Local Reponses to Urban Development in New York City

9816118格雷戈里这个项目是对纽约市布鲁克林四个毗邻的城市社区的环境激进主义的人种学比较研究。该项目由纽约大学的一位文化人类学家进行，将研究种族、阶级和民族差异如何相互作用，影响当地社区对城市重建的反应。这些社区包括湾岭、日落公园、卡罗尔花园/公园坡和红钩，所有这些社区都位于布鲁克林西部，但由不同社会和种族的人口组成。通过两年多的参与观察，调查员将研究这四个社区对发展项目的反应，这些项目包括在海滨选址一个废物转运站；重建一条高速公路；建造一条铁路货运隧道；以及私人开发大型购物中心、多厅电影院和其他私人设施。该项目的重点将是创建跨越种族、文化和阶级界限的联盟。这项研究将提供关于当地次社区如何组织起来就共同感兴趣的问题进行合作的宝贵信息。对这种联盟如何运作的分析将是对这样的城市社区的普遍看法的宝贵纠正，即由于无法合作和弥合内部分歧而无法建设公民社会。将收集的新信息将引起纽约市以及其他类似城市的规划者和政界人士的兴趣。

9816118Gregory This project is a comparative ethnographic study of environmental activism in four adjoining urban neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York City. The project, by a cultural anthropologist from New York University, will study how race, class and ethnic differences interact to influence the responses of local communities to urban restructuring. The neighborhoods are Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Carol Gardens/Park Slope, and Red Hook, all located in West Brooklyn yet composed of socially and ethnically diverse populations. Using participant observation over two years the investigator will examine how the four communities respond to development projects including the siting of a waste-transfer station on the waterfront; the reconstruction of an expressway; the construction of a rail freight tunnel, and the private development of large malls, multiplex cinemas and other private facilities. The focus of the project will be on the creation of coalitions across racial, cultural and class lines. This research will provide valuable information on how local sub-communities organize to cooperate over issues of common interest. The analysis of how such coalitions function will be a valuable corrective to the common view of such urban neighborhoods as unable to construct a civil society because of the inability to cooperate and bridge internal divisions. The new information to be collected will be of interest to planners and politicians in New York City as well as in other similar urban places.