Critical Urban Studies Davies, Jonathan S; Imbroscio, David L; Stone, Clarence N
2010, 2010-11-03, 20100101
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This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where ...it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and demonstrating the fundamental importance of urban studies for understanding and changing contemporary social life. Contributors to the volume identify an orthodox perspective in the field, subject it to critique, and map out a future research agenda for the field. The result is a series of inventive essays pointing scholars and students to the major theoretical and policy challenges facing urbanists and other critical social scientists.
Rich Mestas, director of secondary education for the Cesar Chavez School Network, said that the decision to go to an open campus was made "because our students have earned it in the first semester." ...Mestas said that in order to leave campus at noon, students and parents have to sign a contract. The students must maintain a 2.5 average, they will not be allowed to bring food back to the campus and if they're tardy a specific number of times, the privilege will be revoked.
Naked City Zukin, Sharon
2009, 2009-11-16, 20100101
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Sharon Zukin argues that the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--and the consequent escalating real estate prices--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its ...authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen.
David Mestas came under suspicion when hospital authorities reviewed a log of entrances into the secure room and how long people spent there. They found irregularities in Mestas' visits to the secure ...area, according to Serg Palanov.
