Deck 10: Neighborhoods and Communities

Question 1

Which of the following terms is used to describe a process that involves the investment of capital in a less affluent neighborhood which leads to socioeconomic changes that often force existing, working class residents out of the neighborhood?

A) Revanche
B) Conspicuous consumption
C) Theming
D) Gentrification

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Although each of the following wrote about gentrification processes, who is credited with coining the term gentrification?

A) Jane Jacobs
B) Ruth Glass
C) June Manning Thomas
D) Neil Smith

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Imageability is which of the following?

A) The practice of consuming goods or services in public ways that demonstrate the consumer's social status.
B) Lynch's term describing the degree to which an urban space is able to be understood as built environments
C) Place marketing strategies which communicate a particular city image based on visual, verbal, and behavioral expression of a place, which is built into the aims, communication, values, and the general culture of the place's stakeholders and design
D) Ocejo's term for technical skills and expressions of work that communicate to consumers craftsmanship in handcrafted or artisanal products

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Mental maps are which of the following?

A) Unique understandings of urban spaces that each individual develops in their own mind through their experiences moving about the metropolitan region
B) Place marketing strategies which communicate a particular city image based on visual, verbal, and behavioral expression of a place, which is built into the aims, communication, values, and the general culture of the place's stakeholders and design
C) Ocejo's term for technical skills and expressions of work that communicate to consumers craftsmanship in handcrafted or artisanal products
D) Characteristic of neighborhoods that Brown-Saracino identifies as being invoked by gentrifiers and social preservationists to describe neighborhoods with a sustained presence of long standing residents

Question 5

Which of the following do mental maps do?

A) Create urban illusions
B) Help cultural tourists navigate the city
C) Reclaim abandoned housing
D) Assign meaning to space

Question 6

What is place character?

A) Characteristic of neighborhoods that Brown-Saracino identifies as being invoked by gentrifiers and social preservationists to describe neighborhoods with a sustained presence of long standing residents
B) Socially shared understandings of a particular place, or a set of patterns in meaning and action that are specific to a distinct locale.
C) Lynch's term describing the degree to which an urban space is able to be understood as built environments
D) Supply side investment into amenities, especially the cultural economy, in a process that results in wealthy residents displacing the middleclass from their neighborhoods and when already existing upper class neighborhoods expand into lower status neighborhoods

Question 7

Which of the following explains what it means to say that an urban space is socially constructed?

A) As individuals interact with and socialize in those spaces, they reaffirm or subvert the prevalent meanings associated with those spaces.
B) The most powerful differential groups determine the meanings associated with urban spaces, and less powerful groups can do little to change those meanings.
C) The meanings associated with places are seen as subjective and so fluid that the meanings have no substantial social consequence.
D) Urban places are given gendered social constructions based wholly on the proportion of men and women populating those places.

Question 8

Hyra's book about gentrification in the "Cappuccino City" described his research of the Shaw/U Street neighborhood in which US City?

A) New York, NY
B) Portland, OR
C) Savannah, GA
D) Washington, DC
E) Minneapolis, MN

Question 9

Which of the following neighborhoods are described in the chapter as examples of neighborhood reinvigoration that have had mixed results including rising rents and displacement of poor residents?

A) Detroit, MI's Cass Corridor
B) Pittsburgh, PA's East Liberty neighborhood
C) Buffalo, NY's medical corridor near the University at Buffalo (SUNY)
D) Answers B and C
E) All of the Above

Question 10

Which approach to studying gentrification captures the changes in the role of consumer culture and cultural orientations, as well as political influence of arriving affluent classes in a neighborhood?

A) Supply-side
B) Demand-side
C) Cultural economy
D) Intersectional

Question 11

What is gentrification? Why do different stakeholders sometimes define the term differently? How do gentrification processes change urban space?

Question 12

Compare and contrast the supply-side and demand-side perspectives on gentrification.

Question 13

Identify one or two neighborhoods that have undergone gentrification processes and discuss who benefitted and who was harmed as a result of those processes.

Question 14

Throughout this chapter we saw that several urban sociologists were interested in the consumption patterns of urban residents and how those patterns shaped city spaces. Using the sociospatial perspective, explain how the consumption patterns of urban residents impact urban space.

Question 15

What is the role of theming in revitalization efforts, and how does theming contribute to the gentrification aesthetic?

Question 16

Explain how place character is an extension of the concept of the image of the city, and discuss how a city's place character can be meaningful for residents of that city.