Networked urbanisms: Connections and communication across space and time
, lien social, interaction sociale, réseaux sociaux, social networks, technology, technologie, environnement urbain, Presner Todd, Stark David, Hirsch Tad, Hosein Hanson
<div><b>Organisers' description:</b></div>
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How are new digital media changing how we build and maintain the social connections that make urban environments vibrant? This panel brings together experts from humanities, social science, and technology to focus on questions of how computer networks and social networks are reshaping, remapping, and remaking cities. Technology and infrastructure have always helped to define urban environments and rapidly changing information and communication technologies are no exception. From digital maps to online social networks, new technologies are changing what we know about the cities we are in, how we use them, and how we connect to one another.</div>
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<b>Todd Presner </b>is Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles and the founder and director of the HyperCities digital mapping platform.</div>
<b>David Stark </b>is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.</div>
<b>Tad Hirsch </b>is a Researcher in the People and Practices Research Group at Intel.</div>
<b>Hanson Hosein </b>is Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington.</div>
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Todd Presner,
David Stark,
Tad Hirsch,
Hanson Hosein
8 December 2010
http://www.nowurbanism.org/#Past
Diversity in the city: What are our limits?
diversity, diversité, mixité sociale, multiculturalism, multiculturalisme, urbanité, espace public, immigration, lien social, interaction sociale, intégration, Australia, Australie, Fincher Ruth
<div><b>Transcribed excerpt from Professor Fincher's lecture:</b></div>
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Today I'll be mentioning a number of different kinds of diversity... and asking the general question, what are our limits in allowing them their expression in the city? I'll be drawing on some of my own recent work, and on the work of lots of colleagues, to make the argument that though we in Australia are well-schooled in the discourses of things like multi-culturalism that value and acknowledge diversity, there is some evidence in our cities that we, some of us, are not very good, in fact, at accommodating or encouraging, and sometimes even tolerating, some differences. And that sometimes visible difference has become tied up with fear, notions of risk, and disorder.</div>
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<b>Ruth Fincher </b>is Chair in Geography at The University of Melbourne.</div>
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Alternative link</a> </b>to the recording via Radio Adelaide (scroll down or search to locate mp3 link).</div>
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Ruth Fincher
10 July 2009
http://hdl.handle.net/2328/7469
Gender and sociability in early modern London
women, femmes, gender, genre, London, Londres, voisinage, community, communauté, interaction sociale, société urbaine, lien social, Reinke-Williams Tim, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, seizième s!ècle, dix-septième siècle, histoire urbaine
<div><b>Seminar description from the <a href="http://ihrprojects.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/spot-newsletter-19-october-2010/" target="_blank">IHR Digital blog</a> : </b></div>
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Tim Reinke-Williams from the University of Northampton presented to the Metropolitan History Seminar group, a paper entitled ‘Gender and sociability in early modern London’. This paper examines women of the middling sort and labouring poor in relation to London neighbourhood communities of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Reinke-Williams scrutinises this topic through neighbourliness, company and civility.</div>
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<b>Tim Reinke-Williams </b>is a Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton.</div>
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Tim Reinke-Williams
13 October 2010
http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/metropolitan-history/2010-10-13-Tim-Reinke-Williams
[Limited access] or the open city?
