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Hyde-Park Neighborhood Case Study

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D2-Bi-weekly Discussion on Geographic Community (Hyde-Park Neighborhood)

After going through my reading and note, I decided to use my neighborhood, Hyde-Park as my case study. Hyde Park is located in Boston's southernmost neighborhood, Hyde Park as the name is called offers an intangible of city life as well as the open space more commonly associated with the suburbs. Not only that the historic Neponset River runs through this neighborhood that was annexed to the City of Boston in 1912. In other words, Hyde Park's unmatched community spirit is on display in the many small shops and restaurants along Hyde Park Avenue, River Street and Fairmount Avenue that make up the Cleary and Logan Square business districts. I also noticed …show more content…

Menino, a lifelong resident. Therefore, based on that, I will say that every individual starts his journey of community in a geographical neighborhood and this geographical neighborhood defines the association he belongs as an individual just like Peter Marcuse in his journal article mention the word, Cluster and congregation in his article. According to the journal article on Peter Marcuse, A cluster is defined as an area of the spatial concentration of a population group. It is used as a generic term in covering any concentration of members of a particular group, example of such group is youth forum, class group discussion, African American movement group and these groups are based on individual’s identification of choice. And another group is Congregation, which Peter Marcuse defined as the voluntary coming together of a population group just for the purposes of self-protection and advancement of its own interests, other than through domination or exclusion. In other words, according to Peter Marcuse, it the process of formation of an enclave, example religious associations. Another insightful, definition of a geographical community, according to my reading in the class note is a place or territory based …show more content…

And so, this particular map frame I just described is seen as very important in my life as an individual because it defines my neighborhood place (Hyde park) which classifies me as a member and resident of Hyde Park Neighborhood. Therefore, in the aspect of race, I will say that Hyde Park is a small town but very diverse with lot of African-America, Puerto Ricco, and Haitians. Not only that, another ethnicity, race and culture migrate to Hyde Park. Hyde-Park is a less free neighborhood of Ghettos like Dorchester and Mattapan city, as Peter Marcuse in his Journal defined the word ‘’Ghetto’’ as (An area of spatial concentration used by forces within the dominant society to separate and limit a particular group or defined as racial or ethnic or foreign held to be, and treated as, inferior by dominant society). And so, Geographical Neighborhood gives room to groups, societies and Communities to develop some kind of behavior pattern their kids should follow as they grow, such as acting based on gender or sex orientation. Also like I mentioned before about race, race, race is another aspect that identifies one’s origin of birth, such as let’s say someone from the USA, Canada, Nigeria, Mexico is known

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