Notes From Class on 3/23

Disclaimer!!!: My notes are always all over the place and unorganized, forgive me for that, but they are meant to serve as reference points or thought provoking points that remind you of topics and ideas mentioned in class. I am sorry if they are hard to follow, but nonetheless, I hope they are helpful.

Building Urban Terrorism into the Course Project…

• “not dealing with an army, dealing with an idea and you can’t kill an idea with an army” (I just really liked what Mohammed said and thought it was too special not to write down)

Topics and Ideas Mentioned to Combat Terrorism…

• Somehow incorporating civic hall
• Mental health/talk centers
• Considering the community ecosystem
• Diversity training –> mom meetings
• Using the app to report domestic abuse and tenant violation as a foundation for an app to create communication between different groups
• Change the law (with regards to media representation)
• Cultural fluency courses to combat ignorance
• Film (made available in app, communities, in classes, etc.)
• Advertising agencies promoting diversity in ads
• Public schools are now closed in Muslim holidays –> starting at a city level change

With Regards to the Class Project…

• Building terrorism, security, and diversity into introduction or make it its own unit?
• Use diversity as an umbrella concept
• In the work unit, tech people speak in terms of functional diversity, not necessarily the cultural diversity we expect
• Underrepresentation of women in the tech economy (might be worth mentioning in the work unit)
• In the housing unit, we can speak in terms of economic and social diversity
• Reminder: Housing team needs to build into their presentation the zoning changes/plan under Mayor de Blaiso’s administration approved by the city council
• Introduction –> Links to Diversity –> Conclusion
• Use neighborhood maps
• Shopping team can select 3 maps an do an ethnic analysis/breakdown of each and focus on these three areas in the interviews
• Build diversity into each of 3 units of this course and of the class project

Quick Recap of Topics Discussed/Should be Mentioned in Class Project

• Umbrella concept of diversity
• Conclusion
• Terrorism
• Housing team must build the new zoning law into their presentation
• Work/economy/tech must use prezi
• Presentation on April 1^st using prezi for the work team

Reflection of Civic Hall

• Civic Hall and 18F?
• Working for the sake of people/society and not just for private companies
• Civic Hall with the advancement of technology –> there will always be new problems that need to be solved and new job opportunities
• Drive, visionaries, “constant symposia of networking”
• Iteration – coming up with an idea, testing it, changing it (testing or experimentation for us)
• Microsoft sells Civic Hall’s ‘products’
• Run a tech academy – trains people for tech jobs/skills
• Corporation still benefits because they are promoting and selling their own products
• Google as well

Talk About the Economy…

• Industry City used to be called Bush Terminal
• Used as warehouses and manufacturing spaces, goods are then shipped out to the city and the rest of the country
• Attracting “gentrifiers” to the food stores on the first floor and then attracting them to the office spaces upstairs
• Industry City will no longer have college dorms
• CUNY and NYU wanted dorm space here
• Local residents don’t want college kids
• Community residents want places that will hire community workers
• Zoning laws
• Tensions between space for housing and work
• Changing the economy from being Wall Street dependent (finance sector) to the tech sector
• Diversity of economic sectors growing at the same time
• Thinking of Civic Tech in this picture of the economy
• Different parts of tech that might want to be mentioned in the class project
• Fashion
• Media
• Civic Hall
• Real Estate (under the umbrella of finance)
• Entertainment (Film and TV production)
• Artisanal food
• ecommerce
• Advertising
• Start-ups in the tech economy using rented offices
• WeWork as an intermediary
• Waterfront (more manufacturing) in Sunset Park
• The entire workforce can change, especially with intentions of building hotels
• Industrial workers will be expected to do different kinds of manufacturing (working with new technology)
• People working in existing manufacturing jobs are likely not to be hired again for jobs as well paid or as well stable (people in their 40s)
• CUNY is active in workforce training (NYC Tech or MOUSE, encouraging the board of education to start computer and coding classes for K-12)
• Financial literacy or cultural literary apps
• Multiplier effect in tech: 1 tech job can create 5 other jobs (reading assignment by Moretti)