Street Culture Research Articles

The Quality of Pedestrian Based on Pedestrian Environment Quality Index (PEQI) Standards in the Cultural Heritage Area of Tunjungan Street Surabaya

Tunjungan Street is one of the historical tourist destinations and one of the Cultural Conservation Areas in Surabaya. The use of pedestrian in Tunjungan Street is classified as high because it is a downtown area with various activities and its use as a pathway to access Cultural Conservation buildings. Many visitors use the pedestrian as an area to enjoy the Cultural Conservation building while walking along Jalan Tunjungan or as a photo point with the Cultural Heritage building in the background. This study aims to analyze the quality of pedestrian to determine the feasibility of infrastructure and pedestrians so that they can be an indicator of the completeness of pedestrian facilities in the Tunjungan Street Cultural Heritage Area. In this study, the problems that exist in the existing condition of the pedestrian path are investigated and studied regarding the quality of the pedestrian. The method used in this study was a quantitative method by assessing the quality of the pedestrian and scoring based on the Pedestrian Environmental Quality Index (PEQI) standard on both pedestrian sections of Jalan Tunjungan. This study indicates that the pedestrian in the Cultural Heritage Area of Jalan Tunjungan Surabaya meets the basic quality according to the calculation of the PEQI index with a total score of 60.77. This means that the pedestrian in the Cultural Heritage Area of Jalan Tunjungan Surabaya is suitable for use as a pedestrian that pays attention to the safety of road users for all. However, improving the quality of the pedestrian path to a reasonable rate will be better so that visitors can enjoy the pedestrian path facilities more appropriately and become the main attraction for visitors and become the pride of the people around the Cultural Conservation Area.

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Street children: who are they? Why are they homeless? How do they actually live on the streets? What quality of life do they enjoy? What are the characteristics of these children? These questions appear to be simple, but the answers are so very complex. Very often the public lacks proper information about these children and they instinctively judge and cast aspersion on them. This non-empirical paper presents a clear understanding about some of the characteristics of street children. With the use of existing literature, it tries to provide a definition and quantify the number of street children. It explains the difference between children “on” and “of” the streets and highlights some of the notions of street culture. It is the firm view that if the public is more cognizant of the reasons these children live on the streets, they may tend to be sympathetic and understanding to their needs. This paper does not evoke sensationalism but tries as far as possible to create an awareness of the lifestyle of street children.   Key words: Street children, street culture, street life.

Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines

Streets are public spaces where people pass through in going from one place to another. As such, streets are not supposed to be dwelling places. However, rapid urbanization has ushered in problems on housing, livelihood, and basic social facilities and services, giving rise to informal settlements and street living in cities. In Cebu City (a highly urbanized city in Central Philippines), displacement from urban slums as well as, lack of livelihood options have pushed some people to dwell on the streets and sidewalks in sites most visited by foreign and local tourists. Through street ethnography, this research uncovers how street dwellers in a heritage site in downtown Cebu City came to live and make a living here. The findings point to the fact that street dwellers have socially constructed and purposely transformed heritage spaces into places where they do their daily domestic routines as well as livelihood activities, in order to survive. This article posits that placemaking by these street dwellers in this heritage site is a process from entering and integrating into the place, appropriating specific spaces into places with meanings for them, building and maintaining social networks, contesting notions of the place, and developing a street culture over time.

Confluences of Street Culture and Jihadism: The Spatial, Bodily, and Narrative Dimensions of Radicalization

ABSTRACT Research on the new crime-terror nexus has focused on examining the confluences of criminal and jihadist milieus. This article contributes to this research, using insights from criminological theory and analyzing data from interviews with Muslim men who have been exposed to jihadism and have a background in street life and crime. We propose that the connection between street crime and jihadism can be seen in three decisive points of confluence: places, bodies, and narratives. We show how specific places (e.g. prisons) enable the encounter between particular bodies (e.g. violently competent bodies) and the engagement or disengagement with certain extremist narratives (e.g. stories of redemption through violence). The crime-terror literature emphasizes that these points of confluence are sources of radicalization. We expand upon this by arguing that they may also serve as venues for resisting or rejecting politico-religious extremism. The study demonstrates that radicalization is only one possible outcome of the confluences between street culture and jihadism.

