The Pop-Up Stall: A Mass Object-Elicitation Method

In recent years, the aging population in Chinese cities has become increasingly severe. In 2021, the proportion of people aged 65 and above in Wuchang District, Wuhan reached 24.38%, indicating a deeply aging society. Consequently, the importance of studying aging-friendly public spaces in communities is becoming more prominent. This research was conducted based on survey data of outdoor spaces in Shouyi Community, Shouyi Road. Factor analysis and IPA were used to assess the satisfaction and importance of elderly residents’ satisfaction. The primary renovation factors identified include route organization, site height difference protection, barrier-free design, plant color matching, plant configuration, and landscape features, followed by spatial continuity, lighting, microclimate, and rest facilities layout. These analyses effectively identified public factors and prioritize the aging-friendly renovation of public spaces in old communities. In the renovation of old communities in Wuhan, safety is the primary renovation factor for aging-friendly communities. Improving site height difference protection and barrier-free facilities significantly enhances residents’ satisfaction. The aesthetic improvement of outdoor spaces is the second renovation factor, indicating that the elderly increasingly value the aesthetic aspect of spaces. Although accessibility of community public spaces is the third renovation factor, route organization at the criterion level has the highest priority. Road traffic and parking difficulties are also key factors in the renovation of old communities.

Inquiring Public Space in Romania: A Communication Analysis of the 2012 Protests

The transformation of public space production and consumption in post-reformation Indonesian cities

This research aims to emphasize the relationship between the two functions of private and public space which can be achieved by applying the concept of a transitional space (threshold) with the integration of public open space in the middle of a mixed-use area. This phenomenon shows that overcoming mental health problems in urban communities with the integration of public open spaces with a perceptual research approach from the study of criteria and visual elements of public space. This research was conducted using quantitative methods with data revealed by explanative analysis. The research instrument used is in the form of a perceptual assessment survey regarding the transition space simulation that has been measured based on the threshold space and public space parameters. The needs for a mixed-use threshold space parameters that can become a new communal space for urban communities requires a design approach that supports the creation of sustainable architectural designs (eco-architecture planning) in terms of social aspects.

Rapid urban development and modernization in Makkah have led to an increase in urban infrastructure needs. The city of Makkah is a main destination for the global Islamic pilgrimage and is highly utilized for major infrastructure and building expansion including processes of densification. As a consequence of Hajj and Umrah activities, the city experiences a major annual upward trajectory of public space usage and solid waste production which caters to the needs of temporary activities targeted to foreign visitors. These circumstances lead to issues of inefficiencies in the management of public services in the city, particularly in the provision of public space and solid waste management for residents. Within this context, the aim of this paper is to understand the development of public space in Makkah and the level of services delivered to local residents based on residents’ perspectives on services provided in formal and informal settlements in Makkah. The study contributes to the gap in research on public space and waste handling in Makkah. Interviews addressing resident characteristics and public space with the quality of solid waste provision in Makkah are presented. An explanation of residents’ preferences for public space was also presented. At different times of the day, in the year 2018, the observations were carried out to identify usage patterns by the residents. The paper accomplishes this by presenting significant points for developments in community space and solid waste management.

One of the most relevant roles in architecture professional practice and, consequently, one of the most relevant issues to be taught in schools, is that of social leadership. In this will, almost duty, to guide society on the way to improving its quality of life and ensuring progress, architects have not always found the support of political and economic establishment and, occasionally, they have become developers of their own proposals. There are many buildings that have survived to the present day whose cost was totally or partially covered by the architects who designed them, in their eagerness to see them completed. And the current trend of refurbishing public spaces and buildings is no exception. In the Basque Country there is a deep-rooted tradition of meeting in small public or semi-public spaces called txokos or txakolines. In 1955 the Txakolin Zollo was built in Bilbao, one of the most popular of these places. However, two decades later, the commercial and bourgeois development of the two important streets connected by this alley led to an apparent divorce with the surrounding neighborhood. Given the lack of interest from the municipality, its neighbors decided to paint the walls and to treat the space in an experimental way, giving it a strong personality and turning it into an icon. But commercial activity decreased even more and with it came the progressive abandonment of this alley that reached the 2000s in very poor condition. In the early 2020s a young architect bought one of the premises and initiated a series of legal, but mainly architectural and social, actions that have made it possible to recover this space for the Bilbao citizenry and visitors. Aware of its value, its demolition was never an option. Commercial and public spaces have been refurbished and recovered, giving it back its own traditional activity but from a contemporary perspective. Newly inhabited by artisans and artists, the alley now has a presence on social media, hosts different kinds of events and enjoys a vibrant activity and a second chance as a commercial street thanks to the conviction and sponsorship of a young architect.

This research focuses on the materiality of street art and its contribution to shaping public spaces and representing the social identity of urban communities. In contemporary urban landscapes, street art practices reflect the complexity of social, political, and cultural dynamics, where material elements—such as paint, wall planes, and urban spatial textures—are not positioned solely as visual mediums but rather as entities that play an active role in shaping spatial meaning and experience. This study utilized a qualitative approach through the narrative literature review method, accompanied by thematic analysis of various scientific sources that examine the relationship between urban art, materiality, and social space. The findings show that street art has a dual function as both aesthetic and social practice; it presents a space for dialogue and resistance to symbolic domination in urban spatial planning while strengthening collective identity through participatory interaction between human subjects and material objects. The results confirm that materiality in street art contains agency that can reconfigure the relationship between art, space, and urban society. The contribution lies in integrating materiality theory, public space concepts, and participatory aesthetics to build a comprehensive understanding of street art as a social-material phenomenon. Thus, this study enriches theoretical discourse and practices in urban art studies while encouraging the formulation of urban policies that are more inclusive of participatory public art practices

