Week 4: New Orleans, Louisiana – The Big Easy

WEEK 4: New Orleans, Louisiana – The Big Easy

Tue 2.12/Thu 2.14           

READ: eR—“How to Stop Gentrification” (The New Republic), “We Shouldn't Stop Gentrification, but We Can Make it Less Painful” (Forbes), “How an LA Community is Fighting Back Against Gentrification” (Marketplace)

CLASS: Downtown San Jose city walk*; Watch—“What Happens When Neighborhoods Gentrify?” (Vice News), “Why We Stay: Gentrification’s Damage” (The Nation), “What it’s Like to Get Kicked Out of Your Neighborhood” (Buzzfeed); Lecture—“Inside the Toulmin Model”

*Please be on time.

Upcoming:

WEEK 5: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – The City of Brotherly Love

Tue 2.19/Thu 2.21

READ: EVICT—Prologue: Cold City - Ch. 2: Making Rent

CLASS: TOULMIN METHOD; Reading Discussion; Guest speaker (TBA); Multimedia presentations; Lecture—“Inside the Narrative: Burke’s Dramatistic Pentad”
DUE: REFLECTION 1