Your final project is a profile of a New York City neighborhood of your choosing. For this text, you should analyze at least five of the course’s ten weekly themes and explain how these five themes have contributed to the physical form and social experience of your chosen neighborhood. The more you have written in your journal summarizing readings and observations, the easier this project will be. Each profile should include:
+ An introduction (~500 words) that explains where your neighborhood is, describes its essential characteristics, and sketches some of the important details in its urban development history (including some of the highlights from your timeline)
+ FOUR themes (each about ~750 words) in which you define the theme in your own words (quoting from assigned readings where helpful) and then describe how that theme has exerted an influence on yoru chosen neighborhood (quoting from your original research).
+ A conclusion (~500 words) in which you comment — in your own voice — on the neighborhood’s current challenges, posing questions about its built environment and speculating on its future.
Your paper should also include:
+ a map or location diagram, indicating where your neighborhood is in relation to surrounding neighborhoods, its borough, key infrastructure, or other details relevant to your discussion
+ photographs that you’ve taken or that you have sourced (include descriptive captions as well as credit information as you would for a quote)
All told, it should be about 3000. No more than 5000 words. Unlike a traditional research paper, it does not need to have one cohesive argument for the whole paper, but rather four detailed sections that demonstrate that you understand the themes discussed in class and in assigned readings and that you can apply that understanding to interpret the urban development history and the current built environment of a specific neighborhood. You should back up your interpretations with citations from a mix of scholarly articles / books, newspaper and (credible) online sources, and conversations / interviews with residents (including your own family and friends).
DUE: 5/14 at midnight. No extensions will be granted. If your paper is not in the folder by the time we start grading them on Monday morning (5/15), you will get an incomplete. If you get an incomplete, you can still receive a letter grade, but it is entirely on you to reach out to me to make arrangements for amending your grade.
I will post some information down so it will help you.
LINKS
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/sbs/downloads/pdf/neighborhoods/avenyc-cdna-bayridge.pdf
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/data/2018chp-bk10.pdf
https://hdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bay-Ridge-Report-Final-091014Smaller.pdf
https://new.mta.info/sites/default/files/2019-08/x027cur.pdf
https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/FS209_2017.pdf
http://hdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bay-Ridge-Walking-Tour.pdf
