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Below are the three project development ideas for this class. These projects will assist in my MA project: Creative Gentrification in Santa Ana.
Plan I: Seeding Gentrification through the 19th century Renovation Movement
Spatial Fields: Discussing how the labor class changes from blue to white collar workers in the late 19th century to early 20th century. This working class change introduces a changing need of housing and women within the workforce.
Temporal: 1880 Manhattan erects a high-rise purposefully built for new middle-class workers. 1800s Frank A Bourne transforms Beacon Hill’s rooming homes into apartments for white collar workers. Later you have the same thing happen on Manhattan’s Westside, Chicago’s Gold Coast and Rittenhouse Square. The spatial landscape changed from small dilapidated housing to upper-income apartments, thus, inviting new groups of people into the area through Renovation. Creation of Artists’ Districts to create a counter-culture to the elite boosterism within these communities. (This argument based on Mike Davis City of Quartz).
Goal: Illustrate how the Renovation Movement provided upward mobility for a white-collar working class while potentially displacing other ethnic working class living environment. (Another idea that comes to mind is Cabbage Row and the Porgy/Bess musical).
Plan II: Preservation through Cultural Displacement: Jarring Cultural Boundaries in 19th Century America
Spatial Fields: Discussing the 19th-century preservation groups, primarily ran by Women, to cultivate their idea of cultural value while illustrating their domestic domain in a business world.
Temporal: Patricia West Domesticating History speaks about women becoming the guardians of the American Spirit. The Agency in Domestic Reform and how women architects are taking on the Anglo-Saxon approach of a home made for each private family, not rooming homes restored the American spirit. Discuss how this changes collective memory of an era and environmental history of other cultures.
Goal: Define how preserving the American Spirit through Anglo perceived ‘other’ culture by imperialist nostalgia and romanticism.
Plan III: Cultural Displacement through 19th century Westward Dominion
Spatial Fields: Discussing how the labor class changes from blue to white collar workers in the late 19th century to early 20th century. This introduces a changing need of housing and women into the labor force.
Temporal: Looking at the idea of ‘Chinatowns’ in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Idea of Olvera Street in Los Angeles displaces true cultural, historical narratives in the 19th century. Other groups like the Chumash indigenous tribes displaced by Pacific trade (Igler’s Great Ocean) could also be discussed. Maybe can talk about culture mold-breakers like Biddy Mason in Los Anegles is still portrayed as a mid-wife delivering many babies in modern public space?
Goal: American’s desire to create new spatial boundaries based on regional and racial identity displaces culture while embodying myth building collective memories. How does Anglo-Americans tending to perceived identities effect the shaping of communal civic relationships between them and other cultural groups?