Essay on Hines’ Article Triggers Response

W that is east of Allen Rd. is receiving upgrades because it is of proximity to the subway as well as to the bus stops in general. As a result, this neighbourhood has undergone gentrification and attracted individuals of higher income. Much of the land across from Downsview Park (shown in green) is commercial or industrial, which does not provide an incentive for gentrification. Therefore, there is a divide in the “cities” in this area due to the location of the subway

He describes the white flight from the inner cities to the suburbs, leaving neighborhoods with high concentrations of poor minorities behind. The Missing Class examines a similar theme of gentrification of neighborhoods, illuminated by the example of the Floyd family in the Clinton Hill neighborhood in north central Brooklyn. “Once in decline, the neighborhood is now on the upswing . . . various factories have shut their doors, the affordable housing has disappeared, and upscale apartments have sprouted.” (Newman & Chen, pg. 12). The Floyds lost their one financial asset, their home, when they were swindled by a contractor who promised to fix up the house, and allow them to pay their loan off over time. The Floyds lament about the influx of affluent white Yuppies in their neighborhood, a place where they know everyone and have lived for the past twenty years, wondering what it will mean for the neighborhood’s identity, wondering if it will still be a black neighborhood. According to another neighbor, despite the rising prices, most black residents won’t sell their homes. “Their family roots are in the South, where property carries with it both tradition and responsibility” (pg. 15). Clearly, the loss of a house or a neighborhood could deeply affect a person’s sense of self and a sense of pride, leaving someone grasping for their once stable identity.

The park’s story is worth retelling: The bisecting of the Barrio Logan community by I-5 and the Coronado Bridge, ending in a concrete “roof” supported by large gray pillars, replaced at least 1,500 families. With a society of 20,000 in its heyday in the 1940s, the historic neighborhood was rezoned as industrial in the 1950s, ushering in junkyards, auto-wrecking operations, plating and chemical companies, and now, a legacy of environmental and air condition issues.

urban design element. Latinos are not remaking these places in the sense of construction; they

Imagery: “It’s small and red with tight steps in the front and windows so small that you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in. There is no front yard just, only four elms the city planted by the curb. Out back is a small yard that looks smaller between the two buildings on either side” (Cisneros 4).

I believe that one of the main purposes of the documentary is to start and open dialogue about various subjects pertaining to suburban America. I believe that the director’s main focus for this documentary is to raise awareness for the issues like: infrastructure, sustainability, socioeconomic development, as well as paying great attention to the important roles that

To tell the story of the growth of early Los Angeles it is necessary to visit the culturally significant union station in old downtown on Alameda street. The buildings owes it begging to the American phenomenon of the railroad, the institution that allowed for American expansion into the modern era and more specifically the growth of the west coast metropolis of Los Angeles that prior was just a small Spanish town. Just across the street from the Avila adobe, one of the first and oldest existing Spanish settlements in L.A., lays Union station, a building that holds on to the city’s Spanish roots through Spanish mission style architecture. At the time of its erection, the building not only told the story of the small Spanish town that Los Angeles was but also hinted at the industrial metropolis that Los Angeles would be through the art deco language. Through the fine usage and mixture of elements at a macro and micro scale, Union Station successfully mixes the two languages of Art Deco modern and Spanish mission style to form a landmark that is a remnant of a significant transitional period in LA’s history.

As Landon Y. Jones, American editor and author, describes in his The Baby Boom, citizens with old fashioned values and aspirations thrived in the suburbs. World War II played a factor in the suburban housing by providing homes to “veterans and their newly established families,” as described by Hofstra University graduate Barbara M. Kelly in her Little Boxes, Big Ideas (Kelly.1). The American suburb was so valued that a land was specifically developed for a suburban community known as Levittown. This community would be known as “... a postwar poster child for everything right (affordability, better standard of living) and wrong (architectural monotony, poor planning, racism) with suburbia” as Joshua Ruff, a college teacher and historian from New York, explains in his article “For sale: the American dream” (Ruff.4). Despite providing housing for returning veterans, the lack of diversity and stigmatisms held within the suburban community stagnated all but the white middle class. In the video “Crisis in Levittown,” a black family moves in and causes an uproar within the uni-color community. The video “Our Home Town” attempts to sell the image of suburbia to be wonderfully infallible, despite the lack of diversity. In “The Houses of Levittown in the Context of Postwar American Culture” Kelly notes that “by making the “American Home”-- the quintessential symbol of the American dream,” even though this dream only applies to those who fit the American Dream’s standards (Kelly.5) While the 1950s could be seen as a time for America’s political and economic growth, the cultural stagnation wilted the seed of the American

