The Eventfulness Of Social Landscapes

These days competition is very tough among each kind of business and thus the pressure or the force to satisfy the customer’s needs and expectations are at the peak these days in events or shows like Old Station Fly In. These days the economy that we live in has moved away from what usually used to be known as normal service economy; but rather these days, the economy as well as the global mindset of people who attend events or shows is moving more towards what is known as the experience economy. Customers are happy to pay a better price but only on the leverage of getting a premium service and special memorable experience for the price they are paying. These days customers demand unique experiences and organisers need to provide them so as to have a regular clientele and more marketing and business. E.g. If we take the example of Old station Fly In show, there was a dinner organised for the patrons flying in and driving to the show; although the dinner had a very special speaker ’Matt Hall’; it would have been much more attracting feature of the food was arranged by someone famous such as any master chef celebrity or any famous cooking

Human needs in the past have been satisfied by marketplaces that are community driven. It is then he claims, that the lack of communal intention that makes the Mall of America, and other malls unhealthy and unnatural. Guterson writes that malls void of community, are not marketplaces, but are rather attractions set on profit. The marketing behind the Mall of America is aimed at growing tourism, and making the mall a symbol of America and American culture. This gimmick has proved to be successful as over 700,000 people from foreign countries visit the mall every year (Guterson, 284). The attention the mall is receiving from the rest of the globe suggests that as Guterson writes, “The concept of shopping in a frivolous atmosphere, concocted to loosen consumers’ wallets, is poised to proliferate globally” (Guterson, 284). As American malls continue to be lucrative, the science of controlling shoppers will only become more present around the world. Guterson claims that the fantasy environments that malls create are so powerful that they can inspire addiction to the excitability and pleasures that malls create (Guterson, 284). Guterson warns against the future of megamalls, pointing out the emptiness that they can create inside us. After standing on the roof of the Mall of America, Guterson understands that American culture is not the modern American mall. Rather, it is the fields and farms that

bring the city “to life”. Day gives the audience a reflective look at the city’s

But there is more than what meets the eye. Hypnotism at it’s finest “The mall exploits our acquisitive instincts without honoring our communal requirements, our eternal desire for discourse and intimacy, needs that until the twentieth century were traditionally met in our marketplaces but that are not met at all in giant shopping malls. “ (162) When people think of a mall the last thing that comes to mind is coming together as a community and having a festival and enjoying ones company. People have turned the mall into a place of need.

On the evidence given in the text Cardiff is a place to be in the world of retail and entertainment where the old is mixed in with the new. It has a history and landmarks to a famous TV show. As retail and entertainment venues draw in the crowds, with that comes noise which they diplomatically stated as ‘the bustle’ but if you are looking for a break then the acres of the peaceful parklands will be the place to go. The text illustrates a place of collective identities where the masses will be drawn by the variety it has to offer as a city and it is not too far from the city centre. A report from Experian noting the city’s growth in the retail market, outdoing cities of a larger scale and bigger population, making Cardiff a more

The readings by Alba, Massey and Sampson discussed below all focus on the relationship between demographic living patterns and urban social and economic development. Cities as our author's explain are more than a homogenous center but rather an accumulation of various parts. One of the vital elements of a city is its people. People interact with cities in several manners, as workers, citizens, tourists, developers, each influencing and being influenced by the urban environment. The arguments provided by the author's this week stress the importance of understanding how a city interacts with its citizens in order to understand the larger, more general social and economic trends present.

The world has been evolving as quickly as the population has grown. As the years progressed, the habitual lifestyle has transformed from spread out house and land living to city and suburban occupation. Along with the living style, cities have progressed from just roads and buildings to multifunctional spaces with copious possibilities. Federation Square in the ‘heart of the city’ is an example of how a space in the city vastly contributes to the visual culture of Melbourne. Times Square in New York also displays how what was previously an intersection of roads, has been transformed into a visual landmark. Melbourne city had always lacked a functional public space ever since its birth.

