Arieh Bruce Saposnik
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195331219
- eISBN:
- 9780199868100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331219.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter examines the impact of the “Uganda proposal” on Zionist cultural activity in Palestine. The small Zionist Yishuv (prestate community) was deeply divided between supporters and opponents ...
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This chapter examines the impact of the “Uganda proposal” on Zionist cultural activity in Palestine. The small Zionist Yishuv (prestate community) was deeply divided between supporters and opponents of a British offer of what some understood to be Jewish statehood in East Africa. In the bitter debate that ensued, political‐organizational divisions and personal rivalries fused with ideological discord and divergent visions of Jewish nationhood and the future national culture. Both sides considered their opponents to be exemplars of “exilic” thinking, evidence of Jewish disease, and lack of a healthy national constitution. Ultimately, the chapter argues, the controversy helped to give new form to the discourse of Zionism in Palestine and to the character of the Yishuv's public spaces, as holidays and community celebrations were given the form of a national liturgy.Less
This chapter examines the impact of the “Uganda proposal” on Zionist cultural activity in Palestine. The small Zionist Yishuv (prestate community) was deeply divided between supporters and opponents of a British offer of what some understood to be Jewish statehood in East Africa. In the bitter debate that ensued, political‐organizational divisions and personal rivalries fused with ideological discord and divergent visions of Jewish nationhood and the future national culture. Both sides considered their opponents to be exemplars of “exilic” thinking, evidence of Jewish disease, and lack of a healthy national constitution. Ultimately, the chapter argues, the controversy helped to give new form to the discourse of Zionism in Palestine and to the character of the Yishuv's public spaces, as holidays and community celebrations were given the form of a national liturgy.
Nikos Papastergiadis (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208920
- eISBN:
- 9789888313839
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208920.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Large public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being simply oversized televisions, the media experts contributing to Ambient Screens and Transnational ...
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Large public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being simply oversized televisions, the media experts contributing to Ambient Screens and Transnational Public Spaces put forward a strong case that such screens could serve as important sites for cultural exchange. Advances in digital technology spell the possibilities of conducting mobile modes of interaction across national boundaries, and in the process expose the participants to novel sensory experiences, giving rise to a new form of public culture. Understanding this phenomenon calls for a reconceptualization of "public space" and "ambience," as well as connecting the two concepts with each other. This pioneering study of the impact of media platforms on urban cultural life presents a theoretical analysis and a history of screens, followed by discussions of site-specific urban screen practices on five continents. There is also a substantial examination of the world's first real-time cross-cultural exchange via the networking of large public screens located in Melbourne and Seoul.Less
Large public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being simply oversized televisions, the media experts contributing to Ambient Screens and Transnational Public Spaces put forward a strong case that such screens could serve as important sites for cultural exchange. Advances in digital technology spell the possibilities of conducting mobile modes of interaction across national boundaries, and in the process expose the participants to novel sensory experiences, giving rise to a new form of public culture. Understanding this phenomenon calls for a reconceptualization of "public space" and "ambience," as well as connecting the two concepts with each other. This pioneering study of the impact of media platforms on urban cultural life presents a theoretical analysis and a history of screens, followed by discussions of site-specific urban screen practices on five continents. There is also a substantial examination of the world's first real-time cross-cultural exchange via the networking of large public screens located in Melbourne and Seoul.
Nikos Papastergiadis, Amelia Barikin, Xin Gu, Scott McQuire, and Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208920
- eISBN:
- 9789888313839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208920.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter details the case studies that were conducted as part of a five-year research project, which conducted the world’s first real-time cross-cultural exchange via the networking of large ...
