Heritage gardens, imbued with historical significance and meaning, hold a special value due to their rich aesthetic and historical qualities. These qualities are often evident in the distinctive architectural, urban, and design elements of the landscape, creating a unique visual image that reflects the cultural and historical context of the time. Such gardens represent a sustainable cultural asset for future generations. In Egypt, during the latter half of the 20th century, rapid urban development, often disregarding cultural and historical values, led to the neglect of public gardens and green
spaces, particularly heritage gardens. These gardens suffered from deterioration and loss of area, resulting in a distortion of their original visual image. This constitutes a significant research problem, as these gardens must be preserved through the development of tailored plans based on their current conditions. This research aims to develop a methodology to revive the visual image of the heritage gardens. In this context, three research methodologies are employed: theoretical, analytical, and applied. Initially, the concept of heritage gardens, the reasons for their deterioration, methods of preservation, and the most important heritage gardens in Egypt are explored. Adopting a case-study approach, Al-Azbakeya Heritage Garden in Cairo is analyzed, examining its historical significance, heritage value, and the changes in its layout over the years. Finally, the applied methodology involves documenting the garden current condition and assessing the extent to which its visual image has been restored by reviving its original design and, ultimately, the proposed methodology is tested.
Cities. Urban geography, Urbanization. City and country
Khadijah Khadijah, Nur Qalbi Tayibu, Sutamrin Sutamrin
et al.
Pulau Bonetambu merupakan salah satu pulau kecil yang terdapat di kota Makassar dengan keterbatasan fasilitas seperti Listrik, jarangnya guru-guru aktif mengajar dan terbatasnya akses jaringan dan internet. Sehingga perlu adanya suatu pelatihan untuk dasar numerasi peserta didik sehingga mereka mampu mengatasi masalah dalam dunia nyata dan mampu menghadapi tantangan di masa depan. Tujuan dari Pelatihan Metode Hitung Cepat Sederhana bagi Peserta Didik Pulau Bonetambu yaitu memberikan bekal dan mengasah kemampuan numerasi peserta didik sehingga memiliki bekal keterampilan abad ke-21. Pelaksanaa Pelatihan dilakukan dengan tiga tahapan yaitu Tahap Persiapan, Tahap Pelaksanaan dan Tahap Evaluasi. Peserta pelatihan yaitu peserta didik SD yang berjumlah 18 orang. Pelaksanaan dilakukan dengan pemaparan materi dilakukan secara pleno, pengerjaan lembar kerja (worksheet) yang menarik disertai dengan permainan (games). Hasil kegiatan, menunjukkan kemajuan setiap peserta didik, mengasah kemampuan numerasi, kemampuan prosedural dan memberikan umpan balik yang konstruktif. Aktivitas games dan kuis ternyata sangat efektif dalam meningkatkan semangat belajar peserta didik dan mengasah kemampuan numerasinya. Mereka tidak hanya belajar dengan serius, tetapi juga bersenang-senang dan saling mendukung satu sama lain. Antusiasme dan partisipasi aktif dari seluruh peserta didik menunjukkan bahwa metode ini sangat efektif dan menyenangkan bagi mereka. Hasil kuis yang dilakukan di akhir pelatihan, menunjukkan peningkatan yang signifikan dalam kemampuan hitung cepat dan numerasi peserta didik.
Andrew Setiawan Rusdianto, Aqlima Sekar Maulina, Damai Puspita Budiarso
et al.
The Sumber Tani Farmer Group in Arjasa Village faces limited subsidized fertilizer for tobacco and corn cultivation. Meanwhile, in Arjasa Village there are cassava processing MSMEs, but cassava peel waste is only left to accumulate to rot and even thrown into the river. Therefore, the purpose of this assistance is to overcome the problems of farmer groups through the use of cassava peel waste and a combination of Trichoderma fungi as an alternative to urea fertilizer. This research method includes making fertilizer, mushroom propagation, socialization and training, testing the fertilizer content, and applying it to plants. Laboratory test results show the composition of Savaderma fertilizer is 36.70 percent moisture content; 1.33 percent nitrogen; 0.11 percent phosphorus; and 0.53 percent potassium. Savaderma fertilizer application on tobacco plants showed an increase in plant resistance to pest attacks compared to untreated plants. This research proves the potential of cassava peel waste and Trichoderma fungus as an alternative environmentally friendly fertilizer.
Esse artigo parte de um relato de compreensão recente de sua autora como mulher negra de pele clara. Evocam-se, a partir daí, temas referentes ao pertencimento racial, no caminho percorrido até essa autodeclaração, e se põem em relevo, em perspectiva sócio-histórica, dispositivos como colorismo e tokenismo, a fim de se investigar o entendimento de si como pessoa negra e as formas pelas quais a branquitude pretende controlar relações e interações entre pessoas de diferentes tonalidades de pele.
