scholarly journals Co-living (as a way of life): The Urbanism of the New Urban Crisis in Los Angeles and Beyond

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Sternberg
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Global City ◽  
Urban Crisis ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

The 21st century global city is in the midst of a new urban crisis: while it holds an increasing monopoly on employment opportunities, it has become harder to access. In this article, I argue that young urban aspirants are still accessing the global city in crisis through the practice of co-living. Co-living can be understood as an emergent collection of residential commoning practices employed by in-bound urbanites to access in-demand parts of the city and attain employment, housing and community. Through a relational ethnographic case study of the PodShare co-living space in the global city of Los Angeles, I argue that co-living is as an urbanism arising to stabilize the new urban crisis on both the level of the individual and the city, guiding individuals to grin at their condition and be increasingly mobile between multiple global cities in an attempt to maximize their chances of securing longer-term residency.

scholarly journals Between Pleasure and Resistance: The Role of Substance Consumption in an Italian Working-Class Subculture

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Placido
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Substance Consumption ◽  
North Western

In this article I discuss how illegal substance consumption can act as a tool of resistance and as an identity signifier for young people through a covert ethnographic case study of a working-class subculture in Genoa, North-Western Italy. I develop my argument through a coupled reading of the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and more recent post-structural developments in the fields of youth studies and cultural critical criminology. I discuss how these apparently contrasting lines of inquiry, when jointly used, shed light on different aspects of the cultural practices of specific subcultures contributing to reflect on the study of youth cultures and subcultures in today’s society and overcoming some of the ‘dead ends’ of the opposition between the scholarly categories of subculture and post-subculture. In fact, through an analysis of the sites, socialization processes, and hedonistic ethos of the subculture, I show how within a single subculture there could be a coexistence of: resistance practices and subversive styles of expression as the CCCS research program posits; and signs of fragmentary and partial aesthetic engagements devoid of political contents and instead primarily oriented towards the affirmation of the individual, as argued by the adherents of the post-subcultural position.

scholarly journals The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Interim Report

1983 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Ling
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
The West ◽  
Phase 3 ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Economic Basis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

SummaryA British team has been working since 1978 upon a programme of documentation and analysis in the Insula of the Menander at Pompeii, one of the irregular city-blocks situated immediately to the west of the old part of the city in an area which was developed from the early fourth century B.C onwards. Study of the structural techniques, of wall-abutments, and of anomalies in plan can be used in conjunction with the evidence of painted wall-plaster to identify five main phases in the building-history: Phase I (fourth-third centuries B.C), Phase 2 (second and early first centuries B.C), Phase 3 (c. 80-c. 15 B.C), Phase 4 (c. 15 B.C.-C. A.D. 50), Phase 5 (c. A.D. 50-79). These illustrate a complex pattern of changing property-boundaries, but underline the general trend towards increasing commercialization and greater pressure upon living-space in this area of the city. There is also interesting evidence of the economic basis of life in the individual houses during the years immediately before 79.

A Smart City Remembers Its Past

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 489-516
Author(s):  
Jennifer Minner ◽  
Andrea Roberts ◽  
Michael Holleran ◽  
Joshua Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Web Based ◽  
First Case ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
The City

Integral to some conceptualizations of the “smart city” is the adoption of web-based technology to support civic engagement and improve information systems for local government decision support. Yet there is little to no literature on the “smartness” of gathering information about historic places within municipal information systems. This chapter provides three case studies of technologically augmented planning processes that incorporated citizens as sensors of data about historic places. The first case study is of SurveyLA, a massive effort of the city of Los Angeles to comprehensively survey over 880,000 parcels for historic resources. A second case study involves Motor City Mapping, an effort to identify the condition of buildings in Detroit, Michigan and a parallel historical survey conducted by volunteers. In Austin, Texas, a university-based research team designed a municipal web tool called the Austin Historical Survey Wiki. This chapter offers insights into these prior efforts to augment planning processes with “digitized memory,” web-based technology, and public engagement.

scholarly journals Routine Assessment of Health Impacts of Local Transportation Plans: A Case Study From the City of Los Angeles

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Nicholas ◽  
Irene Vidyanti ◽  
Emily Caesar ◽  
Neil Maizlish
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
The City ◽  
Routine Assessment

Legalizing Street Vending in Los Angeles: Reframing a Movement during the Fourth Wave of Feminism

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097678
Author(s):  
Sara Bruene ◽  
Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Frame Alignment ◽  
Fourth Wave ◽  
The City

Street vending was criminalized in the city of Los Angeles since the 1930s. The Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign (LASVC) utilized several framing tactics over the last several years in order to mobilize participants to decriminalize and legalize the profession of street vending. This article applies frame alignment theory to illustrate how the LASVC reached its goals. This case study utilizes qualitative interviews of key players in the LASVC movement and a content analysis of LASVC’S Facebook page to document their push toward decriminalization over the course of 1 year. The LASVC transformed their narrative from issues of immigration and labor rights and reframed street vending as a women’s justice issue. By doing so, the LASVC extended the boundaries of their frames to incorporate the voices of women of color whose online and on-the-ground efforts to mobilize a larger population manifested during an era of the fourth wave feminism.

