| Description |
312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Discussions in contemporary culture ; no. 6 |
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Discussions in contemporary culture ; no. 6
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| Contents |
Preface : the work of art in the (imagined) age of unalienated exhibition -- Fragments of a metropolitan viewpoint -- Alternative space -- The public sphere -- Symposium on homelessness -- Home front -- Housing : gentrification, dislocation and fighting back -- The tenement : place for survival, object of reform -- Strange fruit : the legacy of the design competition in New York housing -- Housing the homeless mother and child -- 454 St. Nicholas Avenue -- What is a kilowatt hour? a con ed paper trail -- The 42nd Street development project -- "People who can't afford to live here should move someplace else" -- Historic Hiram market : decade update -- The artists' home ownership program -- Artists' life/work : housing and community for artists : Discussion -- Homeless: The street and other venues -- Homelessness : conditions, causes, cures : Discussion -- Tomkins Square Park, East Village, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York -- Homeward bound -- Disjointed Days -- Our Genetic Cord -- Essential shelter : the mad houser hut -- Homes for people with AIDS : a study project on infill housing in New York -- City: Visions and revisions -- Planning : power, politics, and people : Discussion -- Unequal development : the two waterfronts -- The architecture of fear -- Rebuilding drug city -- The South Bronx of America -- The Casita Project -- Corporate atriums : urban arcadias -- Docklands Community Poster Project -- Artists in the exhibitions |
| Summary |
This book documents the present crisis in American urban housing policies and portrays how artist within the context of neighbourhood organizations have fought against government neglect, short sighted housing policies and unfettered real estate speculation. This book is a practical manual for community organizing; a history of housing and homelessness in New York City and around the country; and an outline of what a humane housing policy might encompass for the America n city |
| Notes |
At head of title: Dia Art Foundation |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 306-311 |
| Issuing Body |
On title-page: Dia Art Foundation |
| Notes |
Discussions in contemporary culture no:6 1047-6806 |
| Subject |
Rosler, Martha.
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Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Art, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
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Artists -- New York (State) -- Social conditions.
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Cities and towns in art.
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Homelessness -- New York (State)
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Homelessness -- United States.
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Housing policy -- United States.
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Housing -- New York (State)
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Housing -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Installations (Art) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.
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Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Rosler, Martha.
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Wallis, Brian, 1953-
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Dia Art Foundation.
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| ISBN |
0941920186 |
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