, aménagement urbain, intégration, interaction sociale, lieu public, fragmentation sociale, gated communities, espace public, espace urbain, société urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, mutation urbaine, Christiaanse Kees, privatisation
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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The idea of the open city as a place of social integration, cultural diversity and collective identity is perceived as an irreversible achievement of modernity, and fuels our visions for a sustainable urban future. Nevertheless, we are witnessing increasing fragmentation and seclusion, which threatens the existence of the open city. Suburban compounds, gated communities, university campuses, covered shopping malls, urban entertainment areas, airport security zones, holiday resorts, all tend to develop into privatized and controlled zones, which are connected with the city at large by a limited number of corridors and access points. Public space - traditionally understood as the ultimate space of social encounter and equality - is being eroded by commerce, changing lifestyles and functionality. This lecture will address whether these conditions are destroying the sensible tissue of the open city, which are intended to encourage social interaction and balance. Are cities degenerating into secluded islands that denying a balanced urban totality? And how might the open city react to these developments?</div>
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<b>Kees Christaanse</b> is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the ETH Zurich and the founder of KCAP, which has offices in Rotterdam, Zurich and London. He is a member of the Mayor's Design for London Advisory Group.</div>
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Kees Christiaanse
20 November 2007
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/PublicEvents/events/2007/20071029t1631z001.aspx
Migrants and strangers in an African city: Exile, dignity, belonging
urbanité, Africa, Afrique, Brazzaville, migrant, immigration, interaction sociale, intégration, anthropologie, Whitehouse Bruce
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of “strangers.” Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children the customs of their communities of origin. Migrants and Strangers in an African City challenges Pan-Africanist ideas of transnationalism and diaspora in today’s globalized world.</div> </div> <b>Bruce Whitehouse </b>is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University.</div> </div>
Bruce Whitehouse
Indiana University Press
February 2012
288
Ouvrage
Sanctuaries of the city: Lessons from Tokyo
, culture urbaine, interaction sociale, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, mégapole, espace sacré, Tokyo, Greve Anni, Durkheim Emile
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It argues that certain urban societies are more robust than others because they offer socio-spatial capacities that enable the development of skills for coping with modern forms of living. It studies places that may open the way to an international culture, namely market places, venues for performing arts and religious sites, which – with particular reference to the Durkheimian tradition – are considered here in their quality as sanctuaries. From its empirical analysis of such sanctuaries in Tokyo, this book develops a more general theory about mega-cities, urban sociability and identity.</div> </div> <b>Anni Greve </b>is Associate Professor in The Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University.</div> </div>
Anni Greve
Ashgate
September 2011
216
Ouvrage
The cosmopolitan canopy : Race and civility in everyday life
, ethnologie, cosmopolitisme, espace public, interaction sociale, société urbaine, race, Philadelphia, Anderson Elijah, sociologie urbaine
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America.<br /> <br /> Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street, sociologist Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy”—the urban island of civility that exists amidst the ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves where segregation is the norm. Under the cosmopolitan canopy, diverse peoples come together, and for the most part practice getting along. Anderson’s path-breaking study of this setting provides a new understanding of the complexities of present-day race relations and reveals the unique opportunities here for cross-cultural interaction.<br /> <br /> Anderson walks us through Center City Philadelphia, revealing and illustrating through his ethnographic fieldwork how city dwellers often interact across racial, ethnic, and social borders. People engage in a distinctive folk ethnography. Canopies operating in close proximity create a synergy that becomes a cosmopolitan zone. In the vibrant atmosphere of these public spaces, civility is the order of the day. However, incidents can arise that threaten and rend the canopy, including scenes of tension involving borders of race, class, sexual preference, and gender. But when they do—assisted by gloss—the resilience of the canopy most often prevails. In this space all kinds of city dwellers—from gentrifiers to the homeless, cabdrivers to doormen—manage to co-exist in the urban environment, gaining local knowledge as they do, which then helps reinforce and spread tolerance through contact and mutual understanding.<br /> <br /> With compelling, meticulous descriptions of public spaces such as 30th Street Station, Reading Terminal Market, and Rittenhouse Square, and quasi-public places like the modern-day workplace, Anderson provides a rich narrative account of how blacks and whites relate and redefine the color line in everyday public life. He reveals how eating, shopping, and people-watching under the canopy can ease racial tensions, but also how the spaces in and between canopies can reinforce boundaries. Weaving colorful observations with keen social insight, Anderson shows how the canopy—and its lessons—contributes to the civility of our increasingly diverse cities.</div> </div> <b>Elijah Anderson </b>holds the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professorship in Sociology at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project.</div> </div>
