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Browsing by Subject "neighborhood change"

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    The Changing Face of Wall Space: Graffiti-murals in the context of neighborhood change in Los Angeles
    (2012-05) Bloch, Stefano
    In this historical geography of the changing appearance of wall space in and around the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, I show how the proliferation of graffiti-murals indicates the rise of a new form of practice in the production of urban aesthetics. I rely on data gathered through empirical and qualitative research—specifically, ethnographic methods that include archival image analysis, original photography, personal and participant observation, and extensive formal and open-ended interviews with members of the graffiti and mural communities. Throughout this dissertation I discuss the production and destruction of murals and graffiti-murals in the context of over 70 years of socio-spatial neighborhood change. I rely on the writings of geographers, sociologists, urban theorists, and art theorists who understand the production of alternative urban aesthetics as necessarily political, participatory, and place-based.
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    Urban Development and Change in an Age of Inequality
    (2021-06) Damiano, Anthony
    We are living in an age of inequality. Western countries have seen rapidly rising income inequality in the past 40 years. US cities have been on the frontlines as many of the policies that have exacerbated inequality like government austerity, and the slashing of social services have made their debut in cities like New York before becoming national trends. The enactment of these policies correlates with the spatial restructuring of US metro area as well. Indicative of the rise in income inequality, the 1980s saw the emergence of extreme concentrated poverty in many Black neighborhoods in large central cities. At the same time, neighborhoods in many of these same cities started to see a return of private capital after decades of disinvestment. Termed "gentrification," this process represented a reversal of long-standing trends of disinvestment in the urban core. At the same time, this recapitalization has been extremely uneven. Given this background, my dissertation explores the changing structure of US metro areas and neighborhoods in the context of growing income inequality in three different ways. Chapter Two examines the extent to which US metro areas are experiencing a "great inversion" in terms of affluence moving to the urban core and poverty moving to the suburbs. Chapter three explores how the growth in income inequality is affecting the income distribution of neighborhoods in large US metro areas. Chapter four examines one potential mechanism contributing to urban restructuring and inversion – the construction of new market-rate housing in the urban core and how that may be affecting rents in Minneapolis, MN.