White City Research Articles

Political manhood: red bloods, mollycoddles & the politics of Progressive Era reform

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the Third Sex2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace4. Socrates in the Slums: Social Brotherhood and Settlement House Reform5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self-Government Reform6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and HomosexualityEpilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex

Belgrade, Serbia

Few cities in Europe have a history as dramatic and tumultuous as that of the Serbian capital of Belgrade. The gracious “White City,” which rises spectacularly along the banks of the Danube and the Sava River, has been the site of wars, conquests and rapidly changing fortunes for much of its thousands-years long history. Belgrade suffered heavy destruction under both World Wars, and it has the unfortunate distinction of being the only European capital to be bombed at the end of the 20th century. Its modern history is marked by abrupt shifts in political status: from a capital of a relatively small nation-state, to a center of a larger and prosperous multi-national federation, to a capital of a nation-state once again. These shifts parallel the changing geopolitical position of Serbia/Yugoslavia in Europe. In this City Profile, I present the evolution of the built environment of Belgrade in five historic stages: ancient/medieval/Ottoman, early modern, communist, transitional, and contemporary. I show how each period left a distinct spatial imprint on Belgrade’s fabric. Finally, I discuss some contemporary challenges and opportunities in planning Belgrade’s future.

The Sociolinguistics of Ethnicity in New York City

AbstractThis paper reviews the vast literature from sociolinguistics on ethnicity in New York City. Prior work falls into two camps: first, early work in dialectology on New York City English that often erased ethnic distinctions and presented a homogenous, white city; and second, later work investigating minority ethnic groups, often speakers of Languages Other than English. Here we summarize both threads of work, and suggest that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which significantly changed the composition of immigrants in New York City, marks a turning point from work concerned with whites to that concerned with other ethnic groups. We also promote newer conceptions of ethnicity that view it as a fluid category concerned with the construction and/or destruction of boundaries. New York City's tremendous ethnolinguistic diversity makes it a unique site for explorations into ethnic identity practices.

Cities of Whiteness by Wendy S. Shaw

Cities of Whiteness by Wendy S. Shaw

Children\'s perceptions of physical education and school sports at selected South African Schools

Students' perceptions and value orientation could assist curriculum developers to design and implement a Physical Education (PE) curriculum that would address the needs of post-independent South African schools. PE and School Sport (SS) in South Africa demonstrate extremes and inequities. Contrast is visible in all aspects of South African life, but most significant in education. White and urban schools are relatively problem free, whereas black and rural schools have been adversely affected by the past governments' apartheid and separate development policies. Some schools have well developed facilities, while the majority has next to nothing. PE teachers are qualified in some cases and grossly unqualified in many others. PE programmes in white schools and urban cities offer a wide and balanced variety of activities while in others opportunities are limited to a few movement activities. PE as a school subject has been neglected, misunderstood, seen as being of little importance and regarded as inferior when compared to other subjects in the school curriculum. In order to find out the perceptions of PE and school sport among school children aged 7-15 years, we administered the modified Sport in Education (SpinEd) project questionnaire to 923 school children in two provinces and contrasting geographical locations in South Africa. The questionnaire focused on five main domains referring specifically to aspects of children's perceptions and understanding of PE and SS. The results showed some disparity in the perceptions and understanding of PE and SS among the respondents by gender, age group and geographical location, specifically with regard to feeling about PE and SS, outcomes of PE and SS, comparison of PE and SS with other school subjects and perceived competence in PE and SS. Results are discussed in the light of their implications for provision of quality PE and SS in South African schools.

John Humphreys Hughes

As an undergraduate, John Humphreys Hughes represented the university in hammer throwing and would have represented the North West at White City if the second world war had not commenced....

Cheetah Racing Remembered: an exploration through the sources

On the last four pages of Nigel Pavitt's photographic history of Kenya: a country in the making (reviewed in ARD , pp.55-56) are a series of pictures of Kenyan settler Raymond Hook catching and training cheetahs before bringing them to England in 1937 to race against greyhounds at the White City track in London. Never having come across this story before (although I subsequently discovered it briefly featured in a recent edition of the BBC television programme Inside Out), my curiosity was aroused, and what follows is my attempt to reconstruct the full story behind those remarkable images in Pavitt's book.

