Metropolitan Space Research Articles

TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN BILASPUR MUNICIPAL AREA

Major metropolitan passages in Indian urban communities are conveying fundamentally high trafc prompting close to immersed conditions for broadened top hours. As blended landuse and signicant excursion drawing in/creating foundations are by and large situated along such passages for better availability, huge side grating is likewise seen along these hallways. Indian urban areas have been seeing a fast expansion in vehicular populace, particularly close to home vehicle, in the new past. Given the requirements in expanding street widths, this increment in vehicles has brought about a radical drop in degrees of administration on metropolitan streets. Though gridlock disturbs business exercises and diminishes usefulness level, research has shown that it might likewise be an image of development in an economy. As the economy develops and genuine pay of family builds, vehicle populace oods up, adding to gridlock, especially inside urban areas. Gridlock is a never-ending issue for the supportability of transportation advancement. Gridlock creates setbacks, burden, and monetary misfortunes to each part of advancement of a metropolitan space, just as air contamination, commotion contamination and so forth Recognizable proof and evaluation of gridlock are critical for leaders to start moderation techniques to further develop the general transportation framework's maintainability. The trafc congestion is presently concentrated near the market places, schools, colleges and government ofces at peak hours. To ease trafc congestion, identifying the state of road trafc should be considered rst. The sequence steps targeted trafc facilities or the trafc management measures. Even though the road development authorities are trying to keep pace with the developmental activities of the city, the threshold has been reached and new solutions to control the trafc congestion has to be taken. No sooner will the state of roads in Bilaspur be like the highly congested roads of Raipur the neighbouring city. If appropriate measures are not taken at the right time, it will be a never ending problem, as roads cannot be widened at a later stage.

The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907, by Giles Whiteley

Reviewed by: The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907 by Giles Whiteley Isobel Armstrong (bio) The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907, by Giles Whiteley; pp. xiv + 290. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, £85.00, £24.99 paper, $110.00, $29.95 paper. In The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907, Giles Whiteley provides a deeply researched and imaginative study of nineteenth-century spaces, with a virtuosic prologue that demonstrates the originality of his critical method. Whiteley follows Joris-Karl Huysmans's character Jean des Esseintes, from À rebours (1884), through the spaces of Paris, eating, shopping, loitering. Only it is not wholly Paris, as he shows: in Huysmans's text, Paris is elided with London, the Seine with the Thames, the Rue de Rivoli with the Thames Tunnel, the Boulevard d'Enfer with the Metropolitan Railway. Charles Dickens, James McNeill Whistler, Thomas De Quincey, all reading and rereading one another, are conjured intertextually and collectively superimposed. This is not just a question of allusion, or even a metonymic slide. Whiteley deftly establishes an intimate relation between widely separated spaces in what we might loosely call a chiastic technique, by bringing them together and assimilating them so as to demonstrate their affinity and difference. Dickens's London and Huysmans's Paris resonate with and critique one another, as do the London of late Dickens and John Ruskin's Venice. This convergence, Whiteley claims, is what the figures under discussion in his book—Ruskin, Dickens, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James—achieve in order to explore the quintessential nineteenth-century space: the metropolitan. In his highly particularized readings, one space generates and mutually changes another. The prologue sets out what Whiteley sees as "a new kind of aesthetics of space" developing in the period, which he theorizes through Walter Benjamin's ideas of dream space and the phantasmagoria of the city, as well as Benjamin's signature poet, Charles Baudelaire, and other postmodern critics (15). It is a political and psychic space, shaped by modern capital. Henri Lefebvre's classic The Production of Space (1974) is central to the discussion, and his distinction between representational space and the representation of space is particularly important to Whiteley's study: des Esseintes, for instance, encounters that celebration of Napoleon, the imperial Arc de Triomphe, and seeks out maps and guides to London. Both the arch and maps are ideological objects, but the first is intentionally so, whereas maps and boundaries are not produced with deliberate intent to alter consciousness even when they do so. Through des Esseintes and his sensory life, Whiteley introduces the antithetical binary that shapes his book: Ruskin's distinction between Theoria and Aesthesis—that is, an opposition between an ethical and moral reading of space and its history, related to the realist tradition, and an account of space that is read through the sensoria. Through Aesthesis, metropolitan spaces act on both the body and language, understood through a Friedrich Schelling-like sensuous cognition and issuing in a release of the unconscious that manifests itself in a range of affects and images, from desire to melancholia and even madness. The category of Aesthesis implicitly extends and consolidates Benjamin's dream space. This Theoria/Aesthesis opposition is the dialogue of the book, but Aesthesis becomes the dominant voice. Ruskin initiates the discussion. His commitment to ethical reading is introduced through the famous attack on Whistler and consolidated by his understanding of a [End Page 358] "conceptive" truth (56). The deterministic psychological realism of the eye rigorously governs perception in a sublime Platonic account of the body: there is a morality of the body that becomes social morality. Ruskin read Venetian architecture through the moral order of its governing power, but Whiteley argues that Aesthesis frequently invades Ruskin's theoretic readings of Venice with the attraction and repulsion of Decadence and its erotics. London and the reterritorialized space of the modern railway finally invade Venice as the two spaces converge, calling out not a theoretic but an aesthetic response. And Ruskin's Venice haunts all subsequent writers. Dickens is another figure for whom there is a conflicting response to the...

