scholarly journals Murray, Oswyn and Price, Simon (editors). The Greek City from Homer to Alexander. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xv, 372. 19 figures, 4 plates. $110.00 (Can.) Owens, E.J. The City in the Greek and Roman World. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. Pp. xi, 210. 54 black and white illustrations. $65.50 (Can.)/$52.50 (U.S.)

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Symfonia wielkiego miasta. O wizerunku Nowego Yorku w „Manhattanie” Woody’ego Allena

2014 ◽  
pp. 215-241
Author(s):  
Magdalena Karkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Major Objective ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
George Gershwin ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Rhapsody In Blue ◽  
The City

One of the major objective of this essay is to show that Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979) is a renewal of an old film genre called the city symphony. In this movie, the director outlined a suggestive portrait of his beloved New York City. After Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan is the second most complete expression of the specificity of Allen’s style, which consists of comic and tragic elements. Another object of this essay is to demonstrate that while creating the image of the metropolis the director particularly exploits the tools of film expression. Audiovisual layer of Allen’s work allows to juxtapose Manhattan with the city symphony (genre which came into being in the twenties as an innovative combination of documentary and avant-garde forms). The similarity between Manhattan and the original city symphonies is visible at the very beginning of the film, because of black and white, kaleidoscopic shots of metropolis as well as the backing sound (Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin). Allen’s picture is not only a sophisticated portrait of New York, but also the critical study of the society

We Walked

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
Quincy D. Newell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Erie Canal ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Jane Manning experienced the gift of tongues shortly after her conversion, an event she took as a confirmation of her decision to join the Mormons. The rest of the Manning family appears to have converted to Mormonism after her and, together with white converts from the area, they all left Connecticut for Nauvoo, Illinois, under the direction of LDS missionary Charles Wesley Wandell. The practice of racial segregation on boats and railways meant that for much, if not all, of their journey from Connecticut to New York City and then up the Hudson River and west on the Erie Canal, the black and white members of the group were separated from one another. At some point during the trip, the black members of the group were refused further passage, so the Mannings walked the rest of the way. Jane’s memory of this portion of the journey emphasized God’s providence. When they arrived in Nauvoo, they found a bustling city that was struggling to accommodate newly arrived converts, many of whom were poor and vulnerable to the diseases that plagued the city.

THE SIZE OF CITIES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 719-719
Author(s):  
Kirkpatrick Sale ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Optimum Size ◽  
Human History ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Eye Blink ◽  
City Planner ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
The City

. . . records of urban populations suggest that for most of human history cities did not generally grow beyond the 50,000 to 100,000 range. For most of its celebrated life the city of Athens hovered around 50,000 people, though at periods of particular power the surrounding state may have grown to 150,000 or 200,000. The Italian cities that nurtured the Renaissance were no larger than 80,000, and most of them held closer to 50,000—the Rome of Michelangelo had perhaps 55,000 people, the Florence of Leonardo 50,000, and Venice, Padua, and Bologna at their height probably 50,000 to 80,000. Boston and Philadelphia at the time of the Revolution did not have more than 30,000 people, New York had even fewer. In fact, it seems that only rarely did historical cities go much beyond 100,000, and then only temporarily when serving as the capitals of empires. . . . The very existence of giant cities is so recent as to be a mere eye-blink in recorded history. It was not until 1800 that any city grew to more than one million people—that was industrialized London—and by 1900 there were only ten others of that size. The conclusion of the great Greek city planner Constantine Doxiades, who spent his life categorizing such things, seems on the mark: "If we look back into history . . . we find that, throughout the long evolution of human settlements, people in all parts of the world have tended to create urban settlements which reached an optimum size of 50,000 people."

BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE: Racial Conflict in the New Multi-ethnic City

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Cybelle Fox
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Predominantly Black ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Urban America ◽  
The City ◽  
Bitter Fruit

Claire Jean Kim, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, 300 pages, ISBN 0-300-07406-9, $45.00.Jennifer Lee, Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, 270 pages, ISBN 0-674-00897-9, $35.00.In-Jin Yoon, On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997, 274 pages, ISBN 0-226-959279-9, $45.00.During the past decade, scholars of ethno-racial relations have increasingly grappled with the thorny issue of Black-Korean conflict. This attention is no doubt the result of a number of high profile, sometimes violent, and often prolonged clashes between Blacks and Koreans in large urban settings. On January 18, 1990, an incident between a Black customer and a Korean storeowner at the Family Red Apple Inc. grocery store touched off a yearlong boycott of two Korean businesses in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, NY. The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion, which was originally sparked by the acquittal of four White police officers accused of beating Black motorist, Rodney King, led to three days of looting, arson, and violence. The event quickly became framed in terms of a conflict between Blacks and Koreans, however, as Koreans owned more than half of the stores that were burned or looted. While the evidence of real and often acute tensions between these groups is irrefutable, in many instances the media has tended to distort the nature, scale, and significance of the clashes by over-dramatizing Black-Korean conflict (Lee 2002), obfuscating Korean-Latino conflict (Bobo et al., 1994; Oliver et al., 1993), and ignoring and therefore silencing Korean voices (Abelmann and Lie, 1995). Thankfully, careful, scholarly analyses of these incidents and the tensions that precipitate them are starting to emerge. Civility in the City, Bitter Fruit, and On My Own are some of the best recent examples of this new literature and are each valuable attempts to increase understanding about the nature of merchant-customer relations in predominantly Black urban neighborhoods.

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