Contested City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested City write by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Contested City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Contested City
The Contested City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contested City write by John H. Mollenkopf. This book was released on 1983-11-21. The Contested City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes case studies of Boston (Mass) and San Francisco.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jerusalem write by Menachem Klein. This book was released on 2001-03. Jerusalem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Tuff City
Tuff City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tuff City write by Nicholas T. Dines. This book was released on 2012. Tuff City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.
Contested Cities and Urban Activism
Contested Cities and Urban Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested Cities and Urban Activism write by Ngai Ming Yip. This book was released on 2018-10-13. Contested Cities and Urban Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
