Week 3 (1/28) – Mapping place: Neighborhoods and communities (PP&C)
This page hosts the two courses that comprise the WCSC Seminar: (1) CCSSC 387 The Urban Landscape: Race, Space, and Inequality; AND (2) SOC 375 People, Place, and Community: The Politics and Practice of Community Development. Outcomes, assignments, and expectations for each course are separately identified, although the coursework is interspersed and intended to function as an integrated learning experience.
Section outline
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What neighborhood is this? What makes community? And whose story is that to tell?
Read:
de Souza Briggs, X. (2004). Social capital: Easy beauty or meaningful resource? Journal of the American Planning Association, 70(2), 151–158.
Hwang, J. (2016). The social construction of a gentrifying neighborhood: Reifying and redefining identity and boundaries in inequality. Urban Affairs Review, 52(1), 98–128.
Cohen, M. (2019, March 19). Community mapping: Building power and agency with data. Data@Urban.
Field journal PPC-1: Look up the boundaries of the Brookland or Michigan Park neighborhood—Google Maps is definitely an option but see if you can find boundaries drawn up somewhere else (civic association, historical society, etc.). Go visit one of these boundaries. Photograph the boundary line. Why do you think it functions as a neighborhood boundary? Do things appear different on either side? Would you know you were leaving one neighborhood and entering another, if you were just walking down the street? What are examples of significant boundaries from the places you are from? What roles did they play? Were they visible in the physical landscape?