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This chapter details the case studies that were conducted as part of a five-year research project, which conducted the world’s first real-time cross-cultural exchange via the networking of large public screens located in Melbourne and Seoul. The project linked large screens located in Seoul and Melbourne for three media events: SMS_Origins and <Value>, HELLO, and Dance Battle. The chapter details methodological innovations of the research, which involved the reformulation of the way in which the scholar was embedded in the research and transformed according to the interactive research process. It also elucidates critical insights into the process of cultural exchange, the impact of media technologies on public space, and the transformation of the public sphere in the global era. The empirical research generates fresh insights into public interactions with large screens, providing a prototype for future cross-cultural events and offering new theoretical perspectives on the use of public space.Less
This chapter details the case studies that were conducted as part of a five-year research project, which conducted the world’s first real-time cross-cultural exchange via the networking of large public screens located in Melbourne and Seoul. The project linked large screens located in Seoul and Melbourne for three media events: SMS_Origins and <Value>, HELLO, and Dance Battle. The chapter details methodological innovations of the research, which involved the reformulation of the way in which the scholar was embedded in the research and transformed according to the interactive research process. It also elucidates critical insights into the process of cultural exchange, the impact of media technologies on public space, and the transformation of the public sphere in the global era. The empirical research generates fresh insights into public interactions with large screens, providing a prototype for future cross-cultural events and offering new theoretical perspectives on the use of public space.
Samia Mehrez (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774165337
- eISBN:
- 9781617971303
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165337.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness ...
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This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator. The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, and interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.Less
This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator. The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, and interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.
Gregory W. Bush
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062648
- eISBN:
- 9780813051628
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062648.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of ...
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The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of space, race, and capitalism. The first legally recognized beach for African Americans in South Florida, it became an important place of community which nurtured further civil rights activism until African Americans achieved access to all beaches—after which many viewed Virginia Key Beach as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. In Miami, this interacted with America’s ever decreasing sense of place: a tourist economy with its culture of spectacle, government budgetary woes, and neoliberal policies to bring about a spreading pattern of privatization of public land and loss of green spaces—particularly on the waterfront. In recent decades however, local grassroots activists have found in this history common ground for unified action, as environmentalists and African Americans came together to maintain and revitalize public park space on Virginia Key. This book is about the power of previously lost voices to redefine and reclaim the piece of land at the center of this narrative. Recent developments illustrate the potential of new forms of civic engagement in public planning processes. As a place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach became a common ground of hope for a better future. Yet major challenges remain.Less
The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of space, race, and capitalism. The first legally recognized beach for African Americans in South Florida, it became an important place of community which nurtured further civil rights activism until African Americans achieved access to all beaches—after which many viewed Virginia Key Beach as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. In Miami, this interacted with America’s ever decreasing sense of place: a tourist economy with its culture of spectacle, government budgetary woes, and neoliberal policies to bring about a spreading pattern of privatization of public land and loss of green spaces—particularly on the waterfront. In recent decades however, local grassroots activists have found in this history common ground for unified action, as environmentalists and African Americans came together to maintain and revitalize public park space on Virginia Key. This book is about the power of previously lost voices to redefine and reclaim the piece of land at the center of this narrative. Recent developments illustrate the potential of new forms of civic engagement in public planning processes. As a place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach became a common ground of hope for a better future. Yet major challenges remain.
Nikos Papastergiadis, Amelia Barikin, Scott McQuire, and Audrey Yue
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208920
- eISBN:
- 9789888313839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208920.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter challenges the binary characterisation of large screens contemporary public spaces, as either an incursion which threatens the fecundity of public engagement, or as a renewal of the ...
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This chapter challenges the binary characterisation of large screens contemporary public spaces, as either an incursion which threatens the fecundity of public engagement, or as a renewal of the democratic public sphere. A public sphere approach is utilised to extrapolate how big screens are a dynamic element within an emergent media ecology, which mediatizes and transforms the boundary between public and private spaces. It also foregrounds a key concern of the book as the exploration of opportunities for new transnational democratic publics and public spaces.Less
This chapter challenges the binary characterisation of large screens contemporary public spaces, as either an incursion which threatens the fecundity of public engagement, or as a renewal of the democratic public sphere. A public sphere approach is utilised to extrapolate how big screens are a dynamic element within an emergent media ecology, which mediatizes and transforms the boundary between public and private spaces. It also foregrounds a key concern of the book as the exploration of opportunities for new transnational democratic publics and public spaces.
