Racial Differentials in the Components of Population Change and Neighborhood Transitions in New York City, 1980–2010: The Distinct Role of Asian Net Inflows in the Age of Net Outflows of Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 1456-1486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Peter Lobo ◽  
Ronald J. O. Flores ◽  
Joseph J. Salvo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Historically White ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Net Migration ◽  
Racial Differentials ◽  
White Neighborhoods ◽  
The City

We examine New York’s components of population change—net migration and natural increase—by race and space to explain increases in integrated and minority neighborhoods, in this era of greater ethnoracial diversity. The city has net outflows of Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics, and net Asian inflows, a new dynamic that has reordered its neighborhoods. Asians, often joined by Hispanics, moved into White neighborhoods without triggering White flight, resulting in integrated neighborhoods without Blacks. These neighborhoods constitute a plurality, furthering Black exclusion. Minority neighborhoods saw net outflows, an overlooked phenomenon, but expanded thanks to natural increase, which maintains the existing racial structure. White inflows have helped transition some minority neighborhoods to integrated areas, though integrated neighborhoods with Blacks declined overall. As Asians and Hispanics occupy historically White spaces, this warrants a reconceptualization of race and the emerging racial hierarchy, and a focus on the gatekeeper role of Asians and Hispanics.

The Role of Performing Arts Centers: A Case for the City University of New York

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 473-484
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Bishop ◽  
Katherine Kavanagh ◽  
Mahatapa Palit
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
The City

Jean Krasno

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 284-286
Author(s):  
Jean Krasno
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
City College ◽  
The City

Thank you so much. My name is Jean Krasno and I'm at the City College of New York and Columbia University. My question basically has to do with civil society and how you might see the role of civil society in keeping the environment on the agenda. There is going to be a big march in Washington next week, Science Matters, and it will be in New York as well. I don't know where else it will be held. What would you see as the agenda for this kind of movement, and how might you help the movement frame the issue to create a kind of urgency and message for civil society?

When Tenants Claimed the City

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Gold
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
World War ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The City

In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place—a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, this book shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. The book emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war, the prominent role of women within the tenant movement, and their fostering of a concept of “urban community rights” grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.

Saving the Subway

Last Subway ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 96-123
Author(s):  
Philip Mark Plotch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
York City ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
The World ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
Subway System ◽  
The City

This chapter describes how, in the 1970s, the New York City subway system continued the downward spiral of fewer riders, budget cuts, and reduced service, which led to a loss of more riders, further budget cuts, and even worse service. Despite carrying fewer passengers, the transit system's operating costs kept increasing. David Yunich's successor at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Harold Fisher, failed to address the MTA's slide, although he claimed that his programs were making public transportation travel more efficient, comfortable, and safe. By 1980, New York City's subway riders had more to complain about than ever before. New York City's subway system was not just unreliable, crowded, and filthy; it was also the most dangerous in the world. Moreover, the ongoing deterioration of the subways was threatening the city's economy. The chapter then focuses on the role of house developer Richard Ravitch as MTA chair. Ravitch had no interest in restarting the Second Avenue subway, and the project was a low priority for many of the communities it would serve. Instead, under Ravitch's leadership, the MTA took care of the abandoned tunnels below Second Avenue. More importantly for the future of the neighborhoods that the Second Avenue subway had been designed to serve, Ravitch rescued the existing subway system and the city along with it.

scholarly journals Using Spatial Autocorrelation for identification of demographic patterns of Functional Urban Areas in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (52) ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Sławomir Kurek ◽  
Mirosław Wójtowicz ◽  
Jadwiga Gałka
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Spatial Autocorrelation ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Second Demographic Transition ◽  
Net Migration ◽  
Demographic Processes

