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Susanne Frank - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Inner-City Suburbanization – no Contradiction in Terms. Middle-Class Family Enclaves are Spreading in the Cities
Raumforschung Und Raumordnung, 2018Co-Authors: Susanne FrankAbstract:The rapid emergence and spread of new housing quarters that specifically address Middle-Class families is a striking feature of current urban development. Despite being located in or near the city centres, many of these ‘Family enclaves’ display social and physical characteristics that so far have been firmly associated with suburban living. Against this background, the purpose of this article is twofold. The first objective is to argue from a theoretical perspective that the notion of ‘inner-city suburbanization’ is appropriate and helpful to capture the hybrid and contradictory nature of these projects as well as of many of the current socio-spatial developments in Western metropolitan regions. For this purpose, the paper draws on newer approaches that conceive of (urban or suburban) ways of living as independent of specific (urban or suburban) spaces or places. The second issue, based on empirical research, is then to sketch the essential qualities of newly built Middle-Class Family enclaves and to highlight their propagation as a major characteristic of urban transformation in Germany. Their continuing expansion is interpreted as an expression and catalyst of ongoing processes of inner-city suburbanization. It is asserted that suburbanism has not only made its mark on the outskirts of the cities but is increasingly conquering growing parts of the inner cities as well.
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Inner-City Suburbanization – no Contradiction in Terms. Middle-Class Family Enclaves are Spreading in the Cities
Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning, 2018Co-Authors: Susanne FrankAbstract:Die rasche Entstehung und Verbreitung von neuen Wohnquartieren, welche sich speziell an Mittelschichtfamilien richten, ist ein auffälliges Merkmal aktueller städtischer Entwicklung. Obwohl sie sich in oder nahe den Stadtzentren befinden, weisen viele dieser abgeschirmten Familienenklaven soziale und physische Eigenschaften auf, die bisher fest mit suburbanem Wohnen in Verbindung gebracht wurden. Vor diesem Hintergrund verfolgt der Beitrag zwei Anliegen: Im theoretisch-konzeptionellen Teil soll gezeigt werden, dass der Begriff „innerstädtische Suburbanisierung“ angemessen und hilfreich ist, um den hybriden und widersprüchlichen Charakter dieser wie auch vieler anderer aktueller sozialräumlichen Entwicklungen in westlichen Metropolregionen zu erfassen. Hierzu stützt sich der Beitrag auf neuere Ansätze, die die (urbanen oder suburbanen) Arten des Wohnens als unabhängig von bestimmten (urbanen oder suburbanen) Räumen und Orten betrachten. Im zweiten, auf empirischer Forschung basierenden Teil werden die grundlegenden Eigenschaften der neuen Familieninseln beschrieben. Ihre Vermehrung wird als Ausdruck und Katalysator der fortschreitenden Suburbanisierung der inneren Städte und damit als wesentliches Kennzeichen urbaner Transformation in Deutschland interpretiert. Gezeigt werden soll, dass Suburbanisierungsprozesse nicht nur die Umlandentwicklung prägen, sondern zunehmend auch innerstädtische Gebiete kennzeichnen. The rapid emergence and spread of new housing quarters that specifically address Middle-Class families is a striking feature of current urban development. Despite being located in or near the city centres, many of these ‘Family enclaves’ display social and physical characteristics that so far have been firmly associated with suburban living. Against this background, the purpose of this article is twofold. The first objective is to argue from a theoretical perspective that the notion of ‘inner-city suburbanization’ is appropriate and helpful to capture the hybrid and contradictory nature of these projects as well as of many of the current socio-spatial developments in Western metropolitan regions. For this purpose, the paper draws on newer approaches that conceive of (urban or suburban) ways of living as independent of specific (urban or suburban) spaces or places. The second issue, based on empirical research, is then to sketch the essential qualities of newly built Middle-Class Family enclaves and to highlight their propagation as a major characteristic of urban transformation in Germany. Their continuing expansion is interpreted as an expression and catalyst of ongoing processes of inner-city suburbanization. It is asserted that suburbanism has not only made its mark on the outskirts of the cities but is increasingly conquering growing parts of the inner cities as well.
