Mary Anne Alabanza Akers

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines (eBook, PDF)

A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments in Baguio City, designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early 20th century, and established by the American imperial government as a place for healing and well-being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000336511
• Artikelnr.: 60763567

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mary Anne Alabanza Akers is the Dean for the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. She continues to write on the interconnections between urban environments, health, communities, and people.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Introduction
The Multi-Year Study of Vendors
Chapter 1 Decolonizing the Read
A Decolonizing Process
The Case for Researcher Authenticity
Reading Asian Streets and Globalized Places in Perspective
Chapter 2 Lodging the Context in Place
Global Realities: Connection to a World System
Everyday Reading of Urban Environments
A Method in Street Reading: Introducing the Place-Node Concept
Historical Roots of the Health and Place Linkage
Chapter 3 Locating Health and Place: Historical and Contemporary Case of Baguio City
Early American Imperialism in the Philippines
Origins of an American Hill Station
Daniel Burnham's Plan for Baguio City
Factors in the Growth of Baguio City
Chapter 4 Intersecting Spatial-Environmental Perspective with Urban Health
1. Life-Worlds of Women Vendors: A Global Scan
Transnational Discourse on Gender
Women Street Vendors in the Philippines and the Global South
Women Vendors as Place-Makers
Street Vending in Baguio City
2. Street Spatial Environments in Downtown Baguio City
Upper Session Road
Middle Session Road
Lower Session Road Area
General Luna Road
Abanao/Harrison Area
3. Women Vendors in a Spatial-Environmental and Health Context
Urban Place-Nodes in a Health Context
The Personal Accounts and Health Conditions of Eight Women Vendors
Chapter 5 A Retrospective: Reflections on Urban Environments, Women Vendors, and Health
Conclusion