Talk:Pulaski Heights

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MSM is THE oldest not just one of....

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aperson56852316 (talk • contribs) 04:17, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

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• A map from the Central Arkansas Transit Authority showing Pulaski Heights and surrounding areas included on its Pulaski Heights bus route <- I removed this because it's dead, I am keeping it here as a reminder to find a suitable link or in case I removed it in error because the site is down or something Broooooooce (talk) 10:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

This isn't a novel

This page needs a lot of work to make it Wikipedia-material. It contains a lot of information, but feels like it's being presented by a costumed museum guide. Need citations, need sources, and we really need to help it sound more like it's been written from a neutral point of view. The one source currently listed is a dead link. I'll set it to the archive.org version, for now. I'll start trying to find sources for some of this stuff. Something makes me think some of this is original research. Heh. Also, a significant amount of contribution to the article is from non-logged in users, so I can't really post on their talk pages and get information! Jtrnp (talk) 22:05, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

I have a plethora of sources, primary and secondary, and have been working in my sandbox on a re-write for this article. The current version does read like a costumed museum guide or real estate pamphlet. (There is a reason for that - most of the information probably comes from marketing collateral and historic preservation pieces). The current version includes glaring errors with regard to Little Rock and Pulaski Heights history. It makes a lot of assumptions and repeats common misconceptions. It completely ignores significant events that directly and indirectly influenced local cultural attitudes you find in the area today. It has forgotten important people (not all of whom were white) who were involved in Pulaski Heights' development and LIttle Rock's history. While segregated, Pulaski Heights used to be more diverse. "Heights" and "Hillcrest" are mostly symbolic territories, not real jurisdictions or districts. Having said all that, I am finding it difficult to write my draft from a neutral point of view (as you might have guessed). Much of what is known and said about Pulaski Heights comes from legend, which was probably published first by one the area's developers (or in his biography written by his wife in 1920s/30s, which is often treated like a primary source). Pulaski Heights typical "history" is a Hero's Journey. It misattributes achievements and decisions to Pulaski Heights' developers when others actually deserve credit. For these reasons, I'm struggling to finished a draft and still keeping the history section short, but I really, really want to reserve a right to fix this article. I have 5 years of research and sources to use somewhere. I am going to need help when the draft is ready and will direct whomever to it at that time. Fccarner (talk) 11:23, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Forgot to ask a question:

In the history section for my re-write, I'd like to introduce the section by mentioning the confusion of Legend as historical fact by summarizing the usual story and linking to an article about Origin Story and Hero's Journey. Then in subsections given the chronology and facts about how the are really developed, with sources.

Will that confuse readers or break Wikipedia best practices for these kinds of articles? Fccarner (talk) 11:29, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Much improved. Other trivia about the neighborhood

Based on the research I've done last several years, Pulaski Heights is still a "neighborhood". It's two communities kind of split into "Heights" and "Hillcrest" in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with creation of the Hillcrest Historic District. The two areas are considered neighborhoods but the territories are mostly symbolic and for the most part, represented by non-profit neighborhood organizations. Without regard to definition, you could say there are actually 4 "Hillcrest" neighborhoods and only one "Heights." Anyway, Hillcrest the neighborhood and the Hillcrest Historic District share territory in the southern section of Pulaski Heights. They took the name from one of the old subdivisions platted to the Town of Pulaski Heights in 1906. Hillcrest addition (originally "Hill Crest Place") was to be the most exclusive subdivision in Pulaski Heights and most affluent residential area in Little Rock. It was to be modeled as closely as possible after Vandeventer Place in St. Louis.

The "Heights" area retained the old nickname for Pulaski Heights. That area comprises subdivisions that were part of a so-called "country club district". It saw most of its development in the 1920s and 1930s.

Pulaski Heights' developers followed many of the same practices and methods that Edward Bouton and others had experimented with earlier in developing Roland Park in Baltimore. These practices involved different ways of taking advantage of racial demographics for profitability. The practices were disseminated nationally across a loose network of developers and city planners, 1900s-1920s. (See Glotzer's book, "How the Suburbs Became Segregated). Pulaski Heights was very much one of these types of developments. The influences of this heritage (culture) and history (real estate development) can still be seen in the area and Little Rock today. Fccarner (talk) 23:31, 20 May 2024 (UTC)