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The 'compact city' implies a return to the urban morphology of the nineteenth-century city, one in which most people walked, predominantly for utilitarian purposes. This article, however, details a leisure practice—the bourgeois promenade—as it unfolded in Stockholm. Employing a diverse set of texts and visual sources the article seeks to understand how this genteel urban practice was enabled and performed in the midst of a growing working-class population with which they shared the streets. It suggests that new street lighting and smoother pavements redirected vision from the ground to the people around, opening up for walking practices that foregrounded the visual over other senses—one being the bourgeois promenade. It further highlights the multiple rhythms of the promenade and the upper middle class' efforts to create hierarchies of walking on city pavements and in urban parks. In sum, the article shows that leisure mobility was central to the very idea of nineteenth century urban life. Meanwhile, its exclusive character cautions against the one-sided imaginaries of strolling and consumption in today's endeavours to recreate the compact city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years waterfronts have progressively become the focus of local administrations, consultancy agencies, and private developers concerned with public health, city branding, and real estate development. Subsequently, they turned into central stages in which cities and societies can be represented, contested, and inverted. However, many questions remain unanswered concerning their capability to function as counter-spaces in the fast-changing dynamics of citizens' encounters and recreation in global cities. This paper employs mixed methods to examine the context-dependent association between space and behaviours. The comparative analysis of four waterfront parks in Venice, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and New York sheds light on heterotopic sites' production and use. Two models emerged: transient spaces of compensation and time-accumulating spaces of illusion. Beyond the novel research design, the significance of this study lies in validating Foucauldian-Lefebvrian heterotopology as an authoritative analytical paradigm for a critical interpretation of the urban. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines the development of Tel Aviv's seaside in its formative years. The proximity to the sea aroused in the predominately-European founders' aspirations of creating a seaside resort town, inspired by European models familiar to them. Four models of inspiration for the emerging city and the role they played in Tel Aviv's early urban and architectural plans will be discussed: (1) Odessa on the Black Sea; (2) English seaside resorts: Brighton; (3) Nice on the French Riviera; (4) German health spas: Baden Baden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study finds its origins in the question whether the associations from the periphery of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire played a role in the public sphere and space. The city of Sibiu, with a majority of German population at the end of the nineteenth century, changed from an architectural and economic point of view during the Belle Époque. The way in which the Association for Embellishment of the city of Sibiu (Verein zur Verschönerung der Stadt Hermannstadt) reacted and acted to the administrative changes, is important in order to gain insights regarding the social and public space. The prosopography of some members involved in the association is also relevant, because it shows the concern to take care of the public space. The gardens, parks, promenades which were arranged and planned by the members of the association, led to the building of an European public space, which was favourable to leisure activities. Main sources for the present research are the annual books of the aforementioned associat ion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the authors contend that contemporary urban streets are over-regulated, preoccupied with surveillance, commercial requirements and rapid transit, aesthetically homogeneous and sensually sterile. As an exemplary site of contrast, the article focuses on the recently redesigned Blackpool Promenade. First, it argues that this redesign honours the resort’s popular traditions, its potent heritage and the importance of innovation. Second, it explores how the promenade fosters playful interactions, conviviality and lingering. Third, the article focuses on sensory attributes that enhance the experience of promenaders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents the evolution of the Public Gardens of Tecuci since their establishment until the present day. The sources used include new and previously unknown information, rich arhivistic material, documents, institutional correspondence, memoirs and publications of the era. The personalities which are presented within where implicated in the realization of this “oasis" from center of Tecuci, a place of enjoyment and a stroll through time, pulsating of public life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper's focus is the regeneration of the urban waterfront promenade, strengthening its role in the resolution of specific seaside cities' spatial and economic problematic. It is a descriptive and analytical study of the winner proposal for Vlora waterfront promenade, which aims to turn the city into a significant urban coastal area for regional recreation and tourism. It also strives to rely on a theoretical background on waterfront space redesigning, based on the European experiences in urban waterfront redevelopment and on the potential of their regeneration, as an instrument of economic development. It concludes that since the waterfront redevelopment scheme is a complex, multi-actor and long-term program that has to cope with changing economic and political conditions, the planners should be very cautious of adopting elements of successful international examples, for reasons of uniqueness of local environmental, physical, economic