372 research outputs found
Producing & Consuming Public Space: A ‘Rhythmanalysis’ of the Urban Park
Research suggests an opportunity to offer a more comprehensive analysis of temporal consumption experiences encountered by park users, and the subsequent contribution to a perceived ‘sense of place’. Using visual ethnography and rhythmanalysis, our study distances our analysis from textual accounts of park usage as well as provide policy recommendations
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The Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies Based On The Writings Of George Mackay Brown
The primary objective has been to demonstrate the stylistic changes in Maxwell Davies's music which have resulted from his settings of Mackay Browqn texts. This has involved a comparison with some of the composer's earlier works, particularly those with literary associations, and includes a discussion of the problems encountered when responding to 'expressionist' poetry. The differences between 'modernism' in music and in 1iterature have also been considered with reference to some aspects of literary theory.
After a survey of Maxwell Davies's Mackay Brown settings in several genres, illustrating the extent to which the composer has been influenced by Mackay Brown's approach to narrative, especially with regard to his use of the multiple viewpoint, attention is focused on Maxwell Davies's Black Pentecost and Second Symphony. This comparison shows that the technique employed for a Mackay Brown setting and that for a large-scalke symphony are essentially the same, and that the differences are a matter of style, rather than compositional method.
The thesis then develops the argument that because of the variety of styles employed by Maxwell Davies, conventional analysis has failed to deal adequately with all aspects of his music, most notably when texts are involved. Thus it is suggested that literary concepts can provide valuable illumination, particularly as regards the composer's use of 'defamiliarization' to creative a subversive effect. This device has frequently been employed in scores reflecting Maxwell Davies's attitude to cultural, political, or social issues - again developing aspects of Mackay Brown's influence - and in the light of recent trends in music analysis and literary theory, it forms the basis of a discussion of Resurrection, which was conceived partly in response to the principal themes of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. However, while Mackay Brown indirectly influenced the structure of the opera, the stylistic change
The Role of Community-led Food Retailers in Enabling Urban Resilience
Our research examines the extent to which community-led food retailers (CLFRs) contribute to the resilience and sustainability of urban retail systems and communities in the UK, contributing to existing debates on the sustainability and resilience of the UK’s urban retail sector. While this literature has predominantly focused on the larger retail multiples, we suggest more attention be paid to small, independent retailers as they possess a broader, more diffuse spatiality and societal impact than that of the immediate locale. Moreover, their local embeddedness and understanding of the needs of the local customer base, provide a key source of potentially sustainable competitive advantage. Using spatial and relational resilience theories, and drawing on 14 original qualitative interviews with CLFRs, we establish the complex links between community, place, social relations, moral values, and resilience that manifest through CLFRs. In doing so, we advance the conceptualization of community resilience by acknowledging that to realize the networked, resilient capacities of a community, the moral values and behavior of the retail community needs to be ascertained. Implications and relevant recommendations are provided to secure a more sustainable set of capacities needed to ensure resilient, urban retail systems, which benefit local communities
A kaleidoscopic view of the territorialized consumption of place
Drawing on Brighenti’s (2010, 2014) theoretical exposition of territorology, we extend current conceptualisations of place within the marketing literature by demonstrating that place is relationally constructed through territorialising consumption practices which continuously produce and sustain multifarious versions of place. In our fieldwork, we embrace a non-representational sensitivity and employ a multi-sensory ethnography, thus helping to illuminate the performative aspects of everyday life relating to people who use urban green spaces. Our analysis articulates three key facets relating to the process of territorialising consumption practices: (1) Tangible and intangible elements of boundary-making; (2) Synchronicity of activities; and (3) Sensual experiences. Taken together these facets advance a kaleidoscopic perspective in which spatial, temporal and affective dimensions of the micro-practices of consumption territories-in-the-making are brought into view. Moreover, our empirical research adds an affective dimension to Brighenti’s theoretical elucidation of the formation and dissolution of territories, thereby incorporating sensual imaginations and bodily experiences into the assemblages of heterogeneous materials that sustain territories
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How to capture tourists’ love for a place: methodological and technological solutions
The Victorian arcade as contemporary retail form?
This paper analyses ground floor retail occupancy trends in Barton Arcade in Manchester, UK, from its construction in the 1870s to the present. The paper begins by discussing the development of arcades and acknowledges their importance as a retail built form, before discussing their relative demise in the twentieth century. Analysis of occupancy data from Slater’s/Kelly’s Directories (1876-1965) and Goad plans (1967 onwards) reveal significant continuities in occupancy, as well as trends towards an experiential orientation of the retail activity within the arcade, which suggests that an arcade which was perceived in the mid-1980’s to have little future might have successfully found a new lease of life. The paper concludes by discussing the implications for a continuing contemporary role for Victorian Arcades such as the Barton Arcade, and for taking a microhistorical perspective in the study of retail history
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