1. Agenda I: Intros & Attendance II: Syllabus III: Arts & Crafts
IV: Intro to Gentrification

2. James Rojas’s Method
The Goal: Make city planning accessible to more people
The Strategy: “Participation through Play”
Read More:

3. Design Your Ideal Neighborhood!
Don’t forget to give it a name.

4. What Is Gentrification?
From Wikipedia: “Gentrification is a shift in an urban community toward wealthier residents and/or businesses and increasing property values.
Gentrification is typically the result of investment in a community by real estate development businesses, local government, or community activists, and can often spur economic development, attract business, and lower crime rates.
In addition to these potential benefits, gentrification can lead to population migration, which involves poorer residents being displaced by wealthier newcomers.”

6. Why Does Gentrification Happen?
Local Economic Causes:
The “rent gap”: potential rent value v. actual rent value
Global Economic Causes:
Global rent gap; interests of global industry
Cultural Causes:
Cities are ‘cool’ again
Gentrification is caused by a limited supply of urban real estate
Gentrification is caused by an increasing demand for urban real estate:

7. Another way to think about it . . .

8. What Does Gentrification Have to Do With Race?
Nothing:
Gentrification is just basic economics
People of color can be gentrifiers
Everything:
“Basic economics” is influenced by racism
People experience gentrification as a racial phenomenon

10. Homework For Thursday: For Friday:
Read Neil Smith (article on Blackboard)
For Friday:
Send me an in response to the course questionaire
Log in to blogs.uoregon.edu for the first time with your duck id and password so that I can give you access to the course blog