Gordon C C Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 298106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon C C Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon C C |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS G C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0256-6070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Three Atlases of Our Time
What is the significance of an atlas these days? Does it have any utility for planners? If an atlas is simply a collection of maps, then urban professionals work with them all the time, whether spe
Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning
Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential , by Vikas Mehta Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potenti…
Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential, by Vikas Mehta." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
A sign in the window: Social norms and community resilience through handmade signage in the age of Covid-19
The proliferation of handmade signage, physical installations, and other neighborhood scale visual communication in the months following the outbreak of Covid-19 presented a unique opportunity to consider how new norms of social conduct and community solidarity are established and negotiated in public space. This study examines the cultural and spatial implications of this informal visual communication through street-level photographic analysis c…
Reclaiming Placemaking for an Alternative Politics of Legitimacy and Community in Homelessness
Kong at the Gates: Guerrilla urbanism and the possibility of resistance
Do It Yourself Urbanism
“Do it yourself” (DIY) urbanism describes a group of related spatial cultural practices, generally aimed at making informal physical alterations to the urban built environment. It has been used to refer both to interventions that are explicitly functional and those that may be more radical, political, or artistic. Though informal urbanisms occur all over the world, DIY urbanism is often used in the context of the contemporary cities of the Global…
Urban Art
Urban art is a broad term, which this entry approaches on several scales. First, it discusses the general historical relationship between the city and the arts and the role of cities and urban communities in the development of particular art movements and vice versa. Next, it describes important contemporary forms of art that are explicitly or inextricably urban, most notably graffiti and street art, but also hip‐hop culture, muralism, and public…
The Help-Yourself City
When cash-strapped local governments don’t provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs, what is a concerned citizen to do? In the help-yourself city, you do it yourself. The Help-Yourself City presents the results of nearly five years of in-depth research on people who take urban planning into their own hands with unauthorized yet functional and civic-minded “do-it-yourself urban design” p…
The Spatial Reproduction of Inequality: Legitimacy and Inequality in Diy Urbanism
Chapter 5 turns to a more immutable element of biography that also defines the typical do-it-yourselfer: most are white, middle-class men and thus operate from a position of considerable privilege in society, including in public space and in interactions with authority. People of color and people from low-income communities, on the other hand, are heavily disincentivized from participating in activities that skirt legal boundaries due to common s…
Do–It–Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of Informal “Improvement” Through Unauthorized Alteration
There are numerous ways in which people make illegal or unauthorized alterations to urban space. This study identifies and analyzes one that has been largely ignored in social science: explicitly functional and civic–minded informal contributions that I call “do–it–yourself urban design.” The research, which began as an investigation into more “traditional” nonpermissable alterations, uncovered these cases—from homemade bike lanes and street sign…
The Edge of the Island: Cultural Ideology and Neighbourhood Identity at the Gentrification Frontier
Building on recent ethnographic accounts that have drawn attention to the nuanced ideologies of contemporary gentrifiers, this article brings cultural considerations to bear on the geography of gentrification’s fringes. Through a case study of a neighbourhood at the gentrification frontier in Chicago, it examines the factors driving first-wave ‘pioneers’ into an area with little prior popular identity or interest. Conscious of the wider gentrific…
Cultural Expectations and Urban Development: The Role of 'Cultural Sensitivity' and 'Cultural Sincerity' in Local Growth Politics
This article examines the role of culture in the local urban development process through a case study of recent proposals in Davis, California. The author argues that community cultural expectations-of environmental leadership and the preservation of local character-had an important impact on project proposals and the political campaigns that followed, including the ability of an unlikely corporate developer to win public approval from this town …
Do–It–Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of Informal “Improvement” Through Unauthorized Alteration
There are numerous ways in which people make illegal or unauthorized alterations to urban space. This study identifies and analyzes one that has been largely ignored in social science: explicitly functional and civic–minded informal contributions that I call “do–it–yourself urban design.” The research, which began as an investigation into more “traditional” nonpermissable alterations, uncovered these cases—from homemade bike lanes and street sign…
The Edge of the Island: Cultural Ideology and Neighbourhood Identity at the Gentrification Frontier
