Welcome to Friday! We’re splitting today between doing senior project business and finishing off our look at economic development.
We’ll start with a video of perhaps the most well-known community-based economic development project in the country – the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. This project got off the ground in the 1980s and is still going today. The video highlights how economic development is an ongoing process AND who controls that process is very important to keep an eye on.
We’ll then switch gears and you give your preferences for a senior project advisor on the mural out in the hallway. Matt and I will use your choices to pair people up.
After break, we’ll do Four Corners as a way to talk about how power and privilege plays into economic development. I’ll introduce the idea of “gentrification,” which is the relatively rapid displacement of a culturally distinct group of people due to market forces. “Culturally-distinct” doesn’t have to refer to ethnicity. It can refer to class or some other variable that makes a neighborhood population distinct.
After introducing this topic, which connects to your homework reading this weekend, we’ll break down into small groups and you’ll discuss last night’s readings and get organized for Monday. Here are the questions for small group discussion.
Homework due Monday, February 9th
Read this article on the connection between resilience and justice.
Answer these two questions in your journal:
We’ll start with a video of perhaps the most well-known community-based economic development project in the country – the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. This project got off the ground in the 1980s and is still going today. The video highlights how economic development is an ongoing process AND who controls that process is very important to keep an eye on.
We’ll then switch gears and you give your preferences for a senior project advisor on the mural out in the hallway. Matt and I will use your choices to pair people up.
After break, we’ll do Four Corners as a way to talk about how power and privilege plays into economic development. I’ll introduce the idea of “gentrification,” which is the relatively rapid displacement of a culturally distinct group of people due to market forces. “Culturally-distinct” doesn’t have to refer to ethnicity. It can refer to class or some other variable that makes a neighborhood population distinct.
After introducing this topic, which connects to your homework reading this weekend, we’ll break down into small groups and you’ll discuss last night’s readings and get organized for Monday. Here are the questions for small group discussion.
Homework due Monday, February 9th
Read this article on the connection between resilience and justice.
Answer these two questions in your journal:
- In our area, where is there a deficit of trust? What kind of development project might remedy this situation? Look at the examples in the article.
- Of the twelve economic development strategies on our list, which would Fairchild most approve of?