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Producer Shea Shackelford worked with an 8th grade class at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School in Washington, DC. While studying the concept of "gentrificaiton," they spent a week interviewing neighbors and businesses of the Logan Circle area about the transitions occuring in their neighbornood.
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Producer Shea Shackelford worked with an 8th grade class at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School in Washington, DC. While studying the concept of "gentrificaiton," they spent a week interviewing neighbors and businesses of the Logan Circle area about the transitions occuring in their neighbornood.
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Great vocabulary word!I heard this piece on PRX on XM Radio... just wanted to say that I really enjoyed it. You could tell that the students got involved in the reporting and internalized the idea of gentrification...the good and bad of it. Thanks! |
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Posted on November 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM | Permalink
Well done piece!
I also heard this on PRX on XM Radio and enjoyed the piece. Everyone did a great job! For a decade I worked in a New Urban/Traditional Neighborhood Development and we were always on a set South Florida tour for planners, etc. to come and understand the background of the community. Often, over the years, there would be individuals that would criticize this type of community, citing gentrification and all of its negative connotations. This PRX piece really spoke to the positive aspects gentrification, like the woman who owned two hardware stores that employed 15 people that lived in the community (along with citing that they were helping people fix up their homes by providing locally available materials). If I were still in the position to field criticisms regarding gentrification, I could have gleaned many positive examples from this PRX piece!