Towards an Urban World Flashcards
(154 cards)
Hoskins and Tallon 2004
UK urban renaissance - new urban idyll
Zukin 1995
Symbolic community
Florida 2002
The New Creative Class
Zukin 1988
The Front - experience econ choregraphed by low-wage earners cleaning and preparing food. What kind of ‘public culture’ is being created through this process?
Keiller 1999
Orgman urbanism - globally funded warehouse
Sheller & Urry 2003
Does it still make sense to view ‘practice of everyday life’ from intimate knowledge of walking around city (Certeau 1984) or in a society primarily defined in terms of (auto)mobilities. Do people now gain knowledge of cities by driving through and around them?
Garreau 1991
Edge cities and post-suburbia E.g. Tysons Corner, Virginia - major IFS around edge cities - major part of econ
Fishman 1987
SB = search for bourgeois utopias. moving away from definitive SB landscape to post-SB landscape - UBS of SBs
Douglass and Huang 2007
Utopia on the urban edge in SEA - Phu My Hung, Saigon
Harvey 2008
Accumulation by Dispossession
Dear 2000
Postmodern urbanism
Soja 2000
Postmetroplis
Graham and Marvin 2001
Splintering Urbanism
Graham and Healey 1999
Network society - leads to ^ing sense of local disconnection in such places from physically close yet socially & econ distant places and people
Baviskar 2007
Bourgeois environmentalism
Amin and Thrift 2002
Trad divide between city & countryside has been perforated
Dear and Dahmann 2008
Geog trumped pol - extension of cities beyond conventional pol jurisdictions negated notion of representative democracy - may even intsensify subordiantion of local state to plutocratic priviatism. Balitmore: post-indust city where rep demo in crisis - RSs selectivly taking and applying to some areas while neglecting others - stark div between rich and poor. Juxtaposition of space.
Glass 1964
Gentrification. E.g. in 80s - ^ing evidence that residential rehab, brownstoning (MC to ‘bad’ NBDs), but also widespread restructuring of inner urban landscapes
Lees et al. 2008
Inner urban landscape destruction continuing through 60s - brownstoning in NY, and SG red-brick-chic. Gentrify as global urban strategy - driven by simult expansion of ‘old’ & ‘new’ spatial econ shifts Class transformation of urban classin global S Gentrif happening on ^ massive scale in Shanghai & M, than older post-IDS cities Expansion in manuf and heavy industry, growth in high-tech activities, service sector
Berry 1980
Filtering model of gentrification
Smith 1979
Gentrification and uneven development. Capitalism Society Hill - Philadelphia Renaissance 1960
Smith 1996
Capital devalorization in inner city - only when rent gap emerges can redevel be expected since if present use succeeded in capitalizing all or most of ground rent, little econ benefit derived from redevel. Process by which poor and WB NBDs in inner city are refurbished by influx of capital. Disturbs conventional understanding of city - Burgess model and Chicago school Gentrification tied to ‘see-saw’ movement of uneven devel
Ley 1986
Occupational and econ changes - new cultural class, alternative urbanism to SBization
Rose 1984
Demographic changes due to gentrification - rethinking gentrif beyond uneven devel of Marxist urban theory