Kin Wai Michael Siu and Mingjie Zhu
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208333
- eISBN:
- 9789888313471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208333.003.0008
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
Stable, unstable and neutral are three key states of equilibrium to explain a situation. Densely populated urban areas cannot be sufficiently and adequately understood and described by using the only ...
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Stable, unstable and neutral are three key states of equilibrium to explain a situation. Densely populated urban areas cannot be sufficiently and adequately understood and described by using the only two extreme states of equilibrium, stable and unstable. Instead, there is a middle or third sphere that exists between two poles: neutral. Using Hong Kong, a densely populated urban city, as a core case study and with the supplement of similar cases happened in other cities, this chapter explores the neutral equilibrium of city space. The discussion is based on the findings of long-term and intensive field observations in public spaces. The tactical interactions among different city users and their creative re-construction of spaces to fit their needs and preferences are the focus of the discussion. The chapter argues that city space exists in a neutral state of equilibrium, a dynamic and active situation similar to a cone continuously rolling on a surface. It is a stable but also unstably state of everyday living with continuous transformation through different interactions among city users as well as the environments.Less
Stable, unstable and neutral are three key states of equilibrium to explain a situation. Densely populated urban areas cannot be sufficiently and adequately understood and described by using the only two extreme states of equilibrium, stable and unstable. Instead, there is a middle or third sphere that exists between two poles: neutral. Using Hong Kong, a densely populated urban city, as a core case study and with the supplement of similar cases happened in other cities, this chapter explores the neutral equilibrium of city space. The discussion is based on the findings of long-term and intensive field observations in public spaces. The tactical interactions among different city users and their creative re-construction of spaces to fit their needs and preferences are the focus of the discussion. The chapter argues that city space exists in a neutral state of equilibrium, a dynamic and active situation similar to a cone continuously rolling on a surface. It is a stable but also unstably state of everyday living with continuous transformation through different interactions among city users as well as the environments.
Cécile Vidal
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469645186
- eISBN:
- 9781469645209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645186.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter investigates how the ancien régime culture, with which officials and settlers came to French Louisiana and which made them highly sensitive to the issue of maintaining their rank in ...
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This chapter investigates how the ancien régime culture, with which officials and settlers came to French Louisiana and which made them highly sensitive to the issue of maintaining their rank in public, intersected with the process of racialization. As the urban milieu facilitated cross-racial encounters and exchanges of all kinds in public civic and religious ceremonies, drinking houses, and street encounters, most whites quickly became aware of the need to maintain some appearance of social superiority and to display and instill the socio-racial hierarchy by their exclusive and violent behaviour in the public space. Still, people of African descent never ceased to fight against their domination, invisibility, and segregation.Less
This chapter investigates how the ancien régime culture, with which officials and settlers came to French Louisiana and which made them highly sensitive to the issue of maintaining their rank in public, intersected with the process of racialization. As the urban milieu facilitated cross-racial encounters and exchanges of all kinds in public civic and religious ceremonies, drinking houses, and street encounters, most whites quickly became aware of the need to maintain some appearance of social superiority and to display and instill the socio-racial hierarchy by their exclusive and violent behaviour in the public space. Still, people of African descent never ceased to fight against their domination, invisibility, and segregation.
Katrina Navickas
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097058
- eISBN:
- 9781526104144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097058.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Social History
With greater longevity and funding than their predecessors, radicals were able to move beyond ‘spaces of making do’. This chapter examines how Owenite socialists, Chartists, trades unions and the ...
