Join the Civic Design Center in partnership with J.U.M.P. for an Urban Design Forum with Majora Carter to learn about her work in community development projects across the US that have been successful in combating gentrification and displacement issues.
How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter will discuss how neighborhoods need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them they can get.
Carter, who could have been one of them, returned to the South Bronx and devised a development strategy rooted in the conviction that these communities have the resources within themselves to succeed. She advocates measures such as
Building mixed-income instead of exclusively low-income housing to create a diverse and robust economic ecosystem
Showing homeowners how to maximize the long-term value of their property so they won't succumb to quick-cash offers from speculators
Keeping people and dollars in the community by developing vibrant "third spaces"--restaurants, bookstores, and places like Carter's own Boogie Down Grind Cafe
Getting To This EventWeGo Public Transit
12 Min trip from Elizabeth Duff Transit center Via Route #19 (Albion St & 21st Ave N)
18 Min trip from Elizabeth Duff Transit center Via Route #29 (Jefferson St & 21st Ave N)
Parking
Please park at the current Event Parking area at the rooftop level of Lot K, Garage, located at the corner of 21st Avenue and Meharry Boulevard. At the rooftop level of the Lot K Garage, is an elevator and stairwell that exists to the ground level. Upon exiting the Garage, to the left, is a short walk heading to the Kresge Learning Resource Center (LRC Building). At the corner of 21st Avenue and Albion Street, at the crosswalk, up the hill, leads to the entry of the LRC building - See map below. To avoid vehicle towing at owner’s expense, All parking lots are decal reserved for employees and students, Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to 5:00 pm
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