Localised learning: mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas

The higher education participation and success rates of students in low socio-economic status (SES), regional, rural, remote, and isolated areas – who often attend university later in life – is a persistent concern in Australia and beyond. This article focuses on mature-aged students in low SES, regional and remote areas in Tasmania, Australia, proposing that universities harness local belonging when providing learning opportunities. It draws on a thematic analysis of 19 semi-structured interviews with current and prospective university students, and community stakeholders. The study identifies time and place-based barriers to studying on campus: students’ commitments outside of university; and geographical, cultural, and financial challenges. However, existing local infrastructure, such as libraries, create opportunities for face-to-face interactions and learning support for students who study online in their regional or remote communities, provided by staff and local volunteers. These barriers and solutions are discussed using the concept of ‘belonging’, framed spatially and culturally. Current literature on regional and remote higher education students tends to emphasise ‘not belonging’ in relation to distant urban or metropolitan spaces. We argue that ‘belonging’ can be fostered in local spaces with local people. Utilising ‘untapped’ local learning support and existing physical spaces mitigates geographical, cultural, and financial challenges, and provides academic and emotional support. We propose a coordinated network of physical study places and local people, including: regional ‘satellite’ campuses; regional study hubs; local public libraries; and schools, where online students can be supported, connected, and engaged in their studies whilst located in regional and remote communities.

Contributions of the smart city in containing the epidemic crisis

The pandemic emergency (Coronavirus) uncovered the shortcoming of the metropolitan construction, of the metropolitan space and its socioeconomics, which is appeared in the ill-equipped foundation frameworks of the city. Where the conventional plan of public space has made imbalances, in the requirements of the metropolitan setting. The pandemic has supported interest in creating brilliant urban areas by exhibiting the numerous advantages of shrewd arrangements as far as distinguishing tainted people, foreseeing spread elements, lessening human-to-human contact, and empowering authorization and following of social removing and quarantine rules. As brilliant urban areas bear the weight of utilizing innovations to help city life during and after the Coronavirus pandemic. To address the more extensive wellbeing ramifications of shared metropolitan space. Especially thickly populated urban communities will quite often endure more from the side-effects of Coronavirus than rustic regions. The research problem emerged: in the lack of knowledge about the capabilities of smart cities in limiting and controlling the spread of epidemics and current and future infectious diseases.

