Good Neighbor Tissot

For many Americans, the simple mention of the word “neighborhood” immediately conjures up memories of Fred Rogers singing the iconic theme song of his long-running PBS show, “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.” A typical episode of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood featured appearances from many of Mr. Rogers’ neighbors, such as Officer Clemmons, a black police officer who would often drop by to teach viewers about the job of policing, to impart some practical wisdom for living peacefully with one’s neighbors, or simply to check up on the kind, cardigan-wearing man. Characters like Officer Clemmons added to the overt portrayal of Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood as a place of cooperation, encouragement, and positivity. In a recent NPR interview, Francois Clemmons,

“The combat blockbusting, a group of families in Northwest neighborhoods east of the park organized Neighbors, Inc. and convinced white property owners that they were hurting themselves as well as the community by succumbing to the arguments of real estate manipulators.” Real estate agents have an unrecognized power to control residential demographics. If an agent is unwilling to sell property to a certain demographic or income class, they control who lives in the neighborhood. “Neighbors, Inc. held meetings and community activities and by 1960 had induced eight white Citizen’s Associations to join other organizations in a fight to get the city’s major newspapers to drop racial designations in real estate advertisements.” It is harder to create diversity when real estate agents stand in the way. “We are far from creating a classless, colorblind society. We will have to work together to overcome discrimination and to abolish the deep-seated and senseless fears that have prevented us from fulfilling our commitment to residential integration and equal opportunity in every aspect of our lives.”19 Learning from the mistakes of their past, Tenleytown residents fought for racial equality in the housing market. This neighborhood has a strange racial history in which blacks were openly accepted, integrated with community, then later forced out of their residence. Race relations is a significant part of the neighborhood’s

It is fascinating to observe social interactions in a large place. More importantly, analyzing how people interact on grounds of social stratification, power, wealth, prestige, ascribed status, and achieved status. Last weekend, I visited Boston Common Park to purposely observe how people are interacting with one another. I was equipped with a notebook to jot down some important observations in light of the aforementioned elements of social interaction. My interest was drawn towards a wedding being officiated at this venue with people coming from diverse backgrounds being present at the venue. This event provided the perfect scene for identifying various ethnographic phenomena.

“Black Men And Public Space” is a story that not only shares the author's experiences with racial discrimination but also allows the reader to emerge into his reality. Staples reflection of his experiences led him to conform to unfair circumstances. Regardless,

Public spaces are areas in the community in which people can come into a common place and promotes community identity. Parks create an environment for the community to reach out to each other as well as creating a public forum for the community. We need to have the community more involved with each other and the best way to create an enriching environment is if the community was able to come and share their many identities to create a unique identity for the park. Tattnall Square Park hold a farmer’s market every week to promote community involvement and every so often brings in entertainment for the community to experience. The green space that the parks will have will welcome other community activities from other organizations and therefore allow the park to flourish. Parks are important to the community because they lend a hand in creating an identity to who the community is. The more inviting a community is, the more the community might intermingle, and the more inviting the community will seem to others creating an environment that Village Green, Mid-City Square, and Mill Hill needs.

In recent times public spaces have been used for protests. One example was the controversy regarding the confederate flag. As a result of the demonstration and debate the flag was removed. The public space that I chose is Gerard Park for the following reasons. First, it’s location it is easy for me to get in my car and arrive there in minutes with moderate traffic. Secondly, the park offers a variety of services there is a walking trail for people like myself who loves walking. There is a play area for the children, which includes a slide, swing, and merry-go-round. Older kids have a choice of playing indoor or outdoor basketball. Thirdly, the park offers many services to the community. During the summer swimming lessons are taught.

