Consuming the city : public fashion festivals and the participatory economies of urban spaces in Melbourne, Australia
Australia ; Commodity ; Cultural economy ; Cultural studies ; Festival ; Melbourne ; Production of space ; Public space ; Urban area ; Victoria
that they reinforce dominant representations of the city and extend retailers’ reach into public space, but at the same time undermine spaces of business activity. It concludes that cultural mobilisation works to support the value-capturing strategies of local
retailers and to reinscribe urban spaces as spaces of consumption.
Basic tendencies of space structure influenced by leisure activities
With the weakening role of agriculture and the growing importance of the second and third sectors of the economy, the recreational behavior of the urban population gains more relevance for regional development. Leisure activity becomes an important
Gender, the home-work link, and the space-time patterns of nonemployment activities
Activityspace ; Columbus ; Daily life ; Gender difference ; Journey to work ; Ohio ; Space time ; United States of America ; Urban migration ; Urban society ; Woman
Activising space : the spatial politics of the 2011 protest movement in Israel
Activism ; Core-periphery ; Housing policy ; Israel ; Public space ; Social geography ; Tel Aviv ; Urban area
This article focuses on the spatial politics of the political protest that held in Tel Aviv, analysing the particular strategies it used to activise urban public space. It initially reflected the lack of affordable housing but as, as it materialised
and expanded in public space, it also incorporated more marginalised publics and places, addressing longstanding socio-spatial inequalities between Israel’s ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and advancing a message of ‘social justice’—with the noted exception
of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This analysis points pointing to the spatial politics of centrality, multiplicity and ‘media-space’, a mutually enforcing relationship between physical public space and mainstream and social media.
Ethnic differences in activityspaces : a study of out-of-home nonemployment activities with mobile phone data
This article examines ethnic differences in activityspaces through a study of out-of-home nonemployment activities with mobile phone data in in Estonia and abroad. The biggest differences between the two population groups occur in Estonia outside
Union countries than Estonians. Overall, our results show that ethnic differences have less effect on the everyday activityspace and a greater influence on the choices made regarding long-distance travel.
Beyond world risk society? A critique of Ulrich Beck’s world risk society thesis as a framework for understanding risk associated with human activity in outer space
Catastrophe ; Cosmos ; Daily life ; Empowerment ; Risk ; Security ; Space
This paper examines the risks generated by human activity in outer space, exploring the possibility of extending Ulrich Beck’s ‘world risk society’ thesis beyond the globe. Through the case studies looking at (1) the use of nuclear power in space
missions, (2) the proliferation of space debris, and (3) proposed space solutions to environmental problems, it argues for the usefulness of some of Beck’s concepts whilst providing a critique of some of his central theoretical assumptions. The article
of the economic and psychic structures at work that the politics of risk in outer space can be challenged.
Genderbashing: sexuality, gender, and the regulation of public space
Canada ; Ghetto ; Montréal ; Public space ; Quebec ; Sexual behaviour ; Urban society
for the individuals who live outside normative relations (transgenders) are considered. The ways in which the public space is defined through gender are examined. There is also an analysis of antiviolence activism in the city of Montréal.
Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Perception of the urban environment ; Retail trade ; Semiotics of space ; Shopping centre ; Social space ; Spatial system ; United States ; Urban area ; Urban landscape
Shopping is the most important contemporary social activity. Developers and designers of the retail built environment exploit the power of place and an intuitive understanding of the structuration of space to facilitate consumption. They manipulate
shoppers' behavior through the configuration of space, and design a symbolic landscape. These strategies are examined to obtain an understanding of how the retail built environment works.
The writing's on the wall: graffiti, territory and urban space in Auckland
Auckland ; Cognitive space ; Cultural studies ; New Zealand ; Social geography ; Territoriality ; Urban area
and central city locations and related to the daily activities of the taggers. The territorial dimensions of graffiti in Auckland's urban space are underlined.
Creating competitive space : exploring the social and political maintenance of retail power
Activityspace ; Competition ; Firm strategy ; Food trade ; Great Britain ; Regulation ; Retail trade ; Supplying ; Uneven development ; United Kingdom
The AA. explore the processes by which British corporate retailers are maintaining their predominance in food provision in the 1990s. They outline the key features of retailers' dynamic competitive space. They examine the regulatory mechanisms used