Carceral Matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashad Shabazz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Masculinity ◽  
Street Gangs ◽  
South Side ◽  
Black Migration ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This book explores the intersection of race, gender, sex, and geography in Chicago. It examines the relationship between people and place, as well as the geographic lessons Black Chicagoans learned during the twentieth century and the role housing and architecture, politicians and police played in those lessons. Through an analysis of interracial sex districts, cramped apartments, project housing, street gangs, urban planning, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Chicago, the book reveals the workings of spatialized blackness in Chicago. It argues that policing, surveillance, and architectures of confinement were used to “spatialize blackness” in the city, with racialized and gendered consequences for Black people, especially on the South Side. The book also considers how parts of Chicago's South Side were confronted with daily forms of prison or carceral power that effectively prisonized the landscape. The effects of carceral power on Black masculinity are discussed, from its entrance into Black Chicago from the first leg of the Great Black Migration to the end of the twentieth century. This introduction provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

scholarly journals PLANEJAMENTO URBANO EM GOIÂNIA: A câmera participante e um estudo pelas margens

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Henrique Baima Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ResumoEsse artigo procura apresentar o trabalho etnográfico realizado na Ocupação Jardim Botânico em Goiânia, conjunto de casas que surgiu há mais de 60 anos para abrigar famílias atraídas pela construção da cidade, a primeira capital do Brasil planejada no século XX, após o anúncio da realização de uma Operação Urbana Consorciada para a região. Por meio do olhar antropológico e da câmera participante, o material áudio visual produzido revelou memórias da construção da ocupação e a relação que as pessoas têm com os lugares.Palavras-chave: Antropologia do lugar. Políticas públicas. Memória. Planejamento urbano.URBAN PLANNING IN GOIÂNIA: The camera participat and a study by the marginsAbstractThis article tries to present the ethnography carried out in the Botanical Garden Occupation in Goiânia, set of houses that arose more than 60 years ago to house families attracted by the construction of the city, the first capital of the Brazil planned in the twentieth century, after the announcement of the accomplishment of a Consortium Urban Operation for the region. Through the anthropological look and participat camera, the audio visual material produced revealed memories of the construction of the occupation and the relationship that people have with places. Keywords: Anthropology of the place. Public policies. Memory. Urban planning.

scholarly journals Nueva York 1916. La ciudad sin límites | New York 1916. Unlimited city

ZARCH ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
José Durán Fernández
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
York City ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The City

La Ciudad de Nueva York fue pionera en la aplicación de un sistema de planificación de control urbano que pusiera orden y concierto a una ciudad que rebasa los 5 millones de habitantes a principios del siglo XX. Tal complejo organismo urbano, inédito hasta ese momento, fue objeto del más ambicioso plan urbano sobre una ciudad construida.Este artículo se destina al estudio de este originario plan urbano de 1916, el cual sentaría las bases, unas ciertamente visionarias otras excesivas, de la construcción de la Ciudad de Nueva York en todo el siglo XX. La Building Zone Resolution se creó con dos fines: resolver los problemas de congestión humana en un espacio reducido, la ciudad del presente, y proponer una visión del espacio urbano en las décadas venideras, la ciudad del futuro.El artículo es un compendio de diez textos cortos y un epílogo, que junto a sus respectivos diez documentos gráficos, construyen el corpus de la investigación. El lector pues se enfrenta a un ensayo gráfico formado por pequeños capítulos que le sumergirán en los orígenes de la primera ciudad vertical de la historia.PALABRAS CLAVE: Nueva York; Planeamiento; Visión urbana.The city of New York was a pioneer in the implementation of an urban control planning system that set in order a city that exceeds five million people in the early twentieth century. Such complex urban organism – invaluable until that moment – was the target for the most ambitious urban planning on a built city.This paper focuses on the study of this initial urban planning from 1916, which would set the basis, certainly some visionary yet others excessive, for the building of New York City throughout the 20th century. The Building Zone Resolution was created with two purposes: to solve the issues related to the human bundle in a limited space, the city of the present, and to aim a vision of the urban space in the forthcoming decades, the city of the future.The article is a compendium of ten short texts and one epilogue, which in combination with ten graphic documents, frame the corpus of this investigation. Thus, the reader will face a graphic essay composed by a series of brief chapters that highlight the beginning of the first vertical city in history.KEYWORDS: New York; Planning; Urban vision.

