scholarly journals Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Burley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Mixed Ancestry ◽  
Municipal Governance ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
The City

In the spring of 1959 the City of Winnipeg ordered the removal of fourteen families, mostly Métis, from land needed for the construction of a new high school in south Winnipeg. For at least a decade, the presence of Rooster Town, as the squatters’ shantytown was known, had drawn complaints from residents of the new middle-class suburbs who objected to the proximity of families of mixed ancestry who seemed indolent, immoral, and irresponsible and whose children brought contagious diseases into the elementary school. Suburban anxieties gave expression to a much deeper municipal colonialism that since the incorporation of Winnipeg had denied Aboriginal people a place in the city. Various agencies of municipal governance and the processes of urban development dispossessed indigenous peoples and pushed them farther onto the edges of the city until no space remained for them. The removal of Rooster Town erased the last visible evidence of a continuing Métis community that had survived in the area since the nineteenth century and that at its peak in the 1930s had numbered several hundred residents.

scholarly journals Swedish alcohol and restaurant policy in the 1980s: A historical perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Abrahamson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Public Life ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Strict Control ◽  
Age Limits ◽  
Restrictive Legislation ◽  
The City ◽  
Beer Hall ◽  
Made In

This article discusses factors contributing to the rapid proliferation of restaurants in Sweden in the 1980s and to the current tension between restrictive legislation, legal praxis and public alcohol culture. Transformations in towns and in public life, the transition from modernity to post-modernity, the emergence of a new middle class and the redefinition of women's use of alcohol were among the important changes. Departures from the traditionally strict control of restaurants were made in the late '50s and in the early '60s. Competititon grew and Swedish restaurant culture loosened up. In the 1980s, the restrictive laws governing restaurants began to lose legitimacy. Legal praxis was applied in a more liberal spirit. The Stockholm Water Festival, which allowed central parts of the city to be transformed into a gigantic beer hall, is one example of this. As in many other countries, age limits have become almost the only actual restriction to the availability of alcohol. The aim of alcohol and especially restaurant policy today is on minimization of damage, not protection, as formerly.

Disputing Limeño Historical and Cultural Heritage

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 301-305
Author(s):  
Gisela Cánepa-Koch
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The State ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
The City

In the 1970s many persons of andean origin migrated to Lima. Informally and through the mediation of emerging grassroots organizations, the nuevos limeños negotiated with the state for their right to residency in the city and to sanitation and other services. They struggled for recognition as citizens. Gradually an informal economy mainly based on Andean cultural practices of production gave way to entrepreneurship, which created a new middle class. In this way Andean migrants to Lima became urban workers and consumers and appropriated and transformed the city.

scholarly journals Urban Consumption and Feelings of Attachment of Rotterdam's New Middle Class

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco van der Land
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Residence ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Urban Consumption ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Urban Leisure

Cities have increasingly developed into spaces for consumption. This paper explores the relationship between patterns of use of urban leisure amenities and feelings of attachment to the city. A survey among highly educated professionals and managers (the new middle class, working in the Dutch city of Rotterdam) was carried out in order to examine both their participation in the domain of urban leisure and urban residence, and their attachments to the city in general. The survey shows that among the new middle class subgroupings can be identified, based on their mobility with regard to leisure and their psychological attachments to the city. One of them is a group of young single urban households, who are not only frequent urban consumers, but who also feel strongly attached to the city as a whole. The findings suggest that in cities specific processes of symbolic consumption occur which facilitate some extent of psychological attachment and which appear to tie a subset of the new middle class to urban places, regardless of place of residence.

scholarly journals Hutan Adat dan Kelas Menengah: Titik Balik Reforma Agraria di Indonesia?

Society ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Iskandar Zulkarnain
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Representational Politics ◽  
State Domination

The turning point of the agrarian reform of the customary forest arena after the Constitutional Court's Decision 35/PUU-X/2012 can not be based on state domination (government) through the agenda of territorialization of the forest and not on AMAN as representation of indigenous struggle from the paradox of interest. Bringing the alternative of a critical new middle class, as well as running a deliberation democracy through representational politics that combine extra parliamentary and intra-parliamentary struggles simultaneously in organizational form, capable of realizing sustainable agrarian reform. The new middle class struggle is a synthesis of the dialectic of forest recognition and the existence of indigenous peoples undergoing involution.

scholarly journals Da Esperança ao Triunfo: o estudo da formação de uma nova classe trabalhadora de Goiânia (GO)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Renatha Cândida da Cruz ◽  
João Batista de Deus
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
City Center ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The City

