FAMST 192CT Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Gentrification, Deindustrialization, B-Boying
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Part 1: context and answering back: the urban context. Relevant developments in the us during 1970s: Turning real estate into luxury housing, unaffordable to working-class residents. America"s poorest neighborhoods and least powerful social groups hit hardest. President ford vetoed request for a federal bailout for nyc (1975) Ny state and nyc negotiated a federal loan mandating severe social-services cuts. During 1970s-1980s, nyc became sharply divided between an affluent, technocratic, professional, white-collar group and an un/underemployed service sector, largely black and latino. Relevant developments in the south bronx (looking more specifically) South bronx often called "the home of hip hop culture" Situation exacerbated/worsened by a federally funded, politically motivated. "urban renewal" project, under the direction of city planner robert moses. In 1959, moses" cross-bronx expressway project begins, cutting directly through the most heavily populated working-class neighborhoods in the. Many public works projects happening that reshaped the profile of nyc starting in the 1930s.
