Street Archives And City Life

Author : Emily Callaci
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822372325

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Street Archives and City Life by Emily Callaci Pdf

In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks—an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.

Author : Ato Quayson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376293

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Oxford Street, Accra by Ato Quayson Pdf

In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his impressions of the sights, sounds, interactions, and distribution of space with broader dynamics, including the histories of colonial and postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in Accra's salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated and contradictory metropolis that it is today.

Author : Tom M. Devine
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474408813

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Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past by Tom M. Devine Pdf

For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotlands connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots unlike the English had any significant involvement in slavery .Scotland saw itself as a pioneering abolitionist nation untainted by a slavery past.This book is the first detailed attempt to challenge these beliefs.Written by the foremost scholars in the field , with findings based on sustained archival research, the volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture.In doing so the contributors come to a number of surprising conclusions. Topics covered include national amnesia and slavery,the impact of profits from slavery on Scotland, Scots in the Caribbean sugar islands ,compensation paid to Scottish owners when slavery was abolished,domestic controversies on the slave trade,the role of Scots in slave trading from English ports and much else. The book is a major contribution to Scottish history,to studies of the Scots global diaspora and to the history of slavery within the British Empire.It will have wide appeal not only to scholars and students but to all readers interested in discovering an untold aspect of Scotlands past.

Author : Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262549240

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Archive Everything by Gabriella Giannachi Pdf

How the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through which we map the everyday. In Archive Everything, Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently, a broad but interrelated number of practices not traditionally considered as archival. Archives now consist of not only documents and sites but also artworks, installations, museums, social media platforms, and mediated and mixed reality environments. Giannachi tracks the evolution of these diverse archival practices across the centuries. Archives today offer a multiplicity of viewing platforms to replay the past, capture the present, and map our presence. Giannachi uses archaeological practices to explore all the layers of the archive, analyzing Lynn Hershman Leeson's !Women Art Revolution project, a digital archive of feminist artists. She considers the archive as a memory laboratory, with case studies that include visitors' encounters with archival materials in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. She discusses the importance of participatory archiving, examining the “multimedia roadshow” Digital Diaspora Family Reunion as an example. She explores the use of the archive in works that express the relationship between ourselves and our environment, citing Andy Warhol and Ant Farm, among others. And she looks at the transmission of the archive through the body in performance, bioart, and database artworks, closing with a detailed analysis of Lynn Hershman Leeson's Infinity Engine.

Author : Di Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0804747784

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Street Culture in Chengdu by Di Wang Pdf

A study of the lively street culture in Chengdu from 1870 to 1930, this book explores the relationship between urban commoners and public space, the role of community and neighborhood in public life, and how the reform movement and Republican revolution transformed everyday life in this inland city.

Author : Fabrizio Nevola
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300175431

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Street Life in Renaissance Italy by Fabrizio Nevola Pdf

A radical new perspective on the dynamics of urban life in Renaissance Italy The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and explored through the lens of contemporary urban theory, providing new insights into the various urban centers of Italy’s transition toward modernity. The book underscores how the design and structure of public space during this transformative period were intended to exercise a certain measure of authority over its citizens, citing the impact of architecture and street layout on everyday social practices. The ensuing chapters demonstrate how the character of public space became increasingly determined by the habits of its residents, for whom the streets served as the backdrop of their daily activities. Highlighting major hubs such as Rome, Florence, and Bologna, as well as other lesser-known settings, Street Life in Renaissance Italy offers a new look at this remarkable era.

Author : Avard Woolaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1006161481

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Toronto Hi-Fi by Avard Woolaver Pdf

Toronto Hi-Fi is Avard Woolaver's fifth Toronto book, capturing street scenes in the 1980s. Woolaver moved to Toronto from rural Nova Scotia in 1980 to study photography, and he viewed the urban scenes from his raised-in-the-country perspective. The photos in this book share themes tied to the music he was listening to as he documented the city streets.

Author : Stephanie Chambers,Jane Farrow,Maureen Fitzgerald,Ed Jackson,John Lorinc,Tim McCaskell,Rebecca Sheffield,Tatum Taylor,Rahim Thawer
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770565197

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Any Other Way by Stephanie Chambers,Jane Farrow,Maureen Fitzgerald,Ed Jackson,John Lorinc,Tim McCaskell,Rebecca Sheffield,Tatum Taylor,Rahim Thawer Pdf

Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the intense diversity of the city itself, and Any Other Way is an eclectic history of how these groups have transformed Toronto since the 1960s. From pioneering activists to show-stopping parades, Any Other Way looks at how queer communities have gone from existing in the shadows to shaping our streets.

