The Transformation of Urban Public Space of Post-Soviet Yerevan
The Case of Northern Avenue
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:F/2020.11.1.003Keywords:
Post-Soviet, urban, public space, transformations, urban ideology, urban space structureAbstract
The aim of this study is to diagnose the transformation of the structure of the public space of the Northern Avenue of Yerevan. The theoretical basis of this research is A. Lefebvre's theory of space production. The spatial triad (representations of space, representative space and spatial practice) by A. Lefebvre was used to identify the codes of social transformation of the public space of the Northern Avenue. The study was carried out using a tool developed within the framework of the methodology of narrative semiotics, which made it possible to identify the structural elements of the Northern Avenue, reflected in public experience. Methods used include observation, content analysis and traditional analysis of archival / administrative records and in-depth interviews with key informants. Diagnostics of the structure of the public space of Northern Avenue demonstrates the peculiarities of the formation of public space and the ideological transformations of the urban space of post-Soviet Yerevan.
References
Delanty, G., Isin, E. F. (2003) Handbook of Historical Sociology, US, p. 313.
Lefebvre, H. (1991) The Production of Space, Oxford: Blackwell, p. 26.
Tonnelat, S. (2010) The sociology of urban public space, In Wang Hongyang, SAVY Nichel and ZHAI Guofang (eds.), Territorial evolution and planning Solution: Experiences from China and France, Paris: Atlantis Press.
Mehta, V. (2013) The Street: A Quintessential Social Public Space, London & New York: Routledge. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203067635
Sargsyan, A. A., Hovsepyan E. V., Martirosyan M. V. (2000) A. Tamanyan 'The collection of documents and materials', RA SCI; Science, Yerevan, (in Armenian).
Khan-Magmedov, S. (1996) Architecture of Soviet vanguard, book N2, Social Problems, Moscow, p. 360 (in Russian).
Bunin, A. V. Savarentskaya T. F. (1979) City planning of the XX century in the capitalist countries, Moscow, p. 278 (in Russian).
Ballon, H. & Jackson K. T. (2008) Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, Journal Of Regional Science, vol. 48 (5), p. 1012. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00596_3.x
Fishman, R. (1982) Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 231
Harvey, D. (2008) The right to the city, Logos 3 (66), p. 88-91 (in Russian)
Jacobs, J. (1961) The Death And Life Of Great American Cities, Vintage Books; A Division of Random House, NY.
Lefebvre, H. (2002) Ideas for the concept of New urbanism, Jour. Sociological education, Vol. 2(3), National Research University 'Higher School of Economics', (in Russian)
See Gehl, J. (2011) Life between Buildings: Using Public Space, ISLAND PRESS, NW, Washington, pp. 9-14
See Gehl, J. & Gemzoe L. (2004) Public Spaces, Public Life, Copenhagen, Danish Architectural Press & the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Publishers.
Vakhshtain, V. (2014) Reassembly of the city: between language and space, Jour. Sociology of power, Vol. 2, p. 22-34 (in Russian)
Tuan, Y.F. (1991) Space and Place: The perspective of experience, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
Lefebvre, H. (1992) The production of Space, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 39-40, 245-247.
Ticher, S., Meyer, M., Vodak, R. & Vetter, E. (2000) Methods of text and discourse analysis, SAGE Publications, p. 128-131.
Clandinin, D.J. & Rosiek, J. (2007) Mapping a Landscape of Narrative Inquiry, Borderland Spaces and Tensions, in Handbook of Narrative Inquiry. Mapping a Methodology, Thousand Oaks, SAGE Publications. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452226552
Vermishyan, H. R., Balasanyan, S. A., Grigoryan, O. G. & Qerobyan, S. N. (2015) Local identities in Yerevan. Urban space structures: Collective monograph, YSU press, Yerevan, p. 71. (in Armenian)
Baghshinyan, Z. T., Azibekyan, P. B., Markaryan, O. C., Arutunyan, B. M. & Babayan, L. M. (1951) Architecture of Soviet Armenia, Architecture and urban planning press, Moscow, p. 40 (in Russian)
Arutunyan, B. M., Asatryan, M. M. & Melikyan, A. A. (1968) Yerevan, Construction literature press: Moscow, p. 302 (in Russian)
Grigoryan, A. G. & Tovmasyan, M. L. (1986) Architecture of Soviet Armenia, Stroyizat: Moscow, p. 320. (in Russian)
Minasyan E. (2017) The twentyfive-year path of the independent Republic of Armenia, A quartercentury of modern Armenian Republic: RA SCI Science, Yerevan, p. 16. (in Armenian)
Vermishyan, H. R., Balasanyan, S. A., Grigoryan, O. G. & Qerobyan S. N. (2015) Local identities in Yerevan. Urban space structures: Collective monograph, YSU press, Yerevan, pp. 108-109. (in Armenian)
Ticher, S., Meyer, M., Vodak, R. & Vetter, E. (2000) Methods of text and discourse analysis, SAGE Publications, pp. 128-131.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Harutyun Vermishyan, Srbuhi Michikyan
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
