Today’s workshop begins promptly at the beginning of class and to get the most out of it, let’s hit the ground running. Here’s the title slide just to get you PUMPED for seminar in only 40 minutes!
Monthly Archives: February 2019
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This past January a news clip of one of Fox News’ most recognizable talking heads, Tucker Carlson, drew a lot of attention due to the nature of Carlson’s argument and its uncharacteristic quality for a right wing platform like Fox News. Carlson begins by talking about Mitt Romney’s involvement in […]
Earlier this year, Amazon, a multi-billion dollar company had announced the establishment of their headquarters in Long Island City, Queens. NYC. With this decision came a lot of backlash for the ramifications of what this would mean for the neighborhood surrounding it. This is because the place where Amazon wanted […]
“Which part of Jacob’s vision was actually misinterpreted?.”This is what I remember briefly asking myself after rereading the beginning of Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs” this week. As a mutual consensus, Jane Jacobs is and will be forever seen as the hero who fought […]
As I was reading Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs,” I kept thinking back to Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the way in which ideas are interpreted or rather, misinterpreted. Tochterman writes a great deal about the […]
As we read Jeremiah Moss’s rather depressing take on a New York City that has, in his opinion, already reached its end thanks to the suburbs and gentrification reaching ridiculous degrees, it was difficult not to imagine the struggles that minorities and impoverished people experience on a daily basis. In […]
Class Divide is a HBO documentary that discusses gentrification in New York and how it is a fast changing city. Similarly, in this week’s reading, Jeremiah Moss discusses Hyper-Gentrification and how it is occurring in an accelerated rate. Jeremiah Moss talks about how New Yorkers are no longer seen as […]
Jeremiah Moss’s “Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost its Soul” illustrates how gentrification has turned New York into a tale of two cities. Detailing several waves of gentrification from the 1970’s through the present, Moss traces the roots of gentrification to Colonial racism in America. Mixing of […]
Race isn’t what breeds the alienation of gentrification, it’s the position that the new imports take. […]
When Amazon picked New York City as one of two locations to house its headquarters, the city was ecstatic for the 25,000 jobs promised for the 25,000 people so eagerly waiting. Or so Bezos thought. Instead of plopping themselves right into Long Island City as was planned, the people of […]
While reading under the heading Come East! in chapter 6, “The NeoLiberal Turn” of Jeremiah Moss’s Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul, I was drawn to a quote by former mayor Ed Koch: ‘The days before Gilded Age New York gave way to a city of […]
We always want what we can’t have. It’s something inevitable, a trait that we must all possess. But what’s the point of stating this? We want comfort and safety from those near us. We long for emotional, mental, and moral support. We seek attention, to be showered by love and […]
