Panel I: The Neighborhood Concept in Theory and Application

Adams, Frederick J.; Riemer, Svend; Isaacs, Reginald; Mitchell, Robert B.; Breese, Gerald

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“…One of the most astute and insistent critics of neighborhood, the planner and urban theorist Reginald Isaacs, invoked Ruth Glass's assertion that: ‘Self‐contained neighborhoods do not exist. The boundaries of neighborhood life vary for different activities’ (Glass cited in Adams et al ., : 75). For Isaacs and other critics, the notion of an integral, bounded neighborhood illustrated planners' ‘morbid sentimentality’ (Isaacs, : 19).…”

Section: Neighborhood In Theory and Practicementioning

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“…For Isaacs and other critics, the notion of an integral, bounded neighborhood illustrated planners' ‘morbid sentimentality’ (Isaacs, : 19). Gerald Breese, another critic, argued that ‘no matter how much we have wished for neighborhood realities , the predominantly atomistic nature of urban life seems increasingly to have forced individuals into patterns of life which cancel out existing attempts to ‘neighborhoodize’ local relationships' (Adams et al ., : 82).…”

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“…And they questioned the motives of the concept's promoters. One critic, Svend Reimer, explicitly connected the neighborhood concept to ‘dogmatic assertions about the evils of city life’ (Adams et al ., : 70) and argued: ‘The sociologist's interest in the neighborhood has always been related to his interest in means of social control’ ( ibid. : 69).…”

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Neighborhood as Spatial Project: Making the Urban Order on the Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront

Madden

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article argues for a reconceptualization of one of the most basic concepts in urban studies: the neighborhood. Traditionally neighborhoods have been understood as clearly bounded, quasi-Westphalian containers or as 'natural areas' of urban community. But this approach is widely acknowledged to be under-theorized. And it fails to account for the ways in which the production of neighborhood is inherently political and often conflictual. After reviewing the ways in which neighborhood has been used in urban sociology and urban planning, this article offers a critical conception of neighborhoods as 'spatial projects' on the submetropolitan scale. This approach captures the ways in which neighborhoods are not abstract spaces on a city map, but the uneven, unequal products of complex, ongoing struggles between various groups and institutions. This approach is developed through an ethnographic and historical case study of neighborhood formation in one part of Brooklyn, New York. The article concludes with a discussion of how the language of spatial projects refocuses urban research on the political and economic forces that produce neighborhood in the contemporary city.

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Section: Neighborhood In Theory and Practicementioning

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Section: Neighborhood In Theory and Practicementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Neighborhood In Theory and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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