Cities are generators of economic life and source of changes in the world. Thereby, Jane Jacobs in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities puts into relief the role of cities on the social and economic levels, while denouncing the disastrous consequences of urban renewal programs. To that extent, in chapters 2 and 3, she discusses "The Uses of Sidewalks”, arguing that over all people need safety and trust in their city. Therefore, first she claims the necessity of keeping streets and sidewalks safe because they are the “vital organs” of cities (29). Secondly, she argues that the functioning of cities should be organized in order to foster human interaction in which “casual public

Executive Summary Friday Night Live is a weekly social located at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario. The goal of this report is to outline a feasible marketing plan to ensure that Carrie Martin, the assistance vice-president of programs, events, and commercial services at the ROM, can achieve her attendance goal of 3,500 persons opening night and as well maximize profits from the social. With a focus on a younger demographic as ideal attendance to the event, Martin must do the following to guarantee success in future operations • Maintain admission prices • Advertise though YouTube and Pattison Outdoor • Target young working professionals • Promote consumption of mixed drinks • Introduce a unique theme FNL has seen a notable

Urbanism it’s a great concept, it brings people back to what towns used to be. Neighbors interacting with neighbor’s people being part of a community. Celebration Florida, is a beautiful place to live and it seemed to be so perfect that some people felt it was too perfect. An article written by Ed Pilkington in 2010, discussed how the Disney dream died in Celebration. However the idea of a place that creates an environment where people interact and are involved with their community does not mean that bad things could never happen. People are people after all. In Celebration or any other community for that matter they are not immune to life. Foreclosures and crime happen even in the best communities. To think that these things could never happen

A growing line of sociological inquiry documents how places are shaped by the meanings residents construct and attach to them. Specifically, scholars have studied “the symbolic relationship between people and places and the ways that persons invest places with meaning and value in order to make sense of their world” (Borer, 2006, p. 180). These meanings have the power to direct how and why people move to a place, how they invest their time and money, and the ways in which they do or do not engage in civic and political action (Firey, 1945; Bell, 1994; Milligan, 1998; Paulsen, 2004; Alkon and Traugot, 2008; Kaufman and Kaliner, 2011). Because of this, it is central to uncover how meanings are made, who specifically makes them, and how they direct action on the ground.

One of the concepts introduced in the reading is that “The speed and mathematical directness with which the railroad proceeds through the terrain destroy the close relationship between the traveler and the traversed space. The space of landscape becomes… geographical space.” The author is trying to say that because of the increase in speed due to the technological changes in the ways of transportation, it is destroying the relationship between humans and nature. When people travel by foot, they can slowly observe the environment around them and eventually appreciate nature. Now, as technology becomes more advanced and accessible, people ride trains as it is a lot more time-consuming compared to other ways of transportation at that time. When people are on a train, their surroundings pass

Transformation of industrial areas into the site of social actions, a sort of social explosion replaced the loss of community in the modern sense of the word and confirmed the ongoing emergence of social hollow that not only needs to be heard, but wish to rebuild the lost part of the city, reinvent services, create new public venues, and dialogue with the entire

Cities tend to be the core of the overall night time economy, which constitutes of an,“ evening economy, running from 17.00 to 20.00 and a late night economy running from 20.00 until perhaps 04.00 the next morning” (Jones et al. 96). According to the article, “Media and the Urban Night”, written by Will Straw, western society’s transformation to 24 hour media access has impacted the longevity of urban encounters from day into night (Straw 1). The city seeks out these multimedia companies and artists for projects to support the demand of innovative concepts in order to make profit of socialization in the late hours (Straw 2). Moment Factory’s method of doing this revolves around the medium of light, by eliminating the dominant restriction of nighttime living: darkness and inaccessibility. Historically, the creation of light supported by electricity was the starting point for nocturnalization and the night time economy as it is an, “… extension of the public realm, a new space and time of socialization” (Lovatt and O’Connor 131). The safety and accessibility for night time events in cities continues to depend on light and is what fully embodies the urban life after sunset, known as the urban night. (Straw 1). In Montreal, the night is a realm that allows urban creativity to be expressed in a matter it may market itself to make profit with the aim to attract both local citizens and tourists (Lecture 25,

In a book ‘The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety’, by Jane Jacobs, she abstract that ‘her basic notions of what makes a neighbourhood a community and what makes a city livable’ . She stated that ‘Great Cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser’ . In her perspective of view, the great cities are differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, they are full of stranger. Strangers are not only common in a public assembly, it even more common