{"id":825,"date":"2009-10-12T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2009-10-12T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T19:04:25","slug":"camp-washington-chili-in-the-urban-studies-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2009\/10\/camp-washington-chili-in-the-urban-studies-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Washington Chili in the Urban Studies Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/camp_washington_chili1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-827 alignright\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/camp_washington_chili1.jpg\" alt=\"camp_washington_chili\" width=\"230\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>This past summer, Lilia Walsh, who is the 2009-2010 intern in the Archives &amp; Rare Books Library, took an Honors Seminar at the University of Cincinnati entitled <em>Envisioning the City.<\/em> The focus of the course was how artists, writers, cartographers, photographers and others have visually portrayed cities from the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century to the present, using the holdings of ARB\u2019s rare books collection and its Urban Studies Collection.\u00a0 One of the experiential assignments given to the students in the seminar involved the practice of \u201clurking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In lurking, each student was given some money and assigned a restaurant or coffee shop in which they had to \u201clurk\u201d for a couple of hours, buy a meal or a cup of coffee, and record their surface impressions of the clientele, the surrounding neighborhood architecture, the social and economic status of the neighborhood, the various conversations in the restaurant, the d\u00e9cor and ambiance, and the types of food on the menu.\u00a0 Each student was given a different neighborhood of Cincinnati, the intent being to create a generalized cultural portrait of the city and how it functions around one of humankind\u2019s basic needs: eating.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Walsh was assigned Camp Washington Chili. \u00a0She created a PowerPoint presentation of photographs she took along with her lurking notes.\u00a0 What she demonstrates here is just one 21<sup>st<\/sup> century example of how the urban environment is viewed \u2013 the images, the talking, the life.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/libraries\/arb\/archives\/collections\/documents\/camwashingtonchili.ppt\">Lurking at Camp Washington Chili<\/a><\/strong> (MS PowerPoint\u00ae presentation)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; <em>Kevin Grace<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer, Lilia Walsh, who is the 2009-2010 intern in the Archives &amp; Rare Books Library, took an Honors Seminar at the University of Cincinnati entitled Envisioning the City. The focus of the course was how artists, writers, cartographers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2009\/10\/camp-washington-chili-in-the-urban-studies-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[21,40,35,58],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arb","category-uclibraries","tag-cincinnati","tag-featured","tag-just-interesting","tag-urban-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}