For scholars of urban history and urbanism.
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Ian Willis deposited Miss Showgirl an enduring anachronism in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
Once again, country show societies are gearing up for the annual New South Wales Miss Showgirl competition. In 2008 500 young women entered the pageant at a local level representing 120 show societies, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show finals. The 2011 Camden Miss Showgirl has attracted seven young local women – four of the seven are university s…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Banking was central to Camden’s prosperity in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
In central Camden is an empty bank building of understated significance at the intersection of John and Argyle Streets. This building was once the premises of Westpace, formerly the Bank of New South Wales, and was the second banking chamber on that site. Constructed in the 1930s by a prominent firm of Sydney architects, the building is of much…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden The Interwar Heritage of a Country Town in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
One of the hidden parts of the history of Camden NSW are the Interwar years. Few know the stories of the buildings, characters and events of the town. This article is an overview of the community’s built heritage at a time when the town underwent a building boom driven by the wealth generated by the Burragorang coalfields.
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022) Foreword in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)
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Ian Willis deposited Camden, a Macarthur family venture in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The quay transforms from transport to tourist mecca in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
Circular Quay was one of the first points of contact between First Nations people and Europeans, and to this day, it is one of the busiest localities on Sydney Harbour. The quay’s history is rich as it is still a busy transport hub, government administration area and commercial zone. In more recent decades, it’s expanded to include thriving…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Sydney’s Customs House – a means of collecting taxes in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
Taxes and dying. Two certainties in life, and that was certainly the case in colonial Sydney. For more than 150 years Customs House has provided the means of collecting taxes on the movement of goods
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Ian Willis deposited A new horizon on Sydney’s urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases. in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
Journalist Jeff McGill recently wrote an opinion piece in the Campbel/town Macarthur Advertiser with the heading ‘Nothing “yucky” about fibro cottages’. He continued that ‘Macarthur’s first big housing development was Campbelltown’s St Elmo Estates of the 1950s, guided by Neil McLean, a much-loved developer’.1 The McLean St Elmo land releases were…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Call for Book Chapters: Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022
Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols
Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)As Vogue Paris, the only edition containing a city name, became Vogue France, the…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
I discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]
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James Ryan deposited “‘Unveiling’ The Tramway”: The Intimate Public Sphere in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
With the introduction of the horse-drawn tramway in 1871, the citizens of Istanbul were forced to reckon with a new type of public space—the crowded confines of the tramcar. This article focuses on the removal of a curtain that separated men and women on public transit in 1923, analyzing the discourses that shaped the decision and the way in w…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited GIS-Assisted Identification Of Historic Districts: A Conceptual Model Case Study In Planaltina, Brazil in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
Georeferencing and digital databases are being used increasingly as tools for the identification, visualization, and management of cultural heritage sites. Likewise, typological models are useful for classifying buildings and structuring knowledge about historic urban districts. The merging of these two approaches provides increased spatial…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Building typology in the vernacular architecture of Beirã in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
The morphology of the traditional Portuguese town arises in the Middle Ages and is similar, in its formation, to most Western European town-making processes spurred by defensive and commercial needs. The traditional Portuguese town supports a single base building typology for private use, which remained relatively stable from the sixteenth to the…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Relações de escala na superquadra de Brasília: paradigma ou mistificação? in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
The superblocks that characterize Brasilia’s urban fabric are defined by Lucio Costa, a posteriori, as the “residential scale” of the city: a play on words that obscures a proper understanding of how the housing mass of the Brazilian capital is structured. In order to perceive more clearly the relations of scale — in its conventional, that is, geo…[Read more]
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Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Zur Innenausstattung mittelalterlicher und frühneuzeitlicher Wirtshausstuben in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Interior design of medieval and modern pubs.
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Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Zum gebaaschten Dragoner – Entwicklung und Symbolik von Wirtshausauslegern in Mitteleuropa in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Durch die immer schneller voranschreitende Stadtentwicklung reichten Straßenbezeichnungen bald nicht längei aus, um sich ähnelnde Häuser zu unterscheiden. So musste ein Wirt sein Gasthaus den Einheimischen und Fremden kenntlich und attraktiv machen. Diese Kennzeichnung erfolgte mit diversen Hilfsmitteln, die sich im Laufe der Zelt entwickelten und…[Read more]
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Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Architektur und sozialer Raum – Space Syntax-Analysen an Wirtshäusern in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months ago
Computergestützte Methoden ermöglichen es, Informationen zv Raumnutzung und Bewegungsabläufen in architektonischen Strukturen zu gewinnen. Dies kann bei der Interpretation ergrabener Wirtshäuser hilfreich sein. Ein geeignetes Werkzeug hierfür ist die Space-Syntax-Analyse. So kann mit der angewandten Software UCL Depthmap 10 (Turner/Friedrich 2011…[Read more]
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