Urban Frontier Research Articles

Latasha Haruns, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin: A Case Study of Multicultural Female Violence and Justice on the Urban Frontier

Previous articleNext article FreeLatasha Haruns, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin: A Case Study of Multicultural Female Violence and Justice on the Urban FrontierBrenda E. StevensonBrenda E. Stevenson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 89, Number 2Spring 2004African Americans and the Urban Landscape A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/4134098 Views: 2141 PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Imagining Zion: dreams, designs, and realities in a century of Jewish settlement

The story of how Zionist colonisers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns and cities from the 1880s to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds. Ilan Troen demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930s, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth. Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. Troen concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region.

Images from a Neoliberal City: The State, Surveillance and Social Control

Smith (1996: 230–232) characterized the latetwentieth century crusade for a ‘‘new urbanfrontier’’ as akin to the Wild West ofnineteenth century America. In the last tenyears, not only in the North American contextbut in Europe too, extending the boundaries ofthe urban frontier – economically,politically, and culturally – has galvanizedpowerful urban coalitions in the task ofre-taking – both ideologically and materially– city spaces from the visible and symbolicelements of urban degeneration. The project ofurban reclamation has not been neutral but hasbeen formulated within a post welfare,neoliberal politics that has promoted aideology of self responsibilisation within aclimate of moral indifference to increasinglyvisible inequality. These ideological shiftshave been fuelled by, and consolidated in, anevolving form of state ensemble that, as arapidly moving target (Hay 1996: 3), has beenlargely neglected in criminological analysis.It is the contention of this paper that theagents and agencies of the neoliberal state areconstructing the boundaries and possibilitiesof the new urban frontier while simultaneouslyengaging in a project of social control thatwill have far-reaching consequences for how weunderstand the meanings of public space, socialjustice and the parameters of state power.

Reviews of Books:Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck

Reviews of Books:Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier Philip J. Anderson, Dag Blanck

Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier

A detailed portrait of Swedish immigrant life and culture in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, told in 22 essays by leading scholars from the US and Sweden. Includes contributions from twenty-four leading scholars in both the United States and Sweden investigating various facets of Swedish life and culture in the Twin Cities. For these immigrants, many of whom had been farmers in the old country, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul were truly an urban frontier. The first-ever collection of essays on the subject, this book enhances our understanding of the immigrant experience in Minneapolis and St. Paul while also making an important contribution to the broader history of Swedish immigration to the United States.

Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier

Review of: Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier. Anderson, Philip J. and Blanck, Dag, ed.

Swedes in the Twin Cities; Immigrant Life and Minnesota’s Urban Frontier

Swedes in the Twin Cities; Immigrant Life and Minnesota’s Urban Frontier

Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota’s Urban Frontier ed. by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck (review)

Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immigrant Life and Minnesota’s Urban Frontier ed. by Philip J. Anderson and Dag Blanck (review)

A city transformed: manufacturing districts and suburban growth in Montreal, 1850–1929

This paper examines the development of Montreal's industrial geography between 1850 and 1929. It is argued that a decisive feature of the evolution of the city's industrial and social landscape was the emergence of industrial districts on the moving urban frontier. The formation of new suburban districts and the reorganization of existing industrial districts were part of a developing urban spatial division of manufacturing. Three critical features underlay the restructuring of Montreal's industrial geography after 1850. Waves of industrial expansion and the development of a range of production trajectories altered the parameters of location within the city. Working-class suburbanization provided the requisite labour force for firms locating on the periphery. Local political and economic alliances created the physical, ideological and legal structures for suburban industrial growth and the rearrangement of the urban fabric.

Receiving shadows: governance and liminality in the night-time economy.

This paper focuses upon the emergence of the night-time economy both materially and culturally as a powerful manifestation of post-industrial society. This emergence features two key processes: firstly a shift in economic development from the industrial to the post-industrial; secondly a significant orientation of urban governance involving a move away from the traditional managerial functions of local service provision, towards an entrepreneurial stance primarily focused on the facilitation of economic growth. Central to this new economic era is the identification and promotion of liminality. The State's apparent inability to control these new leisure zones constitutes the creation of an urban frontier that is governed by commercial imperatives.

Ruralopolises : The Spatial Organisation and Residential Land Economy of High-density Rural Regions in South Asia

Many rural regions, extending over thousands of square kilometres, in parts of Asia and Africa, have population densities comparable to Western metropolitan areas. In these agrarian and poor regions, population density is precipitating thresholds for collective facilities and services on the one hand, and squeezing the provision of land for living on the other. Such regions have been named ruralopolises to underline the fusion of rural economic and social systems with metropolitan spatial organisations. Ruralopolises are the sites of urbanisation through implosion. This paper outlines the phenomenon of ruralopolises and explores their emerging forms of settlement and evolving residential land tenures. It is essentially a conceptual exploration of high-density rural settlement systems based upon examples and observations from south Asian ruralopolitan regions. Given the scale of ruralopolitan regions in the Third World, it appears that ruralopolises are another urban frontier ripening for spatial and infrastructural crises in the 21st century.

