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Sidewalks
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Author : Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011-12-09
Sidewalks written by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-09 with Social Science categories.
Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses—from the right to sit to the right to parade—have been negotiated. Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade after decade, urbanites have socialized, paraded, and played, sold their wares, and observed city life. These many uses often overlap and conflict, and urban residents and planners try to include some and exclude others. In this first book-length analysis of the sidewalk as a distinct public space, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht examine the evolution of the American urban sidewalk and trace conflicts that have arisen over its competing uses. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples as well as case study research and archival data from five cities—Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle—they discuss the characteristics of sidewalks as small urban public spaces, and such related issues as the ambiguous boundaries of their “public” status, contestation over specific uses, control and regulations, and the implications for First Amendment speech and assembly rights.
Sidewalks
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Author : Valeria Luiselli
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Sidewalks written by Valeria Luiselli and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Literary Collections categories.
Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a foreign city, Valeria Luiselli plots a unique and exhilarating course that traces unexpected pathways between diverse ideas and reveals the world from a fresh perspective. Here, we follow Luiselli as she cycles around Mexico City, shares a cigarette with the night porter in her Harlem apartment, and hunts down a poet's tomb in Venice. Each location sparks Luiselli's nimble curiosity and prompts imaginative reflections and inventions on topics as varied as the fluidity of identity, the elusiveness of words that can't be translated, the competing methods of arranging a bookcase, and the way that city-dwellers evade eye-contact with their neighbours while spying on their lives. Sidewalks cements Luiselli's reputation as one of Latin America's most original, smart and exciting new literary voices.
Rights Of Passage
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Author : Nicholas Blomley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-18
Rights Of Passage written by Nicholas Blomley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-18 with Law categories.
Although a powerful form of governance, pedestrianism tends to be obscured by grander and more visible forms of urban regulation.
Sidewalk City
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Author : Annette Miae Kim
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-05-27
Sidewalk City written by Annette Miae Kim and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-27 with History categories.
This title re-maps public space in order to unveil contemporary spatial practices and to explore future possibilities. In the midst of historic migration and urbanisation, our limited public spaces are being contested and re-conceptualised in cities around the world with innovative experiments in some places and bloody battles in others. This book uses the case of sidewalks in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where a vibrant everyday urbanism takes place in flexible patterns that defy conventional conceptions of public space.
Sidewalk
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Author : Mitchell Duneier
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2000-12-20
Sidewalk written by Mitchell Duneier and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-20 with Social Science categories.
An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on "the blocks" of one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim's Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today's urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, its conflicts about class and race, and its surprising opportunities for empathy among strangers. Sidewalk is an excellent supplementary text for a range of courses: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY: Shows how to make important links between micro and macro; how a research project works; how sociology can transform common sense. RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: Untangles race, class, and gender as they work together on the street. URBAN STUDIES: Asks how public space is used and contested by men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor, and how street life and political economy interact. DEVIANCE: Looks at labeling processes in treatment of the homeless; interrogates the "broken windows" theory of policing. LAW AND SOCIETY: Closely examines the connections between formal and informal systems of social control. METHODS: Shows how ethnography works; includes a detailed methodological appendix and an afterword by research subject Hakim Hasan. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Sidewalk engages the rich terrain of recent developments regarding representation, writing, and authority; in the tradition of Elliot Liebow and Ulf Hannerz, it deals with age old problems of the social and cultural experience of inequality; this is a telling study of culture on the margins of American society. CULTURAL STUDIES: Breaking down disciplinary boundaries, Sidewalk shows how books and magazines are received and interpreted in discussions among working-class people on the sidewalk; it shows how cultural knowledge is deployed by vendors and scavengers to generate subsistence in public space. SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE: Sidewalk demonstrates the connections between culture and human agency and innovation; it interrogates distinctions between legitimate subcultures and deviant collectivities; it illustrates conflicts over cultural diversity in public space; and, ultimately, it shows how conflicts over meaning are central to social life.
Our Guerrillas Our Sidewalks
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Author : Herbert Braun
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003
Our Guerrillas Our Sidewalks written by Herbert Braun and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This remarkable book tells the story of one man's kidnapping in Colombia from the first-person perspectives of all those involved: the guerrillas, the victim, his wife, his friends, and his brother-in-law, Herbert Braun. In this second edition, the author has added a new chapter that recounts the endurance of Colombia and Colombians in the face of escalating kidnapping and violence, explores the current political situation in Colombia, and reevaluates his own complex response to the guerrillas.
Policy On Maintenance Of Shoulders Road Approaches And Sidewalks
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Author : American Association of State Highway Officials
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Policy On Maintenance Of Shoulders Road Approaches And Sidewalks written by American Association of State Highway Officials and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Roads categories.
Sidewalks In The Kingdom
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Author : Eric O. Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2003-05
Sidewalks In The Kingdom written by Eric O. Jacobsen and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05 with Religion categories.
Challenges Christians to gain a practical, informed vision for their city that includes a broad understanding of the needs and rewards of vital urban communities.
Racing Alone
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Author : Nader Khalili
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1983
Racing Alone written by Nader Khalili and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Architecture categories.
Cement Sidewalks
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Cement Sidewalks written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Concrete construction categories.