Gentrification: The Atlanta Way | King Williams | TEDxGeorgiaStateU
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2015
- Is it ever okay to cut off your finger to save your hand? In this talk about gentrification, filmmaker King Williams shares the story of gentrification in Atlanta and the challenges that arose due to the decisions that were made.
King Williams is both a New York City and Atlanta based filmmaker, who from 2011-2012 interned under the tutelage of director Spike Lee. Williams is currently working on 3 separate projects: his debut film, ‘The Atlanta Way’ due this summer, his film blog ‘Free Film University’, and a debut novel to be released in fall of 2015. Williams is also public speaker who has spoken for organizations such as the national non-profit Year Up, AID Atlanta, Teach for America and Harvard University to name a few. Additionally, Williams has been featured in a variety of publications including City Lab from The Atlantic magazine, Next City, Creative Loafing, Urban Newsroom and The Brooklyn Quarterly among others. With a passion for community engagement, Williams also splits his time to support the non-profit My Birthday Fundraiser in NYC and his father's business Edwin Williams Music focusing on Jazz appreciation.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
The idea of gentrification and urban renewal are important to maintaining a city's tax base, attracting businesses, and fighting crime. But we must remember that such benefits everyone only if done the right way. Gentrification is often a political topic and one in which bureaucrats credit themselves for many times. But the irony is that the wrong way in which it's done is when implementation happens through many governmental regulations which oftentimes have corrupt aspects.
Great Job King!
Gentrifier is a person that moves into a community knowing that they are different and dont want to socialize with the majority wich brings a certain character to the community because they only care about their own interests and want to only mingle with others like themselves and they know they'll win because they have money and power behind them
Does the majority want to socialize with them tho?
It's called freedom of association, not winning a popularity contest, with your neighbours
@@stevenmcgillivray9283we don't want to socialize with you just stay away from our community
And in just about 11:50 minutes of "TRUTH BE TOLD THE TRUTH" and this was uploaded on June 30,2016.
It's Greater In Decatur! I was there.
Even homeowners dont have a say who is allowed to buy in your neighborhood. That's life you like it or not.
why is it bad when someone says, hey i will take this piece of shit place that people didn't care about, and i will fix it up and make it my own. i will raise the value because i invested 50,000$ and i will be happy.
Because the people there can't afford to live there so they are being kicked out of their community
And bc that investor will turn around and sell that home for $300K. And he won't come along. He will be on the gentrification bus tours full of white people bc they genuinely are too scared to walk around the neighborhoods and actually engage the current residents.
@@rockyea8562 SO LEAVE IT POOR AND CRIME RIDDEN ?
@@drwalka10 Of course not. Developers could purpose to keep portions of the community affordable. It's been done before in some buildings in this way: a percentage of the units are on a sliding scale or rent controlled so the original residents can afford to live there. It's not perfect, but it's better that total displacement or homelessness.
Why couldn't you just explain it???
Good stuff
If he's a king, then where's his realm?
why did the projects deterioate? because nobody took care of their free shit. the just expected everyone else to do it for them. when you get something for free yoy feel no ownership. you just let it fall apart. never make anyone comportable in poverty because then they dont try on their own.
A dollar stay in the hood 18 hours in white hoods it stays for days why it never stay up in ours
Let me compliment the speaker for attempting to explain a critical issue in America - Gentrification. Yet, the speaker is like the frog in the well. He is trying to describe the ocean from only having the experience of a research paper, it can not be done. If he starts with the building of the first stone structures, studies the history of the place where Thales, Socrates, and Plato studied for more than 20 years then he may begin to have some understanding of transformation (Gentrification).
I love gentrification. My real estate team is always looking to buy up property here in Chicago. Our main goal is not money, but bringing a higher standard of living. We have rebuilt numerous decrepit communities into safe, clean well kept environments Resulting in reduced criminal activity and an overall higher standard of living!
that's good and all but what happens to the people that could only afford to live in those affordable homes? just go tell them to fuck themselves?
Baghuul wtf lying shit!
Baghuul you are white.
@@FancySeeingYouHere thank you! The never ending greed of gentrification is about money addiction. It is never,ever enough.
I definitely don't vote, don't speak so generally.✊🏿
Little brother needs to grow up and get his own PlayStation. But in all seriousness, I don't think gentrification is too bad of a thing even though it forces the vulnerable to adapt or leave the neighborhood. The alternative to gentrification is to not gentrify while maintaining crime and drug ridden despotic neighborhoods. Want affordable housing and government dependence? Move to Cuba or Venezuela.
No the alternative is society coming together to aid vulnerable populations for the betterment of everyone's lives without looking for personal gain or profit. But trust I understand most of you don't have a empathetic bone in your bodies.
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@@SmackYaMama thank you!