Weeding Washington

2019 ◽  
pp. 153851321989104
Author(s):  
Julia G. Triman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
District Of Columbia ◽  
Urban Nature ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Health Officer ◽  
The City ◽  
Newspaper Articles ◽  
Weed Removal

After Congress passed the 1899 Weed Removal Act, the District of Columbia Health Officer struggled to enforce it. The discourses around the legislation reveal a disconnect between visions for order, beauty, and dignity and the uncontrollable conditions on the ground. Planning visions were for an ordered built environment flanked with orderly “nature,” but the weedy materiality of the city thwarted attempts to keep nature in its human-intended place. Through archival research of government reports, newspaper articles, photographs, and cartoons, this article explores how urban weeds complicate discourses of “urban nature” through a case study of early-twentieth-century Washington.

scholarly journals HOW ARE PUBLIC SPACES SUSTAINING CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINA’S INCREASINGLY GLOBALLY FOCUSED URBAN DEVELOPMENTS: USING A CASE STUDY OF PUTUO IN SHANGHAI

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-205
Author(s):  
Hee Sun (Sunny) Choi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
The City

This paper explores what it means for a public space to embody the city within rapid urban change in contemporary urban development and how a space can accomplish this by embracing the culture of the city, its people and its places, using the particular case of Putuo, Shanghai in China. The paper employs mapping and empirical surveys to learn how the local community use the act of communal dance in everyday public spaces of this neighborhood, and seeks not to find generalizable rules for how humans comprehend a city, but instead to better understand how local inhabitants and their chosen activities can influence their built environment. The findings from this emphasize the importance to identify how public spaces can help to define cities with China’s emerging global presence, whilst addressing the ways in which local needs and perspectives can be preserved.

scholarly journals Tales of the Olympic city: memory, narrative and the built environment

ZARCH ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 12-33
Author(s):  
John R. Gold ◽  
Margaret M. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Event Space ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
City Memory ◽  
The City ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Insight Into

The Olympics have a greater, more profound and more pervasive impact on the urban fabric of their host cities than any other sporting or cultural event.  This paper is concerned with issues of memory and remembering in Olympic host cities.  After a contextual introduction, it employs a case study of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP), the main event space for the London 2012 Summer Games, to supply insight into how to read the urban traces of Olympic memory.  Three key themes are identified when interpreting the memories associated with the Park and its built structures, namely: treatment of the area’s displaced past, memorializing the Games, and with memory legacy.  The ensuing discussion section then adopts a historiographic slant, stressing the importance of narrative and offering wider conclusions about Olympic memory and the city.

scholarly journals Medieval Porticoes of Rome: New Methods and Technologies for Revealing Rome’s Architectural and Urban Heritage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selena Kathleen Anders
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
Traditional Scholarship ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Architectural Detail ◽  
The City

At the moment there are few comprehensive texts or instruments that allow architects, designers, historians, planners or even students the ability to understand the complex layers of a city’s urban fabric. As a result, this paper was prepared in order to be uploaded to a digital tool that allows for such exploration of the built environment.   The transformation of the city of Rome is documented in a number of sources and as a result makes it the ideal city for study of architectural and urban evolution.  As a case study in digital documentation this paper examines the medieval façade porticoes of Rome at three scales: urban, architectural, and detail.  The identification and mapping of these structures, are shown together allowing one to examine them in relation to historic and present day city maps.  In addition, their location is analyzed in relation to ancient Roman streets and historic processional routes, to observe the connection amongst their location and that of major thoroughfares of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.  At the architectural scale, the detailed documentation in plan and elevation reveal four distinct variations that existed in the use of the residential façade portico.  At the scale of architectural detail, an inventory of reused architectural elements or spolia that make up the residential porticoes reveal the reuse of ancient Roman column shafts, bases and capitals as well as the medieval masons’ preference for the use of the Ionic capital in particular.  This paper prepares a methodology for digital deployment of traditional scholarship focused on architecture and the built environment.

Introduction: Locating global contemporary art in global China

Above Sea ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jenny Lin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Rigorous Model ◽  
The City ◽  
Radical Transformation

The introduction argues that the global turn in contemporary art has been limited by overly generalized cultural categorizations and inadequate coverage of the local social, economic, political, and historical contexts of non-Western artworks. In response, the author posits an urban-focused, historically grounded, and theoretically rigorous model of disciplinary diversification that foregrounds key examples of art and design created in and about Shanghai. The city is described as an exemplary case study with which to localize global contemporary art, accounting for Shanghai’s longstanding “East-meets-West” mythology and genealogy stemming from its early twentieth century semi-colonial past and radical transformation during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The introduction acknowledges how Republican Shanghai has been recognized by scholars as a modern cultural capital with its own unique Shanghai style, haipai (literally sea style), and proposes that we must also consider the city’s art and design of the 1990s-2000s, the period of Shanghai’s most rapid growth as an international financial and cultural capital.

Moody, “Gapmen,” and the Gospel: The Early Days of Moody Bible Institute

1962 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Evangelical Protestantism ◽  
Moody Bible Institute ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
The City

The story of the founding of Moody Bible Institute serves several purposes. Such a resume fills a gap in our knowledge of an institution that has made important contributions to the life of the city of Chicago and to the shaping of the twentieth century American Protestantism. Any account of the early days of the Institute must also become a case study of the thought and personality of Dwight L. Moody, one of America's most famous revivalists. The record of Moody's struggle to found the school provides us with some underStanding of his social and economic views, offers glimpses of his conception of his role as a leader of evangelical Protestantism, and illuminates several important facets of his personality. All of these subjects merit the attention of the historian.

