Seeing cities change: Local culture and class
classe, class, gentrification, mutation urbaine, cadre bâti, built environment, culture urbaine, voisinage, mixité sociale, ethnicity, éthnicité, migration, Krase Jerome
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city.<br /> <br /> Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyse how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.<br /> <br /> Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.</div> </div> <b>Jerome Krase</b> is Murray Koppelman Professor and Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York.</div> </div>
Jerome Krase
Ashgate
February 2012
300
Ouvrage
Taipei: City of displacements
Taipei, espace public, paysage urbain, culture urbaine, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, cartographie, built environment, cadre bâti, Allen Joseph R.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects - maps, public art, parks - Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the particular, to see sociocultural phenomena in their historical and contemporary contexts.<br /> <br /> <b>Joseph R. Allen</b> is professor of Chinese literature and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.</div> </div>
Joseph R. Allen
University of Washington Press
November 2011
288
Ouvrage
The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
littérature, film, forme urbaine, espace urbain, Asie, Asia, culture urbaine, paysage urbain, ville coloniale, croissance urbaine, built environment, cadre bâti, Watson Jini Kim
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their colonized past and globalized present.<br /> <br /> Tracing the way newly constructed spaces—including expressways, high-rises, factory zones, and department stores—become figured within cultural texts, The New Asian City explores how urban transformations were rationalized, perceived, and fictionalized. Watson shows how literature, film, and poetry have described and challenged contemporary Asian metropolises, especially around the formation of gendered and laboring subjects in these new spaces. She suggests that by embracing the postwar growth-at-any-cost imperative, they have buttressed the nationalist enterprise along neocolonial lines.<br /> <br /> The New Asian City provides an innovative approach to how we might better understand the gleaming metropolises of the Pacific Rim. In doing so, it demonstrates how reading cultural production in conjunction with built environments can enrich our knowledge of the lived consequences of rapid economic and urban development.</div> </div> <b>Jini Kim Watson </b>is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University.</div> </div>
Jini Kim Watson
University of Minnesota Press
November 2011
312
Ouvrage
African metropolitan architecture
architecture, cadre bâti, built environment, environnement urbain, photographie, Africa, Afrique, Adjaye David
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The architecture and built environment of African cities are documented in groundbreaking photographs by acclaimed architect David Adjaye. David Adjaye is renowned for his highly acclaimed buildings in Europe and the United States. Of Tanzanian descent but raised and educated in London, he has found endless inspiration for his modern buildings in Africa. This book is the culmination of a personal quest--a decadelong project to document the built environment of every major African city.<br /> <br /> Adjaye has photographed thousands of structures and places, letting each speak for itself in contrast to a design world obsessed with photorealistic slickness. Fifty-three cities are featured, arranged by terrain and region, including: the Maghreb, the Sahel, Savannah and Grassland, Mountain and Highveld, Desert, and Forest. Each is presented with a concise urban history, fact file, maps, and satellite imagery along with the photographs and essays by leading scholars and critics.<br /> <br /> This handsome seven-volume slipcased edition is one of the most original and ambitious publications of our time and is sure to be among the great architectural collectibles.<br /> <br /> <b>David Adjaye</b> is the principal of Adjaye Associates, London, New York, and Berlin.</div> </div>
David Adjaye
Rizzoli
November 2011
568
Ouvrage
Creating cities: Culture, space and sustainability. The 1st City, Culture and Society conference
ville créative, creative city, culture urbaine, développement urbain, développement durable, ville viable, économie, politique urbaine, mobilité, cadre bâti, built environment, réseaux, croissance urbaine, Schulz Evelyn, Okano Hirosho
<div><b>Extract from the Introduction by Evelyn Schulz and Hiroshi Okano:</b></div> </div> The papers gathered here are the outcome of Creating Cities; Culture, Space and Sustainability: The 1st City, Culture and Society (CCS) Conference which took place in Munich, Germany, February 25-27, 2012, and was organized by Evelyn Schulz ( Japan Center, LMU Munich) in cooperation with Eveline Dürr (Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, LMU Munich), Irene Goetz (Institute for European Ethnology, LMU Munich), Franz Waldenberger ( Japan Center, LMU Munich), Gordon Winder (Seminar of Economic History, LMU Munich), and the Urban Research Plaza of Osaka City University. <br /> <br /> The term creativity seems to bridge a conceptual gap that is the result of challenges posed by today’s demand for sustainable urban development strategies. Accordingly, the point of the conference was not so much to examine individual urban creative industries projects. Considering the many different urban development issues, such as shrinking resources, (in)stability, and rampant urban growth, the conference, rather, attempted to shed light on the heterogeneous forces at work and tried to forecast possible future developments. The conference approached the multifaceted and rather controversial creative city debate from various points of view. <br /> <br /> The conference’s goal was to analyze the economic, social, political, and cultural requirements for urban development as well as the global dimension of such processes. The conference focused on the following questions: As far as urban development is concerned, how do growth, on one hand, and the necessity for social and ecological Sustain- ability, on the other hand, interact? How does a created environment affect social space? How should a city be in order to promote creativity? When it comes right down to it, what actually is creativity? Which impact does cultural diversity have on the creative output? How do cities approach social and cultural diversity? How do their strategies influence creative activity? Do these kinds of strategies mean a risk too or are they rather the engine behind an economically and socially sustainable urban development? How far can political forces really create a creative city, an urban environment that encourages innovation and economic growth? These and similar questions were discussed by means of a wide range of case studies from all over the world and pertaining to a diverse range of fields of study.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> Evelyn Schlulz and Hiroshi Okano - Introduction</div> </div> I. Creative diversity, socioscapes, and cultural politics</div> Eveline Dürr - Spaces of poverty, spaces of prosperity: Incomplete tourist encounters in Mexico</div> Mari Kobayashi - Creating creative cities?: Cultural administration and local authorities in Japan</div> Ana Rosas Mantecón - Projects of creativity and inclusion: The challenges of cultural development in Mexico City</div> Evelyn Schulz - Revitalizing Tokyo's back alleys as areas of cultural sustainability and a decelerated lifestyle</div> Lidewij Tummers - Creativity starts here: Rotterdam (NL): Creative citizens meet creative city policies</div> </div> II. Networks, mobility and built environment</div> Sonja Beeck - From growth to quality: Less is future</div> Roger Keil - Mobility in the in-between city: Getting stuck between the local and the global</div> Glen Norcliffe - Neoliberal hypermobility and the tricycle</div> Paul Waley - Finding a place for Japanese and Chinese cities within an East Asian regional urbanism</div> Gordon M. Winder - Mediating a global network in crisis: The New York Times maps the moral geography of global finance</div> </div>
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Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University
2012
99
Autre
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