Tuff City

Author : Nick Dines
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452801

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During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.

Author : Nicholas T. Dines
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780857452795

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Tuff City by Nicholas T. Dines Pdf

During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe's most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.

Author : Jan-Jonathan Bock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253058874

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Citizens Without a City by Jan-Jonathan Bock Pdf

In 2009, after seismic tremors struck the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila, survivors were subjected to a "second earthquake"—invasive media attention and a relief effort that left them in a state of suspended citizenship as they were forcibly resettled and had to envision a new future. In Citizens without a City, Jan-Jonathan Bock reveals how a disproportionate government response exacerbated survivors' sense of crisis, divided the local population, and induced new types of political action. Italy's disenfranchising emergency reaction relocated citizens to camps and sites across a ruined townscape, without a plan for restoration or return. Through grassroots politics, arts and culture, commemoration rituals, architectural projects, and legal avenues, local people now sought to shape their hometown's recovery. Bock combines an analysis of the catastrophe's impact with insights into post-disaster civic life, urban heritage, the politics of mourning, and community fragmentation. A fascinating read for anyone interested in urban culture, disaster, and politics, Citizens without a City illustrates how survivors battled to retain a sense of purpose and community after the L'Aquila earthquake.

Author : Sacha Jenkins,Elliott Wilson,Jeff Mao,Gabe Alvarez,Brent Rollins
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781466866973

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Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha Jenkins,Elliott Wilson,Jeff Mao,Gabe Alvarez,Brent Rollins Pdf

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism! Hip hop is huge, and it's time someone wrote it all down. And got it all right. With over 25 aggregate years of interviews, and virtually every hip hop single, remix and album ever recorded at their disposal, the highly respected Ego Trip staff are the ones to do it. The Book of Rap Lists runs the gamut of hip hop information. This is an exhaustive, indispensable and completely irreverent bible of true hip hip knowledge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1824 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B4444154

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West's Federal Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph,Harriet J. Ottenheimer
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1455615439

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Cousin Joe by Pleasant "Cousin Joe" Joseph,Harriet J. Ottenheimer Pdf

A remarkable blend of history and drama seen through the eyes of a noted New Orleans bluesman. This extraordinary life history is the result of more than 15 years of recorded conversations, pieced together into a narrative of a uniquely American experience. Joseph's colorful portrayals of the characters who parade through his life document more than 70 years of changing relationships between blacks and whites. In his own words, he describes growing up in Louisiana, working a rice plantation, and how Gospel music put him on a career path. His candid remarks underscore the economic necessity prevalent in a musician's life. Within the tales of gigs, card games, and romantic exploits are intimate glimpses of legendary figures, including Billie Holiday and Muddy Waters. His descriptions of performing in New Orleans, New York, and Europe are especially revealing, filled with life experiences as rich as the rhythm and lyrics of the blues he played.

Author : Jessica Nydia Pabón-ón
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781479895939

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Graffiti Grrlz by Jessica Nydia Pabón-ón Pdf

An inside look at women graffiti artists around the world Since the dawn of Hip Hop graffiti writing on the streets of Philadelphia and New York City in the late 1960s, writers have anonymously inscribed their tag names on trains, buildings, and bridges. Passersby are left to imagine who the author might be, and, despite the artists’ anonymity, graffiti subculture is seen as a “boys club,” where the presence of the graffiti girl is almost unimaginable. In Graffiti Grrlz, Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón interrupts this stereotype and introduces us to the world of women graffiti artists. Drawing on the lives of over 100 women in 23 countries, Pabón-Colón argues that graffiti art is an unrecognized but crucial space for the performance of feminism. She demonstrates how it builds communities of artists, reconceptualizes the Hip Hop masculinity of these spaces, and rejects notions of “girl power.” Graffiti Grrlz also unpacks the digital side of Hip Hop graffiti subculture and considers how it widens the presence of the woman graffiti artist and broadens her networks, which leads to the formation of all-girl graffiti crews or the organization of all-girl painting sessions. A rich and engaging look at women artists in a male-dominated subculture, Graffiti Grrlz reconsiders the intersections of feminism, hip hop, and youth performance and establishes graffiti art as a game that anyone can play.

Author : Mateusz Laszczkowski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332579

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'City of the Future' by Mateusz Laszczkowski Pdf

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : Copyright
ISBN : IND:30000067433650

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BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Judith Kapferer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845455781

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The State and the Arts by Judith Kapferer Pdf

The taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the arts in liberal or social democratic states and the role of the arts in supporting or opposing the ideological work of government and non-government institutions is been the issue of this book. The challenges posed by the state to the arts and by the arts to the state, focusing on several transformations of the interrelations between state and commercial arts policies in the current era. These ongoing challenges include the control of repressive tolerance, complicity with and resistance to state power, and the commoditization of the arts, including their accommodation to market and state apparatuses. The contributors tackle social and cultural policy and practice in the arts as well as connections between national states and dissenting art from a range of genres.

Author : Beverley R. Houston,J. F. Dear,Noel Jack De Jersey,P. J. G. Fleming,R. G. McKellar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Basalt
ISBN : UIUC:30112027088316

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Geology of the City of Brisbane by Beverley R. Houston,J. F. Dear,Noel Jack De Jersey,P. J. G. Fleming,R. G. McKellar Pdf

Author : Caroline Humphrey,Vera Skvirskaja
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857455109

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Post-cosmopolitan Cities by Caroline Humphrey,Vera Skvirskaja Pdf

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people. Caroline Humphrey is a Research Director in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in the USSR/Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, and India. Her research interests include socialist and post-socialist society, religion, ritual, economy, history, and the contemporary transformations of cities. Vera Skvirskaja is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. She has worked in arctic Siberia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Her recent research interests include urban cosmopolitanism, educational migration in Europe and coexistence in the post-Soviet city.

Author : Jonathan Mael
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421446882

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Harlem World by Jonathan Mael Pdf

"Hip hop music is one of America's true home-grown art forms and certainly one of her most significant cultural exports, with local hip hop scenes now thriving worldwide. The birth of hip hop music is commonly dated to the release of the Sugarhill Gang's classic track "Rapper's Delight," which was the first rap song to make the Billboard Top 40 list (peaking at #36 in January 1980.) Currently, much credit goes to the Bronx for the "invention" of hip hop: the Universal Hip Hop Museum just broke ground there. This book is the untold history of how Harlem helped ignite the revolution that changed music and American culture"--

Author : Robert W. Orttung
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333163

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Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities by Robert W. Orttung Pdf

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and provides a detailed analysis of climate change and its impact on urban and industrial infrastructure.

Author : Yvonne Bynoe
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015062875763

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Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture by Yvonne Bynoe Pdf

A complete guide to the history, development, people, events, and ideas of Hip Hop music and culture.