On the use of parks:
Urban form and social context: cultural differentiation in the uses of urban parks
From: Urban form and social context: cultural differentiation in the uses of urban parks
Date: 1995
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Urban form and social context: cultural differentiation in the uses of urban parks
From: Urban form and social context: cultural differentiation in the uses of urban parks
Date: 1995
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
April 09, 2007
Good article in general about spaces, places, cities, etc
http://www.jstor.org.floyd.lib.umn.edu/view/03600572/ap010003/01a00210/0?currentResult=03600572%2bap010003%2b01a00210%2b0%2cFFFFFFFF07&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26gw%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26Query%3DA%2BSpace%2Bfor%2BPlace%2BThomas%2BGieryn%26wc%3Don
If that doesn't work:
JSTOR
Annual Review of Sociology
Vol 26 pg 463
Thomas F Gieryn "A Space for Place in Sociology"
Posted by Corrie Halladay at 09:49 PM | Permalink | Add a Comment (0)
Neo-Bohemia
Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City
by Richard LLoyd
Contents
~Intro
Part 1: Industry and ARt in the Modern City
~Production and Neighborbood
~Bohemia
Part II: Postindustrial Bohemia
~Grit as Glamour
~Living Like an Artist
~The Celebrity Neighborhood
Part III: Artists as Useful Labor
~The Neighborhood in Cultural Production
~Making the Scene
~The Digital Bohemia
Conclusion
~The Bohemian Ethic and the Spirity of Flexibility
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April 14, 2007
Public Libraries as Homeless Drop-in Centers
Hey all,
Hope those papers are going well. We've been talking about privatisation of former public goods, and how this tends to lead to the degradation of public spaces and services. I think that this article on libraries as homeless shelters is pretty interesting on that tack, as this phenomenon combines the social costs of removing funding for housing, health, and social services (i.e. the return of mass homelessness) with the relative neglect of public spaces by citizens in general. (And shows how these trends tend to work in a spiralling fashion.) In many towns, the libraries are not used by middle-class people anymore, as they prefer to just buy some thing from Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or Borders. The good becomes the commodity, as DeBord would say. I guess this is another way in which the Twin Cities is somewhat exceptional - There are homeless folks around, but I see all sorts of people in the libraries here, or least in the central library branch. What do you think?
TG
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Wow - I didn't get through the whole article...but the first three pages really hit the nail on the head. It's so sad and frustrating to see. And there are so many layers to what needs to be done, it can be overwhelming!
Posted by: Rachel | May 3, 2007 01:25 PM
April 25, 2007
City Pages article about condos
Here's a really informative article about condoization in Minneapolis provided by City Pages!
http://citypages.com/databank/27/1316/article14136.asp
smiles,
kaitlin
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April 27, 2007
Conference Bikes
For anybody that wanted to see the bike bars....-jesse
http://www.betterworldblog.com/content/binary/ConferenceBike.jpg
Posted by Jesse Kortuem at 11:19 AM | Permalink | Add a Comment (1)
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that is hilarious!!
Posted by: kaitlin | April 30, 2007 02:16 PM