City Imaging

This paper aims to study the imagination of Tehran through 1340s and 1350s Iranian cinema and the main question is that what kind of representation on city was fueled by cinema. This study was conducted based on analysis of four impressive films in these two decades. Two of them are popular movies (Ganje Gharoon and Khater Khah) and the two other (Khesht-o Ayeni and Ragbar) are related to avantgarde cinema. Although they are different in presenting the city in some aspects, the results reveal that both approaches emphasise on the negative aspects of the city and expose latent contradictions in the extreme way.

Because of quick changes in technology and switching from local to a globalized world, countries and cities are compelled to compete for one another to become an attractive workplace, social and cultural traveller destination. This paper introduces a new iconic architectural project in Kuwait "Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Cultural Centre", which used Titanium for the first time in the Middle East as a building envelope. The paper deals with the material and how it was employed in the building to deliver a unique design. The project was required as a national demand to meet the needs of the citizens culturally and to change the visual image of Kuwait City as well. The work aims to tackle how successful the experiment is by Qualitative and Quantitative framework methods. Two well-documented topics: Titanium as a promising architectural material, and Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Cultural Centre design in Kuwait as a global iconic project have been discussed to cover the pros and cons of each, followed by an analysed questionnaire that measures the project role in enhancement of the visual image of Kuwait City In addition to the development of cultural life among Kuwait residents .The Conclusion and recommendations will be presented to support the impact of building iconic Titanium sculptural project to the city visual image.

This article offers a study of the now clichéd Bohemian Index. I explore how Richard Florida’s arguments flatten, homogenize and commercialize the radicalism and resistance of the cities validated through his criteria. Activism becomes a brand. San Francisco is important in such research because of its political and literary history, with North Beach’s iconography tethered to the Beat Generation. The best known ‘Left Coast City’ in the world, San Francisco reveals the political paradoxes of creative industries and the city imaging literature. Bohemia creates an attractive city of
coffee and conversation. San Francisco is a diverse economy, with developed service, tourist and hospitality industries. It is facing seismic challenges, as is the home state. In a credit crunch, the economies based around lifestyle capitalism and service industries suffer as international infrastructural and public sector funding retracts. My article proposes no causal relationship between bohemia and economic development through either tourism or the creative industries. Instead, the
complexity of ‘Bohemia’ as a concept, trope and brand is revealed, spilling beyond the seemingly predictable, mappable and trackable Bohemian Index.

The main inquiry of the article is a question of anti-modern and anti-urban imagery of a 19th century metropolis, that was a reaction to the rapid changes of a modern city space and culture (both in its physical and spiritual dimension). This imagery was constructed first and foremost by people, who were attached to tradition, conservative values and Christian belief, therefore, the author pays particular attention to the opposition of two, dichotomic urban metaphors: Jerusalem and Babylon, which symbolize not only a materialistic and social sphere of a modern city, but – considered from a perspective of the Christian vision of culture – a condition of human being as well.

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Third-tier cities are neglected in the research literature. Global and second-tier cities provide the positive, proactive applications of city imaging and creative industries strategies. However, small cities – particularly those who reached their height and notoriety through the industrial revolution – reveal few strategies for stability, let alone growth. This study investigates an unusual third-tier city: Oshawa in Ontario Canada. Known as the home of General Motors, its recent economic and social development has been tethered to the arrival of a new institution of higher education: the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Yet this article confirms that simply opening a university is not enough to commence regeneration or renewal, particularly if an institution is imposed on unwilling residents. Therefore, an alternative strategy – involving geosocial networking – offers a way for local businesses and organizations to attract customers and provide a digital medication to analogue injustice and decay.  "

A study where the club culture of the football club Feyenoord Rotterdam and the urban development of Rotterdam is examined. How do images and representations of Rotterdam affect the way how the club (culture of) Feyenoord is described in the media (1960-2009)?

The literature on city imaging and creative industries emphasize the success stories, the urban environments that have rebranded, refocused and reconstituted themselves for the information age and the knowledge economy. Less evident in the literature are those locations and strategies that have failed, stalled or been more ambivalent in their results. To open out this issue, this paper investigates a fringe urban suburb of the most isolated capital city in the world. Focusing on Mount Lawley, positioned on the city fringe of Perth in Western Australia, we investigate the role and function of popular music and popular culture in intervening in the history of cities. Mount Lawley is part of Perth, a city trapped by time and space, but its example and model may intervene just in time.

The aim of this study is to analyze the interplay between drawing, city and form, to prove the thesis that geometry, abstraction of our minds and foundation of the project and the survey, deeply conditions the image of the city by structuring the perception process, focus on research in the field of rapresentation. The analysis is undertaken starting from the two-dimensional congruence between vision, pattern and drawing, using the synthesis provided by the primitive archetypes of the point and the line, with the intention of investigating the figurative routes that determine the transition from urban to the image of the city, a relation very important to reestablishing the way of reading of the place and the sequential project. The treatise is divided into five sections and interest the contextualization of the theme in the representation sector, the analysis of figurative process as a system of signs, the study of the relationship between form and image of the city in the history, an examination of the image’s codes, interpreted in the case study of Perugia, and then a final summary of the relationship between figuration and representation. A parallel series of images and notes ensure adequate investigation and verify the efficiency of the approach to the issue. The development of the thesis, in its systematic nature, leads to the definition of a model capable of investigating the link between urban form and the image of the city, a useful tool for the interpretation as in a purely cultural perspective, as in a proactive vision insert in the relationship between reading the existent, knowing the becoming and taking action. However the geometry, in conclusion, appears as the very center of reasoning, language of figuration and drawing tool that puts order and measure, starting from the eye. Between the poles of image and form, dawn a recursive way centered on the man, the foundation needed to find in the contemporary city values for the identity and for the orientation.

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Morecambe, a town in the north west of England.  Morecambe has many claims to fame, including Eric Morecambe, his statue and remarkable tides.  But it is through the Midland Hotel, a stunning Art Deco regeneration, that new reasons to visit the town have emerged.  Through reclaiming modernism, Morecambe has modernised.