“‘From the Frying Pan to the Oven’: Gentrification and the Experience of Industrial Displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn” by Winifred Curran, is about how deindustrialization in Williamsburg caused displacement of people and businesses due to developers desiring their land. However, we know that developers usually come to a […]
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The cultural explosion known as the Harlem Renaissance, where black artists, intellectuals, writers, and musicians thrived, became a period in which African American artists reclaimed their identity and racial pride in defiance of widespread prejudice and discrimination. The formation of Harlem during this time followed relatively traditional patterns. When more […]
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 […]
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 […]
