Brian J Godfrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1685674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian J Godfrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian J |
| FAMILY NAME | Godfrey |
| SIGNATURE | GODFREY B J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City
Since 1965, New York City's Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) has listed over 37,900 buildings and sites, overwhelmingly located in 156 historic districts. While official landmark criteria have not changed, designation reports reveal shifting narratives of place and race. I examine historic placemaking in Black-identified districts, focusing on how designation rationales have evolved. Evidence comes from four predominantly Black historic dis…
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary
Contemporary perspectives on jane jacobs: Reassessing The Impacts of an Urban Visionary. Edited by Dirk Schubert. xix and 254; ills., bibliogs, index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. $10
Envisioning Amazonian frontiers: Place-making in a Brazilian boomtown
Located at a strategic crossroads of eastern Amazonia, Marabá has long been known as a volatile, even violent Brazilian boomtown. This study examines the city's sense of place with regard to alternative perceptions of the regional frontier experience: the unstable, resource-extractive "hollow frontier"; the linear, sequential "development frontier"; and the hybrid, socially segmented "post-frontier." By asking whether, why, and how such understan…
Regulating Public Space on the Beachfronts of Rio de Janeiro
Despite the fortification of buildings, streets, and public squares, Rio de Janeiro's beaches remain widely regarded as democratic spaces of social diversity and accessibility. Our study revisits the question of Rio's “democratic” beachfronts, based on local interviews, field observations, official reports, and newspaper accounts. We focus on historical and contemporary perceptions of planning, privatization, and public-order programs on the city…
Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBrian J. Godfrey Reviewed by
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Ranking World Cities: Multinational Corporations and the Global Urban Hierarchy
World-city literature often relies on a priori assumptions rather than quantifiable measures to discern the global urban hierarchy. In search of comparable international indicators, many studies use the corporate headquarters of multinational corporations (MNCs) as primary locational data. Recognizing that MNCs play a dominant role in the global economy, we argue that reliance on headquarters locations alone distorts the contours of the urban hie…
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities
Revisiting Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
Contrasting models of urban development characterize the historical‐geographical evolution of Brazil's two leading cities, viewed in an updating of the seminal 1933 article by Preston James. Native to Rio de Janeiro is a distinctive Luso‐Brazilian style of irregular coastal urbanization, whereas SÃo Paulo displays a more uniform, modern type of inland commercial‐industrial expansion. Even as Rio de Janeiro and SÃo Paulo sprawl today to form a vir…
Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon
Urban Development and Redevelopment in san Francisco
San Francisco has arisen as an "instant city" not once but three times: after the California Gold Rush (1849–1875), following the 1906 earthquake and fire (1906–1930), and with the modern high‐rise city (1960–1985). These pivotal periods of intense city building, each about twenty‐five years in duration, have been separated by a generation of relative stability. Current redevelopment activity raises an intriguing historical‐geographical question:…
Disarticulated Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon
Amazonia, like many other great world regions, is often envisioned as one homogeneous entity. A vast and intricate mosaic of distinctive local environments, reduced to a simplistic regional archetype, becomes E1 Dorado, Second Eden, Green Hell, Earth's Lung, or the Last Frontier (Hecht and Cockburn 1989; Godfrey 1993). Such stereotypes perpetuate deeply entrenched, monumentalist myths of Amazonian exceptionalism, and they also mislead with obsole…
Restructuring and Decentralization in a World City
World cities face the twin challenges of metropolitan socioeconomic restructuring and spatial decentralization. New York's global financial and man- agerial roles, coupled with deindustrialization and corporate relocation, have polarized social areas. Census data from 1970 and 1990 for the New York metro- politan area indicate demographic and employment shifts, social and ethnic divisions, concentration of wealth and poverty, and exurban growth p…
Regional Depiction in Contemporary Film
