Gregory Smithsimon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4177680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Smithsimon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Smithsimon |
| SIGNATURE | SMITHSIMON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bourdieu in the city
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory By Loïc Wacquant, Hoboken, NJ: Polity. 2023. 288 pages. $20 (paper or ebook). ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-5645-8 Loïc Wacquant is the sharpest dissector and critic of urban theory in sociology. In Bourdieu in the City, he sets himself an unexpectedly steep challenge: show that Pierre Bourdieu is an urban theorist. It takes a reader as perceptive as Wacquant to see his task for the challenge it is. Is not Bou…
Liberty Road
Half of Black Americans who live in the hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Randallstown, Maryland, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, again…
In the suburbs we mean business
Ethnographic research on a middle-class African-American suburb in Maryland demonstrates how the space of the suburbs and the priorities of the middle class have reshaped both the manifestation of racial conflicts and residents' responses to them. This project examines three local issues: residents' efforts to maintain home values in the context of racial transition, local economic development, and the expansion of bus routes. Each case involves …
The Beach Beneath the Streets
The Beach Beneath the Streets
Inside the Empire
For Friedmann and Wolff, the citadel’s physical form—physically defended enclaves in the global city—shapes relations between citadels and outsiders. Subsequent work claims that the designs of citadels produce simulated community life, exclude the city and sanitise public spaces. However, such claims have been based on relatively brief observations. This ethnography assesses the impact of design by examining the quintessential citadel of Battery …
Dispersing the Crowd
Research has found that most bonus plazas in front of Manhattan office buildings are barren, uninviting spaces. But there has been little study of why that is so. Existing explanations suggest unusable plazas are unintended consequences of other processes—architects' slavishly reproducing modernist architectural styles, or developers' minimizing costs by neglecting public spaces. Such explanations are found to be unsupported by the facts. This st…
Dispersing the Crowd
Research has found that most bonus plazas in front of Manhattan office buildings are barren, uninviting spaces. But there has been little study of why that is so. Existing explanations suggest unusable plazas are unintended consequences of other processes—architects' slavishly reproducing modernist architectural styles, or developers' minimizing costs by neglecting public spaces. Such explanations are found to be unsupported by the facts. This st…
Inside the Empire
For Friedmann and Wolff, the citadel’s physical form—physically defended enclaves in the global city—shapes relations between citadels and outsiders. Subsequent work claims that the designs of citadels produce simulated community life, exclude the city and sanitise public spaces. However, such claims have been based on relatively brief observations. This ethnography assesses the impact of design by examining the quintessential citadel of Battery …
Bourdieu in the city
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory By Loïc Wacquant, Hoboken, NJ: Polity. 2023. 288 pages. $20 (paper or ebook). ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-5645-8 Loïc Wacquant is the sharpest dissector and critic of urban theory in sociology. In Bourdieu in the City, he sets himself an unexpectedly steep challenge: show that Pierre Bourdieu is an urban theorist. It takes a reader as perceptive as Wacquant to see his task for the challenge it is. Is not Bou…
Dispersing the Crowd
Research has found that most bonus plazas in front of Manhattan office buildings are barren, uninviting spaces. But there has been little study of why that is so. Existing explanations suggest unusable plazas are unintended consequences of other processes—architects' slavishly reproducing modernist architectural styles, or developers' minimizing costs by neglecting public spaces. Such explanations are found to be unsupported by the facts. This st…
Inside the Empire
For Friedmann and Wolff, the citadel’s physical form—physically defended enclaves in the global city—shapes relations between citadels and outsiders. Subsequent work claims that the designs of citadels produce simulated community life, exclude the city and sanitise public spaces. However, such claims have been based on relatively brief observations. This ethnography assesses the impact of design by examining the quintessential citadel of Battery …
The Beach Beneath the Streets
The Beach Beneath the Streets
In the suburbs we mean business
Ethnographic research on a middle-class African-American suburb in Maryland demonstrates how the space of the suburbs and the priorities of the middle class have reshaped both the manifestation of racial conflicts and residents' responses to them. This project examines three local issues: residents' efforts to maintain home values in the context of racial transition, local economic development, and the expansion of bus routes. Each case involves …
Liberty Road
Half of Black Americans who live in the hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Randallstown, Maryland, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, again…
Bourdieu in the city
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory By Loïc Wacquant, Hoboken, NJ: Polity. 2023. 288 pages. $20 (paper or ebook). ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-5645-8 Loïc Wacquant is the sharpest dissector and critic of urban theory in sociology. In Bourdieu in the City, he sets himself an unexpectedly steep challenge: show that Pierre Bourdieu is an urban theorist. It takes a reader as perceptive as Wacquant to see his task for the challenge it is. Is not Bou…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · American Sports and Literature (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works)