Urban communities / city life Books
University of California Press The New Noir Race Identity and Diaspora in Black
Book SynopsisThe expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. InThe New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge's ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York's middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class. Trade Review"Drawing on the black ethnographic tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston, Clergé focuses on black middle-class residents of two New York City suburbs—Cascades, a majority black in-city suburb, and Great Park, a multiethnic, multiracial community in predominantly white Nassau County—to demonstrate the complexity of their lives. The book traces migrants from the US South, Haiti, and Jamaica, recounting their specific cultures, social classes, and experiences with slavery and white supremacy. . . . This well-researched and well-written book is an important study, accessible to general and academic audiences. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Aperitif 1. Village Market: Encounters in Black Diasporic Suburbs 2. Children of the Yam: From Enslaved African to the Black Middle Class in the United States, Haiti, and Jamaica 3. Blood Pudding: Forbidden Neighbors on Jim Crow Long Island 4. Callaloo: Cultural Economies of our Backyards 5. Fish Soup: Class Journey across Time and Place 6. Vanilla Black: The Spectrum of Racial Consciousness 7. Green Juice Fast: Skinfolk Distinction Making Conclusion: Mustard Seeds Appendix: Digestif Notes References Index
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University of California Press Strategies of Segregation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wherever this historiography [of education] moves next, scholars will do well to engage with the work of García." * History of Education *"Delves into political tensions within Oxnard, California, and illustrates the board of education’s decisions enacting segregation and thereby shaping the education of Mexicans and blacks . . . The work uncovers hidden histories of Mexican American and black struggles to end segregation, and it results in a very rich study." * American Historical Review *"Provides a meticulous, nuanced, and brilliant study of the complex layers behind the historical connections of educational and residential segregation." * Latino Studies *"Amid the racial reckoning and protests that have swept this country, Strategies of Segregation is a timely and invaluable contribution to California history, Chicano/a studies, and ethnic studies." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 • The White Architects of Mexican American Education 12 2 • Pernicious Deeds: Restrictive Covenants and Schools 39 3 • “Obsessed” with Segregating Mexican Students 55 4 • Ramona School and the Undereducation of Children in La Colonia 79 5 • A Common Cause Emerges for Mexican American and Black Organizers 100 6 • Challenging “a Systematic Scheme of Racial Segregation”: Soria v. Oxnard School Board of Trustees 129 Epilogue 162 Appendix: List of Interviews Conducted and Consulted 167 Notes 169 Bibliography 247
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University of California Press Prisons of Debt
Book SynopsisA profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt. In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. Prisons of Debt shows how these systems work together to create complex entanglementsrather than piling up in men's lives, these entanglements form feedback loops of disadvantage. The prisonchild support pipeline flows in both directions, deepening parents' debt and criminal justice involvement. Through moving accounts of men struggling to be fathers from behind prison walls and under the weight of support debt, Prisons of Debt exposes how the criminalization of child support undermines the most essential of familial relationships. Haney argues that these state systems can end up producing exactly the kind of parent they fear and loathe: bitter, unreliable, andTrade Review"Haney shows how state bureaucracies seem to conspire against historically marginalized individuals, leaving indebted fathers beholden to the state and distanced from their children. She illustrates how systems of social exclusion and punishment operate by sharing the haunting stories of men who face the daunting task of navigating debt and a lack of gainful employment while under close surveillance by police. . . . This book uncovers structural inequalities and offers potential solutions. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A fantastic ethnography. . . .Lynne Haney has navigated readers through the institutional bureaucracy that leaves these fathers’ lives in shambles and bleeds into their lived experiences far beyond their incarcerations. Her intention to give voice to these fathers and center their experiences is remarkably done." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Drawing on years of research in the New York, Florida, and California family court and prison systems, Haney weaves these men’s stories into a disturbing portrait of the U.S. child support enforcement regime as a modern form of debtors’ prison. The result is by far the most comprehensive and illuminating account of the interplay between child support enforcement and incarceration in the contemporary United States." * Boston Review *"Lynne Haney provides the first large-scale and rigorous accounting of the mutually reinforcing linkages between the criminal legal system and the child support system. This book is a thoughtful and careful accounting of how these two institutions influence one another to create compounding disadvantages for the vulnerable men who become entangled in these systems." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Deadbeat to Dead Broke Part I Accumulation 1. Making Men Pay 2. The Debt of Imprisonment Part II Enforcement 3. Punishing Parents, Creating Criminals 4. The Imprisonment of Debt Part III Indebted Fatherhood 5. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead Broke 6. Cyclical Parenting Conclusion: Reforming Debt, Reimagining Fatherhood Appendix: About the Research Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Inside Ethnography
Book SynopsisWhile some books present ideal ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society's margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs, and urban sociology, the authors portray an evolving methodology that adapts to the conditions of the field while tackling emerging controversies with perceptive sensitivity. Their judicious advice on how to avoid pitfalls and remedy missteps provides unusual insights for practitioners, academics, and undergraduate and graduate students. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla PART ONE BECOMING AN ETHNOGRAPHER 1 • Going Native with Evil Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard 2 • Lost in the Park: Learning to Navigate the Unpredictability of Fieldwork Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques 3 • Unearthing Aggressive Advocacy: Challenges and Strategies in Social Service Ethnography Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson 4 • Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct Eugene Soltes PART TWO TEAM ETHNOGRAPHY 5 • Hide-and-Seek: Challenges in the Ethnography of Street Drug Users Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page 6 • Into the Epistemic Void: Using Rapid Assessment to Investigate the Opioid Crisis Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone 7 • Conducting International Reflexive Ethnography: Theoretical and Methodological Struggles Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan PART THREE NAVIGATING THE UNUSUAL 8 • Hidden: Accessing Narratives of Parental Drug Dealing and Misuse Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo 9 • Navigating Stigma: Researching Opioid and Injection Drug Use among Young Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in New York City Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper PART FOUR THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF DOING ETHNOGRAPHY 10 • Dangerous Liaisons: Reflections on a Serial Ethnography Robert Gay 11 • The Emotional Labor of Fieldwork with People Who Use Methamphetamine Heith Copes 12 • Ethnography of Injustice: Death at a County Jail Joshua Price Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward Rashi K. Shukla and Miriam Boeri List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Uberland
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A timely, accessible analysis of a Silicon Valley innovator that disrupted an industry.” * GeekWire *“This jargon-free and intriguing exposé offers food for thought for anyone interested in worker protections or societal changes driven by technology.” * Publishers Weekly *"Functions as an examination of both how Uber’s algorithms are changing the way companies operate and exert control over their workers and how those workers are experiencing these changes.” * Slate *"A timely look at the tensions between technology and the future of employment, and how ambitious startups might be changing the way we see and value work.” * Mother Jones *“If you care about the future of work, read Uberland by Alex Rosenblat.” -- Theodore Kinni, Strategy + Business“Rosenblat’s book is a combination of sociological analysis, excerpts from Uber-driver online forums, communications with Uber executives and employees, and an avalanche of in-person interviews with drivers from all over the United States and Canada. Her analysis isn’t a polemic; it is balanced and measured.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“A fine work of technology ethnography. . . As someone who believes that technology is a positive force for driving change, I’ll admit to being deeply disturbed by reading Uberland." * Inside Higher Education *"The most important recent book written about Uber is undoubtedly Alex Rosenblat’s Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, which unflinchingly exposes how Uber takes ruthless advantage of its drivers.” * Medium/The Startup *"Uberland will be of interest for anyone who cares about the future of work, the realities of working in the ‘gig’ economy and the consequences of decoupling work from existing employment relations systems." * Journal of Industrial Relations *"The book paints a complicated picture of the uneven realities of the gig economy set against the glossy sales pitch of Uber as the future of work." * Allegra Lab *"Uberland is a timely book as technology increasingly intensifies in our daily lives. It reads like book‐length investigative journalism, refreshingly jargon‐free. It stays truthful to the stories that drivers tell and is readable and engaging. It is suitable for undergraduate classes in sociology of work; science, technology, and society; and consumption." * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Using an App to Go to Work—Uber as a Symbol of the New Economy 1. Driving as Glamorous Labor: How Uber Uses the Myths of the Sharing Economy 2. Motivations to Drive: How Uber’s System Rewards Full-Time and Recreational Drivers Differently 3. The Technology Pitch: How Uber Creates Entrepreneurship for the Masses 4. The Shady Middleman: How Uber Manages Money 5. Behind the Curtain: How Uber Manages Drivers with Algorithms 6. In the Big Leagues: How Uber Plays Ball Conclusion: The New Age of Uber—How Technology Consumption Rewrote the Rules of Work Appendix 1. Methodology: How I Studied Uber Appendix 2. Ridehailing beyond Uber: Meet Lyft, the Younger Twin Notes Index
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University of California Press Bandage Sort and Hustle Ambulance Crews on the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stunning analysis of the Emergency Medical System (EMS), its frontline workers, and patients . . . . A great source for highlighting how well-intentioned labor processes within seemingly benevolent occupations can further marginalize people and reproduce social inequalities." * British Medical Journal, Medical Humanities *"An exemplar of a kind of ethnographic work that reinvigorates the sociological imagination, connecting the deeply felt personal troubles of patients and the daily joys and frustrations of ambulance crews with the stratification of suffering in urban America." * Symbolic Interaction *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction PART I BANDAGING BODIES: INSIDE THE AMBULANCE 1. People Work 2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers 3. Feeling the Ambulance PART II SORTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND SQUAD CARS 4. The Fix-Up Workers 5. The Cleanup Workers 6. Burden Shuffling PART III HUSTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE UNDERNEATH BUREAUCRACY AND CAPITAL 7. The Barn 8. Supervision 9. Payback Conclusion Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods Notes Reference List Index
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University of California Press Women Rapping Revolution
Book SynopsisDetroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit's ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective,Women Rapping Revolutionargues that the hip hop underground is a crucial site where Black women shape subjectivity and claim self-care as a principle of community organizing. Through interviews and sustained critical engagement with artists and activists, this study also articulates the substantial role of cultural production in social, racial, and economic justice efforts.Trade Review"Women Rapping Revolution covers a lot of ground in a relatively condensed space, but it doesn’t lack for information or thoughtful analysis. On top of all this, they also manage to make it a very accessible book. Farrugia and Hay do an excellent job of not only getting you to understand all of the different factors in play within the hip hop scene in Detroit, but they’ll get the wheels spinning in your head as you consider all of the factors in play in your own city." * Scratched Vinyl *Table of ContentsForeword By Piper Carter Foreword By Mahogany Jones Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Intersections of Detroit, Women, and Hip Hop 1 Detroit Hip Hop and the Rise of the Foundation 2 Hip Hop Sounds and Sensibilities in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit 3 Negotiating Genderqueer Identity Formation 4 Vulnerable Mavericks Wreck Rap’s Conventions 5 “Legendary,” Environmental Justice, and Collaborative Cultural Production 6 Hip Hop Activism in Action Conclusion: Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Organizing Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic
Book SynopsisThis book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the ethnic cage to explain both the promise and pain of community.Trade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index
