Constructing Health
Representations of Health and Housing in Charlottesville’s Urban Renewals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21629644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevan Klosterwill (University of Virginia), Kevan J Klosterwill (University of Virginia), Alissa Ujie Diamond (0000-0002-7960-5189, University of Virginia), Barbara B Wilson (0000-0002-7880-2535, University of Virginia), Jeana Ripple (0000-0003-2327-4664, University of Virginia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 222-236 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Architectural Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-4883 • E-ISSN: 1531-314X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10464883.2020.1790932 |
| OpenAlex | W3088275094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This essay explores the co-construction of urban health and blight through architectural representation during urban renewal, exploring how buildings symbolically stood for social and epidemiological diagnoses, producing racial othering through depictions of space. Analysis of photographs, building surveys, real estate appraisals, maps, reports, and advertisements preceding urban renewal in Charlottesville, Virginia, reveals a racialized gaze that constructed problematic associations of whiteness with health and Blackness with blight. We argue that racialized image-making practices perpetuated inequities that urban renewal policy purported to reconcile while masking the true generating dynamics of white neglect and wealth extraction
Aesthetics · Art · Estate · Geography · Housing estate · Neglect · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |