Relating a City's History and Geography with Bourdieu

One Hundred Years of Spatial Distinction inTelAviv

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ID4749154
AutoresNathan Marom (0000-0001-6158-1046, Institute of Urban and Regional Development University of California, Berkeley 316 Wurster Hall #1870 Berkeley CA 94720 USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume38
Fascículo4
Páginas1344-1362
Data de publicação2014-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12027
OpenAlexW1716531069
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas46
Referências citadas27

This article advances a conceptualization of spatial distinction that, followingBourdieu, relates principles of division in 'social space' with formations of segregation in urban space. It applies this interpretive framework to concisely narrate the one hundred years' history of spatial distinction inTelAviv. Analyzing five moments in the city's development, it focuses on a dominant principle of distinction in each period and its ensuing segregations: predominantly ethno-national (Jewish-Arab) distinction that establishedTelAviv in opposition to Jaffa at the turn of the twentieth century; nuanced ethno-class distinction that shaped the city's rapid growth in the 1920s-30s and created an elaborate socio-spatial hierarchy of neighborhoods; institutionalized distinction that governed the collective supply of housing in the 1930s-40s, evolving into a complex system of housing classifications; 'distinction-by-distance' through exclusive suburbanization and the emergence of a metropolitan scale of distinction in the 1950s-70s; and a 'back-to-the-center' strategy of distinction by way of gentrification in the 1980s-90s and within gated residential enclaves at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through this concise history, various principles, mechanisms and scales of spatial distinction are elaborated upon, as a way to think about the socially constructed, historically contingent and continuously changing divisions and segregations in cities

Archaeology · Conceptualization · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Hierarchy · Metropolitan area · Political science · Sociology · Suburbanization · Urban theory · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning