When an urban plan is proposed for a neighborhood, residents of the community can feel powerless, scared, and believe they have no voice or options. However, just as “we the people” of the United States made our voices heard to create the union we desired, a community of people, if […]
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Jacob L. Vigdor, in his essay “Does Gentrification Harm the Poor?” addresses the topic of whether gentrification disadvantages poor households, and offers two different possible explanations of the causes of these distributional effects on neighborhoods. One view holds that gentrification of urban neighborhoods causes the harm to the disadvantage households, […]
In Talmudic discourse, public domains and private domains are distinct legal entities, each with its own set of rules. The rabbis therefore grapple with how to define certain spaces that don’t neatly fit into either category, possessing characteristics of both types of domain. Union Square might well be the sort […]
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 […]
Robert Moses had an extraordinary impact on New York City. From the Triborough, Whitestone, and Verrazano bridges, to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Prospect and Henry Hudson Parkways, Jones Beach, Central Park Zoo, playgrounds, public housing, and public swimming pools in every borough, his legacy is everywhere you look. For […]