Rethinking the Twentieth-Century History of Mumbai

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 1435-1449 ◽  
Author(s):  
DOUGLAS E. HAYNES
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social History ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

AbstractThis review examines three major books on the history of Bombay. Historians of the city have tended to focus primarily on the period before 1930; this tendency has seriously limited our understanding of the dramatic transformations that have taken place in Bombay over the course of the twentieth century. Each of the studies reviewed here devotes considerable attention to developments since the 1920s. Collectively these works make a significant contribution to the appreciation of such matters as working-class politics, the changing character of workers’ neighbourhoods, land use, urban planning, and the ways the city has been imagined and experienced by its citizens. At the same time, these works all shift their analytic frameworks as they approach more contemporary periods and this restricts the authors' ability to assess fully the character of urban change. This paper calls upon historians to continue to apply the tools of social history, particularly its reliance on close microcosmic studies of particular places and groups over long periods of time, as they try to bridge the gap between the early twentieth century and the later twentieth century. At the same time, it suggests that historians need to consider Gyan Prakash's view of cities as ‘patched-up societies’ whose entirety cannot be understood through single, linear models of change.

scholarly journals ‘I trac’d him too and fro’: Walking the Neighbourhood on the Early Modern Stage

Early Theatre ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tomlin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Early Modern London ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

<p>This article considers the ways in which plays stage the negotiation of the relationship between public and private space in early modern London through characters walking in the city. It uses concepts developed by Michel de Certeau and Pierre Mayol to think about the twentieth-century city to argue that Heywood’s <em>Edward IV</em> and the anonymous <em>A Warning for Fair Women</em> present walking the streets of London as an act of recognition and knowing that distinguishes those who belong in the city from those who do not.</p>

Black Migration, White Flight

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Platt Boustan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
White Flight ◽  
World War ◽  
The South ◽  
Black Migration ◽  
The North ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter presents new causal evidence on the relationship between black arrivals to cities and white departures, a trend referred to as “white flight.” The simultaneity of black in-migration from the South and white relocation to the suburbs, both of which peaked from 1940 to 1970, suggests that the two population flows may be related. This chapter uses variation in the timing of black in-migration to the seventy largest cities in the North and West to distinguish white flight from other causes of suburbanization. It argues that while white suburbanization was primarily motivated by economic forces, including rising incomes, new highway construction, and the falling cost of credit in the decades after World War II, white departures from the city were also, in part, a reaction to black in-migration.

Wright’s Afromodern Search for Political Freedom

2018 ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Lewis R. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Black People ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If

Lewis R. Gordon argues that Wright’s writings cast light on the suffocating world produced by colonialism, enslavement, and racism, in which black people are treated as if they simply don’t matter. Wright showed that blacks in the United States are fundamentally historically excluded from the political, aesthetic, and epistemic institutions of the only world to which they are indigenous. By pulling readers into places “they wished never to go,” he demonstrated how the erosion of black political power in fact increased political impotence among humankind. Wright, argues Gordon, was particularly prescient about the relationship between the racist state and twentieth-century fascism. They jointly eradicate conditions of political appearance and freedom, replacing them with unilateral rule.

scholarly journals Urban Planning and Socioenvironmental Disasters: The Myth of Urban Expansion in Blumenau/SC