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University of California Press Cartographies of Youth Resistance HipHop Punk and
Book SynopsisIn his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.Trade Review"The book is an ethnographic treasure-trove. Rich in information, it sheds light on the complexity of local politics and social movements. More than anything else, it is the depth of Magaña’s analysis, capturing the youth’s interconnected understanding of race, politics, and subcultures, that makes this book a must-read for researchers of social movements in the Americas, and beyond." * Anthropology Book Forum *"In short, Cartographies of Youth Resistance provides a compelling take on the role of Indigenous young people in the spatial construction of social movements. The insights developed in the book are not only useful for understanding social movements in Mexico; they can also be adapted for thinking about youth activism in many contexts throughout Latin America and elsewhere." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“The book’s wealth of ethnographic data on a too-little studied corner of the world opens the door for others to join and extend the valuable dialogues that Magaña and his collaborators in Oaxaca established.” * Anthropological Forum *"Magaña’s greatest contribution is his ethnographic work about punk culture in Oaxaca. . . . The punk scene is often regarded as the rebel kid of white privilege. Magaña shows us another point of view regarding the deep complexities of this group. . . . This book serves to benefit anyone studying globalization, transculturation, multiculturalism, hybrid cultures, and interculturalism in Latin America." * Mobilizations *"Within the context of the enduring afterlife of the renowned 2006 Oaxaca teacher's strike, Magaña (Univ. of Arizona) presents an extraordinarily well-informed ethnographic account . . .Magaña portrays and corroborates Oaxacan youth as "agents of change" and "dreamers of liberatory and dignified futures," offering a counter-reality to the prevalent negative stereotypes of the Mexican underclass. This is an excellent book for both its methodology and content." * CHOICE *“No doubt that Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico is a book that expands our understanding of 2006 Oaxaca and especially of the contemporary social movements there that continue to be led by the youth, echoing the struggles of the 2006 Generation. The book also provides a great contribution to the area of hip hop and punk studies within Latin America, and can be placed as an excellent addition to current scholarship in anthropology of the arts and youth studies.” * Latin American Literary Review *"The book’s wealth of ethnographic data on a too-little studied corner of the world opens the door for others to join and extend the valuable dialogues that Magaña and his collaborators in Oaxaca established." * Anthropological Forum *"Cartographies of Youth Resistance would appeal to readers involved or interested in social movements, as well as young people because of its study of political protests and revolution, and the important role that urban youth had in changing the social climate in Oaxaca city." * Space and Culture *"Magaña’s book is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students. Like the historical agents in his book, students and scholars of radical politics will undoubtedly build on the ideas and analyses contained in Cartographies of Youth Resistance." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Organizations Introduction • Rethinking Social Movement Temporality and Spatiality through Counterspace and Urban Youth Culture 1 • Building Youth Counterspaces, Horizontal Political Cultures, and Emergent Identities in the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006 2 • Urban Autonomy, Indigenous Anarchisms, and Other Political Genealogies for the 2006 Generation 3 • Urban Youth Collectives as Laboratories for Constructing and Spatializing Horizontal Politics in Post-2006 Oaxaca 4 • Networking Counterspaces, Constellations of Resistance, and the Politics of Rebel Aesthetics 5 • Rebel Aesthetics: Giving Form to the 2006 Generation’s Liberationist Imagination through Street Art, Punk, and Hip-Hop Conclusion • Shifting Cartographies of (Youth) Resistance Notes Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Managed Integration
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
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University of California Press Intersecting Lives
Book SynopsisFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matterand we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences and how these shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including reoffending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation.Trade Review"This book will hold great value not just for scholars focused on neighborhood and mobility outcomes after incarceration, but more broadly for scholars of stratification and inequality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 • Criminalizing Disadvantage: Race, Class, Gender, and Reentry in Boston 2 • Bouncing and the Black Box of Reentry’s Neighborhood Effects 3 • Dorchester: Returning to a “High-Crime” Neighborhood 4 • The South End: Returning to a “Gentrified” Neighborhood 5 • South Boston: Returning to a “White” Neighborhood 6 • Small Towns, Poverty, and Addiction Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Research Participants Notes References Index
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University of California Press Intersecting Lives How Place Shapes Reentry
Book SynopsisFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matterand we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences and how these shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including reoffending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation.Trade Review"This book will hold great value not just for scholars focused on neighborhood and mobility outcomes after incarceration, but more broadly for scholars of stratification and inequality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 • Criminalizing Disadvantage: Race, Class, Gender, and Reentry in Boston 2 • Bouncing and the Black Box of Reentry’s Neighborhood Effects 3 • Dorchester: Returning to a “High-Crime” Neighborhood 4 • The South End: Returning to a “Gentrified” Neighborhood 5 • South Boston: Returning to a “White” Neighborhood 6 • Small Towns, Poverty, and Addiction Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Research Participants Notes References Index
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University of California Press Fragments of the City
Book SynopsisCities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. InFragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice.In this book, McFarlane exploresinfrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.Trade Review"Fragments of the City is a beautifully written book, and it reads as if one listens to music – the pieces enter the senses, reach the soul, do their subconscious working, and bring out the listener/reader enriched, enlightened, inspired." * Planning Theory *Table of ContentsList of Figures Prologue Reading Fragments Pursuing Fragments Routes On the Margins An Urban World Pulling Together, Falling Apart Materializing the City Urban Life Support Volumetric Urbanism Fragmenting Cities Social Infrastructure Care and Consolidation Knowing Fragments In the Relation Presence-Absence The Gap Knowledge Fragments Writing in Fragments Montaging Urban Modernity Without Closure Points of Departure Fragments and Possibility Political Framings Attending to Fragments Maintaining In-Between Generative Translation Reformation Junk Art Relocating Surveying Wholes Political Becoming Occupation Being Present Provisioning Value Exhibiting Stories Walking Cities Encountering the City Intersecting Writings Routes and Their Limits Remnants Space and Time In Completion An Exploded View Experimenting Connective Devices Excursions Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Fragments of the City
Book SynopsisCities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. InFragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice.In this book, McFarlane exploresinfrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.Trade Review"Fragments of the City is a beautifully written book, and it reads as if one listens to music – the pieces enter the senses, reach the soul, do their subconscious working, and bring out the listener/reader enriched, enlightened, inspired." * Planning Theory *Table of ContentsList of Figures Prologue Reading Fragments Pursuing Fragments Routes On the Margins An Urban World Pulling Together, Falling Apart Materializing the City Urban Life Support Volumetric Urbanism Fragmenting Cities Social Infrastructure Care and Consolidation Knowing Fragments In the Relation Presence-Absence The Gap Knowledge Fragments Writing in Fragments Montaging Urban Modernity Without Closure Points of Departure Fragments and Possibility Political Framings Attending to Fragments Maintaining In-Between Generative Translation Reformation Junk Art Relocating Surveying Wholes Political Becoming Occupation Being Present Provisioning Value Exhibiting Stories Walking Cities Encountering the City Intersecting Writings Routes and Their Limits Remnants Space and Time In Completion An Exploded View Experimenting Connective Devices Excursions Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press The City Authentic
Book SynopsisOne of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencersand why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this engaging study of New York State's Capital Region is an accessible glimpse into the social phenomena that influence contemporary cities. The rising economic fortunes of cities in the Rust Belt, Banks argues, are due in part to the markers of its previous decaywhich translate into signs of urban authenticity on the internet. The City Authentic unpacks the odd connection between digital media and derelict buildings, the consequences of how we think about industry and placeTrade Review"There is a strong Marxist theoretical basis to the arguments presented here. Banks ties the City Authentic processes he identifies to ongoing needs by a capitalist system for uneven development. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars working in contemporary urban studies and urban planning. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *"The City Authentic is a book written by a real and quite likable human, one who is so versed in and concerned about these hard-to-pin-down cultural and economic problems that they are willing to throw every possible writerly approach at them." * New Inquiry *"The City Authentic delves into what exactly ‘authenticity’ means, why we look to it as a source of meaning, and why the 'city authentic' model has made urban inequality even worse. . . . While the subject matter is sometimes complex, this is far from being a dry, academic tome: Banks uses accessible examples to illustrate what he’s talking about, and writes in a witty, engaging style." - Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 * Dazed *"Fortunately, there’s someone able to explain these changes going on not only in my hometown but in similar small cities across the nation." * Commonweal *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part One. Making the City Authentic 1. Cultural Capital Region 2. Upscale Upstate Part Two. Theorizing the City Authentic 3. What Is Authenticity? 4. The Political Economy of Authenticity Part Three. Governing the City Authentic 5. Policies and Tactics 6. What Is to Be Done? Notes Index
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University of California Press Retail Inequality Reframing the Food Desert
Book SynopsisRetail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods in Greenville, South Carolina. For decades, outsiders ignored residents' complaints about the unsavory retail options on their side of townuntil the well-intentioned but flawed food desert concept took hold in popular discourse. Soon after, new allies arrived to help, believing that grocery stores and healthier options were the key to better health. These efforts, however, did not change neighborhood residents' food consumption practices. Retail Inequality explains why and also outlines the history of deindustrialization, urban public policy, and racism that are the cause of unequal access to food today. Kolb identifies retail inequality as the crucial concept to understanding today's debates over gentrification and community development. As this book makes clear, the battle over food deserts was never about foodit was about equality.Trade Review"Kolb helps dispel the food desert media frame that implies that food desert residents choose poor diets. Rather, the problem is racism." * Symbolic Interaction *"Kolb drives home an oft-ignored consideration: Low-income neighborhoods deserve the same food options as wealthy neighborhoods, regardless of whether that leads to healthier diets." * Civil Eats *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. What We Got Wrong 2. A Concept Catches Fire 3. Food Desert Realities: Perception, Money, and Transportation 4. Food Desert Realities: Social Capital, Household Dynamics, and Taste 5. The “Healthy Food” Frame 6. The Problem Solvers 7. A Path Forward Epilogue: Wins and Losses Appendix: Food Desert Media Database Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Bastille Effect
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. As conceptualized throughout thisrichly illustratedbook,the Bastille Effect represents the unique ways that former prisons and detention centers are transformed, both physically and culturally. In their afterlives, these sites deliver critiques of political imprisonment and the sustained efforts to hold perpetrators accountable for state violence. However, for that narrative to surface, the sites are cleansed of their profane past, and in some cases clergy are even enlisted to perform purifying rituals that grant the sites a new place identity as memorials. For example, at Villa Grimaldi, a former detention and torture center in Santiago, Chile, activists condemn the brutal Pinochet dictatorshipby honoring the memory of victims, allowing the space to emerge as a park for peace. Throughout the Southern Cone of Latin America, and elsewhere around the globe, carceral sites have been dramatically repurposed into places of enlightenment that offer inspiring allegories of human rights. Interpreting the complexities of those common threads, this book weaves together a broad range of cultural, interdisciplinary, and critical thought to offer new insights into the study of political imprisonment, collective memory, and postconflict societies.