Migrants’ Population, Residential Segregation, and Metropolitan Spaces - Insights from the Italian Experience over the Last 20 Years

Southern European studies of migrants’ spatial distribution within metropolitan cities (MCs) are increasingly relevant to understanding residential segregation and marginalisation, particularly of foreign nationals. This paper leverages original and partially unpublished data to examine overall and foreign national specific segregation over two decades in Rome MC and Milan MC, the two largest Italian MCs. We introduce a 5-class concentric ring typology to describe and uncover geographical patterns within the MCs and focus on the spatial and temporal distribution of four selected foreign nationalities: Romanian, Bangladeshi, Chinese, and Filipino. Results reveal heterogeneity in overall and foreign national specific distributions over time both within and between Rome MC and Milan MC. Comparing across groups and MCs we identify similarities but also unique patterns. These results shed light on the peculiarity of the urban demographic Italian landscape and raise questions regarding recent theories about residential segregation in the urban contexts of Southern Europe.

Application Studies for the Implementation of the Sustainability Charter in the Metropolitan City of Genoa

Starting from Agenda 2030 and existing tools in the field of sustainability, this research defines the guidelines for a new Sustainability Charter created for a metropolitan-level city. These guidelines are then applied to the case study of the metropolitan city of Genoa. The paper reports, therefore, application studies for the implementation of the Sustainability Charter in the metropolitan city of Genoa. Funded by the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of Territory and Sea, the Sustainability Charter of the Metropolitan City of Genoa, which we present here, is developed as part of “Agenda 2030, the Sustainable Metropolitan Agenda of the Metropolitan City of Genoa: moving towards sustainable metropolitan spaces”. This research has led to the implementation of a concrete product the entire citizenship can benefit from. The new proposed tool is oriented towards the application of sustainability in urban planning and management in order to reduce environmental impacts and promote a proper and better quality of life: a driving force for sustainable urban development. Sustainability as a tool to safeguard the cultural and environmental heritage and the economic system, which can represent a new opportunity for the development of competitiveness, innovation and employment.

Attaining Autonomy in the Empire: French Governors between 1860 and 1960

AbstractThis article presents a study of the careers of French colonial governors between 1830 and 1960. We consider empires as the by-product of social entities structuring themselves. Specifically, we analyze the process of the emergence of this professional group with respect to other professional groups within the imperial space and the French metropolitan space, building on the concept of linked ecologies. Using data on the career of 637 colonial governors between 1830 and 1960, we examine how variations in the recruitment of these senior civil servants actually reflect the professionalization of this group. We rely on an optimal matching technique to distinguish typical sequence models and identify nine common career trajectories that can be grouped into four main clusters. We further compare the share of each cluster in the population of governors over time and show that the rise of the colonial cluster during the Interwar period corresponded to the peak of the administrative autonomy in the colonial space. We argue that this process is consistent with the professionalization of the governors’ corps, which is embodied by a common career within the colonial administration and a collective identity as a group.

Concultural Practices of Young Ukrainians as a Challenge for the Intercultural Openness of Warsaw

Institutional intercultural openness is a crucial part of urban inclusion policy towards migrants. In cities with a long history of social and cultural diversity such as Berlin, London or Amsterdam, intercultural openness provides migrants with full or partial participation, initiating activities in the metropolitan space, access to public resources, and social security. In Warsaw, a relatively new inflow of economic migrants from Ukraine, who constitute a large and heterogeneous group, has necessitated changes in municipal cultural and integration policies to facilitate the needs of the new group of recipients. In our article, we focus on results from 91 interviews with Ukrainian students living in Warsaw conducted between 2019 and 2020. We analyse whether, how and why young immigrants from Ukraine use the offer of Warsaw’s cultural institutions; what their expectations are and how their cultural participation is connected with their acculturation and integration. Our research shows that despite the fact that Warsaw tends to build up its culturally open policy for diverse participants, it is not adjusted to the needs of young Ukrainians. As a result, this new diaspora begins to create its own conculture (not to be confused with counterculture). We understand this phenomenon as a set of cultural practices initiated by a minority group of migrants in their new place of residence, which result from the national cultural script of this group. Through these practices, this group cultivates the community, without any connection to the dominant (national) culture of the wider society they belong to or in the space of which its members live. On the one hand, the diversification of a municipal cultural offer allows migrants to find their preferred places and events within Polish culture, although on the other hand, it creates a space for the development of concultural practices that can lead to ghettoisation.

