Robert Rotenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 90621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Rotenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROTENBERG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Design Standards as Urban Planning: From Technical Specification to Community "Look" in Northeast Illinois Suburbs
Design standards, an urban and municipal branding device that originated as a practice in the United States some two decades ago, have become one of the most powerful place-making forces currently operating in U.S. suburbs. This article addresses how these standards work to shape development decisions by various stakeholders in localities in Cook County, Illinois. Drawing on observations from several 2010 public architectural review commission he…
Material Agency in the Urban Material Culture Initiative
This contribution to the discussion of collecting contemporary objects reviews the implications of taking seriously how and what objects communicate, especially how we can identify the ways messages are coded in the forms of familiar objects. Of special interest are the conceptual tools that are available to differentiate these messages when objects are arranged in assemblages, including emergent implicit messages, the messages implicit in sets o…
Building A Collection Of Contemporary Urban Material Culture
Public Anthropology: Tokyo Green Space [http://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com]
The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850–2000 – Edited by Peter Clark
The Power of Your Influence: Internet mediated transnational urbanism
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp
Metropolitanism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Metropoles
In this paper, I argue that the nineteenth-century movement of "metropolitanism" was a transnational attempt to rebuild and re-imagine cities in a bourgeois image and through a capitalist process of investment. This movement began with the attempt by wealthy residents of imperial metropoles to remake their cities in ways that created greater social distance between themselves and their colonies-both external and internal. I explore how a discours…
Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe
Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe. JOHN BORNEMAN. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997; xiii + 197 pp. John Borneman believes that the legitimacy of the new states in Eastern Europe depends upon as yet underdeveloped systems of accountability for past wrongdoing by the functionaries of the former socialist states. Because the actions of the former officials were legal under the previous gov…
Metropolitan Spaces: A Panel of Essays on the Production of Histories and Identities in East-Central Europe
Extraordinary Vienna: Identity and the Metropolitan Project
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life-how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love-all in the architecture of stone and space from ancient Athens to modern New York. Early in Flesh and Stone, Richard Sennett probes the ways in which the ancient Athenians experienced nakedness, and the relat…
Metropolitan Spaces: A Panel of Essays on the Production of Histories and Identities in East–Central Europe
METROPOLITAN SPACES is a set of essays each concerned with how, and under what circumstances, people living in the same city come to see themselves as sharing an identity. For contemporary city dwellers, forging a link between who they are and where they live is increasingly problematic because of the rapid changes in place and self in the metropolis. All of the papers focus on Vienna or Berlin, but as case studies, they offer insights into the p…
Extraordinary Vienna: Identity and the Metropolitan Project
THE KNOWLEDGE VIENNESE have of their public parks and private gardens re-enforces their sense of belonging to the city. While place attachment may account for identification with a neighborhood or district, the sense of connection to the larger metropolis is another matter. Identification becomes possible through a "metropolitan project"-a mission or goal set by city leaders. The project's emphasis changes over time, yet commitment to it often tr…
Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules
Pungent Sounds: Constructing Identity with Popular Music in Austria
This book applies a flexible and fluid concept of tradition, conceived as an aesthetic alliance, to the historical analysis and description of diffusion of Anglo-American forms of popular music into Austria. The book covers the period from the mid-1950's to 1990, including forms such as rock and roll, beat music, folk, punk and new wave. It also discusses changes to the volkstuemliche and Schlager genres. In addition, the book details the evoluti…
Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules
Society for Urban Anthropology
Short Takes: Keeping Track of Your interviews II
Social Impact Assessment and Monitoring: A Guide to the Literature
Pseudonymous Travel Accounts as Texts: A Case from Nineteenth Century Vienna
In the pseudonymous travel account discussed in this article, a native poses as a traveler to write a description of native life. This form is distinctive because it gains its descriptive from the authenticity attributed to travelers' accounts by the intended readership. The work in question is Wien wie es ist, written by Gross-Hoffinger, a Viennese geographer and publicist, but published under the name of Hans Normann, purportedly a German, in L…