While mainstream industry and government focus on individual, home and business ownership and use of new ICTs, there is a quiet revolution going on as computers, and all their applications from games to the Internet, move into public spaces. There are commercial kiosk systems in the streets and malls, and many government projects to empower communities and stimulate the local economy, but perhaps the most important, overlooked and oft-derided development is the cybercafe. The cybercafe is a cafe or shop open to the public, where a computer can be hired for periods of a half hour to access the Internet, write a CV or play a game. With the explosion in the use and profile of the Internet and personal use of new information and communications technology—‘multimedia’—cybercafes have become part of contemporary culture, established among the public places of modern cities, towns and villages around the world. In December 1999 an on-line cybercafe guide listed 4,397 cafes around the world.1 There is very little research on what these cybercafes are used for, who uses them and why.2 This study, conducted in 1998 (Stewart, 1998), addressed the use and users of three cybercafes in the same city, the reasons and manner they were set up and developed, and the role cybercafes play in the general development of use and knowledge about multimedia. What emerged was that cybercafes are not only sites for technical access and consumption and use of multimedia content and services, but also public, physical, community and cultural spaces. In this context I challenge the view that computers either undermine the community, or are only relevant to the formation and activities of ‘virtual’ communities.

Neighborhood and family perceived environments associated with children's physical activity and body mass index

In the process of rapid urbanization and accelerated transformation of urban community public space structures, the optimization of community space structure and the quality of the living environment has attracted the attention of academic circles. Existing research has shown that the well-being of community residents is positively correlated with community social capital. The starting point of this study was howaimed to increase residents’ social capital and enhance their sense of life happiness through a good community space environment design. This paper focuses on the analysis of the spatial perception level of community residents and the correlation between environmental space design elements and social capital and explores the environmental factors that affect the accumulation of social capital of community residents to put forward suggestions for the optimal design of community public spaces. A field survey of 30 communities in Shanghai City was conducted based on relevant theories and practical cases both at home and abroad. The six dimensions of “social cohesion”, “sense of community belonging”, “social participation”, “social network”, “social interaction”, and “neighborhood relationship” are used to assign social capital, and the six dimensions are respectively regressed with residents’ environmental perception of the community and the objective environment of the community. The correlation between the social capital of community residents and the three elements of public space (space, facilities, and social elements) was obtained. According to the public space optimization design strategy of the three elements, public space design principles for improving community social capital are proposed, including the principles of diversification, humanization, suitability, and inclusiveness, and the corresponding suggestions are proposed from three aspects: point space, line space, and surface space.

Mobility, Modernity, and Abroad

Introduction: This article comprises the analysis of popular economy in public spaces, based on scenario planning, approaching it from a foresight perspective. Objective: The study aims to analyze the possible scenarios of popular economy derived from commerce in public spaces in a city of the Caquetá department (Colombia). Methodology: A mixed-design, descriptive-type investigation was carried out using the SEARCH method to achieve this. Results: The findings present three scenarios resulting from the development of popular economy in the territory: 1) social chaos and insecurity; 2) weakening of the economic and tourism potential; and 3) widening of the economic development gap compared to the national average. Conclusions: The study highlights the reasons that have led to considering popular economy as an issue to be addressed by national public management. Additionally, the main challenge for territorial entities is to define assertive solutions through public policies to reduce informality or, at the very least, improve the population's living conditions.

O artigo discute a noção de espaço público, tomando como referente um estudo de caso sobre as políticas de requalificação urbana e gentrification no Recife, Brasil. A partir do estudo de caso, o autor problematiza o modo como nos usos do espaço (urbano) se confrontam concepções e práticas diversas de relação com o espaço público, atendendo em particular às tensões que emergem nas ressignificações que os processos de requalificação arrastam consigo. A análise do caso, centrada nos modos diversos e conflituantes como, nesse quadro, o espaço público se constitui como espaço de comunicação e cidadania, sustenta uma discussão teórica em torno da noção de espaço público, problematizada no seu duplo sentido: de esfera pública da comunicação e participação e de espaço físico de acesso e uso público.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the public agenda of network communities in the Runet space. Online communities as part of the morphology of modern society become agents of social and political change, including in the process of constructing social problems and representing ways to solve them. Based on an empirical analysis of discursive practices of two online communities (“The Greenhouse of Social Technologies”, “Science | Science”), the authors determine clusters of structuring the problems of the public agenda and discursive models that reflect sustainable and contextual interest of community members in social and political problems. The results of the study showed that the studied online communities demonstrate different models of the public agenda, which represent not only the system of their value priorities in relation to the perception of social and political reality that take shape in ideological constructions, but also behavioral practices in public space. The study confirms that the public agenda is the result of collective self-determination of network communities, and not a reflection of objective social and political conditions, in which social actors put forward their own claims, claims and try to keep them in public space. Thus, the category of public agenda applicable to the empirical analysis of network communities allows you to go beyond the boundaries of understanding the process and effects of network communication in public space. The analytical tools and methods of empirical research proposed by the authors open new possibilities for studying the relationship between institutional practices and the subjective space of politics (political identity, political picture of the world, political culture, ideology).

The open community public space is very close to the public daily lives. However, it is easily ignored in the planning and always stays at the stage of external facade retrofit and renovation which never consider from the view of the residents. This paper contrary to the problems that exist in public spaces in open community, view from the perspective of the living environment, go through case studies regarding the investigation of open community, meets the users’requirements of public space in the urban open community, in order to solve the existing problems brought by the public space in the urban open community and provide instructable updated design strategies respectively.