Preserving Neighborhoods : : How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn / / Aaron Passell.

Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising property values for wealthy homeowners, while displa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 21 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Explaining Change in Baltimore’s Historic Neighborhoods
  • 3 Mitigating Gentrification Through Preservation in Central Brooklyn
  • 4 Vacancy, Abandonment, Demolition by Neglect, and Project CORE in Baltimore
  • 5 Struggling to Preserve in the Context of Aggressive Development Pressure
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Appendix: Data, Methods, and Measures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index