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 […]
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The whole premise of gentrification in a neighborhood, or how some may refer to as “rejuvenation” / “revitalization” is almost paradoxical. Based off of unfair provisions which favor traffic and follows capital, gentrification almost seems inevitable post economic-crises (fiscal crisis of 1975). Like the Russification of Brighton Beach, Stabrowski narrates […]
Sharon Zukin unlike other urban sociologists doesn’t focus on ethnographically analyzing communities, immigrants and settlement patterns, moreover she is concerned with the role of the state and targeting how urban space is produced deliberately from capital necessity. Similarly, to Richard Florida and the “Creative Class”, Zukin coined the term and concept […]
“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 […]
When compiling the many facets of the “Master Builder” as illustrated by the words of Ballon and Jackson, I was scouring numerous platforms to find a piece of media which artfully expressed Robert Moses as the NY figurehead he is. A piece which captures his ability to construct what he […]