GEOGRAPHERS, long interested in documenting history of cultural landscapes, increasingly explore subjective and ideological origins of environmental images. Recent studies in cultural geography, influenced by critical literary theory, thrust issues such as class, race, values, language, gender, and sexuality into forefront of geographical debate (Tuan 1974; Jackson 1989). Although geographers have studied literary and other texts in landscape rep…
Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence
Migration to the Gold-Mining Frontier in Brazilian Amazonia
In recent years small-scale gold mining has become the leading economic sector in large areas of Amazonia. Associated interregional migrations and urbanization challenge common assumptions about the agrarian frontier. Surveys conducted in southern Para [Brazil] indicate that migrants maintain significant urban linkages and view gold mining as a viable alternative to agricultural work. Public policy is better directed at ameliorating severe enviro…
Modernizing the Brazilian City
Cities of Brazil manifest distinctive patterns of urban primacy and spatial structure. Historical-geographical analysis of Brazilian urbanization reveals consistent social and morphological characteristics. Portuguese founded early colonial towns primarily as coastal ports; later, mining led to development of inland centers. Though less regular in form than Spanish settlements, Brazilian colonial centers followed coherent spatial principles. mode…
Migrants to Amazonia: Spontaneous Colonization in the Brazilian Frontier
Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography
Boom Towns of the Amazon
Neighborhoods in Transition: The Making of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities
Ethnic and nonconformist communities, despite their frequent proximity, seldom are analyzed as interlocking elements of the metropolitan core. In this comparative study of San Francisco neighborhoods, Brian Godfrey contrasts the formation of ethnic enclaves by European, Asian, Black, and Hispanic groups with the emergence of Bohemian, counter-cultural, and gay communities. He focuses especially closely on Latin American immigration into the Missi…
Ranking World Cities: Multinational Corporations and the Global Urban Hierarchy
World-city literature often relies on a priori assumptions rather than quantifiable measures to discern the global urban hierarchy. In search of comparable international indicators, many studies use the corporate headquarters of multinational corporations (MNCs) as primary locational data. Recognizing that MNCs play a dominant role in the global economy, we argue that reliance on headquarters locations alone distorts the contours of the urban hie…
Migration to the Gold-Mining Frontier in Brazilian Amazonia
In recent years small-scale gold mining has become the leading economic sector in large areas of Amazonia. Associated interregional migrations and urbanization challenge common assumptions about the agrarian frontier. Surveys conducted in southern Para [Brazil] indicate that migrants maintain significant urban linkages and view gold mining as a viable alternative to agricultural work. Public policy is better directed at ameliorating severe enviro…
Boom Towns of the Amazon
Disarticulated Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon
Amazonia, like many other great world regions, is often envisioned as one homogeneous entity. A vast and intricate mosaic of distinctive local environments, reduced to a simplistic regional archetype, becomes E1 Dorado, Second Eden, Green Hell, Earth's Lung, or the Last Frontier (Hecht and Cockburn 1989; Godfrey 1993). Such stereotypes perpetuate deeply entrenched, monumentalist myths of Amazonian exceptionalism, and they also mislead with obsole…
Restructuring and Decentralization in a World City
World cities face the twin challenges of metropolitan socioeconomic restructuring and spatial decentralization. New York's global financial and man- agerial roles, coupled with deindustrialization and corporate relocation, have polarized social areas. Census data from 1970 and 1990 for the New York metro- politan area indicate demographic and employment shifts, social and ethnic divisions, concentration of wealth and poverty, and exurban growth p…
Regional Depiction in Contemporary Film
GEOGRAPHERS, long interested in documenting history of cultural landscapes, increasingly explore subjective and ideological origins of environmental images. Recent studies in cultural geography, influenced by critical literary theory, thrust issues such as class, race, values, language, gender, and sexuality into forefront of geographical debate (Tuan 1974; Jackson 1989). Although geographers have studied literary and other texts in landscape rep…
Revisiting Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
Contrasting models of urban development characterize the historical‐geographical evolution of Brazil's two leading cities, viewed in an updating of the seminal 1933 article by Preston James. Native to Rio de Janeiro is a distinctive Luso‐Brazilian style of irregular coastal urbanization, whereas SÃo Paulo displays a more uniform, modern type of inland commercial‐industrial expansion. Even as Rio de Janeiro and SÃo Paulo sprawl today to form a vir…
