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Id : 2198

Author :
Amper B.M., Jr.

Title


Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines

Reference :


Amper B.M., Jr. Families on the Streets: Placemaking in an Urban Heritage Site in Cebu City, the Philippines,Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 52 1

Link to article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85129671757&doi=10.1177%2f08912416221089925&partnerID=40&md5=99eb07e4849a318be12c0ed1287bbb6f
Abstract Streets are public spaces where people pass through in going from one place to another. As such, streets are not supposed to be dwelling places. However, rapid urbanization has ushered in problems on housing, livelihood, and basic social facilities and services, giving rise to informal settlements and street living in cities. In Cebu City (a highly urbanized city in Central Philippines), displacement from urban slums as well as, lack of livelihood options have pushed some people to dwell on the streets and sidewalks in sites most visited by foreign and local tourists. Through street ethnography, this research uncovers how street dwellers in a heritage site in downtown Cebu City came to live and make a living here. The findings point to the fact that street dwellers have socially constructed and purposely transformed heritage spaces into places where they do their daily domestic routines as well as livelihood activities, in order to survive. This article posits that placemaking by these street dwellers in this heritage site is a process from entering and integrating into the place, appropriating specific spaces into places with meanings for them, building and maintaining social networks, contesting notions of the place, and developing a street culture over time. © The Author(s) 2022.



Results:


                    Category                    

             Certainity            
Heritage 0.9958
Archives 0.0000
Libraries 0.0001
Book and Press 0.0000
Visual Arts 0.0033
Performing Arts 0.0000
Audiovisual and Multimedia 0.0000
Architecture 0.0003
Adverstizing 0.0000
Art crafts 0.0002
General cultural dimension 0.0003
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