HIV activism in modern Russia: from NGOs to community development

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-436
Author(s):  
Nadya Nartova ◽  
Yana Krupets ◽  
Anastasiia Shilova
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
The City ◽  
Action Groups ◽  
Case Study Methods

Abstract In the context of the spreading HIV epidemic in Russia and the lack of government's effectiveness in addressing this problem, the role and the importance of HIV activism in protecting the rights and improving the quality of life of HIV positive people have been increasing. This article focuses on the development of the HIV community in St. Petersburg, one of the largest and the most problematic, in terms of the HIV epidemic, cities in Russia. The research was conducted within the qualitative methodology, using ethnographic case-study methods and biographical interviews. The authors use the analysis of field observations and nineteen interviews with men and women involved in HIV activism in St. Petersburg to show how collective actions of NGOs and action groups form the city HIV community through working with different groups and the development of participants' agency.

scholarly journals THE STRUCTURE OF SPACE: CUBISM AND MODERNISM. FIGURES AND ICONS IN JOSEF GOČÁR’S WORK

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Domenico Giuseppe CHIZZONITI
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

This research paper relates to a number of works by Josef Gočár, a Bohemian architect who was active in a time period between “Cubist” vanguardism and “Rationalist” modernism. The theme regards the search for a general method which evaluates the key elements of the structure of space in architectural design. The main asset of architectural composition has traditionally been the close association between the syntactic order of the elements and a semantic perception of space. The aim of this essay is to explore the relation between the role of the experimental design regarding the multiple and changeable architectural experience and the creative process of architectural work. The methodological experience hereby demonstrated refers to a specific case study that belongs to the scientific research carried out by Gočár and his researchers’ group at the Prague Fine Arts Academy (AVU). His work is hereby re-interpreted in an effort to explore the experiential contribution to the architectural design discipline, and the figurative aspect, by reexamining various characteristics of his practical experience as an architect involved in the civic priorities of the city, from the scale of urban settlement to the individual design work.

scholarly journals Too much love: institutional care for old age

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Natália Alves Barbieri ◽  
Cynthia Sarti
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Unintentional Action ◽  
The City

Abstract This paper, which is an exercise in articulating anthropology and psychoanalysis to the study of care for elderly people, is based on an ethnographic case study of an institution caring for the elderly in the city of São Paulo. It seeks to understand the representations of old age, aging and care, and what motivates professionals who provide assistance to the aged. Love, care and attention, understood by professionals and staff as requirements for a good job performance, are designated as donation (gift), regardless of technical knowledge. Recurrent references to both charity (gift) and biomedicine (technique) models, have implications for caring for the aged. For different reasons, both management models converge in a practice in which the elderly appear submitted to the intentions of another. The idea of gift as a supposedly unintentional action reveals care as a power relationship.

scholarly journals Approaching Bike Hazards via Crowdsourcing of Volunteered Geographic Information

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7015
Author(s):  
Rafael Hologa ◽  
Nils Riach
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Volunteered Geographic Information ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Urban Cycling ◽  
Accident Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The City

Information on individual hazard perception while cycling and the associated feeling of safety are key aspects to foster sustainable urban cycling mobility. Although cyclist’s perceptions must also be critically reviewed, such crowdsourced Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) provides wide-ranging insights on diverse hazard categories in cycling. In this case study in the city of Freiburg, Germany, hazard perceptions, information about lane types, and the underlying routes were crowdsourced via an open source smartphone application by a small group with the aim of providing cyclists with effective solutions. By dealing with levels of reliability, we show that even a small group of laypersons can generate an extensive and valuable set of VGI consisting of comprehensive hazard categories. We demonstrate that (1) certain hazards are interlinked to specific lane types, and (2) the individual hazard perceptions and objective parameters, i.e., accident data, are often congruent spatially; consequently, (3) dangerous hot spots can be derived. By considering cyclists’ needs, this approach outlines how a people-based perspective can supplement regional planning on the local scale.

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