Review Essay : Housing the Urban PoorROGER D. SIMON. The City-building Process: Housing and services in New Milwaukee Neighborhoods, 1880-1910. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 68, Part 5). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. July 1978. Pp. 64, figures, appendix, bibliography, index. $8. ANTHONY JACKSON. A Place Called Home: A History of Low-Cost Housing in Manhattan. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976. Pp. 308, notes, index. THOMAS Lee PHILPOTT. The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform, Chicago, 1880-1930. (The Urban Life in America Series). Ne.w York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. XIII, 428, tables, figures, maps, appendix, notes. DEVERAUX BOWLEY, Jr. The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago, 1895-1976. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press, 1978. Pp. 254, notes, index. $15

1980 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Bauman
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Southern Illinois ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Building Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Low Cost Housing ◽  
The City

The Question of Authority: Deracinating Race, Repositioning Religion, and Regenerating Gender in the History of African American Islam

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 213-227
Author(s):  
Rosemary Hicks
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Islam ◽  
African American Islam ◽  
Oxford University Press

A review essay devoted to Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection by Sherman A. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2005. 256 pages. Hb. $29.95/£22.50, ISBN-13: 9780195180817.

Visions in conflict: a city of possibilities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Howell ◽  
Richard Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Local Production ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Social Struggle ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Land Water

This chapter casts the deindustrialization of Detroit as part of a larger transition providing new dangers and opportunities. The disappearance of industrial economy has created opportunities for the emergence of alternative means of creating new, sustainable and vibrant urban life. The resources of African American culture and imagination provide a perspective on developing innovative ways of making a living that nurture our capacities for cooperation and care. Rooted in Detroit’s long history of social struggle, a vision of self-determining urban life based, on local production for local needs is emerging. Mainstream elites and media generally ignore or deride these efforts. This chapter explores specific examples of the practices and programs emerging from the community. New forms of resisting dehumanization, especially since the takeover of the city by emergency management, are combined with creation of concrete alternatives to questions of land, water new ways of thinking.

scholarly journals Housing for Aboriginal Youth in the Inner City of Winnipeg

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Brown ◽  
Dilly Knol ◽  
Sonia Prevost-Derbecker ◽  
Kelly Andrushko
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Neglect ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Low Cost Housing ◽  
The City

Aboriginal families are highly overrepresented in child welfare caseloads. Major reasons for these high rates of involvement include poverty and housing issues, which contribute to perceptions of child neglect. In Winnipeg, the city with the highest proportion of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, low-cost housing is concentrated in core neighbourhoods. Homeless youth in these neighbourhoods, who are involved or have been involved in child welfare, were asked about their life experiences and the kind of housing that would help them. They talked about the need to be seen as resourceful, contributing members of the community, as well as their continued need of support from others, including friends and family. They wanted more than a place to sleep; they wanted a home that was safe, nurturing and long-term. The youth had school and work aspirations for themselves and wanted to help other youth reach their goals. There is a need for expansion of community-based and community-driven housing with youth who have been involved in the child welfare system.

AN INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS OF LOW-COST HOUSING IN CHILE

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Maureen Trebilcock-Kelly ◽  
Gerardo Saelzer-Fica ◽  
Ariel Bobadilla-Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Performance Requirements ◽  
U Value ◽  
Low Cost Housing ◽  
Integrated Design Process ◽  
The City

This paper discusses the application of Integrated Design Process for the design of low-cost housing in Chile. It aims to question common practice for the development of housing based on prescriptive regulations and non-interdisciplinary work, which has resulted in poor quality building requirements. The first stage consisted in defining performance requirements for aspects such as energy demand, U value, air tightness and indoor air quality for a specific case of low-cost houses located in the city of Temuco. An integrated design process was carried out by an interdisciplinary team of professionals specialized in each of the performance aspects that were taken into account. The construction and post-occupancy stages were characterized by verifying the performance requirements, which resulted in a low-cost house prototype that included strategies for energy efficiency and a healthy indoor environment.

Street Scene: Berlin's Strasse des 17 Juni and the Performance of (Dis)unity

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-317
Author(s):  
Nicolas Whybrow
Keyword(s):  
Urban Life ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Political Event ◽  
History Of ◽  
East German ◽  
Street Scene ◽  
German People ◽  
Event Based ◽  
The City

One of Berlin's most prominent streets, named after the East German workers' uprising of 1953 (in which Brecht was controversially implicated), serves as the performative location for Nicolas Whybrow's topographical interrogation of the politics of German nationhood. Particular attention is given to the new parliament building, the Reichstag, which has been out of action for the majority of its troubled history. The article considers attempts to perform democracy and unity since the fall of the Wall through various mediations, including Norman Foster's refunctioning of the Reichstag, Christo's facilitation of its rebirth, and a permanent installation by Hans Haacke which rewrites the building's prominent inscription of 1916, ‘For the German People’. Finally, Whybrow places the annual ‘Love Parade’ in the context of the long history of mass marches and demonstrations on this particular street, and analyzes its claims to be a unifying political event. Based loosely on the Benjaminian flâneur figure's practice of a first-hand experience of the street, incorporating both subjective immersion and detached observation of the revealing ‘detritus of modern urban life’, various tensions and superimpositions are rendered visible as the city undergoes transformation since reunification. Nicolas Whybrow, whose book Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin, and Berlin is forthcoming, is Senior Lecturer in Theatre at De Montfort University, Leicester.

A Place Called Home: A History of Low Cost Housing in Manhattan.

1977 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 553
Author(s):  
Stanley Buder ◽  
Anthony Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
History Of ◽  
Low Cost Housing

Night Raiders

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloise Moss
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City

Night Raiders: Burglary and the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860–1968 is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the ‘night-time’ hours of nine p.m. and six a.m. in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars’ victims were likely to be in the bedroom, asleep and unawares, when the intruder crept in, prowling near them in the darkness. Yet fear sometimes gave way to sexual fantasy. Eroticized visions of handsome young thieves sneaking around the boudoirs of beautiful, lonely heiresses emerged alongside tales of violence and loss in popular culture, confounding social commentators by casting the burglar as criminal hero. Night Raiders charts how burglary lay historically at the heart of national debates over the meanings of ‘home’, experiences of urban life, and social inequality. This book explores intimate stories of the devastation caused by burglars’ presence in the most private domains, showing how they are deeply embedded within broader histories of capitalism and liberal democracy. The fear and fascination towards burglary were mobilized by media, state, and market to sell insurance and security technologies, whilst also popularizing the crime in fiction, theatre, and film. Cat burglars’ rooftop adventures transformed ideas about the architecture and policing of the city, and post-war ‘spy-burglars’ theft of information illuminated Cold War skirmishes across the capital. More than any other crime, burglary shaped the everyday rhythms, purchases, and perceptions of modern urban life.

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