“Stay Down”: Moonlight and Negative Affect as an Analytic

“Stay Down”: <i>Moonlight</i> and Negative Affect as an Analytic

The long road

ABSTRACTStreet cultures remain a challenging topic for anthropological analysis, reflecting broader disciplinary tensions. Approaches that focus on structure and power tend to provide overly deterministic accounts of action, especially regarding violence, while attempts to trace ethical striving have tended to characterize street cultures as domains of ethical failure or as defined by the pursuit of short‐term pleasures. Navigating between these approaches, I draw on ethnographic accounts from “the Caldwell,” a deprived London social housing estate, to argue that ethical registers are an important locus of ethical life. Youth strive to build worthwhile lives not simply by adopting particular ethical stances, but by pushing on the limits of available stances by weaving these together into a broader ethical register. For many young people involved with the Caldwell's street culture, ethical striving is inextricable from, and may even primarily entail, efforts to cultivate collective registers, which entangle criminal and noncriminal horizons. [street culture, gangs, violence, ethics, inequality, exclusion, hip‐hop, stance, register, London]

Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Ready to eat Food Sold by Street Vendors in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has a vibrant street food culture, with easily available ready-to-eat (RTE) foods. In this study, a total of 221 isolates were obtained from 141 Bangladeshi RTE food samples, such as fried, non-fried, and cooked foods; egg-, milk-, cereal-, and cream-based foods; pickles/achar; fruit; and RTE leaves, through culture on trypticase soy (for aerobic plate count), mannitol salt (MS for Staphylococcaceae), deoxycholate-hydrogen sulfide-lactose (DHL, for Enterobacteriaceae), and NaCl glycine Kim Goepfert agar (NGKG, for Bacillus cereus-like bacteria) agar plates. The aerobic plate counts ranged from undetectable to 8.5 log CFU/g. After enrichment with peptone water, contaminated bacteria detected on DHL, MS, and NGKG agar plates, from 77, 110, and 77 samples, respectively. Twenty out of 111 isolates on DHL agar, and 17 of 32 isolates on NGKG agar clearly showed resistance against three or more drugs. Through 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing analysis, six selected isolates from DHL agar were identified as Pseudomonas nitroreducens, Citrobacter braakii, Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae, and Serratia marcescens. One selected isolate from NGKG agar was identified as Bacillus cereus-like bacteria. The results suggest that additional safety measures and regulations are necessary to ensure the quality and safety of the RTE foods in Bangladesh.

Культурная дивергенция в русскоязычном сообществе Израиля

The objective of the present research is to discover and explain a variety of cultural pref­erences within the Russian-speaking community in Israel. We juxtapose veteran immigrants of the ‘1990 wave’ (including children and teenagers who came with their parents, so called 1.5ers) and representatives of the ‘Putin Exodus’ who arrived in the country in 2014—2018. The divergence in preferences and attitudes was revealed thanks to the discourse, semantic and comparative analysis. The research was conducted on the material of the free association test and blogs of the Russian Israelis. The association test revealed cultural stereotypes of the Russian Israelis who did not write blogs. The ‘1990s wave’ immigrants revealed their deep connection to the Soviet Jewishness and Israeli citizenship regardless of their religious confes­sion. For the 1.5ers, the Russian language lost its special function as the key to the cultural heritage. The ‘1990 wave’ immigrants and 1.5ers experience the Russian language attrition. The representatives of the 1.5 generation prefer to participate in the cultural events in He­brew; they are involved in the Hebrew cultural context. The representatives of the ‘Putin Ex­odus’ consider the State of Israel to be a Western democratic state. They ignore the peculiari­ties of the Middle East country, do not support ‘mestechkovy’ culture of the Russian street and disagree to prioritize the Jewish traditions. The cultural discrepancy does not match the divergence between elite and mass culture.

