Resources

Children's Lived Spaces in the Inner City

This important paper traces the changing experience of growing up in Pittsburgh's Hill District in three distinct eras. AUTHOR: Eva-Maria...

Street by Street, Block by Block: How Urban Renewal Uprooted Black Roanoke

This groundbreaking special section of the Roanoke Times presented the city's history of urban renewal. AUTHOR: Mary Bishop. PUBLISHED:...

Serial Forced Displacement in American Cities, 1916–2010

This paper describes the recurrent upheaval that has undermined stability of African American communities over a 100 year period. AUTHOR:...

Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession

This paper presents Mindy Fullilove's concept of "root shock," based on the lifestory of David Jenkins and Mary Bishop's reporting on...

Root Shock : Comic Book

This comic book based on the essay Root Shock: The Consequences of African American Dispossession and adapted/illustrated by Michelle...

Psychiatric Implications of Displacement: Contributions from the Psychology of Place

This essay draws on findings in the psychology of place to propose three areas of psychiatric distress after geographic displacement....

Hillscapes: A Scrapbook

This "scrapbook" is collected documents of an 18-month project to examine the legacy and ongoing threat of displacement in Pittsburgh's...

The Influence of Change on the Well-Being of a Population: The Berlin Wall

This paper presents interviews with men and women from "East" and "West" Berlin as they they lived through the rise and fall of the Wall....

'Root Shock': Urban Renewal and Black Neighborhoods on National Public Radio

NPR's Tavis Smiley has a conversation with Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove about her book Root Shock, which explores urban renewal programs...

Battle for Brooklyn

Battle for Brooklyn is a film by RUMUR about eminent domain abuse and the development of a professional basketball arena in Brooklyn....