Andrea Zlotucha Kozub - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“To Married Ladies It Is Peculiarly Suited”: Nineteenth-Century Abortion in an Archaeological Context
Historical Archaeology, 2018Co-Authors: Andrea Zlotucha KozubAbstract:Abortion was a lucrative business in the 19th century. Advertisements for services and patent-medicine abortifacients abounded and were targeted primarily at married, Middle-Class women engaged in Family planning. Contemporary accounts suggest that one in five 19th-century pregnancies may have ended in abortion. Concerns over a potentially shifting demography prompted a backlash, and by the end of the century abortion was prohibited under most circumstances. Despite its widespread occurrence, archaeological evidence of abortion has been limited to a few documented cases, most notably the privy of the brothel at Five Points. The discovery of fetal remains and associated artifacts in two upstate New York domestic privies offers an opportunity to discuss the archaeology of abortion within the context of Middle-Class Family planning, as well as the problems inherent in identifying abortion archaeologically. El aborto era un negocio lucrativo en el siglo XIX. Los anuncios de servicios y medicamentos abortivos con patentes abundaban y se dirigían principalmente a las mujeres casadas de clase media interesadas en la planificación familiar. Los relatos contemporáneos sugieren que uno de cada cinco embarazos en el siglo XIX pudo terminar en aborto. Las preocupaciones por un posible cambio demográfico provocaron un retroceso, y para finales de siglo el aborto estaba prohibido en casi todas las circunstancias. A pesar de su generalización, las pruebas arqueológicas del aborto se limitan a unos cuantos casos documentados, el más famoso el del retrete del burdel de Five Points. El hallazgo de restos fetales y objetos relacionados en dos retretes de viviendas particulares al norte de Nueva York brinda la oportunidad de debatir la arqueología del aborto en el contexto de la planificación familiar de la clase media, así como los problemas inherentes a la identificación del aborto desde el punto de vista arqueológico. Au 19e siècle, les avortements étaient lucratifs. Les publicités vantant ces services et divers médicaments abortifs brevetés abondaient et ciblaient principalement les femmes mariées de la classe moyenne adeptes de la planification des naissances. Des récits de l’époque suggèrent qu’une grossesse sur cinq aurait été interrompue par un avortement au 19e siècle. La crainte d’éventuels changements démographiques a entraîné une vive réaction et l’avortement fut interdit dans la plupart des cas avant la fin du siècle. Malgré sa forte présence, les preuves archéologiques de l’avortement se limitent à quelques cas documentés seulement, le plus connu étant celui des lieux d’aisance de la maison de prostitution de Five Points. La découverte de fragments de fœtus et d’artefacts connexes dans deux lieux d’aisance domestiques situés au nord de New York offre l’occasion de discuter de l’archéologie de l’avortement dans le contexte de la planification des naissances de la classe moyenne, ainsi que des problèmes associés à l’identification archéologique dudit phénomène.
Boming Xu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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HCI (20) - Human Factors Design Research with Persona for Kids Furniture in Shanghai Middle-Class Family
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013Co-Authors: Boming XuAbstract:There is a huge market for Chinese kids furniture, which, however, is still designed on the level of traditional Ergonomics. The paper, targeted at Shanghai Middle-Class Family, analyzes the correlation between the needs, purpose, behavior and viewpoints of multi-users, based on the data collected through Ethnography. With many factors such as Family structure, environmental factor and educational notion taken into account, it constructs user segmentation of multi-users’ kids furniture in terms of persona and accordingly gives suggestions on Human Factors Design of kids furniture.