Author : Tim Cresswell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226604251

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Maxwell Street by Tim Cresswell Pdf

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different. In Maxwell Street, Cresswell advocates approaching the study of place as an “assemblage” of things, meanings, and practices. He models this innovative approach through a montage format that exposes the different types of texts—primary, secondary, and photographic sources—that have attempted to capture the essence of the area. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell Street—exposing them layer by layer. Brilliantly interweaving words and images, Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place that will interest anyone in the fields of geography, urban studies, or cultural history.

Author : Kurt Busiek,Brent Eric Anderson
Publisher : Wildstorm
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1401229840

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Astro City by Kurt Busiek,Brent Eric Anderson Pdf

Written by KURT BUSIEK Art by BRENT ANDERSON Cover by ALEX ROSS A new hardcover starring Astro City's most popular heroes, collecting ASTRO CITY: ASTRA #1-2, ASTRO CITY: SILVER AGENT #1-2 and ASTRO CITY: BEAUTIE #1. Astra Furst, a third-generation super hero of Astro City, is graduating from college. It's a time of friends and family, new opportunities, changing relationships - and danger! Featuring the First Family, the creatures of Monstro City, a new hero team and more on a graduation night nobody's ever going to forget! Also in this volume: at last, the full story of the Silver Agent's fateful journey through time is revealed - including his origin, his greatest battles and his ultimate fate. Plus, Beautie, the life-size super-powered fashion-doll member of Honor Guard, doesn't know who she is. Now, she's determined to get answers. On sale APRIL 13 - 208 pg, FC

Author : Peter Connolly,Hazel Dodge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0195215826

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The Ancient City by Peter Connolly,Hazel Dodge Pdf

Recreates the public buildings, temples, shops, and houses of ancient Athens and Rome, providing a window through which to look at the development of the cities and their architecture, and to discuss various aspects of daily life, including religion, food, drama, games, food, culture, and entertainment.

Author : Larry Beasley
Publisher : On Point Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780774890335

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Vancouverism by Larry Beasley Pdf

Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But after the city hosted Expo 86, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable urban centre was transformed into an inspiring world-class city celebrated for its livability, sustainability, and competitiveness. This book tells the story of the urban planning phenomenon called “Vancouverism” and the philosophy and practice behind it. Writing from an insider’s perspective, Larry Beasley, a former chief planner of Vancouver, traces the principles that inspired Vancouverism and the policy framework developed to implement it. A prologue, written by Frances Bula, outlines the political and urban history of Vancouver up until the 1980s. The text is also beautifully illustrated by the author with 200 colour photographs depicting not only the city’s vibrancy but also the principles of Vancouverism in action.

Author : Nanna Bonde Thylstrup,Daniela Agostinho,Annie Ring,Catherine D'Ignazio,Kristin Veel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262539883

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Uncertain Archives by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup,Daniela Agostinho,Annie Ring,Catherine D'Ignazio,Kristin Veel Pdf

Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate terms relevant to critical studies of big data, from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability. This pathbreaking work offers an interdisciplinary perspective on big data, interrogating key terms. Scholars from a range of disciplines interrogate concepts relevant to critical studies of big data--arranged glossary style, from from abuse and aggregate to visualization and vulnerability--both challenging conventional usage of such often-used terms as prediction and objectivity and introducing such unfamiliar ones as overfitting and copynorm. The contributors include both leading researchers, including N. Katherine Hayles, Johanna Drucker and Lisa Gitelman, and such emerging agenda-setting scholars as Safiya Noble, Sarah T. Roberts and Nicole Starosielski.

Author : Neil Martinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 1910566667

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The Hackney Archive by Neil Martinson Pdf

Life-long Hackney resident Neil Martinson was still at school when he began taking photos on his home turf, documenting people at work, children at play, protests, homelessness, Jewish life, street markets and other scenes. His documentary archive brings a past era to life and shows how much the working lives of Hackney - and the world over - have changed in the digital age. 'I grew up in a period when a lot of people were doing manual jobs. There was a huge amount of manufacturing going on in the borough, which helped to make it diverse and vibrant.'

Author : Andrew Frederick Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Simcoe Co., Ont
ISBN : YALE:39002066727091

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A History of Simcoe County: The pioneers by Andrew Frederick Hunter Pdf