Towards an Urban World Flashcards
Hoskins and Tallon 2004
UK urban renaissance - new urban idyll
Zukin 1995
Symbolic community
Florida 2002
The New Creative Class
Zukin 1988
The Front - experience econ choregraphed by low-wage earners cleaning and preparing food. What kind of ‘public culture’ is being created through this process?
Keiller 1999
Orgman urbanism - globally funded warehouse
Sheller & Urry 2003
Does it still make sense to view ‘practice of everyday life’ from intimate knowledge of walking around city (Certeau 1984) or in a society primarily defined in terms of (auto)mobilities. Do people now gain knowledge of cities by driving through and around them?
Garreau 1991
Edge cities and post-suburbia E.g. Tysons Corner, Virginia - major IFS around edge cities - major part of econ
Fishman 1987
SB = search for bourgeois utopias. moving away from definitive SB landscape to post-SB landscape - UBS of SBs
Douglass and Huang 2007
Utopia on the urban edge in SEA - Phu My Hung, Saigon
Harvey 2008
Accumulation by Dispossession
Dear 2000
Postmodern urbanism
Soja 2000
Postmetroplis
Graham and Marvin 2001
Splintering Urbanism
Graham and Healey 1999
Network society - leads to ^ing sense of local disconnection in such places from physically close yet socially & econ distant places and people
Baviskar 2007
Bourgeois environmentalism
Amin and Thrift 2002
Trad divide between city & countryside has been perforated
Dear and Dahmann 2008
Geog trumped pol - extension of cities beyond conventional pol jurisdictions negated notion of representative democracy - may even intsensify subordiantion of local state to plutocratic priviatism. Balitmore: post-indust city where rep demo in crisis - RSs selectivly taking and applying to some areas while neglecting others - stark div between rich and poor. Juxtaposition of space.
Glass 1964
Gentrification. E.g. in 80s - ^ing evidence that residential rehab, brownstoning (MC to ‘bad’ NBDs), but also widespread restructuring of inner urban landscapes
Lees et al. 2008
Inner urban landscape destruction continuing through 60s - brownstoning in NY, and SG red-brick-chic. Gentrify as global urban strategy - driven by simult expansion of ‘old’ & ‘new’ spatial econ shifts Class transformation of urban classin global S Gentrif happening on ^ massive scale in Shanghai & M, than older post-IDS cities Expansion in manuf and heavy industry, growth in high-tech activities, service sector
Berry 1980
Filtering model of gentrification
Smith 1979
Gentrification and uneven development. Capitalism Society Hill - Philadelphia Renaissance 1960
Smith 1996
Capital devalorization in inner city - only when rent gap emerges can redevel be expected since if present use succeeded in capitalizing all or most of ground rent, little econ benefit derived from redevel. Process by which poor and WB NBDs in inner city are refurbished by influx of capital. Disturbs conventional understanding of city - Burgess model and Chicago school Gentrification tied to ‘see-saw’ movement of uneven devel
Ley 1986
Occupational and econ changes - new cultural class, alternative urbanism to SBization
Rose 1984
Demographic changes due to gentrification - rethinking gentrif beyond uneven devel of Marxist urban theory
Williams 1986
Questions of identity - higher allow women exercise choice over roles
Castells 1983
Pink economy - single men with no family, young, connected to rel prosperous service econ
Zukin 1988
Gentrification as meeting point between capital and culture
Visser 2002
SA cities: rent gap opps Theories of gentric also of relevance here
Harris 2008
Gentrification in comparative perspective - defy continued Eurocentric hegemony Mumbai
Butler and Lees 2006
Super gentrification E.g. Barnsbury, N London X Smith 1980s - gentrification no longer always restricted to disinvested NBDs
Hubbard 2008
Studentification
Boddy 2007
Designer NBDs - Bristol e.g. non-metrop UK cities. New housing devel and conversion in 2nd tier UK cities - is this stretching term of gentrif too far?
