Immigrant Housing and Cultural Practices as a Change Factor in Current Density and Price Distribution of New York

Keywords: Housing, Affordability, Inclusive development, Contextual Justice, Equity, Residential Segregation, Immigration
Abstract Type: Paper Abstract

Abstract

The metropolises of many nations are experiencing constant splintering of their districts. This splintering brings along housing and cultural diversity as well as distribution of density across the urban landscape of cities. In most North American countries, it has been identified that these outcomes are triggered by two major forms of segregation as it is manifested on the ground: natural segregation and artificial segregation (including systemic segregation). Among three selected neighborhoods (at the suburb-Mount Vernon, the interstice -Parkchester and the city core-South Bronx) in New York City, this paper adopts the transect point analysis method to explore the formation of these two forms of segregation and how they can help us understand how the new diverse silicon-valley-like global nodes could look like. These nodes represent spaces of immigrants' livelihoods. Here, I argue that we may be presenting an inaccurate depiction of the housing density/price from the core to the periphery since immigrants' culture and housing practices could change our analysis of housing density. This could also enable us to plan the heterogenous, 'appropriately' compact and diverse smart city that could be developed bottom-up. Thus, my research question is: How does the housing practices of New York residents change our depiction of the housing density/price distribution?