Jones And Popke Chocolate City Summary

In the documentary “Chocolate City” and the Jones and Popke article, that discusses the urban renewal in major U.S. cities, specifically the HOPE VI program. As discussed the program was “a public housing demolition and redevelopment initiative established by HUD in the mid-1990s (Jones and Popke, 115).” The ways in which enforce and manage spatial practices of personal responsibility and self-discipline are exemplified when the government and management authority are the ones who get to do the enforcing and manage the spatial practices, but they do not take the on the personal responsibility and self-discipline. Rather the personal responsibilities and self-discipline are placed on the individuals, such as when Jones and Popke state, “the
For example, in the documentary one of the people being interviewed states at the time people who were able to get public housing were low-income based of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, which was $60,000, while the average person in her neighborhood made $8,000. In addition, they instill ideas that they have to be “transit-accessible” and the community to be more “cohesive,” with the concept of it being a mixed community. Moreover, rather than the officials take the personal responsibility and self-discipline, along with enforcing and spatial management it is placed onto the
The documentary mentions the Friends and Residents of Arthur Capper/ Carrollsburg Housing Project. They were a group of black people living in a D.C. housing project who were being relocated to other homes, sometimes-other public housing, whom were being displaced from their homes because they were being demolished. In addition, the documentary interviewed several people who discuss how the people who move in (usually white) “throw out” the people who have lived there for a long time because they raise the prices on their homes like rent. One of the residents in the primarily black neighborhood states that the black people in the neighborhood are “pushed out to bring in more Caucasians,” that “[they] built the city,” and “why can’t [they] enjoy the fruits of our labor.” In addition, the people who move into the primarily black neighborhoods, who are usually white state that the people who once lived their worried about inner-city services and schools. However, now because they are moving into these neighborhoods it is about bringing in safety, business communities, services, gyms, stores, safe ways, and trendy restaurants in order to bring the city alive. In regard those who belong and deserve support from the state, from the Jones and Popke article and the