Links
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
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
Pirrello: Walmart Ruling Clears Way for Economic Development
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=
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