Elijah Anderson
W.W. Norton and Company
March 2011
318
Ouvrage
Vico and Naples : The urban origins of modern social theory
Vico Giambattista, Naples, philosophie, société urbaine, politique de la ville, Naddeo Barbara Ann, interaction sociale
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Vico and Naples is an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) that reveals the politics and motivations of one of Europe’s first scientists of society. According to the commonplaces of the literature on the Neapolitan, Vico was a solitary figure who, at a remove from the political life of his larger community, steeped himself in the recondite debates of classical scholarship to produce his magnum opus, the New Science. Barbara Ann Naddeo shows, however, that at the outset of his career Vico was deeply engaged in the often-tumultuous life of his great city and that his experiences of civic crises shaped his inquiry into the origins and development of human society.<br /> <br /> With its attention to Vico’s historical, rhetorical, and jurisprudential texts, this book recovers a Vico who was keenly attuned to the social changes transforming the political culture of his native city. He understood the crisis of the city’s corporate social order and described the new social groupings that would shape its future. In Naddeo’s pages, Vico comes alive as a prescient judge of his city and the political conundrum of Europe’s burgeoning metropolises. He was dedicated to the acknowledgment and juridical remedy of Naples’ vexing social divisions and ills. Naddeo also presents biographical vignettes illuminating Vico’s role as a Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Naples and his bid for the prestigious Morning Chair of Civil Law, which foundered on the directives of the Habsburgs and the politics of his native city. Rich with period detail, this book is a compelling and vivid reconstruction of Vico’s life and times and of the origins of his powerful notion of the social.</div> </div> <b>Barbara Ann Naddeo </b>is Associate Professor of History at CUNY : The City College of New York.</div> </div>
Barbara Ann Naddeo
Cornell University Press
March 2011
312
Ouvrage
Can neighbourhoods save the city? Community development and social innovation
, voisinage, habitants, community, communauté, mouvement social, citoyenneté, société urbaine, gouvernance, Moulaert Frank, Swyngedouw Erik, Martinelli Flavia, Gonzalez Sara, interaction sociale
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world.<br />
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SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building – is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organizing urban collectives are reshaping the urban scene in dynamic, creative, innovative and empowering ways. It argues that such grass-roots initiatives are vital for generating a socially cohesive urban condition that exists alongside the official state-organized forms of urban governance.<br />
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The book is thus a major contribution to socio-political literature, as it seeks to overcome the duality between community-development studies and strategies, and the solidarity-based making of a diverse society based upon the recognising and maintaining of citizenship rights. It will be of particular interest to both students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, social geography and political science.</div>
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<b>Frank Moulaert</b> is Professor of Spatial Planning at the University of Leuven, Belgium.<br />
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<b>Flavia Martinelli </b>is professor of Analysis of territorial systems at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy.<br />
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<b>Sara Gonzalez</b> is Lecturer in Human Critical Geography at the School of Geography, University of Leeds and the Spanish editor of ACME. <br />
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<b>Erik Swyngedouw</b> is Professor of Geography at Manchester University.</div>
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NC
Routledge
July 2010
248
Ouvrage
Insurgent public space : Guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities
, lieu public, mouvement social, innovation, citadin, interaction sociale, jardin, culture urbaine, arts de la rue, Hou Jeffrey
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities.<br />
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With nearly 20 illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco.<br />
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Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilised in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored.</div>
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available on the publisher's website</a>.</div>
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<b>Jeffrey Hou</b> is Chair and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle.</div>
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NC
Routledge/Taylor and Francis
April 2010
278
Ouvrage
The essential William H. Whyte
, espace urbain, espace public, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, , sociabilité, aménagement urbain, centre-ville, habitants, interaction sociale, Whyte William H.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements, The Last Landscape, The Social Life of Urban Spaces, and City: Rediscovering the Center, as well as many of Whyte’s articles from Fortune Magazine.</div>
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<b>William H. Whyte</b> was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.</div>
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<b>Albert LaFarge</b> was raised in New York City, where he has worked as a book editor since 1985.</div>
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William H. Whyte
Albert LaFarge (ed.)
