Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Fein, M. R.,
Allgemein.
While federal policy makers have pursued "livable" communities since the late 1970s, they have rarely agreed on precisely what "livability" entailed and how best to achieve it. When U.S. Secretary of the Department of Transportation Ray LaHood promised in 2009 to make livability the hallmark of an ambitious interagency partnership with the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency—and, in the process, to undo long-standing patterns of auto-dependency—it appeared that LaHood was poised to shift American transportation policy in a bold new direction. And yet other policies, such as those that govern the alignment of highway interchanges serving super-regional shopping malls, continued to promote the dominance of highway-driven economies. This article demonstrates how the failure to confront historic development patterns fostered by the Interstate highway system undermined LaHood’s campaign for livable communities.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/855?rss=1
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Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Biles, R., Mohl, R. A., Rose, M. H.,
Allgemein.
Authors of the five essays published in this special section of the Journal of Urban History highlight the Interstate’s harsh and mostly unyielding consequences for urban residents, for their neighborhoods, and for their livelihoods. Politics and policy have shaped the Interstate Highway System from its beginning in 1939 up to the present day.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/827?rss=1
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Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Biles, R.,
Allgemein.
After the Second World War, city halls and local business communities cooperated to forestall urban decline in the face of population, industry, and retail loss to the suburbs and the Sunbelt. Before the U.S. Congress passed laws that established national housing programs, pro-growth coalitions in threatened cities launched programs designed to revitalize central business districts and lobbied in state capitals for legislation authorizing redevelopment efforts. In some notable cases, path-breaking measures crafted at the local and state levels served as models for the national initiatives that followed. Believing in the centrality of improved automobile access to their downtown redevelopment efforts, city leaders and business interests followed the same path in transportation as they had in housing. The case of Detroit illustrates how the drive for downtown renewal began before the federal government assumed the primary role with the passage of the 1956 Interstate Highway Act.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/843?rss=1
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Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Fedman, D., Karacas, C.,
Allgemein.
World War II yielded many photographs of bombed-out cities. In this paper we telescope between two sets and scales of images that represent the principal frames through which the American and Japanese publics have memorialized the incendiary bombings that laid waste to urban Japan: aerial photographs taken by the US Army Air Forces during its wartime planning, prosecution, and assessment of the raids; and the ground-level images captured by Ishikawa Ko–yo–, a photographer working on behalf of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. By means of a detailed examination of the production, circulation, and consumption of these photographs—what some scholars have called an "archaeological approach" to images of ruination—we explore not only the visual rhetoric and reality of the destruction of Japan’s cities, but also how that destruction is situated in history, memory, and visual culture.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/959?rss=1
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Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Avila, E.,
Allgemein.
Existing accounts of the politics of fighting freeways during the age of the Interstate largely describes the victories of white affluent urban neighborhoods that successfully mustered local opposition to urban highway construction. Popular understandings of the "freeway revolt" thus remain limited to places like Beverly Hills, CA, Cambridge, MA, Lower Manhattan, and New Orleans’s French Quarter. Yet a close examination of cultural expression from urban minority communities, like the Chicano barrio of East Los Angeles for example, reveals a more pervasive and sharper critique of building freeways in the city. Losers, perhaps, in the fight against the freeway, city people of color nonetheless voiced specific grievances against highway construction through art, literature, and other forms of creative production. Herein lies another freeway revolt, which inspires local opposition to subsequent forms of spatial injustice in the inner city.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/831?rss=1
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Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Dantas, M. L. R.,
Allgemein.
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Juli 29, 2014, 9:00 p.m.,
Wickersham, M. E., Yehl, R. P.,
Allgemein.
In the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, the dominance of the cotton economy was reflected in the growth of textile mills throughout the U.S. South. In Georgia, the number of cotton mills doubled between 1860 and 1900, providing work for down-on-their-luck sharecroppers who needed a regular paycheck. A few of these geographically tiny mill villages, built by mill owners to house the influx of mill workers, were incorporated into official cities in the first two decades of the twentieth century and continue to exist today, despite their small size, economic challenges, and efforts at consolidation. This article examines three of these Georgia mill villages-turned-cities: Aldora in Lamar County, Payne City in Bibb County, and Riverside in Colquitt County. The research focuses on why these cities, adjacent to or within another city, incorporated in the first place and why they continue to maintain governments that at first glance appear to provide little added value to their citizens.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/5/917?rss=1
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Juli 29, 2014, 10:45 a.m.,
Emre Hatipoglu et al,
article.
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Juli 28, 2014, 11:00 p.m.,
Eurozine journals,
Allgemein.
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Juli 28, 2014, 11:00 p.m.,
Eurozine journals,
Allgemein.
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