1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458725403321

Autore

Ghaziani Amin

Titolo

There goes the gayborhood? / / Amin Ghaziani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-691-16841-5

1-4008-5017-7

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 pages)

Collana

Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Gay community - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

GAYBORHOODS ARE CHANGING -- Beyond the Gayborhood -- The Happiest Ending -- Triggers -- BUT ARE THEY DISAPPEARING? -- Cultural Archipelagos -- Resonance -- Reinvention -- Conclusions -- The Language of Sexuality -- Appendix: What Are Gayborhoods? How Do We Study Them?

Sommario/riassunto

Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at the origins of these unique cultural enclaves, the reasons why they are changing today, and their prospects for the future.Drawing on a wealth of evidence--including census data, opinion polls, hundreds of newspaper reports from across the United States, and more than one hundred original interviews with residents in Chicago, one of the most paradigmatic cities in America--There Goes the Gayborhood? argues that political gains and societal acceptance are allowing gays and lesbians to imagine expansive possibilities for a life beyond the gayborhood. The dawn of a new post-gay era is altering the character and composition of existing enclaves across the country, but



the spirit of integration can coexist alongside the celebration of differences in subtle and sometimes surprising ways.Exploring the intimate relationship between sexuality and the city, this cutting-edge book reveals how gayborhoods, like the cities that surround them, are organic and continually evolving places. Gayborhoods have nurtured sexual minorities throughout the twentieth century and, despite the unstoppable forces of flux, will remain resonant and revelatory features of urban life.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787521903321

Autore

Olin Laurie

Titolo

Across the open field : essays drawn from English landscapes / / Laurie Olin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2000

ISBN

0-8122-0786-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Disciplina

712/.0942

Soggetti

Landscape architecture - England - History

Gardens, English - History

Landscapes - England

Gardens - England - History

England Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. As the Twig Is Bent -- CHAPTER TWO. On Buckland and Drawing -- CHAPTER THREE. Village and Farm -- CHAPTER FOUR. Et in Arcadia Ego -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life. "So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in



abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work. With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape. As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English, Across the Open Field is "an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth."

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910147334303321

Titolo

Air & space power journal en français

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Maxwell AFB, AL, : Air University Press], 2005-2009

ISSN

1931-7298

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Disciplina

358

Soggetti

Aeronautics, Military - United States

Air warfare

Air power - United States

Aeronautics, Military

Air power

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



Title from PDF cover (Maxwell AFB website, viewed May 2, 2006).