Exploration of the Protection and Renewal of Shanghai Historical and Cultural Areas - A Case Study of Guangming Street in Bao Town

Protection of historical and cultural areas is of great significance to sustainable development of the city of Shanghai. The suburban historical and cultural areas bear regional characteristics and cultural values that the ones in the city center do not have. Therefore, the protection and renewal of the suburban historical cultural areas should be paid attention to. This paper sorts out relevant literature in the field of historic preservation; analyzes practical cases and explores protection framework of historical and cultural areas. Taking Guangming Street Historical and Cultural Area in Bao Town, Shanghai as an example, this paper makes an in-depth protection planning of the area from five aspects: land use, architecture, roads and streets, public space and local culture based on the problems shown in the current situation of the area. In the end, strategies regarding implementation and management of protection planning are put forward to support sustainable development and active utilization of the suburban historical and cultural areas.

Street Culture Meets Extremism: How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism

AbstractMany studies have examined why individuals with a background in street life and crime are drawn toward extremism. This paper examines why most people with this background reject extremism. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Oslo, we found that Muslims involved in street culture were generally opposed to jihadism because they perceived jihadists as evil people who harm innocents; bad Muslims who defame Islam; and cowards who break the ‘code of the street.’ This opposition resulted in avoidance behaviours, criticism and, sometimes, violence against suspected jihadists. We argue that research on the crime-terror nexus has focussed too narrowly on the similarities between street culture and jihadism, contributing to a distorted image of Muslims involved in street culture as potential terrorists.

How Has Street Culture Changed the Nature of Luxury?

This article mainly studies how street culture influences luxury brands. Modern luxury brands want to meet the changing needs of consumers around the world. While maintaining product permanence and heritage, it is also beginning to generate the pursuit of specificity or specific services. There is a link between street culture and the luxury industry that cannot be ignored. By reading the literature and materials, and adopting rrchival research in this paper. And analyze from the perspectives of Marketing strategies, Marketing model, and supply and demand. It is not difficult to find that the street culture has changed the luxury goods from various aspects through the uniqueness of its creation.

Characterization of virulence factors of Salmonella isolated from human stools and street food in urban areas of Burkina Faso

BackgroundThis study was undertaken to identify and functionally characterize virulence genes from Salmonella isolates in street food and stool cultures. From February 2017 to May 2018, clinical and food Salmonella strains were isolated in three regions in Burkina Faso. Salmonella was serotyped according to the White-Kauffmann-Le Minor method, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to detec invA, spvR, spvC, fimA and stn virulence genes commonly associated with salmonellosis in Sub-Saharan Africa.ResultsA total of 106 Salmonella isolates (77 human stools; 14 sandwiches) was analyzed using a serological identification with an O-group test reagent. The presence of Salmonella was confirmed in 86% (91/106) of the samples were reactive (OMA-positive/OMB-positive). Salmonella serogroup O:4,5 was the most common serogroup detected (40%; 36/91). Salmonella Enteritidis and Typhimurium represented 5.5% (5/91) and 3.3% (3/91), respectively and were identified only from clinical isolates. Furthermore, 14 serotypes of Salmonella (12/91 human strains and 2/15 sandwich strains) were evocative of Kentucky/Bargny serotype. For the genetic profile, 66% (70/106) of the Salmonella had invA and stn genes; 77.4% (82/106) had the fimA gene. The spvR gene was found in 36.8% (39/106) of the isolates while 48.1% (51/106) had the spvC gene. Among the identified Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium isolated from stools, the virulence genes detected were invA (3/5) versus (2/3), fimA (4/5) versus (3/3), stn (3/5) versus (2/3), spvR (4/5) versus (2/3) and spvC (3/5) versus (2/3), respectively.ConclusionThis study reports the prevalence of Salmonella serotypes and virulence genes in clinical isolates and in street foods. It shows that food could be a significant source of Salmonella transmission to humans. Our results could help decision-making by the Burkina Faso health authority in the fight against street food-related diseases, in particular by training restaurateurs in food hygiene.

