Small, Tissot and South End

South End 

- ordered segmentation

- continues to grow symbolically 

- a lot of green space: largely due to UR projects

Small, Villa Victoria 

-  South End: people attempted to eliminate Parcel 19, a predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood, under the guise of “Urban Renewal”

• Parcel 19’s efficacy allowed them to not be uprooted in the face of upcoming neighborhood succession
• neighborhood’s ability to continue on even as there are various changes going on within the area; continue through neighborhood succession and redevelopment forces
• Villa Victoria and the surrounding neighborhood has been able to maintain its vitality because of its residents’ ability to stay active in the community

- "To many, seems to be most diverse mile in America" 

(This is not typical high poverty neighborhood) 

• Background
  • state manipulation of land, fill and develop catered to upper class, when falls through, state offers encouragement of middle/ lower class to move in
  • collective celebration of heterogeneity
  • at least three public housing in neighborhood (makes neighborhood racially, economically heterogeneous)
  • big community victories: Urban renewal and highway 
• ordered segmentation: you can live in diverse neighborhood and not experience heterogeneity
• diversity segmentation (David Hyra):  neighborhood can be demographically diverse, and still be racially, economically, and socially segregated (most of needs can be be met within designated area)
  • parks, dog runs, school yards: public spaces being defined= informal way of maintaining diversity segmentation
• Small: symbolic barriers define segregated areas (literally spaces permitted to enter depending on who you are)
• Ordered segmentation, expanded 
  • Jared Suttle: Territorial marking turf of ethnic groups perpetuate mutual exclusiveness and maintain order by minimizing conflict between groups 
    • “soft boundaries” 
  • instinctual response to go find people like you 
  • maintained in South End: state placed groups, rent prices, etc. ppl who are oppressed recognize the risk if they do not obey soft boundaries so they are inclined to stay in same position (micro-aggressions)
• Small and Social Participation 
  • joining a club, involvement in local politics, community meetings, church 
  • people who participate largely determine what neighborhood should look like 
  • thought of as key mode of maintaining social organization
    • social organization: neighborhood’s ability to realize its goal and maintain its norms and values 
  • social participation at time of VV: high participation, but drops in 1980s— most sociologists assume decrease in part due to increase in poverty, crime, etc. BUT THESE= ABSENT VV 
    • small argues that neighborhood narrative frames 
      • small suggests that because the neighborhood= poor, that they will act the same as all other poor neighborhoods
      • original VV— we won,did this incredibly powerful moment, and increased participations for some time, but slowly dies down; cohorts not a generational story, but active participation is those who are exposed to the narrative 

Sylvie Tissot, Of Dogs and Men 

- people and groups are left excluded from a place they were once able to be a part of

- dog parks, being defined as such and having a defined use purely for usage of dogs and their owners, caused its own sort of “neighborhood succession” of the homeless population who would use the parks as a resting place