Review: Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability, Cities of Whiteness

Review: Bataille's Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability, Cities of Whiteness

Silicatescape – preserving building materials in the old urban center landscape: The case of the silicate brick and urban planning in Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Abstract In November 20th 2007 Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality confirmed its list of buildings earmarked for conservation. The confirmation was related only to Tel Aviv cultural heritage, the city that was founded in 1909, along the Mediterranean seashore, next to old Jaffa. The list was published 4 years after part of the old urban center of Tel Aviv was nominated as World Heritage Site for its architectural uniqueness (Tel Aviv the White City). The list and the nomination were focused on architectural styles, which are based on building material, the silicate brick, used in Israel throughout the years 1918–1948. This building material and technology left its imprint on Tel Aviv's landscape and is also a part of Tel Aviv's history and development. In spite of its importance, all concerned in Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality and urban planning, have totally ignored this phenomenon. The thrust of this discussion is that the silicate bricks phenomenon, a building material and technology, due to its importance to Tel Aviv heritage and its vast distribution in Tel Aviv landscape, should be integrated into the current urban renewal development process in the old city of Tel Aviv. The discovery of its history and its role in Tel Aviv cultural heritage will change the attitudes of Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality to this building material; instead of a vernacular phenomena, a common brick or a frequent building technology, it will get a better appreciation. Urban landscapes of many cities around the world are based on vernacular phenomena, which are ignored by the urban municipalities. The silicate case should serve as an example of the role of a vernacular heritage, and in this case a common building material, in the urban renewal and conservation process.

African Americans in Omaha and the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition

Previous articleNext article No AccessAfrican Americans in Omaha and the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International ExpositionDavid J. PeavlerDavid J. Peavler 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 93, Number 3Summer 2008 A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/JAAHv93n3p337 Views: 34Total views on this site Copyright ASALHPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

SOLID‐Bautech‐Preis 2008 für White City in London

StahlbauVolume 77, Issue 7 p. 488-488 Aktuell SOLID-Bautech-Preis 2008 für White City in London First published: 10 July 2008 https://doi.org/10.1002/stab.200890075AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume77, Issue7July 2008Pages 488-488 RelatedInformation

The Heterogenous Citizen: How Many of Us Care about Don Bradman’s Average?

The Heterogenous Citizen: How Many of Us Care about Don Bradman’s Average?

Escape From Los Angeles

In 1960, Los Angeles was still a decidedly white city. By 1980, it no longer was. What happened in Los Angeles was not uncommon elsewhere, as white residents fled city centers in the latter half of the twentieth century to pursue visions of the suburban good life. Whites abandoned central cities, and as a consequence, the school systems of those urban areas began to reflect their populations—struggling, under-resourced, and non-white. But in Los Angeles, this phenomenon seems to have happened in reverse. Whites with school-age children fled the public school system at even greater rates than those at which they left the city, and at much greater rates than other white residents. Driving families out of Los Angeles public schools was the specter of school desegregation, which threatened to bring populations associated with violence and low academic performance into neighborhood schools. The threat desegregation posed to public schools caused parents to choose private schools, if they could, and reevaluate the quality of life in Los Angeles, if needed. Their subsequent out-migration brought about the schools they feared and forever changed the face of the city they left.

The Heterogenous Citizen

The Heterogenous Citizen

Tel Aviv: center, periphery and the cultural geographies of an aspiring metropolis

The aspiration to make Tel Aviv a great metropolis of world-renown and the awareness of its provincialism have figured prominently in the city's public discourse and cultural history. The paper explores the cultural positioning of Tel Aviv as a city of distinction and fame in different scales of center–periphery dualisms and through successive phases of its history. The analysis is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the ‘First Hebrew City’ phase, which lasted from its founding in 1909 through the 1950s, when the notion of Tel Aviv as a unique Zionist creation reigned supreme. The second part deals with the 1960s and the 1970s, when Dizengoff Street epitomized the reputation of Tel Aviv as a large and modern city. The third is devoted to the 1980s and the 1990s, when the celebration of Tel Aviv as a ‘Nonstop City’, a vibrant cosmopolis on a par with New York. The fourth addresses the ‘White City’ as a contemporary expression of the distinction of Tel Aviv in terms of the built heritage of its International Style architecture.

