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Oral History Interview, Teonna Cooksey (2521)
No full textIn her August 2025 interview with Dadit Gunarwanto Hidayat, Teonna Cooksey, WiscAMP alum and CEO of Mecca Development, describes her journey through the WiscAMP program at UW-Milwaukee. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.In her August 2025 interview with Dadit Gunarwanto Hidayat, Teonna Cooksey, WiscAMP alum and CEO of Mecca Development, describes her journey through the WiscAMP program at UW-Milwaukee. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was inspired to go into the field of architectural design when she saw how segregation was built into the city. The opportunities and training that WiscAMP provided led to her to attend graduate school at Columbia University and found her own urban planning and architectural design consulting firm, Mecca Development. She discusses discrimination that she both experienced and noticed in Milwaukee, and how her experiences contributed to her drive to make urban planning more equitable. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the WiscAMP Legacy Oral History Project and the UW-Madison Archives and Records Management oral history collection
The Invisible Substance of Home: Architecture, Eviction and Foreclosure
No full textHousing policies implemented in the past, such as redlining, have created areas within American cities where poverty is highly concentrated. The low-income rates and high housing cost that have resulted from redlining has greatly contributed to the vast amount of foreclosures and evictions within impoverished communities like Washington Park. Consequently, these communities are exposed to the negative impacts associated with living in areas that contain large amounts of vacant homes and homeless residents. This research presents a vivid century long pictorial, structural and economic transformation of two foreclosed homes that were used as a case study. These houses are located in the Washington Park Neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI, once a vibrant middle class neighborhood, but has since morphed into a poor neighborhood as a result of economic decline, changing infrastructure and racist housing policies. One home was vacant and the other was filled with the belongings of the previous tenant(s) who had been evicted.This study aims to examine how foreclosure and eviction affects the architecture and cultural landscape of the community. The findings from this research shows that the interconnectivity between income, foreclosure and eviction has created an inability for Washington Park residents to become self-sufficient. As a result, the architecture of the homes has deteriorated over time because many of them are hardly inhabited or repaired. The cultural landscape has diminished due to the displacement of community members and the disinvestment in jobs and other basic resources throughout the neighborhood.This research provides a historical perspective of the Washington Park Neighborhood regarding some of the challenges that are disabling it from becoming stable—economically and socially. It also acknowledges how a system of unequal distribution of wealth and power operates in the built environment every day
The Human and Environmental Impacts of Foreclosure: Washington Park and Sherman Park
No full textThe transformation of American cities caused by urbanization and gentrification has created an outlet where foreclosure and eviction have become sources of capital. Housing policies implemented in the past, such as redlining, have created areas within American cities where poverty is highly concentrated. This research presents a vivid century long pictorial, structural, and economic transformation of eight foreclosed homes that were used as a case study. These boarded-up houses are in two north side neighborhoods in Milwaukee, WI. I examined why these once-active households turned into vacant and derelict buildings in the span of one year, between 2016 and 2017. The homes shared one thing in common: The residents of these homes were evicted by the city because the homeowners failed to pay property taxes or keep up with home maintenance. These are not bank-foreclosures. Instead, they are called city-tax-foreclosures, and since 2011, the number of city tax foreclosures has increased exponentially. This research explores how a foreclosure—which leads to a possible eviction and a definite vacant home, impacts the entire cultural landscape of a community. Multiple instances of foreclosure within a single neighborhood influences the gradual decline of economic and social stability of that neighborhood. The findings from this research show that homes have deteriorated over time because many of them are hardly inhabited or repaired. The overall environment of the community has diminished due to the displacement of community members and the disinvestment in jobs and other basic resources throughout the neighborhoods. This research provides a historical perspective of the Washington Park and Sherman Park Neighborhoods, as well as details that could be utilized for revitalization. In addition, the results could broadly provide insight to some of the challenges that are disabling impoverished communities from becoming stable—economically and socially
The Work of a Community: Oral History Reports from the Sherman Park Neighborhood
No full textThe transformation of American cities caused by urbanization and gentrification has created an outlet where foreclosure and eviction have become sources of capital. Housing policies implemented in the past, such as redlining, have created areas within American cities where poverty is highly concentrated. This research presents a vivid century long pictorial, structural, and economic transformation of the transformation of homeownership, resources, and living through the struggles of not having a place to call home. This research identifies the work being done in the Sherman Park Neighborhood to make it a more livable place. This multi-faceted story exposes barriers such as eviction, foreclosure, economic decline, and safety hazards. It exposes the hope community residents have to take back their communities despite difficultly and reclaim the way they live. The findings from this research suggest that despite the systemic dismantlement of the community over time, residents and community organizers are resilient and determined to sustain the culture and structure which will allow their neighborhood to thrive. This research provides a historical perspective of the Sherman Park Neighborhood, as well as details that are being used for revitalization. The results broadly provide insight to challenges that are disabling impoverished communities from becoming stable—economically and socially
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How to Invest: A Neighborhood Development Tool
No full textEstablishing an analysis tool that provides a synopsis of a site’s trajectory to inform investors how they can add value to a neighborhood while mitigating negative externalities will generate positive neighborhood growth. Created in collaboration with RiseBoro Community Partnership, Inc., the Rheingold Redevelopment in Bushwick, Brooklyn is used as a case study to understand the dynamic nature of investing in a community. As a significant catalyst for strategic partnerships, community-engaged planning practices, and employing equity frameworks, the rebuilding of a once active brewery site turned derelict community reveals techniques for funding 100 percent affordable housing in Bushwick’s urban landscape. It also demonstrates the ripple effects that can result from the remediation of a brownfield site.
This study envisions a tool that integrates the Bushwick Community Plan, Community Board 4’s Responsible Development Policy, and RiseBoro’s Strategic Plan to prototype a balanced approach addressing real estate market nuances and community needs. The purpose is for stakeholders to explore various aspects of neighborhood development, offering a platform for community involvement, education, and effective urban planning. RiseBoro's vision is to “build a city where your zip code does not determine your health outcomes, housing stability, or economic power.” Considering this vision as a baseline for analysis, the tool called ‘Urban Synthesis’ in this text, incorporates economic theories, health indices, and geographic information systems to conceptualize an interactive online platform to garner equitable investment practices.
Keywords: Community Efficacy, Economic Mobility, Gentrification, Geographic Information Systems, Health Equity, Housing Development, Investment, Neighborhood Development, Resilienc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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