Urban Studies

Hip-Hop Hybridity for a Glocalized World: African and Muslim Diasporic Discourses in French Rap Music

by David Drissel

Urban Schism, Social Strains: Exploring the Collective Identities of Youth in Contemporary Belfast

by David Drissel

Anarchist Punks Resisting Gentrification: Countercultural Contestations of Space in the New Berlin

by David Drissel

High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century

by Matthew Lasner

Forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2012

Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family... more Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family dwelling. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by declining real estate prices and a renewed interest in city living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the 21st century. In this unprecedented study Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City's first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condo and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.

Ethnicity and machine politics

by Jerome Krase

This is a book I co-wrote with Charles La Cerra: Ethnicity and Machine Politics: The Madison Club of Brooklyn. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1992.

Analisi delle preferenze per politiche di logistica urbana nella ZTL di Roma

by marcucci edoardo

La congestione del traffico nelle aree urbane

by marcucci edoardo

The spatial organization of Ottoman Selanik (Thessaloniki), according to Evliya Celebi

by Dimitris P. Drakoulis

33rd Congress of the Hellenic Association of Historical Sciences, 25-27 May 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece

. "Buenos Aires, sus transformaciones urbanas y la perspectiva de los investigadores. Aproximaciones, críticas y problemas en torno a su dimensión internacional”.

by Guillermo Jajamovich

Published in ´Urbe. Brazilian Journal of urban management. Curitiba, v. 1, n. 2, p. 179-189´, jul./dez. 2009

El artículo  analiza el tratamiento de las transformaciones urbanas en Buenos Aires en la  producción... more El artículo  analiza el tratamiento de las transformaciones urbanas en Buenos Aires en la  producción académica centrándose alrededor de diversas posturas sobre el  carácter internacional de las mismas. Se recorre una serie de investigadores  prestando atención a los aportes realizados, los enfoques utilizados y al modo  en que cada uno de los mismos construyen objetos diferentes que se recortan  contra imágenes de lo que debiera ser la ciudad, intentando, mediante un  trabajo interpretativo, leer políticas implícitas, o cierta dimensión  operativa, en cada una de estas. Finalizando el recorrido, se puntualiza un aspecto  poco explorado: la posibilidad de enfocar el análisis de Buenos Aires a partir  de sus múltiples contactos con otras experiencias urbanas en la región, dejando  de lado conceptos como el de globalización sin por eso perder de vista la  pertinencia de abarcar escalas de análisis de carácter supranacional.

The End of Urban Involution and the Cultural Construction of Urbanism in Indonesia1

by Hans-Dieter Evers

Dinámica de una metrópoli periférica en Brasil

by Gilberto Corso

Trabalho escrito em co-autoria com Inaiá Carvalho e publicado em ESTUDIOS DEMOGRÁFICOS Y URBANOS, v. 25, n. 2 (74), 2010, 395-427. México.

En este artículo se analiza la evolución reciente de la segregación socioespacial y la de la conformación urbana en la... more En este artículo se analiza la evolución reciente de la segregación socioespacial y la de la conformación urbana en la ciudad de Salvador, a la luz del debate sobre las transformaciones de las metrópolis dentro del capital globalizado. Si bien se reconoce que todas las grandes ciudades terminan siendo alcanzadas por la globalización, en el texto se resalta, sin embargo, que los efectos de ese proceso no son uniformes ni convergen en un modelo único de ciudad. Mediante la demostración de la conformación de una metrópoli extremadamente desigual y segregada y la medida en que las transformaciones han agravado tales alteraciones al paso de los últimos años, esta revisión del caso de Salvador se propone exponer algunas reflexiones para entender mejor los efectos del proceso de globalización sobre las grandes ciudades de América Latina.

Successful Icons of Failed Time. Rethinking Post-communist Nostalgia

by Dominik Bartmanski

published in Acta Sociologica 2011

Under what cultural conditions can the relics of symbolically polluted time re-emerge as its purified signifiers and... more Under what cultural conditions can the relics of symbolically polluted time re-emerge as its purified signifiers and culturally successful icons within new circumstances? What does it mean when people articulate ‘nostalgic’ commitments to social reality they have themselves recently jettisoned? Drawing on the ideas of the iconic turn and American cultural sociology, the article offers a new framework for understanding post-communist nostalgia. Specifically, it provides a comparative reinterpretation of the phenomenon of so-called Ostalgie as manifest in the streetscapes of Berlin and its counterpart in Warsaw. One of the key arguments holds that ‘nostalgic’ icons are successful because they play the cultural role of mnemonic bridges to rather than tokens of longing for the failed communist past. In this capacity they forge a communal sense of continuity in the liquid times of systemic transformation. As such, the article contributes to broader debates about meanings of material objects and urban space in relation to collective memory destabilized by liminal temporality.

Urban

by Ahmet Özalp (MEd)

An account of some experimental derive in Newcastle

by Psychogeography from 'Transgressions'

by James Burch, 'Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration', 1995, number 1

'Psychogeography from 'Transgressions'' brings you classic pieces from the early days of the psychogeography revival

A Cartographic Fade to Black: Mapping the Destruction of Urban Japan

by cary karacas

Co-authored with David Fedman, Stanford University, Department of History

In this paper we examine the history, production, and use – practical and rhetorical – of maps created by the United... more In this paper we examine the history, production, and use – practical and rhetorical – of maps created by the United States government during World War II as related to the development and execution of aerial bombing policies against Japan. Drawing from a range of maps and primary documents culled from libraries and archives in the United States, we argue that maps provide an important, and hitherto neglected, means through which to trace the exploration and eventual embrace of the incendiary bombing of Japan’s cities. In particular, our aim is to show how maps, along with the men who made and used them, played a central role in the planning and prosecution of air raids on urban Japan. We also address the mobilization of American geographers into the war effort, the re-configuration of America’s spatial intelligence community during World War II, and the ways in which maps were constructed in the context of total war.

Centri urbani di distribuzione delle merci e politiche di traffico:una valutazione empirica tramite le preferenze dichiarate

by marcucci edoardo

The transgressive geographies of daily life: socialist pathways within everyday urban spatial creativity

by alastair bonnett

'Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration', 1996, number 2/3, pp.20-37

Ageing Spatial Patterns: trends on Oporto's metropolitan region

by Catarina Pina

Housing Policy, Federal: An Overview

by Matthew Lasner

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History, eds. Donald T. Critchlow and Philip R. VanderMeer (New York: Oxford, 2012)

Yuen, Nancy Wang. 2010. “Playing ‘Ghetto’: Embodiments of South Central in Popular Culture,” pp. 232-242 in Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. Editors Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon. New York: NYU Press.

by Nancy Yuen