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Urbanism in Pieces: Publics and Power in Urban Development Author: David J. Madden Dissertation School: Columbia University Pages: 251 Publication Date: May 2010 Availability: Access Number: 10884 Abstract: This dissertation is a study of how "the public" has functioned in different periods of urban development. It traces the transformation from modernist liberal publicity to neoliberal publicity, charting the types of neighborhood spaces produced by these different modes of urban development. Both of these forms of development are found to be contested and ambivalent, combining elements of participation with elements of control. But they represent very different social, spatial, and political projects. Whereas the industrial, modernist public did seek to ameliorate some of the ravages of the urban capitalism, neoliberal publicity is increasingly aligned with the market-led development of neighborhoods as exclusive, unequal spaces. These issues are examined through an archival and ethnographic case study of an area in New York City between the downtown Brooklyn business district and the East River. Once an industrial zone known at different times as the Navy Yard district and as Brooklyn's "Jungle," this area came to be segmented into unequal social spaces, including Farragut Houses, a public housing development operated by the New York City Housing Authority, as well as Dumbo, an increasingly affluent, gentrified area associated with luxury housing and arts-oriented development. Contemporary neoliberal neighborhoods, it is argued, are also productive of "strangerhood." The study concludes by contemplating the prospects for a critical urban publicity. |
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