{"id":7,"date":"2017-04-13T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2014\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:52:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b>Hello! My name is Lauren O&#8217;Shea, and I created this website for my Urban Education course taught by Doris Santoro during the Spring 2017 semester at Bowdoin College. This site examines how increased gentrification within predominantly low-income, minority communities in cities across the country has impacted urban public schools.\u00a0Although gentrification has caused stratification and segregation urban school districts, it has also sparked a flurry of grassroots organizations across the country that aim to stop gentrification and its subsequent low-income, minority displacement from communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-115 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/05\/cropped-tod_1-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/05\/cropped-tod_1-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/05\/cropped-tod_1-150x77.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/05\/cropped-tod_1-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/05\/cropped-tod_1-624x321.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/05\/cropped-tod_1.jpg 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10.5px\">[Photo of protests at the Twin Towers worksite from Chicago Reader article, &#8220;Activists Worry CTA-friendly housing will accelerate Logan Square gentrification&#8221; by John Greenfield]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-202 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/04\/20150955fb580e9f413-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/04\/20150955fb580e9f413-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/04\/20150955fb580e9f413-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-loshea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/152\/2017\/04\/20150955fb580e9f413.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><sup>[Photograph from Patch.com article, &#8220;Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Protesters Confront City Planners:PHOTOS &#8216;Whose City? Our City!&#8217; by Simone Wilson&#8221;]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>This page\u00a0hopes to not only demonstrate the harms of gentrification on low-income, minority communities\u00a0but also show the adversity and power of community organizing around\u00a0against this issue across the country. It&#8217;s incredible to see how unity can spark change, and I hope this website highlights the\u00a0promise in urban communities dealing with gentrification! Thanks for viewing this page!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References for Header and Background Photo:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p>Old red brick wall as background | Stock Photo. (2012, March 19). Retrieved May 1, 2017, from https:\/\/www.colourbox.com\/image\/old-red-brick-wall-as-background-image-3676349<\/p>\n<p>Header:<\/p>\n<p>Rosenberg, Z. (2014, February 18). Archicritic Defends His Point That Gentrification Is Not &#8216;All Bad&#8217;. 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