Robert J. Chaskin and Mark L. Joseph
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226164397
- eISBN:
- 9780226303901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226303901.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter places public housing reform policies like the Plan for Transformation in Chicago and HOPE VI (and its successor Choice Neighborhoods) at the national level in the broader historical ...
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This chapter places public housing reform policies like the Plan for Transformation in Chicago and HOPE VI (and its successor Choice Neighborhoods) at the national level in the broader historical context of community development and “community building” efforts in the United States. It then builds on this broader history to situate housing policy as a response to urban poverty, charting the development of public housing in the United States, providing a description and analysis of current policy that seeks to reform it, and laying out the parameters and components of the Transformation that frame action and impact at the local level in each mixed-income development replacing public housing complexes.Less
This chapter places public housing reform policies like the Plan for Transformation in Chicago and HOPE VI (and its successor Choice Neighborhoods) at the national level in the broader historical context of community development and “community building” efforts in the United States. It then builds on this broader history to situate housing policy as a response to urban poverty, charting the development of public housing in the United States, providing a description and analysis of current policy that seeks to reform it, and laying out the parameters and components of the Transformation that frame action and impact at the local level in each mixed-income development replacing public housing complexes.
Lynne Attwood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719081453
- eISBN:
- 9781781701768
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081453.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on ...
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An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. The book's main concern is housing as a gendered issue. To this end, it examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. The book places the research firmly in the context of existing literature. While this includes a number of short works that consider the gendered implications of housing policy in specific periods, the book provides an analysis of housing as a gendered issue throughout Soviet history, comparing and contrasting housing policy and the experience of home life under different leaders. Much of the material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables the book to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, the book also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life.Less
An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing and the meaning and experience of ‘home’ for Soviet citizens. The book's main concern is housing as a gendered issue. To this end, it examines the use of housing to alter gender relations, and the ways in which domestic space was differentially experienced by men and women. The book places the research firmly in the context of existing literature. While this includes a number of short works that consider the gendered implications of housing policy in specific periods, the book provides an analysis of housing as a gendered issue throughout Soviet history, comparing and contrasting housing policy and the experience of home life under different leaders. Much of the material comes from Soviet magazines and journals, which enables the book to demonstrate how official ideas on housing and daily life changed during the course of the Soviet era, and were propagandised to the population. Through a series of in-depth interviews, the book also draws on the memories of people with direct experience of Soviet housing and domestic life.
Andrew Beer, Debbie Faulkner, Chris Paris, and Terry Clower
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847424280
- eISBN:
- 9781447302520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847424280.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter reviews the published work that explains the changing relationship between households and the dwellings in which they live over their life course. It starts with a section on the role of ...
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This chapter reviews the published work that explains the changing relationship between households and the dwellings in which they live over their life course. It starts with a section on the role of risk within contemporary society. This is followed by an examination of the debates around housing careers, housing histories, housing biographies, and housing pathways. It is concluded that there is a need to recast one's thinking around this issue, and that, in the twnety-first century, it has become more appropriate to consider the way people move through the housing stock as a set of transitions which embrace both permanent and temporary relocation, as well as the simultaneous occupancy of multiple dwellings.Less
This chapter reviews the published work that explains the changing relationship between households and the dwellings in which they live over their life course. It starts with a section on the role of risk within contemporary society. This is followed by an examination of the debates around housing careers, housing histories, housing biographies, and housing pathways. It is concluded that there is a need to recast one's thinking around this issue, and that, in the twnety-first century, it has become more appropriate to consider the way people move through the housing stock as a set of transitions which embrace both permanent and temporary relocation, as well as the simultaneous occupancy of multiple dwellings.
Claudia Leeb
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474413244
- eISBN:
- 9781474445177
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474413244.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter exposes the defense mechanisms in the heated public debates about establishing a house of history in Vienna, from the time period from 2015 until the present, because such a museum would ...
