Rigas Laiks | 1/2013
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/rigaslaiks/issue/2013-01-30.html
Archiv für Januar 2013
Expressiveness of the Image: Scopic Regime, Spatiality and Sensitivities
In this article we share reflections on a photography workshop carried out with a group of young people living in a poor neighborhood. A workshop was chosen as research methodology due to the need to explore alternative ways of expression (different …
Wish Images for Twenty-First-Century (American) Cities
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/2/348?rss=1
The Home Owners‘ Loan Corporation and the Development of the Residential Security Maps
The Great Depression led to dramatic changes in financial regulation and home financing. Policymakers opted for insurance programs—deposit guaranty and mutual mortgage insurance—as safe and stable ways to manage the critical financial sect…
Making and Remaking Boston’s Environmental History, for Bostonians and for the Rest of Us
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/2/336?rss=1
Viewing and Walking: Swedish Visitors to Eighteenth-Century London
During the eighteenth century, London became the largest city in Europe and attracted many foreign visitors, and the task here is to analyze a set of Swedish travelers. Sweden was a predominately rural country, but urban development was an integrated …
The Bronx in Australia: The Metaphoric Stigmatization of Public Housing Tenants in Australian Towns and Cities
This paper contributes to the literature on the stigmatization of Australian public housing tenants and to the literature on Australian housing metaphors, explaining the usage of „the Bronx“ as a means of stigmatizing country town and suburban localit…
The State of Ambiguity of the Communist Civic Center in Three Romanian Secondary Cities: Braila, Pitesti, and Sibiu
The article proposes a revaluation of a type of public space constituted in communist Romania. New county capitals’ central squares, constituted between 1965 and 1989, are rightfully considered as a fertile source for architectural icons of the …
"A Period of Turmoil": Pittsburgh’s April 1968 Riots and Their Aftermath
Though riots themselves have often been studied, scholars know little about their short-term effects. This article considers the five-year period following Pittsburgh’s April 1968 riots, which allows scholars to see a moment of possibility not a…
Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A New Look at Comparative Urbanization in Plantation Colonial British America
Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South …