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Gentrification
This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning.The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press.Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offering ideas for future research.
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Planetary Gentrification
This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global.But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro?This book argues that gentrification is one of the most significant and socially unjust processes affecting cities worldwide today, and one that demands renewed critical assessment. Drawing on the 'new' comparative urbanism and writings on planetary urbanization, the authors undertake a much-needed transurban analysis underpinned by a critical political economy approach.Looking beyond the usual gentrification suspects in Europe and North America to non-Western cases, from slum gentrification to mega-displacement, they show that gentrification has unfolded at a planetary scale, but it has not assumed a North to South or West to East trajectory ? the story is much more complex than that. Rich with empirical detail, yet wide-ranging, Planetary Gentrification unhinges, unsettles and provincializes Western notions of urban development.It will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in the future of cities and the production of a truly global urban studies, and equally importantly to all those committed to social justice in cities.
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The Planetary Gentrification Reader
Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue.This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader, and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting-edge debates. Revisiting new debates over the histories of gentrification, thinking through comparative urbanism on gentrification, considering new waves and types of gentrification, and giving much more focus to resistance to gentrification, this is a stellar collection of writings on this critical issue. Like in their 2010 Reader, the editors, who are internationally renowned experts in the field, include insightful commentary and suggested further reading.The book is essential reading for students and researchers in urban studies, urban planning, human geography, sociology, and housing studies and for those seeking to fight this socially unjust process.
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Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction : Domestic Spaces, Neighborhoods, and Global Real Estate
Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and India.Literary texts, so adept at revealing the experiences and emotions of individuals within communities, are also important vehicles for exploring the complex relationships between individuals and the wider social, economic and political forces that lead to urban transformations including gentrification.These complexities are best revealed, this book argues, by proceeding from a forensic examination of characters’ domestic buildings and spaces. Examining novels from a broad range of writers, including Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver, Aravind Adiga, Michael Chabon and Irvine Welsh, this book makes a powerful case for the importance of literature in helping to understand the lived experience of gentrification.
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What is gentrification?
Gentrification is the process of urban renewal and revitalization in which wealthier individuals and businesses move into a historically lower-income neighborhood, often resulting in the displacement of long-time residents and changes to the neighborhood's character. This can lead to rising property values, increased rent prices, and the loss of affordable housing options for existing residents. Gentrification can also bring economic development and improved infrastructure to a neighborhood, but it is often criticized for its negative impact on the original community.
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What exactly is gentrification?
Gentrification is the process of wealthier individuals or families moving into a lower-income neighborhood, often resulting in the displacement of long-time residents and changes to the neighborhood's character. This can lead to rising property values, increased rent prices, and the development of more upscale businesses and amenities. While gentrification can bring economic investment and revitalization to a neighborhood, it can also lead to the loss of affordable housing and the erasure of the existing community's culture and history.
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What is the gentrification caravan?
The gentrification caravan refers to the process of wealthier individuals or businesses moving into a lower-income neighborhood and investing in property, leading to an increase in property values and the displacement of long-time residents. This can result in the transformation of the neighborhood's character and culture, as well as the loss of affordable housing options for existing residents. The term "caravan" suggests a collective movement or migration of gentrifiers into the neighborhood, often driven by economic incentives and the desire for urban revitalization.
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Is gentrification good or bad?
The impact of gentrification is a complex issue with both positive and negative consequences. On one hand, gentrification can lead to economic growth, improved infrastructure, and increased property values. However, it can also result in the displacement of long-time residents, cultural homogenization, and increased cost of living. Ultimately, whether gentrification is seen as good or bad depends on individual perspectives and the specific context in which it occurs.
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Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures
Gentrification is one of the most debilitating—and least understood—issues in American cities today.Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities.Authors in this collection begin to unpack and explore the forces that underlie these significant changes in an area’s social character and spatial landscape.Central in their analyses is an emphasis on racial formations and class relations, as they each look to find the essence of the urban condition through processes of demographic change, economic restructuring, and gentrification.Their original findings locate gentrification within a carefully integrated theoretical and political framework and challenge readers to look critically at the present and future of gentrification studies.Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures is a vital read for scholars and researchers, as well as planners and organizers hoping to understand the contemporary changes happening in our urban areas.
