A visual ethnography of an urban neighborhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Carol Isaac ◽  
Arla Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Urban Neighborhood

Effects of a Local Park on an Urban Neighborhood

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Burgess ◽  
Susan Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Urban Neighborhood

scholarly journals Children helping to co-construct a digital tool that is designed to increase children’s participation in child welfare investigations in Sweden

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502199086
Author(s):  
Helena Blomberg ◽  
Gunnel Östlund ◽  
Philip Rautell Lindstedt ◽  
Baran Cürüklü
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

How do children (aged 6–12 years) understand and make use of a digital tool that is under development? This article builds on an ongoing interdisciplinary research project in which children, social workers (the inventers of this social innovation) and researchers together develop an interactive digital tool (application) to strengthen children’s participation during the planning and process of welfare assessments. Departing from social constructionism, and using a discursive narrative approach with visual ethnography, the aim of the article is to display how the children co-construct the application and contribute with “stories of life situations” by drawing themselves as characters and the places they frequent. The findings show that the children improved the application by suggesting more affordances so that they could better create themselves/others, by discovering bugs, and by showing how it could appeal to children of various ages. The application helped the children to start communicating and bonding when creating themselves in detail, drawing places/characters and describing events associated with them, and sharing small life stories. The application can help children and social workers to connect and facilitate children’s participation by allowing them to focus on their own perspectives when drawing and sharing stories.

scholarly journals Measuring Historical Urban Neighborhood Sustainability: America’s Grand Avenues

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1358
Author(s):  
Michael R. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Industrial Cities ◽  
The Us ◽  
Education Medical ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Us Cities

From 1850 through approximately 1920, wealthy entrepreneurs and elected officials created “grand avenues” lined by mansions in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, and other developing US cities. This paper examines the birthplaces of grand avenues to determine whether they have remained sustainable as magnets for healthy and wealthy people. Using data from the US EPA’s EJSCREEN system and the CDC’s 500 cities study across 11 cities, the research finds that almost every place where a grand avenue began has healthier and wealthier people than their host cities. Ward Parkway in Kansas City and New York’s Fifth Avenue have continued to be grand. Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., Richmond’s Monument Avenue, St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, and Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard are national and regional symbols of political power, culture and entertainment, leading to sustainable urban grand avenues, albeit several are challenged by their identification with white supremacy. Among Midwest industrial cities, Chicago’s Prairie Avenue birthplace has been the most successful, whereas the grand avenues of St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, and Buffalo have struggled, trying to use higher education, medical care, and entertainment to try to rebirth their once pre-eminent roles in their cities.

“What Would I Look Like?”: How Exposure to Concentrated Disadvantage Shapes Hip-Hop Artists’ Connections to Community

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Sarah Becker ◽  
Castel Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Economic Disadvantage ◽  
Concentrated Disadvantage ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Structural Disadvantage ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Community Connections ◽  
Neighborhood Studies ◽  
Depth Interviews

Hip-hop has deep historical ties to disadvantaged communities. Resounding success in mainstream and global music markets potentially disrupts those connections. The authors use in-depth interviews with 25 self-defined rap/hip-hop artists to explore the significance of place in modern hip-hop. Bringing together historical studies of hip-hop and sociological neighborhood studies, the authors examine hip-hop artists’ community connections. Findings reveal that exposure to concentrated racial and economic disadvantage shapes how artists interpret community, artistic impact, and social responsibility. This supports the “black placemaking” framework, which highlights how black urban neighborhood residents creatively build community amid structural disadvantage. The analysis also elucidates the role specific types of physical places play in black placemaking processes.

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