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Ludwig ◽  
Marcos Antonio Mattedi ◽  
Maria Roseli Avila
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
The North ◽  
Social Markers ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This text aims to address the relationship between social-environmental disasters and the Urban Planning in the definition of urban expansion strategies from Blumenau to the North Region of the city. It is argued that the city was modified from two processes: 1) The effects of urban planning (generated by the idea of an ideal city); 2) the disaster effects (generated by the actual city). From these two processes, this text evidences that the strategies of the Urban and Regional Planning of Blumenau constitute social markers of the segregating effect of disasters. In order to develop this argument the text is structured in three main sections: 1) The formation and urban development of Blumenau; 2) disasters and the myth of urban expansion to the Northern Region; 3) the relationship between disasters and the limits of Urban Planning.

scholarly journals Inhabited Pasts: Monuments, Authority, and People in Delhi, 1912–1970s

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1035
Author(s):  
Deborah Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Commercial Opportunity ◽  
Splendid Isolation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article considers the relationship between the official, legislated claims of heritage conservation in India and the wide range of episodic and transitory inhabitations that have animated and transformed the monumental remains of the city, or rather cities, of Delhi. Delhi presents a spectrum of monumental structures that appear variously to either exist in splendid isolation from the rush of everyday urban life or to peek out amidst a palimpsest of unplanned, urban fabric. The repeated attempts of the state archaeological authorities to disambiguate heritage from the quotidian life of the city was frustrated by bureaucratic lapses, casual social occupations, and deliberate challenges. The monuments offered structural and spatial canvases for lives within the city, providing shelter, solitude, and the possibility of privacy, as well as devotional and commercial opportunity. The dominant comportment of the city's monuments during the twentieth century was a hybrid monumentality, in which the jealous, legislated custody of the state became anxious, ossified, and ineffectual. An acknowledgement and acceptance of the hybridity of Delhi's monuments offers an opportunity to reorient understandings of urban heritage.

Producing the Frontier

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-34
Author(s):  
Teo Ballvé
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Internal Colonialism ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Frontier Zone ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter shows how the main force behind the making of this frontier was the city of Medellín's neocolonial designs on the region. During the first half of the twentieth century, Medellín's urban elites, mostly white and famously conservative, set out to subjugate Urabá and its overwhelmingly Afro-Colombian population. The historical–geographical contours of Urabá's production as a frontier zone was driven by a profoundly racist set of cultural politics emanating from the city. Following a classic metropole–satellite relation, the frontier emerged via Medellín's attempt to bring the gulf region into the city's cultural, political, and economic orbit, and the construction of the Highway to the Sea was a central part of this process. The relationship turned into a form of uneven development: the accumulation of wealth by a small elite in Medellín was systematically linked to the accumulation of exploitation and poverty in Urabá. For locals, the violent relations between land, labor, and capital at the heart of this internal colonialism came to define the frontier as a lived experience.

Placing Berlin in the Music

2021 ◽  
pp. 156-189
Author(s):  
Phil Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Main Body ◽  
The Third ◽  
Musical Production ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter presents the third element fundamental to an overall picture: the music itself, with specific focus on the relationship between music, text, and the city. The chapter begins with a wider discussion of music’s role in sounding urban geographies. This is then set against the indeterminacy and ambiguities of “placing” klezmer music—a result of mid-twentieth-century rupture, subsequent postwar cultural submergence, and the transnationalism of its contemporary revival. The main body of the chapter is devoted to the specific ways that the city of Berlin is articulated through its klezmer music. In order to do this, the chapter takes as its starting point sociologist Adam Krims’s flexible concept of “urban ethos,” applying this for the first time to the processes of traditional music. Through detailed analysis of a series of musical examples, it shows the important ways in which the city of Berlin is made meaningful in its klezmer music—how exactly, through both music and text, the city functions as a significant musical-semantic unit. The musicians discussed include ?Shmaltz!, Daniel Kahn, and Knoblauch Klezmer Band, and the analysis is supported by detailed transcriptions and interview material. Throughout the chapter and through the work of these different artists, certain themes reappear—themes particularly pertinent to Berlin and Jewish musical production. These include notions of escape, borders, and transgression and the dialogue between visible and hidden histories. The chapter also uses David Kaminsky’s theorization of the “New Old Europe Sound” to question and problematize some of the urban expressions discussed.

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