PORTALS: Annotated Bibliography by Becky Neil https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography (Portals is a working title) en-us 2016-02-10 17:32:35 UTC 2023-05-01 16:21:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Miwon Kwon  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94394154 Miwon Kwon (2004) One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity. Boston, MA: MIT Press.

Notes:
Kwon examines the relationship between site-specificity in art and its ability to generate communities. Kwon's analysis moves beyond the literal location (e.g. physical characteristics of site and context) and into what she frames as a "discursive" site, which behaves as a social factor in location and gives unique specificity to the site. Her work has been deeply influential to me in understanding the mechanisms of affective power for site specific work. ]]> 2016-02-10 17:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94394154 Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94396659
Notes:
Jane Jacobs is quite possibly the first activist for urban life and communities, the patron saint of urban planners today. Jacobs' seminal work examines the factors that create healthy, thriving communities, and why some political decisions can result in destruction of communities. Her work is required reading for anyone looking to work within communities, and can viewed as a primer for community organizers. It informs how I think about engaging the residents on a block via their daily habits, and symbols that signal a thriving community or a dying community. ]]> 2016-02-10 17:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94396659 The Interventionists beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94397419 Greg Sholette and Nato Thompson (2006) The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. North Adams, MA: MassMoCA; Nato Thompson, ‘Trespassing Relevance’ in The Interventionists, pp. 13-22

Notes: 
This may fit more closely with the artist bibliography, but Sholette & Thompson present a number of artists who are thinking creatively about public space interventions. My work is likely to be an intervention, and hopefully a disruption of day-to-day habits; this book provides a road-map of similar thinking. This would be the sort of book I would hope would include a work like mine. ]]> 2016-02-10 17:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94397419 Further Reading beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94481099
Dipti Desai & Jessica Hamlin, ‘Committing History in Public: Lessons from Artists Working in the Public Realm’ in History as Art, Art as History. 2010. Routledge: NY. pp. 67-81  
(Notes: tips for using historical material in public art contexts)

Danny Wildemeersch and Astrid von Kotze (2014) “Multiple Interruptions: Creative Encounters in Public Art and Public Pedagogy, A North-South Dialogue” in Studies in Art Education; Summer 2014; 55, 4; pg. 313
(Notes: Case study of a community art collaboration in a poor Belgian town. Considers how community education practice and theory are closely aligned so that learning experiences translate into transformative action.)

]]> 2016-02-10 22:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94481099 William Bridges - Change Management beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94639174
Bridges, William. Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes. Da Capo Press, 2004. 

His Wikipedia here
A Powerpoint Summary here
A Lesson Plan here

Notes:
Bridges was more of an organizational psychologist than anything else. He lectured extensively on how organizations (businesses) can manage change smoothly and with positive net outcome.  When talking about transitions, he posits the Neutral Zone (liminal space) that people move through on path of change, with a guide/coach/change agent helping them through it.  I wonder how this may be applied to homes and properties that are in transition - is the construction / remodeling a neutral zone, or not? ]]> 2016-02-11 16:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94639174 Brooklyn Historical Society - Archives beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94644839
Notes:
The Brooklyn Historical Society has a tremendous amount of data and archival records (photographs, deeds, meeting notes, maps, and so on) related housing and real estate in Brooklyn. In fact, there are several archives dedicated to neighborhood organizations that have existed for over a hundred years. There is an archive specifically for the Gates Ave Association, as well as the Bedford-Stuyvesant Better Housing Committee which is now the Brownstoners of Bed-Stuy organization. 

I plan to visit these archives to examine these records to see if anything of interest comes up. Particularly I will focus on finding historical information about the construction or transfers of ownership, perhaps about specific address that are currently experiencing another transition. I hope these archives will help to reveal the stories of the homes and the people that have been involved in them. 

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Data, Records, and Reports:

Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation publication and photograph collection, 1968-2007 (bulk 1970-1980). Brooklyn Historical Society. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396573

Gates Avenue Association records, 1922-1944. Brooklyn Historical Society. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396575

Davenport, John. For sale cheap--a bargain, Oxford St. Brooklyn. : A three story brick house on Oxford Street near Fulton Avenue. Brooklyn Historical Society, 1858. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396581

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, inc. Average monthly rent by blocks, Brooklyn : supplement to Survey of the New York City market. Brooklyn Historical Society, 1940. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396567

New York Historical Society: Report of the Select Committee Appointed to Examine into the Condition of Tenant Houses in New York and Brooklyn : transmitted to the Legislature March 9, 1857. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396564

Bedford-Stuyvesant Better Housing Committee. A report to the Community. 1967. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396584

Urban Renewal and Public Policy (General):
Glauber, Rae. All neighborhoods change : a survey of Brownsville, Brooklyn, U.S.A. Brooklyn Historical Society, 1963. 

