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Primary groups --- Sociology of environment --- Social policy --- Boston --- Housing policy --- Boston [Massachusetts]

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"Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras of hostility and urban transformation. It has been wounded and transformed, slowly ceding ground; at the same time, its residents and organizations have gained a more prominent voice over their community's fate. In writing about Boston Chinatown's long history, Michael Liu, a lifelong activist and scholar of the community, charts its journey and efforts for survival--from its emergence during a time of immigration and deep xenophobia to the highway construction and urban renewal projects that threatened the neighborhood after World War II to its more recent efforts to keep commercial developers at bay. At the ground level, Liu depicts its people, organizations, internal battles, and varied and complex strategies against land-taking by outside institutions and public authorities. The documented courage, resilience, and ingenuity of this low-income immigrant neighborhood of color have earned it a place amongst our urban narratives. Chinatown has much to teach us about neighborhood agency, the power of organizing, and the prospects of such neighborhoods in rapidly growing and changing cities"--

Chinese Americans --- Immigrants --- Community organization --- Community activists --- Political activity --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Boston (Mass.) --- Chinatown (Boston, Massachusetts) --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- Political activists --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons

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Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem have been active as architects in the Belgian city of Ghent since 1975. Their work moves between the local traditions of Flemish building and a cosmopolitanism acquired, in the main, as a result of their collaborations with international artists on exhibition and museum spaces. Their thirty-five years in the profession are enough to reveal a mature body of work attentive to context and local technique, yet one aimed at going beyond the frontiers of their country. Their buildings address different typologies, from cultural buildings, spaces for art and public spaces to conversions of old offices, in which painstaking construction with traditional materials and schemes that are simple in layout and of great spatial richness inscribe their work within a certain central-European tradition of the ordinary.Read more

Robbrecht, Paul --- Robbrecht Daem --- Daem, Hilde --- Paul Robbrecht --- Hilde Daem --- Robbrecht en Daem --- Belgische architecten --- architectuur --- België --- 72.071(493) --- Belgische architecten vanaf ca. 1919 --- Architecture --- London --- Krefeld --- Pomerol --- Breda --- Brussels --- Gaasbeek --- Antwerp --- Bruges --- Knokke-Heist --- Courtrai --- Ghent --- Sint-Martens-Latem --- Boston [Massachusetts] --- Robbrecht en Daem. --- architects --- Robbrecht en Daem architecten [Ghent] --- Belgium --- architecture [discipline]