CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gentrification, Urban Renewal, Urban Renaissance
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In policy, terms like "urban regeneration," "urban renaissance," and. "urban sustainability" often incite and exacerbate gentrification - the word "gentrification" is not used in policy: takes place at the scale of the neighbourhood, its mechanics usually real estate, the legal leverage of zoning processes. Social, cultural, and political process, with emphasis on the cultural. "in the 1980s, everyone began to call the process of upgrading properties without tearing down buildings gentrification. This process had begun earlier, in the 1950s and 1960s, when the writer jane jacobs lived in the west village, where she wrote the classic book the death and life of great american cities" (zukin, 726). "waves of changes in consumption spaces parallel successive waves of residential gentrification" (zukin, 732). Is there an ethical way to gentrify a neighbourhood: throwback to week 4: the world city hypothesis. "world city formation brings into focus the major contradictions of industrial capitalism, among them spatial and class polarization" (friedmann, 1986).
