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 […]
Daily Archives: February 25, 2019
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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. […]
