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In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DCone of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United Stateshave battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment. Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' right to suburbiathat is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbsand how communities are fighting back.

The Right to Suburbia

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In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes.... Read more

    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 9/17/2024
    ISBN13: 9780520338173, 978-0520338173
    ISBN10: 0520338170

    Non Fiction , Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment , Education

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    In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DCone of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United Stateshave battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment. Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' right to suburbiathat is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbsand how communities are fighting back.

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