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 […]
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This week’s readings addressed a topic that seems to be the root of many problems talked about in our class. Gentrification is a process of “renovation” of low-income neighborhoods that ultimately results in the displacement of the low-income residents living there by higher income/middle-class people. This process has its pros […]
Private ownership of public spaces has become an increasingly prominent phenomenon in NYC, although there are mixed feelings about its use. One instance I found which outlines one of the issues associated with it is the Occupy Wall Street protest. In an article outlining the Occupy Wall Street protest 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 […]
Among the many projects Robert Moses brought to completion, the Cross Bronx Expressway was one with many negative repercussions. This freeway, blamed for cutting the Bronx in half and causing the migration of thousands of residents at the time it was built, is now considered the “most congested urban roadway […]