£27.00
University of California Press Everyday Life in the Spectacular City
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. (In)Authenticity in Brand Dubai 2. Negotiating Belonging in Dubai’s Glitzy, Neoliberal Spaces 3. Globalization and Diversity at a Cosmopolitan Crossroads 4. An Appropriately Modern City 5. The Costs and Benefits of Safety in Sanitized Spaces Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press The Accidental Ecosystem
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historian Alagona skillfully demonstrates how America’s cities have become ‘weird wildlife refuges,’ in this hopeful account. He sets the stage by describing animal life in cities in times past: many metropolises were founded on sites of biological richness, but as cities grew, wildlife populations declined. But in the past few decades, that’s changed, and cities have become places with rich ecosystems that have fostered an ‘explosion of wildlife’. . . . Alagona argues that people must learn to live with wildlife." * Publishers Weekly *“Alagona shows that wildlife in urban areas can be a blessing, a curse, or both. Ultimately, he sees a golden opportunity to redefine our relationship with wildlife and perhaps with each other as we share urban ecosystems.” * Natural Resource Management Today *"Highly readable and relevant." * Forbes *"This book is equal parts history and science lessons, both of which are delivered in an accessible and engaging manner." * The Quarterly Review of Biology *"A marvelous history of the present. . . . an eminently teachable book." * California History *"The Accidental Ecosystem by Peter Alagona, explains why urban neighborhoods like yours and mine, are being slowly repopulated by wild animals. Repopulation is the key, because the locations of early cities were originally chosen for their access to water, forests, and surrounding agricultural resources." * Triangle Gardener *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Where the Wild Things Are, Now 1: Hot Spots 2: The Urban Barnyard 3: Nurturing Nature 4: Bambi Boom 5: Room to Roam 6: Out of the Shadows 7: Close Encounters 8: Home to Roost 9: Hide and Seek 10: Creature Discomforts 11: Catch and Release 12: Damage Control 13: Fast-Forward 14: Embracing the Urban Wild Coda: Lost and Found Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£18.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Womans Place
Book SynopsisA Woman''s Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts''s interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War. A Woman''s Place shows working-class women to be conscious of, and secure in, the separate, private sphere of home and family, with little feeling of male oppression, but more of class oppression and economic injustice to man and woman alike. A woman''s key place within the family as budget manager and domestic decision taker was widely recognized. It was, however, a position won at great cost. The hazards of childbirth, the grueling physical routines of washing, cleaning and cooking, the necessity of undertaking part-time, or (in Preston especially) full-time paid employment to boost the family''s meager income, were the coin with which that role was bought. Trade Review"Their talk is lively, and it's a wonder to read the voices of people who do not usually get to talk for themselves." (The Smart Set, 7 April 2011) "A Woman's Place is a book to which all future historians of the working-class will be indebted." Times Higher Education Supplement "A Woman's Place will be read with interest for the illuminating accounts of working-class experiences, but equally for Dr Roberts' erudite gloss on her material ... Her achievement is to record working-class lives as they were lived and her success in doing so establishes her as one of the most accomplished practitioners of oral history." Economic History Review "A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations ... and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected." New Society "This is a first-rate book for both expert historian and general reader; it deserves wider circulation." Women's Review of Books "Her two volumes appear austere but tell an absorbing tale. I hope she is collecting material for a third." Times Educational Supplement "... one of the best social histories of Britain before 1940." The Sunday ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Growing Up. Home Life. School. 2. Youth, Work and Leisure. The Status of Young Workers in the Family. Employers and Employees. The Work Ethic. Young Women at Work. Leisure. Courting and Pre-Marital Pregnancy. 3. Marriage. Sexual Relations and Attitudes to Family Size. Family Limitation: Knowledge and Methods. Pregnancy and Childbirth. Power Relationships within Marriage. The Effect of Social Change. 4. Women as Housewives and Managers. Working-class Homes. Family Income. Balancing the Budget. Were Working Class Women Successful Household Managers?. 5. Families and Neighbours. The Extended Family. Neighbours and Neighbourhoods. Conclusion. Appendices. . 1. Population of the Three Towns, 1981-1931. 2. Women's Occupations, 1891-1931. 3. Percentages of Women at Work, 1891-1931. 4. Wage Indices for 1905. 5. Respondents' Biographies. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Divided Cities
Book SynopsisDivided Cities is the comparative analysis of New York and London which many have been waiting for. Wider in scope and richer in detailthan any previous study, this work provides the best introduction available to these pre--eminent world cities.Table of ContentsLondon and New York in the contemporary world, Susan S. Fainstein and Michael Harloe; a comparative history, 1880-1973, Nick Buck and Norman Fainstein; dynamics of the metropolitan economy, Nick Buck et al; labour markets, Ian Gordon and Saskia Sassen; poverty and income inequality, John Logan et al; migrants, minorities and the ethnic division of labour, Malcolm Cross and Roger Waldinger; housing for people, housing for profits, Michael Harloe et al; politics and state policy in economic restructuring, Susan S. Fainstein and Ken Young; the divided cities, Michael Harloe and Susan S. Fainstein.
£27.08
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Peoples Home
Book SynopsisExamines the development of social rented housing over the years in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA. This work shows how social housing policies and outcomes have been shaped by broader societal forces - political conflict, economic modernisation, and, also the growth of inequality and social polarization.Trade Review"This book presents the most authoritative comparative account of the origins of social rented housing and its subsequent development. By setting housing development. By setting housing developments in the context of historical changes in economies, politics and the development of the welfare state, it provides an important contribution to key debates in housing and social policy. The result is a text which is likely to be a key reference for those seeking to analyse and understand the housing situation and influences on its change." Alan Murie, Heriot-Watt University "Michael Harloe's review of social rented housing in six countries draws on research extending over 20 years. It will be welcomed by all students of housing and social policies." David Donnison, University of Glasgow "This book deserves to be acclaimed on at least two counts. It offers a penetrating explanation and not just a descriptive account of the developments of social rented housing in capitalist countries and therefore provides a much needed-basis for the evaluation, or introduction of new policies. Its coverage of international evidence is without peer, and it will be a source of inspiration to scholars and housing directorates for many years to come. But the book is also a major sociological contribution to the understanding of social policy in general. Housing has always been the odd man out in the apparatus of the national welfare state and has not always been given sufficient priority in accounts of social change. Michael Harloe places housing at the centre of public and scientific attention and this is bound to change a lot of ideas about the present welfare state. With the international breadth of his approach Michael Harloe shows what sociologists can do for the understanding of social policy - and perhaps therefore lay the basis for the construction of an international welfare state. Covering a wide range of international evidence the book is a tightly controlled theoretical exposition of social rented housing within general social policy. It is a formidable achievement." Peter Townsend, University of Bristol "This book is the boldest comparative study of housing policies I have ever read, and of a kind we all were waiting for. Detailed first-hand findings fit remarkably well in broad, analytical perspectives. Michael Harloe offers us both an account and an epic of the welfare state in that field, its premises and promises, its fulfillments and shortcomings, its looming demise." Christian Topalov, Harvard University "This is the closest thing to a definitive study of social rented housing in advanced capitalist countries currently available, and I do not expect it to be superseded for many years to come." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Social Housing and Welfare Capitalism. 1. Social Housing and the `Social Question': Housing Reform before 1914. 2. The Temporary Solution: Social Housing after the Great War. 3. Social Housing in the Depression. 4. The Golden Age: Social Housing in an Era of Reconstruction and Growth. 5. Residualism Revived: Social Housing in the Contemporary Era. 6. Social Housing and Theories of Social Policy. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£28.74
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The European City
Book SynopsisThis is a history of the European city from the early Middle Ages to the present. Tracing the city from the survival of urban life after the collapse of the Roman Empire to the effects of modern industrialization and transportation, Professor Benevolo''s book also provides a fascinating account of the relationship between urban life and cultural and intellectual life.Trade Review"Leonardo Benevolo has achieved a remarkable double: he now only produces a convincing synthesis of the history of Europe's cities since the early Middle Ages, but also avoids superficiality and false generalization . . . a most timely, distinguished and scholarly contribution to the literature on European urban history." The Geographical Journal "Leonardo Benevolo writes with energy and verve on the European city." The Times "Professor Benevolo's extensively illustrated book reflects the author's architectural expertise. He examines successfully the classical city, the medieval town and the drive for urban perfection in the Renaissance." History Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Emergence from the Ancient World. 2. The Creation of a New Urban System. 3. The Touching Up of the Urban Environment. 4. Confrontation with the World. 5. The Difficult Adjustment to the Laws of Perspective. 6. The Industrial City. 7. Europe in the Contemporary World.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Capital Culture
Book SynopsisThe changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among observers of gender. Capital Culture explores these changes focusing particularly on the gender relations between the men and women who work in the financial services sector. The multiple ways in which masculinities and femininities are constructed is revealed through the analysis of interviews with dealers, traders, analysts and corporate financiers. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, the various ways in which gender segregation is established and maintained is explored. In fascinating detail, the everyday experiences of men and women working in a range of jobs and in different spaces, from the dealing rooms to the boardrooms, are examined. This volume is unique in focusing on men as well as women, showing that for men too there are multiple ways of doing genderTrade Review"Some places are immensely symbolic of economic or political power. One such place, the 'City' in London, has long represented the world of international finance both as objectification (the City 'says this') of that world and as the seat of numerous banking, stockbroking and insurance firms. Lacking has been much attention to the cultural practices upon which this material and symbolic power of place is based. Through the lens provided by the gendered character of workplace relations Linda McDowell throws light on the ways in which the City works. No longer dominated by the stuffy image of bowlers and brollies, the City nevertheless is still hostile territory for those whose identities (including many women) are marginalized by the implicit masculinity of City ways. This is a brilliant book, showing the possibilities for theoretically-informed fieldwork on cultural practices at a time when some despair that fieldwork can reveal much of anything." John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles "In a short review of this type it is impossible to do full justice to such a rich and thought provoking book." Rob Atkinson, Capital and Class "This book deserves a wide audience: students of the service sector should find McDowell's theoretical and conceptual insights about this topic useful; students of gender and work will encounter a carefully drawn case study of how gender distinctions are constructed and reproduced on the job. Finally, those interested in cultivating links between their sociological and geographical imaginations will find that Capital Culture can help them to achieve this goal." Amy S. Wharton, Washington State University. " I cannot recommend this text highly enough. it has everything: theory linking gender relations with power and work; analysis of city gendered life; rich empirical material taken from fieldwork in merchant banking; and, many thought provoking views on macsulinity and feminity." Bob Bushaway, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. List of Tables. Series Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Money and Work.. Part I. Gender at Work. Thinking through Work: Gender, Power and Space. City Work/Places: The Old and New City. Gendered Work Patterns. Gendered Career Paths. The Culture of Banking: Reproducing Class and Gender Divisions.. Part II. Bodies at Work. Engendered Cultures: The Impossibility of Being a Man. Body Work 1: Men Behaving Badly. Body Work 2: The Masqueraders. Conclusions: Rethinking Work/Places. Appendix: The Field Work. Bibliography. Index.
