Haven at research triangle park9/22/2023 ![]() Invasive plant removal is important as their presence can be detrimental to the environment. In the past, volunteers have mechanically removed invasive plants, which have helped reduce their spread, but as we know too well, can be extremely challenging. This section of the park has been historically managed by the borough and a team of volunteers, maintaining the meadow and preventing invasive plants from taking over. It can be extremely rewarding to observe this unique relationship as these plants are inhabited by equally beautiful and intriguing insects that use this “flower-tropolis” to raise future generations. These native plants provide several benefits to local wildlife, whether that be food, shelter, or as a host plant that insects rely on for important stages of their life cycle. ![]() The immediate benefit of these plants is their pleasing aesthetic, but the real treasure lies in the important ecological services they provide. The northern half is a meadow filled with many important, and locally adapted, native pollinator plants that explode into a cascading symphony of color during spring, summer, and fall. ![]() The park is split into two distinct halves with a concrete walkway connecting the two. Triangle Park is different, providing all who enter a tiny glimpse into two different worlds that exist in the State. This is especially unique when considering that many local parks can often consist of large areas of lawn, which is familiar but displays a manicured and unrealistic depiction of nature. Albeit small, Triangle Park packs a lot into a small space, showcasing two very different but important habitat types we see in New Jersey. Located in Cape May Point, Triangle Park is nestled between three streets giving it its title. ![]() I am suggesting that the meanings ascribed to salsa music and dancing shape the spaces of pleasure and inclusion for some while defining spaces of exclusion for others within the Latin music scene in the Triangle.The smallest spaces can often bring the greatest joy, and Triangle Park is no exception. Examining the interactions between participants within this salsa scene elucidates the power dynamics involved when staking claims to legitimacy, authenticity, expert knowledge, and social and cultural capital. This process results in what I refer to as the bifurcated salsa scene. salsa On-1, Mambo On-2, Cuban style salsa), therefore the micro-geographies of movement allow for the mobility of bodies through particular constructed communities. Communities of dancers are constructed around the ways in which the body responds to the salsa rhythm (i.e. Following an ethnographic exploration of salsa clubs, I argue that salsa mediates subtle forms of territoriality. In this paper, I complicate notions of salsa as strictly a unifying force by arguing that the meanings ascribed to salsa music and the way these meanings are expressed through the body within clubs in the Triangle area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) of North Carolina also creates divisions among actors of the salsa and broader Latin music scene. Salsa music and dance is considered by practitioners to be a unifier-a global phenomenon that brings people from diverse backgrounds together in the same space for mutual enjoyment. The notion that salsa music has/knows neither race nor color is commonly held by salsa musicians, dancers, and avid listeners. RTP thus created a blueprint for subsequent development strategies-later promoted by Florida, among other scholars and consultants-that made arts, education, and other cultural institutions central to the marketing of a city’s “brand” or identity. The essay argues that local boosters emphasized the area’s cultural opportunities and intellectual climate as major quality-of-life considerations not only for high-tech companies, but the scientists and engineers that they hoped to employ. In the 1950s, a powerful coalition of academics, businesspeople, and politicians launched a plan to move the state away from its traditional reliance on low-wage industries by founding a research park between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, believing that scientific firms would value the park’s proximity to several nearby colleges and universities. It aims to historicize urban theorist Richard Florida’s influential formulation of the “creative class” by focusing on the emergence of a high-tech economy in North Carolina’s Research Triangle metropolitan area. This article is forthcoming in the Journal of Urban History.
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