Kathleen M. T. Collins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Book Review: Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s, by Su HolmesEntertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s. HolmesSu. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013. 224 pp.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2015Co-Authors: Kathleen M. T. CollinsAbstract:Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s. Su Holmes. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2013. 224 pp. $24.95 pbk.The values instituted by the British Broadcasting Company's (BBC) first director, Lord John Reith, were to "inform, educate, and entertain," but those three verbs have enjoyed nary a moment of peaceful coexistence in the nearly ninety years that they have comprised the organization's public service mission. Conventional thinking holds that nonmercenary, beneficial-to-the-citizenry programming, and crowd-pleasing fare are mutually exclusive and that which is desirable to viewers, garners a big audience, and earns revenue is deemed antithetical to the charge of public service.Although the public service versus entertainment dichotomy is as old as broadcast technology, Holmes trains her lens on a decade when it was in full glory. The "entertaining" in the title of her book purposefully conveys a double meaning, referring to the type of programming that aims to divert audiences as well as the consideration of the entire endeavor of television. The latter connotation gives her ample room to dissect a wide range of issues, but at the heart of her argument is the "popular" in the subtitle. Although she explores British television programs, the matter is equally relevant to U.S. television history. In fact, public service and popular sometimes take on the faces of the BBC and the American system, respectively, given their dissimilar economic and political structures, but Holmes proves that the conflict was alive within U.K. television culture itself, as evidenced by the contentious relationship with the commercial, independent ITV.The BBC was a monopoly until the 1955 launch of ITV. Early television broadcasting was a matter of politics in the United Kingdom, far more aggressively than it was in its infancy and adolescence in the United States. British TV was essentially a pawn of the state, quite often divorced from any regard to its content. Much of it was characterized by its resistance to American TV, as if the BBC were a fortress against Americanization. Holmes makes frequent mentions of the 1962 Pilkington Report, a text that seems loosely analogous to U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Newton Minow's 1961 "vast wasteland" speech or an ersatz set of public service commandments. Among its conclusions the eponymous committee that published the report depicted ITV programs, in contrast to the self-described fair and balanced BBC, as populist and "trivial," indicting the United States as a bad influence. Paradoxically, the battle has been reduced to public versus popular despite the fact that in other contexts those terms might be on the same team. Popular can be quantitative, indicating that which is liked and watched by many, or it can connote vulgarity and low rent taste, depending on whom you ask.Holmes traces the BBC's interpretation of popularity and how judgments were challenged by the advent of ITV. She divides her study into categories of the soap opera, quiz show, "problem" show, and celebrity. The Grove Family, British TV's first soap opera or Family serial, premiering in 1954, presented a lower middle class Family. Reactions to the show revealed perspectives on patterns of consumption and taste and reflected, for better or worse, the cultural values of the millions who watched. Quiz, or "give-away," shows allowed escape and fantasy whereas a problem show revealed real-life tribulations and ostensibly an opportunity for education. Holmes explores the lineage of the modern talk show with the British problem show (e.g., Is This Your Problem?) and the U.S. advice show. Both early progenitors were criticized for invasion of privacy, peeping Tom-ism, and, ultimately, the tabloidization of TV. With their airing of laundry, problem shows also punctured the postwar bubble of purported happiness. Whereas The Grove Family intentionally presented a comforting image of suburban Family life (analogous to Father Knows Best or Leave It to Beaver in the United States), the problem shows presented just what their name advertised. …
Dai Li-non - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Kids Furniture in Shanghai Middle-Class Family Based on Persona
Packaging Engineering, 2015Co-Authors: Dai Li-nonAbstract:The methods of user experience design that is persona are introduced to design investigate and develop for kids furniture in Shanghai Middle-Class Family.The needs,purpose,behavior and viewpoints of multi-users are analyzed based on the collection of Family data of real user through Ethnography. With many factors such as Family structure,environmental factor and educational notion taken into account,it constructs four multi-users kids furniture user segmentation model in terms of persona and accordingly gives suggestions on kids furniture design.