Aesthetics of Gentrification : : Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City /

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Aesthetics of Gentrification : : Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City / / ed. by Gerard Sandoval, Christoph Lindner.

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Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In...

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MitwirkendeR:
Amato, Rebecca,
Crisman, Jonathan,
Datta, Ayona,
Hock, Jennifer,
Jein, Gillian, 1978-
Kalichman, Beatriz,
Lin, Jan,
Lin, Jenny,
Newbury, Susanna,
Rufino, Beatriz,
Sirois, Guillaume, 1984-
Storring, Nathan,
Summers, Brandi Thompson,
Wesselman, Daan
Zipp, Samuel,
HerausgeberIn:
Lindner, Christoph, 1984-
Cruz Sandoval, Gerardo,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cities and cultures
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Aesthetics of Gentrification
  • Part 1 Spaces of Global Consumption
  • 2. The Forces of Decline and Regeneration : A Discussion of Jane Jacobs and Gentrification
  • 3. Silicon Wafers and Office Park Dreams : Cross-Cultural Designs, Aesthetics, and Art in and around California's Santa Clara Valley
  • 4. Selling Authenticity: The Aesthetics of Design Boutiques in Montreal
  • 5. The Import of a Narrative : The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo
  • Part 2 Anxiety and Visibility
  • 6. Race, Authenticity, and the Gentrified Aesthetics of Belonging in Washington, D.C.
  • 7. Art and the Aesthetics of Cultural Gentrification : The Cases of Boyle Heights and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles
  • 8. In Residence: Witnessing and Gentrification in Susan Silton's Los Angeles
  • 9. Satellite Dishes, a Creative Incubator, and the Displacement of Aesthetics in Amsterdam
  • Part 3 Agency, Voices, and Activism
  • 10. Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti- Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles
  • 11. Speculative Spaces in Grand Paris : Reading JR in Clichy-sous- Bois and Montfermeil
  • 12. On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause
  • 13. The "Smart Safe City" : Gendered Time, Violence, and Displacement in India's Digital Urban Age
  • Index

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