Gentrification

In the early 1990s, Washington, D.C., was known as the "murder capital",[11] experiencing 474 homicides in 1990.[12] The elevated crime levels were associated with the introduction of crack cocaine during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The crack was brought into Washington, D.C. by Colombian cartels and sold in drug markets such as "The Strip" (the largest in the city) located a few blocks north of the United States Capitol.[13] A quarter of juveniles with criminal charges in 1988 tested…

Within their study, they classify two types of signs: Old School Vernacular and Distinction-making signage. Old School Vernacular is classified as an inclusive social sign that demonstrates the economy before gentrification within New York and it also provides as an outlook on capitals without any distinction. On the other hand, Distinction-making signs specifically excludes certain social standings within the area. Both signs are located within the Brooklyn area…

are taking the best thing they see, attracting half of the worlds high tech investments. Making a giant gap between the superstar cities and the other regular cities. Another finding was that the middle class is decreasing as gentrification in cities has increased. Gentrification happens when a neighborhood builds new establishments or is remodeled to attract more rich people, making the cost of housing and living less affordable for the middle class. Little by little the middle class is being…

In the 2008 film Wall-e, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class is the last of its kind cleaning up garbage that has inhabited planet Earth. He is one of the robots sent out on Operation Clean Up to rid the Earth of the waste while the humans are out in space waiting for it to be safe to return home. During the film Wall-e comes across EVE (extraterrestrial vegetable evaluator), who is sent to Earth on a mission to scan for living proof in Earth. Throughout the film we observe how sociology…

and most of them are Chinese. The playground is a convenience for the people who lived around. Many apartments, house and school are around this playground. This playground located in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, and it is part of gentrification. In the first picture, I was sitting beside the lawn and look at the people doing exercise. Many trees and a big baseball court are behind me. The picture comprises people, the sky, the ground,…

Similar to Harlem, many cheap mom and pop stores in Bensonhurst have been closed down due to gentrification. The physical fabric of the neighborhood has experienced the displacement of stores, restaurants, and residents. Places, where Italian businesses used to be located, have been replaced. Evidently, there is a new cultural image being consumed, pertaining to its new beginning. For instance, two blocks away from Gino’s Focacceria is a Szechuan restaurant called Spicy Bampa, which is generally…

Exercise #6: Segregation in Chicago The neighborhood I am focusing on for this assignment is Belmont Cragin, which is community number 19 and is 8 miles NW of the loop. Belmont Cragin in the 1922 became an industrialized area, where many plants started to open, which created many jobs. In the 1910 Belmont Cragin race composition was made up of white people. It wasn’t until the 1970s when you first started to see the hispanic community move in along with asians, and black people. By the 1990s…

Are you aware of the problems the Native Americans faced during the Westward Expansion? The theme of this paper is to explain how Native Americans were affected by Westward Expansion. Native Americans faced many problems when the whites moved west. Three ways Natives were affected was how the whites moved them off of their land, sent their children to boarding schools and many were killed. It changed many lives and gave Natives a different outlook on their past. One way that the Natives were…

Queens, Balking at Change, Even if It’s Called Improvement.”(NYTimes,Turkewitz) , and “From Exclusionary Covenant to Hyper-Ethnic Diversity” (Geographical Review,Miyares) by Vincent Irizarry Gentrification is an issue that entails complications for those living within a community that is being changed. Gentrification means the process of urban renewal throughout areas within the city. Julie Turkewitz, a reporter who specializes in Latin American studies investigates a proposed Business…

Hipsters are a product of rebelling against a consumer society and attempting to diverge against mainstream culture only to become the very culture they despise. Hipsters’ are middle class adults in their early twenties and late thirties that grabbed the public eye during their 2011 Occupy movement. This, in fact, was embodied in the Occupy movement of 2011 in which it was thought that “voices of the working class are sidelined [by the wealthiest 1%]” (Maher 48). As a result, hipsters choose to…