Housing

October 1, 2014 The Digital Image of the City

Digital& Computational Studies Initiative Bowdoin College

Jack Gieseking

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.) !6. Going into the field

What is housing

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs 1943

Smithsonian 2014

How one half lived

friends-ues.org and ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

How the other half lived

wps.ablogman.com

globalperipheries.wordpress.com

Here comes modernism (1945-1970s)

NYPost

Philly Inquirer

NYTimes

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

City of NY

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

West Bronx 1970s

LES : tenement.org

The birth of gentrification (1964)

Doonesbury

GoogleMaps

hqworld.net

Lesbian Herstory Archives

A site of gentrification on the Lower East Side / Loisaida /

East Village

WiredNY & Wikipedia

1991 neithermorenorless.blogspot.com

NYTimes / Smith

GoogleMaps & elegran.com

Google Maps

Contemporary gentrification: privatization and financialization

SallieMae & Reality Trac

Smart housing in comparison

www.sustainablecitynetwork.com

Smart cities: How can we create sustainable economic growth and

high quality of life for all of our urban citizens? !

Therefore, we need to ask: What kind of housing do we want and need for our

futures?

Going into the field: piloting our mental mapping project

at Bowdoin

!Assignment:

Blog Post #4 due Monday, Oct. 8th by 8 p.m. !!!

Reading for Wednesday, Oct. 1st: Housing: Sorkin (traffic), Simone, Jiménez

DIOTC 10/6