As we reach the end of the semester, I thought that it might be interesting to do something a bit different for a change. Rather than find some sort of media that relates to the topic at hand, I thought that an interesting deviation might be a contrast, rather than […]
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Doubled-Edged Sword (noun): Something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences. After reading the articles by Winifred Curran, the phrase Double-Edged Sword immediately came to mind. The effects of gentrification on industrial displacement is more complicated than at first glance. Like most issues, there are multiple sides […]
Winifred Curran’s entire argument is an implied “nature is good, and anything that interferes with nature is bad”. I simply ask: why? Additionally, I will show that Curran’s argument doesn’t make sense intuitively, doesn’t make sense practically, and doesn’t make sense ideologically. Natural is defined as “existing in or caused […]
There is a certain consequence to rezoning that cannot be mitigated. Communities can be displaced, poverty can escalate exponentially, and entire racial groups can be left in the dust as newer (wealthier) people move in. There are few ways to prevent those consequences, fewer ways to alleviate them, and fewer […]
Brooklyn is a constantly evolving borough. Words that Brooklyn is defined by get re-defined and their connotations re-thought-out. Where the grittiness of Brooklyn was once something to force people out, it changed to a defining characteristic that drew people in. Brooklyn is now described as being “authentic”, making it cool […]
Growing up I was always told that Harlem was a dangerous neighborhood that was to be avoided at all costs. In my imagination it was a place of abandoned houses riddled with drugs and drug lords. Therefore, you can imagine my surprise after reading Sharon Zukin’s “Why Harlem is Not […]
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 […]
Formation: Why and Where Volcanoes form when magma from the Earth’s upper mantle erupt outward, growing bigger with each eruption. This happens because of the Earth having tectonic plates, which converge or diverge at certain locations. We can compare this to New York’s real estate industry. Real estate in New […]
Labeled as the “real estate capital of the world,” New York City is determined to be one of the most marvelous cities in the US due to urban city planning. However, Tom Agnotti serves to enlighten readers about the true harms that real estate and “modernizing” the city has caused […]
Ann Lewis: someone invested in the power dynamics of society, in the consequences of unchecked shifts in power, in the various realities perceived by communities as a result of these consequences. In 2014, the 5Pointz building in Queens was bought by developer Jerry Wolkoff with the intent to transform the […]
As we read Jeremiah Moss’s rather depressing take on a New York City that has, in his opinion, already reached its end thanks to the suburbs and gentrification reaching ridiculous degrees, it was difficult not to imagine the struggles that minorities and impoverished people experience on a daily basis. In […]
Race isn’t what breeds the alienation of gentrification, it’s the position that the new imports take. […]
