Module 2

Activities for Chapter 2

4.) 

Locate your library’s online database Subject Guides for your field of study. Create a list of databases that you will need to search once you have identified your topic.

My topic will most likely revolve around gentrification, specifically gauging public perception on the subject. 

1.) https://library.ndnu.edu/databasesbysubject

2.) https://library.ndnu.edu/c.php?g=686942&p=4854697

3.) https://web-b-ebscohost-com.webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/ehost/search/advanced?vid=0&sid=69a3200c-eb93-4cb0-828e-6a22f82c6eab%40pdc-v-sessmgr06

4.) https://www-jstor-org.webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/

5.) https://web-a-ebscohost-com.webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/ehost/search/advanced?vid=0&sid=79c4f949-0a26-4c8a-baa4-846ba3f8c1cf%40sdc-v-sessmgr03

Activities for Chapter 3

For my topic, I intend on analyzing public opinion on gentrification (specifically regarding employment, cultural identity and connection, and urbanization)

2.) For my search, I typed in "bay area gentrification", the search bringing up 38 results. 

3.) I chose the descriptors "San Francisco", "employment". I believe those descriptors narrowed down my search, as they are more geared toward what I am intending to research. 

Stehlin, John. “The Post-Industrial ‘Shop Floor’: Emerging Forms of Gentrification in San Francisco’s Innovation Economy.” Antipode 48, no. 2 (March 2016): 474–93. doi:10.1111/anti.12199.

The San Francisco Bay Area in California is undergoing a technology-driven wave of growth arguably more thoroughgoing than the first 'dot-com' bubble, fueling hypertrophic gentrification and tales of a deeply class-divided, 'Blade Runner kind of society'. While Silicon Valley is still the industry's employment center, San Francisco is seeing faster tech firm growth, and is transforming its downtown to become more 'livable' and promoting public space as key to innovation. In this context, this paper offers a reading of urban public space not just as a consumption amenity but also as the 'shop floor' of a labor process that goes beyond the walls of the firm to mobilize the social itself in the production of privately appropriated value. With innovation now the watchword of gentrification, the stakes of this shift oscillate between the total commodification of urban vitality and the recognition of the social process of value production itself. 

Baltodano, Joshua. “Lessons from the Mission District to Combat Housing Displacement in San Francisco and Beyond.” Harvard Kennedy School Review20 (January 2020): 113–16. https://search-ebscohost-com.webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=144556021&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

The article explores the reasons behind the success of Mission District in San Francisco, California in combating housing displacement. Topics covered include the pioneering practices and policies it has implemented to combat gentrification, how the expansion of nonprofit development has helped in stabilizing affordable housing in the district, and community efforts to preserve the district's cultural identity.

Project conversation: 

With my topic, I plan to discuss and analyze the public opinion on gentrification, specifically regarding employment, cultural identity, and urbanization. Personally, I feel quite passionate about the subject, having grown up in San Francisco, in the Sunset District. In regards to the subject, my friend and I found it slightly too broad, however, further research can hopefully allow me to condense the subject further. To remedy this, I suggested that I can focus my topic on a specific demographic, making sure my variables are as simple as possible. He agreed, mentioning I can find substantial evidence to supplement my topic.