Both passages have valid points,But here's how I see it I feel that a dog park would be A good place for A community because. Dogs need sometime out of the day to play and run around and exercise. And A tiny private yard Isn't enough for a Dog at all dog parks provide the freedom to your dog to run around and play and exercise. And A dog park would also benefeit the dog owner by letting your dog go out and exercise and play, and training there dog it will become more obidient. And training your dog will help when say for instince your trying to go to sleep because you have to work in the morning and you your dog to be quiet with training it'll take one command and the dog will sit and be quiet or go to sleep as well. So i feel there should

Play space were created to get children of the streets, when New York was being developed cars were increasing at a high rate and children had to complete with on-going traffic while playing in the street. Due to the increase numbers of cars in the city, children injuries and death was at all-time high, because they had no place to play and the cars were taking over the streets of New York. This was the main reason park were built, so that children had a safe place to play. In the early years when parks came about the served a valuable purpose for children, today it seems that park in the urban low-income neighborhoods lost its significance. According to the Wridt article, the interview she conducted of the three individuals ages ranges from 13-60 years old. These individuals arise from the same neighborhood but yet they all have very

The group’s goal of wanting to restore the downtown eastside through the introduction of social mixing is hopeful in that it would provide an inclusive community that encompasses both the middle and working class. The belief that this group held onto is that by putting the two classes in the same neighbourhood, social cohesion and the absolute possibility of coexisting in harmony between the two groups should be a given. For example, the group talked about the diversified character of a social mix neighbourhood where low end stores and high end stores could co exist to provide mutual benefits for both the middle and working class. However, it is problematic to envision harmony as a given. Since class barriers cannot easily be deconstructed

Today in our community the public parks that we have around some of the parks are being mistreated in being vandalising and not trying to keep it clean for the residents that in the nearby neighborhood and communities. The thing that I discovered was that according San Jose Mercury News “that the city needs the money from residents that live in the city of San Jose to fix up those parks that are being mistreated by some of the residents. Me growing up in the Eastside part of the city of San Jose some of the of the parks that some of my cousins and I use too go to the playgrounds and play but they were all full with writing of tags. That a lot of trouble makers knows as people that would go and vandalise the parks for no reason and would be

My Literature Review will focus heavily on how public spaces can be used as a tool to oppress marginalized communities, but I will also work to include more positive examples of uses of public space.

Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman’s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces.

Resistance is a fundamental aspect of social and cultural geographies, stemming from the permanent interrelations between domination and contestation, rooted in the early work of Karl Marx (Keith and Pile 1997). Furthermore, intent on possessing its own spatialities, resistance inhabits and generates alternative spatialities in addition to those defined through domination (Keith and Pile 1997). Resistance is capable of intersecting and appropriating specific places, most commonly public space (Keith and Pile 1997). The ability of resistance to root in public space is resultant of two supposedly universal properties of public space, that of public stewardship, and open access to all citizens (Zukin 1995). However, while Zukin (1995) claims that occupancy and the ability to define public space is malleable, Staeheli et al. (2009) challenges this, claiming there are three specific barriers to gain entrance to public space. This essay will focus upon just one barrier, whereby legality and enforcements inhibit access, thus creating boundaries within public space. This space is therefore predominantly used as a fundamental point of resistance

Race doesn’t play a hefty role in America today, but it is still evident in our lives. Parkview living is about 15% African American with a 72% Caucasian community (Park View Demographics, De Witt Demographics). The location of Manor Drive is a primarily an African American neighborhood with apartments and townhouse living. This location is not well kept: overgrown grass, broken windows, and caved-in roofs. The constant repairs being made on homes there are never ending. Manor Drive holds the largest crime rate in Park

Tila Tequila, an actress, once said, “I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.”. This quote can genuinely relate to neighborhoods all round the world, which is the neat aspect. A couple of friends and I observed a few neighborhoods on a Tuesday afternoon in the Quad Cities. These two neighborhoods were Gains Street, which is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, along with Crow Creek, which is located in Bettendorf, Iowa. If you don’t know, Gains Street is known for its crime and gang activity which happens daily. On the other hand, Crow Creek is this new and improved neighborhood which is continually being added on to. For