Alexander Manevitz

Bio: Alexander Manevitz is an academic researcher from New York Historical Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Injustice & Capitalism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander Manevitz include The New School.

“A Great Injustice”: Urban Capitalism and the Limits of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century New York City:

Abstract: Seneca Village was the largest African American landowning community in New York City until it was destroyed to build Central Park. Although it has largely been overlooked, Seneca Village reframes ...

Birds, dogs, and humankind in Olmsted’s ‘Bramble’: a story of Central Park

Abstract: Abstract: This paper addresses issues of race, species, and kind through an incident that took place 25 May 2020, when a birder and a dog owner crossed path in the Ramble of New York’s Central Park. The birder, a gay Black man, was searching for scarlet tanagers and other songbirds. The dog owner, a white woman, was walking Henry, her blond cocker. The birder asked the dog owner to leash her spaniel, a bird dog, as required by park rules. The dog owner called 911, reporting that an ‘African-American man was putting her in danger’. There is a pre-history to their encounter. Our dubious guide is John James Audubon, whose Ornithological Biography presents haunting scenes of life out of doors, the ramble, or the hunt, and how humans and animals prey upon each other. But the decisive voice is that of Frederic Law Olmsted, who not only designed Central Park (with Calvert Vaux), but also provided the moral and ethical code for its police force. Once it is shown how all the actors (human and animal) and the setting are in fact ‘related,’ it is the presence of the police in the park that must be explained.

Agricultural land change, planning and urbanisation: a case study from Erzurum, Türkiye (1940–2022)

Abstract: The choices made by governments in different historical periods in pursuit of economic and social development directly impact urbanization processes. This study adopts a theoretical framework involving a layered approach in order to understand the urbanization processes in Türkiye. Particular focus is on Erzurum, as a settlement that evolved from a mid-sized Anatolian town into a metropolis, as well as the environmental effects of urban development, especially on the sustainability of agricultural land, in the light of theoretical debates. The development plans of the city of Erzurum are analysed to understand the path of evolution from the urbanization of the nation-state to the urbanization of capital, which is a topic of particular interest in urban literature, revealing that this capital held decision-making processes in the planning field in its grip, whether at a central or local level.