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With greater longevity and funding than their predecessors, radicals were able to move beyond ‘spaces of making do’. This chapter examines how Owenite socialists, Chartists, trades unions and the other social movements that emerged in the 1830s hired or constructed detached buildings for their sole use. These sites of meeting functioned not just for immediate campaigns, but for longer visionary goals. These were spaces to enact an alternative economy, a freer religion, an egalitarian education and for entertainment. Association rooms, working-men’s clubs and halls of science reflected a holistic view of how politics should shape communities and their everyday life. These sites faced financial difficulties and the opposition of local elites, but nevertheless offered a new definition of public space.Less
With greater longevity and funding than their predecessors, radicals were able to move beyond ‘spaces of making do’. This chapter examines how Owenite socialists, Chartists, trades unions and the other social movements that emerged in the 1830s hired or constructed detached buildings for their sole use. These sites of meeting functioned not just for immediate campaigns, but for longer visionary goals. These were spaces to enact an alternative economy, a freer religion, an egalitarian education and for entertainment. Association rooms, working-men’s clubs and halls of science reflected a holistic view of how politics should shape communities and their everyday life. These sites faced financial difficulties and the opposition of local elites, but nevertheless offered a new definition of public space.
Marwan M. Kraidy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190491550
- eISBN:
- 9780190638597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190491550.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
Public spaces played a significant, and so far understudied, role in the Arab rebellions. This chapter offers considerations regarding the connections between public space and communication during ...
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Public spaces played a significant, and so far understudied, role in the Arab rebellions. This chapter offers considerations regarding the connections between public space and communication during the Arab uprisings. Public space is understood to mean physical space that can be used, contested, and controlled by humans, and has therefore a narrower scope than ‘public sphere’. This chapter focuses on selected cases that are representative of broader trends in public space and communication in the Arab uprisings. The first section discusses communication and political action in public space. The second section compares and contrasts the different kinds of revolutionary graffiti that emerged in Tunisia, Egypt, and in Syria. The third section compares and contrasts bodies in public space and cyberspace, paying particular attention to the cases of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia and Aliaa al-Mahdy in Egypt. The concluding section focuses on Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain as an illustrative case-study of how public spaces can themselves become potent symbols.Less
Public spaces played a significant, and so far understudied, role in the Arab rebellions. This chapter offers considerations regarding the connections between public space and communication during the Arab uprisings. Public space is understood to mean physical space that can be used, contested, and controlled by humans, and has therefore a narrower scope than ‘public sphere’. This chapter focuses on selected cases that are representative of broader trends in public space and communication in the Arab uprisings. The first section discusses communication and political action in public space. The second section compares and contrasts the different kinds of revolutionary graffiti that emerged in Tunisia, Egypt, and in Syria. The third section compares and contrasts bodies in public space and cyberspace, paying particular attention to the cases of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia and Aliaa al-Mahdy in Egypt. The concluding section focuses on Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain as an illustrative case-study of how public spaces can themselves become potent symbols.
Lee Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062846
- eISBN:
- 9780813051796
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062846.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910, proposes that in the nineteenth century, discourses of modernity shaped ideas about gender and especially about the status of women ...
