I really enjoyed the documentary East of Liberty. It is very important to talk about issues surrounding gentrification‚ especially when it is clearly happening in the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has a very strong identity‚ and pushing people out of these neighborhoods takes away from the identity of our city because they are Pittsburgh. It is very easy for people who live outside of the city‚ such as myself‚ to say they are from Pittsburgh‚ but that simply is not the case. The people
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In Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans‚ Matt Sakakeeny illustrates the everyday life of the brass band musicians in New Orleans and presents a series of issues in full details. Power dynamics become a major theme in Sakakeeny’s ethnography. Violence‚ as a way of using forces and creating destruction‚ demonstrates such power dynamics. More specifically‚ the interpersonal and structural violence are characterized by forced reconstruction of the community‚ local law and restrictions
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children (Mabrey). To better their lives‚ the local government of Chicago put a policy of gentrification into effect; to raze the old buildings‚ and build new upper middle class condos with a reduced rent for the prior residents seems to benefit many‚ but this is not always the case. In the article in the Chicago Tribune‚ Walter Burnett is faced with inner turmoil and conflicts on the issue of gentrification. He has a unique view on the issue‚ because he grew up in Cabrini yet not as a politician
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the bigger heading of social inequality. Social inequality is the inability of people to have equal opportunity (Fonza and Owen). Social inequality and urban poverty are such rampant problems today due to systematic racism‚ pay inequality‚ and gentrification. Through discriminatory federal processes such as redlining‚ minorities still struggle to regain lost footing from decades previous. A large portion of this is the government’s part in exacerbating “existing social inequalities‚ particularly those
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artists used it as means to showcase their art‚ while others used it as a public speech and highlight gentrification within the area. Despite its artistic nature‚ city governments quickly labeled graffiti as a form of “vandalism”‚ and instilled various programs to rectify the problem. Philadelphia and New York in particular had to most success in subduing graffiti and dealing with gentrification‚ although in vastly different manors. Many graffiti artists use graffiti to
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Aztecs The original Aztec empire was peopled by a group that was once nomadic‚ the Mexicans. Their chroniclers told them that after their long journey from Aztlan‚ they found themselves to be outcasts‚ until they found the sign sent to them by their god Huitzilopochtli‚ and began to build their city. So the Mexican people continued and the Aztec Empire began. The city of Tenochitlan became one of the largest cities in the world. The power of the Mexican people became more consolidated‚ and they
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The process of gentrification could be observed by some to be remarkably constructive‚ while as Morrison’s depiction in Sula‚ a cold tyrannical machine that slaughters all culture. Within the closing chapter‚ Nel is walking the streets of the Bottom and begins to elucidate
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residents of poor areas could benefit from Kop van Zuid renewal scheme as well. The Erasmus Bridge shows evidence of old functioning‚ such as old docks and old harbour. You can find urban renewal in public services in big buildings and no sight of gentrification. (Figure 1.0 shows evidence of old functioning harbour and renewal in a big building). There’s not really a hint old buildings‚ because most of them are new and renovated. No sight of living houses‚ but clearly visible transportation system such
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Beginning in the early 1800s the Pyrmont-Ultimo area was once occupied by many ‘blue-collar’ workers generally known as manual labour workers‚ the area was surrounded by industrial areas or the waterfronts. Since then there has occurred significant gentrification of old industrial sites and decayed buildings occurring in the Pyrmont- Ultimo peninsula‚ with the old buildings and sites being transformed into residential‚ commercial and community sites. As
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community that was brought to my attention while I was doing my sociological research that has drastically changed within the last few years is Bedford–Stuyvesant. A big factor that has lead to this historical community undergoing change is Gentrification. Gentrification has had many positive affects on Bedford–Stuyvesant and has also taken a few negative tolls to this community as well. Bedford-Stuyvesant was exclaimed to be in the top-25 fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods according to Census data. This
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