between the city and education is a way for citizenship formation, and the scholar geography can help in this process. This paper discusses results of an action-research performed with high school young people in a public school in Guarapuava to verify how young people’s daily knowledge can be appropriate for geography teaching as a way of geographic thought development. Leisure places were chosen as heme and it was applied one didactic sequence, which collected data using a questionnaire, mental maps, field research, and conversation circle. It was verified mechanisms in the set of contents, concepts, and procedures of school geography, for the formation of citizenship in young people, as the recognition of problems, the construction of solutions aiming to read, interpret and act on the city.

Acessibilidade para pessoas com deficiência física em locais de lazer

A acessibilidade contribui para uma melhor qualidade de vida, pois, através de mecanismos acessíveis as pessoas conseguem ter maior participação social e exercer sua cidadania. Todavia, a implementação desses mecanismos ocorre de forma gradual, uma vez que é possível observar que nem todos os espaços estão aptos a atender ao público que necessita de adaptações ambientais. Um dos desafios da acessibilidade universal são as barreiras arquitetônicas, existentes nos mais diversos espaços que implicam na limitação de deslocamento de sujeitos que têm sua mobilidade comprometida por problemas físicos. Dessa forma, este trabalho teve como objetivo identificar a acessibilidade dos espaços de lazer do município de Santa Maria, RS para as pessoas com deficiência física. O processo investigativo foi realizado através da aplicação de um questionário de autoria de Ribeiro (2014), adaptado para a NBR 9050/2015. O resultado obtido mostrou que os locais de lazer da cidade possuem certo grau de acessibilidade, entretanto, é preciso fazer mudanças necessárias para se adequar às exigências da norma atual. Por fim, é possível concluir que nenhum dos locais avaliados está totalmente de acordo com a norma mais recente de acessibilidade.

Women's Involvement in Alcohol Consumption as an Element of Asocial Adaptation at the Present Stage

The aim of the work is to consider the features of alcoholic behavior of a modern woman. The situation with the involvement of various groups of women in alcohol consumption is analyzed on the basis of quantitative and qualitative long – term studies conducted by the team of Sector of Sociology of Deviant Behavior of ISRAS – FCTAS RAS at the end of the 20th century, at the turn of the century – in the “zero” years and in modern times. The results of comparative studies conducted by the authors, allowed us to reveal and identify the mechanism of cause-and-effect relationships that led to new models of women’s alcohol behavior. These new patterns of alcohol behavior should be considered as one of the forms of strategic adaptation to changing living conditions. The revealed patterns indicate a significant influence of gender and age on the frequency, intensity and type of alcohol consumption. These new patterns of alcohol behavior represent a form of strategic adaptation to changed living conditions. In this sense, alcohol acts as a universal and most accessible means, satisfying, on the one hand, the need for state of intoxication, for changing one’s state of consciousness, fixed in modern society, and on the other hand, it is a fashionable and exemplary standard of behavior, a socio-cultural norm or ritual. This attitude allows and justifies the “quiet” alcoholization of women managers, housewives, drunkenness in the workplace, holidays in the team, “relaxation” on the way home, including driving, or in the evening at home, after work. In other words, alcohol in moderate doses takes its place in labor, business, leisure, and communication activities of modern women.

Sulphur Mine “Piaseczno” – vol. 1. Historical Query of 1958–2012, Geology and Hydrology of the Mine Region, Reclamation

Two post-mining excavations (relics of sulphur mining), nowadays filled with water are characteristic elements of the landscape in the Tarnobrzeg Region. They became historic and permanent trace of open-cast mining in Piaseczno (left bank of the Vistula River) in 1958–1971 and Machów (right bank of the Vistula River) in 1970–1992. The process of the reclamation of the excavation in Machów ended successfully and the water body became a popular place of leisure and recreation for the residents of the town and the vicinity. Unfortunately, in case of the excavation in Piaseczno, despite many years of liquidation and reclamation works, regaining utility values and ecological values in these areas has not been accomplished yet. There is still real risk of mass land movements of watered ground in the area above the water table, which limits the possibility of adapting the water body for any other purposes than retention and ecological reclamation. Despite short 13-years’ history of mining sulphur and nearly 10 years of mining the Baranów sands, the Sulphur Mine “Piaseczno” has interesting history, due to the mining activities (stages: exploitation, liquidation and reclamation) and the forces of nature, which make a serious problem in the process of completing the works to bring back the utilitarian values of the areas of already non-existing mining area. Based on the analysis and post-processing of the available archival cartographic materials while using information tool (Surfer, AutoCAD), it was possible to make detail parameters of the water body Piaseczno and prove the impact of reclamation works and natural phenomena (mass movements) on the shape of the lake bowl and water scarps of the excavation.

