Tenement cites: From 19th century Berlin to 21st century Nairobi
tenement, logement, politique du logement, quartier défavorisé, immeuble de grande hauteur, aménagement urbain, densité urbaine, droit à la ville, droit au logement, histoire urbaine, Berlin, Nairobi, Huchzermeyer Marie
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Nairobi today has over 10,000 multi-story tenement buildings, many of them offering single rooms and up to eight stories high. Privately owned and exploiting urban space to the maximum, these bear similarities to housing in rapidly industrializing 19th century tenement cities- New York, Glasgow, Berlin and others. This book explores the emergence of tenement markets across time and space. It focuses on two contrasting cities: Berlin, the largest and densest concentration of tenements in the 19th century, and Nairobi, a city today increasingly shaped by tenement investment that exploits urban space to the maximum, displaying pockets of what may well be the highest residential densities on the African continent.<br /> <br /> In examining similar themes in the history of Berlin and Nairobi, Huchzermeyer asks what legitimizes tenement markets over time. She interrogates the role of the late 19th and early 20th century housing discourse in Berlin, within its turbulent context. There is no explicit discourse on Nairobi's present-day tenements. The city's modern urban plans, housing policy and city-region strategy wish tenements away. However, Huchzermeyer finds traces of a pragmatic argument for Nairobi's tenement typology in the approaches that some municipal officials have adopted. This recognizes the convenience and economic buzz of tenement districts and their absorption of unrelenting housing demand. In relation to Nairobi's tenement-dominated context, which is shaped by pragmatism and enterpreneurialism, but also regulatory breakdown, corruption, growing vigilantism and ethnic division amid renewed hope for democratization, Huchzermeyer raises important questions for right to the city.</div> </div> <b>Marie Huchzemeyer </b>is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.</div> </div>
Marie Huchzermeyer
Africa World Press
2011
288
Ouvrage
The sociology of a New York city block
tenement, New York, pauvreté, race, sociologie urbaine, quartier dégradé, Jones Thomas Jesse, slum
Alternative link to the book via the Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan.
Thomas Jesse Jones
The Columbia University Press Source Internet Archive
1904
133
Ouvrage
http://www.archive.org/details/sociologyofnewyo00joneiala
The battle with the slum
New York, tenement, bidonville, quartier dégradé, quartier défavorisé, pauvreté, société urbaine, urbanité, histoire urbaine, Riis Jacob
Extract from the Introduction, 'What the fight is about' :
The slum is as old as civilization... The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and self-interest against it. When common sense and the golden rule obtain among men as a rule of practice, it will be over. The two have not always been classed together, but here they are plainly seen to belong together. Justice to the individual is accepted in theory as the only safe groundwork of the commonwealth. When it is practised in dealing with the slum, there will shortly be no slum. We need not wait for the millennium, to get rid of it. We can do it now. All that is required is that it shall not be left to itself.
Jacob A. Riis (1849 - 1914) was a photographer and journalist who documented conditions in New York City's tenement housing in the nineteenth century. This book is a sequel to his work 'How the other half lives' (1890).
Jacob A. Riis
The Macmillan Company
1902
465
Ouvrage
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t2h70bh08
How the other half lives
New York, tenement, bidonville, quartier dégradé, quartier défavorisé, pauvreté, société urbaine, urbanité, histoire urbaine, Riis Jacob, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle
See also the Collections Portal of the Museum of the City of New York, where more than 1400 photographs taken by Riis are available to view online.
See also a LibriVox audio recording of the book.
Alternative link to a different full-text version of the book via Tenant Net.
Jacob Riis
NC
1890 (original book)
Ouvrage
http://www.authentichistory.com/1865-1897/progressive/riis/index.html
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
, logement, quartier dégradé, relogement, renouvellement urbain, insalubrité, bidonville, mouvement social, histoire urbaine, pauvreté, New York, tenement, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Lubove Roy, Veiller Lawrence, Riis Jacob A.
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div>
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<b>Contents:</b></span></span></div>
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1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865</span></span></div>
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890</span></span></div>
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer</span></span></div>
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894</span></span></div>
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York Tenement House Commission of 1900</span></span></div>
6. The age of Veiller</span></span></div>
7. The professional good neighbor</span></span></div>
8. Progressivism, planning and housing</span></span></div>
Appendices</span></span></div>
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The late <b>Roy Lubove </b>was Professor of Social Welfare and History at the University of Pittsburgh.</span></span></div>
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Roy Lubove
University of Pittsburgh Press
1962
304
Ouvrage
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735057895611;view=toc;c=pittpress