Francesca Russello Ammon
Biographic Data
| ID | 982774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Russello Ammon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca Russello |
| FAMILY NAME | Ammon |
| SIGNATURE | AMMON F R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6702-5566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020
In this compact text, Dennis E. Gale aims to correct the “misunderstood history of gentrification” by giving this contested process a longer and more differentiated timeline. This is an approach that scholars have previously taken to historicizing topics such as the suburbs and public housing, showing how concepts have evolved in form and application over time, even as our language has not. This book performs a similar function for an equally ove…
Picturing Preservation and Renewal: Photographs as Planning Knowledge in Society Hill, Philadelphia
This history of postwar Society Hill, Philadelphia illuminates the role of photographs as planning knowledge and the relationship between historic preservation and urban renewal practice. Photographs both reflect and shape shifting values, preferences, and power dynamics among stakeholders in the built environment. Four photographic categories make this clear: “before images” selectively sample pre-renewal wrongs; “counter-images” picture plannin…
Postindustrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park, New Jersey, flourished as a seaside destination from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. Middle- and working-class visitors from New York to Philadelphia frequented the city’s hotels, commercial amusements, and beach. During the 1960s and 1970s, as with many cities across the country, Asbury Park experienced physical and socioeconomic decline. Over the past three decades, a range of public and private actors have m…
Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children's Books
Alongside the large-scale clearance of buildings and land in the post-World War II United States emerged a body of children's "bulldozers books" that reflected and endorsed this work. While scholars and adult non-fiction authors have typically treated the bulldozer as symbol of protest, rather than subject of inquiry, postwar children's book writers and illustrators placed the machine front and center. Through their books, they helped a younger g…
Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 (review)
Reviewed by: Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 Francesca Russello Ammon (bio) Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919. By Nick Yablon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xi+380. $35. Untimely Ruins convincingly dismantles three myths: that ruins were marginal to nineteenth-century America, that their appearance and significance have remained constant over time, and tha…
Picturing Preservation and Renewal: Photographs as Planning Knowledge in Society Hill, Philadelphia
This history of postwar Society Hill, Philadelphia illuminates the role of photographs as planning knowledge and the relationship between historic preservation and urban renewal practice. Photographs both reflect and shape shifting values, preferences, and power dynamics among stakeholders in the built environment. Four photographic categories make this clear: “before images” selectively sample pre-renewal wrongs; “counter-images” picture plannin…
Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 (review)
Reviewed by: Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 Francesca Russello Ammon (bio) Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919. By Nick Yablon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. xi+380. $35. Untimely Ruins convincingly dismantles three myths: that ruins were marginal to nineteenth-century America, that their appearance and significance have remained constant over time, and tha…
Unearthing Benny the Bulldozer: The Culture of Clearance in Postwar Children's Books
Alongside the large-scale clearance of buildings and land in the post-World War II United States emerged a body of children's "bulldozers books" that reflected and endorsed this work. While scholars and adult non-fiction authors have typically treated the bulldozer as symbol of protest, rather than subject of inquiry, postwar children's book writers and illustrators placed the machine front and center. Through their books, they helped a younger g…
Postindustrialization and the City of Consumption: Attempted Revitalization in Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park, New Jersey, flourished as a seaside destination from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. Middle- and working-class visitors from New York to Philadelphia frequented the city’s hotels, commercial amusements, and beach. During the 1960s and 1970s, as with many cities across the country, Asbury Park experienced physical and socioeconomic decline. Over the past three decades, a range of public and private actors have m…
Picturing Preservation and Renewal: Photographs as Planning Knowledge in Society Hill, Philadelphia
This history of postwar Society Hill, Philadelphia illuminates the role of photographs as planning knowledge and the relationship between historic preservation and urban renewal practice. Photographs both reflect and shape shifting values, preferences, and power dynamics among stakeholders in the built environment. Four photographic categories make this clear: “before images” selectively sample pre-renewal wrongs; “counter-images” picture plannin…
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020
In this compact text, Dennis E. Gale aims to correct the “misunderstood history of gentrification” by giving this contested process a longer and more differentiated timeline. This is an approach that scholars have previously taken to historicizing topics such as the suburbs and public housing, showing how concepts have evolved in form and application over time, even as our language has not. This book performs a similar function for an equally ove…
History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gentrification (2 works)