Traveling became an important element of people’s life recently. Tourism industry grew enormously, to be more exact: It grew by 6% from 2017 to 2019. Until 2030 the World Tourism Organisation predicts a growth up to 1,8 billion tourists per year. Especially, a passion for city tourism and short trips evolved these days. Meanwhile photography rose to an unreplaceable practised pinned to travelling. Heaps of photographs are taken by tourists while they are visiting travel destination just as cities for example.
Read moreProtest Organization and the Influence of Media
Today’s fast telecommunication changed the way we overcome distances. For that, we regularly use our cellphones, computers and another unreplaceable item is the internet. The societal organization today wouldn’t be like we know it if the internet would not have been there. Not only our communication changed, a change in the spatial organization was accompanied. “Protest Organization and the Influence of Media” provide two examples how media can change, alter and transform places and spaces.
Do you remember the “Tahrir moment”?
Read moreUrban Gardens as Claims for the Right to the City
The right to the city. Who hasn’t heard about it? And if you don’t, you’ll know it after reading this.
In the past decade, it’s an often claimed right by citizens. A right which can be related to many different social themes citizen care about. Prizes for houses, rents for flats or the commodification of public space are just some examples. People, who want to make a differences, gather in different groupings. They like to change the tendency of how urban space developed recently. The way how space can be reorganized by the movement „Right to the City“ and the accompanied activities worth a deeper look. Urban Gardening serves as an interesting example in the following.
Read moreTracing Graffiti in Lisbon
In 2016 I was living in Lisbon for a couple of months. As I explored the city during that time the quote „Fui crime, serai poesia“ (It was crime, i’ll be poetry) was catching my attention. Studying geography with a focus on city development at that time, I absolutely wanted to find out what that quote was all about.
Read moreThe blurry Line: Cities in Movies and Reality
Did you ever heard someone saying this?
Read moreThe City’s formless Boundaries
Cities are like a magnet. They are growing and are the preferred living place (instead of villages). City life is attracting many people. People are moving into cities. The reasons for that are different. Some are getting attracted by the hard components the cities offer: Job opportunities and close distances for instance. Others are torn towards due to rather soft complements: the vivid city life and the excitement a city is transmitting.
So, now we always said “city”, but what is about the term “the urban”?
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