PDF-Why is Gentrification a Problem?

Stephen Sheppard Professor of Economics Williams College 1 Introduction Social and political concerns with gentrification have waxed and waned since the term was first coined in 1964 to describe the. 1 little evidence that gentrification is associated with displacement of low-income households. While not a study of displacement, related work by Bostic and Martin (2003) uses aggregate data to test The aggregate results show that geography of gentrification changed over the twenty years from 1980 to 2000: the gentrified census tracts between 1990 and 2000 were closer to the center of the city co Neighborhood Change, and Gentrification Jed Kolko Public Policy Institute of California June 2009 ABSTRACT This paper assesses the contribution of employment location to neighborhood positively corr Additional Notes from Week 13 in COMM 292. Art as Political Communication. Eric . Triantafillou’s comments about public poster art (in . Paper Politics. ) are important for thinking about the prospects and limitations of art as a form of political communication:. 1. The “problem”. -well versus ill defined. 2. Measurement. -RT, error patterns, verbal protocols. 3. History of problem solving. First work on animals: Thorndike’s puzzle boxes. One cat’s data (all of the others are similar):. – Impacts of the Christchurch Earthquakes on Inner City . Revitalisation. John McDonagh, Jacky Bowring, Lincoln University, . Harvey Perkins, University of Auckland, New Zealand. . Background. Christchurch CBD retail struggling since 1970’s. 5. Learning Objective. Student will be able to discuss urban sprawl, gentrification, and movement from CBD. Where we left off…. Central Business District . Expensive land . Used primarily for business purposes . The larger the city-the fewer there are-. Model indicates that the population of a city or town in inversely proportional (the fraction) to its rank in the hierarchy. If largest city is 12 million then 2. VOCABULARY. FILTERING. : WHEN LARGER, OLDER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES ARE SUBDIVIDED TO MAKE MANY APARTMENTS FOR OCCUPANCY BY SUCCESSIVE LOWER INCOME PEOPLE. REDLINING. : ILLEGAL PROCESS BY WHICH BANKS & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IDENTIFY AREAS OF A NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THEY WON’T PROVIDE PEOPLE OR BUSINESSES WITH LOANS. Jeff Matson. jmatson@umn.edu. NNIP Cleveland. 9/14/16. The Myth of Gentrification. Initial Research. Scale matters. Mixed . methods . Variety of data sources. Interviews lead . to new data . Data . is often a lagging indicator. With Raheem Smith. Sweet Auburn. Since Georgia State University is bordered on the East by Sweet Auburn, we’ll begin the tour here.. Old Fourth Ward. From Sweet Auburn, we’ll go further East down Edgewood Avenue until we reach Old Fourth Ward.. Status is ubiquitous in modern life, yet our understanding of its role as a driver of inequality is limited.  In Status, sociologist and social psychologist Cecilia Ridgeway examines how this ancient and universal form of inequality influences today’s ostensibly meritocratic institutions and why it matters. Ridgeway illuminates the complex ways in which status affects human interactions as we work together towards common goals, such as in classroom discussions, family decisions, or workplace deliberations. Ridgeway’s research on status has important implications for our understanding of social inequality. Distinct from power or wealth, status is prized because it provides affirmation from others and affords access to valuable resources. Ridgeway demonstrates how the conferral of status inevitably contributes to differing life outcomes for individuals, with impacts on pay, wealth creation, and health and wellbeing. Status beliefs are widely held views about who is better in society than others in terms of esteem, wealth, or competence. These beliefs confer advantages which can exacerbate social inequality. Ridgeway notes that status advantages based on race, gender, and class—such as the belief that white men are more competent than others—are the most likely to increase inequality by facilitating greater social and economic opportunities. Ridgeway argues that status beliefs greatly enhance higher status groups’ ability to maintain their advantages in resources and access to positions of power and make lower status groups less likely to challenge the status quo. Many lower status people will accept their lower status when given a baseline level of dignity and respect—being seen, for example, as poor but hardworking. She also shows that people remain willfully blind to status beliefs and their effects because recognizing them can lead to emotional discomfort. Acknowledging the insidious role of status in our lives would require many higher-status individuals to accept that they may not have succeeded based on their own merit many lower-status individuals would have to acknowledge that they may have been discriminated against. Ridgeway suggests that inequality need not be an inevitable consequence of our status beliefs. She shows how status beliefs can be subverted—as when we reject the idea that all racial and gender traits are fixed at birth, thus refuting the idea that women and people of color are less competent than their male and white counterparts. This important new book demonstrates the pervasive influence of  status on social inequality and suggests ways to ensure that it has a less detrimental impact on our lives. Student will be able to discuss urban sprawl, gentrification, and movement from CBD. Where we left off…. Central Business District . Expensive land . Used primarily for business purposes . Then in the 1960’s….. . 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