Leisure Spaces Research Articles

Місто у житті археологів 1920–30-х років: вулицями міжвоєнного Києва

The article deals with the so-called urban themes in the history of archeology during the interwar period, the available sources and their informativeness for studying these themes on the example of Kyiv, the scientific urban center of the UkrSSR, are characterized. It is emphasized that urban space and orientation in it had has a significant impact on the science development, emergence and circulation of ideas, organizational/institutional formation and systemic transformations, interpersonal and institutional relationships within the intellectual community, the functioning of the professional community as a social institution. It was found that Kyiv, where the research life of Soviet Ukraine flourished without exaggeration, attracted many intellectual workers during the interwar period. Experienced researchers or beginners sought to get an education, position, practice; realize professional ambitions, not giving up hope to arrange satisfactory living and working conditions. Leading archeological institutions were located in the central part of the city: on Korolenka (now – Volodymyrska), Chudnovskyi (Tereshchenkivska), Victims of the Revolution (Trokhsviatytelska), Revolution (Mykhailo Hrushevskyi) streets, on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, etc. However, the Leninskyi (Pecherskyi) district of that time was considered a suburb. Everyday and solemn research meetings (sessions, exhibitions, conferences, etc.) usually took place in the central part of Kyiv. Archaeological research was carried out here during the 1920s and 1930s, although earthworks were constantly supervised on the outskirts of the city suburbs. Many researchers of antiquities, old Kyivan inhabitants, lived “in the center”, but archaeologists who came here during the interwar period from other towns (Uman, Poltava, Berdychiv, Chernihiv, etc) mostly lived on the city suburbs. Transport connections and communications influenced the perception of distance and life tempo, including research activities. Despite the mediocre and partly difficult living conditions, the city left time and created a space for entertainment and intellectual leisure. Studying the outlined topics, the so-called spatial history of the humanities, is indispensable and promising for a thorough contextual representation of the archeology development in Ukraine. Key words: history of archeology, intellectual community, city, Kyiv, 1920s, 1930s.

Manoel Bonito Square in Araguari (MG): The cultural significance of a modern square and the demand for its preservation

The present work seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of modern landscaping through Manoel Bonito Square, in the city of Araguari (MG). The history of this public free space is recovered as a fundamental element of the city's history. Manoel Bonito Square is historically the most important public space in the urban layout in the city of Araguari. Although the uses and appropriation have decreased and the role of the square as a leisure space has been transformed, its value is still latent for the population that sees it as a place of affection and memory. In addition, Manoel Bonito Square is a project of the architect João Jorge Coury, who stands out, as from the 1950s, as a diffuser of modern architecture in the region of Central Brazil. This work aims, therefore, to recognize the value of the square as a modern design and document of an important historical period in Brazilian architecture, with the final purpose of stimulating its preservation.

The Place of Honour Code in Middle-class Women’s Leisure in High-security Estates in Turkey

This paper investigates the role of gender in women’s everyday leisure practices in a high-security estate in Bursa Turkey. Defined as a new type of sub-urbanisation, such residential areas have emerged in Turkey towards the end of 1990s and, to date, social class has been the central area of inquiry in relation to high-security estates in Turkey. Drawing on the findings from a qualitative research, the current paper argues that gender plays a central role in middle-class women’s access to and use of neighbourhood leisure spaces. Even though the community values and the middle-class rhetoric of gender equality advocate the equal use of public leisure spaces, family-level male control shaped by honour code is still dominant in preventing women from practising the leisure activities they choose.