Fordham University Press
2000
383
Ouvrage
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G8fFxmhSIqIC&dq
Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
, centre-ville, aménagement urbain, renouvellement urbain, voisinage, urbanité, interaction sociale, gentrification, community, communauté, États-Unis, United States, Bennett Larry
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Larry Bennett's <i>Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods</i> examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods.</div> </div> Bennett draws upon lively case studies - ranging from Detroit's Renaissance Center to New York City's SoHo to Chicago's Wrigley Field - to relate physical redevelopment and urban social life. He demonstrates that a small, well-located delicatessen can bring people together while clusters of multi-million-dollar office centers in renovated downtowns can drive them apart.</div> </div> Bennett's evaluation of contemporary urban rebuilding, which is unique in giving equal attention to the political, economic, and social impact of urban design and rebuilding, is frequently pessimistic. He finds that the gentrification of many big-city neighborhoods and the design strategies chracterizing new downtowns do little to promote street life, unplanned social encounters, or public life in general. Bennett also contends some advocates and practitioners of the much-praised neighborhood movement have chosen isolation and local security as their primary goals, thus echoing in their concerns the physical plans developed by urban designers. In contrast, Bennett argues, both groups should embrace a vision that encompasses the entire city, or they will risk losing some of the best things cities encourage - surprise, tolerance, innovation, and democratic participation.</div> </div> Bennett does find cause for optimism in the designs of some particularly innovative architects and planners, and he praises the broadening initiatives taken by many residents acting independently to give life to their cities. American cities face a crossroads, he says, and must choose between becoming genuine communities or a series of isolated zones.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> 1. The new American city</div> 2. The downtown renaissance</div> 3. Neighborhood or enclave?</div> 4. Three visions of the prospective American city</div> 5. The environmental politics of neighborhood</div> 6. The future of the new American city</div> </div> <b>Larry Bennett </b>is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University.</div> </div>
Larry Bennett
The Ohio State University Press
1990
171
Ouvrage
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6208
Associational life in African cities : Popular responses to the urban crisis
Africa, Afrique, service public, association, gouvernance, , pauvreté, infrastructures, pays en développement, interaction sociale, religion, civil society, société civile, logement, foncier, infrastructures, Tostensen Arne, Tvedten Inge, Vaa Mariken
NC
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
2011
320
Ouvrage
Integration and the city : German journal of urban studies (No. 1, 2001)
, insertion, intégration, pauvreté, urbanité, ségrégation urbaine, immigration, interaction sociale, Göschel Albrecht
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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The "German Journal of Urban Studies", like its predecessor of many years standing, the "Archiv für Kommunalwissenschaften", is a forum for all disciplines related to urban studies. The objective is to further the transfer of knowledge from research and scholarship to local government praxis, and of practitioners' experience and expectations to the academic community. The journal thus addresses scholars and researchers, all actors involved in local government-like councils, public authorities, industry, the media, and professional associations-and the interested (professional) public.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Albrecht Göschel - Integration and the City<br />
Thomas Krämer-Badoni - Urbanity and Social Integration<br />
Walter Hanesch - Poverty and Integration at the Local Level<br />
Jürgen Friedrichs and Jörg Blasius - The Socio-Spatial Integration of Turks in two Cologne Residential Neighbourhoods<br />
Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel - Integration and Segregation - Thoughts on an Old Debate<br />
Rosemarie Sackmann - Integration of Immigrants in France and The Netherlands<br />
Kai Hofmann and Wolfgang Scherf - The Effects of the Tax Reform 2000 in Germany on Local Communities</div>
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<b>Albrecht Göschel </b>has a background in architecture and social policy. He is currently teaching at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the 'Internationalen Centrum für Kultur und Management' in Salzburg.</div>
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<b>NB : </b>As of November 2010, the editorial by Albrecht Göschel was not available to read online.</div>
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NC
German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
2001
121
Revue
http://www.difu.de/en/publikationen/2001/integration-and-the-city.html
Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town
, mémoire, culture urbaine, société urbaine, urbanité, interaction sociale, imaginaire, violence urbaine, histoire urbaine, Cape Town, Le Cap, Field Sean, Meyer Renate, Swanson Felicity
