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Jerusalem light rail
On Sunday I took a couple of hours to explore the fairly new Jerusalem light rail. It opened in late 2011 and when I was last here in 2009 it was still under construction. I'm staying near Damascus Gate, and there is a station right across the road. There is only one line so far (more are planned) which runs from Mount Herzl in the west to Heil Ha'Avir (Air Force Street) in the north east.
Urban Studies Foundation postdoctoral fellowships
Fellowships at University of Glasgow - details here. Applications should be submitted electronically to Ruth Harkin at ruth.harkin@glasgow.ac.uk by 14 June 2013.
Some Urban/City titles now open access from the Ohio State UP [links provided]
The Press very gratefully acknowledges The Ohio State University Libraries for funding and overseeing the digitization of these titles.
Titles currently available on-line are [only Urban/City titles listed below]:
| Aaron, Daniel | Cincinnati: Queen City of the West, 1819–1838 |
| Beja, Morris and David Norris, eds. | Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays |
| Blackford, Mansel G. | The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890–1920 |
| Bright, Michael | Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival |
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Color is Politics
"The phenomenological approach to space and the lived body reveals the two to be inseparable." - Félix Guattari, "Space and Corporeity"
For French thinker and activist Félix Guattari (1930-1992), the built environment and the body are components of the self that exist parallel to one another. Buildings form who we are just as we constitute constructed space. Change to one will elicit an alteration in the other.
Pavement to Parks: Plazas & Public Space
See on Scoop.it - Urban Choreography
The San Francisco Parklet Manual is a comprehensive overview of the goals, policies, process, procedures and guidelines for creating a parklet in San Francisco. The Manual also serves as a resource for those outside of San Francisco working to establish parklet programs in their own cities.
Applicants and designers in San Francisco are strongly encouraged to read the Parklet Manual in its entirety when they are first thinking about proposing a parklet, and to refer to it often throughout the process.
Judith Butler, Dispossession
Stuart Elden's blog (Progressive Geographies) features a description of Judith Butler's forthcoming book Dispossession. The book apparently continues in the direction of Butler's Arendtian reflections on protest in public space (cf. "Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street"), and on demonstrations as "passages, when the legitimacy of a regime is called into question, but when no new regime has yet come to take its place." Also note that Derek Gregory recently posted some relevant videos on his blog, here.
Urbis
Following recent posts on Manchester and Salford here's a link to a new Cultural Studies paper on 'The Urbis Building as Looking Glass' by Steve Hanson and Mark Rainey (subs. required). It uses the Urbis building in Manchester as a device for discussing wider social, cultural and economic changes taking place at a local and national level in the UK since the early 2000s.
Maps
The theoretical problems that underpin both the critical discourse and the literary production in the era of German realism can be very surprising for an audience schooled on the Victorian novel. When I first encountered German realism myself, it seemed to me to be not realism at all. How can literature be "realistic" while at the same time be committed to a process of transfiguration (
Saskia Sassen's Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities
The language of more inequality, more poverty, more evictions from land and house, is not enough to capture the negatives in the current phase of global capitalism. I want to explore the hypothesis that we are confronting the emergence of new logics of expulsion that take us beyond the more familiar notion of growing inequality. The last two decades have seen a sharp growth in the number of people, enterprises and places expelled from the core orders of our epoch; I add our collective destruction of bits and pieces of the biosphere, which are turned into dead land and dead water — an expulsion of bits of life itself from the biosphere.
