The Development Of Downtown San Diego

The documentary San Francisco 2.0 examines how San Francisco city officials have given tax breaks to the Silicon Valley tech industry to move to San Francisco. These new techs companies have brought in a lot of wealth to the city, but at a cost. The majority of the low-income natives are being evicted or having their rents raised so high that they can't afford them. The gentrification of the city has impacted low-income districts (for example, the mission district known for its Latin immigrants) that the residents and the culture are being displaced. I believe the documentary is important for the study of the issue of gentrification because San Fransisco was known for being-counter culture, caring for the arts and for civil progress. The housing

Building the vitality of the downtown core through the creation of new residential, business, retail, cultural and entertainment opportunities.

Before diving into the relevant action steps, it is important to understand the history that led to this crisis. Thompson (2010), states that after World War II, cities were highly valued and popular until conflict, poverty, and distress led to the demise of these cities; thus increasing the value of suburban

Woodlawn and Washington Park lack commercial vitality likely due to the low and declining residential density and the lack of disposable income needed to support retail development. Businesses in Woodlawn and Washington Park largely cluster along the neighborhoods’ commercial corridor with prime access to the CTA’s Green line Stations and are characterized by low sales volume and not much diversity. With large concentrations of vacant land and a lack of neighborhood amenities both neighborhoods will have an uphill struggle to start growing the residential base if done in isolation from UChicago and other non-profit and public partners.

The implementation of gentrification as an economic strategy exhibits a break from the liberal urban policy present in the United States up until the 1970s, as well as a restructuring of the relationship between capital and the state. This departure from liberal urban policy occurred due to the development of a new neo-liberal urbanism¬– an urban form where the state becomes a partnered agent of the capitalist market rather than a regulator. This transformation was made possible through the disempowerment of original liberal urban policy. Public policy constraints on gentrification were replaced by a subsidized private-market shift of the urban built environment. As a result, neo-liberal urbanism has fueled gentrification through a systematic partnership of public planning with private capital.

“San Francisco is a microcosm for what is happening not only in the US, but all over the world. It is places that increasingly desirable to live in that are becoming gated communities. I’m worried about a city that is becoming uniformly wealthy, out of reach and out of touch.”- Robert Reich

The most notable and current community development is the Downtown Development Project taking place in the Carousel District and Theatre square. The plan is to take advantage of the

As time progresses and develops so does our technology, mindsets, and cities. Our cities are as much a living and growing organism as we are. The health and prosperity of our bodies depends on the fundamental systems its built on to be working properly, as does our cities. Our towns and communities develop and mature just as we do by growing up and getting more complex. We are a constant evolving system that is faced with new problems everyday and we have to work together to solve those problems just like a city would. As time has progressed our beloved Ocean City has changed in this exact manner. Through developments in culture, landscape, buildings, attractions and travel Ocean City has become a city unrecognizable since its conception in

People always wonder why the City of Angels is different from other cities. This paper will answer this question and explain the uniqueness that makes L.A., “L.A.” Los Angeles, since its birth as an embryonic city, has become one of the most diverse metropolises, offering to the public what no other city can. This paper will emphasize the relationship between the federal government and the western United States. It will also illustrate how capitalism has flourished because of the prevalent 19th century Laissez Faire ideology. It will describe how the free market prevailed and expanded Los Angeles outward, while cultivating new public institutions and private enterprises.

San Diego- Tijuana and the Dominican Republic-Haiti populations have experienced the same patterns in recent history. San Diego and Tijuana were once seamless. Once the Northern area of San Diego was colonized and defined, the identities of both sides of the American border changed over time. The San Diego gained and American identity and, during the Great Depression, deported Mexican immigrants to Mexico, some of whom were American citizens. Later on, when San Diego once again began to flourish, employment opportunities lured illegal immigrant back to the area, while the federal government turned a blind eye. The urbanization of San Diego heavily relied upon Tijuana immigrants to grow when there weren’t enough people to fill low

The urban landscape in San Jose, California is changing rapidly and it is imperative to administer sustainable policy decisions to guide vibrant, new communities into the future. To fully evaluate consideration of all benefits and drawbacks in various infrastructure for new arts and entertainment districts; a benefits to cost analysis is usually applied to each dollar allocated to issues in cities that demonstrate potential to change trajectory of their brand, image, identity and overall appearance. City of San Jose Planning Department must ensure a strategy which proves to meet the demands in new community districts of socialization for residents and multifamily households to propel a steady economy. Shits in mobility including alternate modes

The district is to benefit from subsidiary programs including new streetscape traffic calming plans, municipal vegetation, street lighting, signage, recreational facilities, public parks, and preservation of historic structures. Public oversight measures within the Redevelopment Plan ensure that use of eminent domain on property zoned by the project is prohibited for all residential property and generally prohibited without the scrutiny of the Project Action Committee in due process. The project isn’t only meant to develop affordable housing but also stimulate economic development, community enhancement, and public cohesiveness. Most notably, regulations featured in the Redevelopment Plan include quotas to for low-income housing that should prove effective in overturning district gentrification.Gentrification is defined as the displacement of one group of people in an urban area due to an influx of a wealthier group of people which can

However, this gave way to an entrepreneurial approach that primarily focused on local development and employment growth in the following decades. This is mirrored across the capitalist world, but is perhaps most evident in the United States where the reduction in the flow of federal redistributions and local tax revenues after 1972 led to this revival in civic boosterism and entrepreneurialism (Harvey, 1989). It certainly has far reaching consequences in that future growth prospects may all be about “playing the capitalist game”, the paving to a zero-sum development. To that, Harvey asserted that urban entrepreneurialism (1) is based on public-private partnership so that local boosterism attracts external sources of funding, direct investments, and employment sources, (2) is speculative in general and thus compounded with risks and difficulties that are absorbed by the local public sector, and (3) places emphasis on political economy rather than economic projects that improve living and working conditions. The extension is a prime example of this because it was intended to bring business and entertainment to the Hudson Yards neighborhood, and it did- many businesses in the area have seen increased profits since the project’s construction leading to a development boom in its vicinity. However, it faced its own risks and difficulties from the start, seeing that it was supposed to be funded by an innovative “tax incremental financing” that issued city bonds for the construction to be repaid by future tax revenue from developers (Jaffe,

Revitalization efforts in downtown areas have gained momentum over the past few decades, this paper is focused on revitalization strategies, recognizing the process of decline, while identifying key strategies used in downtown revitalization efforts over the past fifty years (Faulk 2006). Downtowns, unlike suburban shopping malls or office complexes, evolved slowly over time, responding to changing technologies, social and economic patterns. A city’s identity relies heavily on the image of its downtown, so inevitably cities of all sizes commit themselves to achieving successful downtown redevelopment (Robertson 1995). As I have been reading literature on downtown revitalization a number of strategies and principles have surfaced. Many of

As seen by the above example and expounded by Losch, these periphery/edge cities provide the CBD the vital workforce population needed, while also providing the opportunity to find affordable housing opportunities and the prospect to take advantage of the lower commuter costs from the proposed I-5 & I-85 freeway connector. All the while, this transportation development will create a greater population distribution to the San Diego periphery cities and thus a larger demand for a variety of commodities and services outside the CBA area.