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, Human settlements. Communities
Essam Aldin Ali, Menna Allah Salah Refai Mahmoud, Zienab El-gamily
تمتلک مصر العديد من المناطق التراثية ذات القيمة التي تسعى لرفع کفاءتها الحضرية دون الإخلال بالتوازن الطبيعي بها وتوظيف تراثها التاريخي والثقافي ليکون أکثر فاعلية وجاذبية وتأثيرًا على التنمية السياحية. حيث تسعى الدراسة إلى تطوير المناطق التراثية باستخدام منهجيات التصميم الحضري الشامل لخلق بيئة صحية تلبي احتياجات جميع المستخدمين من مختلف الفئات والأعمار والقدرات ودعم الاستدامة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية معًا، وکذلک استيعاب التغيرات التي يمکن أن تطرأ على المستخدم أثناء حياته اليومية. وتعد عملية تقييم جودة الفراغات الحضرية باستخدام معايير التصميم الحضري الشامل خطوة أولية نحو تفعيل تلک المعايير داخل الفراغ الحضري بهدف تطويره بشکل أکثر کفاءة وملائمة للواقع المحلي. وعليه تناولت الدراسة عرض لمفاهيم ومبادئ ومعايير التصميم الحضري الشامل، وقد تم اختيار جزيرة الالفنتين بأسوان کدراسة حالة نظرًا لما تمتلکه من المقومات الطبيعية والتاريخية بالإضافة إلى الخصوصية الاجتماعية للمجتمع النوبي. ومن خلال استخدام منهج المسح الميداني عن طريق اعداد استبيان ورقي والکتروني لقياس مدى تطبيق معايير التصميم الحضري الشامل داخل جزيرة الالفنتين من وجهة نظر المستخدمين وللوصول لأهم نقاط الضعف والقوه داخل الجزيرة فقد توصلت الدراسة إلى عدم ملائمة الفراغات الحضرية داخل الجزيرة للاستخدام العادل بالإضافة إلى غياب معايير الأمان وحرية الحرکة وغيرها من معايير التصميم الحضري الشامل. کما خلصت نتائج التقييم إلى أن معيار الابتکار من أکثر المعايير تحققًا داخل الجزيرة لما تحمله الجزيرة من طابع نوبي مميز بينما کان معيار إمکانية الوصول موجود ولکن بشکل لا يحقق عدالة الاستخدام.
Egypt has many priceless heritage areas that work to improve its urban efficiency without upsetting the country's ecological balance or cultural legacy to boost tourism. The goal of this paper is to improve heritage sites using universal urban design approaches to produce a wholesome setting that satisfies the needs of all users of different groups, ages, and abilities and promotes economic and social sustainability. The process of assessment of urban space quality by using universal urban design criteria is an important step towards improving and activating the urban space more efficiently and appropriately to the local reality. Elephantine Island had chosen as a case study because it has natural and historical components, in addition to the social peculiarity of the Nubian community. the island was evaluated by using a questionnaire to gauge the degree to applied its urban spaces of universal urban design criteria from the user's view as the first step toward the universal development of the island. The results of the assessment concluded that the innovation criterion is one of the most achieved, as the island has a distinctive Nubian character, while the accessibility criterion was present, but in a way that does not achieve equal use.
Cities. Urban geography, Urbanization. City and country
„Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität“ – flüchtige, affektive Prozesse des Sich-Verbindens, vermittelt durch konkrete, mit Versprechen, Wünschen und Begehren behaftete Objekte – halten die Stadt zusammen. Gleichzeitig werden Prozesse der Fragmentierung, De-Mobilisierung, Ent-Politisierung häufig auf ebendiese intimen Verbindungsweisen zurückgeführt. In meinem Beitrag gehe ich dem Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Zusammenhalt und Auseinanderbrechen, zwischen neuen Verbindungen und regressiven, beharrenden Dynamiken urbaner Kollektive nach. Erstens zeige ich am Beispiel „öffentlicher Verkehr“, wie Intimität, Verletzlichkeit und exposure als raumproduzierende Taktiken eingesetzt werden, die heteronormative Allianzen und Ordnungen aufbrechen. Zweitens argumentiere ich mit einer Anekdote zu den kreativen Baugruben-Protesten im prä-olympischen Rio de Janeiro, dass gerade das Spiel mit der Intensität „loser Verbindungen“ es ermöglicht, die fragile Balance kollektiven Lebens in urbanen Gesellschaften zusammenzuhalten.
Cities. Urban geography, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Dulce María Lucero López, Alberto Francisco Torres García
El presente artículo tiene como propósito analizar los conceptos de asociatividad empresarial y gobernanza, con énfasis en Áreas Naturales Protegidas (ANP) dedicadas a la prestación de servicios turísticos. Para ello, se define el concepto de asociatividad empresarial y sus posibles contribuciones al desarrollo económico. Igualmente, se examina la noción de gobernanza como elemento en la implementación de modelos asociativos. La metodología empleada es de tipo exploratoria. Los resultados obtenidos son la determinación de los componentes que integran los procesos de asociatividad, así como un marco conceptual que explica la importancia de la gobernanza en el cumplimiento de los objetivos comunitarios.