Modernizing the Brazilian City
Cities of Brazil manifest distinctive patterns of urban primacy and spatial structure. Historical-geographical analysis of Brazilian urbanization reveals consistent social and morphological characteristics. Portuguese founded early colonial towns primarily as coastal ports; later, mining led to development of inland centers. Though less regular in form than Spanish settlements, Brazilian colonial centers followed coherent spatial principles. mode…
Regulating Public Space on the Beachfronts of Rio de Janeiro
Despite the fortification of buildings, streets, and public squares, Rio de Janeiro's beaches remain widely regarded as democratic spaces of social diversity and accessibility. Our study revisits the question of Rio's “democratic” beachfronts, based on local interviews, field observations, official reports, and newspaper accounts. We focus on historical and contemporary perceptions of planning, privatization, and public-order programs on the city…
Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence
Envisioning Amazonian frontiers: Place-making in a Brazilian boomtown
Located at a strategic crossroads of eastern Amazonia, Marabá has long been known as a volatile, even violent Brazilian boomtown. This study examines the city's sense of place with regard to alternative perceptions of the regional frontier experience: the unstable, resource-extractive "hollow frontier"; the linear, sequential "development frontier"; and the hybrid, socially segmented "post-frontier." By asking whether, why, and how such understan…
Urban Development and Redevelopment in san Francisco
San Francisco has arisen as an "instant city" not once but three times: after the California Gold Rush (1849–1875), following the 1906 earthquake and fire (1906–1930), and with the modern high‐rise city (1960–1985). These pivotal periods of intense city building, each about twenty‐five years in duration, have been separated by a generation of relative stability. Current redevelopment activity raises an intriguing historical‐geographical question:…
The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City
Since 1965, New York City's Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) has listed over 37,900 buildings and sites, overwhelmingly located in 156 historic districts. While official landmark criteria have not changed, designation reports reveal shifting narratives of place and race. I examine historic placemaking in Black-identified districts, focusing on how designation rationales have evolved. Evidence comes from four predominantly Black historic dis…
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary
Contemporary perspectives on jane jacobs: Reassessing The Impacts of an Urban Visionary. Edited by Dirk Schubert. xix and 254; ills., bibliogs, index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. $10
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Migrants to Amazonia: Spontaneous Colonization in the Brazilian Frontier
Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography
Neighborhoods in Transition: The Making of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities
Ethnic and nonconformist communities, despite their frequent proximity, seldom are analyzed as interlocking elements of the metropolitan core. In this comparative study of San Francisco neighborhoods, Brian Godfrey contrasts the formation of ethnic enclaves by European, Asian, Black, and Hispanic groups with the emergence of Bohemian, counter-cultural, and gay communities. He focuses especially closely on Latin American immigration into the Missi…
Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography
Boom Towns of the Amazon
Modernizing the Brazilian City
Cities of Brazil manifest distinctive patterns of urban primacy and spatial structure. Historical-geographical analysis of Brazilian urbanization reveals consistent social and morphological characteristics. Portuguese founded early colonial towns primarily as coastal ports; later, mining led to development of inland centers. Though less regular in form than Spanish settlements, Brazilian colonial centers followed coherent spatial principles. mode…
Migrants to Amazonia: Spontaneous Colonization in the Brazilian Frontier
Amazon Conservation in the Age of Development: The Limits of Providence
Migration to the Gold-Mining Frontier in Brazilian Amazonia
In recent years small-scale gold mining has become the leading economic sector in large areas of Amazonia. Associated interregional migrations and urbanization challenge common assumptions about the agrarian frontier. Surveys conducted in southern Para [Brazil] indicate that migrants maintain significant urban linkages and view gold mining as a viable alternative to agricultural work. Public policy is better directed at ameliorating severe enviro…
Regional Depiction in Contemporary Film
GEOGRAPHERS, long interested in documenting history of cultural landscapes, increasingly explore subjective and ideological origins of environmental images. Recent studies in cultural geography, influenced by critical literary theory, thrust issues such as class, race, values, language, gender, and sexuality into forefront of geographical debate (Tuan 1974; Jackson 1989). Although geographers have studied literary and other texts in landscape rep…
