scholarly journals The Chinese of Early Tucson: Historic Archaeology from the Tucson Urban Renewal Project

Ethnohistory ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 360
Author(s):  
Richard Kennedy ◽  
Florence C. Lister ◽  
Robert H. Lister
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Historic Archaeology ◽  
Renewal Project ◽  
Urban Renewal Project

Looking Past Disorder

2018 ◽  
pp. 50-81
Author(s):  
Justin T. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
The City ◽  
Renewal Project ◽  
Urban Renewal Project

By the 1830s, the urban renewal project discussed in the previous chapter only further revealed the intractable messiness of the urban landscape. A decade of gentrification exacerbated anxiety about whether the city’s sites and edifices could compete with surrounding topographical and human congestion. The champions of improvement sought to ease their doubts by commissioning images that abstracted, obscured, or shrank into insignificance the disorder surrounding urban landmarks. Yet even as these ideal representations of the city proliferated, Bostonians questioned whether their fellow spectators saw moral landmarks as intended. A middle-class culture of novels, guidebooks, periodicals, plays, and other sources introduced a new typology of spectators—the connoisseur and the poseur, the vista seeker and the speculator, the libertine and the sentimentalist—who revealed their true characters through their divergent reactions to the city’s monuments, parks, galleries, paintings, and sculptures.

"Urban renewal with dancing and music"?

Focaal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (84) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Cansu Civelek
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Renewal Project ◽  
Urban Renewal Project

In 2012, an urban renewal project in Eskişehir, Turkey, was initiated with claims of “festive renewal,” challenging the theories of critical urban studies that emphasize the disruptive effects of such projects. Built on a discussion about hegemony, which deploys consent and dissent in its organization, this article ethnographically investigates the tactics and strategies of the renewal machine that mobilized and co-opted parts of the locals into the project while invoking layers of dissent, distrust, and discomfort. The article discusses how historically built political, socioeconomic, and gender inequalities were efficiently detected, reconstituted, and put into the service of the renewal machine while revealing tension and dynamism behind the “festive renewal.” It shows a fragility of hegemony that is neither a given nor a completed template.

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