Creative Cities Creating Connections: Fostering Cross-Age Interaction Through Leisure

Older and younger people interact infrequently in most social realms – a pattern stemming from institutional, cultural, and spatial age segregation. Increasing cross-age interaction offers promise as a strategy for not only enhancing social connections but also reducing ageist attitudes. We argue that a social realm with untapped potential for creating these connections is leisure, particularly within creative cities. To explore this possibility, our study examines cross-age interactions in Key West, Florida – a leisure-oriented city that promotes creativity through its social and built environment. Using participant-observation and interview data (n=126) from 2017 to 2019, we examined leisure experiences of tourists and residents, aged 23 to 83. Findings indicate that creative cultural contexts can counter ageist attitudes by promoting cross-age interaction. Data analysis revealed three processes encouraging these shifts – promoting diversity and acceptance, enhancing older adults’ participation, and nurturing intergenerational bonds. Ongoing cross-age interactions were fostered through the island’s welcoming philosophy and encouragement of out-group acceptance and diversity. They were further fostered by the island’s wide array of leisure activities and proximity of shared spaces that enabled older adults to readily pursue leisure with younger people. Cross-age ties also were promoted by the island’s focus on family-friendly leisure experiences. Our research highlights the potential of creative cities to promote age integration, and reduce ageism, through its cultural practices within leisure spaces.

Agritourism: Alternative for sustainable rural development

Agritourism is regarded as one type of rural tourism and can be defined a sustainable activity that is developed in rural areas where has necessary features to offer such as touristic services which allow tourists to have a lively experience on culture, rural traditions. Be involved directly and have the chance to do daily rural chores by giving spaces for leisure and enjoyment and being in contact with nature. The aim of this review was to analyze and provide relevant scientific information about as an alternative for sustainable rural development. To this end, a systematic review was carried out and keywords like agroturismo in Spanish and agrotourism, agritourism in English were researched and subsequently, at a first step a 55- article were assessed and which have been published from 1994 to 2020. Findings demonstrate in most countries, there are local agrotourism business initiatives that aim to promote the sustainability of economic and environmental activities, and are seen as a strategy to mitigate rural-to-urban migration, develop economic sustainability, generate employment and local identity. A better understanding of this process, rural development, agriculture and tourism have become an alternative that combines two elements, thus contributing to the social and economic development of the area; it protects the environment and generates employment opportunities, highlighting local women.

“Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?”: Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth

Using a queer theoretical lens, this conceptual paper explores the complexities of working with queer youth in leisure spaces by using genderplay to explore gender identity. Given the current social and political climate in Canada, researchers in this area face considerable professional road blocks from gatekeepers, despite providing often life-saving access for youth to queer mentors, community, and health resources. This paper, therefore, provides insight into the pervasiveness of the image of the child that informs the anxiety present in current political, social, and cultural discourses about queer children and the danger that image is putting these actual children in by limiting access to the above stated resources. Moreover, we expose how the image of the child is always invested in ideals of middle and upper-class whiteness, able-bodiedness, and imagined straightness from the outset, which further limits access to leisure spaces for queer children who may be otherwise marginalized.

Characterization of the Natural Environment to Support the Construction of the Infrastructures Necessary for the Regeneration of Aldeia da Pena in São Pedro do Sul (Portugal) for Ecotourism Spaces

Portugal is witnessing a phenomenon of depopulation of the rural areas in the interior of the country, with the tendency of almost total abandonment of some small villages. The situation of Aldeia da Pena in the municipality of São Pedro do Sul, embedded in a mountainous area, which has led to this abandonment, already begun many years ago, has preserved its vernacular architecture and is worth recovering and converting to accommodation and leisure spaces in order to support new segments of tourism and in particular Ecotourism and Geotourism, which are emerging in the region. Thus, there is a tendency for these places to be recovered and to change functions since they once served the population that depended on subsistence agriculture. The new function to be viable requires more water than in the past, both for human consumption and for other activities, namely leisure and recreational activities, which currently value and help to make the tourism sector economically viable. Thus, with the intention of an effective recovery of the Aldeia da Pena, in order to contribute to the implementation of the various infrastructures appropriate to the modern society, in the present work, after a brief historical framework, the geomorphological, geological and hydrogeological aspects are presented with emphasis on the lithologies that occur there in order to favor the rehabilitation of the houses essentially in schist stone, and the water potentially available, either underground or of superficial origin. Finally, the main aspects of the proposed infrastructures are presented, and some final considerations are made.