BEYOND JAPANESE LENSES: REFLECTIONS ON THE KOREAN DIASPORA AND THE HALLYU IN BRAZIL

We propose a reflection about the cultural presence of South Korea in Brazil, pointing out the evidence of our monolithic conception of Asian culture, which had historically been anchored in the imaginary produced by the Japanese experience in our country. The central argument is the growing and recent visibility enjoyed by contemporary Korean culture since the last decade, articulated to the movements of Korean Wave and the Korean community in metropolitan (and virtual) spaces in Brazil, compels us to run from common sense adopting a less monolithic and more informed perspective on Asian cultural presence, beyond Japan, in Brazil.

Readings in race, space and poverty in Urban Planning and Analysis of Racial poverty in American City Chicago

Abstract: In recent years long disinvested cities became the situating of revived investment magnification and economic development in an exceedingly development typically delineated as gentrification. Even so socio economic distinctions between races,ethnicities, Gender and places inside the more sizably voluminous Metropolitan space still persist suggesting that a tide doesn't raise all boats. planners should grapple with these quandaries with inequality and inequity significantly the implementation of plans and policies which will in theory give edges to any or all however in optically canvass perpetuate to accumulate benefits for a few. This analysis examines the development of race, the engendering of a place and sedulousness of penuriousness within the racialized places in the City. This analysis can have interaction in an exceedingly essential discussion of the same themes designated the normative notions of phrase, capitalism, urbanism, gender, power and house are perpendicular to privilege adscititious marginalised views of those processes.

The entangled scalarities of football clubs in a competitive metropolitan space: investment, identity and international events

ABSTRACT Football clubs located within competitive metropolitan spaces and owned by local municipalities develop their socio-spatiality through strong multiscalarities. Drawing from the sociology of football, human geography, geopolitical economy and urban studies, our study reveals that, within the competitive metropolitan city-region space, politico-institutional actors may capture small football clubs and competition and exploit them through various scenarios that reflect the politico-institutional scaffolding of local, regional or national scales, or the political, social and economic imaginaries or practices of the politico-institutional actors. Our case study deals with the small clubs from Ilfov county in Romania, which is part of the city-region developed around the global city of Bucharest. Over the last two decades, the Ilfov county has become the most represented county in the first two tiers of the Romanian football league system. Prior to that, clubs from Ilfov were absent from the first tiers. To examine the scalarity of football clubs from Ilfov, we analyse the socio-spatialities of (1) their success in terms of investment, (2) their club identity and (3) the scalar networks involved in hosting international tournaments.

Bringing sustainable urban planning down to earth through food: the experience of the food transects of Grenoble and Caen

Our contribution aims at pointing out how the food issue challenges metropolitan areas while at the same time identifying potential for sustainable urban planning. To that end, we investigate to what extent taking into account agricultural and food-related issues enables to rethink urban planning which is usually qualified as sustainable. Our analysis will be based upon the two French urban regions of Grenoble and Caen where participatory research was conducted through collective and prospective walks. These urban explorations, which provide insights on metropolitan spaces and the interrelations that underlie them, underly the disconnections of contemporary urban planning with the inhabitants, their vital needs and, more generally, the soil, while highlight working paths for a more nourishing, meaningful and rooted urban planning. By considering urban planning through the scope of agri-food stakes, we contribute then to the renewal of urban concepts and thus highlight three workshops aiming at further developing sustainable urban planning issues and tools.

