Feb. 3 – Introduction to Environmental Gentrification

“Mapping Environmental Gentrification in New York City.”

“The decade dominated by the ultraluxury condo.”

Feb. 10 – Parks, Zoning and Brownfie […]

RESOURCES
Screen shot of gentrification map

New York City general

Pratt Neighborhood Data Portal is a powerful all-purpose site with data and links to other sources of information ranging from remediation […]

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URBST 371/373 – Community Engaged Research/Special Problems in Environmental Studies: Mapping Environmental Gentrification in New York City

Spring 2 […]

“After all, it is not the function of geographers to merely map the earth, but to change it.” – Dr. William Bunge, Society for Human Exploration
 

Welcome to URBST 371/373 – Community Engaged Rese […]

EVENTS
(Earn 1-5 points extra credit by attending any of the events listed below and writing a 3-5 page summary/analysis of what took place)

 
SUNNYSIDE YARDS MASTER PLAN PUBLIC MEETING

September […]

Group neighborhood assignments
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Long Island City and Astoria: Kimberly, Louisa, Jermaine, Marc, Pedro

Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth and Woodside: Catherine, Juni, Perry, Sandy and […]

Sept. 4 – Designing a research question and project

“A Community Impact Study of Proposed Uses of the Rockaway Beach Branch Right of Way,” 2014. Larson, S et al. Office of Community Studies, Queens Colle […]

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URBAN RESEARCH METHODS – URBST 200

Fall 2019

M & W: 1:40-2:55 pm

Room: Kiely 115

Instructor: Scott Larson

e-mail: sco […]

During the Spring 2019 semester, students in a community-engaged research course in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College of the City University of New York studied how communities around the United S […]

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Maggie Walker Community Land Trust
The Maggie Walker CLT is a non-profit organization in Richmond, VA, that formed in 2016 to create permanently affordable […]

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East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust
The East Harlem/El Barrio Community Land Trust (EHEBCLT) is a collaboration between East Harlem residents, Picture the […]

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Baltimore Housing Roundtable
The Baltimore Housing Roundtable (BHR) is a coalition of community and housing organizations working to promote a new model of […]

Community Benefits Agreements (CBA) are best defined as contracts dictating project-specific agreements between a developer, a local government and a community. These contracts promise the community specific […]

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COMMUNITY BILLS OF RIGHTS
Executive Summary
This policy brief is written with respect to Community Bills of Rights and their potential as a mechanism by which […]

A fundamental component of the community land trust (CLT) is the community’s ability to own and control local resources – including land, buildings and other assets – and decisions regarding their use and devel […]

This project represents a collaborative effort between students in the Spring 2019 Community-Engaged Research course in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY and community partners GES Coalition and […]

Maggie Walker Community Land Trust
The Maggie Walker CLT is a non-profit organization in Richmond, VA, that formed in 2016 to create permanently affordable housing. Using the clt model, its focus is the creation […]