In this article, the author writes about the Urban Renewal Plan and what it did to a community in Oakland, California. The West Oakland community was found in 1852 and had a diverse population living there. That article says that upper-class people would be living next door to working class people. After the World Wars that changed because lower income families started moving to the area looking for jobs. The jobs they had were created because of the war. When the war ended these people lost their jobs. At the same time, the Urban Renewal Plan was put into place. This plan set out to remove slums in urban places. This plan would relocated families, demolish houses and create low-income housing. When a family was relocated they received little …show more content…
help finding a new place to live. There was not enough low-income housing for these people. They would also demolish a house in order to build a business, which is some cases never used. When I was reading that article I was trying my hardest not to be angry. After reading this article, I feel that that Urban Renewal Plan created slums. The low-income housing was not safe for the people to be living in. The families lost everything and became homeless. I was also surprised to see the number of years that carried on. In Oakland, it became evident that it was not working early on. In order to better understand this topic, I plan on researching what happened in order cities that took part in this plan. In this reading, the author attacks the current standard of city planning and rebuilding.
She also introducing new urban building standards. This this article she talks about, the idea some people have of tearing it down and rebuilding. She also talks about ideas people have about some parts of towns. In Boston, she talks about the area of North End, and the change that it was over gone. During her second visit to this area, she discovered that it had changed. She talked to other about it, although the statistic were higher than the city, the people still saw it as a slum. They felt that they needed to tear it down in order to build something better. This leads to the conclusion that the urban planners to do understand that the people of the city need. They have ideas that were developed years ago that they are still using. These ideas do not take account what the people want. The author also introducing new ideas of a perfect city to live in and what it would look like. The idea of a garden city was introduced. This city would be built around a park. Although the new ideas sounded great they could not be put into place today. The idea of a Garden City is something that sounds nice, but it is not possible in society today. Today a city should reflect economic status, and in order to achieve this the city should be big, and convey an image of power. A city that has aspects of nature in it would not convey that image. That upkeep of a city of that kind would also be difficult. The do understand the author's point of view. The planners often times do not take into account the desires of the people. The town that I grow up in want to become more urbanized. In order to do this, they are building a large shopping center. This shopping center is located in the canyon rim. This canyon rim has been important the people for many years. We come to the area to walk, what bass jumpers, and enjoy the scenic views. This new shopping center took away this area. Many of the people
in the town do not like the idea of this shopping center and the new chain stores that come with it. I feel that it urbanization is the goal then an important aspect of the town or city is going to be lost. In this article, the author researches the concept of space by observing two plazas in Costa Rica. She uses ethnographic material to examine the use of the plaza and the concept of public space. She argues that spatial analysis in important to understanding complex societies. In order to understand space, she uses social exchanges, memories, images, and the daily use. The two plaza that she research can very different, one is new the other old, one has been set of as a center of tourism, and they attract different people. In order to complete this project she observations, interviews, and took photographs. That results that she came up with were interesting. When I was in Europe I went to many plazas. I would often just sit and watch the people around me. The way people would group together, the different people, and they interacted vendors. I can also understand not wanting to be there at times. In Germany, there was a plaza that I did not like being alone in. I would take a different way in order to avoid the plaza. I also found the locked plazas to be interesting. When I think of a plaza I think of an open place that anyone can enter. In Lithuania, they had gated plaza. Only a small group of people could enter the plaza. Understanding the uses of a plaza is important to understand the city because often the plaza can be the heart of the city or area. This article can help us to better understand an urban setting by applying these methods. This method can be used in other way, every city has its hang out. It can be applied to bars, malls, and other gathering places.
