Education is continuously evolving, always trying to improve to help provide the best education possible. When in high school, students often despise attending school and barely make it to graduation. Paolo Freire saw great fault in our education system and believed that teachers should not only be imparting knowledge to […]
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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 […]
In New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Tom Angotti describes the Cooper Square Alternate Plan, the first community plan in New York City prepared by an active neighborhood committee which sought to fight Robert Moses and planners’ rezoning and bulldozing of the Lower East Side. The […]
Chapter four of Angotti’s New York for Sale, “From Protest to Community Plan,” revolves around the capabilities of communities in terms of changing the way urban development takes place in their neighborhoods, contrary to the plans of private developers, for instance. He emphasizes this through the discussion of examples where […]
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 […]
After reading Tom Angotti’s chapter “The Real Estate Capital of the World” and Michael Greenberg’s article “Tenants Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis,” the theme of dislocation became crystal clear. Unfortunately, gentrification is one of the main reasons behind New York City’s large homeless population. And this population […]
