The Effects Of Hyper-Development Of Chinatown

Urban Sociology is the study of human interactions and life in the metropolitan area. We use the information gather about a neighborhood or an area, so we can provide input for urban planners and policy makers. The impact that an Urban Sociologist can make for a community like Chinatown that is being hyper-generify is enormous. We can make correlation to how the hyper-development of Chinatown is hurting the local residents and the effects of the hyper gentrification. By knowing this information, we can show the city planners and policy makers what they are actually doing to a community and creating policy’s that are more in flavor of the people and not towards

Chinatown has been a starting point for many first-generation low-income Asian

With every little inch of building density being taken up by private companies looking to make a fortune off of a community that values its people and culture more than money. In this article we talk about “Chinatown that have persisted as havens for low-income immigrants and workers not only because of the continued need for affordable and culturally appropriate services and goods, but also because of the many people fighting to maintain their existence” ( AADEF , 5) . The people of Chinatown has always been of low-income immigrants. It’s a culture that lends a hand to people in need and helping people get assimilated to American culture. Gentrification is defined by the NYU Furman Center as an “areas that were relatively low-income in 1990,…, but then experienced higher than median neighborhood rent growth in the following 20 years”. Chinatown has always maintained its affordability but in the pass 20 years development of luxury condominiums, boutique hotels, trendy restaurants, and expensive stores are altering the economic and urban characteristics of

The number of residence with an annual income of $75,000 or more doubled; from 11.3% in 2000 to 26.8% in 2016. While the income gap widens, the ethnic population of Asians dropped 3.9% , while the white population saw an increase by 5.2%. The data was collected from Social Explorer, the demographics change, and the income gap is starting to become noticeable, with new development of high-rise residential building are causing the long-time residents who are low-income to be displaced. This is showing the gentrification of Chinatown through the usage of income and race. The correlation between income and race is important because it is show a change in the demographics, the environment and shows that Chinatown is no longer a working-class immigrants neighborhood. The demographic of people that replaces the working-class immigrants are young professional, students, and wealthy foreigners that tend to be