The BRIDGING project – citizenship, partnership and holistic development by Joanna Ludwika Pękala, Kamila Wichrowska

“…The project aims to improve the quality of practices in early childhood education through participation of children, teachers, cultural and academic staff in artistic projects in public spaces. Crucial part of BRIDGING is to promote various ways of communication of children and adults using the concept of citizenship in the context of holistic approach. …”
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A MELTING POT OF MALANG: LINGUISTICS LANDSCAPE OF MALANG CULINARY SIGNS by Milania Fitri Iwana, Emy Sudarwati

“… There are numerous studies of linguistics landscape or study of texts in public spaces. However, study on the culinary sign is still rare in Indonesia. …”
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Quem tem medo de quem nas cidades de hoje? Políticas de segurança pública em tempos neoliberais by Sonia Maria Taddei Ferraz, Clara Braga de Britto Pereira, Leticia Lyra Acioly, Nicolle Peres Cardoso

“…The social-economics disequality is represented by distint forms of being and dwell in the polarized citys by the Double exclusion: the self-exclusion of elites in the neighborhoods of high income – hiring private security of all kinds – and the exclusion of peripheral and miserable poor without acess to home and the public spaces. In the last years the neoliberais strategies brought to the camp of public politics of security the public-private partnerships by the glamorous Operação Segurança Presente by the copy of food-trucks stetic. …”
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Narrative Environment of Malgudi: Space, Autonomy, and Belonging by Gouthaman K J, Nandini Pradeep J

“…The narratives critically explore the sacralization (a reversal of profanation) of spaces that suddenly excludes the ordinary, representing the transformation of public spaces freely used by people into exclusionary, or sacred, spaces. …”
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Transgender people and travestis experiencing homelessness in Salvador: a descriptive study on sociodemographic profile and access to social assistance and health services, Brazil,... by Wiler de Paula Dias, Thayane Silva Nunes, Igor Myron Ribeiro Nascimento, Erik Asley Ferreira Abade, Lua Sá Dultra, Milena Lemos Marinho, Guilherme de Sousa Ribeiro, Joilda Silva Nery

“…Methods This was a cross-sectional study involving 24 (4.5%) participants who identified as trans people or travestis out of a total of 529 people, aged 18 or older, living in public spaces or institutional shelters included in the survey. …”
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Les bouches d’aération du métro algérois, une source d’énergie inexploitée et un potentiel architectural inexploré by Khaled Athamena

“…The aim being to sensitize the scientist community, and that of architects and urban planners about the benefits of these underground enclosures, and draw their attention to the risks they can engender on the user’s health as well as on the air quality of outdoor public spaces. This study presents furthermore paths of architectural mutation of the air vents, most often arranged at the ground level, in «ventilation towers» to limit their sanitary risk and provides ideas for their integration into the Algerian urban landscape. …”
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Time and The Diary in Captivity, a Case Study: The Diary of Fela Szeps (1942-1944) by Batsheva Ben-Amos

“…In this article I analyze the vicissitudes in time perception and a personal modification of public spaces in a diary written by 24-year-old Warsaw University student Fela Szeps, (1918–1945), from the Polish town of Dąbrowa Górnicza. …”
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Movement in the streets: Significant spatial features of the historic center of Quito by Estefanía Piñeiros

“…The article identifies and discusses how the relationship between movement, transportation and popular commerce generates affective atmospheres and problematizes the loss of movement of different public spaces that are currently perceived by the inhabitants as empty and dead. …”
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Explaining the components of urban space for the elderly with the approach of environmental psychology (Case study: District 8 of Shiraz) by ehsan amini, shirin toghyani, amirhosein shabani

“…The social phenomenon of the city is not separate from this population group, ie the elderly, and urban planners using environmental theories can take steps to improve the use of the elderly in the city and its public spaces. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to explain the components of the elderly-friendly city with an environmental psychology approach in the eight cities of Shiraz. …”
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Building for speech: designing the next-generation of social robots for audio interaction by Angus Addlesee, Ioannis Papaioannou

