Gentrification around the world
by DeSena, Judith N. Krase, Jerome
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and displacement in the abstract and "on-the-ground." Chapters examine, among other topics, social class, development…
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- Full title :Gentrification around the world. / edited by Jerome Krase, Judith N. DeSena.
Summary
Bringing together scholarly but readable essays on the process of gentrification, this two-volume collection addresses the broad question: In what ways does gentrification affect cities, neighborhoods, and the everyday experiences of ordinary people? In this second volume of Gentrification around the World, contributors contemplate different ways of thinking about gentrification and displacement in the abstract and "on-the-ground." Chapters examine, among other topics, social class, development, im/migration, housing, race relations, political economy, power dynamics, inequality, displacement, social segregation, homogenization, urban policy, planning, and design. The qualitative methodologies used in each chapter--which emphasize ethnographic, participatory, and visual approaches that interrogate the representation of gentrification in the arts, film, and other mass media--are themselves a unique and pioneering way of studying gentrification and its consequences worldwide
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- Publication Date:2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030413415, 3030413411, 9783030413415
- oclc:on1175922033
- LC Classification:HT170
- Dewey Decimal:307.3/416
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Global North: North America -- Chapter 2 Life on the Algorithmic Estate: The Neo-Feudal Logic of Corporate Sovereignty -- Chapter 3 New Business in the Old Neighborhood: Young Polish Shopkeepers' Responses to Commercial Gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn -- Part II Global North: Europe -- Chapter 4 Social Transformation and Urban Regeneration: Three Interpretations on the Phenomenon of Gentrification in the Historic Center of A Coruña (Spain) -- Chapter 5 Shimmering Surfaces, Toxic Atmospheres, Incendiary Miracles: Public Housing and the Aesthetics of Re-Valorization in Salford UK -- Chapter 6 Anti-Displacement Social Movements in Lisbon: A Perspective from the Trenches in the Fight Against Transnational Gentrification -- Chapter 7 The Politics of Visibility: Gentrification and Immigration in East London -- Chapter 8 MyyrYork: Rejuvenating a Housing Estate Neighborhood for the Next Generation of Residents -- Part III Global South: Africa -- Chapter 9 Revanchist Kigali: Retro-Victorian Urbanism and the Gentrification of a Twenty-First- Century Metropolis -- Chapter 10 Tools for Citizen -- Participation in Segmented Societies: The Case of Barran…
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