“Life on U street isn’t like how it used to be,” said Mohammed Kazeem, a 35-year-old retail specialist, who has frequented bars and clubs on U street since he turned 21-years-old. The U Street Corridor in Ward 1 of Washington, D.C. is known for it’s hip culture, modern nightlife, and historic music scene, but this stylish and vibrant area has had a dramatic change in demographics over the last few decades. Building projects and an increase demand for housing in D.C. has hit various communities
as incandescent gas lighting, high pressure gas lighting (Robins 142), and finally electric arc-lighting grew more common in urban settings. People became immediately nostalgic for the flicker of gaslight, and the inhuman qualities of street lighting were directly associated with the brightness and uniformity of electric arc-lights. For Stevenson, the immediacy and central control of electric lighting transforms the city into a technological nightmare: "Our tame stars are to
Abstract_ Harry Seidler is recognized as one of Australia's most influential twentieth-century architects 1. Having developed and cultivated his architecture instruction in Canada and in the United States with Walter-Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement, and Marcel Breuer he later on travel to Brazil to work with the flamboyant modernist Oscar Niemeyer which all combined defined his architectural foundations. This paper is concerned specifically on his arrival to Australia, using the Rose Seidler
Yordanos Gebrekidan Urban Politics Government Term Paper 4.6.2014 Gentrification in the Washington Metropolitan Area Of the many problems affecting urban communities, both locally and abroad, there is one issue in particular, that has been victimizing the impoverished within urban communities for nearly a century; that would be the problem of gentrification. Gentrification is a word used to describe the process by which urban communities are coerced into adopting improvements respective to housing
it was intended to offer decent affordable housing. "This is a great thing for the city. It provides decent housing for fine families." It was composed of 28 high-rise buildings with 16 stories each, with a total of 4,415 units, mostly arranged in U-shaped clusters of three, stretching for three kilometres. It formed a kind of concrete curtain for traffic passing by on the nearby Dan Ryan Expressway. Although it was meant to be an improvement over the slums they replaced, the buildings turned
Introduction pg. 2 Historical background of the Ulster Museum pg. 2 Context pg. 4 Description of spaces pg. 5 The Potential step forward pg. 5 Conclusion pg. 6 Bibliography pg. 7 Books pg. 7 Journals pg. 7 Internet pg. 7 Introduction This museum has been in transition at pivotal points of its historical time line thus far. It begs the question though, does it work as an architectural
striking act of protest was the march in Birmingham that happened on May 2, 1963, when a group of 6,000 young kids from age six to sixteen walked through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. Of those kids, 959 were arrested while praying on the streets. They gently sang melodies and waved to spectators as they walked around the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church to the city's isolated downtown area. As African Americans began protesting more, the whites started become more
could find any evidence to support our theory.” Isaiah was talking to the head of security at the police station in front of the cell that had held Maverek Jessen. I struggled to climb over the police tape that created a type of maze around the whole corridor, but ended up tripping. I quickly recovered just in time to see my partner motioning me over. “Alright, we go down this hallway and turn right. I have no idea what we are supposed to expect.” When we arrived, I bent down and got to work right away
Hidden Emotions to Be Revealed The novel follows Clarissa Dalloway, the main character and other characters throughout their lives in 1923. The narrator of the book goes into the character’s mind and shows their emotion through each event that occurs throughout the day. The characters are trying to find a way to express their need for communication but also to demonstrate their need for privacy. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, expresses the idea of hidden emotion being the sole benefactor of the
remorse by killing her sister and then by trying to kill Helen Stoner. Also "The Red-Headed League" offers some of the most lighthearted moments in the series, from Holmes literally bounding over the settee in order to retrieve his friend from the corridor, to the final conclusion where all is resolved. His dealings with an upper-crust gentleman of esteemed notoriety but very little common sense are particularly fun to observe. The climax appears in a darkened room and involves a surprisingly greedy