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This chapter exposes the defense mechanisms in the heated public debates about establishing a house of history in Vienna, from the time period from 2015 until the present, because such a museum would also display Austria’s Nazi past. The defense mechanisms underline the continuing inability of contemporary Austrians to live up to guilt, and that they advance any reason, no matter how ridiculous, to keep unconscious guilt feelings repressed. As a result, we are confronted with flawed judgments and the continuing failure of Austrians to work through their past. The debate around establishing a house of history in which scientists, university professors and politicians participate exposes that we find the lack of embodied reflective judgment particularly in the educated class.Less
This chapter exposes the defense mechanisms in the heated public debates about establishing a house of history in Vienna, from the time period from 2015 until the present, because such a museum would also display Austria’s Nazi past. The defense mechanisms underline the continuing inability of contemporary Austrians to live up to guilt, and that they advance any reason, no matter how ridiculous, to keep unconscious guilt feelings repressed. As a result, we are confronted with flawed judgments and the continuing failure of Austrians to work through their past. The debate around establishing a house of history in which scientists, university professors and politicians participate exposes that we find the lack of embodied reflective judgment particularly in the educated class.
Amy G. Richter
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814769133
- eISBN:
- 9780814769157
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814769133.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America uses primary documentsto revisit the variety of places Americans called home—middle-class suburban houses, slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier ...
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At Home in Nineteenth-Century America uses primary documentsto revisit the variety of places Americans called home—middle-class suburban houses, slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier dugouts, urban settlement houses—and explore the shifting interpretations and experiences of these spaces from within and without. The selection and juxtaposition of primary sources compresses the insights of several historical fields and approaches, including house history, social history, and cultural history. It also draws heavily from the work of women’s history, particularly scholarship exploring the separate spheres ideal. Rather than offering an account of material culture, architectural history, or Victorian domesticity, this volume uses the home as a synthetic tool to pull together stories of nineteenth-century America. The result is less a tidy account of shared domestic values, or a straightforward chronology of change over time, than an opportunity to eavesdrop on a wide-ranging conversation recounting the ways in which a variety of women and men created, conformed to, critiqued, and transformed the ideal of home. This conversation included a diverse group of historical actors: a domestic servant and Herman Melville, a newlywed housewife and W.E.B. Du Bois, an interior designer and Theodore Roosevelt, all of whom contemplated the power and boundaries of the American home. Together, these voices offer an intimate yet broad view of nineteenth-century American history and sketch a narrative of both inclusion and difference.Less
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America uses primary documentsto revisit the variety of places Americans called home—middle-class suburban houses, slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier dugouts, urban settlement houses—and explore the shifting interpretations and experiences of these spaces from within and without. The selection and juxtaposition of primary sources compresses the insights of several historical fields and approaches, including house history, social history, and cultural history. It also draws heavily from the work of women’s history, particularly scholarship exploring the separate spheres ideal. Rather than offering an account of material culture, architectural history, or Victorian domesticity, this volume uses the home as a synthetic tool to pull together stories of nineteenth-century America. The result is less a tidy account of shared domestic values, or a straightforward chronology of change over time, than an opportunity to eavesdrop on a wide-ranging conversation recounting the ways in which a variety of women and men created, conformed to, critiqued, and transformed the ideal of home. This conversation included a diverse group of historical actors: a domestic servant and Herman Melville, a newlywed housewife and W.E.B. Du Bois, an interior designer and Theodore Roosevelt, all of whom contemplated the power and boundaries of the American home. Together, these voices offer an intimate yet broad view of nineteenth-century American history and sketch a narrative of both inclusion and difference.
John David Rhodes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517903695
- eISBN:
- 9781452958897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In this mostly theoretical discussion I discuss some examples of American feature filmmaking, including Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939), in order to establish the implicit problematic that ...
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In this mostly theoretical discussion I discuss some examples of American feature filmmaking, including Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939), in order to establish the implicit problematic that race and the raced body are fundamentally bound up in the “spectacle of property,” even when no non-white bodies appear onscreen. Finally, as a means of testing some of these ideas through close formal and historical analysis, the second part of the chapter focuses in detail on a single film, D.W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909) and its representation of the house and its violation in the context of cinema’s emergence as a narrative representational medium and as an industry preoccupied by property rightsLess
In this mostly theoretical discussion I discuss some examples of American feature filmmaking, including Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939), in order to establish the implicit problematic that race and the raced body are fundamentally bound up in the “spectacle of property,” even when no non-white bodies appear onscreen. Finally, as a means of testing some of these ideas through close formal and historical analysis, the second part of the chapter focuses in detail on a single film, D.W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909) and its representation of the house and its violation in the context of cinema’s emergence as a narrative representational medium and as an industry preoccupied by property rights
Barbara Lounsberry
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780813049915
- eISBN:
- 9780813050379
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813049915.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Woolf’s various diary styles and forms fuse from 1915 to 1918. In 1915, she blends place and portrait, event and thought into an engaging life diary tapestry. In 1917, she writes herself back from ...
