März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Dills, R.,
Allgemein.
This article explores the 1824 flood in St. Petersburg by focusing on the state response to the flood that presented it as a tragic and natural outcome of constructing a city in a harsh environment. Paternal care elicited support for the regime. However, conquest of nature was central to the autocratic authority and the flood challenged that authority. Granite embankments were the primary symbol of power over nature, yet they failed to stop rising waters in 1824. Engineers offered modern solutions to replace embankments, but granite was essential to the architectural facade even as the population lost faith in granite’s ability to protect the city. The urban and environmental perspective demonstrates the limits of autocratic authority. Tarnished by the flood, the state solicited modern solutions that remained unfulfilled. Ultimately, cost and alteration of the imperial façade proved too much of a price to bear to prevent flood.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/479?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Meringolo, D. D.,
Allgemein.
The articles in this special section illuminate the benefits and challenges of university–community partnerships. For decades, there has been a movement to facilitate collaboration among urban historians, public historians, preservationists, city planners and neighborhood activists. Those who championed such work recognized that aligning academics’ agenda of research, teaching, and service with public servants’ advocacy and community organizing could transform the relationship between institutions of higher learning and the neighborhoods that surround them. In recent years, several intellectual and pedagogical trends have lent legitimacy to this effort, including the rise of service learning and the promotion of civic engagement. It is crucial for institutions of higher learning to recognize the ways in which place-based research challenges traditional measures of achievement, breaking down not only barriers that have separated universities from communities but also those that have long separated research, teaching, and service.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/419?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Mooney-Melvin, P.,
Allgemein.
The East Rogers Park Neighborhood History Project, a community-based initiative, represented an effort to build upon community engagement with its history and to sensitize students to the fact that the locality was not just there for their consumption and use but rather represented an opportunity for engaged learning that diminished barriers between the community and the students. It encouraged local residents to think more broadly about their world and to appreciate its ties to the larger metropolitan community. It introduced students to reflective practice, a centerpiece of public history training. And, it provided an opportunity to nurture an appreciation for stewardship among the students, as they not only drew from but gave back to the community. As a collaborative project, it highlights some of the opportunities and challenges that attend the more recent enthusiasm for engaged learning and civic engagement. While this project did not involve all elements of the community, the pedagogical approach utilized in this initiative and the issues relating to community-based projects raised by it can inform current discussions about engaged learning and scholarship.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/462?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Jung, S.,
Allgemein.
As in other postcolonial settings, after its independence, Korean urban planning was still influenced by the Japanese legacy in planning culture, systems of approach, and urban form. However, there was a turning point beginning in the 1960s, led by Oswald Nagler and the Housing, Urban and Regional Planning Institute (HURPI). Nagler applied an interdisciplinary approach to the Korean urban situation and made substantial efforts to apply and localize Western planning principles in accordance with the Korean context, and educated young talented individuals. Even though the institute has been repetitively reported to have exerted a profound influence on the formation of Korean urban planning, its function and specific contribution has largely remained obscure. This study clarifies HURPI’s function and contribution by way of interviews with its members, recovering otherwise lost materials, and analyzing them with a focus on the South Seoul plan in comparison to works done by local planners at the time, as well as later work on the Mok-dong plan.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/585?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Henthorn, T. C.,
Allgemein.
Both history internships and urban history courses that offer place-based learning experiences provide students with an introduction to the role that historical scholarship can play in the everyday life of a community. Basic research about the built environment can have real-world applications that benefit individuals and organizations. Helping students connect intellectual pursuits with practical needs is one of the central goals of a liberal arts education. At the same time, place-based learning gives students a unique opportunity to experience the "messiness" of problem solving and to begin to understand the benefits of uncertainty as part of the process of both learning and social change.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/450?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Wells, C. W.,
Allgemein.
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
King, P. N.,
Allgemein.
Effective place-based learning challenges the traditional understanding of academic service. The present article demonstrates that students and scholars can engage and collaborate with communities to identify, analyze, and respond to pressing social problems. Service, in this context, is integrated with teaching and research. This article traces the development of an applied research course at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Students and professors conducted research on the neighborhoods that compose Baybrook, an industrial community in the southern corner of Baltimore City. The course demonstrates that public history methods can create dynamic social spaces in which scholars and residents work together to frame questions, conduct research, and preserve urban places.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/425?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 11:09 p.m.,
Carnevale, N. C.,
Allgemein.
Italian American and African American relations have generally been characterized as hostile. The two groups are most often seen as encountering each other in urban centers of the Northeast. This article explores the sources of Italian American hostility against African Americans in the pre- and postwar era cities to better understand the underpinnings of racial conflict. At the same time, it highlights the complex relationship between the two groups that could include positive interaction as well as conflict and take place within the suburbs as well as within the cities. The article presents a preliminary case study of suburban Montclair, New Jersey, where from the early 1900s well into the postwar era, African Americans and Italian Americans shared neighborhoods, schools, and, to differing degrees, an outsider status that contributed to generally harmonious relations. The findings suggest that local studies that reveal specific sources of tension or peaceful coexistence can lead to a fuller understanding of relations between these two groups and interethnic/interracial relations in general.
Quelle: http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/3/536?rss=1
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März 28, 2014, 7:08 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire: Table of Contents,
book review.
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März 28, 2014, 5:44 p.m.,
Taylor and Francis: European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire: Table of Contents,
book review.
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