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Tirdad Zolghadr: REALTY : Beyond the Traditional Blueprints of Art & Gentrification
How to transcend land grab economies, even by means of art?The reader REALTY moves from the safety of critique to the vulgarity of suggestions.The pandemic’s effect on mobility presents a historic opportunity.Rarely has criticism of our extractive artworld logic of one-place-after-another been louder.REALTY is a long-term curatorial program by Tirdad Zolghadr, initially commissioned by the KW Institute of Contemporary Art.With the help of numerous artists and experts who contributed over 2017–2020, this reader revisits how contemporary art can contribute to decisive conversations on urbanism.
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Conflict Graffiti : From Revolution to Gentrification
This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflict—important tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy politics. In film and television, it is often used to create a sense of danger or lawlessness.In bathroom stalls, it is the disembodied expression of gossip, lewdness, or confession.But it is also a resistive tool of protest, making visible the disparate voices and interests that come together to make a movement. In Conflict Graffiti, John Lennon dives into the many permutations of graffiti in conflict zones—ranging from the protest graffiti of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson and the Tahrir Square demonstrations in Egypt, to the tourist-attraction murals on the Israeli Separation Wall and the street art that has rebranded Detroit and post-Katrina New Orleans.Graffiti has played a crucial role in the revolutionary movements of these locales, but as the conflict subsides a new graffiti and street art scene emerges—often one that ushers in postconflict consumerism, gentrification, militarization, and anesthetized forgetting. Graffiti has an unstable afterlife, fated to be added to, transformed, overlaid, photographed, reinterpreted, or painted over.But as Lennon concludes, when protest movements change and adapt, graffiti is also uniquely suited to shapeshift with them.
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another?It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern, author of the best selling Feminist City, travels from Toronto, New York, London, Paris and San Francisco and scrutinises the myth and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times. First observed in 1950s London, and theorised by leading thinkers such as Ruth Glass, Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin, this devastating process of displacement now can be found in every city and most neighbourhoods.Beyond the Yoga studio, farmer's market and tattoo parlour, gentrification is more than a metaphor, but impacts the most vulnerable communities. Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the crisis that seek to reveal the violence based on class, race, gender and sexuality.She argues that gentrification is not natural That it can not be understood in economics terms, or by class.That it is not a question of taste. That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people.Rather, she argues, it is an continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land. And it can be seen today is rising rents and evictions, transformed retail areas, increased policing and broken communities.But if gentrification is not inevitable, what can we do to stop the tide?In response, Kern proposes a genuinely decolonial, feminist, queer, anti-gentrification.One that demands the right to the city for everyone and the return of land and reparations for those who have been displaced.
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Is gentrification yes or no?
Gentrification is a complex issue that does not have a simple yes or no answer. It can have both positive and negative impacts on a community. While it can bring in new investments, improve infrastructure, and increase property values, it can also lead to displacement of long-time residents, loss of community identity, and increased cost of living. Ultimately, whether gentrification is seen as positive or negative depends on the perspective and experiences of those affected by it.
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What is the opposite of gentrification?
The opposite of gentrification is often referred to as "displacement" or "urban decay." Displacement occurs when lower-income residents are forced out of a neighborhood due to rising property values and rents, while urban decay refers to the decline or deterioration of a neighborhood due to neglect or lack of investment. Both displacement and urban decay can result in the loss of community character, cultural diversity, and affordable housing options.
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What are the disadvantages of gentrification?
One major disadvantage of gentrification is the displacement of long-time residents. As property values rise and new, wealthier residents move in, lower-income families may be forced to leave their homes and communities. Gentrification can also lead to the loss of local businesses and cultural institutions that are unable to afford the rising rents. Additionally, it can contribute to a lack of diversity and a homogenization of the community, as the new residents may not reflect the socioeconomic and cultural diversity of the original neighborhood.
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What is the problem with gentrification?
One of the main problems with gentrification is that it often leads to the displacement of long-time residents, particularly low-income families and communities of color, as property values and rents increase. This can result in the loss of community cohesion and cultural identity. Gentrification can also contribute to increased inequality and segregation within cities, as wealthier individuals move in and push out existing residents who can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood. Additionally, gentrification can lead to the homogenization of neighborhoods, as local businesses and institutions that cater to long-time residents are replaced by more upscale establishments.
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