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood with a plethora of diversity and multiculturalism, hence there’s wide coverage of Gentrification in the media and literature. Jackson Heights is skyrocketing economically like many other local neighborhoods, with the looming possibility of becoming out of reach for the average American family. Redevelopments of infrastructure have rapidly progressed causing a rise in house price and rent, this ultimately resulting in the neighborhood to become financially unreachable for most. This is an example of the term that was first coined in 1964 by German-British sociologist Ruth Glass as ‘gentrification’. Ruth Glass wrote, "Once this process of 'gentrification' starts in a district, it goes on rapidly
“The Deeper Problems We Miss When We Attack ‘Gentrification’”exhibit their opinion on the positives of gentrification and the potential of “revitalization” in low-income urban communities. Badger argues that gentrification brings nothing more than further opportunities for urban communities while integrating citizens of different social classes.Furthermore , she continues to question if gentrification is in fact the monster that brings the prior expressions against gentrification where she says “If poor neighborhoods have historically suffered from dire disinvestment, how can the remedy to that evil — outside money finally flowing in — be the problem, too?”(Badger) Stating that the funds generated from sources external that are brought into these communities can’t be problematic. This concept is further elaborated in the article “Does Gentrification Harm the Poor” where Vigdoor list the potential positive enhancements gentrification can have on an urban area in America ,stating that gentrification can
Many factors and geographical processes, the foreshore of Sydney Harbour has constantly faced changes in land use which has effected the environment, social communities and the economy in both positive and negative ways. Urban decay, urban renewal, urban consolidation and gentrification are the geographical process that are involved in the changing gland use around the Sydney Harbour foreshore. These geographical processes are what changes the land use from being used as industrial, residential and commercial which then impacts the economy, social communities/ public, the environment and the stakeholders.
... motivation for wealthy individuals to return to the inner-city core but it also provides impetus for commercial and retail mixed-use to follow, increasing local revenue for cities (Duany, 2001). Proponents of gentrification profess that this increase in municipal revenue from sales and property taxes allows for the funding of city improvements, in the form of job opportunities, improved schools and parks, retail markets and increased sense of security and safety ((Davidson (2009), Ellen & O’Reagan (2007), Formoso et. al (2010)). Due to the increase in housing and private rental prices and the general decrease of the affordable housing stock in gentrifying areas, financially-precarious communities such as the elderly, female-headed households, and blue-collar workers can no longer afford to live in newly developed spaces ((Schill & Nathan (1983), Atkinson, (2000)).
The downgrading of African Americans to certain neighborhoods continues today. The phrase of a not interested neighborhood followed by a shift in the urban community and disturbance of the minority has made it hard for African Americans to launch themselves, have fairness, and try to break out into a housing neighborhood. If they have a reason to relocate, Caucasians who support open housing laws, but become uncomfortable and relocate if they are contact with a rise of the African American population in their own neighborhood most likely, settle the neighborhoods they have transfer. This motion creates a tremendously increase of an African American neighborhood, and then shift in the urban community begins an alternative. All of these slight prejudiced procedures leave a metropolitan African American population with few options. It forces them to remain in non-advanced neighborhoods with rising crime, gang activity, and...
Gentrification is designed to improve the quality of life for the residents, but the fact is that it pushes out old residents to welcome in young and wealthy citizens. To analyze the demographic even further, gentrified neighborhoods in New York City have seen an increase in white population despite a city wide decrease. As Kate Abbey-Lamertz of the Huffington Post states, “The report notes that change is driven by educated people moving in, rather than by existing residents becoming more educated.” These changes are being driven by a millennial demographic who can afford the changed aesthetic. The influx of millennials are pushing out families whose lifestyle can’t keep up with the changing demographic. Even though these changes have been occurring for almost thirty years, and the city hasn’t made the changes needed for people who need low income housing. New York City’s gentrification must be slowed in order for people in low income housing to catch
From the quaint café on the corner of First and Main that booms on Sunday mornings, to the community park and pond where families feed the ducks and children play in the midday sun, reminders of an urban area’s identity are scattered within its limits. This identity is composed of a certain level of community shared by the inhabitants of urban areas, and this sense of community develops over generations as people become personally intertwined with other people and structures contained within the fabric of their environment. This sense of community is the heartbeat of thriving urban centers and is what encourages people to take pride in their city — to take pride in their home. It is therefore alarming when one rounds the corner of Main to discover their favorite café has closed up shop, or the duck pond is gated because of contaminated water, or the historical home is deserted and falling apart. As building blocks of community like the café, pond, or the home are eliminated, the identity of urban environments is lost. Cities’ sense of being erodes and the vitality and joy of the area and its inhabitants decays.