£57.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the City
Book SynopsisA Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. * Indispensable companion for students of the City.Trade Review"...covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning." (The Observer, 19 June 2011) "Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson's Companion to the City is a wonderful compendium of some of the best writing on cities and urbanism. It covers a wide range of approaches encompassing the city in literature, planning, representations of the city, policy and analysis. It truly is a 'companion' and like all good companions has always something relevant to say whatever the reader's mood or whatever s/he is searching for." Professor Elizabeth Wilson, previously of University of North London "This is a first-class read, useful for architects and planners as well as for students of the city. A state-of-the-art book." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics and Political Science "This is a substantial, well illustrated volume in five parts [...] The editors have certainly succeeded in their aim to 'create a multidiscplinary approach to cities' in compiling their 'companion'." Stephen Royle, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Illustrations. Introduction. Part I: Imagining Cities:. 1 City Imaginaries: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 2. Three Urban Discourses: John Rennie Short. 3. Putting Cities First: Re-mapping the Origins of Urbanism: Ed Soja. 4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below: Anthony Vidler. 5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination and Media Technologies: James Donald. 6. Film, Representation and Naples: Lesley Caldwell. 7. The City as an Imperial Centre: Imagining London in two Caribbean Novels: Riad Akbur. 8. Sleepwalking the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams: Steve Pile. 9. Contested Images of the City. City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation and Community - Competing Cultures in Southeast Asian Societies: Patrick Guinness. Part II: The Economy and the City:. 10. City Economies: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 11. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities: Ash Amin. 12. Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis: Andy Merrifield. 13. Mono Centric and Poli Centric: New Urban Forms and Old Urban Paradigms: William A. V. Clark. 14. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York at the Millennium: Susan S. Fainstein and Michael Harloe. 15. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City: Saskia Sassen. 16. Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labour Markets of Late 20th Century Metropoles: Nick Buck and Ian Gordon. 17. Informational Cities: Bob Catterall. 18. Diaspora Chinese Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development: Chung-Tong Wu. 19. Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist Society: Charles Rutheiser. 20. Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic: Innovation Culture and Finance: Philip Cooke, Erik Terk, Raite Karnite, Giedrius Blagnys. Part III: Cities of Division and Difference:. 21. City Differences: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 22. Postcolonialism, Representation and the City: Anthony King. 23. Cities of Polarisation and Marginalization: Peter Marcuse. 24. Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the European City: Alisdair Rogers. 25. Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City: Liz Bondi and Hazel Christie. 26. The Sexual Geography of the City: Frank Mort. 27. From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of 'Race' and Class: Phil Cohen. 28. Gentrification, Post-Industrialism and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities: Chris Hamnett. 29. Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul: Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy. 30. Value Conflicts, Identity Construction and Urban Change: Lily Kong. Part IV: Public Cultures and Everyday Space:. 31. City Publics: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 32. The Social Constitution of the Public Realm: Richard Sennett. 33. City Life and the Senses: John Urry. 34. With Child to see Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City: Nigel Thrift. 35. Walter Benjamin, Cosmopolitanism and the Narratives of City Spaces: Michael Keith. 36. "X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?: M. Christine Boyer. 37. Walking and Performing 'The City': A Melbourne Chronicle: Katherine Gibson and Ben Rossiter. 38. The Street Politics of Jackie Smith: John Paul Jones III. 39. Everyday Life in Bangkok: Annette Hamilton. 40. Streetchildren in Yogyakarta: Social/ Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City: Harriot Beazley. 41. Cyberspace and the City: The Virtual City in Europe: Alessandro Aurigi and Steve Graham. Part V: Urban Politics and Urban Interventions:. 42. City Interventions: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 43. Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities: Patsy Healey. 44. The Social Construction of Urban Policy: Allan Cochrane. 45. Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century: Patrick Troy. 46. Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning: Alan Mabin. 47. The Environment of the City ... or the Urbanisation of Nature: Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika. 48. Power and Urban Poltics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy: Alan Harding. 49. Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space: Fran Tonkiss. 50. Property Relations and Planning in European Urban Development: Michael Edwards. 51. The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing: Chua Beng-Huat. 52. Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban: Alison Todes. Index.
£147.56
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Urban Policy
Book SynopsisThis extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare. An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s. Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism. The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject. Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of disciplines. Trade Review"An immensely enjoyable book, bringing a valuable historical perspective to bear and written in a critical but lucid style... it will challenge and enlighten its readers." Paul Burton, University of BristolTable of Contents1. What is Urban Policy?. 2. Exploring the Roots: ‘Race’, Disorder, and Poverty. 3. Managerialism and the City. 4. The Meaning(s) of Community. 5. Managing Disorderly Places. 6. Competitiveness, the Market and Urban Entrepreneurialism. 7. Taking the Cultural Turn. 8. Neo-liberalism and the Globalisation of Urban Policy. 9. Reshaping Welfare, Re-imagining Urban Policy. References. Index
£89.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Urban Policy
Book SynopsisThis extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare. An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s. Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism. The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject. Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of disciplines. Trade Review"An immensely enjoyable book, bringing a valuable historical perspective to bear and written in a critical but lucid style... it will challenge and enlighten its readers." Paul Burton, University of BristolTable of Contents1. What is Urban Policy?. 2. Exploring the Roots: ‘Race’, Disorder, and Poverty. 3. Managerialism and the City. 4. The Meaning(s) of Community. 5. Managing Disorderly Places. 6. Competitiveness, the Market and Urban Entrepreneurialism. 7. Taking the Cultural Turn. 8. Neo-liberalism and the Globalisation of Urban Policy. 9. Reshaping Welfare, Re-imagining Urban Policy. References. Index
£29.40
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Castells Reader on Cities and Social Theory
Book SynopsisThis collection of Castellsa classic writing, which also includes two new essays written specifically for this book, reflects the panoramic breadth of his knowledge, the clarity of his approach, and the scholarly rigor and intellectual depth of his theoretical methods.Trade Review"Manuel Castells is the definitive analyst of the contemporary city and of urban society, and students of urbanism have long needed a comprehensive and accessible digest of his most important work. This encyclopedic selection, revealing the evolution of his ideas over three decades, will instantly become an academic classic." Peter Hall, University College London "A great book. Castells's profound intelligence elucidates the transformations of cities in the twentieth century. Ida Susser has produced a book that illuminates the theoretical underpinnings of his far-ranging achievements. A must read for scholars in sociology, anthropology, political science, and urban planning." Carol Stack, University of California, Berkeley "A very useful collection of some key works from one of the most important urban theorists of the post-1960s world. With an excellent historical and biographical introduction, this reader spans the still evolving ideas of Manuel Castells over nearly three decades." Neil Smith, City University of New York "this book will make an indispensable student text, and as such it is to be highly recommended." Gary Pattison, BSA Network, October 2002 "A book that will prove useful to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, geographers, architects, & scholars of urban studies" K. Larsen, Sociological Abstracts, December 2002Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Manuel Castells: Conceptualizing the City in the Information Age: Ida Susser. Part I: A Theoretical Approach to the City in Advanced Capitalism:. 1. Urbanization (1972):. Epistemological Introduction. The Historical Process of Urbanization. The Urban Phenomenon. 2. The Urban Ideology (1972):. The Myth of Urban Culture. From Urban Society to Urban Revolution. The Urban Sub-cultures. Part II: Social Movements and Urban Culture:. 3. Immigrant Workers and Class Struggles in Advanced Capitalism: The Western European Experience (1975). 4. Collective Consumption and Urban Contradictions in Advanced Capitalism (1978). 5. City and Culture: The San Francisco Experience (1983). San Francisco: The Social Basis of Urban Quality. Urban Poverty, Ethnic Minorities and Community Organization: The Experience of Neighbourhood Mobilization in San Francisco's Mission District. Cultural Identity, Sexual Liberation and Urban Structure: The Gay Community in San Francisco. Methodological Appendix. Part III: The City in the Information Age:. 6. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (1989). 7. Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital–Labor Relationships and the Rise of the Dual City (1989). 8. The Space of Flows (1996, second edition 2000). 9. The Culture of Cities in the Information Age (new essay ,1999). Conclusion: Urban Sociology in the Twenty-first Century (new essay, 2000). Bibliography of Urban and Regional Studies by Manuel Castells, 1967–2000. Index.
