Chinatowns Lost? The Birth and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City

2021 ◽  
pp. 153568412110167
Author(s):  
Daniel Yoder Zipp
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
American City ◽  
Historical Ethnography ◽  
American Cities

This article historicizes and links the ways in which ethnically segregated neighborhoods are born and die in American cities. Based on a historical ethnography of five Chinatowns in Los Angeles from 1850 to 1950, I highlight Chinese residents’ agency in both the birth and death of their own neighborhoods through a process called neighborhood architomy. Chinese residents split off new neighborhoods from dying neighborhoods while maintaining their institutions and memories, showing how neighborhood death and birth are intimately intertwined. To understand either process fully, we must treat neighborhoods and their residents as sociological and historical agents at both the birth and death of neighborhoods.

Latin American Cities: Aspects of Function and Structure

1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Morse
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
New World ◽  
American City ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

This essay will advance two interrelated hypotheses about the Latin American city. The first of them has to do with the role of the city in the settlement of the New World. The second suggests certain characteristics of the modern Latin American metropolis.

scholarly journals Governing with Clean Hands: Automated Public Toilets and Sanitary Surveillance

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irus Braverman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Good News ◽  
American City ◽  
Urban Decay ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Public Toilets

To anyone familiar with the story of urban decay in major American cities in the 1980s – and with the subsequent abolition of toilets from city streets – the introduction of automated public toilets (APTs) to urban spaces sounds like very good news. This article explores the re-democratizing message that commonly accompanies the introduction of APTs to North American city streets as well as their on-the-ground manifestations. It focuses on two major components of APTs: privatization and automation. The process of privatization, which characterizes most APT operations in North America, carries with it various exclusionary effects that stand in stark contrast to the democratic aspirations of public space. Additionally, the APTs normally feature automated devices, and, most prominently, the auto-flush and the automated faucet and dryer. On the face of things, these devices eradicate the injustices that sometimes accompany human discretion. However, they also conceal the necessarily social and value-ridden human decision making that goes into their design. The article proposes that both the privatization and the automation of public toilets are part of a broader and increasingly expansive sanitary regime, one that imposes a morality in practice on its users. The latter are left with relatively limited options as to how to use the space of the washroom and at times join the nonhuman devices themselves in “kicking-back” at their programmers. By comparing automated toilets with attendant-based ones, the article suggests that the project of sanitary surveillance exemplifies the fluidity between traditional and new forms of surveillance.

Learning from Los Angeles

Urban History ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-434
Author(s):  
Peter J. Larkham
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
American City ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Extended Review ◽  
History Of Los Angeles

Several recent books provide reason for an extended review of aspects of the development and history of Los Angeles. This city is so prominent particularly in the entertainment media that it is often seen (from outside the USA at least) as the archetypal American city, which gives rise to many misconceptions. There is a great deal still to learn from Los Angeles.

scholarly journals A Contrast of U.S. Metropolitan Demographic Poverty: Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Robert G. Mogull
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Demographic Group ◽  
The Individual ◽  
American Cities

This paper examines and compares U.S. poverty rates on two levels, with data obtained from the decennial censuses of 1960 through 2000. First, rates of poverty for five demographic groups are contrasted within each of the three most populous metropolises of the nation—Chicago, Los Angeles/Long Beach, and New York. Second, rates for each demographic group are contrasted among the three metropolises. The statistical evidence reveals both large differences among the individual demographic groups and also in the trends among the three most populous American cities.

scholarly journals Procesos y lógicas de las urbanizaciones cerradas en áreas metropolitanas: Bogotá, Colombia y Buenos Aires, Argentina

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Alejandro Mendoza Jaramillo
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
American City ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
American Cities

Resumen: El presente artículo hace un breve recorrido por las lógicas y procesos en torno a uno de los fenómenos de ocupación del suelo más difundidos en las ciudades latinoamericanas –Urbanizaciones Cerradas (UC) –, aterrizado en las áreas metropolitanas de Bogotá y Buenos Aires. En este sentido, se busca develar las particularidades y similitudes en la instalación de ese producto inmobiliario y su posible incidencia en la configuración de dos metrópolis, leído a través de tres dimensiones (crecimiento poblacional, instalación de UC y configuración urbana). ___Palabras clave: Urbanizaciones cerradas, áreas metropolitanas, ciudad latinoamericana. ___Abstract: The present article makes a brief tour of the logics and processes around one of the phenomena of land occupation most widespread in the Latin American cities –Closed Urbanizations (UC)–, landed in the metropolitan areas of Bogota and Buenos Aires. In this sense, we seek to uncover the peculiarities and similarities in the installation of this real estate product and its possible impact on the configuration of two metropolis, read through three dimensions (population growth, UC installation and urban configuration). ___Keywords: Closed urbanizations, metropolitan areas, Latin American city. ___Recibido: 31 de Julio de 2016. Aceptado: 5 Septiembre de 2016.

scholarly journals An Allegory of Good Government: A Comparison of Gothic Siena and Modern Los Angeles

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Figura Lange ◽  
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Sandra Davis Lakeman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Good Government ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

As our American cities struggle with the problems of growth and development, the human initiated disasters of crime and violence threaten the very existence of the urban core ofmost large cities. Los Angeles dominates the American crime scene with its gangs and drug dealers, where violent crime will strike one in every three Angelenos in their lifetime. The city is a leading example of environmental disintegration preceding rampant crime. In fact, environmental decay, drug use and crime continue to rise apparently in collaboration with each other. Additionally, the social service organizations are overwhelmed by the influx of immigrants, teenage pregnancy, and AIDS.

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