Urban Underworlds
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Urban Underworlds
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Author : Thomas Heise
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011
Urban Underworlds written by Thomas Heise and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and fusing sociology, urban planning, and criminology with literary and cultural studies, it chronicles how and why marginalized populations-immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities-have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods.
Metropolis On The Styx
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Author : David L. Pike
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Metropolis On The Styx written by David L. Pike and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Metropolis on the Styx,David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition.Highly original in subject matter, methodology, and conclusions, Metropolis on the Styx synthesizes a number of critical approaches, periods of study, and disciplines in the analysis of a single category of space—the underground. Pike studies the built environments and the textual and visual ephemera (including little-known or unknown archival material) of Paris, London, and other cities in conjunction with canonical modern literature and art. This book integrates a rich visual component—photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined subterranean spaces—into the fabric of the argument.
The Urban Underworld In Late Nineteenth Century New York The Autobiography Of George Appo
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Author : Timothy Gilfoyle
language : en
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Release Date : 2013-01-04
The Urban Underworld In Late Nineteenth Century New York The Autobiography Of George Appo written by Timothy Gilfoyle and has been published by Bedford/St. Martin's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with History categories.
Through the colorful autobiography of pickpocket and con man George Appo, Timothy Gilfoyle brings to life the opium dens, organized criminals, and prisons that comprised the rapidly changing criminal underworld of late nineteenth-century America. The book's introduction and supporting documents, which include investigative reports and descriptions of Appo and his world, connect Appo's memoir to the larger story of urban New York and how and why crime changed during this period. It also explores factors of race and class that led some to a life of crime, the experience of criminal justice and incarceration, and the masculine codes of honor that marked the emergence of the nation's criminal subculture. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.
The Gentrification Plot
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Author : Thomas Heise
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-21
The Gentrification Plot written by Thomas Heise and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for decay, danger, and intrigue. What happens when the mean streets of the city are no longer quite so mean? In the wake of an unprecedented drop in crime in the 1990s and the real-estate development boom in the early 2000s, a new suspect is on the scene: gentrification. Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging “gentrification plot” in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict the sweeping transformations of five iconic neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Red Hook, Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant—that have been central to African American, Latinx, immigrant, and blue-collar life in the city. Heise reads works by Richard Price, Henry Chang, Gabriel Cohen, Reggie Nadelson, Ivy Pochoda, Grace Edwards, Ernesto Quiñonez, Wil Medearis, and Brian Platzer, tracking their representations of “broken-windows” policing, cultural erasure, racial conflict, class grievance, and displacement. Placing their novels in conversation with oral histories, urban planning, and policing theory, he explores crime fiction’s contradictory and ambivalent portrayals of the postindustrial city’s dizzying metamorphoses while underscoring the material conditions of the genre. A timely and powerful book, The Gentrification Plot reveals how today’s crime writers narrate the death—or murder—of a place and a way of life.
Urban Bloodshed
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Author : Brandon Wong
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-02
Urban Bloodshed written by Brandon Wong and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with Fiction categories.
Avarice a city where you fight for what you deserve and die for who you represent. Robert Stevenson, a former Chief of Police, has just been elected Mayor of Avarice. Unbeknownst to his town, Robert owns the Deceivers, a street gang that controls the drugs in the underworld of Avarice. The Deceivers main goal is to become the top gang and control the streets of Avarice. Luthor Wai, a man with a dark and troubled past in the streets of Avarice. Luthor is a man with a dark soul and a cunning mind. Luthor is the kingpin of the Bloodsheds, a gang that gained their power by purchasing rival gangs' loyalty to join forces. Aaron Stryker, the owner of JW Casino, the largest money maker in the city. He is the kingpin of the Russian Mob, the most feared gang next to the Deceivers, and the Bloodsheds. This is a story about three different gangs with three different motives. Greed, deceit and bribery are used to gain what they want. A story that will leave you thinking about your actions, and who you trust and how your past is never left behind.
Urban Anthropology
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Urban Anthropology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Cities and towns categories.
The Imagined Underworld
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Author : James Alex Garza
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Imagined Underworld written by James Alex Garza and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Social Science categories.
Recounts six infamous crimes committed in nineteenth-century Mexico City and the underworld they were used to create. Examining judicial records, newspapers, government documents, and travel accounts, the author uncovers the truth behind some of nineteenth-century Mexico's most notorious criminals, including the serial killer "El Chalequero."
Urban Renewal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Urban Renewal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
"The man known only as Cross and his multi-skilled team of urban mercenaries are back, this time invading one of Chicago's least desirable neighborhoods in a land-grab that has the entire underworld puzzled. Chicago--the reigning #1 city in homicides--has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71 ... the last place you want to go, unless you're willing to risk it being the last place you go. The Crew is notorious for its deadly efficiency and its disinterest in anything but money. So why has it turned from seller to buyer, grabbing up houses on a block where only a few holdouts against urban decay remain? Both the cops and the underworld are watching closely ... but are they the only ones?"--
Organizing Crime
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Author : Alan A. Block
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Release Date : 1981
Organizing Crime written by Alan A. Block and has been published by Elsevier Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with True Crime categories.
Subterranean Cities
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Author : David L. Pike
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Subterranean Cities written by David L. Pike and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life.The metropolis had long been considered a moral underworld of iniquity and dissolution. As the complex drainage systems, underground railways, utility tunnels, and storage vaults of the modern cityscape superseded the countryside of caverns and mines as the principal location of actual subterranean spaces, ancient and modern converged in a mythic space that was nevertheless rooted in the everyday life of the contemporary city. Writers and artists from Felix Nadar and Charles Baudelaire to Charles Dickens and Alice Meynell, Gustave Doré and Victor Hugo, George Gissing and Emile Zola, and Jules Verne and H. G. Wells integrated images of the urban underworld into their portrayals of the anatomy of modern society. Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the subterranean obsessions and anxieties within nineteenth-century urban culture. Chapters on the subways, sewers, and cemeteries of Paris and London provide a detailed analysis of these competing centers of urban modernity. A concluding chapter considers the enduring influence of these spaces on urban culture at the turn of the twenty-first century.