CY PLAN 113B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carmine Desapio, Residential Segregation In The United States, Group Cohesiveness
22 May 2018
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• Moses v. Jacobs: Contrasting City Planning vs. Community Development Paradigms
o Jacobs emerged in a moment of strife in a moment of urban development in NY
o Moses stands over his model, proposing changes that would make a better city
▪ Had a vision to create the city that was world-class and as vibrant as it could be
▪ Freeway would go through Washington Square (a park)
o #1 argument to build more roads: economic development and vibrancy in the city
• Jacobs: The Community Voice
o Believed that parks were an important part of recreation, connection, reduce urban
congestion, and to mitigate pollution (environmental amenities)
o Important for community well-being/welfare
o Orgaized her ouit to protest the highas Moses’s isio of eooi progress
o Strategic in appealing to the NYC assemblyman, Carmine DeSapio
• Jacobs: The Uses of City Neighborhoods
o Jacobs comes from a perspective of a resident
o She privileges local knoledge ad perspeties those of us ho ork or lie i East Harle
see it quite differently than people who only ride through on their ride to work or those who
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o Street vs. district – different scale of community
▪ Street: small scale community that is not powerful enough to make change
▪ District: need a district (collection of streets) to have a political voice
o Celebrates and values the diversity in experiences; not homogenous
o “uessful eighorhood: oe that is connected to the wider city
o Cities that possess island-like eighorhoods do’t ork
▪ Community development tries to resolve neighborhoods that have been
disconnected from economic opportunity
▪ They are underdeveloped in relation to the rest of the region in which they are
located
▪ Community development at the neighborhood level, not the city level (economic
development may be at the city level)
o Residetial segregatio: spatial differetiatio of of ore populatios ithi a it ie:
parks, language, grocery stores)
▪ The line between segregation may be stark (ie: Brazil)
▪ The isolated communities are not vacant or without assets, but without the
connection to a wider society, they are disconnected in the political sphere or from
having a voice
o Biggest challenge for isolated neighborhoods
▪ Social connection
▪ Focus too much on the buildings, rather than the support system by creating more
political and social interconnections → social/built environment connections
▪ Cohesion
▪ Poer is iportat – ities eighorhoods as orgas of self-goeret
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