1st Edition
Aesthetics of Gentrification Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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 a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of... Read more
1. Introduction: Aesthetics of Gentrification (Christoph Lindner and Gerard F. Sandoval), Part 1: Spaces of Consumption, 2. The Forces of Decline and Regeneration: A Discussion of Jane Jacobs and Gentrification (Samuel Zipp, Jennifer Hock, and Nate Storring), 3. Silicon Wafers and Office Park Dreams: Cross-Cultural Designs, Aesthetics, and Art in and around California's Santa Clara Valley (Jenny Lin), 4. Selling Authenticity: The Aesthetics of Design Boutiques in Montreal (Guillaume Sirois), 5. The Import of a Narrative: The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo (Beatriz Kalichman and Beatriz Rufino), Part 2: Anxiety and Visibility, 6. Race, Authenticity, and the Gentrified Aesthetics of Belonging in Washington, D.C. (Brandi Thompson Summers), 7. Art and the Aesthetics of Cultural Gentrification: The Cases of Boyle Heights and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles (Jonathan Jae-an Crisman), 8. In Residence: Witnessing and Gentrification in Susan Silton's Los Angeles (Susanna Newbury), 9. Satellite dishes, a Creative Incubator, and the Displacement of Aesthetics in Amsterdam (Daan Wesselman), Part 3: Agency, Voices, and Activism, 10. Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti-Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles (Jan Lin), 11. Speculative Spaces in Grand Paris: Reading JR in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil (Gillian Jein), 12. On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause (Rebecca Amato), 13. The Smart Safe City: Gendered Time, Violence, and Displacement in India's Digital Urban Age (Ayona Datta), Index.
Biography
Christoph Lindner is Professor of Urban Studies and Dean of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. Gerard F. Sandoval is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon.
