Neighborhood Definition

I’ve lived in Chicago almost all my life. There’s a lot of neighborhoods in Chicago; Good and bad. Living on the south side of Chicago most of my life would make you think there’s nothing but violence in the city. Even though Its bad, I enjoy the neighborhood I live in now. The neighborhood I live in is Roseland, but I grew up in Englewood. Both neighborhoods are similar, but they have their differences.

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Anderson notes that two groups coexist simultaneously in the inner-cities which he labels as the “decent” and the “streets.” Although both groups suffer economic difficulties, they differ in values mainly instilled through parenting and the home environment. The decent group seeks to adopt mainstream middle-class values, such as a love,

Social location, or the status in life that people have because of their place in a society, have a huge impact on everyone. The impact that social location created could be neutral, but most of the time it will have a positive or negative impact on people. For example, an African American could be discriminated because of his ethnicity, or a patient will choose an older doctor when he needs a treatment. Different social location that we have will affect our decisions in everyday life, and most of the time it happened subconsciously, which means we don’t realize that the decisions we make are based on our social location. Like everyone else, I was affected by my own social location, both positively and negatively.

I thought cities had more diversity, more poverty, and low income household than suburb areas and this was supported by the above data. I learned that the increase of wealth and income in a small community hinders the rest of community where middle and low income families live. The ability to live in a “good” neighborhood is linked to income. Income can be one of the factors that determine how a region can be segregated. Even in the city, the income of the household separates the lower income families from the higher income families. High income families tend to live together and low income families tend to live in the same

Zukin, an avid advocate for authenticity, discussed in detail how cities are losing their authenticity. Zukin described authenticity as “a continuous process of living and working, a gradual buildup of everyday experience.” The issue is many cities are that people are now coming and going all the time to the point where everyone stays a stranger to one another, shops are always being closed and changed, and nothing is ever around long enough to create a culture that leads to authenticity. Gentrification is taking away many neighborhoods authenticity as many corporate leaders and politicians look to “clean up” areas which usually has to deal with people of color that are poor. Authenticity and racial diversity are traded for capital. This leads to segregation of less fortunate individuals and families of color. When governments or businesses try and gentrify different neighborhoods they rely on laws, pressure, and lie in order to remove the people who live in these areas.

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.” (Being). 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

“people around here are willing to help their neighbors, this a close knit neighborhood, people in this neighborhood can be trusted, people in the neighborhood generally don’t get along with each other and people in this neighborhood don’t share the same values” (Sampson et al., 1997, 920).

two most common stereotypes; the “wealthy” and the “ghetto”. When thinking of a wealthy neighborhood, images of large homes and expensive cars come to mind. On the other hand, the word “ghetto” conjures up images of boarded windows and over- grown lawns. Clearly these stereotypes are not always true, but the idea remains the same. The neighborhood you live in automatically places you in certain categories, re- gardless of whether or not you belong in them. “As the cliché goes, you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes—you can tell even more about them based on where they've chosen to call home.” An article by Megan Koester titled

First, they state that gentrification is beneficial to the communities in which it occurs, because it may promote lower crime rates, and provide economic grounding and growth. But these statistics are incredibly deceiving, not unlike the general demographic which facilitates such gentrification. First, while in a purely quantitative respect, gentrification does lead to an exhibition of “growth” (increased business activity and profits, increased population, and an overall higher income level), when examining the outcomes in a more qualitative way, it can be seen that the process is incredibly depressive to established communities. Not only does gentrification drain the established populations financially and lead to their displacement, often even cultural values are appropriated and commonly used phrases take on new meaning; for example, “...social workers endeavor to get ghetto youth “off the streets”, the lowest form of destitution is to be a “bum on the streets”, and the most degraded form of prostitution is to be a “streetwalker” (Erikson). Gentrification, in contrast, promotes the positive value of the street and what is street life.”. Unfortunately, this perfectly embodies the way in which the meanings of terms (in this case, “street”) are connotated in vastly different ways when referring to people of different race and class; as the minority and marginalized populations are

Typically, us Americans categorize neighborhoods we see into two categories, which are wealthy and poor neighborhoods. After observing families’ income in wealthy neighborhoods compared to poor neighborhoods, they are drastically distinctive. Most families who have great amounts of money generally live in a large house, while those who are classified as “poor” will be found in some unsafe areas. These homes have different builds, exteriors may be maintained or may be filled with clutter, and the families inside these homes may express different wants than the opposite class. Unfortunately, wealthy and poor people both fall under a stereotype. The rich are looked upon as snobby and prude, while the poor are seen as lacking intelligence or they could abuse drugs and alcohol. However, I observed a “wealthy” and a “poor” neighborhood in the city of

However, Wacquant brings the term “inner city” to light, breaking down its meaning: “black and poor.” Living in Chicago gives one an exemplary example of the term “inner city” meaning “poor, black ghettos.” The references to “inner city” schools being synonymous with “poor quality” and “mostly African American” are damaging to urban terminology and creating a predetermined perspective of those who call the “inner city” home. The “hypersegregation” of the city of Chicago is a topic within itself, but the institution of segregation is, without question, existent here. In addition, “inner city” is becoming a label which implies unavoidable incarceration.

A neighborhood is a place when we spend almost half of our life, a neighborhood can be used to talk about to the small group of houses in the close vicinity of one’s house or to a larger area with similar housing types and market values. As in the article “Southwest Philadelphia” by Michael McCauley, people houses were too close to each other and every one of them knew every single person who lived in every house on the street. They were like relatives. Same comparable an author story, I was born and grow up in a small neighborhood which is Kavaja city, in the middle of Albania. It is a quiet neighborhood with respectful neighbors, safe area and it is accessible to public transportation.

Tissot claims that “Gentrifies want to elaborate a way of life different from that of the suburbs, translating certain liberal ideas into action. At the same time, they still have a deep-rooted fear of the “ghettos” and of “the other” especially as embodied by black men. (p. 250)” Upper middle class came to the South End not because they could no longer afford to live in the suburbs or the higher end side of the town, but because they wanted a different scenery, a more diverse scenery. But as Tissot states, their “love of diversity goes hand in hand with its strict limitation and control. (p. 246)” Prior to moving to South End, these pioneers had their own residential norms embedded in them.

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