In the world, there has been and will always be a food chain. Whether this is before or after society, whether the chain is visible or hidden. It’s a chain that binds us all together, imposing burdens on those below, and serving those above. I will describe this in […]
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In this weeks reading, Tom Angotti writes in his book “New York For Sale” about the power that community planning can hold. He discusses at length two specific plans: the Cooper Square Plan and Melrose plan, and the way in which the completely community-run organizations were able to protest official […]
Chapter 6 of Tom Angotti’s book New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate called “Making the Plans Official” explores how community planning has a presence in New York, but zoning has been taking a priority over community plans. The city charter change in 1989 did little to […]
In “From Protest to Community Plan” by Tom Angotti, he talks about We Stay! ¡Nos Quedamos!, a very famous committee of local homeowners, store owners and others created in Melrose Avenue in the Bronx. It was created to combat a plan to build housing that only the middle class could […]
It is the story of how a multiethnic group with a large Latino membership acted forcefully against racial and economic exclusion. […]
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 […]
In Michael Greenberg’s “Tenant’s Under Siege: Inside New York City’s Housing Crisis” he mentions that a “tide of homelessness” has swept across NYC. So much so, that shelters are being filled to maximum capacity every night. But upon doing more research it’s sadly even more severe than he leads on. […]
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 […]
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 […]