May Day Parades in Prague and Vienna: A Comparison of Socialist Ritual
The first May Day demonstrations were held in Prague and Vienna in 1890. Although an American trade union, the Knights of Labor, had held scattered demonstrations on May 1st in U.S. cities since 1882, the parades in the Central European cities marked the first internationallysanctioned mass expressions of the emerging power of the trade union movement in European politics. Victor Adler, the Austrian chairman of the Second Socialist In
The impact of industrialization on meal patterns in Vienna, Austria
In Vienna, the number of socially recognized mealtimes has declined from five at the turn of the century to three today. This paper analyzes the forces which have resulted in this decline. Meal patterns are viewed as non‐arbitrary reflections of time allocations in industrializing societies in which work time organization is the single dominant feature. Work organization is linked to mealtimes through the daily schedules of household members. The…
On the Misuse of Time Allocations in Anthropological Research
Metropolitanism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Metropoles
In this paper, I argue that the nineteenth-century movement of "metropolitanism" was a transnational attempt to rebuild and re-imagine cities in a bourgeois image and through a capitalist process of investment. This movement began with the attempt by wealthy residents of imperial metropoles to remake their cities in ways that created greater social distance between themselves and their colonies-both external and internal. I explore how a discours…
May Day Parades in Prague and Vienna: A Comparison of Socialist Ritual
The first May Day demonstrations were held in Prague and Vienna in 1890. Although an American trade union, the Knights of Labor, had held scattered demonstrations on May 1st in U.S. cities since 1882, the parades in the Central European cities marked the first internationallysanctioned mass expressions of the emerging power of the trade union movement in European politics. Victor Adler, the Austrian chairman of the Second Socialist In
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp
Extraordinary Vienna: Identity and the Metropolitan Project
THE KNOWLEDGE VIENNESE have of their public parks and private gardens re-enforces their sense of belonging to the city. While place attachment may account for identification with a neighborhood or district, the sense of connection to the larger metropolis is another matter. Identification becomes possible through a "metropolitan project"-a mission or goal set by city leaders. The project's emphasis changes over time, yet commitment to it often tr…
Society for Urban Anthropology
Design Standards as Urban Planning: From Technical Specification to Community "Look" in Northeast Illinois Suburbs
Design standards, an urban and municipal branding device that originated as a practice in the United States some two decades ago, have become one of the most powerful place-making forces currently operating in U.S. suburbs. This article addresses how these standards work to shape development decisions by various stakeholders in localities in Cook County, Illinois. Drawing on observations from several 2010 public architectural review commission he…
Material Agency in the Urban Material Culture Initiative
This contribution to the discussion of collecting contemporary objects reviews the implications of taking seriously how and what objects communicate, especially how we can identify the ways messages are coded in the forms of familiar objects. Of special interest are the conceptual tools that are available to differentiate these messages when objects are arranged in assemblages, including emergent implicit messages, the messages implicit in sets o…
Metropolitan Spaces: A Panel of Essays on the Production of Histories and Identities in East–Central Europe
METROPOLITAN SPACES is a set of essays each concerned with how, and under what circumstances, people living in the same city come to see themselves as sharing an identity. For contemporary city dwellers, forging a link between who they are and where they live is increasingly problematic because of the rapid changes in place and self in the metropolis. All of the papers focus on Vienna or Berlin, but as case studies, they offer insights into the p…
Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules
The impact of industrialization on meal patterns in Vienna, Austria
In Vienna, the number of socially recognized mealtimes has declined from five at the turn of the century to three today. This paper analyzes the forces which have resulted in this decline. Meal patterns are viewed as non‐arbitrary reflections of time allocations in industrializing societies in which work time organization is the single dominant feature. Work organization is linked to mealtimes through the daily schedules of household members. The…
On the Misuse of Time Allocations in Anthropological Research
May Day Parades in Prague and Vienna: A Comparison of Socialist Ritual
The first May Day demonstrations were held in Prague and Vienna in 1890. Although an American trade union, the Knights of Labor, had held scattered demonstrations on May 1st in U.S. cities since 1882, the parades in the Central European cities marked the first internationallysanctioned mass expressions of the emerging power of the trade union movement in European politics. Victor Adler, the Austrian chairman of the Second Socialist In
