Urban Studies Or Urban Sociology

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

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.

. "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.

Local Welfare Systems: A Challenge for Social Cohesion

by Alberta Andreotti

co-authored with Mingione, Enzo; Polizzi, Emanuele
Published in Urban Studies23 May 2012, 10.1177/0042098012444884
http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0042098012444884v1

In recent decades, local welfare systems have been emerging in many Western countries as a consequence of bottom–up... more In recent decades, local welfare systems have been emerging in many Western countries as a consequence of bottom–up and top–down transformative pressures. Local welfare systems are defined as dynamic arrangements in which the specific local socioeconomic and cultural conditions give rise to different mixes of formal and informal actors, public or not, involved in the provision of welfare resources. This article presents some of the most important implications related to the emergence of local welfare systems and the challenges they face in seeking to build social cohesion. After a brief description of the reasons that justify a local approach to welfare, an account is provided of the scientific debate on local welfare and an indication given of the possible relations and tensions between the emergence of local welfare systems and the production of social cohesion.

The Symbolic Universe of the UKM: A Semiotic Analysis of the National University of Malaysia

by Hans-Dieter Evers

Urban

by Ahmet Özalp (MEd)

The Project Zlín. Everyday Life in a Materialized Utopia

by Lucie Galcanova

Vacková, Barbora, Lucie Galčanová. 2009. „The Project Zlín. Everyday Life in a Materialized Utopia“. Lidé města / Urban People 11(2):311–337.

This article is based on a contribution to the "Město - mýtus - identita" (City - Myth - Identity)... more This article is based on a contribution to the "Město - mýtus - identita" (City - Myth - Identity) conference. In it we attempt to consider Baťa and Zlín as a specific kind of myth which is still alive within our cultural milieu. In the text which follows we will deal with one chapter from the overall story of Zlín: with the forms of worker housing, the original assumptions around its construction and its life in everyday currency (based on in-depth interviews with the residents). With this analytical look at this unique phenomenon we wish to peer under one layer of the Zlín myth.

Go play in traffic: Skating, gender and urban context

by Carolyne Ali-Khan

This paper was published in the Sage journal Qualitative Inquiry.

In this article I use rollerblading... more This paper was published in the Sage journal Qualitative Inquiry.

In this article I use rollerblading through an urban environment as a lens to examine issues surrounding the movement of the body in public space. I utilize the autobiographical vis-à-vis political cultural studies to explore gender politics, the regulation of bodies, and the reinscription of public spaces. Using the narrative of a single form traveling through a single day, she addresses notions of exclusionary gender roles and practices, play versus sport, recreation versus transportation, space versus place, and the ways in which consumption and pleasure are played out in the organic flow of time and space. I argue here for the continuing need to raise questions about the exclusionary effects of regulation of the urban body and to explore possibilities for resistance.

The future of UK housebuilding

by Chris Goodier

Recognising Homelessness in Public Space: Intolerance and Invisibility

by Tristan Ferguson

Published in: Parity, Vol. 24, No. 10.

The article presents several observational scripts from research conducted for an honours thesis into the... more The article presents several observational scripts from research conducted for an honours thesis into the rationalisation of public space. Specifically, it explores the ways homeless individuals are sanctioned within those spaces, but at the same time how they are experts of behavioural practices as a result of such sanctioning. They blend invisibly into the fabric of public areas, particularly when undertaking practices of shopping, sleeping and storage of goods.

Segregation, Inequality and Marginality in Context: The Case of Athens

by Vassilis Arapoglou

co-authored with Thomas Maloutas

2 Exhibitions in Paris (Cité de l'Architecture Palais de Chaillot): Social Housing 2 and Urban Transport (in Italian)

by Denis Bocquet

Published in: Il Giornale dell'Architettura, n.105, May 2012, p.27

A critique of two exhibitions at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, Palais de Chaillot):
- Vers... more A critique of two exhibitions at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Paris, Palais de Chaillot):
- Vers de nouveaux logements sociaux 2
- Circuler. Quand nos mouvements façonnent les villes (Jean-Marie Duthilleul

Key Words

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Apartment Blocks and Alienation: Tallinn’s Lasnamäe District in Autumn Ball

by Mari Laaniste

Co-authored with Leena Torim (Tallinn).

2010, Kinokultura: New Russian Cinema, Special issue #10: Estonia.

Tallinn's Lasnamäe district's urban environment, mostly consisting of late Soviet era apartment blocks, presented as a failed utopia in the film "Autumn Ball" ("Sügisball", 2007).