Work Life Balance Post COVID-19

The two most important domains of an individual’s life are work and family. Work and Home can be called two different domains that people have associated with different rules, thought patterns and behaviors. The ability of workers to balance their work and family lives depends on the characteristics of their jobs as well as their individual and family variables and situations.One of the key potential areas of conflict associated with work-life balance relates to travel-to-work. Work-life issues are particularly sensitive to national contexts. Certainly, for most people, different roles and the management of them are desirable.Most people are multidimensional, and work and life are complementary. Conflict is often caused by the incompatible personal expectations of work and life roles. The forced lockdown during COVID-19 has not improved the work life balance for most people even though they were able to spend more time with family and there was no commute time.Many have lost the fascination for exotic places and may prefer to go nearby places for leisure as there is much fear in travel especially international one. These will have a great impact on the tourism industry post COVID-19 as food, travel, stay and leisure activities are the main components of tourism.

BATHING IN THE ROMAN PROVINCE: LOCAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BATHS IN MOESIA SUPERIOR

There are approximately 40 Roman baths dating from the 1st to 4th century AD that have been discovered in the territory of Moesia Superior. Most of them were systematically investigated, while some were only indirectly confirmed, either by means of surveys or through epigraphic monuments. The presence and layout of the rooms in these baths points to the conclusion that most activities in the baths of Moesia Superior were similar to those in other parts of the Empire. However, the baths from this territory also show some peculiarities, setting them apart from other parts of the Roman Empire. Although insufficiently investigated and reported on, the portable archaeological finds point to a whole host of activities that were not connected with the bath’s essential function – hygiene and health. Musical instruments, styluses, board game accessories and spindle discs are just some of the objects that illustrate the activities in baths, suggesting that it is not enough to interpret these objects as places for maintaining hygiene, but as centres of social life, or, in the case of private baths, as places for rest and leisure.

ТЕРИТОРІАЛЬНА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ СУСПІЛЬСТВА – СТРИЖЕНЬ СТАНОВЛЕННЯ ЕКОЛОГІЧНОГО ІМПЕРАТИВУ ГЕОГРАФІЇ

The environmental imperative formation in geographical science is discussed. The concept of society territorial organization is the main component of this process. A consistent change in human security strategies has been demonstrated. The main directions of geographical science participation in the development of modern society’s requests for ecological protection of the environment and the conservation of the Earth landscape shell are discussed. The actual problems overview of the further ecological imperative formation in geographical studies is made: 1) determination of the functional role and environmental place and environmental types of economic activity, structuring of these socio-natural activities; 2) development of the environmental concept, which includes all generalized components of the landscape (geographical) shell; 3) ecological principles and economic policy substantiation; 4) territory planning principles and methodological justification development; 5) anthropogenic-technogenic loads assessment. Emphasized the need for environmental activities in a separate structural unit of the country and regions in the form of social and natural sector economic activities, cross-sectoral environmental complexes and clusters. Proved that the principles of ecological imperative permeate and integrate all the planning area components. Environmental planning aims at its conservation and ecological rehabilitation, rational use of its natural and territorial resources. Resettlement planning is focused on accommodating the population in the most comfortable living conditions, accessibility to places of work and leisure. The planning of economic territorial organization activity should ensure its minimal impact on the nature and ecological safety of the population, as well as maximally efficient use of available natural and socio-economic resources. The problem of anthropogenic-technogenic loads estimation on the territory and methodological substantiation of the anthropogenic-technogenic loads framework is indicated for further development. It is proposed qualitatively and quantitatively characterize anthropogenic-technogenic loads according to the territory planning objects: point - settlements and economic objects; line-network - transport highways and infrastructure communications; areals are areas with different economic uses. The tendency of spatial / territorial approaches strengthening to ecological protection of environment is emphasized and the territorial organization concept of society belongs exclusively to it.