Local Planning and Economic Restructuring: A Synthetic Interpretation of Urban Redevelopment

This paper presents an analysis of commercial land redevelopment in the Phoenix Metropolitan area during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Using four specific cases, I show how local landscape change is connected to the broader forces of urban restructuring. In addition, I discuss important differences between the city-building process in a central core and a suburban process within this structural context. The local deviations from the structural context are explained vis-à-vis the Phoenix regional economy, conservative political culture, and relative youth on the American urban frontier.

Review: Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, The US Paper Industry and Sustainable Production: An Argument for Restructuring, the New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, Gentrification and the Middle Classes, Measuring Sustainable Development: Macroeconomics and the Environment, Environment and Technology in the Former USSR: The Case of Acid Rain and Power Generation

Review: Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements, The US Paper Industry and Sustainable Production: An Argument for Restructuring, the New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, Gentrification and the Middle Classes, Measuring Sustainable Development: Macroeconomics and the Environment, Environment and Technology in the Former USSR: The Case of Acid Rain and Power Generation

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Environmental management: readings and case studies Lewis Owen and Tim Unwin (eds) Process and form in geomorphology D R Stoddart (ed) Contesting space: power relations and the urban built environment in colonial Singapore Brenda S A Yeoh Mediterranean desertification and land use C Jane Brandt and John B Thornes (eds) The Earth transformed: an introduction to human impacts on the environment Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles The new urban frontier: gentrification and the revanchist city Neil Smith The new middle class and the remaking of the central city David Ley Gentrification and the middle classes Tim Butler

Ethnic Frontiers and Peripheries: Landscapes of Development and Inequality in Israel

Introduction - frontiers, peripheries and ethnic relations in Israel, Avinoam Meir and Oren Yiftachel. Part 1 Frontiers, peripheries and Palestinian Arabs: Arab industrial frontiers - sales linkages and spatial integration, Itzhak Schnell living along the seam - Israeli Palestinians in Jerusalem, Alex Weingrod and Adel Manna minority higher education in an ethnic periphery - the bedouin Arabs, Isma'il Abu Sa'ad the internal frontier - the territorial control of Arab villages, O. Yiftachel. Part 2 Frontiers, peripheries and Jewish ethnicities: from frontier to periphery - the representation of frontiers in Israeli cultures, Shlomo Hasson who to the frontier? - changing Israeli dispersal policies, Amiram Gonen differences in population growth and migration patterns in Israel's development towns, Gabriel Lipshitz planning for the Ethiopian Jews in the Negev, Israel - issues of ethnicity and citizen identity, Tovi Fenster peripheral ethnicity - trends in local representation, Lev Grinberg. Part 3 Frontiers, peripheries and the landscapes of Arab-Jewish encounters: transforming frontiers of conflict into frontiers of peace, David Newman sociocultural encounters in the frontier - Jewish settlers and bedouin nomads in the Negev, Avinoam Meir and Ze'ev Zivan an acre is an acre is an acre? - differentiated attitudes to social space and territory on the Jewish-Arab urban frontier in Israel, Dan Rabinowitz ethnic exclusionism in the periphery - the case of Mizrachi Jews in Israel's development towns, Yoav Peled.

Book Reviews

Smith, Neil The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist CityRosentraub, Mark S. Major League Losers: The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying for ItStewart, James B. (Ed.)African Americans and Post‐Industrial Labor MarketsCaulfield, Jon and Peake, Linda (Eds.) City Lives and City Forms: Critical Research and Canadian UrbanismCox, Kevin R. (Ed.) Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the LocalStrong, Ann Louise; Reiner, Thomas A. and Szyrmer, JanuszTransitions in Land and Housing: Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, and PolandStone, Glenn Davis Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar AgricultureKing, Gary A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate DataPuu, Tonu Mathematical Location and Land Use Theory

Book Review: Center City Churches: The New Urban Frontier

Book Review: Center City Churches: The New Urban Frontier

Soulville in Seattle: African Americans, the City, and the Paradox of the American Dream