Improved dwellings for the laboring classes : the need, and the way to meet it on strict commercial principles, in New York, Brooklyn and other cities. Brooklyn Historical Society, 1877. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396572

Margolis, Richard J. The sixties belong to the city : a new approach to urban renewal conceived by the residents of Brooklyn Heights. Brooklyn Historical Society, 1960. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396566

Goell, Milton. East New York Must have Public Housing. 1951. Brooklyn Historical Society. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396585

Brooklyn Real Estate Board. $50,000,000 for rehabilitation : a plan for providing safe, sanitary and comfortable housing at a reasonable cost for those who need it most. 1939. https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9396586]]> 2016-02-11 16:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94644839 Further Case Studies in Brooklyn beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94650681 O'Hanlon, Timothy James. Neighborhood change in New York City : a case study of Park Slope, 1850-1980. Ph. D, Dissertation. CUNY, 1982. (participant observer and activist) (nyu record here)

Gebhart, John C. Housing standards in Brooklyn; an intensive study of the housing records of 3227 workingmen's families. 1918. (available on Hathi Trust)

Warf, Barney. "The Reconstruction of Social Ecology and Neighborhood Change in Brooklyn." Environment and Planning D; vol. 8, no. 173-96. SAGE Publications, March 1990 (link) 

Osman, Suleiman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York.  Oxford University Press, Feb 9, 2011. (Google books here)
]]> 2016-02-11 16:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94650681 Barney Warf - Human Geography beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94658124 Warf, Barney, ed. Encyclopedia of Human Geography. SAGE Publications, 2006. (Google books here) 
Warf, Barney. The Spatial Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge, 2008. (Google books here)

Notes:
Barney Warf's encyclopedia is truly just that - a vast collection of entries relating to human geography. His introduction is actually quite interesting in framing the cultural impact of space planning and policies, and there are a number of entries that are relevant: gentrification, urban spatial structure, spatiality, housing and housing markets, public space, production of space, and many more. For an overview of relevant concepts this is where I'll turn to. I've put this into psychology rahter than urban planning because it has more to do with the social than the systemic. 

]]> 2016-02-11 17:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94658124 Further Reading  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94674546 --------------------------------
Urban Planning:
Pacione, Michael, ed. The City: Land use, structure, and change in the Western city. Taylor & Francis, 2002. (Google books here) 
(Notes: While all segments of this book seem highly relevant to the issue, Part 3 examines specificaly neighborhood change in New York, including concepts of mobility and the social aspects of change.)

Ahlbrandt, Roger. Neighborhoods, People, and Community. Plenum Press, 1984. (Google Books here) 
(Notes: Case study of neighborhood qualities of Pittsburgh.  The author hopes to show why some groups of people are drawn into their neighborhoods whereas others rely more upon the wider community to meet a variety of needs, and what those implications are for community renewal efforts.) 

Brenner, Neil, Marcuse, Peter, Mayer, Margit, eds. Cities for People, Not for Profit. Routledge, October 2011. 
(Notes: Collection of essays touching upon urbanism, policy, gentrification, and space use.)

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Urban Geography:

Andrew E. G. Jonas, Eugene McCann, Mary Thomas. Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, Jan 23, 2015. (Google books here)
(Notes: Chp 11 is about Urban Art and Visual Cultures. Chp 12 is about Alternative Urban Spaces. Both may have insight into siting art in public space, in a transitional context.)

Nancy Kleniewski, ed. Cities and Society. 2008. John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008. (Google books here)
(Notes: Chp 15 is "Neo-Bohemia: Art and Neighborhood Redevelopment in Chicago". This may be very interesting look at urban society and policy but it may be less relevant for my specific project. I want to keep it on here just so I remember to peruse it at some point to see if there is anything useful.)

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HUD Reports and Analyses:
Mitchell, James. The Dynamics of Neighborhood Change. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. 1975. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011324987

Birch, David L. The behavioral foundations of neighborhood change. 1979. 
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007396320
]]> 2016-02-11 17:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94674546 Sound Art beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94690519 LaBelle, Brandon. Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art. A&C Black, 2006. 

Notes: 
Two chapters in this overview of thinking about Sound Art are of interest here.  "Chp 10: Tuning Space: Max Neuhaus and Site-Specific Sound" and "Chp 16: Achim Wollschield's Production of the Local" seem relevant into how sound can enage with location, and indeed in some ways define or describe a psychology site. I see this relating to Kwon's work as well.  ]]> 2016-02-11 18:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94690519 Miwon Kwon - Unsitings of Community beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94696563 2016-02-11 18:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94696563 Miwon Kwon - One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94696977 2016-02-11 18:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94696977 Jane Jacobs - Death & Life of Great American Cities  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94700995 2016-02-11 18:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94700995 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ART  THEORY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94701525 2016-02-11 19:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94701525 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ URBAN PLANNING / GENTRIFICATION / PUBLIC LANDSCAPES   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94701933 2016-02-11 19:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94701933 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHANGE PSYCHOLOGY   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94702436 2016-02-11 19:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94702436 Sholette & Thompson - The Interventionists beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94703832 2016-02-11 19:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94703832 Overview beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94705230 I've divided my bibliography into four working sections: Art Theory, Urban Planning, Change Psychology, and Archives. These sections are often related but it helps to develop the intersectional space where I hope my work will sit. 

