Resources

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1. Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America                                               
facebook.com/pages/Race-Class-Power-and-Organizing-in-East-Baltimore-MBGomez/382850858455298?ref=stream&sk=info

2. Urban renewal in East Baltimore                                                                                                BRACE Facebook:
facebook.com/groups/bracebmore/                           
 BRACE Website:
bracebaltimore.blogspot.com

News / Periodicals

1. EBDI has much to answer for                                                                                     Instead of jobs and housing, East Baltimore residents get empty promises and arrested protesters                                              
www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-protest-20120607,0,227730.story

2. EBDI investigated – 5-part award-winning series investigating EBDI in The Daily Record –Melody Simmons, Joan Jacobs

DailyR.EBDI series in PDF

3. Gentrification and its effects: Will the local and historic Northeast market in East Baltimore survive the Johns Hopkins redevelopment initiative?

http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/December-2012/Progress-Ahead/

4. Urban renewal and community rebuilding and capitalism in the US

http://www.thenation.com/article/173668/capitalism-disaster-all-seasons

Urban renewal exhibit opening revisits controversial changes  http://helenair.com/news/local/urban-renewal-exhibit-opening-revisits-controversial-changes/article_c4d57252-2a06-11e2-a325-0019bb2963f4.html5

Portland neighbors hope hospital improves its Legacy 
href=”http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2012/11/neighbors-hope-hospital-improves-its.html?page=2″>www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2012/11/neighbors-hope-hospital-improves-its.html?page=2

5. Eminent domain

Eminent domain in Little Rock, Ark may oust Dillards for other corporation
http://www.timescall.com/business/business-columnists/ci_22968318/kindelspire-how-heck-did-we-get-here

Accord may open door for ouster of Sears in Colorado      
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20121109/NEWS01/311090045/Accord-may-open-door-ouster-Sears                          

6. Tax breaks and incentives and  redevelopment in Pennsylvania

Buncher may scale back Strip District project in Pittsburgh                                        http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/buncher-may-scale-back-strip-district-project-in-pittsburgh-661040/

7. Accountability to the public and questions regarding benefit to the public for tax breaks to developers in Iowa, St. Louis and the US

New oversight requires cities report TIF revenues debts. Desmoines Register

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Regardless How They’re Counted, Incentives Do Nothing for Economic Development. The Atlantic Cities. Place Matters

www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/12/regardless-how-they-are-counted-incentives-do-nothing-economic-development/4140/

Pirrello: Walmart Ruling Clears Way for Economic Development

ballwin-ellisville.patch.com/articles/pirrello-lawsuit-ruling-clears-way-for-economic-development#comments_list

8. Poverty and health

Income Inequality in Health at All Ages: A Comparison of the United States and England http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.300929

9. Our neighborhood affects our health

An African-American or Mexican-American senior living in a community where many neighbors share their background is less likely to have cancer or heart disease than their counterpart in a more mixed neighborhood.                                            http://www.stonehearthnewsletters.com/racial-segregation-is-healthy-for-older-people/health-care-disparities/

Place Matters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZGRAqy3IM

Where you live may decide how soon you die

www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/03/a-matter-of-postal-codes-2/

10. Redevelopment and health: what if we simply rebuilt the neighborhoods and keep people there?

Physical And Mental Health Boosted By Move To Less Impoverished Neighborhoods 
www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/250551.php

 

Books / Research

American Apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass  -Douglas Massey  - Nancy Denton                     http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674018211

Baltimore: The Building of an American City – Sherry H. Olson       http://www.amazon.com/Baltimore-The-Building-American-City/dp/080185640X

The Down Side of Racial Uplift: The Meaning of Gentrification in an African American Neighborhood – Michelle Boyd 
www.uic.edu/las/afam/michelle%20boyd/thedownofup.pdf

The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from the Gentrification Research – Tom Slater 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00689.x/full

Gentrification Loretta Lee, Tom Slater, Elvyn K Wyly

Good Citizens  – Thich Nhat Hanh                                                               http://www.parallax.org/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=BOOKGC

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot              
rebeccaskloot.com/about/press/

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities: Who Wins and Who Loses When Schools Become Urban Amenities   Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo15112913.html

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City -Antero Pietila http://books.google.com/books/about/Not_in_My_Neighborhood.html?id=DCyOQAAACAAJ

Pedagogy of the Oppressed  – Paolo Freire                                 
www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-Anniversary-Paulo-Freire/dp/0826412769

A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn                    http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-P-S/dp/0061965588

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality – Rhonda Williams                  http://history.case.edu/faculty/rhonda-y-williams

Public Health and Social Justice Reader -Martin Donohoe                                  http://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-reader/

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It  -Mindy Fullilove                  http://www.randomhouse.com/book/57036/root-shock-by-mindy-fullilove

Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color-Larry R. Salomon – Kim Klein http://www.amazon.com/Roots-Justice-Organizing-Communities-Fundraising/dp/0787961787

Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone – Richard G. Wilkinson  -Kate Pickett http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/the-spirit-level

 

 Media

East Baltimore residents and representatives hold Hopkins, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the city, state and federal government and Forest City Development in partnership with the public-private development entity -EBDI -accountable for unethical redevelopment and discrimination at a city council hearing.

 

History of Johns Hopkins development in East Baltimore

Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street                                                                          Eminent Domain used by the community to rebuild their community in Boston                                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uPzl_RZpqA

Salt of the Earth -Mexican Americans organize against mining company in New Mexico                                                                     www.imdb.com/title/tt0047443/

Unnatural Causes                                                                                                                      Series showing the blatant socio-economic and racial disparities in health and illness www.unnaturalcauses.org/about_the_series.php

Voices from Within: A Displaced Community Speaks Out      Residents in Middle East Baltimore organize against eminent domain, displacement, Johns Hopkins University, EBDI, and foundations

https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/?f%5Bformat%5D%5B%5D=Video%2FFilm&q=%22Community+development%22&search_field=subject