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Book SynopsisGentrification is one of the most debilitatingand least understoodissues 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, Disp
Trade Review
This exciting, fresh, and timely collection Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures discusses the enduring and yet changing relationship between race and class with respect to processes of gentrification and offers a welcome and distinctive Latina/o/x consideration. A key focus is the necessary confrontation between neoliberalism and racialized mobilization in resisting market and state driven gentrification. This is a book that will add much to gentrification debates and that scholars and activists alike should buy!
Loretta Lees, University of Leicester
What does it mean to place the study of gentrification, as a necessarily racialized process of displacement and dispossession, at the very heart of critical urban theory? Here is a bold volume that does precisely this, drawing attention to the many modes of gentrification from cultural place-making to art washing to transit-oriented development. Refusing the inevitability of such spatial restructuring, the authors root their research and analysis in communities that imagine, demand, and create alternative futures.
Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles
"This exciting, fresh, and timely collection Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures discusses the enduring and yet changing relationship between race and class with respect to processes of gentrification and offers a welcome and distinctive Latina/o/x consideration. A key focus is the necessary confrontation between neoliberalism and racialized mobilization in resisting market and state driven gentrification. This is a book that will add much to gentrification debates and that scholars and activists alike should buy!"
Loretta Lees, University of Leicester
"What does it mean to place the study of gentrification, as a necessarily racialized process of displacement and dispossession, at the very heart of critical urban theory? Here is a bold volume that does precisely this, drawing attention to the many modes of gentrification from cultural place-making to art washing to transit-oriented development. Refusing the inevitability of such spatial restructuring, the authors root their research and analysis in communities that imagine, demand, and create alternative futures."
Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles
Table of Contents
1. Introduction. 2. Neighborhood Change in Near-Transit Latinx Communities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development. 3. Downtown Revitalization in Tucson, Arizona: A Historical Case Study of the Menlo Park Barrio—A Case for New Realities. 4. Houses for Living, Not Profit. 5. Displacing Los Angeles Chinatown: Racialization and Development in an Asian American Space. 6. Gentrification and Resistance in the U.S. South: The Case of the Historic Third Ward Neighborhood in Houston, Texas. 7. Commercial Gentrification in a Downtown “Made in Mexico”: The Case of Santa Ana in Southern California, 1980-2011. 8.Teaching, Learning, and Relationships to Space: Toward a Spatially Engaged Pedagogy. 9. Artists as “Shock Troops” of Gentrification? 10. Gentrification in New Orleans: Global Discourses and Material Effects.