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Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910, proposes that in the nineteenth century, discourses of modernity shaped ideas about gender and especially about the status of women in private and public life at the same time as those concepts of the modern were themselves formed in the Spanish American context by both received and newly-emerging notions of gender roles held by Spanish American intellectuals. Men and women took advantage of the rhetoric of modernity in order to attach their own agendas to those discourses about modernity. The book asserts that the rhetorical nature itself of modernity in Spanish America allowed intellectuals to connect these differing, even contradictory, interpretations to it. Writers used the rhetoric of modernity as they advanced their own agendas and shaped the rhetoric of modernity as a utopian projection of the national future, further allowing them to imagine a nation that included women at all levels of social and even political life. In so doing, they established discursive modalities that competed with other nation-building discourses and that placed gender as a central, ongoing concern at all levels of society. The book looks at public and private space; domesticity; education; and technology and work in nineteenth-century Spanish America and conveys a full understanding of the ways that gender roles were conjoined with the processes of modernization and national consolidation and includes texts by men and women that range from novels and essays to newspaper articles and advertisements, selected from multiple countries, and placed into their socio-cultural contexts.Less
Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, 1850–1910, proposes that in the nineteenth century, discourses of modernity shaped ideas about gender and especially about the status of women in private and public life at the same time as those concepts of the modern were themselves formed in the Spanish American context by both received and newly-emerging notions of gender roles held by Spanish American intellectuals. Men and women took advantage of the rhetoric of modernity in order to attach their own agendas to those discourses about modernity. The book asserts that the rhetorical nature itself of modernity in Spanish America allowed intellectuals to connect these differing, even contradictory, interpretations to it. Writers used the rhetoric of modernity as they advanced their own agendas and shaped the rhetoric of modernity as a utopian projection of the national future, further allowing them to imagine a nation that included women at all levels of social and even political life. In so doing, they established discursive modalities that competed with other nation-building discourses and that placed gender as a central, ongoing concern at all levels of society. The book looks at public and private space; domesticity; education; and technology and work in nineteenth-century Spanish America and conveys a full understanding of the ways that gender roles were conjoined with the processes of modernization and national consolidation and includes texts by men and women that range from novels and essays to newspaper articles and advertisements, selected from multiple countries, and placed into their socio-cultural contexts.
Simon Springer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816697724
- eISBN:
- 9781452955155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816697724.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
In establishing an anarchic framework for understanding public space as a vision for radical democracy, the fourth chapter proceeds as a theoretical inquiry into how an agonistic public space might ...
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In establishing an anarchic framework for understanding public space as a vision for radical democracy, the fourth chapter proceeds as a theoretical inquiry into how an agonistic public space might become the basis of emancipation. Emancipation here means a perpetual contestation of the alienating effects of capitalism and its contemporary expression as neoliberalism. The chapter establishes a framework for understanding democracy in nonviolent and anarchist terms by arguing for radical democracy through agonistic public places. Public places are of primary importance because democracy is meant to be inclusive to all. They are places where the politics of hierarchy, technocracy, international patrons, government appropriation, and co-optation by the modern aristocracy can be dismantled by a continuous dialogue of reformation.Less
In establishing an anarchic framework for understanding public space as a vision for radical democracy, the fourth chapter proceeds as a theoretical inquiry into how an agonistic public space might become the basis of emancipation. Emancipation here means a perpetual contestation of the alienating effects of capitalism and its contemporary expression as neoliberalism. The chapter establishes a framework for understanding democracy in nonviolent and anarchist terms by arguing for radical democracy through agonistic public places. Public places are of primary importance because democracy is meant to be inclusive to all. They are places where the politics of hierarchy, technocracy, international patrons, government appropriation, and co-optation by the modern aristocracy can be dismantled by a continuous dialogue of reformation.
Gregory W. Bush
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062648
- eISBN:
- 9780813051628
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062648.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Miami exemplifies a powerful urban model neglecting public spaces, largely ignoring public planning mechanisms, and, notably from the 1980s, transferring waterfront parkland to private entrepreneurs. ...