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and visual histories drawn from people, who live, work and creatively express themselves in the city.<br />
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This book explores the apartheid legacies of the city and demonstrates that cultural life flourished through people’s resilience in spite of adversity. Authors move beyond apartheid history to analyse the reflective ways in which people are coming to terms with that history through memory work, performance and memorialisation. Other chapters provide contemporary views of local interactions such as moments of urban violence or people negotiating the challenges of a globalised world.<br />
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Whatever the context, this book traces social and cultural interactions over time and across city spaces that speak directly to the senses, memories and imagining of Cape Town.<br />
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Imagining the City makes an important contribution to public discourse about a vision for, and ownership of the city by affirming the memory of its inhabitants, and by hinting at the work that can, and should still be done in foregrounding memory and culture in the re-imagination of Cape Town as a city.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Foreword - Mike van Graan<br />
Introduction - Sean Field and Felicity Swanson<br />
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Disruptive memories :<br />
1 Sites of memory in Langa - Sean Field<br />
2 So there I sit in a Catch-22 situation’: Remembering and imagining trauma in the District Six Museum - Sofie M.M.A. Geschier<br />
3 Between waking and dreaming: Living with urban fear, paradox and possibility - Renate Meyer<br />
4 The quickest way to move on is to go back’: Bomb blast survivors’ narratives of trauma and recovery - Anastasia Maw<br />
5 Where is home? Transnational migration and identity amongst Nigerians in Cape Town - Iyonawan Masade<br />
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Resilient cultures :<br />
6 ‘Catch with the eye’: Stories of Muslim food in Cape Town - Gabeba Baderoon<br />
7 Julle kan ma New York toe gaan, ek bly in die Manenberg’: An oral history of jazz in Cape Town from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s - Colin Miller<br />
8 Da struggle kontinues into the 21st century: Two decades of nation-conscious rap in Cape Town - Ncedisa Nkonyeni<br />
9 Changing nature: working lives on Table Mountain, 1980–2000 - Louise Green<br />
10 ‘Language of the eyes’: Stories of contemporary visual art practice in Cape Town - Thabo Manetsi and Renate Meyer<br />
11 ‘Die SACS kom terug’: Intervarsity rugby, masculinity and white identity at the University of Cape Town, 1960s–1970s - Felicity Swanson</div>
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<b>Dr Sean Field</b> is the Director of the Centre for Popular Memory in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town<br />
<b>Renate Meyer</b> is a researcher and archival officer with the Centre for Popular Memory<br />
<b>Felicity Swanson</b> is a training co-ordinator with the Centre for Popular Memory</div>
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NC
HSRC Press
2007
248
Ouvrage
http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?productid=2193&cat=0&bestseller=Y&freedownload=1
The open urban studies journal (Vol. 1, 2008)
, économie, développement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, patrimoine, conservation, film, mémoire, mixité sociale, interaction sociale, politique culturelle
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include the: theory, methods, planning, development, analysis, design, policies and programs applied to urban studies.<br />
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The Open Urban Studies Journal, a peer reviewed journal, aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments and research in the field. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available worldwide.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Creative Cities and the Film Industry: Antalya’s Transition to a Eurasian Film Centre - Bahar Durmaz, Tan Yigitcanlar and Koray Velibeyoglu<br />
Spatial Strategies of Urban Development: Rescaling and Territorialization in Post Reform China - J. Shen<br />
Conservation Plans – A Model for Economic Exploitation - I. Schnell and B. Barzilay<br />
Political Power, Collective Memory, and American Central Cities: The Discourses of the Conservative Elite’s Counter-Memory of the City - A.J. Jacobs<br />
Together or Separate in the Neighbourhood?: Contacts Between Natives and Turks in Amsterdam - Peer Smets and Nicoline Kreuk </div>
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Multiple authors
Bentham Open
2008
37
Revue
http://www.bentham.org/open/tousj/V001-GenArt.htm
Liminalities : On the city
, ethnologie, espace urbain, espace public, espace de transit, déplacements, art, film, banlieue, émeute, reconversion, littérature, transport, interaction sociale, Makagon Daniel, représentations
<b>Daniel Makagon</b> is an associate professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago.</div>
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NC
Liminalities
2008
Various pages
Revue
http://liminalities.net/4-1/
Reconciliation through reintegration?