Social Impact Assessment and Monitoring: A Guide to the Literature
Pseudonymous Travel Accounts as Texts: A Case from Nineteenth Century Vienna
In the pseudonymous travel account discussed in this article, a native poses as a traveler to write a description of native life. This form is distinctive because it gains its descriptive from the authenticity attributed to travelers' accounts by the intended readership. The work in question is Wien wie es ist, written by Gross-Hoffinger, a Viennese geographer and publicist, but published under the name of Hans Normann, purportedly a German, in L…
Short Takes: Keeping Track of Your interviews II
Society for Urban Anthropology
Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules
Pungent Sounds: Constructing Identity with Popular Music in Austria
This book applies a flexible and fluid concept of tradition, conceived as an aesthetic alliance, to the historical analysis and description of diffusion of Anglo-American forms of popular music into Austria. The book covers the period from the mid-1950's to 1990, including forms such as rock and roll, beat music, folk, punk and new wave. It also discusses changes to the volkstuemliche and Schlager genres. In addition, the book details the evoluti…
Time and Order in Metropolitan Vienna: A Seizure of Schedules
Metropolitan Spaces: A Panel of Essays on the Production of Histories and Identities in East-Central Europe
Extraordinary Vienna: Identity and the Metropolitan Project
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life-how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love-all in the architecture of stone and space from ancient Athens to modern New York. Early in Flesh and Stone, Richard Sennett probes the ways in which the ancient Athenians experienced nakedness, and the relat…
Metropolitan Spaces: A Panel of Essays on the Production of Histories and Identities in East–Central Europe
METROPOLITAN SPACES is a set of essays each concerned with how, and under what circumstances, people living in the same city come to see themselves as sharing an identity. For contemporary city dwellers, forging a link between who they are and where they live is increasingly problematic because of the rapid changes in place and self in the metropolis. All of the papers focus on Vienna or Berlin, but as case studies, they offer insights into the p…
Extraordinary Vienna: Identity and the Metropolitan Project
THE KNOWLEDGE VIENNESE have of their public parks and private gardens re-enforces their sense of belonging to the city. While place attachment may account for identification with a neighborhood or district, the sense of connection to the larger metropolis is another matter. Identification becomes possible through a "metropolitan project"-a mission or goal set by city leaders. The project's emphasis changes over time, yet commitment to it often tr…
Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe
Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe. JOHN BORNEMAN. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997; xiii + 197 pp. John Borneman believes that the legitimacy of the new states in Eastern Europe depends upon as yet underdeveloped systems of accountability for past wrongdoing by the functionaries of the former socialist states. Because the actions of the former officials were legal under the previous gov…
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture. Setha M. Low. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. 296 pp
Metropolitanism and the Transformation of Urban Space in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Metropoles
In this paper, I argue that the nineteenth-century movement of "metropolitanism" was a transnational attempt to rebuild and re-imagine cities in a bourgeois image and through a capitalist process of investment. This movement began with the attempt by wealthy residents of imperial metropoles to remake their cities in ways that created greater social distance between themselves and their colonies-both external and internal. I explore how a discours…
The Power of Your Influence: Internet mediated transnational urbanism
The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850–2000 – Edited by Peter Clark
Public Anthropology: Tokyo Green Space [http://tokyogreenspace.wordpress.com]
Material Agency in the Urban Material Culture Initiative
This contribution to the discussion of collecting contemporary objects reviews the implications of taking seriously how and what objects communicate, especially how we can identify the ways messages are coded in the forms of familiar objects. Of special interest are the conceptual tools that are available to differentiate these messages when objects are arranged in assemblages, including emergent implicit messages, the messages implicit in sets o…
Building A Collection Of Contemporary Urban Material Culture
Design Standards as Urban Planning: From Technical Specification to Community "Look" in Northeast Illinois Suburbs
Design standards, an urban and municipal branding device that originated as a practice in the United States some two decades ago, have become one of the most powerful place-making forces currently operating in U.S. suburbs. This article addresses how these standards work to shape development decisions by various stakeholders in localities in Cook County, Illinois. Drawing on observations from several 2010 public architectural review commission he…
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