A Summary Of Order On City Public Spaces

When a neighborhood is gentrified it will not only change the image of it, but also the services available there (Al-Kodmany 2011, 62-63). In other words, gentrification does not only have an impact on the physical aspect of the land, but also the resources that lie there. During the 90s, the Near West Side neighborhood located near Loop, an up-scale neighborhood, sought drastic changes within the area. The changes in racial demographics in the Near West Side indicated that the health risks that affected minorities dropped in the past decade (1992-2002) (Al-Kodmany 2011,

Slum conditions * Comprehensive redevelopment? Uphill 1970s – what problems with it * Renovate *

In Baltimore, the abandoned houses allowed investors to buy the houses and turn them into luxury condominiums and houses. In turn, this encourages other companies to continue to develop condominiums and houses and abandon the development of low-income housing. This cycle is called gentrification, but it is disguised as restoration to the city

In order to understand fully the regeneration of the Stratford area, it is imperative that there is some prior knowledge of how the area has developed over time. As London is the capital of England it has always been at the forefront of development, but other different areas of London have progressed at different speeds, meaning that some areas have been left waiting for regeneration whilst others have already developed. Regeneration is defined as the revitalisation of a place or community. Regeneration is both a process and an outcome . In the 1920s there were many large slums including Old Nichol, situated in Shoreditch. The conditions in the slums were well documented by Irene Barclay, who was a chartered surveyor and wanted to address social need and her actions were well appreciated by

This has caused a change in the way the homes in the area appear. Currently, many of the homes have lost their curb appeal. At one time this neighborhood had

The suburb in Belleville, as seen in source 15, was decrepit, filthy,dark, and cramped, just like the living conditions of the workers in Paris when they lived in the city. And as it is shown in source 16, worker often lived right beside the factories they worked in. This meant that they did not live in particularly clean areas. However, inside the cities, life was much better for the middle and upper class people. For instance, in Paris, the Avenue de l’Opera was built, cutting right through the houses that were there. In source 8, the destruction of a block of working class housing is evident. Working class people were cleared out of their homes to build a large, high end street. As can be seen in source 9, the Avenue de l’Opera, was a large street build for the wealthy, there was plenty of room for many carriages to go side to side, not to mention people. From the picture it is clear the people there are upper class, and there is no evidence of the working class people on the large, clean, light street. A similar area was built in Vienna, called the Ringstrasse, a wide open street for the upper class (source 5). Even looking at apartment builders built in late 19th century Vienna and Paris they seem nice, almost too nice for factory workers (sources 10,11). And so while the cities got very nice, workers were forced out by the gentrification. Even by the Buttes-Chaumont

Drawing on what you have learned about City Road from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1, describe some of the ways in which order is made and repaired on the street which you know.

Beginning in the 1960s, middle and upper class populations began moving out of the suburbs and back into urban areas. At first, this revitalization of urban areas was "treated as a ‘back to the city' movement of suburbanites, but recent research has shown it to be a much more complicated phenomenon" (Schwirian 96). This phenomenon was coined "gentrification" by researcher Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the residential movement of middle-class people into low-income areas of London (Zukin 131). More specifically, gentrification is the renovation of previously poor urban dwellings, typically into condominiums, aimed at upper and middle class professionals. Since the 1960s, gentrification has appeared in

Gentrification is the term that explains the process of renovating and improving homes, or a district to conform to middle-class preferences. As viewed in the documentary Class Divide, a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York called West Chelsea has already undergone a major shift in their community. The addition of schools such as The Avenues, and tourist attractions like the High Line has generated a new identity for the community. Children who are born in poverty in the United States have a harder time getting out of poverty than those children who come from other developed countries. This is due to various institutions such as The Avenues that have created a gap between social classes, making it harder for the lower class to achieve success. Throughout the documentary, the storyline constantly shifts to represent two different point of views: the upper class and the lower class. Within these different points of views, the central themes become evident: income inequality, opposing views of privileged and underprivileged students, and the gentrification of a community.

