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Local Food Innovation In A World Of Wicked Problems: The Pitfalls And The Potential, Danielle Lake, Lisa Sisson, Lara Jaskiewicz Mar 2015

Local Food Innovation In A World Of Wicked Problems: The Pitfalls And The Potential, Danielle Lake, Lisa Sisson, Lara Jaskiewicz

Danielle L Lake

Food-oriented markets, such as food innovation districts (FIDs), have been touted as potential methods to address complex societal issues involving the environment, poverty, and health. On this front the Grand Rapids Downtown Market (DTM) was created in 2013, envisioned as a vibrant public space for local food, entrepreneurship, community health, and jobs. An innovative, collective response to the interconnected and urgent problems of poverty, access, health, diet, and environment, the DTM can serve as a case study through which the value and necessity of a wicked problems framework become apparent. Wicked problems literature demonstrates that collaborative and iterative processes are …


Theorising The ‘Fifth Migration’ In The United States: Understanding Lifestyle Migration From An Integrated Approach, Brian Hoey Jun 2014

Theorising The ‘Fifth Migration’ In The United States: Understanding Lifestyle Migration From An Integrated Approach, Brian Hoey

Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.

This chapter is an empirically-informed discussion of relevant social theory for examining the phenomenon of lifestyle migration in the United States in both rural and urban settings. Specifically, the chapter explores key explanatory models born of research into so-called non-economic migration occurring since the early twentieth century—models that may be characterized as primarily either production or consumption oriented in their emphasis—as a context for outlining an integrated approach. The author then highlights changes in how some Americans appear to calculate personal and collective quality of life as engendered by an emerging economic order—based on principles of flexibility and contingency—whose affects …


Evolution Of American Urban Society, 8th Edition, Howard Chudacoff, Judith Smith, Peter Baldwin Dec 2013

Evolution Of American Urban Society, 8th Edition, Howard Chudacoff, Judith Smith, Peter Baldwin

Judith E. Smith

The Evolution of American Urban History blends historical perspectives on society, economics, politics, and policy, while focusing on the ways in which diverse peoples have inhabited and interacted in cities. It tackles ethnic and racial minority issues, offers multiple perspectives on women, and highlights urbanization's constantly shifting nature.


Performing Survival In The Global City: Theatre Isôko’S The Monument”, Kim Solga, Jennifer Capraru Dec 2012

Performing Survival In The Global City: Theatre Isôko’S The Monument”, Kim Solga, Jennifer Capraru

Kim Solga

No abstract provided.


Toby Miller Cultural Studies Podcast, George Yudice Dec 2011

Toby Miller Cultural Studies Podcast, George Yudice

George Yúdice

A Conversation with George Yúdice About His Miami Cultural Observatory, His Books, and Translation.


La Cultura Hispana En Estados Unidos: Grandes Promesas Incipientes, George Yudice Dec 2010

La Cultura Hispana En Estados Unidos: Grandes Promesas Incipientes, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


George Yudice, Entrevista Por Rossana Reguillo, George Yudice Dec 2010

George Yudice, Entrevista Por Rossana Reguillo, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Fundación Alternativas, George Yudice Nov 2010

Fundación Alternativas, George Yudice

George Yúdice

On Impact of New Media on Culture Industries Reception.


The Alliance For Progress And Housing Policy In Rio De Janeiro And Buenos Aires In The 1960s, Leandro Benmergui Dec 2008

The Alliance For Progress And Housing Policy In Rio De Janeiro And Buenos Aires In The 1960s, Leandro Benmergui

Leandro Benmergui

This article explores the construction of publicly financed low-income housing complexes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1960s. These housing developments were possible thanks to the arrival of foreign economic and technical assistance from the Alliance for Progress. Urban scholars, politicians, diplomats and urbanists of the Americas sought to promote middle-class habits, mass consumption and moderate political behaviour, especially among the poor, by expanding access to homeownership and ‘decent’ living conditions for a burgeoning urban population. As a result, the history of low-income housing should be understood within broader transnational discourses and practices about the …


Visual Tours Of Housing Projects In Buenos Aires And Rio De Janeiro, 1960s And 1970s (Multimedia Companion To The Special Issue: Transnational Urbanism In The Americas), Leandro Benmergui Dec 2008

Visual Tours Of Housing Projects In Buenos Aires And Rio De Janeiro, 1960s And 1970s (Multimedia Companion To The Special Issue: Transnational Urbanism In The Americas), Leandro Benmergui

Leandro Benmergui

The Multimedia Companion for the special issue of Urban History: 'Transnational Urbanism in the Americas', is an editorial project of Urban History’s North American Editorial Board. The emerging transnational paradigm raises many interesting possibilities for the historical study of cities. As the articles in the special issue suggest, transnationalism challenges us to map out the patterns of human life in new ways as they cross and construct cities, nations, and other crucial formations. Even as this new paradigm is causing a fundamental rethinking of our scholarship, the internet and the World Wide Web are also challenging our current modes of …


Culturas Emergentes En El Mundo Hispano De Estados Unidos, George Yudice Dec 2008

Culturas Emergentes En El Mundo Hispano De Estados Unidos, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Cultural Diversity And Cultural Rights, George Yudice Dec 2008

Cultural Diversity And Cultural Rights, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Política Cultura, George Yudice Dec 2006

Política Cultura, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-Making In Jamaica, Gina Ulysse Dec 2006

Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-Making In Jamaica, Gina Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse

The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and …


Culture, George Yudice Dec 2006

Culture, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Nuevas Tecnologías, Música Y Experiencia, George Yudice Dec 2006

Nuevas Tecnologías, Música Y Experiencia, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Blue Chicago: The Search For Authenticity In Urban Blues Clubs, David Grazian Dec 2002

Blue Chicago: The Search For Authenticity In Urban Blues Clubs, David Grazian

David Grazian

No abstract provided.


The Expediency Of Culture: The Uses Of Culture In The Global Era, George Yudice Dec 2002

The Expediency Of Culture: The Uses Of Culture In The Global Era, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Contrapunteo Estadounidense/Latinoamericano De Los Estudios Culturales, George Yudice Dec 2001

Contrapunteo Estadounidense/Latinoamericano De Los Estudios Culturales, George Yudice

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.


Cultural Policy, George Yudice, Toby Miller Dec 2001

Cultural Policy, George Yudice, Toby Miller

George Yúdice

No abstract provided.