Professor-Provided Required Readings
Two articles by Winifred Curran in the shared GDrive folder:
Curran, Winifred, “In Defense of Old Industrial Spaces: Manufacturing, Creativity, and Innovation in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34, no. 4 (December 2010): 871-85.
Curran, Winifred, “From the Frying Pan to the Oven’: Gentrification, and the Experience of Industrial Displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” Urban Studies 44, no. 8 (July 2007): 1427-1440.
- Curbed: The death and life of mom-and-pops
- NY Post: De Blasio eyes vacancy tax for greedy landlords seeking top-dollar
- Kings County Politics: Op-Ed: SBJSA Legislation Only Answer To Closing Mom & Pop Shops
- Chelsea Now: City Council Race Talking Points: Small Business Strategies
- The Villager: Small business advocate’s odds on vote for S.B.J.S.A. are small: 50 to 1
- Metro: ‘Modernizing’ the Small Business Jobs Survival Act? Or a Trojan Horse?
ITF-Provided Bonus Readings (and Listening)
Winifred Curran Faculty Page at Depaul University
Pete Saunders: Revisiting the “Big Theory” on American Urban Development
Pete Saunders: Detroit’s Reclamation Project
Governing: City or Suburbs? What Do Millennials Really Want?
Builder Online: Where Are Priced-Out Renters Moving to Buy?
Aaron Renn, The Urbanophile: Does Policy Matter?
Aaron M. Renn’s podcast: “How Migration Changes Income and Education Levels in Cities” (20:15 min)
| Description: Issi Romem, chief economist of BuildZoom, joins to discuss his recent study on how migration is increasing levels of income and education sorting between US metropolitan areas. Expensive coastal cities are getting higher income and higher educated residents, but the post-industrial cities of the Heartland are seeing the opposite. |
