Besides the impact gentrification has had on the people who live in cities, Winifred Curran examines how manufacturing businesses are being forced to move out of cities and either relocate or cease to exist. Rather than placing the blame on competition between global manufacturing businesses and deindustrialization, Curran makes a […]
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The children’s cartoon show Arthur teaches various lessons about life, family, and education through the experiences of various characters. In an episode of the series, the character Brain has various dreams about the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and replicates what […]
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 […]
Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” names numerous events, ideas, and objects that were prevalent in popular culture and politics during the latter half of the 20th Century, many of which were controversial such as the creation of the hydrogen bomb, President Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and the Cold […]
“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 […]
The company Nintendo is notorious for making video games that offer unique interactive experiences, such as their popular franchise Animal Crossing. The Animal Crossing series of video games allows people to take on the role of a new resident in a town full of talking animals that have all sorts […]
After reading the assigned portions of Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, “Our House” the 1982 pop song by Madness “popped” into my head. For those unfamiliar with the song, the lyrics are available here: https://genius.com/Madness-our-house-lyrics. In “Our House” Madness constantly repeats the phrase “Our house in […]
