Ch.15

This chapter is about unsluming and slumming. Jane Jacob describes “slum operates as vicious circles.” she said that the urban renewal laws are not working. It tries to replace the slum by other projects and move slums to other places. This cannot improve the situation of slum. She explains the disadvantage of the law in this chapter. She mentions that taking out the slum is not the method. The effective development of slum is the solution. People leave too fast in slum. When the old slum move, the new slum would come here and inherit the “cycle”. If People who lived in slum desire to stay there, this would improve the environment of slum. First, it decreases the unstable in population and it holds enough population in the place. Second, the resident and businessmen can make their own plan for their place. Then, the result is that place becomes unslum gradually. It just sees how resident of slum behave. I agree with her opinion because I think slum is necessary to a city. In a city, different level of people occurs is natural. You can not compel to eliminate a part of a city. I think Jane Jacob’s method is good enough.

thesis statement

The increase of immigration in 8 Av of Brooklyn influences its economy significantly in the past 10 years.

1. Immigration is increasing rapidly in the sunset park and the immigrants opened stores massively in the 8 Av in Brooklyn in the past years.

2. The 8 Av. of Brooklyn becomes the third Chinatown in New York gradually.

citations+resouces+summary

This article posted in newspaper in 2002. The topic is “Report says 10 percent of jobs lost post-sept.11 were in Chinatown ”. It is talking about the unemployment in Chinatown. “The effects of the world trade center attack on Chinatown included layoffs of about one-fourth of the area’s 34,000 workers, and economic ripples in queens and Brooklyn…” This shows us that how the economic is in Chinatown of Queens and Brooklyn. The unemployment reflects the economy is not good as past and it is a trend of the world now. In the interview of the article, the women who worked in Chinatown said that she is difficult to find a job. She has been change many jobs in a year and the wage is low.

This article supplies many information of the economic situation in Brooklyn. It helps me to comprehend the trend of the economy. Actually this situation is happening in the whole world and it attacks the market in Chinatown. It is worse than the past. That makes the new problem that the decline of economy in Brooklyn is because the immigration or the world trend? Is the immigration the one of the reason to lead it?

JENNIFER 8 LEE. "C I T Y :Report Says 10 Percent of Jobs Lost Post-Sept. 11 Were in Chinatown . " New York Times (1857-Current file) [ New York , N..Y. ] 5 Apr. 2002,B3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2004). ProQuest. ***INSERT Library name or system, City, State***. 29 Feb. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/


This post is an article on newspaper in 2002. The topic is “well, the ices are still Italian-immigration patterns shift, altering the old neighborhood”. This is so obviously that is talking about Italian. The article tells us that Benson Hurst in Brooklyn is the city holding largest Italian neighborhood. However, the increasing of immigration makes them shifts. And Italian tends to move to the suburbs. The article attaches a data shows that new Yorkers of Italian descent from 1980 to 2000. The article mentions that “in this ferment, many Italians have los t their “comfort zone,”….”

This article provides a lot of information of immigration. “ the number of residents of Italian descent is down to 59,112, little more than half that of two decades ago, and the departed Italians have been replaced by Chinese and Russian families.” It shows me that the immigrant replaced the original resident gradually in recent years. Also, the article mentions that there are lots of Chinese stores replaced the cafes. A lot of Italians have to shrift because the environment is different to the past. They like to live here because there are Italians share the same tradition in this place. Now they choose other place for living. This article reflects that the one of the reason of the Italian shifting in Benson Hurst is leaded by the immigration.

JENNIFER 8 LEE. "C I T Y :Report Says 10 Percent of Jobs Lost Post-Sept. 11 Were in Chinatown . " New York Times (1857-Current file) [ New York , N..Y. ] 5 Apr. 2002,B3. ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2004). ProQuest. ***INSERT Library name or system, City, State***. 29 Feb. 2008 http://www.proquest.com/

interview

My target of interview is a lady who has lived here 8 years. Her name is yin. She has 2 sons and she lived with her husband. She worked in Manhattan in the first five years and she has job in Brooklyn in later three years until now. When she worked in Manhattan, she took subway. And now, the location of her job is closed to her home and she walks to the work location everyday. She said that the 8 Av in Brooklyn changed a lot in these 8 years. More and more people choose here to open their company or store. Before here is Jewish district and there are many Chinese, Spanish,mexican and Indian move here in recent years. She always see new neighborhoods move in. The price of goods are cheap so many Chinese come to 8 Av for purchasing what they want and people lived in Brooklyn seldom go other where to buy things. She is mother of 2 sons and she is responsible on doing housework. Therefore, she has to buy the necessity of house everyday. She thinks it is convenience for her because she can get all she wants here and the price is cheap. She is very happy on this. Yin said here is not so prosperous as now and people liked to go to china town in lower Manhattan in the past. She likes this change because this is good for her. Although the price of house is increasing, she doesn’t think this is a problem for her. It is because she owns a house with her husband. She hopes the prosperity in 8 AV develops continuously.

ch.13

Part 3 of the book” the death and life of great American cities” is about forces of decline and regeneration. It covers chapter 13 to 16. In these chapters, Jane Jacob mentions several problems that can influence the diversity of cities but they possess the 4 necessary conditions. The first chapter of part 3 is”the self- destruction of diversity”. The self destruction happens in outstanding and successful places whatever streets or whole district. “Diversity grows in a city area because of economic opportunity and economic attraction.” Now competition destroys the economic and social mutual support. People don’t find the high economic return. They want to shrift to other places and find the new economic opportunities. Author thinks that this situation is not a failure but a process for any successful places. And she encourages the combination of zoning for diversity, staunchness of public buildings and competitive diversion in the new diversion. In this chapter, there are examples to support author’s thought and explanation of the ideas.

Ch.11 and Ch.12

In chapters of part 2 are telling about the conditions for city diversity. The need of mixed primary use, the need for small blocks, the need for aged buildings and the need for concentration are pointing out the requirement for a diversity and how they compose a well develop city. In chapter 11, the need of concentration show that people gather together automatically and this can help on economic of city. It is because it brings properties, money and convenience. The concentration accomplishes the thesis of the mixed primary use and supported by small blocks. “In concentrations both dense enough and diverse enough to offer them a decent chance at developing city life”, concluded the theme of the chapter. In chapter 12, Jane Jacob answers questions that people think on a metropolis and those questions are myth. It is not the false of the design of city and is the user’s problem. If the city is well mixed use, the problem will not appear. Author responds to the myths that people have and points out her opinion on those questions.

questions~

What is your name?
How long do you live here?
Do you have children? If yes, how many?
Do you have job? if yes, where is the location of your job?
What is your major mode of transportation?
Do you feel convenience for going shopping or anywhere?
How often do you go shopping? where do you go often for shopping?
What do you like and dislike of your neighborhood?
Has your neighborhood change? How is change?
What is your opinion on the change?