In this weeks reading, Tom Angotti writes in his book “New York For Sale” about the power that community planning can hold. He discusses at length two specific plans: the Cooper Square Plan and Melrose plan, and the way in which the completely community-run organizations were able to protest official […]
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In one of this week’s readings, “The Right to Stay Put, Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City,” Newman and Wyly write about the recent literature and research on gentrification and the validity of it. In the past, research has affirmed that gentrification leads to displacement of […]
In this weeks reading, “Union Square and the Paradox of Public Space,” Sharon Zukin writes quite a bit on the different groups that control public spaces like Union Square and similarly the WTC. She mentions that after 9/11, there was a dissonance in the steps that were to be taken […]
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 […]
It’s a classic, a song that all New Yorkers know and love, it’s Fred Ebb’s, “New York, New York.” Written by Ebbs in 1977 and famously performed by Frank Sinatra in 1979, this song can be seen as an attribute to the historic redevelopment of New York City that heavily […]
