{"product_id":"the-power-of-place-urban-landscapes-as-public-history-mit-press","title":"The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Mit Press)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles  historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender  race  and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art  enlarge urban preservation  and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles. In the first part of The Power of Place  Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect peoples lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory. The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place  a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings  walking tours  artistss books  and permanent public sculpture  as well as architectural preservation  teams of historians  designers  planners  and artists worked together to understand  preserve  and commemorate urban landscape history as African American  Latina  and Asian American families have experienced it. One project celebrates the urban homestead of Biddy Mason  an African American ex-slave and midwife active betwen 1856 and 1891. Another reinterprets the Embassy Theater where Rose Pesotta  Luisa Moreno  and Josefina Fierro de Bright organized Latina dressmakers and cannery workers in the 1930s and 1940s. A third chapter tells the story of a historic district where Japanese American family businesses flourished from the 1890s to the 1940s. Each project deals with bitter memoriesslavery  repatriation  internmentbut shows how citizens survived and persevered to build an urban life for themselves  their families  and their communities. Drawing on many similar efforts around the United States  from New York to Charleston  Seattle to Cincinnati  Hayden finds a broad new movement across urban preservation  public history  and public art to accept American diversity at the heart of the vernacular urban landscape. She provides dozens of models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983660249141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262581523","price":35.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262581523.jpg?v=1770805239","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-power-of-place-urban-landscapes-as-public-history-mit-press","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}