Jeremiah Moss describes 1997 as the “turning point” between the old and new culture of the meatpacking district, a neighborhood running from West 14th street to Gansevoort Street. After the acquiring of Manhattan by the Dutch, by the 1800s, this district became coined as such due to its primary purpose […]
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What a divisive topic gentrification can be. People being priced out of the places they have called home for years and years does not seem like an ideal scenario. We can definitely see that now in the New York we live in today as it is being rezoned and reinvented, […]
Discussions about the factors that affect development in New York City tend to cluster around ideas of zoning and demographics and, to a lesser extent, the demand for quality of life factors such as access to transportation, public school systems, and access to essential services. The belief in developers as […]
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 […]
In New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Agnotti discusses how the finance, insurance, and real estate industries greatly contributed to the landscape of New York City we see today and how FIRE affected community planning. Agnotti mentions how big FIRE players contributed to the dislocation of […]
This past January a news clip of one of Fox News’ most recognizable talking heads, Tucker Carlson, drew a lot of attention due to the nature of Carlson’s argument and its uncharacteristic quality for a right wing platform like Fox News. Carlson begins by talking about Mitt Romney’s involvement in […]
“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 […]
While Mayor Bill de Blasio recently went on the late night television show “Real Time with Bill Maher” to proclaim himself an indisputable progressive, some in his city have found themselves disagreeing. Recently, a small Brooklyn-based newspaper called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote an article about a protest that occurred as a […]
Robert Moses is a man that is known to have greatly impacted the physical features of the New York City we know today. The process of city building has changed drastically since his time, and therefore his influence on the building of NYC is unmatched. His contributions to the city […]
Robert Moses has come to be known as a figure that single-handedly made New York City what it is today-physically speaking at least. During his time in power, his contributions were astounding not only in the number of public works completed, but also in the speed of their execution, in […]
