Your essay must:
1. Describe at least one scene in detail, covering some aspect of place, space, landscape, perception, location, site & situation, landscape, region, distribution, density, or diffusion from chapter one.
2. Include a map or image of the place you have described. Maps can be found through Google image searches or by taking a screenshot of Google maps. Your map does not count towards the page requirements. Refer to the map/image in your description.
3. Include direct quotes from your media source and a minimum of two additional quotes taken from the readings. DO NOT PARAPHRASE. All quotes must be properly cited using CMS citations and the author of the quote must be introduced. For example:
a. Mercier and Norton define contagious diffusion as “the spread of geographic phenomena in a fashion similar to the spread of infectious disease” (19).
b. All quotes must be explained in your own words and then applied to the materials you describe from the film.
Remember Chapter 1! What is there? Why is it there? Why does it matter? Answer these questions in your essay.
Prompts:
You can use any of the discussion questions for the films and videos to structure your mini-essay, or you can answer a question of your own, or you can answer any of the following questions:
1. How do urban planners work with developers to shape urban structure? In what ways are our lives shaped or impacted by urban planning?
2. What economic, government, or urban planning processes produced the downward filtering and fires of the Bronx? What impacts did these processes have on urban migrations and demographics? You can also use Grenfell tower in your answer instead of the Bronx (do only one!).
3. How did the urban structure and demographics of the Bronx produce hip-hop? What kinds of cultural diffusion do we see with hip-hop’s spread from the Bronx?
4. How does the film Push point to problems greater than just gentrification? What problems arise when government policies abandon housing as a right to emphasize housing as a commodity (see page 295)?
Things to pay attention to in your writing:
A) The introductory paragraph should identify what you will be analysing, why it is important, and must have a clear thesis (what you will argue), rather than just a topic.
B) Each paragraph should focus on one aspect: description, meaning/interpretation, significance developed from a course reading. Use direct citations only when using course materials (no paraphrasing).
C) Descriptions must be coherent: flesh out details concerning character traits, styles, gestures, language, presentation, relationships between people, things or the spaces they occupy, and link these details to the overall structure of the narrative if relevant. Do not do all of these, but selectively choose the most appropriate elements to build your meaning.
D) The meaning or importance of the image(s) or scene you have examined should be clearly expressed. Link the meaning to the significance that you develop with reference to course readings. Your link to the course materials should be part of a paragraph that builds on a quote from a course reading.
And in this essay, you will need the content from chapter8 and chapter10. The contents are Housing and Neighborhoods(pgs391-402) in chapter 8 and Globalization and Industrial Geographies(pgs508-517) in chapter10.
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