South End
- ordered segmentation
- continues to grow symbolically
- a lot of green space: largely due to UR projects
Small, Villa Victoria
- South End: people attempted to eliminate Parcel 19, a predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood, under the guise of “Urban Renewal”
Parcel 19’s efficacy allowed them to not be uprooted in the face of upcoming neighborhood succession
neighborhood’s ability to continue on even as there are various changes going on within the area; continue through neighborhood succession and redevelopment forces
Villa Victoria and the surrounding neighborhood has been able to maintain its vitality because of its residents’ ability to stay active in the community
- "To many, seems to be most diverse mile in America"
(This is not typical high poverty neighborhood)
Background
state manipulation of land, fill and develop catered to upper class, when falls through, state offers encouragement of middle/ lower class to move in
collective celebration of heterogeneity
at least three public housing in neighborhood (makes neighborhood racially, economically heterogeneous)
big community victories: Urban renewal and highway
ordered segmentation: you can live in diverse neighborhood and not experience heterogeneity
diversity segmentation (David Hyra): neighborhood can be demographically diverse, and still be racially, economically, and socially segregated (most of needs can be be met within designated area)
parks, dog runs, school yards: public spaces being defined= informal way of maintaining diversity segmentation
Small: symbolic barriers define segregated areas (literally spaces permitted to enter depending on who you are)
Ordered segmentation, expanded
Jared Suttle: Territorial marking turf of ethnic groups perpetuate mutual exclusiveness and maintain order by minimizing conflict between groups
“soft boundaries”
instinctual response to go find people like you
maintained in South End: state placed groups, rent prices, etc. ppl who are oppressed recognize the risk if they do not obey soft boundaries so they are inclined to stay in same position (micro-aggressions)
Small and Social Participation
joining a club, involvement in local politics, community meetings, church
people who participate largely determine what neighborhood should look like
thought of as key mode of maintaining social organization
social organization: neighborhood’s ability to realize its goal and maintain its norms and values
social participation at time of VV: high participation, but drops in 1980s— most sociologists assume decrease in part due to increase in poverty, crime, etc. BUT THESE= ABSENT VV
small argues that neighborhood narrative frames
small suggests that because the neighborhood= poor, that they will act the same as all other poor neighborhoods
original VV— we won,did this incredibly powerful moment, and increased participations for some time, but slowly dies down; cohorts not a generational story, but active participation is those who are exposed to the narrative
Sylvie Tissot, Of Dogs and Men
- people and groups are left excluded from a place they were once able to be a part of
- dog parks, being defined as such and having a defined use purely for usage of dogs and their owners, caused its own sort of “neighborhood succession” of the homeless population who would use the parks as a resting place