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The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is a new “hot” iconic landmark, but is it a model of urban revitalization or a bellwether of gentrification? A diverse group, including planners and architects directly involved in its design, assess it critically, exploring its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.
Deconstructing the High Line: postindustrial urbanism and the rise of the elevated park
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The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is a new “hot” iconic landmark, but is it a model of urban revitalization or a bellwether of gentrification? A diverse group, including planners and architects directly involved in its design, assess it critically, exploring its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.
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Grounding its analysis in regional political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, 'Cyclescapes of the Unequal City' uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in today’s American city. It addresses a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse(...)
Cyclescapes of the unequal city: bicycle infrastructure and unven development
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Grounding its analysis in regional political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, 'Cyclescapes of the Unequal City' uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in today’s American city. It addresses a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse coalitions of bicycle advocates.
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''Vital Little Plans'' bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, ''The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' and ''The Economy of Cities'', while expanding upon familiar themes with new insights. Some(...)
Vital little plans: the short works of Jane Jacobs
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''Vital Little Plans'' bring together for the first time a selection of essays, articles, speeches and interviews by the late Jane Jacobs. These works shed light on the development of the ideas she made famous in her best-known works, ''The Death and Life of Great American Cities'' and ''The Economy of Cities'', while expanding upon familiar themes with new insights. Some works also explore topics rarely directly addressed in her major works, from skyscrapers to feminism to universal health care to gentrification
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The tenants of East Harlem
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Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, "The tenants of East Harlem" is an unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian(...)
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August 2006, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
The tenants of East Harlem
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Rich with the textures and rhythms of street life, "The tenants of East Harlem" is an unconventional biography of a neighborhood told through the life stories of seven residents whose experiences there span nearly a century. Modeled on the ethnic distinctions that divide the community, the book portrays the old guard of East Harlem: Pete, one of the last Italian holdouts; José, a Puerto Rican; and Lucille, an African American. Side by side with these representatives of a century of ethnic succession are the newcomers: Maria, an undocumented Mexican; Mohamed, a West African entrepreneur; Si Zhi, a Chinese immigrant and landlord; and, finally, the author himself, a reluctant beneficiary of urban renewal. Russell Leigh Sharman weaves these oral histories together with fine-grained ethnographic observations and urban history to examine the ways that immigration, housing, ethnic change, gentrification, race, class, and gender have affected the neighborhood over time. Providing access to the nuances of inner-city life, "The tenants of East Harlem" shows how roots sink so quickly in a community that has always hosted the transient, how new immigrants are challenging the claims of the old, and how that cycle is threatened as never before by the specter of gentrification.
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Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from an impressive group of writers and cultural critics including Marshall Berman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Paul Goldberger, Tama Janowitz, Ben Katchor, Phillip Lopate, Luc Sante, Bill "Reverend Billy" Talen, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Wolfe. This impressive lineup of contributors discusses the(...)
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January 2008, Princeton
Block by Block. Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
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Block by Block is a far-ranging collection of essays about Jane Jacobs from an impressive group of writers and cultural critics including Marshall Berman, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Paul Goldberger, Tama Janowitz, Ben Katchor, Phillip Lopate, Luc Sante, Bill "Reverend Billy" Talen, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Wolfe. This impressive lineup of contributors discusses the contemporary relevance of Jacobs's ideas about large-scale redevelopment, gentrification, and activism. While their viewpoints on these issues may differ, they continue the important debate begun by Jacobs about the challenges facing New York and other great cities everywhere.
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Squatters and autonomous movements have been at the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. Through an examination of the local history of these movements in eight different(...)
The city is ours: squatting and autonomous movements in Europe from the 1970s to the present
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Squatters and autonomous movements have been at the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent. Through an examination of the local history of these movements in eight different cities—including Amsterdam, Berlin, and other famous centers of autonomous insurgence, along with underdocumented cities such as Poznan and Athens—The City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe’s squatting and autonomous movements.
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Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt(...)
Evicted from eternity: the restructuring of modern rome
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Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.
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Out of place / Non lieu
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Working with ideas of place and the imaginary, three Canadian francophone artists create works that portray ephemeral places that exist only in the imagination. Isabelle Hayeur's photographs are manipulated to include fictional elements, using lies to tell the truth about gentrification, complicating perceptions of an iconic place. Marie-Josee Laframboise transforms(...)
Out of place / Non lieu
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Working with ideas of place and the imaginary, three Canadian francophone artists create works that portray ephemeral places that exist only in the imagination. Isabelle Hayeur's photographs are manipulated to include fictional elements, using lies to tell the truth about gentrification, complicating perceptions of an iconic place. Marie-Josee Laframboise transforms site-specific installations made of undulating iridescent netting into imaginary landscapes. Meditating on the temporal character of a site, Lise Beaudry photographs the surfaces of frozen lakes as white abstractions. The accompanying essay explores the viewer's experience of ethereal and ambiguous environments predicated on no place.
Photography monographs
Log 23 / Fall 2011
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt Simone Brott, Esprit futur Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants Mario Carpo, Digital Style Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman,(...)
Log 23 / Fall 2011
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Pier Vittorio Aureli, Labor and Architecture: Revisiting Cedric Price's Potteries Thinkbelt Simone Brott, Esprit futur Brennan Buck, What Plastic Wants Mario Carpo, Digital Style Joseph Clarke, Wagnerism Embodied Nicholas de Monchaux, Requiem in White Luca Farinelli, 53 Questions, 265 Answers: Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Bjarke Ingels, and Thom Mayne Roy Lichtenstein, Entablature Greg Lynn, Chemical Architecture Andrea Phillips, English Pastoral Antoine Picon, When Parametricism Tries to Reconnect with Vitruvius Mike Silver, Many From One Paul Virilio, The Insecurity of History Andrew Witt, Design Hacking: The Machinery of Visual Combinatorics Plus: On gentrification . . . On time capsules . . . On listening . . . On an exhibition . . .
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white(...)
City of segregation: 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white suburbs; and the 2006 victory preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification enfolded within ongoing resistance to the criminalization and displacement of the homeless. Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of th e racist ideology that must be fought, in Los Angeles and across the United States, if we hope to found just cities.
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