£42.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cinema and the City
Book Synopsis* Integrates urban sociology and film studies literature to show what can be learnt about cities from film. * Provides an innovative and instructive contribution to urban studies. * Includes a wide range of case studies from around the world. .Trade Review"... a welcome addition to the reading-lists of graduate and undergraduate courses in film studies and urban studies/sociology...." (Urban Studies) "... recommended to those who are exploring the exciting reciprocity between the city and the cinema...." (Journal of Urban Technology) "... an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization... intriguing, engaging, and informed...." (Annals of the Association of American Geographers) "Cinema and the City is an exceptional reader that interrogates a range of issues linking cities, film, and globalization. With essays of exceptionally high quality this is an intriguing, engaging and informed work that should be accessible to an array of disciplines and students."—Leo Zonn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Stitching together the complex and multiple intersections between film, cities, urban cultures and globalisation is no simple task, as any number of very good single-authored works will demonstrate. Despite these difficulties, Shiel and Fitzmaurice's excellent anthology rises to the occasion and, in the process, pushes film studies beyond its usual terrain of textual, audience and production analyses to relocate the subject matter within urban sociology [...] As the relationship between film and the city continue to develop as a focus of critical inquiry, Cinema and the City stands as one of the more accessible and innovative entry-points into the issues"—Shiel and Fitzmaurice, Urban StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. List of Contributors. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. 1. 'Cinema and the City in History and Theory'. (Mark Shiel). 2. 'Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context'. (Tony Fitzmaurice). Part I: Postmodern Mediations of the City: Los Angeles. 3. 'Bunker Hill. Hollywood's Dark Shadow'. (Mike Davis). 4. 'Film Mystery as Urban History. The Case of Chinatown'. (John Walton). 5. 'Return to Oz. The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as Urban Renewal'. (Josh Stenger). Part II. Urban Identities, Production and Exhibition. 6. 'Shamrock. Houston's Green Promise'. (James Hay). 7. 'From Workshop to Backlot. The Greater Philadelphia Film Office'. (Paul Swann). 8. 'Cities: Real and Imagined'. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 9. 'Emigrating to New York in 3-D: Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City'. (Mark Neumann). 10. 'Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theater, Florida'. (Janna Jones). 11. 'Global Cities and the International Film Festival Economy'. (Julian Stringer). Part III: Cinema and the Postcolonial Metropolis. 12. 'Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows through Saigon'. (J. Paul Narkunas). 13. 'Cityscape: The Capital Infrastructuring and Technologization of Manila'. (Rolando B. Tolentino). 14. 'The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales, The Castle'. (Justine Lloyd). 15. 'Representing the Apartheid City: South African Cinema in the 1950s and Jamie Uys's The Urgent Queue'. (Gary Baines). 16. 'The Visual Rhetoric of the Ambivalent City in Nigerian Video Films'. (Obododimma Oha). 17. 'MontrÚal Between Strangeness, Home and Flow'. (Bill Marshall). 18. '(Mis-) Representing the Irish Urban Landscape'. (Kevin Rockett). Part IV: Urban Reactions On-screen. Idealism and Defeat. 19. 'Postwar Urban Redevelopment, the British Film Industry and The Way We Live'. (Leo Enticknap). 20. 'Naked: Social Realism and the Urban Wasteland'. (Mike Mason). Escape and Invasion. 21. 'Jacques Tati's Play Time as New Babylon'. (Laurent Marie). 22. 'Poaching on Public Space: Urban Autonomous Zones in French Banlieue Films'. (Adrian Fielder). Index.
£24.70
John Wiley and Sons Ltd City and Country
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume examine the processes by which cities grow and how current public policy, both in the areas of zoning and town planning respond to this process. The volume contains a number of case studies describing the experiences of major cities such as Phoenix, Arizona.Table of ContentsCity and Country: an Interdisciplinary Collection:. 1. Editor's Introduction: Laurence S. Moss. Part I: Historical Perspectives on the Agglomeration Approach to Economic Growth:. 1. Henry George and Classical Growth Theory: A Significant Contribution to Modeling Scale Economies : John Whitaker. 2. Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country Gunnar Myrdal, François Perroux, and the New Economic Geography: Stephen J. Meardon. 3. City and Country: Lessons from European Economic Thought: Jürgen G. Backhaus; Gerrit Meijer. 4. Making the Country Work for the City: Von Thünen's Ideas in Geography, Agricultural Economics and the Sociology of Agriculture: Daniel Block, E. Melanie DuPuis. Part II: New Research on Size, Geography, Specialization and Productivity:. 1. Agglomeration and Congestionin the Economics of Ideas and Technological Change: Norman Sedgley; Bruce Elmslie. 2. Zipf's Law for Cities and Beyond: The Case of Denmark: Thorbjørn Knudsen. 3. The Structure of Sprawl: Identifying and Characterizing Employment Centers in Polycentric Metropolitan Areas: Nathan B. Anderson, William T. Bogart. 4. Edge Cities and the Viability of Metropolitan Economies: Contributions to Flexibility and External Linkages by New Urban Service Environments: David L. McKee; Yosra A. McKee. 5. Manufacturing and Rural Economies in the United States: The Role of Nondurable Producers, Labor Costs and State Taxes: Mark Jelavich. Part III: Case Studies: Land Value Taxation and Real Estate Development:. 1. Value Capture as a Policy Tool in Transportation Economics: An Exploration in Public Finance in the Tradition of Henry George: H. William Batt. 2. Coordinating Opposite Approaches to Managing Urban Growth and Curbing Sprawl: A Synthesis: Thomas L. Daniels. 3. Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950–2000: Carol E. Heim. 4. A City without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri: Kevin Fox Gotham. 5. A City Divided by Political Philosophies: Residential Development in a Bi-Provincial City in Canada: Gura Bhargava. Part IV: The Transformation of the City in the 21st Century:. 1. International Sister-Cities: Bridging the Global-Local Divide: Rolf D. Cremer; Anne de Bruin; Ann Dupuis. 2. The Completely Decentralized City: The Case for Benefits Based Public Finance: Fed E. Foldvary. Index.
£81.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the City
Book SynopsisA Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. * Indispensable companion for students of the City.Trade Review"...covers everything from the role of dance in shaping cities to race and class in South Africa to the application of military techniques to city planning." (The Observer, 19 June 2011) "Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson's Companion to the City is a wonderful compendium of some of the best writing on cities and urbanism. It covers a wide range of approaches encompassing the city in literature, planning, representations of the city, policy and analysis. It truly is a 'companion' and like all good companions has always something relevant to say whatever the reader's mood or whatever s/he is searching for." Professor Elizabeth Wilson, previously of University of North London "This is a first-class read, useful for architects and planners as well as for students of the city. A state-of-the-art book." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics and Political Science "This is a substantial, well illustrated volume in five parts [...] The editors have certainly succeeded in their aim to 'create a multidiscplinary approach to cities' in compiling their 'companion'." Stephen Royle, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsList of Contributors. List of Illustrations. Introduction. Part I: Imagining Cities 1 City Imaginaries: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 2. Three Urban Discourses: John Rennie Short. 3. Putting Cities First: Re-mapping the Origins of Urbanism: Ed Soja. 4. Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below: Anthony Vidler. 5. The Immaterial City: Representation, Imagination and Media Technologies: James Donald. 6. Film, Representation and Naples: Lesley Caldwell. 7. The City as an Imperial Centre: Imagining London in two Caribbean Novels: Riad Akbur. 8. Sleepwalking the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams: Steve Pile. 9. Contested Images of the City. City as Locus of Status, Capitalist Accumulation and Community - Competing Cultures in Southeast Asian Societies: Patrick Guinness. Part II: The Economy and the City 10. City Economies: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 11. The Economic Base of Contemporary Cities: Ash Amin. 12. Flexible Marxism and the Metropolis: Andy Merrifield. 13. Mono Centric and Poli Centric: New Urban Forms and Old Urban Paradigms: William A. V. Clark. 14. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York at the Millennium: Susan S. Fainstein and Michael Harloe. 15. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City: Saskia Sassen. 16. Turbulence and Sedimentation in the Labour Markets of Late 20th Century Metropoles: Nick Buck and Ian Gordon. 17. Informational Cities: Bob Catterall. 18. Diaspora Chinese Capital and Asia Pacific Urban Development: Chung-Tong Wu. 19. Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist Society: Charles Rutheiser. 20. Urban Transformation in the Capitals of the Baltic: Innovation Culture and Finance: Philip Cooke, Erik Terk, Raite Karnite, Giedrius Blagnys. Part III: Cities of Division and Difference 21. City Differences: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 22. Postcolonialism, Representation and the City: Anthony King. 23. Cities of Polarisation and Marginalization: Peter Marcuse. 24. Citizenship, Multiculturalism and the European City: Alisdair Rogers. 25. Working out the Urban: Gender Relations and the City: Liz Bondi and Hazel Christie. 26. The Sexual Geography of the City: Frank Mort. 27. From the Other Side of the Tracks: Dual Cities, Third Spaces, and the Urban Uncanny in Contemporary Discourses of 'Race' and Class: Phil Cohen. 28. Gentrification, Post-Industrialism and Industrial and Occupational Restructuring in Global Cities: Chris Hamnett. 29. Worlds Apart and Together: Trial by Space in Istanbul: Kevin Robins and Asu Aksoy. 30. Value Conflicts, Identity Construction and Urban Change: Lily Kong. Part IV: Public Cultures and Everyday Space 31. City Publics: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 32. The Social Constitution of the Public Realm: Richard Sennett. 33. City Life and the Senses: John Urry. 34. With Child to see Any Strange Thing: Everyday Life in the City: Nigel Thrift. 35. Walter Benjamin, Cosmopolitanism and the Narratives of City Spaces: Michael Keith. 36. "X Marks the Spot: Times Square Dead or Alive?: M. Christine Boyer. 37. Walking and Performing 'The City': A Melbourne Chronicle: Katherine Gibson and Ben Rossiter. 38. The Street Politics of Jackie Smith: John Paul Jones III. 39. Everyday Life in Bangkok: Annette Hamilton. 40. Streetchildren in Yogyakarta: Social/ Spatial Exclusion in the Public Spaces of the City: Harriot Beazley. 41. Cyberspace and the City: The Virtual City in Europe: Alessandro Aurigi and Steve Graham. Part V: Urban Politics and Urban Interventions 42. City Interventions: Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. 43. Planning in Relational Space and Time: Responding to New Urban Realities: Patsy Healey. 44. The Social Construction of Urban Policy: Allan Cochrane. 45. Urban Planning in the Late Twentieth Century: Patrick Troy. 46. Varied Legacies of Modernism in Urban Planning: Alan Mabin. 47. The Environment of the City ... or the Urbanisation of Nature: Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika. 48. Power and Urban Poltics Revisited: The Uses and Abuses of North American Urban Political Economy: Alan Harding. 49. Social Justice and the City: Equity, Cohesion and the Politics of Space: Fran Tonkiss. 50. Property Relations and Planning in European Urban Development: Michael Edwards. 51. The Politics of Universal Provision of Public Housing: Chua Beng-Huat. 52. Reintegrating the Apartheid City? Urban Policy and Urban Restructuring in Durban: Alison Todes. Index.
