BRONX. TRANSFORMATION. “BURNING BRONX“ / CURRENT BRONX
thomas
yuliana
2015
leading question
what
comparison of transformation in social structure
where
bronx, ny usa
when
1980 vs present time
how
people experience this changes
sourses:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/nyregion/10bonfire.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0 http://ru.pinterest.com/pin/409194316114814724/
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definitions
ghetto
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a part of a city in which members of a particular
group or race live usually in poor conditions
- the poorest part of a city http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto
community
- a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood) - a group of people who have the same interests, religion, race, etc. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/community
gentrification
the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gentrification
sourses: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3121/2926243271_3e2196ce72.jpg
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general information regarding selected area
BRONX
location
the bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of new york city, in the
U.S. state of new york. located north of manhattan and queens, and south of westchester county, the bronx is the only borough that is located primarily on the mainland.
area
sourses:
sourses:
• total 57 sq mi (150 km2) • land 42 sq mi (110 km2) • water 15 sq mi (40 km2)
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methodology
QUALITATIVE Relevant literatures Newspapers
New York Times
Interview
One local interviewee
Audiovisual materials
TED talks
QUANTITATIVE Statistics
NYPD | US CENSUS BUREAU STATE & COUNTY QUICK FACTS
sourses: http://s2.evcdn.com/images/edpborder500/I0-001/002/136/853-7.jpeg_/the-bronx-is-burning-53.jpeg http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386920886l/29389.jpg
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1980 (historical context)
BRONX
population
1960 1,424,815
1970 1,471,701
1980 1,168,972
1990 1,203,789
ethnic groups hispanic or latino
27.7%
43.5%
african american
24.3%
37.3%
0.5%
3.0%
asian
reputation
“from 1970 to 1980 alone, roughly 600,000 people’s homes were lost to fire and abandonment in the bronx, a figure which accounted for approximately 80 per cent of both the housing units and the population of the south bronx. “ Sourse: Deborah Wallace and Rodrick Wallace, A Plague on Your Houses: how New York was burned down and national public health crumbled (London, Verso Books, 1998), p. xvi.
sourses: http://yesteryearsthoughts.blogspot.de/2010/06/bronx.html
sourses: Population 1920–1990: Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990, Compiled and edited by Richard L. Forstall, Population Division, US Bureau of the Census, United States Census Bureau,Washington, D.C. 20233, March 27, 1995, retrieved July 4, 2008.
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1980 (historical context)
burning bronx
the phrase “the bronx is burning,” attributed to howard cosell during a yankees world series game in
1977, refers to the arson epidemic caused by the
total economic collapse of the south bronx during the
1970s.
Sourse: Thesis Eleven (No. 91, November 2007), pp. 66–77, and Loïc Wacquant, ‘Deadly symbiosis: when ghetto and prison meet and mesh’, Punishment & Society (Vol. 3, no. 1, January 2001), pp. 95–133.
crime level
refugee
amongst them were
6,000 refugees from cambodia
and vietnam who resettled in the area between
1984 and 1994. today, the southeast asian refugees continue to live in the very same buildings to which they were initially resettled.
sourses: http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-bronx-is-burning-1472620184
sourses: nypd
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current situation
BRONX (2013)
population
1 418 733
ethnic groups hispanic or latino
54.6%
african american
43.3%
asian
4.2%
american indian and alaska
3.0%
native
sourses: http://thestacks.deadspin.com/the-bronx-is-burning-1472620184
sourses: us census bureau state
& county quick facts
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“W
e are lucky anyways because nobody wants to come to the bronx, because of the reputation. even though for at least to that case that reputation has been gone,
people still have in the mind: “you just keep out of that”. so, that kind of protected us for gentrification. that reputation was a good thing.
quotation: ed garcia conde
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interviewee with locals
ED GARCIA CONDE
age
39
eduaction
private catholic school (from four years old) college started international finance (ended up) and spanish language in literature
profession
real estate consultant
native disrict
40th precinct
activity
blog about bronx:
http://www.welcome2thebronx.com/wordpress/
was quoted by new yourk times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/nyregion/more-people-moving-to-bronx-census-shows. html?_r=0
sourses: https://www.facebook.com/ed.garcia.conde?fref=ts
sourses: personal skype interview
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qualitative method. skype interview: question> answer
grade the neighborhood
why
3.5-4 from 5
“a lot of changes have been : crime is not what it used to be.” “services are rather available within a walking distance from my house. i can do shopping i can do everything and not live my neighborhood.” relationship with neighbors.
attitude to the burning bronx period
“abandoned blocks and abandoned buildings or empty lots. maybe one residential building was occupied, i mean, it looked like a war.” “buildings flatten and unoccupied “ “during my lifetime, over 400 00 residents just leave the bronx.”
sourses: https://www.facebook.com/ed.garcia.conde?fref=ts
sourses: personal skype interview
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qualitative method. skype interview: question> answer
relationships with neighbours
map of bronx and “in my neighborhood people do look out”
his neighbourhod
“bronx overall is very tightened community. you know, everybody knows each other. people are very involved in community boards.” the old lady story.
“a
lot of people who lived here for
40-50
years, families are
grow up here.”
“you know someone
who are six blocks away from you”
“sometimes when you don’t see that face that you used to see every day, you get worried and people do ask like “oh have you seen someone so?”
sourses: personal skype interview
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qualitative method. skype interview: question> answer
gentrification ed:
port morris example (very isolated):
“well, you would probably call that gentrification is happening. restaurants are opening up, the rent is definitely above the normal for the Bronx. two bedroom loft is renting 25 000$in one building.” compare to his rent (16000$) “you know, just like manhattan that’s what you’ve seen. they globally rising rents
and you started to see people that
would be associated with gentrification. professionals are coming in.”
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qualitative method. skype interview: question> answer
other opinions daniele jackson
Flatbush to Bronx, where she co-founded a she moved from
the
South
“I love where I live, I can get everywhere on the 6 train and I walk to work and for the first time I have real neighbors,” she said. “I know the Bronx has been maligned and completely misunderstood by outsiders, but what’s kept the Bronx so great is that there is a community.”
photography gallery a year earlier
(1998)
Shannon Lee Gilstad 29 years old, a child welfare worker lived in Manhattan and Queens before returning to the Bronx in 2008.
“You
actually have the sense of a real neighborhood, with
both a lot of immigrants and people who have lived here for quite a while,” she said.
“It’s the only place where I ever felt
like home.”
daniele jackson http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/nyregion/more-people-moving-to-bronx-census-shows.html?_r=0
sourses: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/nyregion/more-people-moving-to-bronx-census-shows.html?_r=0
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“thankyou” list
thank you!
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