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MA Middle Eastern Studies. BA Middle Eastern Studies. Lehman Minor Middle Eastern Studies. Hunter College Summer Language Program. Posted by Anny Bakalian. On Jul 19, 2013 in Geography. Comments Off on Deen Sharp. Urbanism in the Middle East, political economy, anthropology. BA from Queen Mary, University of London. MSc from SOAS, University of London. Http:/ www.deensharp.com. Contact & Connect. The Graduate Center, CUNY. 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.). Room 6304.24 (Sixth Floor). New York, NY 10016.
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New York: A Global Perspective (or from Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’ to Abdel Halim Hafez) | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. August 15, 2014. New York: A Global Perspective (or from Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’ to Abdel Halim Hafez). Gentrification (excited to read The World in Brooklyn. And a couple of pieces on hip-hop and the Arab world. Finally, we arrive in the “forgotten borough”. Of New York – Staten Island – where we look at the secessionist rumblings that have emerged in the city’s fifth part and link this to the broader debate around secessionism and globalization. Next post →.
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What is a City or how does a City work? | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. September 4, 2014. What is a City or how does a City work? In 1937, Lewis Mumford asked, what is a city? Than what is usually called by that name, yet. To the tracing of new associations and to designing of their assemblages. This is the reason why I am going to define the social not as a special domain, a specific realm, or a particular sort of thing, but only as a very peculiar movement of re-association and reassembling (p.7). ANT has three tests:. Science a...
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What is a City? | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. August 28, 2014. What is a City? Today is the first d. Ay of classes and the start of my course Urban Arrangements ( Syllabus Assemblage Urbanism Fall 2014 Sharp CCNY.2. The first text we will engage is by former City College student Lewis Mumford and his 1937 article: What is a City? In this work Latour is not asking what is a city, but what is a society? Next post →. Join 1,956 other followers. Beirut space: form.use.meaning. Cities at Manchester University.
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Urban Arrangements | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. August 1, 2014. Urban Assemblages. How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies. Edited by Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender. Routledge 2009 352 pages. By Mumford and going through Aramis. By Latour) and will hopefully pull a few posts together for the blog as I develop the course. Any suggested readings and/or comments are more than welcome. Science, Technology and Society (STS) Studies. Next post →. Join 1,956 other followers. Cities at Manchester University.
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Dam Debt | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. August 25, 2014. The Mosul dam has generated quite a bit of interest of late. The news that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had captured the most dangerous dam in the world , suitably formerly known as the Saddam Dam, was widely reported in the media. Nour Malas produced an excellent report on the Mosul Dam. Relief and Reconstruction Funded Work at Mosul Dam, Mosul, Iraq. Myths, deaths, and dams seem to be good bedfellows. And on further searchin...
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. Mirrors: Here and Elsewhere. August 4, 2014. Ici-et-ailleurs (here and elsewhere) is the title of the new exhibition at the New Museum in New York on art from and about the Arab world that I have been to see twice now. The title of the exhibition is taken from the fascinating French documentary of the same title (see video above) by Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jean-Luc Goddard and Anne-Marie Melville. Qalandia 2087 by Wafa Hourani. Qalandia became home to thousands of r...
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FREE: Architecture on the Loose | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. September 14, 2014. FREE: Architecture on the Loose. Scales of Revolt: Within and Beyond the Arab Spring. Was an exploratory essay that I wrote for the volume FREE: Architecture on the Loose. Edited by E. Sean Bailey and Erandi de Silva. The essay I wrote attempted to link the Arab uprisings (or Arab Spring, I prefer uprisings) to contemporary academic debates on geographical scale. And has an intelligent approach to questions of scale. There is implicit confli...
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Erewhon: Man’s very soul is due to the machines | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. August 14, 2014. Erewhon: Man’s very soul is due to the machines. Bruno Latour’s book Aramis or the love of technology. Begins by mentioning the fascinating work of the Victorian novelist Samuel Butler and his book Erewhon (so needless to say I got distracted). Latour writes:. On questioning the people of Erewhon about the museum the stranger notes:. Butler is clearly very interested in the social life of machines:. Next post →. Join 1,956 other followers.
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Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space | Urban Arrangements
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Urban expertise, infrastructure, and space. August 18, 2014. Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. Kindly sent me an advance review copy of Keller Easterling’s new book Extrastatecraft (ESC): The Power of Infrastructure Space. This book nicely intersects with many of my own research interests and with my course urban arrangements. 8211; I will report back once I have read through it. For now, I wanted to highlight the website that accompanies the book and nicely outlines. Next post →. De Ni...
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