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Harvard University Press One Country Two Societies
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Harvard University Press Urban Legends
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance produced by hip hop. Peter L’Official turns to literature and visual arts to capture the history of a place whose truth lay obscured between the Bronx as symbol and the Bronx as lived fact.Trade ReviewThe great Bronx book we have needed for decades. L'Official cuts through the foliage of lazy journalism, unexamined assumptions, and political rhetoric and brings together the voices of writers, rappers, social scientists, and people on the street. The result is a nuanced picture of the South Bronx, which for almost a century has been mostly neglected, scorned, and viewed as expendable—perhaps one of New York City's biggest crimes. -- Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and The Other ParisThis cultural history of the South Bronx weaves between artistic disciplines and political attitudes, landing on a compelling story of how lived experience is told from the outside. L’Official has an acute way of seeing others’ ways of seeing, and he shows, in a series of exacting analyses, how familiar shorthand about the area has obscured its reality. -- Dan Adler * Vanity Fair *[L’Official] deliberately and skillfully reads the borough…through novels, movies, art, journalism, and municipal records, looking to both unpack and undo its mythology. The result is a vibrant cultural history that gestures beyond the tropes of the boogie down and the burning metropolis, those pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect that have dogged the area for half a century. -- Emily Raboteau * New York Review of Books *L’Official shows us, slowly and precisely, how novelists and artists and civil servants have deployed myths of the South Bronx as both backdrops and blank screens. Some of those myths have been canon for decades…Urban Legends is a parabolic dish microphone pointed at history, collecting the waves that outsiders have bounced off the South Bronx. -- Sasha Frere-Jones * Bookforum *A vibrant cultural history of the South Bronx…L’Official summons photography, film, fiction, and music to bear witness to the multifaceted creativity and vitality of the South Bronx, and deftly reveals a place overflowing with myths, dreams, images, and visions that make us see it afresh. This delightfully innovative narrative is the perceptive look that the Bronx and New York City has long deserved. -- Garnette Cadogan * Literary Hub *I happily devoured Peter L’Official’s terrific cultural narrative, which explores the creative renaissance of an inner city NYC borough, once a poster child for social turmoil, economic wreckage, and physical devastation…An important book that speaks with powerful relevance to the state of Black life in America today—and the demands of Black Lives Matter. -- Mark Favermann * Arts Fuse *L’Official is a careful, thorough, and inventive scholar, and the story he tells is utterly absorbing. Combining analyses of literature, the built environment, art, and municipal documents, Urban Legends is multidisciplinary work at its finest. -- Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the PacificUrban Legends is cultural history at its very best. L’Official demonstrates beautifully how literature, photography, film, journalism, and other renderings of the South Bronx in the imaginations of both its detractors and its defenders powerfully shaped the community’s fate. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeWell conceived, deeply argued, and consistently engaging, Urban Legends is a distinctive and highly original work of cultural history and interpretation that brings fresh insight to conversations about the city and the arts. A fine book. -- Carlo Rotella, author of The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago NeighborhoodThis is urban intellectual history at its best. * Choice *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Rise of a Japanese Chinatown
Book SynopsisRise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 18941895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace.
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Harvard University Press The Formation of the Parisian Bourgeoisie 16901830
Book SynopsisDespite their importance during the French Revolution, the Paris middle classes are little known. This book focuses on the family organization and the political role of the Paris commercial middle classes, using as a case study the Faubourg St. Marcel and particularly the parish of St. MÃdard.Trade ReviewDavid Garrioch’s new book boasts a veritably mouth-watering title. Those who know Dr. Garrioch’s earlier work on neighbourhood and community in eighteenth-century Paris will not be disappointed by the quality of his research and the extent of the archival sources on which his work is based—there has been page-turning and carton-wielding of heroic proportions behind this study. Very unusual for a work of this type, moreover, is the character of those sources: Dr. Garrioch draws extremely copiously on the archives of local self-government in Paris—parishional, ecclesiastical and police archives, plus the riches of the Minutier Central—to delineate a middle class captured essentially in terms of its engagement in local politics… This is a book which reads extremely well and which offers a thought-provoking new angle on a number of major problems of contemporary historiographical concern… Dr. Garrioch’s brave study highlights the importance of the development of the bourgeoisie in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, and underlines the need for an even more inclusive recounting of their history. -- Colin Jones * Journal of French History [UK] *This is a very significant contribution to French history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This account, which does not neglect economic change, offers a whole series of interesting new takes on the subject of the bourgeoisie. -- Sarah Maza, author of Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary FranceTable of ContentsPart I The Jansenist years: the work of Satan; the elect; the ruling families; power and local politics. Part II The changing of the guard: the decline of lineage; the new families and the new politics. Part III Revolution: the revolution in local politics. Part IV Paris of the notables, 1795-1830: interregnum; commerce, science, administration; the tutelage of the State.
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Harvard University Press Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low–income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization.Table of Contents* Introduction * The Harvard Urban Development Simulation Model * Simulated and Actual Housing Market Characteristics * Program Design and Analytics * Impacts of Subsidies on Target Neighborhoods * Impacts of Spatially Concentrated Policies * Gentrification and Displacement * Summary of Findings and Directions for New Research Appendixes * History of the Modeling Project and Comparison with Other Models * Employment Location and Land Use Accounting * Demographic Change, Job Change, and Moving Behavior * The Demand and Tenure Choice Submodels * The Supply Sector and the Role of Expectations * New Construction and Structure Conversion * Determination of Residence Location and Structure Rents
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Harvard University Press On the Corner African American Intellectuals and
Book SynopsisIn July 1964 when a Harlem riot shifted attention to the crisis in northern cities, African American intellectuals were thrust into the spotlight as interpreters of black urban life to white America. On the Corner revisits the moment when black urban life became, for these intellectuals, the topic that is reserved for blacks.Trade ReviewDaniel Matlin has written a fascinating account of how the riots of the late 1960s propelled African American intellectuals into the public eye. Called to speak as 'indigenous interpreters,' Romare Bearden, Kenneth Clark, and Amiri Baraka forged new political and artistic visions while navigating the shifting grounds of race and racism in American life. -- Martha Biondi, author of The Black Revolution on CampusOn the Corner offers a fresh and bold interpretation of black intellectual life in the 1960s. By taking familiar individuals--Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden--and casting them in new light, Matlin advances our understanding of how deeply intertwined conversations about race, identity, authenticity, the establishment, the grassroots, uplift, and masculinity happen to be. -- Jonathan Scott Holloway, author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941Drawing fresh and brilliant insight from the careers of Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden, Matlin unpacks the tangled debates over poverty and criminality from a half-century ago with the keenness of a sharp-eyed observer listening on the corner in real time. His observations about the imaginative power of the arts to capture the full dimensions of black humanity--its joy and pain, sorrow and celebration--show just how important the humanities are in illuminating some of our most enduring social challenges. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban AmericaIn this fascinating account of how black intellectuals and artists found themselves acting as indigenous interpreters of black life and culture to white America, Matlin examines the roles of Kenneth Clark, Amiri Baraka, and Romare Bearden from this perspective. -- W. Glasker * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Shanghai Modern
Book SynopsisLeo Ou-fan Lee gives us a wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng.Trade ReviewLee is at his strongest in discussing the inter-textuality of the various works he discusses in this section of the book, showing their relationship to both the European and Chinese literary traditions… Lee’s focus on republican-era Shanghai is a reminder of the renewed capacities of China’s largest city as a producer of the discourse of modernity in the post-Mao era. -- Antonia Finnane * Left History *The special flavor of prewar Shanghai emerges from these pages. Shanghai Modern is immensely rich in theoretical insights, and they emerge out of the dense, living portrait of old Shanghai, with its literary circles, dance-halls, movie theatres, façades, and streets. Lee makes you see how modern consciousness only exists in the circulation of forms, images, and ideas. The process is laid out before us in this rich and subtle description of the key epoch in the life of this tragic metropolis. -- Charles Taylor, McGill UniversityThis is the definitive study of the making of modern Shanghai. Leo Lee has remapped Shanghai’s cultural geography, marking out the intricate relations between city and coloniality in the 1930s. Admirably combining historical rigor with literary sensibility, it adumbrates an alternative style of cultural criticism for the new century. -- David Wang, Columbia UniversityThis is cultural history from inside out and from ground up. Lee reads the semiotics of Shanghai modernism with a stunning sensibility that evokes a cosmopolitan past when city streets were scenes of poetry rather than protests and when urban experience redefined the meaning of femininity. A major statement towards a new cultural history of modern China. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface PART I: The Background of Urban Culture 1. Remapping Shanghai 2. The Construction of Modernity in Print Culture 3. The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema 4. Textual Transactions: Discovering Literary Modernism through Books and Journals PART II: The Modern Literary Imagination: Writers and Texts 5. The Erotic, the Fantastic, and the Uncanny: Shi Zhecun's Experimental Stories 6. Face, Body, and the City: The Fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying 7. Decadent and Dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng 8. Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City III. Reflections 9. Shanghai Cosmopolitanism 10. Epilogue: A Tale of Two Cities Notes Glossary Index
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Harvard University Press The Urban Commons
Book SynopsisThrough voicemail, apps, websites, and Twitter, Boston’s sophisticated 311 system allows citizens to report potholes, broken streetlights, graffiti, and vandalism that affect everyone’s quality of life. Drawing on Boston’s rich data, Daniel T. O’Brien offers a model of what smart technology can do for cities seeking both growth and sustainability.Trade ReviewThis is one of the first studies of changing urban structure through the lens of new media and a major contribution to our understanding of the contemporary city. -- Michael Batty, author of Inventing Future CitiesThe use of data and technology to address problems of cities is undergoing a revolution thanks to an unlikely convergence of academics, local governments, businesses, technologists, and civic organizations. Dan O’Brien’s book gives us a timely, balanced, and optimistic assessment of this rising field of urban informatics and smart cities. -- Luís M. A. Bettencourt, University of ChicagoDan O’Brien’s The Urban Commons provides a refreshing deep dive into the new world of urban informatics and the art of getting things done in the Information Age. It isn’t about the data, it’s about people. And it’s about how new information technologies empower all of us to understand and improve the common goods we share in the places we love. -- Martin O’Malley, former Governor of MarylandIn The Urban Commons, Daniel O’Brien shows how the torrent of contemporary data—what many call ‘big data’—has the potential to reshape our understanding of how cities work. Setting aside hype in favor of rigor, the book takes the reader on a deep exploration of Boston’s innovative efforts to give citizens a role in governance through technology, especially its 311 system for reporting everything from potholes to squalid living conditions. O’Brien’s analysis of the voluminous data produced by this technology provides new insights on how public spaces are maintained, and his case study of Boston has broad implications for civic partnerships between cities and universities to rebuild communities. The Urban Commons will be of wide interest to all those concerned with the future of cities. -- Robert J. Sampson, Harvard University, author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood EffectDuring the past decade, opportunities to use new data sources and technologies to understand cities have generated enthusiasm across disciplines, with policymakers, in industry, and even among city residents. Dan O’Brien represents a new generation of scientists whose native tongue is fully digital. He applies a keen eye to look beneath the surface of these data sources not simply to provide a calibrated analysis of 311 but to demonstrate an approach to understanding a broad range of urban data sources. -- Charles E. Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago
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Princeton University Press Slumming Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian
Book SynopsisPaints a portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2004 Sonya Rudikoff Book Award, Northeast Victorian Studies Association "A bountiful, provocative, and piquant 'genealogy of benevolence and social welfare,' with more than enough sex to frighten the horses."--John Leonard, Harper's Magazine "Koven's study is undoubtedly one of the most important new contributions to the study of the Victorian city... It is, after all, a testimony to the provocactive brilliance of this book that the reader is left with not just answers to class and gender relations in Victorian London, but with new questions."--Lynda Nead, American Historical Review "A significant study ... that illuminates the complicated relationships between London's rich and poor from the mid-1800s to the start of World War I... [A] thoughtful, cogent, and copiously referenced work."--Library Journal "Given the constant stream of works on Victorian Britain, one sometimes feels that a moratorium is due. But occasionally a book comes along that makes one realize the exciting work that can still be done on that era. Seth Koven's Slumming is such a book, combining empirical richness with stimulating theoretical analysis and opening up questions for further research."--Lesley Hall, Times Higher Education Supplement "We tend to think of Victorian haves regarding the have-nots--when they thought of them at all--as another species whose sinful idleness accounted for their place below the bottom rung of the ladder. Slumming shows us how infinitely more complex and varied the response actually was... [T]he world [Koven] uncovers and its astonishing gallery of characters deserve the attention of a wider readership... How the rich nations treat both the third world and the claims of their own poor is an issue that is very much with us. Koven has done a great service to this continuing debate by charting how the Victorians met--and didn't meet--the challenge to their conscience."--Desmond Ryan, The Philadelphia Inquirerer "Slumming is a provocative, insightful study of one set of contradictions embedded in the ideology underlying Victorian middle- and upper-class relationships with the poor... Seth Koven has written more than a fine contribution to the historiography of Victorian poverty: this is a book that makes one think, about the present as well as the past."--Deborah Gorham, Labour/Le Travail "With assurance and grace, Slumming synthesizes the methods, topics, and insights of urban studies, gender history, queer studies, media analysis, and social history... Slumming does an exemplary job of integrating men and women into a single historical framework."--Sharon Marcus, Victorian Studies "Koven analyzes complex dynamics with non-judgmental subtlety. This fine-tuned approach allows Koven to dissect the uneven power dynamics of slumming a settlement work in a more nuanced fashion than many before him."--Matt Cook, History Workshop Journal "Slumming is a well-written and -researched book that will be of great use to scholars in history, literature, women's studies, and gay studies. Koven is a gifted writer and has used newspapers, novels, institutional records and newsletters, and several pictures and artworks to make his case. It is also a beautifully produced book, though the absence of a bibliography, particularly in such a thoroughly researched study, is frustrating. Still, Slumming will stimulate historical and literary work for many years; it asks important questions and gives fascinating answers."--Ginger Frost, H-Net "Slumming is a highly readable and important reassessment of the late Victorian phenomenon of visiting and experiencing the poverty of the East End first-hand... Despite the book's heavily theoretical base, Koven's prose races along, imparting a page-turning quality in places. Koven is excellent at exploring the little-known corners of the world of the 'slummers.'"--Antony Taylor, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv INTRODUCTION Slumming: Eros and Altruism in Victorian London 1 Slumming Defined 6 Who Went Slumming? Sources and Social Categories 10 Eros and Altruism: James Hinton and the Hintonians 14 PART ONE: INCOGNITOS, FICTIONS, AND CROSS-CLASS MASQUERADES 23 CHAPTER ONE Workhouse Nights: Homelessness, Homosexuality, and Cross-Class Masquerades 25 James Greenwood and London in 1866 31 Reading "A Night in a Workhouse" 36 Responses to "A Night in a Workhouse" 46 Homelessness as Homosexuality: Sexology, Social Policy, and the 1898 Vagrancy Act 70 Postscript: Legacies of "A Night" on Representations of the Homeless Poor 74 CHAPTER TWO Dr. Barnardo's Artistic Fictions: Photography, Sexuality, and the Ragged Child 88 Facts, Fictions, and Epistemologies of Welfare 94 "The Very Wicked Woman" and "Sodomany" in Dr. Barnardo's Boys' Home 103 Representing the Ragged Child 112 Joseph Merrick and the Monstrosity of Poverty 124 Conclusion 129 CHAPTER THREE The American Girl in London: Gender, Journalism, and Social Investigation in the Late Victorian Metropolis 140 Journalism as Autobiography, Autobiography as Fiction 142 Gender and Journalism 151 An "American Girl" Impersonating London's Laboring Women 155 Conclusion 177 PART TWO: CROSS-CLASS SISTERHOOD AND BROTHERHOOD IN THE SLUMS 181 CHAPTER FOUR The Politics and Erotics of Dirt: Cross-Class Sisterhood in the Slums 183 Cross-Class Sisterhood and the Politics of Dirt 184 "There will be something the matter with the ladies" 198 "Nasty Books": Dirty Bodies, Dirty Desires in Women's Slum Novels 204 Conclusion: "White Gloves" and "Dirty Hoxton Pennies" 222 CHAPTER FIVE The "New Man" in the Slums: Religion, Masculinity, and the Men's Settlement House Movement 228 The Sources of "Brotherhood" in late Victorian England 231 "Modern Monasteries," "Philanthropic Brotherhoods," and the Origins of the Settlement House Movement 236 Religion and Codes of Masculinity 248 "True hermaphrodites realised at last": Sexing the Male Settlement Movement 259 A Door Unlocked: The Politics of Brotherly Love in the Slums 276 CONCLUSION 282 MANUSCRIPT SOURCES 289 NOTES 293 INDEX 379
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Princeton University Press Making Cities Work
Book SynopsisBrings together some of the leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in fast-evolving economy. Drawing on the research in the social sciences, this book explores optimal ways to manage the modern city and proposes solutions to some of the most pressing urban problems.Trade Review"Making Cities Work lays out creative solutions and presents new data that encourages cities to take innovative steps. It is a valuable source for people interested in the future of cities, and should prove quite useful to public officials responsible for turning cities into better places to live."--Ipek Emeksiz, Journal of American Studies of Turkey "Making Cities Work represents an important contribution to on-going debates and discourses concerning the fortunes of American cities."--Thomas A. Hutton, Urban Studies Journal "The book may help to re-develop American cities. It holds many lessons for cities in the developing world."--Manjusha Misra, International Journal of Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables vii Foreword by Robert P. Inman xi Acknowledgments by Robert P. Inman xiii Contributors xv Chapter 1: Introduction: City Prospects, City Policies by Robert P. Inman 1 Chapter 2: Growth: The Death and Life of Cities by Edward L. Glaeser 22 Chapter 3: Transportation: Urban Transportation Policy by Kenneth A. Small 63 Chapter 4: Space: The Design of the Urban Environment by Witold Rybczynski 94 Chapter 5: Housing: Urban Housing Markets by Joseph Gyourko 123 Chapter 6: Immigration: How Immigration Affects U.S. Cities by David Card 158 Chapter 7: Race: The Perplexing Persistence of Race by Jacob L. Vigdor 201 Chapter 8: Poverty: Poverty among Inner-City Children by Janet Currie 226 Chapter 9: Education: Educating Urban Children by Richard J. Murnane 269 Chapter 10: Crime: Crime in the City by Philip J. Cook 297 Chapter 11: Finances: Financing City Services by Robert P. Inman 328 Index 363
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Princeton University Press The Silent Majority Suburban Politics in the
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Richmond.Trade Review"This is a powerful book on a powerful subject. It should have a lasting impact on the way historians think about modern southern politics, urbanization, civil rights, and race relations."--Raymond A. Mohl, Journal of American History "Matthew Lassiter persuasively argues in The Silent Majority that the Republicans gained in the South not because of regional racism but because of the meteoric growth of the Sun Belt suburbs, which created a new class of middle-income, socially moderate and fiscally conservative voters."--Clay Risen, Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Matthew D. Lassiter argues convincingly that academics and pundits alike are wrong to point to a top-down 'southern strategy' to explain why the South transformed from a Democratic Party into a Republican stronghold. The book presents a fresh way of thinking about not only late-twentieth-century American political history but also the impact of the postwar civil rights movement."--Damon Freeman, Journal of Southern History "In this engaging and important book, Matthew Lassiter recasts the history of the postwar sunbelt South. By focusing on the complex interactions of race, class, consumerism, and the politics of metropolitan space, he supplants the familiar 'southern strategy' interpretation with one of a 'suburban strategy' driven by color-blind arguments, individualism, and free-market consumerism at the grassroots... At a time when once solidly Republican enclaves ... are becoming more diverse and susceptible to incursion by Democrats, Lassiter's fine book offers provocative ways to examine the role of race, class, consumerism, and metropolitan space in our local and national politics."--Craig A. Kaplowitz, H-Net Reviews "Lassiter makes a major contribution ... by examining the importance of the suburb... Lassiter offers first-rate, path-breaking scholarship that covers new ground and raises key questions. This book is quite well suited for graduate courses in urban studies."--Timothy K. Kinsella, HistorianTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Part I: The Triumph of Moderation 21 Chapter 1: The Divided South 23 Chapter 2: HOPE in the New South 44 Chapter 3: The Open-Schools Movement 69 Chapter 4: The Strange Career of Atlanta Exceptionalism 94 Part II: The Revolt of the Center 119 Chapter 5: The "Charlotte Way" 121 Chapter 6: Suburban Populism 148 Chapter 7: Neighborhood Politics 175 Chapter 8: Class Fairness and Racial Stability 198 Part III: Suburban Strategies 223 Chapter 9: The Suburbanization of Southern Politics 225 Chapter 10: The Failure of the Southern Strategy 251 Chapter 11: Metropolitan Divergence 276 Chapter 12: Regional Convergence 301 Epilogue 324 Notes 331 Index 365