Water Resources and Tourism Development in Estrela Geopark Territory: Meaning and Contributions of Fluvial Beaches to Valorise the Destination

Abstract Rural areas and in particular mountain territories have been experiencing an increasing appreciation of natural and heritage resources and their use for recreational and leisure activities, boosting tourism development and generating renewed functions with economic and social impact. Inland waters are becoming increasingly important for leisure and tourism, with many activities associated and many users seeking for them. Fluvial beaches represent leisure facilities for rural communities, allowing people and visitors access to aquatic spaces for leisure, sport and entertainment, creating conditions for enjoying nature and water resources, particularly during the summer period. The supply of surface water resources – rivers, lakes and canals – in the territory of the Estrela Geopark in Portugal, represent a tourist potential for this mountain region. They qualify the offer and constitute recreational attractions appreciated by the community and tourists, generating social well-being and fostering new services. There is a growing demand for these spaces, allowing the upgrading of fluvial areas, generating new features and enhancing the image of the destination Serra da estrela. The greater part of this equipment is operated by public entities linked to local administration, thus benefiting from public investment and support. There is a strong perception of its importance in attracting tourists, in improving the quality of life of the local population and in the opportunity to expand trade and service activities. Also in the image of the community, and their self-esteem is perceived, the importance of river beaches and consequently the disclosure that they associate, in terms of environmental quality, heritage value, and space of tranquillity.

Dance Machine: Performing the city in China’s public space

This paper explores China’s “plaza dance craze” (guangchangwure) as a practice of “vernacular urban modernity,” through which urban public space is claimed, produced, and experimented with by ordinary urban residents. Resulting from fieldwork carried out in two small cities in southwest China’s Guizhou Province between 2011 and 2014, the paper considers the contrast between the social space produced by plaza dance, on the one hand, and the projects of local government to redesign and redevelop Guizhou’s urban spaces as ethnically-themed built environments for the purposes of promoting tourism development, on the other. We argue that plaza dancers offer themselves as an alternative, embodied way of displaying the city on their own terms. This is significant in a context where the transformation of China’s cities, and the plethora of public leisure spaces that have been added to the built environment over the past decade, has emphasised a highly visual display of order, tidiness, and “civilised modernity” evoking aspirational middle-class lifestyles. In deliberate response to the ideals of urban planners and leaders, plaza dancers insist on defining for themselves what urban modernity in China is supposed to look, feel, and sound like.

Physical Disorders and Poor Self-Rated Health in Adults Living in Four Latin American Cities: A Multilevel Approach.

Considering that urban environments may affect self-rated health through behavioral and psychosocial mechanisms, the aim of this study was to investigate the association between self-rated health and perceived urban environment characteristics among adults living in four Latin American cities. Data is from a population-based survey by Development Bank of Latin America, encompassing adults between 20 and 60 years old in Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, and Panama City. Self-rated health was measured using a single question and the response options were categorized as poor and good. The explanatory variables were empirical Bayes estimates of self-reported area physical disorder, social disorder, access to services, and access to leisure spaces derived from the survey. The covariates were: individual age, sex, education, wealth index, and length of residency in the neighborhood; and an area social environment index. Multilevel logistic regressions with two levels (individual and sub-city areas) were fitted. Poor self-rated health was reported by 34.73% (95% CI: 33.17 to 36.29) of the participants and was associated with physical disorder (OR = 1.16 per SD; 95% CI: 1.02 to 1.32). Our findings suggest that public policies to promote population health should consider area urban environment factors, especially those associated with disorder.

Allotment gardening in Poland – new practices and changes in recreational space

Abstract Allotment gardening in Europe, including in Poland, is a century-long tradition that has been cultivated by each new generation. The idea derived from the rapid industrialization of large cities and is currently gaining new meaning. Apart from the economic and recreational roles played by allotment gardens (AGs), emphasis is increasingly being placed on their function as community, social, ecological and even creative and entertainment spaces. AGs constitute an important place for inhabitants of cities to spend their free time. Hence, it has been postulated more and more often that AGs should be preserved as productive and ‘living’ spaces for leisure and social integration. The numerous initiatives of the Polish Allotment Association, whose aim is to protect AGs against liquidation, and to be used for public and non-public purposes, include the Open Social Programme of Allotment Gardens Development. Through pro-social, innovative activity, the programme helps to redefine and change the perception of AGs in Poland as well as contribute to their infrastructural development.

AHP 기법을 활용한 해양레저관광 발전에 관한 연구

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the priority of the factors that activate the marine leisure tourism and then to present the development strategies.BR Method: A structured questionnaire for professionals was created to achieve the research objective that consisted of four factors and twelve detailed items (total 18 questions). The survey was conducted via face-to-face surveys and email. The collected materials were analyzed for the priority, relative importance etc. by using excel which is the AHP analysis program.BR Results: In the factors, the importance was high in the order of infrastructure, popularization, law & institution, and advancement. In the items, the importance was high in the order of marine leisure space maintenance, marine leisure safety·cultural improvement, marine leisure tourism cluster, and amendments to the marine leisure safety act. In the comprehensive analysis, the importance was high in the order of marine leisure space maintenance (0.175), marina facilities expansion (0.136), marine leisure safety·cultural improvement (0.134), and increased in experience·education programs (0.131).BR Conclusion: First, there is a need to build a small and influential infrastructure. Second, it is necessary to educate related workers to improve marine leisure & culture, and the government ensures fair competition when selecting related projects. Finally, based on the designation of related organizations and the training of specialized human resources, various experiences & education programs should be developed and endeavored to contribute to the development and popularization of marine leisure tourism.

Configuração da borda urbana de Passo Fundo/RS: a análise dos Sistema de Espaços Livres e de padrões morfológicos

O objetivo do estudo é através da a análise dos padrões morfológicos apontar as causas e efeitos que configuram a borda urbana de Passo Fundo/RS. A cidade é classificada como uma capital regional do tipo B, tendo influência e polarizando uma aglomeração que conta com aproximadamente 1,08 milhões de habitantes (IBGE, 2008). O delineamento metodológico foi estruturado em três etapas: primeiramente a borda urbana foi delimita em dez Unidades de Paisagem (UP), segundo Silva et al. (2014); na segunda etapa foram categorizados os Sistemas de Espaços Livres (SEL); por último, foram indicados os padrões morfológicos presentes em cada uma das UP. Os resultados apontam que as características do SEL ambiental tendem a gerar tecidos fragmentados. Quanto ao SEL urbano de práticas sociais os agentes privados implantaram espaços voltados à recreação e lazer, contudo, a realidade é completamente diferente nas demais praças que necessitam de um programa de necessidade que atenda a diferentes perfis e atividades. No SEL privado os agentes privados são responsáveis por produtos que contam com elementos morfológicos voltados para média e alta renda e pela implantação de condomínios fechados. Quanto às camadas de baixa renda há dois fenômenos que demonstram a urgência no desenvolvimento de políticas públicas. O primeiro trata da consolidação e do adensamento construído em bairros implantados pelo agente público, e o segundo indicam a falta de oportunidade e de soluções que viabilizem a necessidade de habitação deste perfil de moradores. Este trabalho buscou apresentar a diversidade de padrões morfológicos que compõem a forma da borda urbana de Passo Fundo, com o intuito de colaborar na configuração de políticas públicas e legislações urbanísticas que sejam capazes de compreendem as especificidades da borda urbana.

