The Cities We Need

Essential Stories of Everyday Places

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04903-0 (ISBN)

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An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging. Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In The Cities We Need, photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani introduces us to the complex, political, and eminently personable stories of residents who answered this question in Brooklyn, New York and Oakland, California. Their universal stories and Bendiner-Viani s evocative images illuminate what s at stake in our everyday places from diners to churches to donut shops. In this culmination of two decades of research and art practice Bendiner-Viani intertwines the personal, historical, and photographic to present us with placework, the way that unassuming places foster a sense of belonging and, in fact, do the essential work of helping us become communities. In this unique book, Bendiner-Viani makes visible how seemingly unimportant places can lay the foundation for a functional interconnected society, so necessary for both public health and social justice. The Cities We Need explores both what we gain in these spaces, and what we risk losing as they are threatened by gentrification, large-scale development, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Bendiner-Viani shows us how to understand ourselves as part of a shared society, with a shared fate; she shows us that everyday places can be the spaces of liberation in which we can build the cities we need.

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is a photographer, urbanist, and cofounder of the interdisciplinary studio Buscada. She is author of Contested City, special recognition honoree for the Brendan Gill Award. Her photographs have been widely exhibited and she holds a doctorate in environmental psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Introduction: A Social Distance
1 Placework
Mosswood Portfolio One
Becoming Yourself
2 Feeling Free and Being Valued
Prospect Heights Portfolio One
3 I Be All Over
Mosswood Portfolio Two
4 Landing Someplace Safe
Prospect Heights Portfolio Two
5 Probably the Supermarket
Mosswood Portfolio Three
Becoming Community
6 Enduring Talk and Casual Talk
Prospect Heights Portfolio Three
7 Every Thursday
Mosswood Portfolio Four
8 Where Are You Able to Connect?
Prospect Heights Portfolio Four
9 The City We Want
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	56 COLOR ILLUS., 14 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-262-04903-1 / 0262049031
ISBN-13	978-0-262-04903-0 / 9780262049030
Zustand	Neuware