Miriam Greenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Greenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenberg |
| SIGNATURE | GREENBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2290-6068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The relationship between social vulnerability and wildfire structure loss across California
As extreme wildfires increase in frequency and scale, understanding where and how social vulnerability intersects with fire exposure and impacts is essential for promoting equitable resilience. Compared to other disasters, the social dimensions of wildfire remain less well understood; indeed, risk is often assumed to be associated with affluence rather than disadvantage. We analyzed six domain-specific social vulnerability indices across five Cal…
Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
‘First publics’ as knowledge producers
While public sociology has enjoyed a resurgence and rigorous debate since Michael Burawoy’s celebrated 2004 American Sociological Association presidential address, one area that has curiously lacked attention has been what most agree is academic sociology’s ‘first public’ – undergraduate students. Recent writings on public sociology recognize students as one of multiple publics; however, it is a public often defined as distinct and separate, ackn…
The Progressive Disjuncture on Land Use and Housing
Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research
Drawing on a multiyear local research project on the affordable housing crisis, this article outlines a pedagogical approach we call Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research, or CISER. The CISER model brings together three key groups of actors—undergraduate students, university researchers, and community organizations—drawing on and extending the powers of cooperative “dyads” between them. This model aims to improve pedagogical and sociologic…
The right to the resilient city
The City Is the Factory
Crisis Cities
This volume blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the form, trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment that is in…
The Disaster inside the Disaster
Films on Gentrification
Documentary Film Review Essay
Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City
Journal Article Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City Get access Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. By Jonathan Soffer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiv, 494 pp. $34.95, ISBN978-0-231-15032-3.) Miriam Greenberg Miriam Greenberg University of California Santa Cruz, California [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 2, Septe…
The limits of branding
This article investigates the branding of New York's World Trade Center, and the city itself, as both financial center and entertainment destination between the 1960s and 1990s. After addressing the symbolic as well as material damage caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the article traces the history behind the towers' design and ultimate use in marketing. It first examines the early motivations behind the project, and the forces l…
Branding Cities
The author traces the emergence over the past 30 years of a new media genre in U.S. cities: the urban lifestyle magazine. With the shift in the primary role of U.S. cities from production sites to consumption spaces after World War II, these magazines facilitated the branding of consumeroriented urban imaginaries. Using New York Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, and Los Angeles Magazine as examples, the author shows how these “branded cities” changed o…
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
Branding Cities
The author traces the emergence over the past 30 years of a new media genre in U.S. cities: the urban lifestyle magazine. With the shift in the primary role of U.S. cities from production sites to consumption spaces after World War II, these magazines facilitated the branding of consumeroriented urban imaginaries. Using New York Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, and Los Angeles Magazine as examples, the author shows how these “branded cities” changed o…
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research
Drawing on a multiyear local research project on the affordable housing crisis, this article outlines a pedagogical approach we call Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research, or CISER. The CISER model brings together three key groups of actors—undergraduate students, university researchers, and community organizations—drawing on and extending the powers of cooperative “dyads” between them. This model aims to improve pedagogical and sociologic…
The right to the resilient city
Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
The limits of branding
This article investigates the branding of New York's World Trade Center, and the city itself, as both financial center and entertainment destination between the 1960s and 1990s. After addressing the symbolic as well as material damage caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the article traces the history behind the towers' design and ultimate use in marketing. It first examines the early motivations behind the project, and the forces l…
Films on Gentrification
Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City
Journal Article Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City Get access Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. By Jonathan Soffer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiv, 494 pp. $34.95, ISBN978-0-231-15032-3.) Miriam Greenberg Miriam Greenberg University of California Santa Cruz, California [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 2, Septe…
From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary
A discursive analysis of cultural images, social practices, and space adds a new level of social critique to the usual explanations of urban growth and decline. Instead of focusing on either "objective" or "subjective" factors, a discursive analysis assumes a coherence between social and spatial arrangements that is derived in and through cultural meanings attached to specific places and has a material effect on their growth and decline. Both the…
Branding Cities
The author traces the emergence over the past 30 years of a new media genre in U.S. cities: the urban lifestyle magazine. With the shift in the primary role of U.S. cities from production sites to consumption spaces after World War II, these magazines facilitated the branding of consumeroriented urban imaginaries. Using New York Magazine, Atlanta Magazine, and Los Angeles Magazine as examples, the author shows how these “branded cities” changed o…
The limits of branding
This article investigates the branding of New York's World Trade Center, and the city itself, as both financial center and entertainment destination between the 1960s and 1990s. After addressing the symbolic as well as material damage caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the article traces the history behind the towers' design and ultimate use in marketing. It first examines the early motivations behind the project, and the forces l…
Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City
Journal Article Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City Get access Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City. By Jonathan Soffer. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiv, 494 pp. $34.95, ISBN978-0-231-15032-3.) Miriam Greenberg Miriam Greenberg University of California Santa Cruz, California [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 2, Septe…
Documentary Film Review Essay
Crisis Cities
This volume blends critical theoretical insight with a historically grounded comparative study to examine the form, trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities, representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment that is in…
The Disaster inside the Disaster
Films on Gentrification
The City Is the Factory
The right to the resilient city
Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research
Drawing on a multiyear local research project on the affordable housing crisis, this article outlines a pedagogical approach we call Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research, or CISER. The CISER model brings together three key groups of actors—undergraduate students, university researchers, and community organizations—drawing on and extending the powers of cooperative “dyads” between them. This model aims to improve pedagogical and sociologic…
‘First publics’ as knowledge producers
While public sociology has enjoyed a resurgence and rigorous debate since Michael Burawoy’s celebrated 2004 American Sociological Association presidential address, one area that has curiously lacked attention has been what most agree is academic sociology’s ‘first public’ – undergraduate students. Recent writings on public sociology recognize students as one of multiple publics; however, it is a public often defined as distinct and separate, ackn…
The Progressive Disjuncture on Land Use and Housing
Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
The relationship between social vulnerability and wildfire structure loss across California
As extreme wildfires increase in frequency and scale, understanding where and how social vulnerability intersects with fire exposure and impacts is essential for promoting equitable resilience. Compared to other disasters, the social dimensions of wildfire remain less well understood; indeed, risk is often assumed to be associated with affluence rather than disadvantage. We analyzed six domain-specific social vulnerability indices across five Cal…
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