Unseeing the Body with Bodies on the Move: An Epistemology for Bodies through Certeau and Holy Week Processions

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-425
Author(s):  
Jodi L. A. Belcher
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American South ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
Theological Turn ◽  
The American South ◽  
The City

The twentieth-century philosophical and theological turn to the body challenged modern Western conceptions of bodies as closed, independent entities, but it has not halted the objectifying epistemology that produces this understanding of bodies. To reform the perceptual lens that renders bodies into objects, this article develops an alternative epistemology grounded in participatory interaction in lived space. I bring Michel de Certeau's discussion of the practice of walking the city into conversation with my ethnographic study of Lent and Easter at an Episcopal church in the American South. I argue that Certeau's construal of walking as a way of unseeing the city from a voyeur's perspective also generates a way of unseeing the body as a closed, independent object. I apply Certeau's work to my case study of Holy Week processions to show that an epistemology of unseeing enables a perception of bodies as journeys to emerge.

scholarly journals Children’s Independent Trips on Weekdays and Weekends: Case Study of Québec City

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (4) ◽  
pp. 907-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrien Cervesato ◽  
E. Owen D. Waygood
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Independent Mobility ◽  
Sociodemographic Variables ◽  
Active Mode ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
The City ◽  
Children's Travel

Children’s independent mobility (CIM) on school days (weekdays) and on the weekend are examined in this study. Previous studies have focused primarily on weekday trips, with a vast majority only examining trips to school. However, the types of trips and the available time differ between weekdays and weekends. Weekday trips are more regular and possibly more local, whereas on the weekend the children may have more free time (i.e., no school) to engage in activities. Parents (as a group) are also less likely to have work obligations, and thus potentially more time, on the weekend. Theoretically, each context for the weekend could facilitate more independent or active mode trips. Nonetheless, this may be linked to whether destinations are local, which is linked to the built environment. Using origin–destination data (2011) for the City of Québec, this paper will expand knowledge in the field of children’s travel by examining all trips during a weekday ( n = 979) and weekend ( n = 315) for children aged 9 to 11 across five built environment types. The findings show that weekend trips are rarely independent, and that the key explanatory factors for greater CIM are shorter distances, having an older sibling, and more urban environments. Other sociodemographic variables were not significant or were inconsistent between the two types of weekday.

scholarly journals URBAN OR MORAL DECAY? THE CASE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY DETROIT

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn FAHEY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Moral Standing ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Moral Context ◽  
Moral Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper provides an alternative narrative of Detroit from one of economic struggle and racial division. It instead discusses other forces at play, focusing on questionable moral standing and its relationship to built form, specifically the city. The paper explores whether a compelling claim on building’s moral use can be established, and in doing so seeks to establish a causal link between moral relationship and the built environment. Moral relationship is established through three main avenues. The first is a brief discussion of Detroit’s history, particularly its history from WWII onward, in order to establish the complex moral context into which this argument is situated. The second avenue provides a concise summary of Stanley Cavell’s moral framework and discusses the conundrum of having moral obligation in the absence of moral relationship. The final avenue is a look to the famous Renaissance Center as emblematic of the moral relationship at play. The resulting form of analysis relies on the premises that buildings can embody the knowledge and agreement required for (moral) relationship, and that buildings are artifacts of moral relationship. The paper concludes that buildings are therefore morally appraisable, which is to say they can be appraised for their moral appropriateness.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN VISIBILITAS BANGUNAN LAMA, STUDI KASUS JALAN KREMBANGAN BARAT SURABAYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Setyo Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
City Center ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings ◽  
Vision Technique ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Main Factor ◽  
Technique Analysis

Title: The Improvement of Old Building Visibility, Krembangan Barat Street of Surabaya as of Case Study High development in the City center forces old building losing its existence. The main factor old buildings losing its existences are the lack of skyline guideline (new buildings obstruct the view toward old buildings), the changes of traffic direction, and the selection of vegetation type. This paper discusses a brief evaluation of old building visibility through visual experiences, and gives a schematic design as proposal for jalan Krembangan Barat. Serial vision technique analysis is addressed in order to gain the visual and spatial experiences of the built environment. Result shows that three spots of place should be improved in order to perceive the visibility by rehabilitating, adaptive re-using, and providing pedestrian ways to connect one potential spot to others in the corridor of Krembangan Barat.

scholarly journals The Body of Solidarity: Heritage, Memory, and Materiality in Post-Industrial Italy

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Muehlebach
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
The Body ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
Specific Material ◽  
Post Industrial

AbstractThis paper explores the rise of “industrial heritage” and the forms of memorialization proliferating around it. The site is Sesto San Giovanni, Italy's “City of Factories,” which was also a bastion of communist mobilization and which is now bidding to be recognized on UNESCO's world heritage list. Sesto's bid is an attempt not just to recuperate and reinvigorate the landscape of Sesto's ruined factories and its massive, crumbling machinery, but also to capture and render visible and graspable the traces of what this built environment expressed and left behind—the sentiment of solidarity. I thus argue for an understanding of solidarity not just as an emotion or value, but as a structure of feeling mediated by specific material and corporeal forms, in bodies collectively inhabiting a built environment and rhythmically moving within and out of infrastructures and lived landscapes. Such a materialist conception of solidarity must account for bodies and embodiment, rhythm and refrain, as well as for how certain material forms allow for the generation of proximities, coordination, and likeness across difference. It means thinking of solidarity as an arrangement and assembly of bodies in time and space, and of these bodies and their movement as generative of political feeling and action. Based on ethnographic and archival research in Sesto San Giovanni between 2011 and 2013, I tell the story of the afterlife of a twentieth-century sentiment and its fate in an era that has rendered solidarity precarious.

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