SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146066o
Milorad Obradovic, Vladimir Milenkovic
{"title":"The city as a playground: Skate parks, inclusion and new territory","authors":"Milorad Obradovic, Vladimir Milenkovic","doi":"10.2298/spat2146066o","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146066o","url":null,"abstract":"There are two central topics in this study: the first topic relates to the physical space created by skateboarding, while the other relates to social capital derived from skateboard culture. The paper analyzes the case studies of three skate parks, in which the theme of social inclusion is the theoretical framework. Looking through the history of skateboarding and integration of skate parks as a part of the urban environment, the theme is concerned with bringing the openness that is part of the design of our public spaces to skateboarding culture, and in general, to the feeling of belonging as an essential part of building social capital. In the manner of shared space, public space has started to be used as a communication platform between community members looking for expression of their needs and desires. The benefits of the skateboarding settings have rarely been the subject of empirical research, so these case studies will deepen our knowledge on why social bonds connected to this sport make such a significant contribution in city landscapes. Individuality and its political manifestation have a structural role in this paper: from the appearance of the architectural figuration to the idea about a movement and a settlement, which for architecture, can be seen in the form of new territories.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68813954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146073a
G. Abdrassilova, E.T. Danibekova
{"title":"The transformation of modern architecture in Kazakhstan: From soviet “internationalism” to a post-soviet undestanding of the regional identity","authors":"G. Abdrassilova, E.T. Danibekova","doi":"10.2298/spat2146073a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146073a","url":null,"abstract":"After the collapse of the USSR at the end of the 20th century, the Soviet republics, including Kazakhstan, that had been previously united within one country became independent countries and went through decades of reforms to establish new social, political and economic frameworks and revive their own cultural traditions. The transition from the state planned Soviet-era economy to the market economy was accompanied by dramatic changes in all aspects of life - in the economy, science and culture. The Soviet architecture in Kazakhstan met the contemporary requirements of its time: all settlements were developed according to approved master plans, and design and construction were carried out by large state companies with powerful technical potential. 30 years of post-Soviet life have gone by since 1991, and Kazakhstan has gone through some transformation in its architecture; it is now searching for methods of expressing a unique \"Kazakh\" architectural language with its own particular regional characteristics seen in: arches, domes, ornamental motifs of decorative design. The purpose of the study is to analyse the transformation that the architecture in Kazakhstan has undergone so far in the 21st century using the example of public buildings, and to identify the factors forming new features of architecture. Realizing the dependencies of Kazakhstan?s architectural transformation on the new social and economic conditions will help architects strengthen the regional identity in the architecture through the symbiosis of traditional local experience and new global technologies.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68814022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146011g
Deanna Grant-Smith, Linda Carroli, Abbe Winter, Severine Mayere
{"title":"Understanding planning students’ self-perceived employability in an uncertain future","authors":"Deanna Grant-Smith, Linda Carroli, Abbe Winter, Severine Mayere","doi":"10.2298/spat2146011g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146011g","url":null,"abstract":"Planning students are entering an increasingly competitive professional labour market. To understand their selfperceived employability and identify the employability-enhancing strategies they engage in to improve their graduate employment prospects, this paper analyses survey data collected from 106 undergraduate students at a large Australian university. Three key themes are identified as important for graduate employability from the perspective of planning students: education; personal attributes and assets; and appropriate professional experience. This study finds that many respondents were critical of the extent to which they believed their university studies were positively positioned for the real world of planning and positively positioned them to succeed in the graduate employment market relative to other planning graduates. To address these limitations, respondents emphasised the importance of developing personal and professional networks with peers and engaging in skills-enhancing activities, and revealed an expectation that they may need to engage in unpaid professional work experience. However, notwithstanding these efforts to actively moderate the impact of self-perceived personal skills and experiential deficits on their employability, there was a nascent acknowledgement that despite investing significant effort into developing networks, getting professional experience, and modelling appropriate attitudes and professional traits, they may become highly employable yet still fail to secure graduate employment as a planner due to structural constraints beyond their control.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68813599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146036k
Lotfali Kozegar Kaleji, P. Aghaei, A. Mottaghi, M. Delalat
