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Gentrification in East Austin Progress or Displacement?

Gentrification in East Austin Progress or Displacement?. Presented by: Mike Andrick, Pat Ouedraogo, Alejandro Garcia, Derek Hardin, Rebecca Brisco-Rhone, Naomi Brisco-Rhone. Find the Lofts/Houses/Condos/Businesses. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Austin,+TX. 1. History and Austin City Plan.

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Gentrification in East Austin Progress or Displacement?

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  1. Gentrification in East AustinProgress or Displacement? Presented by: Mike Andrick, Pat Ouedraogo, Alejandro Garcia, Derek Hardin, Rebecca Brisco-Rhone, Naomi Brisco-Rhone

  2. Find the Lofts/Houses/Condos/Businesses http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Austin,+TX

  3. 1.

  4. History and Austin City Plan • Wesley Methodic Church founded in 1895.First African -American Church • Holly power plant built in 1960

  5. Austin City Present Map • Majority in East Austin are African Americans and Hispanics • Fast growth combined with a history of segregation • White city planners pushed them off Valuable downtown areas

  6. Preservation District Map Alternative solution to displacement suggested: Land Trusts in preservation district

  7. Where is the connection? Deep-rooted communities are poor: There is a threat of rising prices and real estate agents made them their primary target

  8. History of cohabitation vs. History of urban planning • Urban design and planning has little to do with race, but urban areas are designed for different ethnic groups to live in. • Whether Those different groups should cohabit or be separated is another issue urban cities should consider

  9. Pictures/interviews

  10. Dissimilarity index

  11. New clientele • Advantages, disadvantages? • Interviews and pictures

  12. Business Reaction • Ray Dell Galloway (interview) Ideal Barber Shop -Galloway Sub Shop (1914 E 12th St, Austin ) • “crime has always been an issue for this community but as an area lightens up more attention is paid to solving the problems…” • Rosewood Merchant Association He wants change for his community but is the change really for HIS community?

  13. Ben’s BBQ • Ben BBQ “”

  14. Claiming Culture? • “Puerto-Ricanizing” (spelling??) Reading about gentrification in Chicago • Austin Forth Friday • Is this cultural claiming? • Who is participating? • Houston Tillitson University • Murals/ Restaurants, Marches • NAACP • Evidence of helping each other (Anderson Home Organization)  stable, effective community www

  15. Businesses  the new vs. old • Why the new appeal to East Austin? • What is being advertised? Who is it Appealing to? -Big Red Sun, Dandelion café, East Side Café, French History legation Museum (why not the Carver Cultural Center and HT?) • African-American cliental is being pushed out but return to go to local restaurants and businesses…does that testify to the presence of a cohesive community?

  16. Church example- Wesley United Methodist Church

  17. City plan-stats, map

  18. Pictures of old house and new house

  19. Lofts

  20. Picture of lofts- comparison • East vs. downtown

  21. Cultural changes

  22. future • Maps of city plan

  23. Interviews from the east side

  24. Revitalization vs. Gentrification • definitions

  25. Conclusions • Our opinions

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