Abstract Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) leads to a better knowledge of urban spatial organisation, which may play a significant role in regional policy making and may be helpful in understanding the connection between urbanisation and demographic development. An explanation of population change in urban regions can be associated the second demographic transition comprising fertility decline below replacement level and postponement of births. The aim of this paper is to focus on establishing similarity patterns and anomalous values of selected demographic variables in the cores and peripheral areas of Functional Urban Areas. At the background of this study lies an assumption that population development of FUA's is shaped by different factors connected with second demographic transition and migrations. To achieve the aims the following demographic characteristics were used: population growth rate, dependency ratio, rate of natural increase, the net migration rate, and the dynamic economic ageing index, Spatial methods play an increasingly important role in contemporary socio-demographic research. In order to identify spatial systems Global Moran Statistics and the Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) including Local Moran statistics as well as Getis-Ord Gi* statistics were used. The research showed global and local autocorrelation of demographic processes in Functional Urban Areas in Poland, namely population growth, natural increase, net migration and population ageing. The use of local Moran's I statistic and the Getis-Ord Gi* method has led to identification of spatial clusters and dispersions representing different demographic variables. Spatial autocorrelation methods can be useful in an analysis of demographic variables including changes in time. The main contribution of this study to the research on demographic processes in urban areas was an application of spatial groupings techniques not only to find out similarity and dissimilarity patterns of demographic indicators but also to apply this findings for the needs of spatial planning.

scholarly journals Utjecaj ratnih i poratnih migracija na demografsku sliku Grada Knina (1991. – 2011.)

Geoadria ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-122
Author(s):  
Snježana Mrđen ◽  
Ana Jurić
Keyword(s):  
Population Change ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Demographic Ageing ◽  
Net Migration ◽  
Forced Migrations ◽  
Intercensal Period ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Town

The purpose of this paper is to analyze changes in the total population change in the settlements of the Town of Knin in the last two intercensal periods (1991-2001, 2001-2011), as well as the changes in the ethnic composition. As the war caused forced migrations which largely determined demographic processes in this region, a special attention in this research was given to the migration features of the population. The results of this research indicate that the greatest changes occurred in the 1991-2001 intercensal period. Both components of growth (natural increase and migration) were negative and caused a significant decrease of the indigenous population. This transformed the ethnic structure of the region; pre-war Serb population decreased by more than three quarters, while the influx of people from other parts of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina resulted in the predominance of the Croat population. Although the region experienced a positive net migration in the last intercensal period, unfavourable demographic processes characterized by negative natural population change and demographic ageing occurred in most settlements included in this research. This suggests that the region is likely to continue experiencing depopulation, which will cause the extinction of population in some settlements.

Johann Most and the German Anarchists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Goyens
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The City ◽  
As If

This essay tells the story of the first instance of a revolutionary anarchist movement in New York City, and the role of radical immigrant Johann Most in shaping and dividing the movement. This urban, immigrant movement pioneers several features that will be part of various subsequent movements and expressions of anarchism in the city. For example, Germans grounded their community in beerhalls and other meeting places in specific neighborhoods. They built cultural and recreational spaces and groups as if to live anarchism now, while advocating for it in public. The German anarchists also maintained an international profile through periodicals, and experienced the downside of ethnic insularity. Most added an ideological element when he advocated social revolution, propaganda by deed, and arming the working classes. The image of the anarchist bomb thrower was born and lingers to this day in the minds of mainstream observers.

scholarly journals ‘Getting the seat of your pants dirty’: Space and place in ethnographic educational research

Ethnography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-283
Author(s):  
ML White
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Visual Technology ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
The City

In this paper I consider the importance of space and place in ethnographic educational research. The paper draws on research that took place at Educational Video Center (EVC), a non-profit media education centre in New York City (NYC). In this paper I articulate EVC as a place imbued with meaning from the pedagogical practices that take place within and regarding it and argue for a consideration of spatiality in ethnographic educational research. I consider the role of the city landscape in order to identify how knowledge is emplaced and represented through digital, visual technology, and I conclude by outlining the criticality of spatializing our ethnographic practices.

Urban Consumers on Two Wheels

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás López-Pumarejo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Outdoor Advertising ◽  
The World ◽  
Street Furniture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Large-scale public bicycle rental programs represent the latest grand venture for outdoor advertising corporations. By supporting these programs, advertisers gain unfettered access to street furniture and municipal billboard space and thus acquire the power to transform the city dwellers' experience of the urban landscape both visually and kinetically. These public-private bike rental programs have mushroomed around the world due in part to the impact of Paris' Vélib, which is the world's largest. This paper discusses the role of outdoor advertising in this trend, and focuses on two existing and two projected public bicycle programs. The existing programs are Vélib and Montreal's Bixi; and the projected ones are slated for New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico.1

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