The term “Peckhamania” has been introduced in an article by Chris Martin in 2013, dubbing Peckham as London’s buzzing new hotspot, with “galleries, rooftop bars and foodie night markets that make East London look positively parochial”, a stark contrast to Olsen (1997) labelling it an inner city area which is among the poorest and most deprived in the country... Blighted by ills such as drugs, crime, unemployment, low educational achievement, a deteriorating infrastructure; life lived at the margins.
Hipsterfication is a term that is relatively new in social discourse, thus has little in the way of academic literature mentioning it. Proud (2014) describes Shoreditch, an area in east London as a metonym for unlucky pieces of real estate that
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Hipsters have turned themselves into “self-gentrifying urban Bedouins”, “popping-off then popping-up” where ever is cheapest (Eror 2014). The perceived advantages and disadvantages that this new “creative class of the skilled, educated and hip”, bring are mixed in literature (Companella; Kotkin 2013). In what Kotkin terms as the Geography of “hip coolness”, the idea that the creative class of hipsters follows a real, movement of young, largely single, childless and sometimes gay people into urban neighbourhoods, citing areas such as Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Wicker Park in Chicago in his articles, raising important questions about class politics in the post industrial and creative, service age. Investments in “cool” districts may well appeal to some young professionals, particularly before they get married and have children… however “it has done little overall for the urban middle class, much less the working class or the poor”. Liberal academic analysts have denounced the idea as “exacerbating inequality and exclusion (Peck 2005), whilst also being capable of decreasing diversity in a city over time, with “progressive” cities such as Portland and Seattle …show more content…
Most study of gentrification thus far seems to focus upon the racial aspects of segregation in relation to gentrification apart from work such as that of Douglas Massey who has been a prominent writer in ethnic relations and segregation he conceives of residential segregation as a multidimensional phenomenon that is varying along five distinct axes of measurement the need for comparative analysis of the nature and consequences of inner-city transformation. (Wyly Hammel
Jackelyn Hwang and Robert J. Sampson’s article “Divergent Pathways of Gentrification: Racial Inequality and the Social Order of Renewal in Chicago Neighborhoods” addresses the evolution of gentrification over time. The direct examination of gentrification is difficult to observe; however, by examining social pathways we are able to further advance our studies.
Lance Freeman tackles the issue of gentrification from the perspectives of residents in the gentrified neighborhood. He criticizes the literature for overlooking the experiences of the victims of gentrification. The author argues that people’s conceptions on the issue are somewhat misinformed in that most people consider it as completely deplorable, whereas in reality, it benefits the community by promoting businesses, different types of stores, and cleaner streets. These benefits are even acknowledged by many residents in the gentrified neighborhood. However, the author admits that gentrification indeed does harm. Although gentrification does not equate to displacement per se, it serves to benefit primarily homeowners and harm the poor. Additionally,
Several works we have read thus far have criticized the prosperity of American suburbia. Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus, and an excerpt from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "A Coney Island of the Mind" all pass judgement on the denizens of the middle-class and the materialism in which they surround themselves. However, each work does not make the same analysis, as the stories are told from different viewpoints.
“Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district's character and culture.” (Grant) In layman’s terms, gentrification is when white people move to a black neighborhood for the sake of cheaper living, and in turn, raise up property values and force black neighbors to leave because of a higher price of living. Commonly, the government supports gentrification with the demolition of public housing in areas that are developing with more white neighbors. This is causing a decreasing amount of African Americans to be able to afford to live in the neighborhood as their homes are taken away from them, forcing them to relocate. Whilst gentrification normally has negative connotations, there are several people who believe gentrification brings about “an upward trend in property values in previously neglected neighborhoods.” (Jerzyk) On the other hand, this new trend in property value and business causes those...
Another noteworthy urban sociologist that’s invested significant research and time into gentrification is Saskia Sassen, among other topical analysis including globalization. “Gentrification was initially understood as the rehabilitation of decaying and low-income housing by middle-class outsiders in central cities. In the late 1970s a broader conceptualization of the process began to emerge, and by the early 1980s new scholarship had developed a far broader meaning of gentrification, linking it with processes of spatial, economic and social restructuring.” (Sassen 1991: 255). This account is an extract from an influential book that extended beyond the field of gentrification and summarizes its basis proficiently. In more recent and localized media, the release the documentary-film ‘In Jackson Heights’ portrayed the devastation that gentrification is causing as it plagues through Jackson Heights, Queens. One of the local businessmen interviewed is shop owner Don Tobon, stating "We live in a
In this paper, I want to share the history of Haight Ashbury, and its transition from a small town with nice Victorian homes, to its deterioration in the 1960’s. The importance of a farm in Woodstock, to the Cultural Revolution and how it all spread from there including the role of radio and television in spreading the news of the hippie movement and how an attempt to free culture from its moral ideals and standards only led it with no standards or moral compass, and all they were left with was thought to be an idea of the Summer of Love.
What is a Hipster? Everyone knows a hipster when they see one; the clothes they wear, the music they listen to, the kind of car they drive – they stick out like a sore thumb. They seem to be everywhere nowadays, ever evolving in their characteristics and personalities in order to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to what is cool. Regardless of your personal perception of hipsters there is no denying that they are an interesting breed of human – one that our society is obsessed with, even if it is in a “Steve Irwin Crocodile Hunter” kind of way.