Restructuring and Decentralization in a World City
World cities face the twin challenges of metropolitan socioeconomic restructuring and spatial decentralization. New York's global financial and man- agerial roles, coupled with deindustrialization and corporate relocation, have polarized social areas. Census data from 1970 and 1990 for the New York metro- politan area indicate demographic and employment shifts, social and ethnic divisions, concentration of wealth and poverty, and exurban growth p…
Disarticulated Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon
Amazonia, like many other great world regions, is often envisioned as one homogeneous entity. A vast and intricate mosaic of distinctive local environments, reduced to a simplistic regional archetype, becomes E1 Dorado, Second Eden, Green Hell, Earth's Lung, or the Last Frontier (Hecht and Cockburn 1989; Godfrey 1993). Such stereotypes perpetuate deeply entrenched, monumentalist myths of Amazonian exceptionalism, and they also mislead with obsole…
Urban Development and Redevelopment in san Francisco
San Francisco has arisen as an "instant city" not once but three times: after the California Gold Rush (1849–1875), following the 1906 earthquake and fire (1906–1930), and with the modern high‐rise city (1960–1985). These pivotal periods of intense city building, each about twenty‐five years in duration, have been separated by a generation of relative stability. Current redevelopment activity raises an intriguing historical‐geographical question:…
Rainforest Cities: Urbanization, Development, and Globalization of the Brazilian Amazon
Ranking World Cities: Multinational Corporations and the Global Urban Hierarchy
World-city literature often relies on a priori assumptions rather than quantifiable measures to discern the global urban hierarchy. In search of comparable international indicators, many studies use the corporate headquarters of multinational corporations (MNCs) as primary locational data. Recognizing that MNCs play a dominant role in the global economy, we argue that reliance on headquarters locations alone distorts the contours of the urban hie…
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities
Revisiting Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
Contrasting models of urban development characterize the historical‐geographical evolution of Brazil's two leading cities, viewed in an updating of the seminal 1933 article by Preston James. Native to Rio de Janeiro is a distinctive Luso‐Brazilian style of irregular coastal urbanization, whereas SÃo Paulo displays a more uniform, modern type of inland commercial‐industrial expansion. Even as Rio de Janeiro and SÃo Paulo sprawl today to form a vir…
Tragedy and Transformation in New York City
Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Histórico
Additional informationNotes on contributorsBrian J. Godfrey Reviewed by
Envisioning Amazonian frontiers: Place-making in a Brazilian boomtown
Located at a strategic crossroads of eastern Amazonia, Marabá has long been known as a volatile, even violent Brazilian boomtown. This study examines the city's sense of place with regard to alternative perceptions of the regional frontier experience: the unstable, resource-extractive "hollow frontier"; the linear, sequential "development frontier"; and the hybrid, socially segmented "post-frontier." By asking whether, why, and how such understan…
Regulating Public Space on the Beachfronts of Rio de Janeiro
Despite the fortification of buildings, streets, and public squares, Rio de Janeiro's beaches remain widely regarded as democratic spaces of social diversity and accessibility. Our study revisits the question of Rio's “democratic” beachfronts, based on local interviews, field observations, official reports, and newspaper accounts. We focus on historical and contemporary perceptions of planning, privatization, and public-order programs on the city…
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary
Contemporary perspectives on jane jacobs: Reassessing The Impacts of an Urban Visionary. Edited by Dirk Schubert. xix and 254; ills., bibliogs, index. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2014. $10
The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City
Since 1965, New York City's Landmark Preservation Commission (LPC) has listed over 37,900 buildings and sites, overwhelmingly located in 156 historic districts. While official landmark criteria have not changed, designation reports reveal shifting narratives of place and race. I examine historic placemaking in Black-identified districts, focusing on how designation rationales have evolved. Evidence comes from four predominantly Black historic dis…
Geography (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · Amazon rainforest (7 works) · Biology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Economic geography (5 works)