MOVE LEFT TO RIGHT FOR TOPIC (BREADTH) ------->>> 
THEN SCROLL DOWN FOR CITATIONS (DEPTH)]]> 2016-02-11 19:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94705230 Brandon LaBelle - Background Noise beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94706907 2016-02-11 19:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94706907 Elizabeth Ellsworth - Places of Learning  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94709102 (also on Google books here]]> 2016-02-11 19:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94709102 Elizabeth Ellsworth - Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94711597 Elizabeth Ellsworth (1995) Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy. New York: Routledge. 

Notes: Ellsworth presents several interesting chapters on the pedagogical potential of transitional spaces, and how learning can happen in those spaces.  She also covers topics including sensation in learning, the pedagogy of design and architecture. This work is likely to be very influential in understanding how my work can communicate a political / cultural value. ]]> 2016-02-11 19:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94711597 Judith DeSena beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94714087 DeSena, Judith. Protecting One's Turf. University Press of America, 2005. 
-- also: Gentrification and inequality in Brooklyn : the new kids on the block.  Lexington Books, 2009. (Google books here)

Notes: DeSena present a discussion of social strategies employed in Greenpoint to preserve the neighborhood as a white Polish enclave, that has resisted and continues to resist gentrification (in the sense of displacement of an ethnic and economic minority). Her work is very process oriented and focused on the cultural impact of gentrification.  "This study explores the ways in which working-class residents, in the course of their everyday lives, negotiate change in their neighborhood and dissimilarity with their new (gentry) neighbors."  Her work will help me to think about what specific message or goal to craft for my work. ]]> 2016-02-11 19:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94714087 Susan Draper  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94716590 Draper, Susan. A house is on the outside; a home is on the inside: Gentrification as a social movement. New York University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1991. 9134656.

Notes: Draper's dissertation focuses on brownstones in BedStuy and the cultural factors that have influenced the gentrification of Park Slope. "Three questions are asked: (1) how do the socio-economic linkages between small residential property owners, as cultural agents of gentrified houses, and the larger political economy work to make gentrification a successful movement; (2) how do American cultural values and symbols enable gentrifiers, as agents, to produce and reproduce themselves in a socially legitimate way; and (3) what is about it the brownstone house, as opposed to other types of American houses, that makes it a particularly suitable cultural object enabling the gentrification process in urban areas?"  Her work will inform the message and content of my work. ]]> 2016-02-11 19:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94716590 Judith DeSena beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94716749 2016-02-11 19:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94716749 Susan Draper - A House is on the outside; a home is on the inside  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94719960 on NYU here]]> 2016-02-11 19:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94719960 D.W. Winnicott beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94726053 Winnicott, D.W. Home Is Where We Start From. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986. 
Winnicott, D.W. Playing and Reality. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1971.

Praglin, Laura. "The Nature of In-Between." Universitas, Vol 2, Issue 2. 2006. 

Notes:
Winnicott is the original coiner of the term "transitional space." Thought he meant it in a psychological way, his work has been widely adopted into many other fields including architecture. His work will help me to understand the power and mechanics of what can happen in transitional spaces - and to help shape how I think about why or in what ways construction sites are transitional. 

The first two citations are his own writing (published posthumously). In the essay, Praglin gives a succinct overview of his theories. ]]> 2016-02-11 20:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94726053 D.W. Winnicott beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94729046 2016-02-11 20:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94729046 Laura Praglin beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94729379 2016-02-11 20:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94729379 Jane Rendell  beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94730175 Rendell, Jane. "The Setting and the Social Condenser: Transitional Objects in Architecture and Psychoanalysis", Adam Sharr (ed) Architecture as Cultural Artefact. (London, Routledge, 2012). (link)

Notes:
This work is curious because it is one of the few I've been able to find that explicitly examines the interplay between architecture, mindstate, and transitional space. Rendell has a few other relevant articles on her website that all deal with creativity, design, spaces, and transitions. She may more neatly fall into the art critical column, but here she can be seen as thinking about the social and personal impact of work about transitions. Other articles include: "Space,Place,Site - Critical Spatial Practice", "Spatial Imagination".  I look forward to her analysis of how art in transitional spaces can function toward personal and social transformation.

]]> 2016-02-11 20:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94730175 Encyclopedia of Human Geography beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94731363 2016-02-11 20:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94731363 Transitions beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94732594 2016-02-11 20:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94732594 Jane Rendell - The Setting and the Social Condenser beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94732857 Transitional Objects in Architecture and Psychoanalysis ]]> 2016-02-11 20:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94732857 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ARCHIVES AND OTHER MATERIALS  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ beckydono https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94734341 2016-02-11 20:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/beckydono/portalsbibliography/wish/94734341