It was the New York Times columnist David Brooks who coined the term “bobo” a combination of “bourgeois” and “bohemian” in his 2000 book, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class And How They Got There. According to Brooks, bobos were born out of a crossbreeding between a 1960’s social liberalism and the me-focused have-it-alls of the 1980’s. Mixing the traits of two seemingly opposed breeds, the bobos represented a new social figure that began to emerge in the 90’s. Bourgeois Bohemains enjoy the lifestyle liberalism of their hippie ancestors, but are adamant about the finance-focus of their Wall Street-minded parentage. They want “to be free,” but not at the cost of being poor, or even middle class. “The essence of bobo life,” Brooks says, “is people who consider themselves sort of artistic or writers or intellectuals but find themselves in the world of making money, in the world of commerce.”
Over time, social group labels tend to mutate from their original interpretation, due to societal evolution. The hipster is no exception, as it originally referred to 1940s Bebop Jazz enthusiasts. Hipsters has since become the term referencing pretentious rich kids, attempting to recreate a sense of underground-ness; whether it be music or style-related. However, hipsters of today differ from the former in the sense that their actions are fueled solely by effort, rather than sheer interest of being outlandish and chic concurrently with music and style.
The term hipster was coined during the jazz age (1940s), when the term hip emerged as an adjective to describe enthusiasts of the growing music scene. The modern hipster is a composite of individuals with a certain bohemian, new-thinking lifestyle, as he or she rejects mainstream norms, and embraces and contributes to unconventional culture. Hipsters are a subculture of people that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and music, creativity, and intelligence. There are two sects of hipster: the authentic, indifferent hipster and the consumeristic hipster. One of the most prevalent ways of analyzing hipster, bohemian, and artistic identities is through consumeristic habits and ideologies.
Gentrification is described as the renovation of certain neighborhoods in order to accommodate to young workers and the middle-class. For an area to be considered gentrified, a neighborhood must meet a certain median home value and hold a percentage of adults earning Bachelor’s degree. Philadelphia’s gentrification rate is among the top in the nation; different neighborhoods have pushed for gentrification and have seen immense changes as a result. However, deciding on whether or not gentrification is a beneficial process can become complicated. Various groups of people believe that cities should implementing policy on advancing gentrification, and others believe that this process shouldn’t executed. Both sides are impacted by the decision to progress gentrification; it is unclear of the true implications of completely renovating impoverished urban areas; gentrification surely doesn’t solve all of a community’s issues. I personally believe that gentrification is not necessarily a good or bad process; gentrification should occur as a natural progression of innovative economies and novel lifestyles collide within certain areas. Policy involving gentrification should not support the removal of people out of their neighborhood for the sake of advancement.
The purpose of this paper is to describe how an underground youth culture emerged into a social “hippie “movement and what led them to Haight-Ashbury, the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the aftermath in 1967. The Summer of Love was a social movement that consisted of a wide range of ages from teenagers to college students even middle-class vacationers, inspired by The Beats, who gathered in Haight-Ashbury in 1967 that rejected the conformist values of Cold War America. The main event was held in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, where rent was low, Victorian homes and little trendy shops those who flocked here wanted to amongst their peers. Many just wanted to make peace with the world, but ended in October 1967, The Death of a Hippie, when the town became over populated with homeless runaways, the shops closing down and the overuse of drugs no one wanted to be there anymore. “According to Steve Watson, the Beatniks had a certain stereotypical look that you could tell belongs to the counterculture.
Because the image of a hipster has become a trend in which many follow, people do not like to admit that they fall into the category. A poll from the Public Policy Polling showed that “77 percent said they were not hipsters, 10 percent said they were, and 13 percent noted they were not sure” (Petri, 2013). This poll also found the there was “denial of being a hipster” or thinking “highly of hipsters.” Although we cannot view the participants and truly identify them as being a part of this subculture, we see the denial of some people of being called “hipsters.”
To begin with, racial segregation has been a problem and it has a direct link with poverty. Thus, it is important to understand what segregation is and how it works. Generally, segregation is a system that retains groups of citizen separately, by using social stains. One of the bright examples of this was the Southwest parts of Yonkers before the court approved the scattered-site housing plan. A few decades ago, when public housing was built, there were no choices given to the low-income poor people in the decision-making process for affordable housing. Consequently, we have experienced racial isolation existing in the Southwest parts of Yonkers. Yonkers is not the only one who practiced segregation in USA. a 1993 study of suburban in Chicago
In the 1930s, Chicago’s School of Urban Sociology sought out to define the characteristics of urban life. According to Louis Wirth in his article, Urbanism as a Way of Life, “…a city may be defined as a relatively large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals” (8). Wirth theorized cities as being defined by three major characteristics: large size, large density, and heterogeneity of individuals. There was a vast amount of different cultures and types of people all living together in the city. Yet the city was still very segregated, especially among socioeconomic class. In Burgess, E.’s The Growth of the City: an Introduction to a Research Project, he talks about the segregation of the residential areas.