China’s Local Entrepreneurial State and New Urban Spaces: Downtown Redevelopment in Ningbo, by Zhang Han. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. v+238 pp. €144.99 (cloth), €119.99 (eBook).

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 179-180
Author(s):  
Jane Duckett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment

Book Reviews

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-462
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
State University ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
The Ohio State University ◽  
Mike Davis

Books reviewed: High Stakes: Big Time Sports and Downtown Redevelopment, by Timothy Jon Curry, Kent Schwirian, and Rachael A. Woldoff. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2004. xiv, 184 pp. Protecting Home: Class, Race and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball, by Sherri Grasmuck. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 304 pp. ISBN: 0813535557 (paper). Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality edited by David P. Varady. State University of New York Press, 2005. 310 pages + xix Mobilizing an Asian American Community, by Linda Trinh Võ. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 304 pp. ISBM: 1‐59213‐262‐6 (paper). Planet of Slums, by Mike Davis. New York: Verso, 2006. 228 pp. ISBN: 1844670228 (cloth). Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy, by J. Phillip Thompson, III. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 360 pp. ISBN: 0195177339 (cloth).

“A Shelter Can Tip the Scales Sometimes”: Disinvestment, Gentrification, and the Neighborhood Politics of Homelessness in 1980s New York City

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 915-931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Neighborhood Politics ◽  
New Yorkers

In the 1980s, visible homelessness became one of the most pressing problems in New York City. While most New Yorkers expressed sympathy for the homeless, many of them also resisted efforts to site shelters and service facilities in their neighborhoods. But far from being simply a case of NIMBY (not-in-my-back-yard) sentiment, protests over the placement of these facilities arose in the context of decades-long neighborhood movements against urban disinvestment and the beginning of gentrification in some New York City neighborhoods. I argue that understanding this history is crucial to parsing the complex politics of anti-homeless facility protests in the 1980s and to understanding the rise of “quality of life” policies that would govern many neoliberal urban spaces by the 1990s.

scholarly journals Lessons from New York High Line Green Roof: Conserving Biodiversity and Reconnecting with Nature

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Kawar Salih ◽  
Zaid O. Saeed ◽  
Avar Almukhtar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
High Line

The concept of sustainable urban design has appeared in different perspectives to minimize and reduce the negative impacts of urban expansion in terms of climatic and environmental drawbacks. One of the undeniable approaches of sustainable urban design is the adoption of green urban roofs. Green roofs are seen to have a substantial role in addressing and resolving environmental issues in the context of climate change. Research investigations have indicated that green roofs have a remarkable impact on decreasing rainwater runoff, reducing the heat island effect in urban spaces, and increasing biodiversity. Nevertheless, green roofs in urban spaces as a competent alternative to nature remains a standing question. To what extent can green roofs mimic the biodiversity that is seen in nature? Moreover, to what level is this approach practical for achieving a tangible reconnection with nature, or so-called biophilia? This study attempts to discuss the essence and impact of green roofs in urban spaces based on a case study approach. The study reflected lessons from the New York High Line Green Roof regarding biophilia and biodiversity in this case study. It concludes with key lessons that can be transferred to other urban spaces with similar settings.

scholarly journals The Unbearable Lightness of the Cosmopolitan Canopy: Accomplishment of Diversity at an Urban Farmers Market

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofya Aptekar
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Residential Segregation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Farmers Market ◽  
Urban Public Space ◽  
Cultural Paradigms

This article provides a critique of work on urban public space that touts its potential as a haven from racial and class conflicts and inequalities. I argue that social structures and hierarchies embedded in the capitalist system and the state’s social control over the racialized poor are not suspended even in places that appear governed by civility and tolerance, such as those under Anderson’s “cosmopolitan canopy”. Durable inequality, residential segregation, nativism, and racism inevitably shape what happens in diverse public spaces. Using an ethnographic study of an urban farmers’ market in New York City, I show that appearances of everyday cosmopolitanism, tolerance, and pleasure in difference coexist with conflict and reproduction of inequalities that are inextricable because the space is embedded within larger structures, institutions, and cultural paradigms. By focusing on meaning-making in interaction, I analyze situated accomplishment of diversity and consider the implications for other types of urban spaces.

scholarly journals New York in Salman Rushdie's Fury

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Pushpa Raj Acharya
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Global Cities

Postcolonial and diasporic novels, such as Salman Rushdie's Fury, explore the interconnections between the global cities and human mobility. Bodily as well as other physical rhythms create affects, which in turn shape rhythm of the urban spaces. New York in such fictional works appears as an exploding, spasmodic city that renews itself with renovations and destruction.

The Rules of Attraction: Urban Design, City Films, and Movement Studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Frahm
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Instructional Film ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Precise Analysis

"William H.Whyte’s instructional film The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1979), which chronicles the findings of his decade-long study of people’s behavior in small urban spaces in New York City in the 1970s, offers a precise analysis of the rules of attraction that draw people into places and that keep them attached. By combining direct observation with complex technical arrangements and new forms of movement studies, Whyte’s study advocates a quintessentially process-oriented understanding of ‘placemaking’ that shaped a new bottom-up approach to urban design in the 1970s. "

scholarly journals Farming in and on urban buildings: Present practice and specific novelties of Zero-Acreage Farming (ZFarming)

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Thomaier ◽  
Kathrin Specht ◽  
Dietrich Henckel ◽  
Axel Dierich ◽  
Rosemarie Siebert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Farming ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Urban Buildings ◽  
Specific Implementation ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractConsidering global trends such as climate change and resource scarcity, a major challenge of future cities will be to reduce urban footprints. Moreover, cities have to become or remain livable for their inhabitants and offer social and economic opportunities. Thus, reconnecting food production and cities offers promising potential. The diffusion of urban farming reflects a rising awareness of how food and farming can shape our cities. A growing number of urban farming projects exist in and on urban buildings, including open rooftop farms, rooftop greenhouses and indoor farming. These projects are characterized by the non-use of land or acreage for farming activities. We use the term ‘Zero-Acreage Farming’ (ZFarming) to represent these farms. The objective of this paper is to: (1) illustrate and systemize present practices of ZFarming and (2) discuss specific novelties of ZFarming in the wider context of urban agriculture. We analyzed 73 ZFarms in cities of North America, Asia, Australia and Europe using a set of criteria, and developed a typology of ZFarming, complemented by in-depth interviews with pioneers in rooftop farming in New York. The results illustrate that ZFarming generates innovative practices that may contribute to a sustainable urban agriculture. Besides growing food, it produces a range of non-food and non-market goods. It involves new opportunities for resource efficiency, new farming technologies, specific implementation processes and networks, new patterns of food supply and new urban spaces.

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