Eminent Domain and its legacy: The Modernization and Gentrification of Los Angeles

<p>The story of the Chavez Ravine and how the city of Los Angeles decimated the neighborhoods of Mexican and Mexican-American families through eminent domain. Also, exploring its connection to the current, ongoing gentrification crisis in Los Angeles.</p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><p><a href="https://lafla.org/stories-events/preventing-displacement-in-gentrifying-communities/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://lafla.org/stories-events/preventing-displacement-in-gentrifying-communities/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-09-30/south-la-gentrifying-sell-more-properties-to-black-owners" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-09-30/south-la-gentrifying-sell-more-properties-to-black-owners</a></p><p><a href="https://www.housinghumanright.org/gentrification/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.housinghumanright.org/gentrification/</a></p><p><strong>Sources</strong></p><p>Avila, Eric. <em>Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles</em>. University of California Press, 2006.</p><p>Baghdadi, Rita and Jeremiah Hammerling, directors. <em>City Rising </em>. KCETLink, 2017, <a href="https://www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising." rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising.</a></p><p>Barros, Benjamin. “Nothing 'Errant' about It: The Berman and Midkiff Conference Notes and How the Supreme Court Got to Kelo with Its Eyes Wide Open.” <em>SSRN Electronic Journal</em>, 2007, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.902926." rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.902926.</a></p><p>Daniel Shapiro, Esq. “Understanding Spot Zoning.” <em>PlannersWeb</em>, 4 May 2014, <a href="https://plannersweb.com/2013/11/understanding-spot-zoning-2/#note-10779-1." rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://plannersweb.com/2013/11/understanding-spot-zoning-2/#note-10779-1.</a></p><p>“Eminent Domain.” <em>Legal Information Institute</em>, Legal Information Institute, <a href