Resumo:O objetivo principal deste artigo é tratar do processo de formação da Região Noroeste de Goiânia. Para tanto, realizou-se um amplo levantamento bibliográfico acerca das ocupações urbanas na capital goiana e  elaborou-se uma periodização sobre a ampliação do espaço urbano a noroeste do centro da cidade. Os resultados obtidos permitiram verificar como uma comunidade deixa de ser um grande bolsão de pobreza para ser considerada uma representação da nova classe trabalhadora de Goiânia. A temática torna-se pertinente, visto que os bairros da Região Noroeste têm origem em sucessivas lutas coletivas pelo solo urbano e passam por um longo processo de mudanças sociais e econômicas. O aumento da renda ganha destaque nos estudos sobre a localidade, em que se debate se há uma nova classe média ou uma nova classe trabalhadora.Palavras-chave: Nova classe trabalhadora. Goiânia. Ocupações urbanas. Abstract:The main purpose of this article is figure out the process of formation in the Northwest Region  of Goiania. To achieve this goal it conducted a comprehensive literature about the urban occupations in Goiânia and the development of a timeline on the expansion of urban areas to the northwest of the city center. The results of this research allowed us to understand as a community stops being a large slum to be considered a representation of the new working class of Goiania. The theme  becomes relevant in sense that neighborhoods of the Northwest Region originates in successive collective struggle for urban land and go through a long process of social and economic change and how the increase in income is an important factor in studies about this place and being perceived the discussion  above  new middle class or new working classKeywords: New Workin Class, Goiânia, Urban Occupations. Resumen:El principal objetivo de ese artículo es la comprensión del proceso de formación de la Región Noroeste de Goiânia. Para alcanzar esa meta se ha realizado un amplio levantamiento bibliográfico sobre las ocupaciones urbanas en la capital goiana así como la elaboración de una periodización acerca de la ampliación del espacio urbano al noroeste del centro de la ciudad. Los resultados obtenidos por esta investigación permitieron comprender como una comunidad deja de ser parte de un gran cinturón de pobreza para pasar a ser considerada una representación de la nueva clase trabajadora de Goiânia. La temática se vuelve pertinente puesto que los barrios de la Región Noroeste tienen origen en sucesivas luchas colectivas por el suelo urbano y pasan por un largo proceso de cambios sociales y económicos haciendo con que el incremento de la renta sea un factor relevante en los estudios sobre la localidad, percibiéndose el debate sobre una nueva clase media o nueva clase trabajadora.Palabras clave: Nueva clase trabajadora. Goiânia. Ocupaciones urbanas. 

scholarly journals Of Yuppies and Housing: Gentrification, Social Restructuring, and the Urban Dream

1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Smith
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Patterns ◽  
Spatial Restructuring ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Social Restructuring ◽  
The City

The question of whether gentrification can and should be explained as the result of contemporary processes of social restructuring is considered. It has been proposed, in particular, that gentrification is caused by the rise of a ‘new middle class’, and this argument is evaluated in theoretical and empirical terms. There is, in fact, better evidence for the significance of women in the gentrification process, because of changing work patterns, changing patterns of reproduction, and the changing relationship between work and reproduction. In light of these arguments, issue is taken with the claim that gentrification is a ‘chaotic conception’ and it is suggested how, instead, the social restructuring that is currently being observed is closely related to an economic restructuring, and that both together involve a dramatic spatial restructuring of which ‘gentrification’ is one part. The new urban patterns now unfolding do involve the construction of ‘consumption landscapes’ in the city, and the emergence of an incipient ‘urban dream’ parallel to the suburban dream of the last decade, but this docs not imply that urban geographical change is now somehow demand led.

Housing as Heritage

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Non Arkaraprasertkul
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
The City

Across China, the preservation and reconstruction of European-styled buildings for commercial purposes has become a trend for urban development. Drawing inspiration from established global cities, Shanghai’s local government has aimed to accommodate both modern high-rise and heritage buildings as a major part of its “city with global inspiration” urban development program. Historic preservation, however, has so far been about protecting particular structures from which only members of the urban middle class can benefit from their historic value. Then, for whom is this historic preservation? Presenting a less benign side of preservation, this chapter ethnographically examines social change in urban life as a result of urbanization, presenting how historic preservation affects urban processes vis-à-vis a sense of place in the city of Shanghai.

Personality characteristics of the middle-class high school drug user

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary G. Green ◽  
Brian F. Blake ◽  
John J. Carboy ◽  
Robert J. Zenhausern
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Drug User ◽  
Personality Characteristics

Urban Development Strategies of City Centers: The Case of Rafah City, Palestinian Territories

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Omar S. Asfour ◽  
Samar Abu Ghali
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
City Center ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
The Gaza Strip ◽  
The City ◽  
Commercial Center

City centers worldwide are perceived as essential parts of the city, where city memories are preserved and its identity is expressed. They are planned to satisfy the functional requirements and pleasurable qualities of the city. Under the accelerating urbanization of the modern city, several challenges face these centers including demographic, economic, and environmental challenges. This requires a continuous and incremental urban development process based on clear strategy and action plans. Thus, this study focuses on urban development strategies of city centers, with a focus on Rafah city located in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories. The geographic location of this city near the Palestinian-Egyptian borders makes it a promising commercial city at local and regional levels. Thus, the current situation of Rafah city center has been analyzed, and several development strategies have been proposed. This has been done through a field survey based on observation and a questionnaire directed to city center users. It has been found that there is a great potential of Rafah city center to be developed as a commercial center. In this regard, several strategies and required actions have been proposed in the fields of transportation, environmental quality, shopping activities, investment opportunities, and visual perception.

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