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Miami exemplifies a powerful urban model neglecting public spaces, largely ignoring public planning mechanisms, and, notably from the 1980s, transferring waterfront parkland to private entrepreneurs. Virginia Key Beach Park was handed over from the county to the city in 1982 and promptly shut down, never to be reopened until after 1999, and the city repeatedly sought to lease out the land for commercial purposes. These years found the tourist industry in Florida developing a new scale of attractions, with Disney as a prime example, and this placeless vision operated in Miami’s booster culture. Neoliberal economic ideas encouraged city of Miami officials seeking revenue sources to lease out waterfront land for shopping malls, arenas, mega yacht marinas, and hotels; a general perception was that the public was interested in sports arenas and air-conditioned shopping malls, not outdoor activities in public parks. On the other hand, the environmental movement expanded in Florida, as seen in the 1985 Growth Management Act: legislators’ increased sensitivity to the Everglades, the struggle over the Homestead Air Base in the 1990s, and, on the local level in Miami, the organization of park advocates in the Urban Environment League.Less
Miami exemplifies a powerful urban model neglecting public spaces, largely ignoring public planning mechanisms, and, notably from the 1980s, transferring waterfront parkland to private entrepreneurs. Virginia Key Beach Park was handed over from the county to the city in 1982 and promptly shut down, never to be reopened until after 1999, and the city repeatedly sought to lease out the land for commercial purposes. These years found the tourist industry in Florida developing a new scale of attractions, with Disney as a prime example, and this placeless vision operated in Miami’s booster culture. Neoliberal economic ideas encouraged city of Miami officials seeking revenue sources to lease out waterfront land for shopping malls, arenas, mega yacht marinas, and hotels; a general perception was that the public was interested in sports arenas and air-conditioned shopping malls, not outdoor activities in public parks. On the other hand, the environmental movement expanded in Florida, as seen in the 1985 Growth Management Act: legislators’ increased sensitivity to the Everglades, the struggle over the Homestead Air Base in the 1990s, and, on the local level in Miami, the organization of park advocates in the Urban Environment League.
Catherine Fennell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816697366
- eISBN:
- 9781452953649
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816697366.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
Chapter Four examines how public housing residents and their new neighbors collided in public spaces in ways that prodded them to experiment with extending and retracting themselves across racial and ...
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Chapter Four examines how public housing residents and their new neighbors collided in public spaces in ways that prodded them to experiment with extending and retracting themselves across racial and economic divides.Less
Chapter Four examines how public housing residents and their new neighbors collided in public spaces in ways that prodded them to experiment with extending and retracting themselves across racial and economic divides.
Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035910
- eISBN:
- 9780262338868
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035910.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
During the past four decades Los Angeles and Hong Kong have come to play a critical role in the flow of goods, people, and capital; in the changes in production and consumption; and in the urban ...
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During the past four decades Los Angeles and Hong Kong have come to play a critical role in the flow of goods, people, and capital; in the changes in production and consumption; and in the urban environmental issues that have taken root as a result of the changes they have experienced. The book evaluates the issues associated with those changes, including how LA and Hong Kong have become connected to China and its key urban regions such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta. Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and several of China’s mega-cities have become global in their activities and reach through their financial, political and economic roles as well as the cultural, environmental, and demographic shifts that have taken place. The book documents the history and protracted nature of six urban environmental issues in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. These include ports and freight traffic (or goods movement), air quality, water supply and water quality, the food environment, transportation, and open and public space. It identifies contrasting development patterns, important similarities, and comparative trends and strategies. The book further analyzes how urban environmental issues have risen to the top of the policy agendas in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China, where and how changes are being explored and where change is possible, and where and how such changes have been blocked or undermined.Less
During the past four decades Los Angeles and Hong Kong have come to play a critical role in the flow of goods, people, and capital; in the changes in production and consumption; and in the urban environmental issues that have taken root as a result of the changes they have experienced. The book evaluates the issues associated with those changes, including how LA and Hong Kong have become connected to China and its key urban regions such as Shenzhen and Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta. Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and several of China’s mega-cities have become global in their activities and reach through their financial, political and economic roles as well as the cultural, environmental, and demographic shifts that have taken place. The book documents the history and protracted nature of six urban environmental issues in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China. These include ports and freight traffic (or goods movement), air quality, water supply and water quality, the food environment, transportation, and open and public space. It identifies contrasting development patterns, important similarities, and comparative trends and strategies. The book further analyzes how urban environmental issues have risen to the top of the policy agendas in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China, where and how changes are being explored and where change is possible, and where and how such changes have been blocked or undermined.