Cities. Urban geography, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Magnus Andersson, Ola Hall, Maria Francisca Archila
The traditional ways of measuring global sustainable development and economic development schemes and their progress suffer from a number of serious shortcomings. Remote sensing and specifically nighttime light has become a popular supplement to official statistics by providing an objective measure of human settlement that can be used as a proxy for population and economic development measures. With the increased availability and use of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) and data in social science, it has played an important role in data collection, including measuring human development and economic growth. Numerous studies are using nighttime light data to analyze dynamic regions such as expansions of urban areas and rapid industrialization often highlight the problem of saturation in urban centers with high light intensity. However, the quality of nighttime light data and its appropriateness for analyzing areas and regions with low and fluctuating levels of light have rarely been questioned or studied. This study examines the accuracy of DMSP-OLS and VIIRS-DNB by analyzing 147 communities in Burkina Faso to provide insights about problems related to the study of areas with a low intensity of nighttime light during the studied period from 1992 to 2012. It found that up to 57% of the communities studied were undetectable throughout the period, and only 9% of communities studied had a 100% detection rate. Unsurprisingly, the result provides evidence that detection rates in both datasets are particularly low (3%) for settlements with 0−9999 inhabitants, as well as for larger settlements with population of 10,000−24,999 (28%). Cross-checking with VIIRS-DNB for the year 2012 shows similar results. These findings suggest that careful consideration must be given to the use of nighttime light data in research and global comparisons to monitor the progress of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, especially when including developing countries with areas containing low electrification rates and low population density.
Fernanda Bianca Gonçalves Gallo, Mauricio Santos de Oliveira
O presente texto relata a experiência da produção de dois vídeos: Rotas da Marrabenta - Música Moçambicana em Movimento (Edital MINC, 2012) e “Esta cultura que te conduz a saber ser”: Um olhar sobre o fortalecimento das capacidades nacionais para a salvaguarda do patrimônio imaterial nos países africanos de língua oficial portuguesa. (UNESCO, 2015). Discutindo a categoria de Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial o texto aponta as possibilidades de se pensar e mostrar a diversidade cultural e social do continente africano por meio de uma linguagem audiovisual em diálogo com a antropologia.
Palavras Chave: Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial, audiovisual, Moçambique, Cabo Verde
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, Human settlements. Communities
An imbalance in development between islands in Tanjung Pinang City causes inner-city disparities due to insufficient development strategies, lack of public infrastructure and remoteness of islands. On the other hand, properly designed administrative boundaries can reduce inner-city disparities by enabling good development strategies, prioritizing public infrastructure development, and connecting the entire area, including remoter islands. This paper discusses how to re-arrange administrative boundaries, particularly at the district and sub-district levels in order to decrease inner-city disparities. A combination method of scoring and participatory mapping is used to suggest new district delineation for the city. After considering the outputs of scoring and participatory mapping, the district boundaries were changed from four to eight and then back to six districts. The paper also proposes key development strategies to boost development in poorer districts by improving the allocation of new infrastructure investment so as to optimize the impact of new municipal and provincial government statuses bestowed on the Dompak and Senggarang Districts. In addition, we suggest that development strategies should provide adequate infrastructure to connect remoter islands in the Penyengat Sub-district to the main island.
Cities. Urban geography, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
La literatura sobre “migrantes en el medio” es un tema emergente en el campo de las migraciones internacionales. Estos migrantes, en general, cuentan con niveles de educación, formal medios o altos, y ocupan posiciones intermedias en el mercado laboral debido a su edad o escasa experiencia laboral. El artículo se basa en 21 entrevistas semiestructuradas aplicadas a estudiantes extranjeros de doctorado en universidades de Barcelona, analiza sus motivos para emigrar, así como sus trayectorias laborales y vitales. La investigación explora el proceso complejo de emancipación del hogar familiar con relación a las prácticas y experiencias espaciales cotidianas.
Cities. Urban geography, Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
En 2001 Catamarca era la provincia con menores niveles de pobreza de todo el norte argentino. Por el contrario en Tucumán, cuya economía era la más dinámica de la región, era mayor el porcentaje de hogares pobres. Teniendo en cuenta que entre los procesos económicos y la pobreza existe un fuerte vínculo, y que las dificultades laborales son un componente importante en dicha relación, en este artículo se analiza de qué manera los menores niveles de pobreza en Catamarca fueron consecuencia de que su población resultó menos afectada que la tucumana por las transformaciones productivas regresivas y los problemas de empleo del periodo.
Human settlements. Communities, Demography. Population. Vital events