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Author : John H. Mollenkopf
Release : 1983-11-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Contested City by : John H. Mollenkopf
Download or read book The Contested City written by John H. Mollenkopf. This book was released on 1983-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes case studies of Boston (Mass) and San Francisco.
Author : Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Release : 2019-01-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 108/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contested City by : Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Download or read book Contested City written by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Brendan Gill Prize finalist For forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since World War II. Artist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. Simultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects, Contested City bridges art, design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities.
Author : Sara González
Release : 2017-12-12
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contested Markets, Contested Cities by : Sara González
Download or read book Contested Markets, Contested Cities written by Sara González. This book was released on 2017-12-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries. Today, they have a particular value as mostly independent, non-corporate and often informal work spaces serving millions of the most vulnerable communities across the world. At the same time, markets have become fashionable destinations for ‘foodies’ and middle class consumers and tourists looking for authenticity and heritage. The confluence of these potentially contradictory actors and their interests turns markets into "contested spaces". Contested Markets, Contested Cities provides an analytical and multidisciplinary framework within which specific markets from Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Sofia, Madrid, London and Leeds (UK) are explored. This pioneering and highly original work examines public markets from a perspective of contestation looking at their role in processes of gentrification but also in political mobilisation and urban justice.
Author : Ngai Ming Yip
Release : 2018-10-13
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Contested Cities and Urban Activism by : Ngai Ming Yip
Download or read book Contested Cities and Urban Activism written by Ngai Ming Yip. This book was released on 2018-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves “movement”. It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south.
Author : Menachem Klein
Release : 2001-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 544/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jerusalem by : Menachem Klein
Download or read book Jerusalem written by Menachem Klein. This book was released on 2001-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Klein (political science, Bar-Ilan U.) is a board member of B'tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. He draws on a number of disciplines to detail the political history of Jerusalem in Arab-Israel, relations since the 1960s, a relationship of unequal partners that became the focus of classes again in late 2000. c. Book News Inc.