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Woolf’s various diary styles and forms fuse from 1915 to 1918. In 1915, she blends place and portrait, event and thought into an engaging life diary tapestry. In 1917, she writes herself back from illness through her country Asheham House Natural History Diary, but soon adds a city diary to this country diary, writing in both diaries on 17 days in this, her most intensive year of diary-writing. In her first 1918 Hogarth House Diary she both extends individual diary entries and merges them, and she blends her country and city styles as well. We leave her in July 1918 ready to launch her mature, spare (modernist) diary style. The diaries Woolf reads during this expansive and coalescing time could not be more fortuitous: Mary (Seton) Berry’s diaries which offer the whole kernel of A Room of One’s Own; the Goncourt brothers’ collaborative Journals which spur Woolf to try a collaborative diary; and the diaries of the literary curate Stopford Brooke which showed her a searching mind, one continually opening and unifying across his highly creative days.Less
Woolf’s various diary styles and forms fuse from 1915 to 1918. In 1915, she blends place and portrait, event and thought into an engaging life diary tapestry. In 1917, she writes herself back from illness through her country Asheham House Natural History Diary, but soon adds a city diary to this country diary, writing in both diaries on 17 days in this, her most intensive year of diary-writing. In her first 1918 Hogarth House Diary she both extends individual diary entries and merges them, and she blends her country and city styles as well. We leave her in July 1918 ready to launch her mature, spare (modernist) diary style. The diaries Woolf reads during this expansive and coalescing time could not be more fortuitous: Mary (Seton) Berry’s diaries which offer the whole kernel of A Room of One’s Own; the Goncourt brothers’ collaborative Journals which spur Woolf to try a collaborative diary; and the diaries of the literary curate Stopford Brooke which showed her a searching mind, one continually opening and unifying across his highly creative days.
John David Rhodes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517903695
- eISBN:
- 9781452958897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Explores in some detail the history and historiography of what architectural historian Vincent Scully has famously nominated as stick and shingle style architecture. These styles name the large, ...
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Explores in some detail the history and historiography of what architectural historian Vincent Scully has famously nominated as stick and shingle style architecture. These styles name the large, rambling wooden houses built in the late nineteenth-century whose histories are entangled with that of the colonial revival and Queen Anne styles. Nostalgia is the animating force of these architectural styles, as it is for the films that make significant use of this architecture: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli,1944), Psycho, and Grey Gardens.Less
Explores in some detail the history and historiography of what architectural historian Vincent Scully has famously nominated as stick and shingle style architecture. These styles name the large, rambling wooden houses built in the late nineteenth-century whose histories are entangled with that of the colonial revival and Queen Anne styles. Nostalgia is the animating force of these architectural styles, as it is for the films that make significant use of this architecture: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli,1944), Psycho, and Grey Gardens.
Amy G. Richter
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814769133
- eISBN:
- 9780814769157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814769133.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The introduction describes the history and historiography of the home and domesticity in the United States. It addresses the types of spaces Americans called home in the nineteenth century and ...
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The introduction describes the history and historiography of the home and domesticity in the United States. It addresses the types of spaces Americans called home in the nineteenth century and highlights important changes in their physical surroundings and material culture. It then discusses the ways that various fields of history (house history, women’s history, urban history) have studied the home and explains the separate spheres ideal at the center of so much of this scholarship. The goal is to underscore the centrality of home to a range of historical inquiries while emphasizing its importance to people in the past.Less
The introduction describes the history and historiography of the home and domesticity in the United States. It addresses the types of spaces Americans called home in the nineteenth century and highlights important changes in their physical surroundings and material culture. It then discusses the ways that various fields of history (house history, women’s history, urban history) have studied the home and explains the separate spheres ideal at the center of so much of this scholarship. The goal is to underscore the centrality of home to a range of historical inquiries while emphasizing its importance to people in the past.
John David Rhodes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517903695
- eISBN:
- 9781452958897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Takes up the modernist house as it appears in films like A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954), House (Charles and Ray Eames, 1955), and more recent films and moving image media such as The Anniversary ...
