Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890–1970. By Xinyang Wang. [Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. 157 pp. $17.95. ISBN 0-7425-0891-9.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Bernard P. Wong
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Group Solidarity ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

The author, Xinyang Wang, is a social historian who reassesses the history of early Chinese immigrants in New York City, departing from the ethnic-heritage and racism analyses of immigrants' adaptation to America. Instead, he pursues an actor-oriented approach, showing how economic forces played an important part in the decision-making activities of the immigrants, such as the selection of neighbourhoods for settlement, participation in the labour movement, return to China, and intensification of intra-group solidarity.

New York at its Core: A Review of an Exhibition at the City Museum of New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Thomas Wide
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThomas Wide visits a recent exhibition on the history of New York City

For Your Information

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-44
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
City Community ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

The Museum of the City of New York announces the opening of an exhibit produced in cooperation with Mt. Sinai Medical Center and based on research undertaken by social anthropologist Judith Freidenberg. Growing Old in Spanish Harlem contains a selection of photographs taken in the field by sociologist Edmundo Morales and then used by Dr. Freidenberg to elicit informant responses. It also includes photographs illustrating other issues and concerns that arose in the course of the interviews and artifacts from the homes of some of the respondents. An accompanying video and exhibition text panels and labels are in Spanish and English. The exhibit is on view through January 3, 1993, in the New York City Community Gallery, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.

Growing in the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay K. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
York City ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Chapter five traces the network of actors and storylines involved in creating, advocating for (or resisting), and maintaining urban agriculture in New York City. First, it describes a brief history of community gardening as a social movement in New York City since the 1970s. Then, it explores the vibrant material practices and varied narratives employed by a newer wave of civic practitioners engaging in urban agriculture from the 2000s to the present. The chapter parses this more recent trend into its various threads, which range from a focus on local food production, to commitments to food justice, to an interest in neighborhood stabilization and youth empowerment.

‘A regular state of beautiful confusion’: governing by numbers and the contradictions of calculable space in New York City

Urban History ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 624-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
REUBEN ROSE-REDWOOD
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Spatial History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Political Technology ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT:Historical scholarship on the spatial organization of cities has largely ignored the crucial role that house numbering has played as a political technology of spatial calculation since the eighteenth century. This article examines the spatial history of house numbering in Manhattan to illustrate how the numbering of buildings was a key strategy employed to reconfigure the city as a space of calculability. From the very outset, however, such calculable spaces of ‘number’ were riddled with contradictions, resulting in several rounds of spatial rationalization over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More than a mere technical concern alone, the history of house numbering in New York City exemplifies the spatial politics and temporal instabilities that have shaped the spaces of calculation in the modern city.

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