MEDELLÍN - UN VALLE DE RUIDOS. UNA APROXIMACIÓN SOCIOLÓGICA AL ESTUDIO DEL RUIDO URBANO.

by Omar Uran

El ruido como fenómeno y hecho social ha sido una cuestión poco asumida y trabajada en las ciencias sociales,... more El ruido como fenómeno y hecho social ha sido una cuestión poco asumida y trabajada en las ciencias sociales, especialmente en sociología. La mayoría de veces, éste se asume de un modo dado, "natural" al medio-ambiente y a las relaciones sociales. Este artículo propone un acercamiento al tema del ruido en Medellín desde una postura sociológica, teórica y empírica, que intenta escuchar el ruido desde la pluralidad de las percepciones, conflictos y matices presentes en el espacio urbano. Procuramos dar un tratamiento sociológico relativo a las fuentes materiales del ruido, las subjetividades (cultura) y las relaciones sociales (tanto económicas como políticas) allí implicadas.Partimos de considerar los diferentes estudios físico-espaciales realizados y nos centramos en aquellos que han producido algún nivel de cartografía temática al respecto. Según el análisis de los mapas de ruido que realizó el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, seleccionamos ocho sectores o zonas donde alcanzamos a observar un nivel mayor de ruido respecto a los demás sectores de la ciudad de Medellín. En total, se realizaron 15 recorridos en los ocho sectores y se realizaron 25 entrevistas a habitantes, trabajadores y transeúntes. Los resultados obtenidos en el proceso de análisis nos permiten mostrar cómo Medellín es en efecto un valle de ruidos que se ha venido incrementando a pasos agigantados gracias a la multiculturalidad que ella acoge, los niveles de competencia comercial que llevan a incurrir en prácticas publicitarias ruidosas, la intensificación de la vida nocturna, la poca regulación de algunas nuevas actividades que generan ruido, el tipo de comunicación que se desarrolla en el uso de pitos, bocinas y frenos, y el exceso de individualidad que afecta directamente la convivencia ciudadana.

Daniel Libeskind in Singapore: Reflections on Reflections at Keppel Bay (in Italian)

by Denis Bocquet

Published in: Il Giornale dell'Architettura, 2012, n.105, p.12

On the occasion of the opening of the Reflections at Keppel Bay (architect Daniel Libeskind) gated community in... more On the occasion of the opening of the Reflections at Keppel Bay (architect Daniel Libeskind) gated community in Singapore, a reflection on the urban transformations at work in the city-State


Key words: Singapore, Architecture, Urban Planning, Daniel Libeskind, Keppel Bay, Keppel Group, Vivocity, harbour, cruise, casino, resort, tourism, gated communities, urbanity, Bishan Park, Dreisetl, PUB, Public Utilities Board, ABC Waters, Active, Beautyful, Clean, Ballang River, CH2M Hill Engineering, Emscher Park, Ruhr, nature, city, reverse engineering

2011 The three anthropological approaches to neoliberalism, in International Social Science Journal, Vol 61 (202) : 351–364.

by Mathieu Hilgers

International Social Science Journal, Volume 61, Issue 202, 2011: 351–364.

For around fifteen years now, anthropology has been engaged in the study of neoliberalism. What contribution does the... more For around fifteen years now, anthropology has been engaged in the study of neoliberalism. What contribution does the discipline have to make to a debate largely monopolized by economics and political science? To answer this question, the present article returns to the major texts and highlights the three perspectives from which anthropology has approached neoliberal expansion: culturalist, systemic and the approach based on governmentality. Each has its own epistemological presuppositions and a specific conception of anthropology, globalization and neoliberalism. The article highlights the relevance and limitations of these approaches.

Is the Beltline Bad for Atlanta?

by Alex Sayf Cummings

Progressives across the United States have applauded the proposed development of a new ring of light rail, parks, and... more Progressives across the United States have applauded the proposed development of a new ring of light rail, parks, and bike and walking trails around Atlanta's in-town neighborhoods, a project called the Beltline.  Conservatives and suburbanites have, predictably, opposed the measure, continuing a long history of opposition to public transit in the South that is intimately tied up with issues of class and race.  Yet opposition to the project from the Left, particularly among black activists, has been very little noticed.  Georgia State historian Alex Sayf Cummings examines criticisms of the program in terms of equity and justice ahead of a July 31 funding referendum.

Housing in Madras: public and private land developments

by Mark Wolffe

Co-authored with Jan Turkstra
Series Title Urban research working papers
Editors: J. Matthew Schoffeleers and Pim Schoorl ; by Jan van der Linden
Publisher Amsterdam : Vrije Universiteit (1985).

Based on research carried out in 1984, this paper concentrates on public housing schemes and private, unauthorised... more Based on research carried out in 1984, this paper concentrates on public housing schemes and private, unauthorised plot developments. It discusses the physical and spatial aspects of low income settlements in Madras (Chennai) as well as the social and economic circumstances of the people who live in them.