, aménagement urbain, mixité sociale, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, voisinage, conflit urbain, interaction sociale, intégration, Beirut, Beyrouth
<b>Abstract from the author : </b></div>
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Reconciliation through reintegration? : a study on spatial proximity and social relations in two post-civil war Beirut neighborhoods.</div>
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Although the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1991 and Beirut became a reunified city, much of it remains divided between a Christian East and a Muslim West. Beyond certain parts of the capital, many of its residential neighborhoods remain almost entirely religiously homogeneous. This study takes an in-depth look at two neighborhoods undergoing sectarian integration. Relying on neighborhood observations and face-to-face interviews with over 30 residents, it highlights the reasons that residents have chosen to reside in non-co-religious neighborhoods. Factors facilitating sectarian residential integration seem to include a past history in the neighborhood, historical ownership of assets in the area, appealing neighborhood attributes, affordability, and location (vis a vis other destinations and activities). Mixing appears to be a function of larger dynamics as well, such as the rising price of real estate that excludes many groups from other desirable areas. This study reveals that rising real estate prices in and around Beirut are driving people to reside in more affordable, yet non-co-religious neighborhoods. I analyze the extent to which and under what conditions spatial proximity actually leads to social relations between non-co-religionists. Integration alone does not seem to guarantee interaction. Factors limiting cross-sectarian interaction within the same neighborhood appear to include an absence of neighborhood attachment and identification, high levels of personal activity in other locations, involuntary or temporary relocation, and co-religious clustering. Factors facilitating the production of cross-sectarian social relations within a neighborhood include high levels of neighborhood engagement and activity, experience growing up in a mixed neighborhood, attendance at a religiously-mixed school, and weak political party affiliation. I speculate that a relatively apolitical, secular, and non-polarizing environment facilitates integration. Alternatively, the presence of polarizing political and religious images and symbols can act as barriers, essentially keeping non-co-religionists out. I also speculate that with rising real estate prices, more families may be forced to live in non-co-religious or polarized neighborhoods and this may introduce increasing tension. Public policies should thus focus on improving relations between non-co-religionists living in mixed neighborhoods. Enhancing civic engagement of all the groups in such integrated environments may head-off tensions and instability and strengthen collective community identification.</div>
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<b>Zeina Saab </b>received her Master in City Planning (MCP) degree from Massachussetts Institute of Technology and is currently working in Beirut as a Project monitor and evalutor for USAid.</div>
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Users outside MIT may view a full-text PDF copy of this thesis, in order to access a printable version an MIT login in required.</div>
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Zeina Saab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009
243
Autre
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46676
The resurgent city
, renouvellement urbain, infrastructures, économie, ségrégation urbaine, mixité sociale, sécurité, culture urbaine, gestion locale, ville durable, aménagement urbain, habitants, interaction sociale
The majority of the papers presented at the 2004 conference 'The resurgent city', held at the London School of Economics, are available for download as PDF files.</div>
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<b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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This Leverhulme-funded international symposium aims to engender a new debate about:<br />
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* the implications of the much heralded resurgence of cities in advanced societies, and<br />
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* what is actually required to realise this goal on a sustained basis, in different kinds of places.<br />
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Its starting point is the widespread consensus across academic and policy communities that globalisation, more intense quality-based competition and the rise of the knowledge economy are restoring the economic role of face-to-face contact - and thus of cities, as offering the richest possibilities for such interaction.<br />
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Behind this consensus, different views about the key characteristics of successfully resurgent cities, point to real tensions in the ways that cities may develop, and many unanswered questions about how such resurgence is to be achieved in practice. The focus of this meeting is on addressing these unanswered questions through interaction between researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and perspectives.<br />
