Writings on gentrification
October 23, 2012 7:33 AM Subscribe
What are the best articles and books on the complications of urban gentrification? What about the relationship of artists and bohemians to this process?
I am gathering nuanced texts on urban gentrification. Right now, I'm digging through academic sources from anthropology, cultural geography, urban studies, sociology, and the like.
High-protein journalism and popular press would be definitely welcome as well. I'm interested in both gentrification as a phenomenon in general, and more specifically the role of artists in this process.
I am gathering nuanced texts on urban gentrification. Right now, I'm digging through academic sources from anthropology, cultural geography, urban studies, sociology, and the like.
High-protein journalism and popular press would be definitely welcome as well. I'm interested in both gentrification as a phenomenon in general, and more specifically the role of artists in this process.
Here's a blog on that very topic including a documentary.
I should add, the initial project was just about the artists, but took on a new life as the peak tagging area began to rapidly develop.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:42 AM on October 23, 2012
I should add, the initial project was just about the artists, but took on a new life as the peak tagging area began to rapidly develop.
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 7:42 AM on October 23, 2012
Best answer: I feel like I recommend this a lot, but here's an ethnography of the gentrification of Wicker Park, which is now ground zero for hipster culture in Chicago: Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City.
posted by artemisia at 8:03 AM on October 23, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by artemisia at 8:03 AM on October 23, 2012 [1 favorite]
Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City. Awful title, great book.
posted by enn at 8:03 AM on October 23, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by enn at 8:03 AM on October 23, 2012 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I've heard good things about Sarah Schulman's The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination.
posted by reren at 8:17 AM on October 23, 2012
posted by reren at 8:17 AM on October 23, 2012
Best answer: You should check out There Goes the 'Hood.
posted by occidental at 8:58 AM on October 23, 2012
posted by occidental at 8:58 AM on October 23, 2012
Sarah Schulman's The Gentrification of the Mind is good. It's more of a memoir than a sociology text, and it really details the experience of artists and queers in relation to gentrification. A lot of it is about how AIDS tore through 'bohemia' in NYC and created an opportunity for gentrification (because the tenants of rent-controlled units were dying).
posted by sevenyearlurk at 10:24 AM on October 23, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by sevenyearlurk at 10:24 AM on October 23, 2012 [1 favorite]
this piece just ran in the NYT about the founder of zappos trying to revitalize (and as a result probably gentrify in the future) downtown vegas.
posted by nanhey at 6:02 PM on October 23, 2012
posted by nanhey at 6:02 PM on October 23, 2012
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