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Princeton University Press From the Ground Up from the Ground Up
Book SynopsisWhere do neighborhoods come from and why do certain resources and effects such as social capital and collective efficacy bundle together in some neighborhoods and not in others? This title argues that neighborhood communities emerge from neighbor networks, and shows that these social relations are unique because of particular geographic qualities.Trade Review"Grannis provides neighborhood effects researchers with an important set of conceptual tools for studying and understanding the processes that shape both the lives of neighborhood residents and the strength and efficacy of the communities they form."--Liam Downey, American Journal of Sociology "While I heartily recommend this book to my colleagues in geography, spatial analysis, and travel behavior, it should be of great interest to researchers in the sociology of communities as well."--Antonio Paez, Journal of Children and Poverty "Grannis makes some major contributions in this work... It is remarkable that the writing is not dull; in fact, Grannis captivates the reader with succinct, palpable writing (not in the least verbose) showcasing stories pertaining to his neighborhood data collection and using descriptive figures to summarize data. The reader cannot help but be drawn in to the text, seeing what Grannis describes."--Kyle M. Woosnam, Community DevelopmentTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Prologue xv CHAPTER ONE: Neighborhoods and Neighboring 1 Geography and Community 1 It's the Kids, Stupid! 4 Overview of the Book 8 CHAPTER TWO: The Stages of Neighboring 17 Neighboring: A Superposed Relation 17 Stage 1 Neighboring 20 Stage 2 Neighboring 20 Stage 3 Neighboring 23 Stage 4 Neighboring 25 Main Points in Review 27 CHAPTER THREE: Reconceptualizing Stage 1 Neighboring 28 Proximity 28 Boundaries 29 Face Blocks 31 Tertiary Face Blocks 32 Intersections 34 Main Points in Review 35 CHAPTER FOUR: Reconceptualizing Stage 1 Neighbor Networks 37 Layers of Complex Network Structures 37 T-Communities and Islands 42 Main Points in Review 46 CHAPTER FIVE: Selection and Influence 48 Selecting Homophilous Immediate Neighbors 48 Influence 52 Homophily and Influence Acting on Different Stages of Neighboring 56 Main Points in Review 57 CHAPTER SIX: Respondents, Interviews, and Other Data 59 Gang Neighborhood Ethnography and Interviews 60 Overview of the Other Data Collection Events 61 Structured Interviews 61 Cognitive Mapping and Alternatives 62 Data Collection in 68 Los Angeles Neighborhoods 65 Adaptive Link-Tracing 66 The Second Los Angeles Data Collection 67 College Town Census and Resample 68 Administrative Data 70 Main Points in Review 72 CHAPTER SEVEN: Selecting Stage 1 Neighbors 73 Selecting Racially Homophilous Tertiary Street Neighbors 73 Accepting Heterogenous Higher-Stage Neighbors 76 A Dialogue with Administrative Data 78 Segregating Tertiary Street Networks 79 Tertiary Street Network Borders 84 The Impact of a Single Tertiary Street Connection 89 Main Points in Review 90 CHAPTER EIGHT: Unintentional Encounters 93 The Substantive Reality of Passive Contacts 93 The "Lived" Experience of Tertiary Street Networks 96 A Note about Large, Multiunit Complexes 105 Main Points in Review 107 CHAPTER NINE: Stage 3 Neighbors and Tertiary Streets 109 Tertiary Street Proximity and Stage 3 Neighbors 109 Tertiary Street Networks and Stage 3 Neighbor Networks 113 More Than Proximity 119 Main Points in Review 127 CHAPTER TEN: The Importance of Neighbor Networks 129 Three Degrees of Neighboring 129 A Note about the Exhaustive Census 134 Neighboring Is a Family Relation 135 The Importance of Convenient Availability 139 Main Points in Review 144 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Network Influence Theory 148 Social Influence Network Theory 148 Beyond Density 151 The Horizon of Observability 155 Structural Cohesion 158 Merely a Mechanism? 159 Main Points in Review 161 CHAPTER TWELVE: Influence Networks in a College Town 162 T-Communities, Children, and the Horizon of Observability 162 T-Communities and Social Control 164 Neighbor Influence and T-Community Culture 166 Main Points in Review 176 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Influence Networks in a Gang Barrio 178 Geographic Neighborhood and Sociological Neighborhood 178 Neighborhood Community and Tertiary Street Networks 180 An Efficacious Neighborhood 182 Neighborhood Efficacy as a Function of Influence Networks 184 Influence Networks as a Function of Tertiary Street Networks 187 Main Points in Review 190 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Implications 192 Summary 192 What It All Means 197 APPENDIX: Survey Instrument 201 Notes 207 References 219 Index 237
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Princeton University Press American Moderns
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, a brand of men and women moved to New York City. For them, the city's immigrant neighborhoods provided a place where the fancies and forms of a new America could be tested. This book tells the story of most famous of these neighborhoods, Greenwich Village, which became a symbol of social and intellectual freedom.Trade Review"Stansell frames her book around three activities: talking, writing and loving. She compels readers to appreciate what was shockingly new in each activity--no small feat, since we now take (nearly) for granted the unfettered speech, print and sex that these early radicals found so daring."--Patricia Cline Cohen, New York Times "[American Moderns] is about the creation of a new life in early-twentieth-century New York... Stansell's book is a triumph."--Eunice Lipton, Nation "[Stansell's] history of Greenwich Village between 1890 and 1920 never forgets that people who defy political convention and people who defy artistic convention gravitate toward each other whatever their differences."--Village Voice "Stansell's book will certainly appeal to all those wishing to know more about radical politics in America, and its relationship with art and domestic life."--Richard Martin, American Studies Today
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Princeton University Press Noir Urbanisms Dystopic Images of the Modern
Book SynopsisDystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. This book traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture.Trade Review"Noir Urbanisms deserves to be widely read and debated. In describing why inequalities or disasters have occurred, this becomes a lesson for the architects and urban designers master-planning cities of the future."--Esme Fieldhouse, Blueprint MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction: Imaging the Modern City, Darkly by Gyan Prakash 1 MODERNISM AND URBAN DYSTOPIA Chapter 1: The Phantasm of the Apocalypse: Metropolis and Weimar Modernity by Anton Kaes 17 Chapter 2: Sounds Like Hell: Beyond Dystopian Noise by James Donald 31 Chapter 3: Tlatelolco: Mexico City's Urban Dystopia by Ruben Gallo 53 THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY Chapter 4: A Regional Geography of Film Noir:Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen by Mark Shiel 75 Chapter 5: Oh No, There Goes Tokyo: Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture by William M. Tsutsui 104 Chapter 6: Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? by Li Zhang 127 Chapter 7: Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque: The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema by Ranjani Mazumdar 150 IMAGING URBAN CRISIS Chapter 8: Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930 by David R. Ambaras 187 Chapter 9: Living in Dystopia: Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary African Cities by Jennifer Robinson 218 Chapter 10: Imaging Urban Breakdown: Delhi in the 1990s Ravi Sundaram by 241 Contributors 261 Index 265
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Princeton University Press Come Out Swinging The Changing World of Boxing in
Book SynopsisGleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson--the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s to what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas--Brooklyn's DUMBO. GTrade Review"Trimbur ... capture[s] the faces and dramas--often internal--of a modern, urban boxing gym."--Choice "This is rich and fascinating book... Lucid and refreshingly free of unessential academic jargon, this is a book that should be read by any anthropologist, historian or sociologist seeking to understand the changing world of sport and leisure since the 1980s. Most importantly, it is a book is written with great humanity."--Tony Collins, Sport in History "Trimbur has written a wonderful book about the world of boxing, specifically that place and space dedicated to boxing known as Gleason's Gym. Anyone who wants to understand boxing as practiced in 21st-century Brooklyn should read the sociological gift bestowed upon us called Come Out Swinging."--Joseph Trumino, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi List of Prominent Participants xv Preface xvii Chapter One: Survival in a City Transformed: The Urban Boxing Gym in Postindustrial New York 1 Chapter Two: Work without Wages 16 Chapter Three: Tough Love and Intimacy in a Community of Men 39 Chapter Four: Passing Time: The Expressive Culture of Everyday Gym Life 63 Chapter Five: The Changing Politics of Gender 89 Chapter Six: Buying and Selling Blackness: White-Collar Boxing and the Cultural Capital of Racial Difference 117 Epilogue 142 Methodological Appendix: Ethnographic Research in the Urban Gym 149 Notes 155 References 181 Index 193
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Princeton University Press Upscaling Downtown
Book SynopsisOnce known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic boutiques and hotels, and, most notably, a vibrant nightlife culture. While a burgeoning bar scene can be viewed as a positive sign of urban transformation, tensions lurk beneath, reflecting the social conTrade Review"Using bars as a barometer for gentrification, Ocejo explores the dynamics of change on New York City's Bowery, once a working-class neighborhood best known for its cheap hotels and skid-row denizens... The lens on gentrification is unique, and the study contributes to a thriving body of work that explores the conflicts that emerge in formerly downtrodden neighborhoods when luxury housing, restaurants catering to a well-to-do crowd, and evolving concepts of quality of life displace long-term residents... The strongly grounded analysis is enlivened by many interviews and casual conversations, illustrative of the hours of research and observation that informed the narrative and attest to the author's commitment to the project."--Choice "Through this snapshot of several years in Bowery, Ocejo reveals much about meaning, power, and a specific kind of neighborhood change, happening (or happening soon) in an upscaling community near us all."--Zandria F. Robinson, City & Community "Beautifully written... Empirically thick and theoretically stimulating analysis, a welcome contribution, useful for students, scholars, and a broader audience, that helps to address the role and relevance that commercial transformations have in the processes of urban change."--Magda Bolzoni, Sociologica "Ocejo is meticulous in the breadth and depth of his ethnographic data. By providing historical context, in-depth interviews, and lively ethnographic vignettes that weave together throughout the book, he provides us with both a diachronic and a synchronic overview of the urban nightlife within these three neighborhoods... Upscaling Downtown does what great urban ethnography does: it richly details the specificities and uniqueness of particular places, while simultaneously provoking us to consider larger social processes, in this case the forging of local community and identity amid the changing social-cultural-economic consequences of gentrification."--Black Hawk Hancock, Social ForcesTable of ContentsPREFACE IX INTRODUCTION Night and Day 1 CHAPTER 1 The Bowery and Its Bars 19 CHAPTER 2 Growing Nightlife Scenes 54 CHAPTER 3 Weaving a Nostalgia Narrative 86 CHAPTER 4 Entrepreneurial Spirits 117 CHAPTER 5 Regulating Nightlife Scenes 149 CHAPTER 6 The Limits of Local Democracy 181 CONCLUSION Upscaling New York 209 METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX Studying the Social Ecosystem of Bars 221 NOTES 227 REFERENCES 245 INDEX 253
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