However, only a little portion of those fund were actually used on low-income housing because most of the money were used by “mayors, bankers, and real estate interests” and “build apartment complexes for affluent citizens”, in which results “leaving the poor to fend for themselves in the remaining dilapidated corners of the cities”. (Jones, 602) Moreover, in spite of plan to revitalize the decay of cities by funding the urban renewal plan, it actually worsened the condition of urban poor and accelerate the decay. Also, another surprising fact is that those federal funded projects often might disrupt and destroy ethnic communities. (Jones 602) Besides, similar with bad condition as in urban, the rural area Americans were also influenced by the innovation of field used machine and didn’t really benefit from the post-war prosperous society, which in some area the unemployment even reached to 80 percent. In a word, while in the postwar 50’s and 60’s decade the social and political conditions may have been ideal for the majority of middle-class Americans, the harsh poverty problems realities in both urban and rural areas really revealed the true fact that most of the lower-class or racial minorities Americans were not fortunately to be able to achieve the kind of affluent life promoted by President Nixon and conflicts and tensions were ever-present for the underprivileged

When Douglas was 15 years old, his mother died. He was forced to leave school in order to take care of his brother. He quit his job at the bank and got a higher paying job working for a housing contractor. This began a very busy three years helping to build houses all around the Los Angeles area. He didn’t completely give up on his schooling as he took correspondence courses in the architecture field. (Ann T. Keene, 2000)

However, the reason why I decided to make San Jose the basis of my research is due to the fact that it is my parents' hometown and I lived there for 2 years on top of the collective months in which I would visit during my summer breaks. This gives me to opportunity to incorporate some of my first-hand accounts of the town rather than basing my research solely off secondary sources. Thus, my relation with the town allows me to find a solution that is not only backed up by logistic information, but also be something that incorporates the trends and ideology of the residents in the town of San Jose De Los Reynoso.

The San Francisco agents of this book give notice that, though some unavoidable delays have occurred, this volume is now ready for delivery to subscribers. As to the work itself, it is well described by the author, as being without a motive, a moral, or a plot. The only reason to be, as the French say, is probably that the author thought he could make some money by publishing a book of some kind, and here it is--such as it is. It is apparent, as the art critics say, a pot-boiler in its baldest form. As a picture of life in the Southwest, however, there is little to be said in the book's favor, though there are several passages which are drawn with much ability, with occasionally a touch of a sort of grotesque pathos which greatly interests the reader. As to the rest, it is very much of the same character as many of the author's Pacific Coast sketches, in the utter absence of truth and being unlike anything that ever existed on the earth, above the earth, or in the waters under the earth. Some twenty-two years since, when Mr. Clemens was working as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise, published in Virginia City, Nevada, he signalized his career by getting up a series of startling stories, the most prominent feature of which was the lack of a grain of fact. One of Clemens' most notorious lucutrations in this line was

railroad corporations, and landowners/deveoplers promoted their ideologies to increase their profits, and to reinforce their ideologies upon the formation of a region. The ideologies that the landowners and capitalist promoted were of prosperity for the Anglo and segregation/degradation of the Hispanic. Throughout the article, B&N give readers different names of corporations and individuals, who had tremendous influence in the formation of the Valley, and how they promoted, reimagine, and define the Valley. Man of these corporations “maintained offices dedicated to producing promotional material,” in order to provide a constant flow of their ideologies. John Shary, who is a famous land developer, had “assets, estimated at $5 million in the early 1920s, derived from his sales of land, marketing of fruit, supplying of irrigation water supply, and control of banks and newspapers in the lrgv.”(133-34). This shows how corporations and landowners have mean to produce/reinforce the ideas that become embedded into our

The main topic of both the reading and the lecture is about the origin of the massive stone buildings named "great houses" in New Mexico. The reading proposes three theories about the function of those houses; the lecture, however, refutes all these hypotheses, citing three reasons to rejects what is mentioned in the passage.

The reason given to undergo changes in a community is because of the disorder it faces. Disorder such as violence, poverty, and poor sanitation are extremely high in these areas and city official want to decrease it. Interestingly, the demographic of these neighborhoods is highly blacks and Hispanics. In reality, this is not surprising at all, is the historical context that lead to this is analyzed closely. There are a series of events that contribute to the disorder neighborhoods/people suffer and continue to suffer from.