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Format: VIII, 187 S.

ISBN: 978-1-439-90969-0 , 978-1-439-90970-6

Series Statement: Urban life, landscape, and policy

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-180) and index

Language: English

Keywords: 1888-1981 Moses, Robert ; 1916-2006 Jacobs, Jane ; 1942- Bloomberg, Michael ; Stadtplanung

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=026119850&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: 1 online resource (402 p.) : , 28 b&w halftones

ISBN: 9781501759529

Content: Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston. Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives—literary texts, trial transcripts, documents, and artifacts—that denaturalize gender as a category. The volume historicizes the many different social lives of sexual differentiation, exploring what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences, and the sedimentation of gender difference into its putatively binary form.The volume's multidisciplinary group of contributors consider how individuals, communities, and states understood and enacted gender as a social experience distinct from the assignment of sex at birth. Alongside historical questions about the meaning of sexual differentiation, Trans Historical also offers a series of diverse meditations on how scholars of the medieval and early modern periods might approach gender nonconformity before the nineteenth-century emergence of the norm and the normal. Contributors: Abdulhamit Arvas, University of Pennsylvania; Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine; M. W. Bychowski, Case Western Reserve University; Emma Campbell, Warwick University; Igor H. de Souza, Yale University; Leah DeVun, Rutgers University; Micah James Goodrich, University of Connecticut; Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University; Anna Kłosowska; Greta LaFleur; Scott Larson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell University; Robert Mills, University College London; Masha Raskolnikov; Zrinka Stahuljak, UCLA.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical -- , Contributors -- , Part I. Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine -- , 1. Mapping the Borders of Sex -- , 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition -- , 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis -- , 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor -- , 5. Wojciech of Poznań and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561 -- , Part II. Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives -- , 6. Recognizing Wilgefortis -- , 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire -- , 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness -- , 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena’s Deeds of Alexander the Great -- , Part III. Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies -- , 10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiar -- , 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers -- , 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium? -- , 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown -- , 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America -- , Epilogue: Against Consensus -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: History

Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1515/9781501759529

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501759529

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501759529

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501759529

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501759529

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Format: 1 online resource (260 pages) : , illustrations, photographs

ISBN: 0-8135-7648-2 , 0-8135-7647-4

Content: The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan's West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating worldwide. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyze the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts. Including several essays by planners and architects directly involved in the High Line's design, this volume also brings together a diverse range of scholars from the fields of urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Together, they offer insights into the project's remarkable success, while also giving serious consideration to the critical charge that the High Line is "Disney World on the Hudson," a project that has merely greened, sanitized, and gentrified an urban neighborhood while displacing longstanding residents and businesses. Deconstructing the High Line is not just for New Yorkers, but for anyone interested in larger issues of public space, neoliberal redevelopment, creative design practice, and urban renewal.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , List of Figures and Tables -- , High Line Timeline -- , Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park / , Part I: Envisioning the High Line -- , 1. Hunt's Haunts / , 2. Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line / , 3. Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City / , Part II: Gentrification and the Neoliberal City -- , 4. Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City / , 5. Park (In)Equity / , 6. Retro-Walking New York / , Part III: Urban Political Ecologies -- , 7. The Garden on the Machine / , 8. The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park / , 9. Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line / , Part IV: The High Line Effect -- , 10. A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? / , 11. Programming Difference on Rotterdam's Hofbogen / , 12. Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo's Minhocão: The High Line in Translation / , Acknowledgments -- , Bibliography -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-7646-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813576480

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Format: 1 online resource : , 28 photographs, 2 tables

ISBN: 9780813576480

Content: The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating worldwide. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyze the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts. Including several essays by planners and architects directly involved in the High Line’s design, this volume also brings together a diverse range of scholars from the fields of urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Together, they offer insights into the project’s remarkable success, while also giving serious consideration to the critical charge that the High Line is “Disney World on the Hudson,” a project that has merely greened, sanitized, and gentrified an urban neighborhood while displacing longstanding residents and businesses. Deconstructing the High Line is not just for New Yorkers, but for anyone interested in larger issues of public space, neoliberal redevelopment, creative design practice, and urban renewal.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , List of Figures and Tables -- , High Line Timeline -- , Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park / , Part I: Envisioning the High Line -- , 1. Hunt’s Haunts / , 2. Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line / , 3. Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City / , Part II: Gentrification and the Neoliberal City -- , 4. Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City / , 5. Park (In)Equity / , 6. Retro-Walking New York / , Part III: Urban Political Ecologies -- , 7. The Garden on the Machine / , 8. The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park / , 9. Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line / , Part IV: The High Line Effect -- , 10. A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? / , 11. Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen / , 12. Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation / , Acknowledgments -- , Bibliography -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813576480

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813576480

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813576480