They wanted to restore the buildings. They thought differently sometimes about the neighborhoods, although some of them really appreciated the diversity, the vibrancy that they found in these city neighborhoods as well.
Even the young people of the neighborhood can see just how much these buildings mean rather than building some new concrete building. Really brings out the community and protecting their history
Is gentrification good or bad? No, it’s sort of a neutral sort of thing. It’s a question of how do you tame it so that, let’s say, you’re not pushing people out, but you are able to get the infusion of cash and wealth that you need to improve a neighborhood.
We see everyone having their own opinion on the situation. No it isn’t a bad thing to have a more modernized living area but also it takes out the history of the place and what the people saw growing up. Yet I believe that the people should have a say rather than just the government.
They wanted to break up that concentrated poverty.
Poverty seems to be the excuse that the government was willing to use. To make the area look for appealing.
old neighborhood like Old Town or Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, etcetera, [where] people move in [and] privately renovate it. But I wanted to look at what happens when you take an entire public housing complex and you try to, in essence, gentrify it.
Here we see how the author is talking about the difference between people moving in a renovating private versus the government changing an entire housing complex and restoring it.
His book details the roots of gentrifications across New York, Chicago and San Francisco, from the community organizations that fought to preserve buildings in old neighborhoods to the government officials that saw the forces of gentrification converging on their cities and kept the door open for an infusion of cash.
I see this paragraph as being a threat to the people in the neighborhood. They want to force new buildings and to modernize instead of having the buildings hold their history.
An outside reading book
Will we be required to do a project on our outside reading book? Or is it just to keep busy if needed?