Overview
Please read the instructions and rubric I've attached very carefully. The abstract is already done and attached as well. The readings which need to be used are below this, and I will attach the lectures once this is picked up. I did not get the best grade on the midterm so I will attach the feedback so you can do it differently. I REALLY NEED TO GET A GOOD SCORE, don't hesitate to ask me any questions.
Readings:
Globalization and the New Economy
Sassen, Saskia. 2012. Cities in a World Economy.Links to an external site.Ch1 "Place and Production in the Global Economy," (1-22). "The New Inequalities Within Cities. " (241-272). New York, Sage.
- Florida, Richard. 2013. “Building the Creative Community.” Ch27 in Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2013. The Gentrification Debates: A Reader. Routledge. (345-354)
Gentrification and the Suburbanization of Poverty*
- Stein, Samuel. 2019. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. Verso Books. Planning Gentrification (41-75).
- Freeman, Lance. 2013. “Neighborhood Effects in a Changing Hood.” Ch 26 in Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2013. The Gentrification Debates: A Reader. Routledge. (337-343)
- Perez, Gina M. 2013. “Gentrification, Intrapolitan Migration, and the Politics of Place.” Ch 24 in Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2013. The Gentrification Debates: A Reader. Routledge. (319-329)
- Housing / Homelessness
- Desmond, Matthew. 2012. “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty.” American Journal of Sociology 118(1):88-133.
- Herring, Chris. 2019. “Complaint-Oriented Policing: Regulating Homelessness in Public Space.” American Sociological Review 84(5):769–800.
- Wacquant, Loïc. 2001. “When Ghetto and Prison Mesh.” Punishment and Society 3(1). Selections (95-98. 105-120).
- Martinez, Cid. 2017. Chapter 1 “Neighborhood Councils: City Hall Competes with the Street for Legitimacy.” The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South LA
Suburbanization of Poverty, Foreclosures, and New Geographies of Segregation - Rugh., J. & Massey, D. (2010). “Racial Segregation and The American Foreclosure Crisis”. American Sociological Review, 75:5
- Todd Swanstrom and Peter Dreier (2014). "Suburban Ghettos like Ferguson are ticking time Bombs"
- Links to an external site.Washington Post.
- Read executive summary and skim the report: Kneebone, E. & Berube, A. (2013). “Confronting Suburban Poverty in
- Environmental Crisis and Contesting Urban Futures
- Dawson, Ashley. 2017. Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change. Selections from Ch 1 “Capital Sinks” (31-59)
- Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette, and Manuel Pastor. 2021. South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South LA. Vol. 13. NYU Press. Selections from Chapter 6 “Organizing Community, Building Power” (212-243).