There are several attended audiences for this specific picture. The one audience is the businessmen that are putting up the signs; they see the kind of community it is, and they see where their businesses are about to be operating at. They probably feel positive about this action because they probably feel as if they are improving the economy of this specific area. The workers for the businessmen are the next people this sign is attended for, they can see what they’re taking down and what they about to be constructing to ‘improve’ the surrounding area. They probably do not display any type of emotion because this is their job to take down, and reconstruct new buildings all the time. The workers will probably do not think about how these luxury condos will affect the nearby families. However, on the side note they are probably okay with doing this job because it is helping them support their own families. The locals are another audience that is attended for this picture, they will be able to connect with this because they will know what’s going on in their community. This action is going to affect the rest of their lives and it will make them think about if they need to find a new home out of the community or try to stay and keep up with newly growing economy. This can affect their lives because they might not have the resources to move so then if the surrounding property taxes, mortgage, and other housing costs go up

Being a man of color, Brent Staples realized he had inherited “the ability to alter public space in ugly ways.” Whether it came as a result from walking at night, going into a jewelry store and getting a doberman pinscher pulled out on him, to seeing people, especially women’s facial expressions change once they caught sight of his thuggish appearance. Although having a completely different perspective, internet blogger, JDOWSETT, possessed a similar ability. Not as a result of his skin color, but from riding a bicycle in a predominantly automobile environment located in Lansing, MI. Instead of people reacting to him like they would with Staples (downright terrified), drivers and pedestrians on the sidewalk would berate him for riding his bicycle although he followed all the necessary guidelines of riding his bicycle. Though they share completely different experiences, both of their respective events have one thing in common. In both of their experiences being an outlier has a negative effect on those who are privileged to drive an automobile or don’t have to be looked at differently due to their skin color. People like JDOWSETT and Brent Staples are those individuals who aren’t keeping up to the guidelines of the status quo. As a result they are negatively reacted to. Because there is just that one black guy in a street of white people or that one bicyclist in a road filled with automobiles, people will often gang up on them because they somebody that isn’t necessarily like

The most famous park built in a rail road is located in New York. The High line was constructed in the 1930’s to make a transportation-fueled urban economy perform more profitably and to improve conditions ins New York city’s most heavily used public open spaces – its streets. However, no trains have traveled its tracks since the early 1980’s. The elevated rail bed was carpeted by meadow grass and wildflowers. So in 1999, a not-for-profit group of neighborhood residents, business, owners, design professionals, and civic groups joined to form the Friends of the High Line. Their mission was to bring the out-of-use viaduct into the federally sanctioned rail-banking program, which would open the rail deck to the public for use as a walkway, a gallery,

The High Land park is situated in the track bed of what was once an elevated railway line, which ran down the west side of Manhattan. It was used to transport freight to factories and warehouses which lined this area of New York. The HarvardGSD YouTube video (2011) reveals the railway tracks originally ran at street level, but became dangerous for pedestrians and drivers. Consequently, in 1934 the city transferred the railway line to an elevated level about thirty feet above street level. Due to the gradual disappearance of small manufacturing in Manhattan, there was a decline in railway transport demand. A demolition order was issued for the High Line in 1992. The

Gentrification is a planned or unplanned process where wealthy individuals "displace" poor individuals from their areas of living by purchasing the property and later upgrading it through modernization and renovation (Brown-Saracino, 2013). Ruth Glass coined the term Gentrification in her book London: Aspects of Change in reference to the influx of wealthy individuals to poorly inhabited areas in central London in 1964 (Brown-Saracino, 2013). These rich individuals were referred to as “gentry” hence the term gentrification.

According to Dictionary.com, “gentrification is the process of renovating houses and stores in urban neighborhoods to fit the middle or upper-income families, raising property value, but often displacing low-income families.” Gentrification has been an idea since the 1960s and had an effect on countless cities and neighborhood communities. Gentrification was first used by Ruth Glass in her book London: Aspect of Change in 1964, she noted that ¨gentrification can progress rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced, and the whole social character of the district is changed.” Nonetheless, gentrification has helped revive many cities and revolutionize them, especially with technological