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Book La Calle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lydia R. Otero
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 0816534918
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book La Calle written by Lydia R. Otero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small retail and service shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues, they openly lived and celebrated their culture. To make way for the Pueblo Center’s new buildings, city officials proceeded to displace la calle’s residents and to demolish their ethnically diverse neighborhoods, which, contends Lydia Otero, challenged the spatial and cultural assumptions of postwar modernity, suburbia, and urban planning. Otero examines conflicting claims to urban space, place, and history as advanced by two opposing historic preservationist groups: the La Placita Committee and the Tucson Heritage Foundation. She gives voice to those who lived in, experienced, or remembered this contested area, and analyzes the historical narratives promoted by Anglo American elites in the service of tourism and cultural dominance. La Calle explores the forces behind the mass displacement: an unrelenting desire for order, a local economy increasingly dependent on tourism, and the pivotal power of federal housing policies. To understand how urban renewal resulted in the spatial reconfiguration of downtown Tucson, Otero draws on scholarship from a wide range of disciplines: Chicana/o, ethnic, and cultural studies; urban history, sociology, and anthropology; city planning; and cultural and feminist geography.

Book Contested City

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  • Author : Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2019-01-03
  • ISBN : 1609386108
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Contested City written by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Brendan Gill Prize finalist For forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since World War II. Artist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. Simultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects, Contested City bridges art, design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities.

Book O  My Ancestor

Download or read book O My Ancestor written by Claudia K. Jurmain and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives voice to the Tongva Faced with the challenge of reconst

Book Urban Renewal Notes

Download or read book Urban Renewal Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1961-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Neighborhood Renewal Plan  Northwest Urban Renewal Area  District of Columbia

Download or read book General Neighborhood Renewal Plan Northwest Urban Renewal Area District of Columbia written by United States. National Capital Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Slums in Ten Years  a Workable Program for Urban Renewal  Report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia

Download or read book No Slums in Ten Years a Workable Program for Urban Renewal Report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia written by United States. District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Housing market renewal

Download or read book Housing market renewal written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This NAO report examines the Government programme of Housing Market Renewal, established to tackle problems of acute low housing demand in the North of England and the Midlands. Neighbourhood decline and deprivation has resulted where there are high concentrations of properties that are difficult to let or sell, where there is a loss of population and an inability to attract new households. Nine new sub-regional partnerships or "pathfinders" were set up, with considerable freedom in determining their approach to low housing demand. The NAO has set out a number of recommendations, including: the Department of Communities and Local Government should clarify arrangements for the delivery of the Housing Market Renewal programme alongside local authority housing market assessments; the Department should also clarify the role of Government Offices in helping to support regional delivery as well as the terms of reference for both Government Offices and the Department in matters of leadership, oversight and monitoring of the programme; the Department should be clearer about its expectations for the renewal programme's contribution to delivering non-housing regeneration, such as better schools, transport and neighbourhood management; that any Housing Market Renewal demolition schemes are based on up-to-date market analysis; the Department should also clarify how it is expected to achieve alignment with regional strategies for higher housing growth; the Department should also develop the performance framework, including value for money indicators and that there should be a comparison of outcomes between low demand areas subject to Housing Market Renewal and those low demand areas that are not.

Book Power  Participation and Political Renewal

Download or read book Power Participation and Political Renewal written by Barnes, Marian and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-02-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in order to understand the significance of this explosion in participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices represent a fundamental change in governance.

Book Relocation from Urban Renewal Project Areas

Download or read book Relocation from Urban Renewal Project Areas written by United States. Urban Renewal Administration and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clay s Handbook of Environmental Health

Download or read book Clay s Handbook of Environmental Health written by Stephen Battersby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic, definitive reference work for all those involved in environmental health is now available in its 19th edition. Significant changes include those made to chapters on food safety and hygiene, environmental protection, the organisation and management of environmental health in the UK, port health, and waste management. New chapters have been added on health development, an introduction to health and housing, contaminated land, and environmental health in emergency planning, as well as a new glossary of abbreviations and acronyms. New material on training and standards, IT, practical risk assessment, and investigatory powers is also included. Each chapter reflects the wider background against which the subjects must be studied and the new concepts and approaches that have emerged over the past few years.

Book Agricultural Appropriations for

Download or read book Agricultural Appropriations for written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Renewal Directory

Download or read book Urban Renewal Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1973-12-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia

Download or read book Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4 and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Renewal in Selected Cities  Hearings Before a Subcommittee of      85 1      November 4  5  Chicago  Ill     December 30 and 31  1957

Download or read book Urban Renewal in Selected Cities Hearings Before a Subcommittee of 85 1 November 4 5 Chicago Ill December 30 and 31 1957 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia

Download or read book Urban Renewal in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: