About Owen Toews

I am a PhD candidate in Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center where I research neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and the production of space. In past years I taught Urban Life 101 and Urban Revitalization in the department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College. I am a founding member of the DIY museum collective Winnipeg Arcades Project, where we experiment with different ways of combining knowledge and artistic production and display.

Neighborhood impacts of informal tourist housing

Congratulations on your community board presentations yesterday! You were able to make lively the quotidian workings of neighborhood democracy in New York City – no small feat!

These seemingly small issues can contain a lot within them, as you showed us. On that note, here is a recent article (about New Orleans) that may shed light on why some Harlem residents are opposed to renting neighborhood housing to tourists.

Unfairbnb: What unlicensed short-term rentals mean for New Orleans.

By  Dorian Commode and Jules Bentley.

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Welcome!

Welcome to IDH 4001H (Seminar 4): Shaping the Future of New York City, Spring 2014, at Macaulay Honors College, Baruch. This site will be used to share resources and information about the course, as well as providing an interactive space to communicate about ongoing course-related matters. Feel free to post any and all questions, comments, and resources here for the benefit of the class.