Talk:Blockbusting
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[edit] Crime?
This is categorized as a crime. Can someone expand the article about that? CoolGuy 14:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- Basically blockbusting relates to crime in that it exploited people's fear of crime, and probably as it drove middle-class people of all races out of communities, it caused crime to rise. I'll update the article the next time I'm at the library, the reference I want to cite is in a journal I don't have access to from here. Anyway, I'm not sure if the connection is strong enough to list it in the crime category, but it's definently something that should be expanded in the article. --W.marsh 14:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I think this has more to do with humor than crime. I didn't know of the phenomenon before reading this article, and I find it absolutely hilarious. One man's temporary solution is another's source of profit.. But if there are real solutions to the problem, they would be interesting to link to. Coffee2theorems 23:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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- I also think this is hilarious, but at the same time sad that real estate brokers would resort to such race-based practices to force the sale of homes. At least they didn't move in on the UES... 24.24.91.18 (talk) 21:13, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
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It is also, now, an illegal practice, i.e., a crime. I don't see how it is in any way funny. Real estate speculators systematically exploiting racist fears and middle-class black aspirations to make millions by creating an ever more segregated society. Combined with massive municipal disinvestment from the inner cities (public transportation, schools, services etc.), and racist banks' redlining, blockbusting in the mid-20th century is one of the primary causes of urban African-American poverty today (because of lack of accumulated capital through homeowner equity over multiple generations). This article is incoherent because the two definitions, presented as contraries, are actually the same racist practice. ichnography
[edit] General term - having multiple neighbouring properties under the control of one individual, group or company
Is this true that blockbusting may be used generally to describe a practice where an individual, group of allied individuals or a company buy up neighbouring smaller properties to gain a larger area of land under their control? It could be a way of allowing a landlord to have rental control over a street, block or neighbourhood or a developer to have a large land area to "work with" for example. SimonMackay (talk) 13:39, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] References
I would like to add the following citations to this entry, but I am new to Wikipedia and do not know how to start a reference list. Could someone add them for me? I do not plan on being a regular contributor but wanted to add this information.
Orser, W. Edward. (1994) Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky) Seligman, Amanda I. (2005) Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Thank you
Braeburn 19:05, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Braeburn
- I have added them as "further reading", which is what we usually do until a reference has directly been used in expanding an article. --W.marsh 19:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Again, thank you! 129.89.49.162 19:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)Braeburn
