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Title: Cyclescapes of the Unequal City
Citation Type: Book, Whole
Publication Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781452960425
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Abstract: In the heart of San Francisco's historically Latino Mission District, just off the neighborhood's central axis of Twenty-fourth Street, lies Balmy Alley, the city's longest-running and most iconic mural alley. Balmy Alley's internationally recognized murals depict the history and politics of the Mission. Alongside murals commemorating the United Farm Workers' struggles and denouncing the "dirty war" in El Salvador in the 1980s are several that center on the politics of urban development. One of the most recent murals in this genre, Mission Makeover, captures a new common sense about what bicycles mean in today's city. Painted by young artist Lucia Ippolito and her father, Tirso Araiza, Mission Makeover juxtaposes parallel scenes of a neighborhood in the throes of advanced gentrification. On the left, icons of the Mission that Ippolito and her father knew: low-rider cars, a Muni bus, and the heavy hand of the police visited on two youths of color who are posing with a pit bull. On the right, parallel, exaggerated vignettes of gentrification: moving vans unloading furniture into renovated Victorian houses; a policeman sharing a Starbucks latte with a rich woman and her show dog; and perhaps most notably, white hipster youths on bicycles and hanging out on stoops, their eyes and ears glued to smartphones (Figure 1). These two scenes depict the same geographical space but reveal starkly different social worlds, worlds separated by race, class, gender, age-and mobility.
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Authors: Stehlin, John, G
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publisher Location: Minnesota
Pages: 328
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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity
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