How will San Antonio turn vacant lots into a walkable oasis and who gets to be a part of it?
11/21
Headline: How does the non profit organization Baileys Cafe positively affect the neighborhood (specifically the block) despite the ongoing changes that are happening in this area of Bed-stuy?
Sub headline/overview: Baileys Cafe is a not for profit organization whose mission is to connect…
How do you develop a community for all walks of life in a deserted area?
As many neighborhoods in the urban core of San Antonio continue to develop themselves into walkable, dense urban neighborhoods, lower Broadway continues to be underutilized…
I think it’s really interesting that in the reading about Hillary Clinton that they say just putting up affordable housing isn’t enough. It needs to be implemented in places that create equal opportunity. I hadn’t ever really seen that very obvious point before. When I would hear about…
The readings for this week made me mull over some still unanswered questions of my own. I didn’t know how to respond or speak on For Many Latinos, Racial Identity Is More Culture Than Color because I feel it’s not my place to do so. In Confessions of a Black Gentrifier, the content…
Two of the readings for October 31 discussed the U.S. census and some of its issues. The New York Times article “For Many Latinos, Racial Identity is More Culture than Color” addresses the shortcomings of the Census in identifying Latinos or people with Latino heritage. The article mentions that the…
October 31st
Response to “The Beginning of the End of the Census?”, “For Many Latinos, Racial Identity is More Culture than Color”, & “Confessions of a Black Gentrifier”
In the article ‘The Beginning of the End of the Census” the way the Census Bureau polls collects their data is explained. How each…
The readings for this class brought up a lot of interesting points about race relations and who’s the city for and accessible for, but I specifically want to focus on the “Confessions of a Black Gentrifier”. It made a lot of interesting points about being overlooked and under the radar…
Reading Confession of a Black Gentrifier truly opened my eyes to all the possible ways that I am both a victim and perpetrator of gentrification. It also allowed me to take a view into a young millennials present life in Washington D.C. as he bravely accounts his role in the changing neighborhoods he resides in.
In all the readings this week, I’m seeing an overarching theme: gentrification is screwing with the way the locals knew the city. In the Johannesburg reading, instead of having a nice conversation between a family, each person has to now yell over the loud music that blasts from the bar…
