The Copernican shift in space tourism and its implications for tourism in the Great Karoo
Northern Cape ; Socio-economic system ; South Africa ; Spaceport ; Suborbital space flight ; Tourism
With the widely anticipated launch of commercial suborbital space travel in the near future, space tourism is finally set to come into its own after decades of frustration. This article outlines the history of space tourism. The need for a number
The Creation of Play Spaces in Twentieth-century Amsterdam: From an Intervention of Civil Actors to a Public Policy
Amsterdam ; Children ; Netherlands (The) ; Play spaces ; Public space ; Recreation area ; Urban area ; Urban history ; children ; public space ; urban history
This case study uncovers a turning point in the production of play space in Amsterdam. Whereas over the first half of the twentieth century the creation of play spaces used to be the primary responsibility of the Amsterdam civil society
, this situation started to change after the Second World War. Between 1947 and 1970, the Amsterdam Urban Planning Department created over 700 public play spaces. These spaces were little niches in the urban public domain, specifically designed and constructed
A hybrid framework for space-time modeling of environmental data
China ; Forecast ; Model ; Neural network ; Space time ; Spatial weighting ; Statistics ; Temperature ; Time series
The article presents a hybrid framework combining machine learning and statistical methods to address a modelisation of the nonlinearities and nonstationarities of environmental space-time series. A four-stage procedure is proposed and it is applied
Scale and the construction of urban space : temporary re-scaling in Lahti, Finland, during the European Union meeting of 2006
temporary re-scalings are materialized and embodied in urban spaces. This is illustrated with material related to a European Union meeting that took place in the city of Lahti in 2006.
Czech Republic ; Marginality ; Methodology ; Peripheral region ; Polarization ; Space
This article focuses on the topic of the polarisation of space. Its objective is to give a basic overview of the theoretical and methodological aspects of research on peripheral areas and to discuss selected aspects. Attention is given
to the concept of polarisation of space as a central theoretical point of departure in studying peripheral areas. In the second section, attention is directed at defining the terms marginality/ peripherality and marginal/peripheral areas. - (EN)
Placing voluntarism within evolving spaces of care in ageing rural communities
New spaces of the geographies of health and health care. Special issue
resistance voluntary organisations and volunteers are seen to be engaging most intensely with the challenge of ageing in place within evolving spaces of care.
Spaces of uncertainty : a model of mobile space in the Sahel
Africa ; Frontier region ; Inter-regional trade flow ; Mobile space ; Production of space ; Regional economy ; Sahel ; Spatial organization ; State ; Territoriality ; Territory ; West Africa
Activity space ; Elite ; Europe ; European Union ; Geopolitical strategy ; Policy ; Territorial strategy
these concepts are conceived, represented, and mobilised by elite actors. The context of EU sociospatialities is examined, illustrated through elite activities in the wake of the 2004 accession to the EU. The assertion and performance of concepts such as space
, territory and positionality by elite actors created novel forms of politics which have become pivotal to the reconfiguration of EU space.
This volume of original essays navigates the spaces of science in the period and reveals how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority and identity. Chapters explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission
and reception, and the importance of exchange networks. Studies range from inspection of places of science in London, showing how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space
of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the North American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. In this era, science varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its
Cartography ; Concept ; Human geography ; Landscape ; Place ; Space ; Territory
The metaphors and concepts of geography now permeate literature, philosophy, and the arts. Concepts such as space, place, landscape, mapping, and territory have become pervasive as conceptual frameworks and core metaphors in recent publications
to landscape, and embedded in the spaces and places of modern life. - (HC)