Cities as Multiple Landscapes E-Book

• Herausgeber: Campus Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Seitenzahl: 85

Beschreibung

Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen Geschichte, Materialität, Mikrolandschaften und Atmosphären der Partnerstädte Innsbruck und New Orleans. Dabei stützen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren auf das Konzept der "multiplen Landschaften".

Leseprobe

Christina Antenhofer, Günter Bischof, Robert L. Dupont, Ulrich Leitner (eds.)

Cities as Multiple Landscapes

Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans

Campus Verlag

Frankfurt/New York

About the book

Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen Geschichte, Materialität, Mikrolandschaften und Atmosphären der Partnerstädte Innsbruck und New Orleans. Dabei stützen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren auf das Konzept der „multiplen Landschaften“.

Vita

Christina Antenhofer is an associate professor of Medieval History and Auxiliary Sciences at the Department of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Innsbruck—University of New Orleans Friendship Treaty Coordinator.

Günter Bischof  is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and the Director of Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans.

Robert L. Dupont is an associate professor of history and the chair of the Department of History at the University of New Orleans.

Ulrich Leitner is a university assistant with the Department of Education at the University of Innsbruck.

Contents

Introduction

Christina Antenhofer, Robert L. Dupont: Cities and Landscapes: Comparing Innsbruck and New Orleans

The Organization of the Volume and the Individual Contributions

Conclusion

I Multiple Landscapes

Christina Antenhofer, Ulrich Leitner: Poetic Places and Multiple Landscapes: Exploring Urban Topographies

The Golden Roof as a Poetic Place

Multiple Landscapes and Poetic Places

Gastone Ave: University Cities: A Strategic Resource of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Europe

Introduction

A Long Trail of Cooperation Between Cities and Universities

Cooperation Between Universities and Cities in the U.S. and Canada: The Cases of New York, Chicago and Montréal

European Networks of University Cities and University Institutions

Challenges of University Cities in the Global Competition Between Nations and Urban Areas

Universities: A Strategic Resource for Small and Medium-Sized Cities

Conclusion: Towards a University City

Tilmann D. Märk, Thomas Baumgartner: Interaction between Cities and Universities: Innsbruck Univer©ity

Introduction

Joint Projects between Innsbruck University and the City of Innsbruck

Revival of the Botanical Garden Innsbruck

The Victor Franz Hess Cabin on the Hafelekar Mountain

Innsbruck liest—Innsbruck Reads

Writers in Residence

The Centers of Area Studies

Sister City Agreement Innsbruck—New Orleans

Financial Support from the City of Innsbruck

Conclusion

Ulrich Leitner: Human Bodies and the City: Art as a Medium to Explore Urban Landscapes

II Historical Readings

Berndt Ostendorf: The Mysteries of New Orleans: Culture Formation and the Layering of History

Robert L. Dupont: Between Land and Water

The Backswamp

The Batture

The Lakefront

The Suburb

Richard Campanella: An Architectural Geography of New Orleans’ French Quarter

Temporal Patterns of Construction Date

Spatial Patterns of Construction Dates

Patterns of Architectural Style in the French Quarter

Trends into Modern Times

Patterns of Structure Type

Historical Trends of Structure Type

Origins of the Shotgun House

Geographical Patterns of Structural Type

Julia Hörmann-Thurn und Taxis: Innsbruck as an Historical City

III Material Realities

Craig E. Colten: Obscuring Risk: The Levee Landscape of New Orleans

Learning to Rely on Levees

Malleable Mission in a Difficult Environment

Landscapes Within the Levees

Conclusions

Stefano de Martino, Gerald Haselwanter: Higher Ground: Land Loss, Infrastructured Landscapes, and Human Habitats

Bayou Bienvenue, April 29, 2014

Higher Ground

Vast in its Whole yet Tiny in its Parts

Walled City

Archipelago New Orleans

Emergence

Resurrection or Reburial?

Arnold Klotz, Wolfgang Meixner: Innsbruck as Olympic City

Philipp K. Wegerer: Bicycling in Urban Landscape: Exploring Discursive, Cultural and Spatial Dynamics

Introduction

The Ideology of Automobility

Ideological Foundations: Truths, Power Relations, and Subjectivities

Ideology at Work: Marginalizing Bicycling

The Rise of Bicycling in Consumer Culture

The Transformation of Urban Space

The Dialectical Production of Space

Dominating Space: Using Boundaries

Dominating Space: Mimicking Automobile Space

Reappropriating Space: Practices of Resistance

Discussion: Bicycling as Smooth Space

Conclusion

IV Atmospheres

Jürgen Hasse: The (Felt) Body of the City: Feeling Urban Spaces

What the City Makes us Feel Like

Thinking the Sensual

Omissions—Implications of Scientific Blinkers

Urbanity and the Felt Body of the City

On the Relation between Mind and Reason

Bart Lootsma: Matchpoint Innsbruck

Simone Egger: Capital of the Alps: Mountains as Innsbruck’s Landscape of Taste

Views on the Urban Environment

Next Stop: Burton Store

Capital of the Alps—A Residency of Fine Arts

The Habitus of a City—Landscapes of Taste

The Alps as an Urban Landscape of Taste

Two Brands in the Landscape of Taste

Shady Sides of the Mountains

Recognizing Different Sites

Bernhard Bauer: Not Commodified Enough: An Anthropological Case Study about Music in New Orleans

