Urban Revitalization or Planned Extinction? | Trevon Logan | TEDxColumbus

Why do some neighborhoods need revitalizing? Urban revitalization implies something was once thriving but now must be restored. In this talk, an economist and historian shares his story about how his research on historical neighborhood change literally hits home and places him at ground zero for segregation, redlining, urban decay, and urban renewal. He shares his perspective on how to acknowledge the past and change blighted communities today.
voxeu.org/article/rise-reside... Trevon D. Logan is the Hazel C. Younberg Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Ohio State University as well as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University’s Center for Health and Well-Being and at the University of Michigan, where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research. He is also an affiliate of the Initiative in Population Research, the Center for Human Resource Research, the Food Innovation Center, and the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Explorations in Economic History, Historical Methods and Demographic Research.
Professor Logan specializes in economic history, economic demography and applied microeconomics. His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly asses the question of how the human condition has changed over time. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@raegold024]

This hurts me so bad that my ancestors went through something like this. Why?

[@John-mk3oe]

I believe people segregate according to income more than they do race. People who can afford nice homes, typically want to buy homes where other similar minded people live -people who care about their properties and want to keep them looking nice. IN bad areas, like I where live, most people are tenants and don't care much....not even enough to pick up litter. If you've lived in a city all your life, you wouldn't need a map to tell you the basic nature of each neighborhood and why certain areas are in decline, while others have retained more value. For instance, the oldest homes were usually shoddy wood framed houses crammed together as tightly as possible. These were some of the first areas to go into decline.

[@skylarredding2659]

and yet believing that planning does not or has not existed simply doesn't make it so

[@sjohn265]

This is odd. Of course parts of cities decline and decay while other parts prosper, thats how they always work and grow. Crime, drugs, and neglect push neighborhoods down and you’re upset the city is finally rebuilding it?

[@onekerri1]

He spoke for 13 minutes and didn't say a friggin word.

[@tonytate391]

Kerri you must be deaf, learn to listen! He had a very important message, the only reason you don’t want to hear it, is because you’re in favour of gentrification.

[@skylarredding2659]

@Alvik Orlov would bet a paycheck neither of you actually watched the video before whining in the comments...