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ITF Post: The Rise and Fall of New York City?

Here’s a collection of links organized around the history of New York examined as a way to understand its present and future status. The links include essays, multimedia, book reviews, and maps for you to consider in relation to the material covered this semester. Seminar texts, discussions, and projects have led you to the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid. This course has focused on accruing new information, assimilating and applying that information through class requirements (participating in class discussion, researching a topic about New York City, writing eportfolio posts, creating and presenting work to a group), and through these processes, the information has turned to knowledge. How might you analyze or evaluate the sources linked below? What did info or skills did you develop that helps you understand these sources and link to the broader themes of our seminar?

Essays

Joan Didion, “Goodbye To All That” (1967)

Zadie Smith, “Find Your Beach,” New York Review of Books (October 23, 2014)

E.B. White, “This Is New York,” (1949)

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Subway Stories

Response 4 of 5: Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New City Subway by Sunny Stalter-Pace

By: Mariam Esa

      Sunny Stalter-Pace’s Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New City Subway considers various views of the subway as voiced by numerous people. The book in a sense represents the city by providing a wide array of subway stories that reminds us of the countless perspectives to be found in New York City. Throughout the course of this book, we are introduced to ideas of the dangers of the subway, the artistic expression of it, the way it portrays diversity, and much more. It allows us to see just how integrated the subway is in making New York City what it is. Continue reading “Subway Stories”

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Inequality in New York

Rachel Swed

Reflection 4 of 5

Inequality and New York’s Subway

A huge problem in New York is inequality and huge income gaps between citizens. In the article, Inequality and New York’s Subway, Larry Buchanan brings up very valid points about the injustice in New York by simply looking at the subway system. He provides an interactive infographic that shifts for different subway lines. The infographic shows the income of people who live around those stops. Through this interactive, you can see that there is a great inequality between these boroughs. Majority of this information shows that Manhattan has the highest median income out of the five boroughs in New York. There are huge gaps in income between not only boroughs but also between stops on the subway lines! Continue reading “Inequality in New York”

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the Subway System: Shaping NYC

(Reflection 4 of 5)

by Anna Tsomo

Sunny Stalter-Pace’s Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway is an apt representation of the subject on which it is written. Meandering, multifaceted yet somehow cohesive, the book is much like the New York City subway system. Through its well-developed perspectives, it allows readers to understand how fully the subway has influenced modern culture—not only literature, but the wider meaning of subway stories, and how they become truths. While that is the focus of the text, it also sheds light on how the subway divides and connects people.

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MCNY: Representing Activism or Acts of Omission?

(Response 2 of 5) by Anna

Museum of the City of New York

Contested Terrain: History, Museums, and the Public by James B. Gardner

 

Just like the City it represents, the Museum of the City of New York is not afraid to make bold statements or address controversial topics. The complexities of life and culture in New York City can feel overwhelming and even unintelligible, but the museum manages to present the fullness of the culture in an ordered, intentional way. This is exemplified in Activist New York, a multimedia exhibition that documents the history of activism in NYC. But does this exhibit celebrate some movements only to invalidate others?

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ITF Post: How to add footnotes to your posts

After reading everyone’s latest posts, it occurred to me that there’s a simple way to add citations to your posts: the plugin FD Footnotes. I’ve activated FD Footnotes and now you can easily add footnotes to your posts.

Why is this important? 1. Published posts instantly appear more streamlined; 2. As a result, the reader focuses on your ideas and you’re still properly citing your sources. 3. Learning how to adapt academic writing conventions to digital formats develops your ability to write for different platforms and audiences.1

Read on for very easy instructions + screen recording that I made to show you how to do it!

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  1. Alexis Carrozza, ITF for your seminar. ↩