{"title":"The role of urban defenseless spaces in women’s security: A case study of Jiroft, Kerman province, Iran","authors":"Lotfali Kozegar Kaleji, P. Aghaei, A. Mottaghi, M. Delalat","doi":"10.2298/spat2146036k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146036k","url":null,"abstract":"Growing trends in urban development combined with fundamental changes in the physical context of cities necessitate paying attention to the quality of urban spaces. The low quality of spaces, known as defenseless spaces, has a significant impact on the security of citizens, particularly vulnerable groups, including women. By emphasizing the role of defenseless spaces in Jiroft, the present study aims to evaluate their effect on women?s security. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using an independent t-test. Kendall correlation and regression were also applied in order to determine the quality of urban spaces and to evaluate their relationship with women?s safety. The results show that the physical spaces in Jiroft, more than 30% of which are worn out, are of low quality, and thus can be referred to as defenseless. The level of women?s satisfaction with the quality of the space is not high enough and this situation has increased women?s insecurity by 41%. Therefore, reconsidering urban design, especially in the peripheral and suburban areas is necessary, owing to women?s dissatisfaction with the quality of urban spaces and the positive correlation of these spaces with the level of security.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68814265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146001c
Przemysław Ciesiółka, Angel Burov
{"title":"Paths of the urban regeneration process in Central and Eastern Europe after EU enlargement - Poland and Bulgaria as comparative case studies","authors":"Przemysław Ciesiółka, Angel Burov","doi":"10.2298/spat2146001c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146001c","url":null,"abstract":"The enlargement of the EU towards Central-Eastern Europe in the years 2004 and 2007 and the related EU funds provided new opportunities and created new challenges to both big metropolitan cities and smaller settlements. One of the particularly important challenges was to define appropriate national and local policies for the urban regeneration of neglected areas, which were abundant in this part of Europe. The objective of the paper is to analyze and evaluate actions taken in Bulgaria and Poland at the national and local level in the field of urban regeneration after the countries? accession to the EU. The paper compares the general national and local planning approaches and capacity building for urban regeneration in the context of regulative and procedural issues. The local case studies represent two types of urban areas under regeneration: the metropolitan core cities Pozna? and Sofia and medium-sized non-core towns of Pi?a and Gabrovo. The results are in the form of a concurrent evaluation of both the achievements and negative effects resulting from the national and local processes in the envisaged and the recently implemented activities with regard to the regeneration of deprived urban neighborhoods and areas.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68813522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146022j
Ljiljana Jevremovic, A. Stanojević, Isidora Djordjevic, Branko Turnsek
{"title":"The redevelopment of military barracks between discourses of urban development and heritage protection: The case study of Nis, Serbia","authors":"Ljiljana Jevremovic, A. Stanojević, Isidora Djordjevic, Branko Turnsek","doi":"10.2298/spat2146022j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146022j","url":null,"abstract":"Areas of disused military barracks are commonly exploited as a land resource that is attractive for redevelopment, within the urban city area. Their commercial potential is high on the list of attractiveness, primarily based on the value of the site?s disposition, size, and capacity for redevelopment in terms of rebuilding. Contemporary architectural practice is often directed towards urban redevelopment projects in military areas whose position and other characteristics are valued by investors as crucial commercial benefits. These sites may be places of tangible cultural heritage based on recognized architectural heritage and social memory. The paper presents a comparative study of the redevelopment of two former military barracks in Nis - Bubanjski Heroji and Filip Kljajic. These sites share the same disposition within the city but diverge in terms of their size, historical importance, and discourse of redevelopment. The comparison is presented from four perspectives: planning, built heritage, public perception, and cultural meaning. By examining the transformation of the complexes, the paper aims to perform a critical review which compares the reality of urban transformations in Serbia with the theoretical background and current urban regeneration policies promoted worldwide. This paper exploits the HUL approach, an integrated approach to urban management promoted by UNESCO, by extracting and analyzing four principles: the historical layering of cultural and natural heritage and attributes, dynamic character of urban space, promotion of social diversity, and balanced relation between artificial and natural. The conclusions highlight the difference between the local practices of commercially- and heritage-led redevelopment in order to suggest some improvements for similar redevelopment projects in the future.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68813667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.2298/spat2146054g
Laura Gallardo-Frías, François Mairesse
