Neighborhood of Make-Believe

crime is caused by overcrowded neighborhoods and instability. Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay’s Theory of Social disorganization shows why certain neighborhoods have more social problems, such as delinquency, than others. Shaw and McKay began with assumptions that certain neighborhoods in all cities have more crimes than other parts of the city. These areas are in transition from residential to industrials because of invasions of factories. They found out that neighborhoods with high crimes rates…

talks about each as a possible explanation for the Chicago Heat Wave. Like Klinenberg I believe that the Chicago Heat Wave was a natural disaster, there were record temperatures and the city could do little in defense when faced with situations like this. However, this explanation does not account for why so many people died or why some areas or sorts of people had higher rates than others, for this reason I believe the Heat Wave is better defined as a social disaster. The Chicago Heat Wave was…

said, supermarkets are harder to find in lower income neighborhoods and communities meaning limited availability. This is because the market would not survive in that kind of economy. In addition, transportation will affect the food choices that people make because residents in low-income, urban areas are less likely to own cars, which makes it more difficult to travel to and from grocery stores. At the same time that low-income neighborhoods and communities of color lack access to healthy food…

Changes in the Park Slope Neighborhood Research Question: What are some long-term effects the changes in the commercially centralized area of Park Slope, specifically 5th and 7th ave, have on its residents? How do these effects change the overall view one has on their own neighborhood compared to what outsiders believe? Research Proposal: Long-term effects in Park Slope differ when looking from the view of one resident to the next. Growing up and adapting to the changes is different when it…

Throughout the history crime has been a huge factor within societies and has criminologist wondering why these levels keep rising. Some theories think it is because of the fact that people are born that way. While there is other criminologist who think that it is not due to the fact of being born that way, but that criminal acts are something inherited and learned throughout younger ages. So this essay will be covering Social Disorganization Theory and Collective Efficacy on how being in a…

expectations has had an influence on a child has always been debated, but from my experiences, I believe that our environment has the greatest influence on us. This book touches upon the topic a number of times due to the fact that it tells the story of two boys who ended up with different outcomes in life despite having lived in the same neighborhood. Although the two boys had shared the same neighborhood, they didn’t grow up in the same environment. Their environments, such as home and…

negative connotation and is often compared to white flight, it also can be seen as a race issue. Whereas, a Caucasian population will take over poverty stricken mixed-race neighborhoods and revitalize them with their newly brought in businesses. Alex Schafran writes in the Berkeley Planning Journal, “residents of gentrifying neighborhoods have been "displaced" from the literature on the subject. [They] are so busy trying to define it, quantify it, stop it, etc. that [they] have a tendency to…

evening hours when the sun goes down there appears to be a wrenched smell that permeates the entire neighborhood. Sometimes it is so foul I can taste it. Because the alarming smell creeps through the windows and resonates through the whole house it makes it difficult to keep the windows open. What on Earth could be so disgusting? Well, a skunk is the culprit. It just so happens I live in a neighborhood where there inhabits a nearby Wildlife Refuge. Since we live so close to the wildlife…

' role". I believe the five main points of the two articles are, first, it will close the achievement gap if you target certain behaviors having a negative impact on poor children. Second, race and class, the achievement gap separates white children from children of color and middle-class children from poor children. Third, closing the achievement gap comes down to the development of language and the use of culture in the home. Fourth, resources, money, nutrition and neighborhoods affect the…

of the policies of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the past. The HOLC was signed into law on June 13, 1933 by the request of President Roosevelt. HOLC devised an appraisal system that undervalued neighborhoods that were dense, mixed, or aging. In this appraisal system, the green A area, as the first grade, was a new, homogeneous, and suitable to live in; the blue B, as the second grade, was a “still desirable” places that had “reached their peak,”…