Architecture ; Concept ; Modernism ; Social space ; Space ; Town ; Urban area ; Urban sociology
The A. aims to find an understanding of the concept of space which could be used in urban design, but which could also be shared by others with an interest in space. He argues that to arrive at a common platform in which a meaningful communication
can become possible, there is a need to confront the fragmentation by moving towards a more unified concept of space. He also argues for a concept of space which refers to physical space with its social and psychological dimensions.
Australia ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Journey ; Man-environment relations ; Perception ; Space
Memories, sounds, and feelings are part of the analysis of subjective relations to Australian spaces. The reader is taken on a journey from the backyard to the Outback, and it is explained why these two spaces have a certain homology. Some accounts
of Aboriginal apprehensions of space are brought out for the purposes of contrast.
Action space ; Participation ; Social geography ; Social life ; Social movement ; Social practice ; Social sciences ; Societal relations
Believing that personal, textual and political spheres of activity can influence one another in important ways, the A. wants to investigate the potential for an active third space where these sites could be explored, worked through and researched
. The paper elucidates the notion critical engagement to explore this third space. The A. relates his involvement with Glasgow Earth First in the campaign against the M77 motorway.
Action space ; Participation ; Policy ; Political life ; Private space ; Public space ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Woman
The relationship between women's standing in the public sphere and their activism is problematized. Women's activism is shaped by strategic choices to locate either in public or in private spaces. Publicity and privacy are reconceptualized in ways
that separate the content of actions from the spaces in which action is taken. The activism is evaluated in terms of the efficacy of various actions.
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.
Economic integration ; Europe ; European Union ; Federalism ; Nationalism ; Political geography ; Post-modernism ; Sovereignty ; Space time ; State ; Territoriality
The A. argues for new medieval and postmodern conceptualizations of territoriality and sovereignty, which recognize that geographic space is becoming more complex and relative: conventional political concepts based on absolute space are increasingly
problematic for understanding the political complexities of globalization. The A. sketches transformations of sovereignty from medieval to modern, and from modern to postmodern. Contemporary configurations of political space are a complex mixture of new
Multipurpose shopping behaviour at planned suburban shopping centres: a space-time analysis
Consumer behaviour ; Model ; Multi-purpose trip ; Shopping centre ; Space time ; Spatial analysis ; Suburbs ; Transport cost
A study of multipurpose shopping at a range of planned suburban shopping centres in Sydney during 1988/89 endeavour to relate several hypotheses to results from a space-time differential consumer-trip model. The number of consumers is shown to form
Space and place. Mirrors of social and cultural identities ?
Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Eighteenth Century ; Historical geography ; Ireland ; Landed estate ; Nineteenth Century ; Power ; Production of space ; Rural house
Action space ; Historical geography ; Ideology ; Leisure ; Nineteenth Century ; Social class ; Social practice ; Society ; United Kingdom
The Victorian recreationists sought both temporal means (based upon the use of Sunday particularly) and spatial strategies (from the design of the home, through to the set-aside space of the seaside resort) to instil discipline into leisure
Geographies of trade unionism: translating traditions across space and time
Association ; Organization ; Social network ; Society ; Space time ; Trade union ; Trade unionism ; Tradition ; United Kingdom ; Working class ; Working population
Sticky places in slippery space: a typology of industrial districts
Agglomeration ; Flexibility ; High-tech industry ; Industrial district ; Industrial organization ; Industrial space ; Industry ; Regional economy ; Specialization ; Typology ; United States of America
A preliminary investigation into the impact of initial conditions on flood inundation predictions using a time/space distributed sensitivity analysis
A new high space/time resolution distributed sensitivity analysis is presented and used to examine the impact of simple variations in initial conditions on inundation predictions derived from a two dimensional finite element model of river channel
Behaviour ; Espace vécu ; Ethnic community ; Gender difference ; Power ; Public order ; Public space ; Sense of belonging ; Social relations ; Town ; Urban area
Car industry ; Competitiveness ; Enterprise ; Flexible production ; Industrial organization ; Industrial space ; Industry ; Information system ; Production system
. On the contrary, it will support symmetrical networks that bind together spatially decentralized firms in a web of two-way partnership interactions. Greater coordination and interaction between spaces is anticipated.