Gregory W. Bush
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062648
- eISBN:
- 9780813051628
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062648.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Virginia Key Beach can claim a significant place in the national Civil Rights Movement. This account underscores the importance of local advocacy and grassroots activism in the struggle for civil ...
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Virginia Key Beach can claim a significant place in the national Civil Rights Movement. This account underscores the importance of local advocacy and grassroots activism in the struggle for civil rights in the years before 1964 and links it to the expanding notion of civil rights to public space that has emerged more recently. By examining the long struggle for Virginia Key Beach, we can better appreciate how the role of cultural memory within the African American community intersects with the challenges for funding equity and bureaucratic processes to deepen consciousness of place beyond the fluid demands of capitalism.Less
Virginia Key Beach can claim a significant place in the national Civil Rights Movement. This account underscores the importance of local advocacy and grassroots activism in the struggle for civil rights in the years before 1964 and links it to the expanding notion of civil rights to public space that has emerged more recently. By examining the long struggle for Virginia Key Beach, we can better appreciate how the role of cultural memory within the African American community intersects with the challenges for funding equity and bureaucratic processes to deepen consciousness of place beyond the fluid demands of capitalism.
Kathleen Dunn
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036573
- eISBN:
- 9780262341554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036573.003.0003
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural History
This chapter outlines how race- and class-based stratification and criminalization shape New York City’s street vending industry. The vast majority of New York’s street vendors are first generation ...
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This chapter outlines how race- and class-based stratification and criminalization shape New York City’s street vending industry. The vast majority of New York’s street vendors are first generation immigrants of color who experience racial profiling for turning urban public space into their workplace. Since the Great Recession, a small but growing class of native-born and highly educated actors have been able to enter this profoundly criminalized industry with comparative ease largely due to class and race privileges, spurring gentrification through the city’s underground food permit rental market. The author argues that any meaningful reform of New York’s broken system of street vending oversight must directly engage these inequities and work to decriminalize poor and working class street vendors of color through a participatory and inclusive process rooted in principles of social justice.Less
This chapter outlines how race- and class-based stratification and criminalization shape New York City’s street vending industry. The vast majority of New York’s street vendors are first generation immigrants of color who experience racial profiling for turning urban public space into their workplace. Since the Great Recession, a small but growing class of native-born and highly educated actors have been able to enter this profoundly criminalized industry with comparative ease largely due to class and race privileges, spurring gentrification through the city’s underground food permit rental market. The author argues that any meaningful reform of New York’s broken system of street vending oversight must directly engage these inequities and work to decriminalize poor and working class street vendors of color through a participatory and inclusive process rooted in principles of social justice.
Annette M. Kim
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9789888208333
- eISBN:
- 9789888313471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888208333.003.0002
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
This chapter focuses on both the resilience and evolution of the spatial practices of everyday people on the sidewalks through Ho Chi Minh City’s history. With an emphasis on spatial practices, the ...
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This chapter focuses on both the resilience and evolution of the spatial practices of everyday people on the sidewalks through Ho Chi Minh City’s history. With an emphasis on spatial practices, the chapter selects two very different urban morphologies within present day Ho Chi Minh City, the French colonial center, which built a mini-Paris in Asia, and the merchant Chinatown of Cholon. While morphology has been viewed as both an expression of and shaper of culture and socio- economic structure, this chapter pursues a more nuanced tracing of how ordinary people have throughout history have altered, continued, subverted the use of interstitial public spaces in the city through various regimes: early settlement years, French colonial urbanism, communist revolutionary years, and the current market transition period. Recovering the history of practice allows a deeper reflection on the space and society nexus and how we define cultural urban identities such as the “Vietnamese city” or “Asian city.”Less
This chapter focuses on both the resilience and evolution of the spatial practices of everyday people on the sidewalks through Ho Chi Minh City’s history. With an emphasis on spatial practices, the chapter selects two very different urban morphologies within present day Ho Chi Minh City, the French colonial center, which built a mini-Paris in Asia, and the merchant Chinatown of Cholon. While morphology has been viewed as both an expression of and shaper of culture and socio- economic structure, this chapter pursues a more nuanced tracing of how ordinary people have throughout history have altered, continued, subverted the use of interstitial public spaces in the city through various regimes: early settlement years, French colonial urbanism, communist revolutionary years, and the current market transition period. Recovering the history of practice allows a deeper reflection on the space and society nexus and how we define cultural urban identities such as the “Vietnamese city” or “Asian city.”
