Society, Economy, and Built Form in Late Nineteenth Century New York City and Boston: ROW Award

十九世纪末纽约市和波士顿的社会、经济和建筑形式：ROW 奖

• 批准号: 8808743
• 负责人: Mona Domosh
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-15 至 1991-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8808743&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Society; Economy; Built; Form; Late

An analysis of the built environment that incorporates an examination of economy and society has been heralded as a key to developing a more fundamental understanding of society and space, yet few studies have attempted such a synthesis. This project will comparatively study Boston and New York City, documenting the changing locational patterns of each city's retail and elite residential districts and analyzing a number of case studies that will serve to link landscape features with their social and economic contexts. The research will address questions such as the extent to which a city's position in an urban hierarchy is related to that city's built form; the degree to which a city's economic elite shape the urban landscape; and how the city's social structure is expressed in its landscape. By providing a detailed study of the links between economy, social structure, and built form in a historical context, and by examining both commercial and residential structures, this project will make a major empirical and theoretical contribution to our understanding of the general relationship between landscape, society, and economy. It will advance the frontier of a new cultural geography by placing landscape in a broader societal context in order to derive explanation rather than description, and it will facilitate the development of new directions in historical urban geography. It will add a spatial dimension absent from the work of urban historians and urban architectural historians, a dimension essential to explaining the evolving urban morphology of American cities.

对建筑环境的分析结合了对经济和社会的考察，被认为是发展对社会和空间更基本理解的关键，但很少有研究尝试这样的综合。该项目将对波士顿和纽约进行比较研究，记录每个城市零售和精英住宅区的区位模式变化，并分析一些案例研究，将景观特征与社会和经济背景联系起来。该研究将解决以下问题：一个城市在城市层级中的位置与该城市的建筑形式有多大关系；城市经济精英塑造城市景观的程度；以及城市的社会结构如何在其景观中表现出来。通过对历史背景下经济、社会结构和建筑形式之间联系的详细研究，以及对商业和住宅结构的考察，该项目将为我们理解景观、社会和经济之间的一般关系做出重大的实证和理论贡献。它将推动新文化地理学的前沿，将景观置于更广泛的社会背景中，以获得解释而不是描述，它将促进历史城市地理学新方向的发展。它将增加城市历史学家和城市建筑历史学家工作中缺失的空间维度，这是解释美国城市演变的城市形态所必需的维度。