Building on recent ethnographic accounts that have drawn attention to the nuanced ideologies of contemporary gentrifiers, this article brings cultural considerations to bear on the geography of gentrification’s fringes. Through a case study of a neighbourhood at the gentrification frontier in Chicago, it examines the factors driving first-wave ‘pioneers’ into an area with little prior popular identity or interest. Conscious of the wider gentrific…
Reclaiming Placemaking for an Alternative Politics of Legitimacy and Community in Homelessness
Cultural Expectations and Urban Development: The Role of 'Cultural Sensitivity' and 'Cultural Sincerity' in Local Growth Politics
This article examines the role of culture in the local urban development process through a case study of recent proposals in Davis, California. The author argues that community cultural expectations-of environmental leadership and the preservation of local character-had an important impact on project proposals and the political campaigns that followed, including the ability of an unlikely corporate developer to win public approval from this town …
The Edge of the Island: Cultural Ideology and Neighbourhood Identity at the Gentrification Frontier
Building on recent ethnographic accounts that have drawn attention to the nuanced ideologies of contemporary gentrifiers, this article brings cultural considerations to bear on the geography of gentrification’s fringes. Through a case study of a neighbourhood at the gentrification frontier in Chicago, it examines the factors driving first-wave ‘pioneers’ into an area with little prior popular identity or interest. Conscious of the wider gentrific…
Cultural Expectations and Urban Development: The Role of 'Cultural Sensitivity' and 'Cultural Sincerity' in Local Growth Politics
This article examines the role of culture in the local urban development process through a case study of recent proposals in Davis, California. The author argues that community cultural expectations-of environmental leadership and the preservation of local character-had an important impact on project proposals and the political campaigns that followed, including the ability of an unlikely corporate developer to win public approval from this town …
Do–It–Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of Informal “Improvement” Through Unauthorized Alteration
There are numerous ways in which people make illegal or unauthorized alterations to urban space. This study identifies and analyzes one that has been largely ignored in social science: explicitly functional and civic–minded informal contributions that I call “do–it–yourself urban design.” The research, which began as an investigation into more “traditional” nonpermissable alterations, uncovered these cases—from homemade bike lanes and street sign…
The Help-Yourself City
When cash-strapped local governments don’t provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs, what is a concerned citizen to do? In the help-yourself city, you do it yourself. The Help-Yourself City presents the results of nearly five years of in-depth research on people who take urban planning into their own hands with unauthorized yet functional and civic-minded “do-it-yourself urban design” p…
The Spatial Reproduction of Inequality: Legitimacy and Inequality in Diy Urbanism
Chapter 5 turns to a more immutable element of biography that also defines the typical do-it-yourselfer: most are white, middle-class men and thus operate from a position of considerable privilege in society, including in public space and in interactions with authority. People of color and people from low-income communities, on the other hand, are heavily disincentivized from participating in activities that skirt legal boundaries due to common s…
Do It Yourself Urbanism
“Do it yourself” (DIY) urbanism describes a group of related spatial cultural practices, generally aimed at making informal physical alterations to the urban built environment. It has been used to refer both to interventions that are explicitly functional and those that may be more radical, political, or artistic. Though informal urbanisms occur all over the world, DIY urbanism is often used in the context of the contemporary cities of the Global…
Urban Art
Urban art is a broad term, which this entry approaches on several scales. First, it discusses the general historical relationship between the city and the arts and the role of cities and urban communities in the development of particular art movements and vice versa. Next, it describes important contemporary forms of art that are explicitly or inextricably urban, most notably graffiti and street art, but also hip‐hop culture, muralism, and public…
Kong at the Gates: Guerrilla urbanism and the possibility of resistance
A sign in the window: Social norms and community resilience through handmade signage in the age of Covid-19
The proliferation of handmade signage, physical installations, and other neighborhood scale visual communication in the months following the outbreak of Covid-19 presented a unique opportunity to consider how new norms of social conduct and community solidarity are established and negotiated in public space. This study examines the cultural and spatial implications of this informal visual communication through street-level photographic analysis c…
Reclaiming Placemaking for an Alternative Politics of Legitimacy and Community in Homelessness
Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning
Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential , by Vikas Mehta Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potenti…
Public space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential, by Vikas Mehta." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Three Atlases of Our Time
What is the significance of an atlas these days? Does it have any utility for planners? If an atlas is simply a collection of maps, then urban professionals work with them all the time, whether spe
Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area
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