Sophia Khadraoui-Fortune
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620665
- eISBN:
- 9781789623666
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620665.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
April 24th 1998, a two-meter-high iron statue of a slave, arms raised towards the sky, breaking free from his/her chains, was erected clandestinely in Nantes, the primary French slave port of the ...
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April 24th 1998, a two-meter-high iron statue of a slave, arms raised towards the sky, breaking free from his/her chains, was erected clandestinely in Nantes, the primary French slave port of the eighteenth century. Faced with the local government’s refusal to erect a statue commemorating the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, the Mémoire de l’Outre-Mer association decided, in secret, to commission a sculpture. Following the organization’s initial success of hijacking the inauguration, the statue was vandalized. It soon became a performative monument, a memorial palimpsest, and a centre stage of a symbolic combat where opponents and supporters clashed. This essay reveals the democratic praxis at the heart of this commemoration debate. With both the pressure of citizens on the political body, and the triple practice of diversion, subversion, and taking hostage of (public) space, the association thwarts the writing and power strategies of the city of Nantes and its culture of silence. Mémoire de l’Outre-Mer not only resists official discourse but subsequently imposes its own version of French history on the whitened pages of France’s colonial narrative, thus reclaiming a past, a story, an identity, by bringing to light existences and testimonies, and defining new lieux de parole.Less
April 24th 1998, a two-meter-high iron statue of a slave, arms raised towards the sky, breaking free from his/her chains, was erected clandestinely in Nantes, the primary French slave port of the eighteenth century. Faced with the local government’s refusal to erect a statue commemorating the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, the Mémoire de l’Outre-Mer association decided, in secret, to commission a sculpture. Following the organization’s initial success of hijacking the inauguration, the statue was vandalized. It soon became a performative monument, a memorial palimpsest, and a centre stage of a symbolic combat where opponents and supporters clashed. This essay reveals the democratic praxis at the heart of this commemoration debate. With both the pressure of citizens on the political body, and the triple practice of diversion, subversion, and taking hostage of (public) space, the association thwarts the writing and power strategies of the city of Nantes and its culture of silence. Mémoire de l’Outre-Mer not only resists official discourse but subsequently imposes its own version of French history on the whitened pages of France’s colonial narrative, thus reclaiming a past, a story, an identity, by bringing to light existences and testimonies, and defining new lieux de parole.
Di Wang
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501715488
- eISBN:
- 9781501715556
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501715488.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
The Introduction gives an overall picture of Chengdu--the capital of Sichuan province and one of the major cultural, economic, and political centers in West China, its history, and teahouses. It ...
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The Introduction gives an overall picture of Chengdu--the capital of Sichuan province and one of the major cultural, economic, and political centers in West China, its history, and teahouses. It defines the terms of “public life,” “public space,” and “political culture.” It generalizes the major approaches of studying Chinese urban society under the socialist state. It also evaluates sources produced under communist control such as archival materials and newspapers and discusses the methodologies of field investigation.Less
The Introduction gives an overall picture of Chengdu--the capital of Sichuan province and one of the major cultural, economic, and political centers in West China, its history, and teahouses. It defines the terms of “public life,” “public space,” and “political culture.” It generalizes the major approaches of studying Chinese urban society under the socialist state. It also evaluates sources produced under communist control such as archival materials and newspapers and discusses the methodologies of field investigation.