London Underground bridge slide at White City viaduct, UK

At White City in west London, the Hammersmith and City line runs on a high-level brick arch viaduct that crosses over both Wood Lane and the eastbound Central line. As part of the White City development, a section of this viaduct was removed and replaced with a new twin-track highly skewed bridge. This comprised a half-through bridge formed from three principal steel girders with connecting cross-beams and concrete infill. The deck was built off line, then slid into position during a four-day possession of the Hammersmith and City line, requiring part of the existing viaduct to be demolished; the Central line below remained open throughout. The piled substructure was constructed within the constraints of the existing viaduct arches. The existing early 1930s steel bridge deck over Wood Lane was strengthened in advance to provide new bearing positions. During the possession it was truncated by 2 m and supported on new piers.

“Little Brown Girl” in a “White, White City”: Una Marson and London

“Little Brown Girl” in a “White, White City”: Una Marson and London

Racialized landscapes: whiteness and the struggle over farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon

Through an analysis of political resistance to the construction of subsidized farmworker housing in Woodburn, Oregon between 1991 and 1996, this article explores the defense of normative whiteness in relation to a largely undocumented Mexican immigrant population residing in the community. It is argued that for many (mostly white) city leaders and residents, the construction of urban farmworker housing represented a racialized and spatial transgression that undermined the normalized geography of farmworker invisibility — the labor camp. While the racial anxieties linked to the permanent settlement of low-wage immigrant workers had percolated for many years, the public debate over farmworker housing represented a moment when the longstanding anxiety of white residents could be publicly articulated, as well as coded and expressed as something other than race. The analysis builds on work in geography examining how spatial metaphors and practices are used to police the borders of whiteness and difference.

Die Aneignung der "Schwarzen Stadt"

After the ousting of Palestinians from an ethnically segmented labour market, Israel has recruited large numbers of nonJewish labour migrants to fill the country's low wage sector. As elsewhere, restrictive migration policies could not hinder migrants from staying on, organising, and collectively struggle for their rights. Within the urban space ofIsrael's most cosmopolitan centre, the so-called 'White City' of Tel Aviv, they have appropriated a space with a long history of social, economic, and cultural exclusion from Israeli mainstream society, the southern 'Black City'. In 2002, Israel adopted a deportation campaign of migrants who had become 'illegals'. As subsequently tens of thousands of Tel Aviv's residents were forced to leave the country within a short period oftime, Israel, and in particular migrants' main residential area in southern Tel Aviv, became an increasingly unhomely space. In the wake of this change, migrants' everyday lives in Israel were 'transnationalised', and orientations shifted towards the 'greener pastures' of Western Europe and Northern America. Within this process, Tel Aviv became one of the Mediterranean's 'border cities', a transnational gateway, which the notion of' global city' cannot fully grasp.

Prevalence of Tritrichomonas foetus in several subpopulations of Alabama beef bulls

The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of Tritrichomonas foetus infections in Alabama (USA) beef bulls through prospective and retrospective surveys. The prospective survey included 240 Alabama beef bulls that were sampled between January 2005 and March 2006. Preputial smegma was collected from the 240 bulls with a dry pipette and cultured in an InPouch TF T. foetus culture pouch (BioMed Diagnostics; White City, OR, USA). The samples were evaluated microscopically once a day for 6 days for growth resembling T. foetus. To avoid false-positives due to fecal trichomonads, all suspect cultures were sent to both the Alabama Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Auburn, AL, USA and the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine Parasitology Laboratory (Auburn, AL, USA) for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) confirmatory assays. Of the 240 bulls cultured in the prospective survey, 3 (1.25%) cultures were considered suspect on microscopic evaluation. However, PCR-based assays were negative for T. foetus, suggesting that the samples most likely contained fecal trichomonads. The retrospective analysis included 374 T. foetus cultures performed at the Alabama Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory between October 2002 and March 2005. Of the 374 bulls included in the retrospective analysis, only 1 (0.27%) was confirmed positive by a PCR-based assay.