Urban Taskforce 1999 Lees 2003
Towards an urban reniassance in London Urban regen that could slot neatly into any gentrification textbook Using it in policy shows how gentrif has become naturalized and generalized
Utjermark et al. 2007
Getrnification as governmental strategy - e.g. Netherlands - disadvantaged NBDs - promoting liveability to excibit low level of crime and nuisance to attract MCs
Housing Market Renewal Policy 2003-2011 MacLeod and Johnstone 2012
Remodel low demand housing - and rebalance pop of disad and stigmatized comms in N cities - social engineering but on pre-existing resid land.
Cameron 2003
Housing Market Renewal Policy 2003-2011 Perhaps suggests partic sharp form of displacement and exclusion - relates to revanchist city X anti-social behaviour
Clark 2005
Urban gentrif reconsidered - not just capital to urban centre, also related to prod of space for & consump by a more affluent & diff incoming pop
Atkins et al. 1999
Roman ancient waled city to a modern ‘public’ city
Macleod 2013
Walling the city in modernity Walls were used for protection - now reflect hierarchies
Bermann 1983
Mid-19th C - Paris - a city synonymous with street insurrection - spectacular urban innovation of 19th C & MDS breakthrough in trad city
Minton 2006
The privitization of public space
Banerjee 2001
Crucial role of public spaces in environmental quality - interpreted demo ideals, good citiz, civic responsibs
Davis 1991
Narrative of end of urban space - Bunker Hill
Judd 1995
Verticality - Peachtree Centre, Atlanta
Caldeira 1999
Fortified enclaves: the new urban segregation - Brazil
Minton 2009
Reshaping britain’s public urban space - growing emergence of ‘private=public’ space Becoming bland, sterile environs
2004 Act of Parliament - Role of Legal planning Term: ‘Cumpolsory purchase’
Prove any new devel to be of signif benefit to local econ - favours econ over comm interests
Low 2006
Gated enclaves - restrict access to resident homes and to assoc ‘public spaces’
Atkinson and Flint 2004
London’s Former hospitals and schools - their consequent demise as ‘public assets’
McKenzie 2006
Most powerful ‘social movement’ in contemp S California is that of affluent homeowners, engaged in defence of home values and NBD exclusivity, portioning selves from rest of metrop. Pmerium
Shaktin 2008
Manila, SEA - privitization and social equity - pub sector essentially subsidizing the priv of transportation and land devel
Turner 2002
Corporatization of public space - contradiction of public realm: Today’s pol environ, difficult justify making space available to those without capacity to consume. So most cities reluctant to use downtown land for pub activites that do not prod revenue. Priv of downtowns - as part of ‘effective marketing and promotion’ of land downtowns ^ing priv style of downtown devel prods steady withering of urban realm
DeFilippis 1997
By rendering people in pov invisible, they afford local states ability to ignore them. Just as exclusion of women, peasants and proletariat from dom pub spaces of early cap EU contrib to hist marg of these groups, so is the ^ing exclusion of urban poor & HL pops from urban public spaces contrib to ^ing marg of these groups now
McLaughlin & Munci 1999
Upward trend in enclosure of commercial & resid space been defining feature of US urb - intensified by extensive surviellance and muscular policing
Blakely and Snyder 1999
Gated sanctuaries reped ‘uncommon places for uncommon people’
Macleod 2012
Sao Paulo - defensive urbanism
Castells 1977
Privatopia eschews obligations to a city-scale mode of ‘collective consumption’
Know 2008
Secessionary citz is premised on management of secessionary spaces of internal regs Moreover, a secessionary citz encouraged by powerful developers - sense of comm has become commoditized
Amin and Thrift 2002
City spaces can’t be completely secured - still crossed by fumes of cities, internet, communications etc.
Davis 1990
Bunker Hill - has dammed the rivers of life downtown - superimposition of sealed fortresses
Soja 2000 and Foucault
Postmetrop repped as collection of carceral cities - an archipelago of ‘normalized enclosures’ and fortified space Vol and invol barricades