It was the reasonable neighborhood to push out because it was a poor neighborhood made up of people of color, who didn’t know how to defend themselves.
It’s difficult to bring yourself to challenge those forces, when the forces money, power, and status because the imbalance of power is too great to defend the little that one may have. When you own a home, such as those who live in The Hill, you find the willpower to try to fight for the few things you can call your own. Neighborhoods like The Hill have undergone several struggles and tribulations; one can imagine that with the level of high crime rate and urban issues, people have done or seen things that have made the neighborhood a significant bearing. Urban neighborhoods consider not just …show more content…
This process means to gentrify the neighborhood, building around the highly valued institution of the Yale-New Haven Hospital. However, the gentrifying process overlooks the implications for the marginalized group already there (Loughran). The displacement of the densely low income populated residential area over the school construction is what Harvey would refer to as creative destruction. Harvey, on creative destruction, comments “He deliberately engineered the removal of much of the working class and other unruly elements from the city center, where they constituted a threat to public order and political power” (The Right to the City, 325). He describes that is the marginalized groups that suffer from this process approved by political powers (The Right to the City, 324). What this creative destruction of the Upper Hill meant for Yale-New Haven hospital, is that they wouldn’t feel the need to watch their back incase the issues that stem from The Hill spilling over onto Yale-New Haven hospital. Their invisible wall that serves as a border would be dropped down when the new school built covers the blight sights of the houses that once laid there on Upper …show more content…
In The Hill, residents were told that by the time the plaintiffs realized the unfair situation they were in, they were too late in filing the lawsuit against, the city had already spent too much money and time in the reconstruction plan (The Hill). In a just city you cannot have a solution that will benefit one group of people, and while creating implications for another group. The lawsuit was their attempt to voice their opinions, when they are often considered in the lower spectrum of the new haven social hierarchy. The case proved to be a way to humanize their situation and prove that they were not a problematic group for New Haven, and showcased that these were the real lived experiences of people who were not being protected by our governmental
It’s difficult to bring yourself to challenge those forces, when the forces money, power, and status because the imbalance of power is too great to defend the little that one may have. When you own a home, such as those who live in The Hill, you find the willpower to try to fight for the few things you can call your own. Neighborhoods like The Hill have undergone several struggles and tribulations; one can imagine that with the level of high crime rate and urban issues, people have done or seen things that have made the neighborhood a significant bearing. Urban neighborhoods consider not just …show more content…
This process means to gentrify the neighborhood, building around the highly valued institution of the Yale-New Haven Hospital. However, the gentrifying process overlooks the implications for the marginalized group already there (Loughran). The displacement of the densely low income populated residential area over the school construction is what Harvey would refer to as creative destruction. Harvey, on creative destruction, comments “He deliberately engineered the removal of much of the working class and other unruly elements from the city center, where they constituted a threat to public order and political power” (The Right to the City, 325). He describes that is the marginalized groups that suffer from this process approved by political powers (The Right to the City, 324). What this creative destruction of the Upper Hill meant for Yale-New Haven hospital, is that they wouldn’t feel the need to watch their back incase the issues that stem from The Hill spilling over onto Yale-New Haven hospital. Their invisible wall that serves as a border would be dropped down when the new school built covers the blight sights of the houses that once laid there on Upper …show more content…
In The Hill, residents were told that by the time the plaintiffs realized the unfair situation they were in, they were too late in filing the lawsuit against, the city had already spent too much money and time in the reconstruction plan (The Hill). In a just city you cannot have a solution that will benefit one group of people, and while creating implications for another group. The lawsuit was their attempt to voice their opinions, when they are often considered in the lower spectrum of the new haven social hierarchy. The case proved to be a way to humanize their situation and prove that they were not a problematic group for New Haven, and showcased that these were the real lived experiences of people who were not being protected by our governmental