Rhythm and booze: contesting leisure mobilities on the Transpennine Real Ale Trail

ABSTRACT Ale Trails, where a series of pubs noted for serving real ale and craft beer are linked together along a prescribed route followed either on foot or by bus or train, are now a well-established activity in the UK and beyond. However, in some cases they have become associated with large groups of rowdy drinkers characterised by excessive consumption and disorderly behaviour. While copious research has focused on drinking urban leisure spaces, few studies have examined leisure mobilities involved in drinking in, and intoxicated mobilities through, rural and suburban spaces. This article uses Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis to analyse leisure mobility through the spaces constituting the Ale Trail – including pubs, train carriages, station platforms and village streets. In these spaces, the differing rhythms of diverse individuals and groups as they move through heterogeneous spaces on foot and by train give rise to both shifting alignments and conflicts. The article concludes with a discussion of the spatial, temporal and affective dimensions of alcohol consumption and demonstrates the relevance of rhythmanalysis concepts and methods for exploring contemporary forms of leisure mobilities.

여가시간과 여가공간의 만족이 여가 생활 만족에 미치는 영향

This study examines the influences of satisfaction of leisure time and space (i.e., public and private leisure spaces) on overall leisure life satisfaction, after controlling for respondents’demographic, socio-economic, and geographical characteristics. Based on the data from 2019 National Leisure Activity Survey, this study performed a series of analysis, including descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results of the analyses indicate that leisure time was more significantly related to respondents’ overall leisure life satisfaction than leisure spaces. Particularly, leisure time satisfaction during weekday largely influenced on the overall leisure life satisfaction compared to leisure time satisfaction during weekend. Regarding public and private leisure spaces, the influences of the two different spaces were inconsistent. While public space was significantly related to the leisure life satisfaction, the influence of the private space was greater than the public space, when applying the mean value of the summed scored of three question items of the private spaces into a regression analysis. The result reveals that leisure life satisfaction is likely to be enhanced by those collaborative efforts from both public and private leisure spaces, although leisure time was the most important consideration for leisure life satisfaction.

Concrete, bollards, and fencing: exploring the im/mobilities of security at public events in Brisbane, Australia

ABSTRACT Large public inner-city events require a significant amount of temporary security infrastructures and altered mobility designs to safely facilitate the movement of the public throughout already highly mobile spaces. Recent security risks from vehicle attacks have resulted in increased security in order to mitigate potential threats. Issues arise as increased security infrastructures interrupt and redirect pedestrian mobility, reconfiguring traditionally ‘safe’ pedestrian and leisure spaces into ‘unsafe’ spaces under the pre-emptive atmosphere of unknown threats. This paper explores how im/mobilities arise through increased security during fireworks events in Brisbane, Australia. Using ethnographic observation and visual documentation of crowd movements, we critically examine the temporal alterations to wayfinding and mobility infrastructures. Although increased security serves to foster a safe and secure environment, we suggest that the altered mobilities and heightened visibility of security risks impacting on the overall festive atmosphere of the events.

Patrimonio cultural y ocio. Representaciones y relaciones en el espacio vivido de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Rep. Argentina)

El espacio vivido constituye una dimensión subjetiva del espacio geográfico, estructurada por las vivencias de los individuos en sociedad y en relación con el medio físico. Los lugares históricos y aquellos destinados al ocio, funcionan como componentes relevantes en el contexto de la planificación y gestión urbana contemporánea. El objetivo que guía esta investigación consiste en analizar las representaciones y relaciones que se dan en el espacio vivido de los residentes de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca (Rep. Argentina), en torno a los espacios patrimoniales y de ocio, considerados como elementos clave en el ámbito de las urbes. La metodología se desarrolla a partir de un enfoque mixto, basado en técnicas cualitativas y cuantitativas (entrevistas, cuestionarios, realización de mapas cognitivos y técnica de afloramiento de significados), aplicadas según grupos demográficos y a partir de las delegaciones municipales que constituyen la ciudad. Como resultado, se afirma que el espacio vivido por los pobladores de la localidad se define a partir de espacios de ocio, en detrimento de aquellos espacios patrimoniales, cargados de historia y que forman parte del acervo cultural local. Se presenta entonces una dicotomía entre lo contemporáneo y lo histórico, que se traduce en un espacio vivido en el que se margina gran parte del patrimonio material e inmaterial que configura el territorio bahiense.