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Takes up the modernist house as it appears in films like A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954), House (Charles and Ray Eames, 1955), and more recent films and moving image media such as The Anniversary Party (Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh, 2001), A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009), and Stephen Prina’sThe Way He Always Wanted It, II (2008). The chapter also considers a strange site of coincidence between modernist architecture and the movies: the house designed by Richard Neutra for the director Josef von Sternberg that then passed into the hands of Ayn Rand, who was also working in the film industry.Less
Takes up the modernist house as it appears in films like A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954), House (Charles and Ray Eames, 1955), and more recent films and moving image media such as The Anniversary Party (Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh, 2001), A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009), and Stephen Prina’sThe Way He Always Wanted It, II (2008). The chapter also considers a strange site of coincidence between modernist architecture and the movies: the house designed by Richard Neutra for the director Josef von Sternberg that then passed into the hands of Ayn Rand, who was also working in the film industry.
John David Rhodes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517903695
- eISBN:
- 9781452958897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Investigates the bungalow, the modern house of modest proportions, whose spaces promise an openness and a blurring of private and public and whose threshold is the site of radical possibility. The ...
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Investigates the bungalow, the modern house of modest proportions, whose spaces promise an openness and a blurring of private and public and whose threshold is the site of radical possibility. The key films discussed here are Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) and Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943), but the chapter is also in conversation with Theodor Adorno’s fleeting but curious interest in the bungalow and with living spaces more broadly.Less
Investigates the bungalow, the modern house of modest proportions, whose spaces promise an openness and a blurring of private and public and whose threshold is the site of radical possibility. The key films discussed here are Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945) and Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943), but the chapter is also in conversation with Theodor Adorno’s fleeting but curious interest in the bungalow and with living spaces more broadly.
Anne Power and John Houghton
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861346599
- eISBN:
- 9781447302636
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861346599.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter sets out the scope of the study and looks closely at urban and housing history, current dilemmas, and the urban future. It uses the metaphor of the jigsaw to capture the complexity and ...
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This chapter sets out the scope of the study and looks closely at urban and housing history, current dilemmas, and the urban future. It uses the metaphor of the jigsaw to capture the complexity and interconnectedness of modern British cities as it responds to powerful social, economic, and environmental forces. It explains that beginner jigsaws like early cities have few pieces and easily assembled shapes while advanced jigsaws have thousands of small and distinct but hard to distinguish pieces. It notes that modern cities are likewise hugely complex and sometimes seem to defy any order at all, often appearing as a confusing pile of indistinct spaces, structures, and functions – chaotic and unmanageable. The chapter focuses on growth and decline, sprawl and density, economic and environmental imperatives, racial tensions and social harmony.Less
This chapter sets out the scope of the study and looks closely at urban and housing history, current dilemmas, and the urban future. It uses the metaphor of the jigsaw to capture the complexity and interconnectedness of modern British cities as it responds to powerful social, economic, and environmental forces. It explains that beginner jigsaws like early cities have few pieces and easily assembled shapes while advanced jigsaws have thousands of small and distinct but hard to distinguish pieces. It notes that modern cities are likewise hugely complex and sometimes seem to defy any order at all, often appearing as a confusing pile of indistinct spaces, structures, and functions – chaotic and unmanageable. The chapter focuses on growth and decline, sprawl and density, economic and environmental imperatives, racial tensions and social harmony.
John David Rhodes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517903695
- eISBN:
- 9781452958897
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Spectacle of Property details the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in viewing private property onscreen, analyzing the security and ease the house promises along with the horrible anxieties ...
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Spectacle of Property details the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in viewing private property onscreen, analyzing the security and ease the house promises along with the horrible anxieties it produces. It marks a new milestone in examining cinema’s relationship to realism while leaving us vastly more informed about, if less at home inside, the houses we occupy at the movies.Less
Spectacle of Property details the ambivalent but powerful pleasure we take in viewing private property onscreen, analyzing the security and ease the house promises along with the horrible anxieties it produces. It marks a new milestone in examining cinema’s relationship to realism while leaving us vastly more informed about, if less at home inside, the houses we occupy at the movies.
John David Rhodes
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781517903695
- eISBN:
- 9781452958897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517903695.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Concludes by opening up again with a coda that reflecting again on the question of race.
Concludes by opening up again with a coda that reflecting again on the question of race.
