In the world, there has been and will always be a food chain. Whether this is before or after society, whether the chain is visible or hidden. It’s a chain that binds us all together, imposing burdens on those below, and serving those above. I will describe this in […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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Education is continuously evolving, always trying to improve to help provide the best education possible. When in high school, students often despise attending school and barely make it to graduation. Paolo Freire saw great fault in our education system and believed that teachers should not only be imparting knowledge to […]
The community of Cooper Square, in opposition to slum clearances slated to hit the neighborhood, developed a committee to stop these actions from happening and preserve the neighborhood. They built coalitions, held demonstrations, and spoke out about the many wrongdoings of Robert Moses. Seeing a community fight against powerful people […]
In this weeks reading, Tom Angotti writes in his book “New York For Sale” about the power that community planning can hold. He discusses at length two specific plans: the Cooper Square Plan and Melrose plan, and the way in which the completely community-run organizations were able to protest official […]
This week’s reading was about community planning or the participation of local people in creating an urban plan for their community. Tom Angotti, professor, and writer; writes in his book “New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate” about the start of community planning in NYC with the […]
Chapter 6 of Tom Angotti’s book New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate called “Making the Plans Official” explores how community planning has a presence in New York, but zoning has been taking a priority over community plans. The city charter change in 1989 did little to […]
As we reach the end of the semester, I thought that it might be interesting to do something a bit different for a change. Rather than find some sort of media that relates to the topic at hand, I thought that an interesting deviation might be a contrast, rather than […]
In 1959, Robert Moses, administrator of New York City’s Slum Clearance Committee, declared an urban restoration plan for Cooper Square. The arrangement was predicted to level every residential building from 9th street to Delancey street and from 2nd avenue to the Bowery. With a mass “revitalization” plan like one proposed […]
In New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Tom Angotti describes the Cooper Square Alternate Plan, the first community plan in New York City prepared by an active neighborhood committee which sought to fight Robert Moses and planners’ rezoning and bulldozing of the Lower East Side. The […]
When an urban plan is proposed for a neighborhood, residents of the community can feel powerless, scared, and believe they have no voice or options. However, just as “we the people” of the United States made our voices heard to create the union we desired, a community of people, if […]
In “From Protest to Community Plan” by Tom Angotti, he talks about We Stay! ¡Nos Quedamos!, a very famous committee of local homeowners, store owners and others created in Melrose Avenue in the Bronx. It was created to combat a plan to build housing that only the middle class could […]
Over Spring break, I had the opportunity to visit Hudson Yards together with my family. Not knowing that we had to reserve tickets in advance for “The Vessel,” my family and I spent our time milling about the shopping mall. As we walked through the first-ever Neiman Marcus in New […]