Introduction

“Music is the Soul of New Orleans” (Grand Marshall and Second Liner)

“The More You Pay the Better We Play” (Street Performer on Royal Street)

Positive and Negative Commodification of Culture

“The Soul of New Orleans is a Marketable Commodity” (Local Tourist Guide)

Tourism Related Influences on Music

Music is for Free

A Natural Ritardando of Music

War on Culture! Speakers and Noise Ordinances

Synthesis: Music in New Orleans is Not Commodified Enough

Ways of Boosting the Commodification of Music

Support by Non-Profit Organizations

Conclusion

V Micro-Landscapes

Renia Ehrenfeucht: Restructuring Public Landscapes in Gentrifying New Orleans

Introduction: Public Landscapes in a Gentrifying City

Street Level Diversity in Gentrifying Cities

The New Politics of Public Space in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Taco Trucks, Food Trucks, Second Line Vending: Towards the Street as a Place of Work?

Contested Spaces: Unresolved Limits on Access and Rights

Discussion

Conclusion: The New Politics of Gentrified Space

Jochen Bonz: Ultra Soccer Fans and the Cultural Logic of Symbolic Gift Exchange: Ethnographic Encounters in the Micro-Landscape of Soccer Fans

Introduction

Fandom

Ultra Culture

Symbolic Gift Exchange

Soccer Fandom and the Cultural Logic of Symbolic Gift Exchange

Reneé Bourgogne: From the Bayou to the Table: The Croatian Community of Southeastern Louisiana and their Role in Louisiana’s Seafood Industry

Dominik Unterthiner, Alexander Topf, Stephanie Baur: schaug—Shifting Perspectives on Linguistic Landscapes: Implications for Language Learners

Landscapes and Languages: An Introduction

Diving into Texts and Spaces: Linguistic Landscapes

Factors that Shape LL

Contextualizing LL as a Field of Study

Holistic Evaluation of Linguistic Landscape Data

Schaug—Releasing the Pedagogical Potential of LL

Conclusion and Implications for Further Research

VI Hidden Sides

Dirk Rupnow: Essential but Invisible: Migration as Part of Urban and General History

Postscript on the Situation in the Tyrol

Alecia P. Long: Saving the City from Sex Deviates: Preservationists, Homosexuals and Reformers in the French Quarter, 1950–1962

Maria Heidegger: Landscapes of Psychiatry in the Tyrol in the Nineteenth Century with a Comparative View of Louisiana

Introduction

Tyrolean Landscapes of Psychiatric Caring in Comparison with Louisiana

Spaces of Regulation

Overlapping of Psychiatric with Pastoral Realms

Time and Spatial Concepts of Everyday Psychiatric Practice in Transcultural Comparison

Conclusion and Outlook

Flavia Guerrini: Dangerous Spaces—Endangered Youth: Considering Urban Space as a Relevant Dimension in Researching the History of Residential Care in Post-War Innsbruck

Introduction

State of Research

Methodological Considerations and Critique of Sources

Child and Youth Welfare Service in the Post-War Era

Doris O.: “Disreputable Venues,” “Unfavorable Girls,” and “Random Young Men”

Barbara M.: “… the Minor Will Roam About and Fall into Bad Ways”

Conclusion

Notes on Authors

Index

Introduction

Cities and Landscapes: Comparing Innsbruck and New Orleans

Christina Antenhofer, Robert L. Dupont

How should it be possible to compare two such different cities as Innsbruck and New Orleans? And why should one even want to compare these cities which at first glance do not have much in common? New Orleans, the Big Easy, the Crescent City, famous for its jazz, home to 389,617 people,1 surrounded by spectacular wetlands, is characterized by a tropical climate and its struggle against hurricanes. The city is strongly marked by its river, the Mississippi, and its historical neighborhoods such as the Vieux Carré and the Garden District, which make it a favored site for shooting movies and experiencing historic architectural sites of the 18th and 19th centuries. Most tourists, however, enjoy the city because of its many festivals and bars, which make it a unique place to party and enjoy live music. Innsbruck, on the other hand, is a lot smaller with 132,048 inhabitants.2 Situated in the center of the Alps, it is famous for having hosted the Olympic Games twice and appreciated for its historical atmosphere where its short period as an imperial city under Emperor Maximilian I left its traces in the Old Town and its surroundings, thus making Innsbruck one of the most interesting places to study the German Late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Yet most tourists now know Innsbruck as place for winter sports and its Christmas market, reflected by the Swarovski crystals which are certainly its most cherished souvenir. To this fairly associative list, one could add other aspects of these cities such as the fantastic cuisines which both New Orleans and Innsbruck are famous for. Both cities have strong local and regional identities. Both have long histories of being centers of multicultural exchange. Both cities profit from their spectacular landscapes and geographical situations. In particular, their geographical locations situate them within environmental and technological as well as security challenges that need to be combined with aesthetical (cultural heritage) and ecological debates. However, the main justification for focusing on these two cities as case studies and dedicating this volume to them is that this comparison is based not only on first impressions but also on longer lived experiences. For more than 40 years now the stories of the two cities have become intensely intertwined because of the International Summer School the University of New Orleans first started to organize in Innsbruck in 1976. Altogether, almost 10,000 students, 454 professors and 62 staff have spent six summer weeks in Innsbruck over the years.3