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"Shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the Swedish city's built environment "from below." Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation, and interviews, Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period"-- An industrial city on the outskirts of Stockholm, Södertälje is the global capital of the Syriac Orthodox Christian diaspora, an ethnic and religious minority group fleeing persecution and discrimination in the Middle East. Since the 1960s, this Syriac community has transformed the standardized welfare state spaces of the city’s neighborhoods into its own “Mesopotälje,” defined by houses with Mediterranean and other international influences, a major soccer stadium, and massive churches and social clubs. Such projects have challenged principles of Swedish utopian architecture and planning that explicitly emphasized the erasure of difference. In The Construction of Equality, Jennifer Mack shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the city’s built environment “from below,” offering a fresh perspective on segregation in the European modernist suburbs.Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation (among residents, designers, and planners), and interviews, Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period. Her book shows how the transformation of space at the urban scale—the creation and evolution of commercial and social districts, for example—operates through the slow accumulation of architectural projects. As Mack demonstrates, these developments are not merely the result of the grassroots social practices usually attributed to immigrants but instead are officially approved through dialogues between residents and design professionals: accredited architects, urban planners, and civic bureaucrats. Mack attends to the tensions between the “enclavization” practices of a historically persecuted minority group, the integration policies of the Swedish welfare state and its planners, and European nativism. (Provided by publisher)

Migration. Refugees --- Environmental planning --- urban planning --- migration [function] --- group identity --- Sweden --- Syria --- Syrians --- Södertälje (Sweden) --- Södertälje, Sweden --- Södertälje kommun (Sweden) --- Ethnic relations. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Ethnology --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Europa --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen

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Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved to a new cemetery in the late nineteenth century in response to overcrowding and changing burial customs. But in 2007, when a developer broke ground for a new condominium complex here, the heavy machinery unearthed human bones. Clearly, some of Dubuque's early settlers still rested there-in fact, mor

Catholics --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Social conditions --- History --- Third Street Cemetery (Dubuque, Iowa) --- History. --- Dubuque (Iowa) --- Antiquities.

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'Architecture in Effect' is a substantial collection of essays emerging from the Swedish research environment of the same name. While it takes its point of departure from within the specific context that is Sweden, it includes contributions from authors based in the Nordic context, in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. A central premise of the collected research is that the built environment and societal norms are co-constitutive and that architecture as a discipline and as a professional practice plays a fundamental role in this relationship. Contemporary political and environmental conditions place specific demands on society and on the everyday life of individuals. There persists, as such, an obligation for actors within the discipline of architecture to contribute to a rethinking of the situated knowledges within architecture by engaging in trans-, cross-, and inter-disciplinary studies. Architectural researchers have the capacity to guide and criticize thinking on architecture and its vital material relations amidst existing and emerging societies.

Architecture and society. --- Architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Philossophy --- Aspect social --- Aspect environnemental --- Philosophie. --- 72.01 --- 711.4 --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architectuurtheorie --- Stedenbouw (theorie) --- Architecture and society --- Recherche en architecture --- Research --- Suède --- Philosophie --- architecture [discipline] --- Philossophy. --- Architecture - Research

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