GENTRIFICATION

The Redevelopment
of Seattles Yesler Terrace

Corrin Adams
Carolyn Foster
Megan Herzog
Rainie Xu
Steve Xu

DEFINE
The movement of wealthier people into an existing urban district due to increase in
rents and property values and changes in the districts character and culture.
A negative term that can associate the redevelopment of an area to the
displacement of poor communities by rich outsiders.

Ex. Yesler Terrace, Seattle, WA

JOHN
STUART
MILL

IMMANUEL
KANT

...actions are right in

There is a practical law

proportion as they tend to

promote happiness, wrong
as they tend to produce
the reverse of happiness
(Mill 13)

V.

which by itself commands

absolutely and without
any further motives, and
that the following of this
law is duty (Kant 92)

JOHN
STUART
MILL

Does freedom of movement FROM the free market promote the greatest
happiness for the greatest number of people?
YES
NO

Individuals always act to maximize their own happiness

The free market limits the choice of marginalized groups

Does gentrification benefit the people who move in more than harm
the people who move out?
Highest Virtue Sacrifice own happiness for others happiness
Awareness of societal injustices Sacrifice own happiness for others happiness

IMMANUEL
KANT

A priori mindset Is gentrification a real phenomenon?

Universal Maxim:
-

Making sure all individuals in society have a minimum standard of living.

Genuinely caring about peoples well being.

Slow-acting nature of gentrification possible to prevent?

Mitigation:
-

Rent control?
Minimum number of affordable units?

YESLER TERRACE REDEVELOPMENT

A RESIDENTS VIEWPOINT
http://bcove.me/amdd8ba2

YESLER TERRACE
IN CONTEXT

YESLER TERRACE CIRCA 1938

YESLER TERRACE CIRCA 1960

*1960*
C/M jumping rope in the park
We practically own this spot - C
YESLER TERRACE CIRCA 1980

*2000*
C/M talking on the phone in our separate
houses (have not moved out of YT)
YESLER TERRACE
So many of our neighbors are moving
outCIRCA
-C 2000
I wonder what will happen to the slab - M

YESLER TERRACE CIRCA 2020