The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture

“Street culture” is often considered a response to structural factors. However, the relationship between culture and structure has rarely been empirically analyzed. This article analyzes the role of three media representations of American street culture and gangsters—two films and the music of a rap artist—in the street culture of a disadvantaged part of Copenhagen. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article demonstrates that these media representations are highly valuable to and influential among young men because of their perceived similarity between their intersectional structural positions and those represented in the media. Thus, the article illuminates the interaction between structural and cultural factors in street culture. It further offers a local explanation of the scarcely studied phenomenon of the influence of mass media on street culture, and a novel, media-based, local explanation of global similarities in different street cultures.

“In the Dark Places, Getting Burned”: Portrayals of Street Culture in Taiwan Cinema Today

Abstract Street culture is represented in two mid-2010 Taiwan films, The Kids (Xiaohai, 2015) and Thanatos, Drunk (Zui sheng meng shi 2015), in such stunning and beautiful ways that this essay sets out to etch each of them not only into the annals of Taiwan’s most memorable urban films ever made, but also position them as essential texts within the emergent field of street culture more broadly. Both movies depict physical and ideological boundaries that separate urban spaces from Taiwanese culture at large, and reveal the extent to which their young protagonists are perceived as “abnormal” even as they use street literacy in sophisticated ways to interact with formal actors (such as school teachers and the police) and informal actors (such as hooligans and petty criminals). These two films arguably present the best vantage point to understand the peripheral status of Taiwan’s urban young people who do not conform to hegemonic norms.

Mystery Manor: 7101 Apple Street and Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Legacy

Mystery Manor: 7101 Apple Street and Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Legacy

‘Useful Knowledge’ versus ‘Wastes of Print’: Working-Class Education and Edward Lloyd

This article delves into the dismissal of penny bloods and penny dreadfuls as “wastes of print” (Oliphant 1858: 202) on the grounds of public concern for education, and relies on a close reading of an Edward Lloyd unstamped penny publication in order to reassess the relationship between education and the wider world of penny periodicals. The first part examines the upper classes’ attempts to establish an educational environment aimed at the working classes in the first part of the nineteenth century, among which the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and proposes to reconsider the reasons for the relative failure of such initiatives in relation to popular penny publications. I then draw on Edward Jacobs’s analysis of ‘industrial literacy’ and urban street culture to analyse the rejection of such publications as Edward Lloyd’s, by disentangling the mechanisms to which contemporary critics consistently resort. Finally, in keeping with Louis James’s statement that “periodicals are cultural clocks by which we tell the times” (1982: 365), I explore the various pieces contained in a full 1846 number of Lloyd’s penny publication People’s Periodical and Family Library contemporary to the failure of the SDUK, in order to understand the potential dialogue in place with publications and criticism advocating ‘useful knowledge’. This article aims to prove that Lloyd’s penny publications were, in fact, an undeniable point of contact between the working classes and education.

ANALYSIS OF THE FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN PLANNING FORMATION OF SPORTS AND LEISURE COMPLEXES

