The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places

Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-27
  • 售價: $1,540
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,463
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 288
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262049031
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049030
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商品描述

An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.

Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In The Cities We Need, photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani introduces us to the complex, political, and eminently personable stories of residents who answered this question in Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California. Their universal stories and Bendiner-Viani's evocative images illuminate what's at stake in our everyday places--from diners to churches to donut shops. In this culmination of two decades of research and art practice, Bendiner-Viani intertwines the personal, historical, and photographic to present us with placework, the way that unassuming places foster a sense of belonging and, in fact, do the essential work of helping us become communities.

In this unique book, Bendiner-Viani makes visible how seemingly unimportant places can lay the foundation for a functional interconnected society, so necessary for both public health and social justice. The Cities We Need explores both what we gain in these spaces and what we risk losing as they are threatened by gentrification, large-scale development, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Bendiner-Viani shows us how to understand ourselves as part of a shared society, with a shared fate; she shows us that everyday places can be the spaces of liberation in which we can build the cities we need.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一本充滿表現力的散文與照片集,揭示了我們日常場所如何強有力地支持我們的共同歸屬感。

你會帶誰去參觀你所在社區的導覽?在《我們需要的城市》中,攝影師及城市學者Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani向我們介紹了在紐約布魯克林和加州奧克蘭,居民們如何回答這個問題的複雜、政治性及極具人情味的故事。他們的普遍故事和Bendiner-Viani引人深思的影像,照亮了我們日常場所的意義——從餐廳到教堂再到甜甜圈店。在這部結合了二十年研究與藝術實踐的作品中,Bendiner-Viani將個人、歷史與攝影交織在一起,向我們呈現了「placework」,即那些不起眼的地方如何培養歸屬感,並實際上進行著幫助我們成為社區的基本工作。

在這本獨特的書中,Bendiner-Viani使我們看見,表面上看似不重要的地方如何為一個功能性互聯社會奠定基礎,這對於公共健康和社會正義都是必不可少的。《我們需要的城市》探討了我們在這些空間中獲得了什麼,以及當這些空間受到高檔化、大規模開發,最近還有COVID-19疫情威脅時,我們又冒著什麼風險。最終,Bendiner-Viani向我們展示了如何理解自己作為共享社會的一部分,與共同的命運相連;她告訴我們,日常場所可以成為解放的空間,在這裡我們可以建設我們所需要的城市。

作者簡介

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is a visual urbanist and cofounder of the interdisciplinary studio Buscada. She is the author of Contested City, a finalist and honoree for the Brendan Gill Prize. A widely exhibited photographer, she holds a doctorate in environmental psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani 是一位視覺城市學家,也是跨學科工作室 Buscada 的共同創辦人。她是《Contested City》的作者,該書曾獲得 Brendan Gill 獎的決賽入圍和榮譽。作為一位廣泛展出的攝影師,她擁有 CUNY 研究生中心的環境心理學博士學位。