http://www.metafilter.com/tags/urbanstudies Posts tagged with 'urbanstudies' at MetaFilter. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:38:04 -0800 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:38:04 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/80832/Sociology%2Dpapers%2Donline Harvard Sociologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Sampson">Robert</a> <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/PNAS_SampsonProfile.pdf">Samson</a>, known for <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/02/19/the_cracks_in_broken_windows/">his</a> <a href="http://www.racewire.org/archives/2009/04/seeing_through_broken_windows_1.html">work</a> <a href="http://www.asanet.org/cs/root/topnav/press/perceptions_of_broken_windows_are_a_function_of_community_race_and_class_composition">challenging</a> the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198203/broken-windows">Broken Window</a> hypothesis (<small><a href="http://www.metafilter.com/76792/Broken-Windows-Theory-Experiments">previously on Metafilter</a></small>), has a number of publications on <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/#neighborhood">neighborhoods</a>, <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/#race">race and immigration</a>, <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/#disorder">crime</a>, and <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/#spatial">spatial dynamics</a> posted <a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/">publicly</a> online. Here are just a few recent publications <small>(all pdfs)</small>: <blockquote>*<a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/2008_AJS_Moving_to_Inequality.pdf">Moving to Inequality: Neighborhood Effects and Experiences Meet Social Structure</a><br> *<a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/2008_PNAS_DurableEffects.pdf">Durable effects of concentrated disadvantage on verbal ability of African American children</a><br> *<a href="http://contexts.org/articles/files/2008/01/contexts_winter08_sampson.pdf">Rethinking crime and immigration</a><br> *<a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/01_45.1Sampson.pdf">Neighborhood Selection and the Social Reproduction of Concentrated Racial Inequality</a><br> *<a href="http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/sampson/articles/2008_AfterSchoolChicago_InPress.pdf">"After School" Chicago: Space and the City</a><br> </blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.80832 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:38:04 -0800 brokenwindow crime immigration neighborhoods race sociology urbanstudies lunit http://www.metafilter.com/77775/Paris%2DInvisible%2DCity <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/virtual/index.html#">Paris: Ville Invisible.</a> "This work seeks to show how real cities resemble the '<a href="http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/citysum.htm">invisible cities</a>' of Italo Calvino. As cluttered, saturated, and asphyxiating as it is, one can breathe more freely in Paris, the invisible city." The renowned French sociologist <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/">Bruno</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour">Latour</a> presents a "virtual sociological book" that explores the limits of social theory for the understanding of urban life. The Flash interface is somewhat rickety, but there is a text-only <a href="http://www.bruno-latour.fr/virtual/PARIS-INVISIBLE-GB.pdf">PDF </a>of the English version. <small><a href="http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/paris-invisible-city/">(via)</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77775 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:19:47 -0800 brunolatour invisiblecities italocalvino paris sociology urbanstudies nasreddin