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P.O.V. Websites
P.O.V.'s
Borders: Talking with CAAAV
P.O.V. interviews the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV) about how
they are dealing with community changes in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York
City. (2002)
PBS.org Websites
Online NewsHour: New Urbanism
A special report on the return to the traditional neighborhood design and a
re-evaluation with America's 50-year love affair with "spread-out, car-centered
suburbs." (2000)
Online NewsHour: Dream Houses
Many residents of Burlington, Vermont who earn the median salary cannot afford
to buy or rent a median-priced house or apartment – and the disparity
continues to grow with the housing market boom. What does this mean on a national
level? Housing experts Wendell Cox and Susan Popkin answer your questions.
(2002)
Independent Lens: Downside Up
What happens when the smallest, poorest town in Massachusetts teams up with
art world luminaries to build a modern art museum? Can big city conceptual
artists and blue-collar natives find common ground and a common cause? (2003)
People Like Us: Social Class in America
How do income, family background, education, attitudes,
aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social
class? (2001)
NewsHour: How We Live: Philadelphia
As part of the ongoing "How We Live" series, Ray Suarez takes a look
at the effort to rebuild old neighborhoods in Philadelphia. (2002)
PBS Shows
This Old House
Tips and advice for all handymen and handywomen at this beautiful site.
NPR Stories
NPR: Housing First, A Special Report
In the yearlong special reporting project, "Housing First," NPR News explores
the housing dilemmas of Americans with special needs — and how lack of
housing can stymie their efforts to join mainstream society. (2002)
All Things Considered: Chicago Gentrification
When commentator John Green moved to Chicago, he moved to Wicker Park — with
all the other hip 20-somethings. But the older, richer people weren't far behind,
and they changed the neighborhood. So he moved to their turf — the Gold Coast
— and he encourages other Generation Y-ers to do the same to slow the gentrification
of their neighborhoods. (2003)
All Things Considered: Dot Com Backlash
Artists and Latino residents in San Francisco's Mission District are taking
a theatrical approach to the problem of gentrification in their neighborhood.
Alex Cohen of Member Station KQED reports. (2000)
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Neighborhood in Transition: Gentrification's Dull Roar
NPR examines the process of gentrification through the changes taking place in
Alberta, a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon.
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