Aesthetics of gentrification : seductive spaces and exclusive communities in the neoliberal city /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Cities and cultures.
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| Summary: | 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 eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification and planetary-gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city and sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative practices in art, architecture and related fields help to produce or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of gentrification express contested conditions of migration and mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary cities from multiple, comparative, global and transnational perspectives. |
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| Physical Description: | 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9463722033 9789463722032 |