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Weathering Covid-19: Lessons From Wuhan And Milan For Urban Governance And Sustainability, Xiangming Chen, Yi Teresa Wu

Faculty Scholarship

The global spread of COVID-19 has exposed the world’s largest and densest urban centres to bearing the brunt of this pandemic. The invisible virus has forced thriving metropolises to empty their streets and shops to dead spaces absent of people and activity. It even triggers the doomsday question of, “Does COVID-19 mean the end of cities?” In this article, we compare how two great cities of the East and West – Wuhan and Milan – have responded to the deadly virus, with their internal and external strengths and constraints. We also take the reader deep into the two cities’ neighbourhoods …

Modernity, Kendra Keelan

The First-Year Papers (2010 - present)

No abstract provided.

The Africa Problem Of Global Urban Theory: Re-Conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation, Garth Myers

Faculty Scholarship

This paper works to address what I consider the enduring ‘Africa problem’ in global urban theory. I engage and critique selected relevant urban thought from the Globalization and World Cities research group, from Henri Lefebvre and from the new wave of urban theorisation inspired by Lefebvre’s (1970) idea of ‘complete, planetary urbanisation.’ I argue that urbanisation in Africa, largely absent from Lefebvre’s works, presents new twists that are better understood from outside a Eurocentric framework. I propose the possibilities of urban comparativism built from theories and conceptualisations that emerge from the global South and that can be utilised to compare …

Globalization Redux: Can China’S Inside-Out Strategy Catalyze Economic Development Across Its Asian Borderlands And Beyond [Post-Print], Xiangming Chen

Faculty Scholarship

As the narrative of globalization in crisis heats up, China has stepped up as a new champion of globalization with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This article repositions ‘China in the Global South’ to the front and center of the globalization discourse. Through a triangular framework, I differentiate and reconnect the three ‘master’ processes of urbanization, development and globalization to understand the inside-outside connections between China’s domestic transformation and strong impact in the Global South. Using China vs. Southeast Asia and Central Asia, I evaluate if and how China’s inside-out strategy can catalyze mutually beneficial development across some Asian …

The Impact Of Executive Order 9417 On New York City’S Jewish Communities Following The Second World War, Shawn Olstein

The First-Year Papers (2010 - present)

No abstract provided.

Globalisation Redux: Can China’S Inside-Out Strategy Catalyse Economic Development And Integration Across Its Asian Borderlands And Beyond? [Post-Print], Xiangming Chen

Faculty Scholarship

As the narrative of globalisation in crisis heats up, China has stepped up as a new champion of globalisation with its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. This article repositions ‘China in the Global South’ to the front and centre of the globalisation discourse. Through a triangular framework, I differentiate and reconnect the three ‘master’ processes of urbanisation, development and globalisation to understand the inside-outside connections between China’s domestic transformation and strong impact in the Global South. Using China vs Southeast Asia and Central Asia, I document how China’s westward development has created new development opportunities for its overland neighbours and beyond.

Demolition, Rehabilitation, And Conservation: Heritage In Shanghai’S Urban Regeneration, 1990–2015 [Post-Print], Xiaohua Zhong, Xiangming Chen

Faculty Scholarship

Urban heritage sites in central cities are most difficult to protect during rapid and large scale urban (re)development. Rising land values from property development conflict with and constrain heritage preservation. Compared with many cities in developed and developing countries, large Chinese cities have experienced a stronger redevelopment imperative, faster population growth, and a weaker concern for urban heritages over the last three decades. We use Shanghai to examine the contested evolution of heritage preservation against massive urban redevelopment through three stages from 1990 to the present. Using three heritage projects (Xintiandi, Tianzifang, Bugaoli), we focus on: 1) how each project …

Demolition, Rehabilitation, And Conservation: Heritage In Shanghai’S Urban Regeneration, 1990–2015 [Post-Print], Xiaohua Zhong, Xiangming Chen

Faculty Scholarship

Urban heritage sites in central cities are most difficult to protect during rapid and large scale urban (re)development. Rising land values from property development conflict with and constrain heritage preservation. Compared with many cities in developed and developing countries, large Chinese cities have experienced a stronger redevelopment imperative, faster population growth, and a weaker concern for urban heritages over the last three decades. We use Shanghai to examine the contested evolution of heritage preservation against massive urban redevelopment through three stages from 1990 to the present. Using three heritage projects (Xintiandi, Tianzifang, Bugaoli), we focus on: 1) how each project …

The Comparative Decline And Revitalization Processes Of Hartford And Detroit, Jane Bisson

The Trinity Papers (2011 - present)

No abstract provided.

Why Is A Free And Competitive Land Market Indispensable For Resolving The Three Agrarian Issues Through Endogenous Urbanization?, Guanzhong James Wen

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Post-World War Ii Suburb In The United States, Seth Browner

The First-Year Papers (2010 - present)

No abstract provided.

Secondary Cities And The Global Economy, Xiangming Chen, Ahmed Kanna

Faculty Scholarship

Cities operate today in a more complex, indeed, global world. Cities help shape the global economy and culture, and are affected by it as they grow or decline. Cities change in varying ways in response to local and extra-local conditions. In this article, we address the understudied but distinctive conditions and roles of so-called secondary cities in the global economy. The critical importance of many secondary cities stems from and sustains their historical path of development and their shifting positions in national and global urban systems.

Venice And Its Location, Hyungsun Chloe Cho

The First-Year Papers (2010 - present)

No abstract provided.

Suburbanization And The Racial/Ethnic Divide In The Hartford Metropolitan Area, Michael Sacks

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

The 1912 Carrère And Hastings Plan For The City Of Hartford: The Capitol Area’S First Experiment In Modern City Planning, Bart Kempf

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

History Of The 'Front Street' Downtown Development Neighborhood, Cheryl Magazine

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

“How Civic Is The Center?” The Role Of Race And Class In The Development Hartford Civic Center, Debbie Herman

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

The History Of The Development Of Strategic Highways In Hartford, Ct, Kevin Estela

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Dynamics Of Urban Poverty And Social Mobility: Life Histories And Community Trajectories In 4 Hartford Neighborhoods, Janice E. Perlman

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

Jack Dollard And The Sand Everywhere School, Andrea Wulffleff

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

Kellogg Project And Aetna Center For Families Community Resident Survey 2001, Daniel Sibirsky, Carolina Castellanos

Papers and Publications

No abstract provided.

Hartford, Connecticut: Discrimination, Seprepation, And Urban Riots, Nicole Tateosian

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

Neighborhood Tipping; Blue Hills, David M. Jones

Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty

No abstract provided.

Planning In Hartford 1907 - 1942, Gordon R. Bell

Archival Documents

A study of planning activities in Hartford, Connecticut from the creation of the first official planning agency in the United States in 1907, to 1942.

47 pages