Discourses of the City: Policy and Response in Post–Transitional Barcelona

McDonogh, Gary W.

doi:10.1525/city.1991.5.1.40

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“…Within anthropology, studies touching upon issues of power, conflict, and social movements include a study of planning politics in Barcelona (249), an examination of the rebuilding of an Andean town destroyed by an earthquake (272), and a critique of the planning of Ciudad Guyana (282). Holston's (169) critique of the design and plan for implementation of Brasilia as a created symbol intended to transform Brazilian society and be an instrument for social change is the most recent example of a critical ethnography that explores the unintended processes of social and urban planning.…”

Section: Th E Political Economy Of Sp Acementioning

confidence: 99%

The Built Environment and Spatial Form

Lawrence¹,

Low²

1990

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

334

130

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INTRODUCTIONThe current fascination with what people term postmodern architecture has focused attention to the design of buildings in which we live and work, but the appeal is not limited to examples from our own familiar surroundings. During the last several decades anthropologists have been increasingly joined by others in taking a more careful look at the built environments of nonliterate societies, and especially the shelters they construct and occupy. The questions posed are broad: Why are there differences in built forms? What is the nature of these differences and what kinds of social and cultural factors might be responsible for the variation? Design practitioners, including architects, land scape architects, and planners, have become involved in debating these questions, as have behavioral and social scientists concerned with human interactions with the environment. At the same time, recent social theory has begun to focus anew on spatial as well as temporal dimensions of human behavior. These developments suggest that attention to the topic of this review is timely. Our purposes in reviewing the relevant literature include defining the major areas of research in the field in terms of issues and 453 0084-6570/90/ 1015-0453$02.00 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1990.19:453-505. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of Chicago Libraries on 09/17/13. For personal use only. Quick links to online content Further ANNUAL REVIEWS 454 LAWRENCE & LOW theoretical approach, critically evaluating some of the major contributions, and suggesting directions for future research.Anthropological concern with the built environment is at least as old as the first formalization of theories of cultural evolution during the 19th century. Although material remains of earlier cultural constructions, and shelters housing living cultures, were taken as evidence of evolutionary status, the underlying question about the exact nature of the relationships between society and culture and the built environment persisted. Such relationships are interactive, in that people both create, and find their behavior influenced by, the built environment. A variety of formulations have been used to con ceptualize this relationship: accommodation, adaptation, expression, repre sentation and, most recently, production and reproduction. Each of these conceptualizations represents a different theoretical perspective; each implies a different set of questions and distinct (although at times overlapping) sets of data corresponding to aspects of the built environment and human behavior.The built environment is an abstract concept employed here and in some of the literature to describe the products of human building activity. It refers in the broadest sense to any physical alteration of the natural environment, from hearths to cities, through construction by humans. Generally speaking, it includes built fo rms, which are defined as building types (such as dwellings, temples, or meeting houses) created by humans to shelter, define, and protect activity....

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Section: Th E Political Economy Of Sp Acementioning

confidence: 99%

The Built Environment and Spatial Form

Lawrence¹,

Low²

1990

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

334

130

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“…Struggles over these collective interests of urban populations in ecological decisions, such as water use and water level, frame the lives of inhabitants in the new cities (McDonogh 1999;Susser 2002;Khan and Pappas 2011). Will dams be strengthened or will the disaster of Katrina in New Orleans be repeated, as the lives of millions of people in Pakistan have been disrupted by water levels rising to flood cities?…”

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confidence: 99%

Transformative cities

Susser

Tonnelat²

2013

Focaal

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Drawing on Lefebvre and others, this article considers contemporary urban social movements with a selective review of urban research and suggestions for future ethnographic, cultural, and sociological questions. Under a generalized post-Fordist regime of capital accumulation, cultural workers and laborers, service workers, and community activists have all participated in urban movements. We consider such collective action, generated in the crucible of urban life, as a reflection of three urban commons: labor, consumption, and public services; public space (including mass communications and the virtual); and art, including all forms of creative expression. We suggest that the three urban commons outlined here are not necessarily perceived everywhere, but as they momentarily come together in cities around the world, they give us a glimpse of a city built on the social needs of a population. That is the point when cities become transformative.

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“…Revitalization had a drastic effect on the poor, causing housing shortages, inflation, and displacement, while progressive social programs, such as public transportation and public housing, were neglected. For local critics, the main achievement of the Barcelona model has been to turn the city into one of the most gentrified European city centers (Marshall, 1996; McDonough, 1999; Monclus, 2003; Dodds, 2004).…”

Section: The Price Of Olympic Famementioning

confidence: 99%