Diffuse urban sprawl in intermediate cities. Simulation of the expansión process in the city of Temuco, Chile

Urbanization advances vertiginously and its impacts are visible beyond metropolitan spaces. In this context, urban sprawl simulation methodologies become relevant to understand and add to future urban growth scenarios. In this work, the case of the city of Temuco in the La Araucania Region is analyzed, using the following tools: Markov chains; Cellular Automaton; Multicriteria-Multi-objective Assessment; and the determination of land usage/cover using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Based on the above, the urban scenario was determined for 2049 from the spatial patterns of the area under study, since 1985. The model shows a trend to a peripheral and diffuse sprawl towards the north of the city and a strong development towards the western sector in the Labranza neighborhood. That is to say, the first sector is projected as a possible node of expansion, and the second, as one of consolidation. It is concluded that both zones require pertinent updated urban planning instruments, which the city has not had until now.

Where are your Literary Giants? Examination of the Production and Reception of Cebuano Literature, 1975–2015

This article examines the logic of the Philippine literary publishing industry. Similar to other formerly colonized nations, the country’s publishing industry is controlled by a few publishers based in the capital, Metro Manila, resulting in the marginalization of regional writing. Authors outside the borders of the metropolitan space experience an intellectual dependency on the Manila-centric publishing industry. This article, thus, seeks to analyze the consequences of this dependency on the publishing trends in regional writing, using Cebuano literature as case study.

The Atlantic Metropolis: Ships and Seafarers in Lope de Vega's El Arenal de Sevilla

This article examines Lope de Vega's poetic dramatization of Seville's maritime culture and space in El Arenal de Sevilla, an early comedia urbana composed in 1603 while the playwright was residing in Seville. Set amid the ships docked along the Guadalquivir River, the chaotic play presents long sequences of side plots and frenzied scene changes that reflect the bustling seaport and its mass maritime transit. The theme of constant motion around Arenal banks and the constant poetic attention to the Indies Fleet reveal how maritime operations define the play's metropolitan space as a convergence of oceangoing travelers and goods unfettered by traditional borders. Moreover, Lope's characters merge their poetic descriptions of the Indies Fleet with the physical site of the riverbank, suggesting the Arenal, and by extension Seville, is itself like a ship that can transport is its inhabitants anywhere.

CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO BUILDING A COMPETITIVE METROPOLITAN AREA AND ITS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Based on the generalization of France’s successful experience in metropolitan development, conceptual approaches to building a competitive metropolitan space in Ukraine and the health care system in three areas of attraction based on mutually agreed organizational, managerial and legal relations between metropolitan communities are substantiated. The metropolises of Ukraine include the cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, Lviv, and after the deoccupation - the city of Donetsk. A key problem in Ukraine is the lack of discussion of the institutional framework for the creation of metropolises according to EU standards for their integration into the European space on the basis of Ukraine's national interests. Such approaches should correspond to the fourth stage of reforming the administrative-territorial system at the regional level. This should apply to the formation of 13 metropolises in 25 regions on the basis of candidate cities - Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia, Kryvyi Rih, Sumy, Khmelnytsky, Uzhhorod, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Chernivtsi, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Chernihiv and Mariupol. It should be noted that the viability of metropolises is calculated by experts from the administrative, economic and social components. The strategy of the metropolitan health care system should include harmonization of prospects for the development of communities, districts and regions in the creation of an optimal system of primary health care, coordination of medical institutions in the hospital district and in the provision of tertiary care. It should be borne in mind that the metropolis forms 3 zones of influence: the first - within a radius of 15 km, the second up to 60 km, the third – up to 300 km. Each community provides primary care and is part of a hospital district that specializes in providing secondary care. In the third zone, the metropolis provides tertiary care with coverage of neighboring areas using the above approaches. The dynamics of morbidity of the population of the metropolis of Lviv and its metropolitan region has been studied. Promising actions of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine include preparation and holding of scientific-expert discussion of the draft law of Ukraine "On the formation of metropolises" with preliminary professional discussion and public involvement.

ESPAÇO REGIONAL METROPOLITANO

No atual contexto histórico, assiste-se a um aprofundamento da relação espaço-capital. O espaço urbano, em especial o da metrópole, dentro de uma escala local, já não é o suficiente para garantir a sustentação, a acumulação e a reprodução do capital. Neste texto, levanta-se a hipótese de que a produção do espaço metropolitano regional (ou cidade-região) tornou-se condição sine qua non da reprodução do capital no esteio do regime de acumulação neoliberal. À vista disso, investigar-se-á a articulação entre a produção de escalas e a produção de espaço, uma vez que, por meio dessa relação, é possível compreender elementos centrais da nova dinâmica do capital. Por fim, analisar-se-á também a construção do Rodoanel no estado de São Paulo, pois tal projeto contém a intencionalidade de produção de uma metrópole regional (tendo a cidade de São Paulo como núcleo pulsante do processo) no território nacional.

SEMIÓTICA APLICADA AO ESTUDO DA METROPOLIZAÇÃO DO ESPAÇO NO CONTEXTO DA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE MANAUS

A Região Metropolitana de Manaus - RMM é juridicamente estabelecida, porém, no que tange a expressão socioespacial, ainda se encontra em desenvolvimento. O recorte consta da metrópole e a parte sul região metropolitana, principalmente o município de Iranduba. A presente proposta tem o objetivo de entender as dinâmicas internas da RMM por meio do processo de metropolização do espaço associado ao discurso que procura justificá-lo. Trata-se de uma análise geográfica, a partir da semiótica, da estrutura da linguagem, ou melhor, do discurso da metropolização na RMM por parte do Estado. Não obstante, sem olvidar a importância dos consumidores e modeladores do espaço urbano para os processos de extensificação da metrópole. Esta pesquisa, portanto, discute elementos da metropolização do espaço e como ela aparece por meio do discurso, muito evidenciado como um aspecto do moderno tendo como principal agente (na Amazônia Ocidental), o Estado.

Integrando grade estatística e luzes noturnas em estudos populacionais: uma aplicação para apoiar o planejamento territorial na Região Metropolitana do Vale do Paraíba e Litoral Norte

This study aims to identify the presence of population and human infrastructure in protected areas in the Metropolitan Region of Vale do Paraiba and Litoral Norte (RMVPLN). The study was supported by the use of a new base of statistical sapatial data from the Demographic Census and remote sensing data as nighttime light dataset, through an auxiliary representation to characterize the metropolitan space and its different territories. The analysis was constructed from Occupation Typologies based on the integration of population information, nighttime lights and protected areas, and the results showed a preliminary diagnosis of potential conflicts between local needs, as was the case analyzed at Campos do Jordao Park, site chosen for remote verification of Typologies. These areas need to be detailed and verified in the context of metropolitan planning to considered the regional heterogeneity and specificities of each territories that form the RMVPLN.

RETRACTED: Exploring machine vision application in public art education system based on image processor

This article presents an interdisciplinary examination that centers on the aftereffects of public craftsmanship and quality instruction. It brought up issues about open craftsmanship as an instructive asset and perceived the need to explain its instructive job. This examination researched whether numerous metropolitan climate works and public craftsmanship should positively commit to visual education advancement. The Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a coordinated circuit with client programmable interconnected inward equipment squares to tweak tasks for explicit applications. The overview was directed in a spot where there are many available quality and three schools in the metropolitan space. There are not many five and six understudies in three schools. One end is that understudies in the school climate have numerous public works capable of metropolitan space recognition and more instinctive proficiency. This isn't just because of their day-by-day contact with in addition to social variables. In light of the examination results, the creator delivered instructive assets for instructors and guardians keen on building up kids' visual education.