I define “everyday displacement” as the lived experience of ongoing loss—of the security, agency, and freedom to “make place” – Filip […]
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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 […]
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 […]
What quantifies a city? The people, the amenities, the culture? What if such factors take a drastic change, is the city still the same? Such are the points which garner the platform of Sharon Zukin’s piece, Naked City, Zukin claims that cities have lost its “edge” and its “difference.” Chronic […]
In her book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Zukin opens the chapter “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto” by describing the atmosphere of Settepani, a restaurant in Harlem that has attracted tourists, new residents, and gentrifiers. Zukin associates Settepani and other well-known Harlem restaurants with […]
As I read through Sharon Zukin’s work, on the corporatization of Union Square, I could hardly keep myself from relating it back to an article I had read over the weekend. Just as the citizens of New York lost control over Union Square to corporate interests, the citizens of Brooklyn […]
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 […]
“Which part of Jacob’s vision was actually misinterpreted?.”This is what I remember briefly asking myself after rereading the beginning of Tochterman’s “Theorizing Neoliberal Urban Development: A Genealogy from Richard Florida to Jane Jacobs” this week. As a mutual consensus, Jane Jacobs is and will be forever seen as the hero who fought […]
Race isn’t what breeds the alienation of gentrification, it’s the position that the new imports take. […]