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The aim is to build the basis for more productive co-operative work on these issues across the academic and policy communities, rather than to achieve instant fixes for either the intellectual or practical problems.</div>
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<b>List of papers : </b></div>
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The argument for resurgence - Pierre Veltz<br />
The Resilience of US cities: Decline and Resurgence in the late 20th Century - Robert A Beauregard<br />
A tale of two Victorian cities: Glasgow & Melbourne - Duncan Maclennan<br />
Explaining urban resurgence: can our theories do any better? - Michael Storper<br />
How better to use existing infrastructure resources - lessons from charging and transport infrastructure management - Stephen Glaister<br />
Infrastructure and the Path-Dependant City - Eran Ben-Joseph<br />
Reauthorization: Getting Transportation Right for Metropolitan America - Bruce Katz<br />
Service provision in a metropolitan context: institutional challenges and responses - Andrew Davies<br />
Financing urban resurgence - a view from the EIB - Gianni Carbonaro<br />
Urban Development - EIB in the Cities - Gianni Carbonaro<br />
Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy - Michael Storper<br />
The communication advantage of cities: What is it made of? Does it matter? Will it survive? - Gilles Duranton<br />
What makes big cities tick? A look at New York - Vernon Henderson<br />
Face-to face Contact and Earnings Polarisation in Successful Cities - Diane Coyle<br />
Cities and Social Capital - Ed Glaeser<br />
Spatial segregation of ethnic groups in the Stockholm Region - Bjorn Harsman<br />
Segregation and the Attractive City: a Complicated Match - Sako Musterd<br />
Cities and Diversity: Should we want it? Can we plan for it? - Susan Fainstein<br />
Why don't men rebel more often? The Unanswered Questions - Sophie Body-Gendrot<br />
Crime, Fear and Barricaded Cities: Prospects of Resurgence in South African Cities - Nina Foster<br />
Guns and Gangs - Jan Stockdale<br />
Terrorism and future urbanism - Jon Coaffee<br />
Supporting the Resurgence of Former Industrial Cities: The Role of Distinctive and Ordinary Assets - Ivan Turok<br />
The Distinctive City: Evidence From Artists and Occupational Profiles - Ann Markusen<br />
Boom Towns and Cool Cities: The Perils and Prospects of Developing a Distinctive Urban Brand in a Global Economy - John Hannigan<br />
'Good local government' and the 'communal city' - Hellmut Wollmann<br />
Achieving Resurgent Cities: Community within/against/ beyond Empire - Bob Catterall<br />
Disciplining the Sustainable City: Moving Beyond Science, Technology or Society? - Simon Marvin & Robert Evans<br />
The environmentally sustainable city: learning from best practice? - Harriet Bulkeley<br />
The role of data in urban sustainability in the South - Roberta Miller<br />
Convulsive Beauty in the Provisional City - Dana Cuff<br />
Some recent projects - Alejandro Zaero-Polo<br />
Whose habitable city? - Peter Hall<br />
Age of Anxiety - Eric Klinenberg<br />
The City as an Open System - Richard Sennett<br />
What people want from cities now and in the future - Professor Robert Worcester<br />
Taking the agenda forward - Ed Glaeser<br />
London - the Resurgent City - Hamish Macrae<br />
Resurgent Cities - Geoff Mulgan</div>
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Multiple authors
London School of Economics
19-21 April 2004
Various
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http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/resurgentCity/programme.htm
Disconnected from society? Gated communities : their lifestyle versus urban governance
, ségrégation résidentielle, ségrégation sociale, gated communities, interaction sociale, sécurité, , fragmentation sociale, gouvernance, identité, citadin, délinquance, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, Smets Peer
<b>Abstract from the publisher :</b></div>
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Today there is a widespread fear of crime on a global scale. This can be seen as a response to social inequalities, social polarisation and the fragmentation of cities, which has to a large extent been caused by neo-liberalism. Worldwide, an increasing number of middle and high-income groups have looked to security measures, such as cameras, fences, walls and gates, to separate themselves from other people in the city. These physical measures, in combination with hired guards, replace the ‘older’ social control mechanisms, which are based on social cohesion within the community concerned. One may question whether those living in gated ‘communities’ indeed feel responsible for other urbanites. In other words, will such a hard closure (physically-marked segregation) lead to soft closure, reflected in social-cultural and political segregation? What is the impact of the lifestyle(s) of those living in gated communities on the dynamics of the city, urban identity and urban governance?</div>
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<b>Peer Smets</b> is assistant professor at the department of sociology, VU University Amsterdam and has recently co-edited the special issue ‘Countering Urban Segregation’ of Urban Studies. Nowadays, he publishes on neighbourhood dynamics in Amsterdam and interethnic contacts at the neighbourhood level.</div>
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Peer Smets
The Urban Reinventors
November 2009
24
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http://www.urbanreinventors.net/paper.php?issue=3&author=smets