1st Edition

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change

Edited By Lisa Berglund, Siobhan Gregory Copyright 2020
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially and economically marginalized groups are appropriated or erased by the introduction luxury real estate and retail branding. The book explores the literal and symbolic shifts in ownership that are happening in urban locations undergoing... Read more

1. Introduction: the aesthetics of neighborhood change

Lisa Berglund and Siobhan Gregory

2. A focus on needs: toward a more nuanced understanding of inequality and urban informality in the global North

Ryan Thomas Devlin

3. Excluded by design: informality versus tactical urbanism in the redevelopment of Detroit neighborhoods

Lisa Berglund

4. Authenticity and luxury branding in a renewing Detroit landscape

Siobhan Gregory

5. Deracialized Nostalgia, reracialized community, and truncated gentrification: capital and cultural flows in Richmond, Virginia and Durban, South Africa

Patrick Bond and Laura Browder

Biography

Lisa Berglund is a professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on community development and social mobilization in the context of neighbourhood change, exploring the ways that marginalized communities fight for inclusion in urban planning and development.





Siobhan Gregory is a senior lecturer of industrial design and design anthropology in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University. Her research and creative practice focus on the progress of human-centered design for the social sector. She writes about how design and designers play a role in the gentrification process.