Module 4 of 5 · Text
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
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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)
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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)
- Jared Suttle: Territorial marking turf of ethnic groups perpetuate mutual exclusiveness and maintain order by minimizing conflict between groups
- 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
- small argues that neighborhood narrative frames
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