Week 5 – Mapping place: Neighborhoods and communities (7/6)
Course Access Dates: Students from 5/6/2023 until 8/10/2026; Faculty from 12/7/2022 until 8/10/2026
Section outline
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What neighborhood is this? What makes community? And whose story is that to tell?
Read:
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.
Schweitzer, A. (2019, May 30). Some Say ‘East Of The River’ Has A Negative Connotation. Hello, ‘East End’? WAMU.
Flock, E. (2011, October 8). NoMa: The neighborhood now has a name, but it’s still searching for its identity. The Washington Post. (pdf link)
Submit by 11am:
1) Response blog #4: So what if people define a neighborhood in different ways and with different names? Do you think it matters? Why or why not? What significance does Hwang’s research ascribe to place definition of this kind? (250 words)
In class:
Field exercise: Neighborhood branding and identity