Nowadays there is an urgent need for Ukrainians to meet the demands of quality, diversity and availability of sports services. Therefore, sports and leisure complexes, which are integrated into the urban infrastructure, act as interactive public spaces with tactile surfaces. Analysis of foreign practical experience in the formation of sports and leisure complexes demonstrates what it means to move around the city, breathe new life into abandoned places and how the architecture of modern life is changing. The countries of China, Russia, and Denmark were analyzed. This analysis showed that the typical objects for leisure activities are: 1) Squares, parking lots with integrated sports and leisure areas; 2) Separate specialized buildings of sports and leisure centers or centers of youth culture with different sports; 3) Open public spaces in parks, residential complexes, preschool education constructions, health centers. The analysis of the features of sports and leisure complexes formation in the territory of Ukraine allowed to reveal two groups. The first group consists of outdoor areas, which contain outdoor simulators or sports complex workout for trainings, both for professional athletes and amateurs. The second group of sports and leisure complexes contains "urban parks" as centers for the development of street culture, which has become a part of the state youth policy. The analysis of foreign and domestic practical experience of architectural and urban planning formation of sports and leisure complexes proved that there is an active implementation of the advanced world concepts related to a healthy lifestyle in Ukraine. At the same time, the design of sports and leisure complexes is at the stage of formation and requires the development of special methods, as well as research in terms of typological, structural-functional and planning analysis. Determination of the factors influencing the development of the studied objects and the principles of their formation is needed. This can be considered as the next stage of this research.

Critical success factors of street food destinations: a review of extant literature

Purpose The purpose of this study is to review the critical success factors (CSFs) of street food destinations, given the limited attention awarded to such research in the food and beverage sector. Design/methodology/approach An interpretivist approach was used to merge CSFs from street vending and culinary tourism perspectives, to develop a draft framework for analysing CSFs for street food destinations. In total, 64 cities that appeared in the first 20 webpage results of a Google search, using 4 keywords, formed the population. A purposive sample of seven destinations (Bangkok, Marrakesh, Mexico City, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Portland and Singapore City) was used. A content analysis method was used to review webpages, journal articles and government reports of the destinations, based on the modified list of CSFs. Findings The availability of diverse street food resources and cultures, coupled with rich historic city cores that sustain street food vending, in some destinations, are very important CSFs. The presence and extent of regulatory enforcement were also key in others. Empirical research is, however, required to corroborate the draft framework to create a body of knowledge for further research in the field. Originality/value The study examines how leading street food destinations have instituted the CSFs required for street food provision.

Youth subjectivities of street culture

El texto que se presenta, aborda las subjetividades juveniles de la cultura callejera, como un campo de tensiones incorporadas en las experiencias de supervivencia en el espacio urbano. Se sitúan las estrategias de organización, habitar y participación en los lugares callejeros en Xalapa, Veracruz (México), como formas de sociabilidad y reproducción de la vida colectiva en las calles, que se traducen en la interiorización de un devenir socio-histórico de exclusión social en las sociedades capitalistas. Se analizan, los mecanismos de control social en las espacialidades neoliberales, que limitan el despliegue de la ciudadanía de las juventudes en contextos de vida y trabajo en las calles.

스트릿댄스의 사상적 근원과 예술적 가치 탐색

The purpose of this study is to examine the ideological roots of street dancing and explore the artistic value of street dancing. The study was conducted in the following perspectives. First, we explore how street culture, the ideological source of street dance, has been created and evolved. As a result, Street Culture is a subculture of Hispanics and blacks in the United States, whose true meaning is to deny their reality and society according to the times, resembling a spirit of hope for peace and freedom, not antisocial. I could see that it was a culture of youth entertainment and lifestyle itself. Second, to consider the artistic value of street dance, the artistic value of street dance was variously considered by applying each definition to the examples of street dance, including six theories(Imitationism, Expressionism, Formalism,The Impossibility of Art Justice, Institutionism, Pluralism) representing art definitions defined by many philosophers from ancient times to modern times. The results show that street dancing includes all the universal definitions of art represented by philosophers from ancient times to modern times. Although discussing artistic value through the universal definition of art as a study in the field of dance art is not a new perspective, street dance, which is already recognized as an artistic activity in the field of art, unfortunately lacks academic research. Therefore, this study aims to record street dancing as an academic foundation for moving toward one of the new arts in the field of dance and art, if not from a new perspective.