“…There have been significant advances in robotics, conversational AI, and spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) over the past few years, but we still do not find social robots in public spaces such as train stations, shopping malls, or hospital waiting rooms. …”
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An Evaluation of the Architecture and Urban Positioning of the Phaselis Aqueduct by Kibar Cesur, Leyla Kaderli

“…Designed to align with the city’s topography, the aqueduct transported water from distant sources, to the city, delivering it through two directional shifts to baths, fountains, an other public spaces. In the Late Antique Period, the aqueduct was adopted to the city’s evolving urban plan through various repairs and reinforcements, enabling its contiuned use. …”
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Sur les traces de John MacCrae, ou l’inscription dans l’espace public du souvenir d’un combattant de 1914-1918 by Emmanuelle Danchin

“…Considering the example of MacCrae will also enable us to reflect on both material and immaterial (internet) traces of memory and on how the circulation of iconic images leaves traces over time in public spaces. Indeed what matters most is not so much John MacCrae himself, but what he left behind and what this tells us today about this conflict nearly 100 years ago.…”
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In-between spaces for today's city: Historical review for identifying their beneficial characteristics by Aimar Santos-Garcia, Izaskun Aseguinolaza Braga

“…Everyday life is challenging in our cities, especially because public spaces have generally been arranged and designed by considering the physical environment and without consideration for how these spaces should facilitate human interactions. …”
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Digital Panopticon Dilemmas: A Study on Contact Tracing Apps Carried Out by the Ministry of Health by Elifnur Terzioğlu

“…Although individuals voluntarily accept being watched in digital public spaces, they often forget that such surveillance will place them in some extraordinary situations that they might not agree with. …”
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A Deep Learning Model for YOLOv9-based Human Abnormal Activity Detection: Violence and Non-Violence Classification by 𝐒𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐣𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧, Shakila Rahman, 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐍𝐮𝐫, 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐟, 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐧, JIA UDDIN

“…Timely recognition of these activities enhances public safety across various environments, including transportation hubs, public spaces, workplaces, and homes. In this study, we focus on detecting violent and non-violent activities of humans using a YOLOv9-based deep learning model considering the above issues. …”
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Les effigies sculptées d’Henri IV à Toulouse au xviie siècle by Sophie Fradier

“…These polychrome portraits were made between 1604 and 1607. They adorned public spaces : the town bridge and common House. These sculptures are usually perceived as forms of allegiance to the king ; this article, however, intends to question such an interpretation. …”
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Elections to the European Parliament as a form of civic expression by Anatoly A. Kanunnikov

“…The author shows that the European Union has created quite effective mechanisms that encourage the transformation of public spaces into civic self-expression, such as «Public Consultations», «Open Requests» and «European Citizens’ Initiatives». …”
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Chuma Ulete: Business and Discourses of Witchcraft in Neoliberal Tanzania by Jacqueline H. Mgumia

“…Witchcraft discourses linked to the business sector have emerged side by side with the increased liberalization of public spaces and media. Drawing from an ethnographic study of 52 adolescents with small businesses in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and a Foucauldian analysis of popular discourses on witchcraft and business, I attempt here to make sense of why witchcraft is invoked in a sector that is conventionally viewed as the realm of economic rationality in neoliberal discourses. …”
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Cotidiano, consumo e vida urbana em cidades médias brasileiras by Eda Maria Góes

“…As main conclusion it is observed that the expansion of access to the housing market, household appliances and vehicles occurred in Brazil since the 1990s, mainly in the 2000s, made possible the spread of the working class representation, as a consumer and producer of urban life at the same time that normalization of the consumption, individual leisure and the peripheral location of residences have favored social control, especially in these middle-sized cities in which public spaces, trade unions, political manifestations and even "the tavern on the corner" exercise ever less attraction.…”
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Continuité et discontinuité de l’implication des habitants dans les écoquartiers. Le cas de la Zac Pajol à Paris by Camille Gardesse, Isabelle Grudet

“…The means created to develop the ZAC provided highly effective forums of exchange and dialogue for the programming, urban master plan and public spaces. These meeting frameworks sought solutions that went much further than the accession and appropriation objectives that generally govern the decisions taken by elected representatives and professionals. …”
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