“Reading “High Line 1: The Meatpacking District” reminded me a lot Jane Jacobs and her ideas about neighborhoods and the communities they foster. Reading about the Meatpacking District it felt like there were a lot of different little communities that looked out for each other. On page 39 of The […]
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The readings for this week were all centered around gentrification, but each highlighted a different argument concerning displacement and its being an accurate indicator of the overall effects gentrification has on residents. In “The Right to Stay Put, Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City,” one point […]
Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City, was interviewed about her book (http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin). In the interview she was asked about the term authenticity, specifically “What do you mean by ‘authenticity’ in this urban context?” She responds “I chose very deliberately to use the word ‘authenticity’ to talk about changes in New […]
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 […]
Throughout the readings I kept finding myself coming back to the fact that Robert Moses seems to have done so much for the city, and yet I have never heard of him. When I started reading about the Washington Square Park ordeal though, I realized that I actually have heard […]
