Making It Home in the “It” City
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
19-9-2017 2:00 PM
Description
Since January 2017 Tennessean Opinion and Engagement Editor David Plazas has explored the issues of housing affordability and displacement in the yearlong series called “Costs of Growth and Change in Nashville.” Nashville is benefiting from its “it” city status, but while prosperity is growing, so is inequality. There are many residents—especially longtime residents and renters—who are being left behind and, in some cases, pushed out. The series has given voice to people struggling to keep up with the growth and has shined a light not just on problems, but also on potential solutions. The “Costs of Growth and Change” series has looked at various aspects of the issue, from the dilemma for renters to the potential of public housing to welcome a new era of mixed-income living, exploring whether “Old Nashville” and “New Nashville” can coexist and examining with famed urbanist Richard Florida whether Nashville is in the midst of a “new urban crisis.” The most recent parts looked at the rise of Antioch in Southeast Nashville and the challenge for neighborhoods to reassert their power. Future columns will look at other parts of the Middle Tennessee region and what other communities elsewhere are doing to address their growth issues.
Recommended Citation
Plazas, David, "Making It Home in the “It” City" (2017). Humanities Symposium. 26.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2017/2017/26
Making It Home in the “It” City
Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094
Since January 2017 Tennessean Opinion and Engagement Editor David Plazas has explored the issues of housing affordability and displacement in the yearlong series called “Costs of Growth and Change in Nashville.” Nashville is benefiting from its “it” city status, but while prosperity is growing, so is inequality. There are many residents—especially longtime residents and renters—who are being left behind and, in some cases, pushed out. The series has given voice to people struggling to keep up with the growth and has shined a light not just on problems, but also on potential solutions. The “Costs of Growth and Change” series has looked at various aspects of the issue, from the dilemma for renters to the potential of public housing to welcome a new era of mixed-income living, exploring whether “Old Nashville” and “New Nashville” can coexist and examining with famed urbanist Richard Florida whether Nashville is in the midst of a “new urban crisis.” The most recent parts looked at the rise of Antioch in Southeast Nashville and the challenge for neighborhoods to reassert their power. Future columns will look at other parts of the Middle Tennessee region and what other communities elsewhere are doing to address their growth issues.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Global Citizenship, Leadership, Diversity and the Professions