and political preconditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Extensive laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the efficiency of low (vertical) crown-walls on the reduction of wave overtopping on sea-dikes. It is shown that the reduction of wave overtopping discharge by crown-walls is inadequately described in the TAW-2002 guidelines. A new approach for the wall influence has therefore been developed, explicitly taking into account both the wall height and the promenade width. The approach can straightforwardly be incorporated in the original formulations of TAW-2002 to significantly improve the prediction of wave overtopping on sea-dikes crowned with this type of walls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The visite of the Aristocrate at the Wise. On the 6th of March, 1761 count József Teleki together with Duvoisin the protestant priest from the Dutch embassy visited the renowned writer in Montmorency. The starting point of their meeting was the Hungarian count's apologetic book, Essai sur la foiblesse des Esprits forts (Amsterdam, 1761). Rousseau doesn't mention the count's name in his Confessions, but the correspondence between Teleki and Duvoisin and Teleki's Hungarian diary (printed only in the 20th century) hold important information regarding the contemporary fame of the citoyen de Genève and his lifestyle and home in Montmorency. The study points out that the Hungarian count's mentality was shaped significantly by the (in the period not so unique) « visite », which on Rousseau's account was only another manifestation of the mental pilgrimage that came towards him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An all-embracing experience of a three-dimensional spatial text requires movement through various articulated spaces. Part of this experience is the emotional effect that the volume of the spaces has on its users. Since contiguous spaces may be of different dimensions, there is the potential for users moving through those spaces to experience fluctuations in feelings. This article develops Stenglin’s notion of Binding, a semiotic analytical tool which helps to understand the relationship between affect and space, by modeling, in a dynamic way, how spatial texts unfolds logogenetically as people move through, and are affected by, them. This article suggests a method of gathering dynamic data for analysis. Using a filmic representation of the experience of movement through, interaction with, and perception of, the foyers of two high-rise apartment complexes in Sydney, Australia, the article formalizes the fluctuations in Binding into diagrammatic representations referred to as Binding Contours, which explicitly demonstrate that space is felt dynamically. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Descriptions of grammars need not be restricted to language. Many attempts at the grammaticalization of nonlinguistic communicative events have been based on the theoretical tenets of systemic functional linguistics; however, in order to account for the affordances of these different semiotic systems, some of the models deviate from the Hallidayan model. With respect to architecture, this article suggests that perhaps it is not the model that needs modification; rather, architecture could be viewed from a different perspective. This article hypothesizes that the pathways that thread throughout spatial texts are analogous to clauses in spoken and written texts. This article develops a fundamental system network which formalizes the choice of pathway that people make as they move through buildings. The system network follows faithfully those that Halliday has developed for language, displaying paradigmatic and syntagmatic agnation as well as a system to structure cycle. I demonstrate that Halliday's model, as is, provides a suitable analytical tool for spatial discourse, that is, meaning beyond the pathway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As part of his enormous literary production, eighteenth-century French writer Rétif de la Bretonne wrote a sprawling, sixteen-volume work called Les Nuits de Paris, a picturesque and moralistic description of life among the Parisian lower classes. Covering the years 1789-93, the last two volumes, often called Les Nuits révolutionnaires, are of particular interest since they narrate the author's daily walks in Paris during the French Revolution. In Rétif's text, written in a journalistic style, history appears only as it is played out, contemplated and interpreted on the street and by the street. The author argues that Rétif reshapes both the "témoignage" and the "promenade" genres by welding them together. The result is a strikingly modern understanding of the importance of reporting history-in-the-making at street level, as ordinary people experience it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Due to ongoing climate change, overtopping risk is increasing. In order to have effective countermeasures, it is useful to understand overtopping processes in details. In this study overtopping flow on a dike with gentle and shallow foreshores are investigated using a non-hydrostatic wave-flow model, SWASH (an acronym of Simulating WAves till SHore). The SWASH model in 2DV (i.e., flume like configuration) is first validated using the data of long crested wave cases with second order wave generation in the physical model test conducted. After that it is used to produce overtopping flow in different wave conditions and bathymetries. The results indicated that the overtopping risk is better characterized by the time dependent h (overtopping flow depth) and u (overtopping flow velocity) instead of hmax (maximum overtopping flow depth) and umax (maximum overtopping flow velocity), which led to overestimation of the risk. The time dependent u and h are strongly influenced by the dike configuration, namely by the promenade width and the existence of a vertical wall on the promenade: the simulation shows that the vertical wall induces seaward velocity on the dike which might be an extra risk during extreme events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]