{"title":"The paradox of access: The 21st century museum confronted by its security","authors":"Laura Gallardo-Frías, François Mairesse","doi":"10.2298/spat2146054g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2146054g","url":null,"abstract":"Access is a key element for an architectural work. In museums, access takes on special significance due to the connection between two very different worlds, and it is therefore associated with an ?access ritual?, in which three parts can be considered for study: preliminary, liminal, and postliminary. Recently, the enforcement of security elements has been implemented differently and in distinct parts of the entrance, which, in many cases, breaks the flow of passage. To analyse this situation, we have examined the seven most visited museums in the world and two emblematic cases in France, where the ?ritual of passage? is contrasted with security elements, in order to reflect on how to link security elements to museum access.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68814350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2020-08-09DOI: 10.2298/spat2043052i
B. Ivanovic
{"title":"Multi-functional land-use planning as a regulator of urban metabolism: A conceptual perspective","authors":"B. Ivanovic","doi":"10.2298/spat2043052i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2043052i","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an attempt to reveal the possibilities for using land-use\u0000 planning to improve the urban metabolism (UM) circularity and\u0000 sustainability, and thus its usefulness for urban planning and development.\u0000 The available literature about UM is overviewed and analysed from this\u0000 conceptual perspective, and a comprehensive and consistent definition of the\u0000 UM concept is proposed. The Circular UM is also presented as an efficient\u0000 and sustainable extension of UM. It has been found that distinct urban forms\u0000 strongly influence UM, and that this influence to a great extent transfers\u0000 through, and connects, the layers of the urban form, from the urban\u0000 morphology, through the spatial distribution of urban functions, to the\u0000 level of the building stock. These relations imply that proper intertwining\u0000 of city functions in compact urban areas could have favourable impacts on\u0000 many aspects of UM, reducing the consumption of land, material and energy,\u0000 as well as pollution, and improving the overall quality of life.\u0000 Quantification of these impacts requires a more precise determination of the\u0000 effects of intertwining of urban functions, and the side-effects of doing\u0000 so, and is a precondition for the effective use of MLU for UM optimisation.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47316033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2020-08-09DOI: 10.2298/spat2043008k
Ls Kimmel, C. Tietz
{"title":"Publicly shared domestic-related amenities: Pockets of privacy enhancing public space","authors":"Ls Kimmel, C. Tietz","doi":"10.2298/spat2043008k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2043008k","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses amenities that are shared by anyone in public space,\u0000 such as public barbecues in Australia. The idea is generalized to a range of\u0000 domestic-related amenities, from kitchen-related to bathroom-related, etc.\u0000 As these domestic-related amenities relate to usage that is typically\u0000 conducted within a dwelling, the amenity and its architecture can be\u0000 considered a ?pocket of privacy? in public space (Pocket). Our discussion\u0000 explores how these publicly shared domestic-related amenities can address\u0000 particular needs of society in the context of their economic, symbolic,\u0000 aesthetic and ethical value. Specifically, we suggest that Pockets\u0000 productively address the politics of public space and private place in three\u0000 key ways: through the negotiation of the presence of people in public space,\u0000 through the negotiation of individual and collective usage of the amenity,\u0000 and through the gap between the symbolic and economic power created by the\u0000 usage of these amenities. We conclude by proposing planning principles that\u0000 may enable the economic, symbolic, aesthetic and ethical value of these\u0000 amenities to be fully realized in ways that balance the politics of public\u0000 space and private place.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43959071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SpatiumPub Date : 2020-08-09DOI: 10.2298/spat2043059k
Svetlana Kalabа
{"title":"Mark Bain’s work as a technological synthesis of architecture, music and the (in)animate nature","authors":"Svetlana Kalabа","doi":"10.2298/spat2043059k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2298/spat2043059k","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of research in this paper is Mark Bain?s work, perceived as a\u0000 synthesis of architecture, music, technology and the (in)animate nature. Its\u0000 basic thesis is that Bain sees his works of art as a set of agents that have\u0000 the function of mediating social relationships within the surrounding world,\u0000 and that sound vibration is treated as a means by which architectural\u0000 constructions become animate beings, enabling the coherence of art and the\u0000 animate - the living world. The study analyzes the theoretical and\u0000 interdisciplinary research of Bain?s work, viewed through the prism of\u0000 anthropological theory and both philosophical and theoretical perspectives\u0000 of art. It investigates an innovative concept which introduces novelties\u0000 into architecture and music, applying a specific interdisciplinary approach.\u0000 The contribution of the study is that it determines the special aesthetics\u0000 of Bain?s work, which constitutes a new vision of the world and knowledge of\u0000 the future. The unity of knowledge belonging to different realms is\u0000 presented through the creation of an innovative research concept and a\u0000 specific worldview, characterized by a problem-solving approach to the\u0000 relationship between the animate and inanimate nature.","PeriodicalId":38713,"journal":{"name":"Spatium","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47713539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}