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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:Los Angeles Chinatown: Tourism, Gentrification, and the Rise of an Ethnic Growth Machine
 * Article Evaluation:This talks about how Chinatown is developing and changing its demographics overtime as gentrification is a really big topic right now in today's society. People are finding land and places to gentrify and is altering the original morals that has made a lot of history.
 * Sources:Lin, Jan. "Los Angeles Chinatown: Tourism, gentrification, and the rise of an ethnic growth machine." Amerasia Journal 34.3 (2008): 110-125.

Option 2

 * Article title:Symbols of Gentrification? Narrating Displacement in Los Angeles Chinatown
 * Article Evaluation:Digs deep into the history of Chinatown and how it has changed throughout the years. From big developments to building new architecture to make the community bigger and better, but at the same time, having downfalls to these developments. An example of this is the establishment of Blossom Plaza.
 * Sources:Hom, Laureen D. "Symbols of Gentrification? Narrating Displacement in Los Angeles Chinatown." Urban Affairs Review 58.1 (2022): 196-228.

Option 3

 * Article title:No Place Like Home: Racial Capitalism, Gentrification, and the Identity of Chinatown
 * Article Evaluation:Upscaling property can be good, but it isn't when you have to risk others not having homes to live in or struggle to live in a place they can call home. Attacking minorities with gentrification can result in a community being empty and lonely.
 * Sources:Naram, K. (2017). No place like home: Racial capitalism, gentrification, and the identity of chinatown. Asian American Policy Review, 27, 1-26. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/no-place-like-home-racial-capitalism/docview/2049668772/se-2

Option 4

 * Article title:HOW DO PLACES MATTER? A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CHINESE ETHNIC ECONOMIES IN LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK CITY
 * Article Evaluation:A comparison of Chinese ethnic economies in both Los Angeles and New York. From population size, economy, and the overall dynamics of the Chinese culture.
 * Sources:Zhou, Yu. "How do places matter? A comparative study of Chinese ethnic economies in Los Angeles and New York City." Urban Geography 19.6 (1998): 531-553.

Option 5

 * Article title:How Neighbourhoods Matter for Immigrant Children: The Formation of Educational Resources in Chinatown, Koreatown and Pico Union, Los Angeles
 * Article Evaluation:The comparison between the three different areas of Los Angeles based on ethnic backgrounds. How these communities navigate the states as they are majority immigrant families and grow up to chase the American Dream. The statistics of educational backgrounds and how it affects families.
 * Sources:Zhou, Min. "How neighbourhoods matter for immigrant children: The formation of educational resources in Chinatown, Koreatown and Pico Union, Los Angeles." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35.7 (2009): 1153-1179.