Soulville in Seattle: African Americans, the City, and the Paradox of the American Dream Waldo E. Martin Jr. (bio) Quintard Taylor. The Forging of A Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. xiii 330 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $30.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Show me the way to get to Soulville Show me the way to go home Show me the way to get to Soulville That’s where I belong. (from “Soulville,” sung by Aretha Franklin, written by Turner et al.) An eye-catching full-color reproduction of Builders-Family by renowned African American artist Jacob Lawrence graces the paperback edition of Quintard Taylor’s impressive study of Black Seattle. This wonderful cover illustration vividly evokes the work’s central motif: the community’s historical development from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The highly stylized image of the black family (mother, father, daughter, and son) elegantly attired and proceeding arm-in-arm before an integrated crew at a construction work-site strikingly visualizes Taylor’s focus on the institutions and processes of community building. Throughout, the central emphasis on the political economy of black community development in Seattle drives a cogent structural analysis. The bedrock issue has been how best to achieve economic opportunity for blacks within a system built around the maintenance of white dominance. In addition to institutional maturation and the struggle for economic and political empowerment, Taylor offers a revealing interpretation of Black Seattle’s spirit. Black investment in the ideology of that city’s “free air” — its racial liberalism — has envisioned Black Seattleites as integral participants in a progressive and multiracial western urban frontier. For them, serious antiblack obstacles notwithstanding, Seattle has represented a race relations reality superior to anywhere else in the United States, especially in the period before World War II. [End Page 643] A sense of community, as Taylor demonstrates so well, is psychological as well as institutional. It is not just spatial and geographical, social and cultural, or political and economic. But, as Taylor suggests, community combines all of these elements in complicated and unanticipated ways. A vital yet often neglected element is the slippery notion of “the psychological boundaries of community” (p. 135). The “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin, offered insight into that feeling in her rousing 1964 recording of “Soulville,” in which she implores her friend/listener to take her to the place where not only she feels most comfortable, but also where she belongs. This vision and experience of black community life, as Taylor’s study shows, reveals the warmth and sense of belonging attached to home. 1 Indeed this vision of neighborhood as an extension of home concretizes the notion of community as an emotional zone: an affective space. That is, the community as home is a place positively associated with life’s inevitable joys and pains as well as “a psychological haven from a hostile world” (p. 234). As Taylor so aptly illustrates, for most of Black Seattle’s history, the community consisted of two close yet physically separate areas within the Central District: mostly working-class and poor Yesler-Jackson and more middle-class East Madison. The growth and eventual merger of these different areas by the 1950s accomplished spatially what had always been in reality the institutional and emotional case: a singular, if not always harmonious, sense of community. Through its inclusive vision of community formation, notably its use of cultural history, Taylor’s work showcases an increasingly influential contemporary approach to black urban history. It draws upon the best of the previous paradigms: race relations (1899 to 1960), ghettoization (1960s and 1970s), and proletarianization (1980s). 2 Unlike the static race relations approach, the community-building model is fundamentally historical — like the ghettoization and proletarianization paradigms. By seriously examining the historical significance of the nonindustrial work done by most African Americans until relatively recently, it avoids the constraints of the proletarianization approach. In addition, where appropriate, it revises the persistent emphasis on white/ black relations to encompass intraracial relations as well as interactions among whites (ethnics included) and various peoples of color. It...

An Emerging Protestant Establishment: Religious Affiliation and Public Power on the Urban Frontier in Miami, 1896–1904

A photograph taken in 1896, the year of Miami's incorporation, circulated widely in periodicals of the time, and it came to symbolize the founding of the city in the local and national imagination (figure 1). “That picture has gone all over this country,” one of the men who posed for it recalled, “showing the start of Miami.” In the image seventeen men stand by the mouth of the Miami River, where workers were clearing the ground for the construction of the first tourist hotel, a building owned by a wealthy northern Protestant. For the historian, the carefully posed photograph is illuminating. Most important for the purposes of this essay, it offers hints about power relations in that urban frontier. Note the four white men dressed in their Sunday best who stand behind the workers and observe the scene. They were there that day because John Sewell, the white Baptist who supervised the crew, had hurried down the dirt street to invite "the boys" to get into the historic picture. For Sewell, “the boys” meant white mainline Protestants, each of whom had arrived relatively recently to seek his fortune.

Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values

Previous articleNext article No AccessSymposium on Citizenship, Democracy, and EducationMothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family ValuesIris Marion YoungIris Marion Young Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 105, Number 3Apr., 1995 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/293726 Views: 45Total views on this site Citations: 38Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1995 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sandrine Bergès Domesticity and Political Participation: At Home with the Jacobin Women, Political Research Quarterly 49 (Mar 2022): 106591292210798.https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129221079865D. D. K. S. Karunanayake, Mohamed Nazeer Aysha, N. D. U. 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