Gentrification

specifically because of their differences. The former is shorter, more informal, and includes more of my thoughts and opinions. The latter is a longer research paper, and thus is more formal and less biased as I attempted to give a brief history of gentrification and its impacts on East Liberty. In my essay “Potential Ramifications of a Trump Presidency,” I kept my original introduction. I didn’t talk about other concerns a Trump presidency might bring about because I wanted to focus solely on…

will be applied to these three sites are gentrification, cultural landscape, and sense of place. Gentrification will aid in showing how UBC’s campus is rapidly changing and always redefining its own landscape. Cultural regions will help with describing how the ALR land that the Buddhist temple sits on it treated in a similar fashion to how megachurches are used in the United States. Finally, sense of place will…

The novel expresses that it is anti-urban and it sees cities as a problem such as gated communities, gentrification and limited environmental resources that led people to rather live in a rural community than cities which nowadays people would prefer to live in a city, since there are more job opportunities, better daily supply of resources and more advanced…

They no longer feel at home there, and start to become conscious of the inhuman character of the metropolis”. In New York’s case, gentrification serves as a huge problem for many minorities and even for the neighborhoods themselves. On a cultural level, gentrification drives out the old identity of the neighborhood, and replaces it with one that is rather shallow. For instance, many small businesses that have become iconic in their neighborhood (restaurants…

HBO documentary film by award-winning documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi. Alexandra Pelosi is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker based out of Manhattan that was born in San Francisco. In the film, she explores the effects of gentrification and the widening wage gap caused by the tech industry on certain demographics and neighborhoods in the city. She interviews people caught on both sides of these issues like people who work in the tech industry and longtime residents of the…

media and political propaganda, seemingly praises white people for the same work that criminalizes minorities. This distinction between the way graffiti and street art is perceived by the public is emphasized even more with the recent waves of gentrification happening all across American…

This issue is ambiguous and difficult to navigate, because gentrification is often framed as revitalization (Driscoll, 2017). The notion of revitalization is Eurocentric and idealistic. Revitalizers do not consider the rise in cost of living associated with infrastructural improvements, nor do they make an effort to…

The focus of this ethnography is to see the effects gentrification has on southern Yonkers' homeless population and in turn their effect on the community. I will conduct my project in the heart of the southern Yonkers', Getty square, where the homeless mostly reside and where the revitalization has begun. My two methods of research were observing and interviewing which will take place at, and around, the local Sharing Community. My goal for this project is to shine a light of the homeless…

The “man” is holding me down. This is a common idiom many black people have become accustomed to hearing. It’s often applied when things don’t go according to plan. Job interviews, house hunting, and court cases all instances when the “man” is holding black people back. Although it’s seen as a figure of speech, there may be an underlying truth to the phrase. With that said the “man” may not be referring to an actual person, but systematic racism. This idea that any group of people is being…

understanding and opinion is what makes the graffiti culture unique and influential. The presence and perspective of graffiti in a neighborhood contributes to the ambiance of that area and influences the residents, which could lead to either the gentrification of urban areas or the expansion of the graffiti culture and, possibly, the crime culture. “Graffiti,” used as a general term, is often defined as “an unauthorized act of inscription onto…