The Digital Image of the City Digital & Computational Studies Bowdoin College October 1, 2014 Professor Gieseking Lecture Slides "Housing"

1. Housing
October 1, 2014
The Digital Image of the City
Digital& Computational Studies Initiative
Bowdoin College
Jack Gieseking

2. Outline
1. Housing as shelter
2. The birth of gentrification
3. A site of gentrification on the Lower East
Side/ Loisaida / East Village (Smith)
4. Contemporary gentrification: privatization
and financialization (Fields & Uffer)
5. Smart housing in comparison (Crowley, et al.)
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6. Going into the field

3. What is housing

4. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 1943

5. Smithsonian 2014

6. How one half lived

7. friends-ues.org and
ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

8. How the other half lived

9. wps.ablogman.com

10. globalperipheries.wordpress.com

11. Here comes modernism
(1945-1970s)

12. NYPost

13. Philly Inquirer

14. NYTimes

15. What happened to that same other half
(1940s-1970s)

16. City of NY

17. OSU, Vinegar Hill Project, Wikipedia, blackpast.org,
southernspaces.org

18. West Bronx 1970s

19. LES : tenement.org

20. The birth of gentrification
(1964)

21. Doonesbury

22. GoogleMaps

23. hqworld.net

24. Lesbian Herstory Archives

25. A site of gentrification on the
Lower East Side / Loisaida /
East Village

26. WiredNY & Wikipedia

27. 1991 neithermorenorless.blogspot.com

28. NYTimes / Smith

29. GoogleMaps & elegran.com

30. Google Maps

31. Contemporary gentrification:
privatization and financialization

32. SallieMae & Reality Trac

33. Smart housing in comparison

34. www.sustainablecitynetwork.com

35. Smart cities:
How can we create sustainable economic growth and
high quality of life for all of our urban citizens?
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Therefore, we need to ask:
What kind of housing do we want and need for our
futures?

36. Going into the field:
piloting our mental mapping project
at Bowdoin

37. !
Assignment:
Blog Post #4 due Monday, Oct. 8th by 8 p.m.
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Reading for Wednesday, Oct. 1st:
Housing: Sorkin (traffic), Simone, Jiménez
DIOTC
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