‘What’s my score?’: the complexities of straight male Geo-Social Networking Application use

ABSTRACT Millions of people around the world use Geo-Social Networking Applications (GSNAs) to connect with new people and potential sexual partners. Using data from a broad study of GSNA users, this paper explores GSNA use by straight men and the implications on their positionality, masculinity, and for their leisure. Straight men showed that although they speak out against traditional masculine norms in their offline lives, on GSNAs they enact and embrace hegemonic norms of dating. This dualistic (re)presentation demonstrates some of the complexities of how contemporary leisure spaces (like dating) become digitally mediated, but maintain deep human-to-human involvement and traditionalist social expectations.

Co-visitation network in tourism-driven peri-urban area based on social media analytics: A case study in Shenzhen, China

The peri-urban area has undergone tremendous changes in various aspects. Tourism-driven development in this area, echoing the longing of urban residents for recreational and leisure space, provides an alternative to conventional urbanization approaches. Particularly, in view of heightened conflicts and fierce competitions that often occur in the area, developing the knowledge of the co-visitation network, or how different attractions and villages interact with each other from the visitors’ perspective, is key to more informed planning strategies. With the rapid development of online social media platforms and mobile devices, researchers can collect massive real-time data on the basis of online user-generated content. While there are already many attempts on its application on tourism design, few studies to date have explored how peri-urban attractions and villages are organized in same trips. In this paper, we design a new methodology on the basis of social media analytics to construct and map a co-visitation network, and apply NetMiner-enabled social network analysis to explain its structure and nodal functions. The usefulness of this methodology is demonstrated through a detailed case study in Shenzhen, China. Research findings reveal types of existing co-visitation patterns, which help planners predict future trends, design new experiences and take specific measures in line with visitor demands.

Transnational Music Collaborations, Affective Networks and Everyday Practices of Convivial Solidarity in Ujamaa Dar es Salaam

Independent Tanzania became a prominent frontline state in the struggle against white minority regimes in the early 1960s and remained committed to the total liberation of Africa until South African repatriations in the early 1990s. For three decades the country was a hub of Pan-Africanism and saw an extraordinarily high involvement of Tanzanians in supporting the southern African liberation movements in ways that went beyond TANU/CCM’s primary directions. While some research has been done on the daily interactions, relationships and tensions in the ANC/MK and SWAPO settlements and military training camps as well as in the nearby towns and villages that hosted them, this article shifts the focus from the camps and their surroundings to the forging of solidarity and transnational connections in urban leisure spaces, particularly the music scene. It seeks to bring to light both the enduring and fleeting intimate relations and everyday forms of conviviality between South Africans and Tanzanians which were produced in Dar es Salaam’s nightclubs. The central argument is that artistic collaborations with South Africans outside the camps not only amplified and solidified Tanzanians’ ability to transcend the idea of the national, but were key to the shaping of a specific form of grassroots pan-Africanism that I will call ‘convivial transnational solidarity’. The latter is intended as a practice rather than as an ideology. As I will show, the urban soundscape was central to its emergence. The article first charts how national politics – a key aspect of which was the duty to embrace transnational solidarity – extended into the lower echelons of Tanzanian society through the airwaves, the press and liberation songs. Following the trajectory of the Tanzanian band Afro-70 and its leader Patrick Balidisya, it then examines the everyday acts of welcoming that unfolded in Dar es Salaam’s music scene during the brief historical juncture between 1969 and 1977, which coincided with ujamaa and with Afro-70’s rise and demise. The last part of the article problematises the process of total liberation and the idea of transnational solidarity by exposing their fragility.