Exploring nightlife in the university city of Cluj-Napoca (Romania): a mixed methods research study

IF 1.3 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
C. Adorean, J. Nofre, Oana-Ramona Ilovan, V. Gligor
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Abstract

The university city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania is one of the clearest examples where ‘the night’ (including restaurants, bars, discotheques, clubs, and also museums, exhibitions, and theatres) has been essential for the vitality of the city. Despite the importance of ‘the night’ for the everyday life of the city, the role of the night-time leisure economy in the social and urban change of European post-socialist cities remains underexplored. Based on mixed research methods, this paper aims to examine the recent development of the night-time leisure economy of Cluj-Napoca. After a theoretical approach in which we highlight the long underexplored path that still exists in relation to the study on the political, social, cultural and economic factors of ’the night’ in post-socialist cities from South-Eastern Europe, the paper shows a quantitative approach about a range of variables that define the different (and unequal) forms of consuming the night in the city centre of Cluj-Napoca. The second part of the paper shows the results derived from the quantitative study about the different perceptions and visions that employees, residents, venue owners, and municipals have about nightlife in Cluj-Napoca. The paper concludes by suggesting that a greater institutional attention should be provided to the development of the night-time leisure economy in the city centre of Cluj-Napoca in order to avoid the reproduction of 'segmented nightscapes' that highly feature the night in Central and Western Europe.
探索克卢日-纳波卡大学城(罗马尼亚)的夜生活:一项混合方法的研究
罗马尼亚的克卢日-纳波卡大学城是最明显的例子之一,“夜晚”(包括餐馆、酒吧、迪斯科舞厅、俱乐部、博物馆、展览和剧院)对城市的活力至关重要。尽管“夜晚”对城市的日常生活很重要,但夜间休闲经济在欧洲后社会主义城市的社会和城市变化中的作用仍未得到充分探索。本文采用混合研究方法,对克卢日-纳波卡市夜间休闲经济的发展进行了研究。在一种理论方法中,我们强调了与东南欧后社会主义城市中“夜晚”的政治、社会、文化和经济因素的研究相关的长期未被探索的道路,本文展示了一种关于一系列变量的定量方法,这些变量定义了克卢日-纳波卡市中心消费夜晚的不同(和不平等)形式。论文的第二部分显示了定量研究的结果,该研究是关于雇员、居民、场地所有者和市政当局对克卢日纳波卡夜生活的不同看法和愿景。论文最后建议,为了避免再现中欧和西欧的“分段夜景”,应该对克卢日-纳波卡市中心的夜间休闲经济的发展给予更大的制度性关注。
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