About us
Welcome to our Urban Spaces Project webiste!
This project was created during the Winter Semester 2021-2022 in the School of English for the course
Lit7-498: American Urban Spaces and Identity under the supervision and guidance of Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou.
We are Dora Psoma, Olga Sinanidi, Teodora Rajkovska, Eirini Laiaki and Vanesa Husic, five english school students of AUTH. With our work we hope to display New York City throughout the decades starting with the 1930s, until today.
We explore the margins of NYC, focusing on: racial injustice, gender issues, migration, criminality, art, urban planning and gentrification.
Feel free to learn more about the city that never sleeps.
About our Project
Welcome to New York City!
New York City -the Big Apple- is a vast urban space, divided into five different boroughs:
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Manhattan
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Brooklyn
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Queens
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Staten Island
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Bronx
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NYC is also the most densely populated city in the USA, with more than 8 million residents and millions of tourists and newcomers that shape and re-shape its identity. Throughout its history, NYC has been a major point of entry for immigrants. The term “melting pot” was coined to describe densely populated immigrant neighborhoods on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the Americas.
In our “Urban Spaces Project” we decided to focus mainly on Manhattan and Brooklyn. We are studying the urban space and we read texts that will help us read a city which is constantly transforming and invites people from all over the world!
Join us!
Map of the five boroughs of NYC
picture exists on public domain