Jane Jacobs was not an urban planner, but her ideas have influenced urban planners all over the world and continue to be the basis of city planning today. Jacobs was, by profession, an urban writer and activist. In her novel, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs details her ideas and theories of urban planning, what makes it successful and what to watch out for. Jacobs emphasized the importance of making public spaces “usable” and enabling locations to be people friendly so citizens would feel comfortable using a space (Greco, 2007). One of the many different types of development advocated by Jane Jacobs was mixed use development, meaning that communities are varied with different residences, businesses, and structures. There
Revitalization leads to demolition and destruction of inheritable homes and neighborhoods of the poor and the minorities. Many poor individuals are displaced of small business which acts as a source of their
New urbanism is the development of idle land to create utopian environments, which allow for all aspects of contemporary life to coexist within a superficially planned, walk-able environment. The philosophy of new urbanism has redefined the means of subdividing idle land, so as to best utilize the space allocated for a new development. Therefore lot size either for residential or municipal purposes, is restricted based on the determined minimum needed to comfortably occupy the given expanse. The new urbanism philosophy has primarily focused on the process of site analysis and planning, but they have neglected to create architecture which could be considered unique or ideal. Instead they have created shell-like structures and slapped on facades that imitate, for example English Tudor or Colonial architecture. Hence they have created hypothetical signs on “sheds” (Venturi & Brown), which are not avant-garde forms of expression. The site planning within the development is well analyzed and implemented as stated, but the viable connection between the suburban area and the realm of the city has become muddled due to poor means of egress leading to the pre-existing city. These two ideological signs produced by the new urbanist’s utopia, have lead to the failure of this concept, and if not remedied the idea of new urbanism will have limited progressive future.
Sprawl is the overall unplanned widespread development of areas sounding a city and usually with no regard for the integration of other sounding developments. The phenomenon of sprawl is both loved and hated in the American landscape. This is not to say cities and their inhabitants did not have a vague idea about how they wished for their cityscape to progress, in fact many places have at least a rudimentary notion or plan about the development of their general area. The problem comes in when capitalism, well, capitalizes on a communities inhabitants need and want of individualism, creating the phenomenon known as suburban sprawl—where the developments are built on the outside of the urban development and urban community with in the city; there
In 1961, the Housing Act was amended to address the displacement that was caused as a result of urban development. In its guidelines, $200 was provided for families who were displaced due to these renewal projects (Groth, 282). The new Housing Act gave no mention towards single individuals, who experienced the greatest amount of displacement and had the highest amount of financial burden to relocating. To create guidelines for individuals, the Urban Renewal Administration (under the federal Housing and Home Finance agency created in 1947) "authorized local authorities to pay each single SRO person a relocation fee of $5, approximately cab fare out of the neighborhood" (Groth, 282). Residents who previously thrived in their community suddenly
Pollard (2001) writes about the despondency of the American public over loss of open spaces, pollution, and climate change due to land-use and transportation patterns in the paper, ‘Greening the American dream?’ The author believes that ‘new urbanism’ is the solution to these issues. New urbanism is a variety of related planning and design approaches that include traditional neighbourhood, as well as transit-oriented development (Pollard, 2001). New urbanists are critics of sprawl and promote mixed-use land development. Designs include more open spaces, walkable neighbourhoods and street networks with few cul-de-sacs. The primary goals of new urbanism are to save open spaces and wildlife habitat
Do experiences generated by this new architecture, by this new urban design, by this new city planning still inspire man to think and to feel? Does it make him grow, or does it strangulate his sense of being?
... architectures would led to a more organic organization beneficial to the people that choose to make their lives in this city. Although this model of a sustainable city is not a perfectly closed loop, it lays the foundation for one that is. Over time, with constantly evolving and improving technology and new methods of design from the scale of products to buildings, the gaps in the loop could be closed, and a “true” sustainable city could be fully realized.