L19: Genetrification Flashcards
Super-Gentrification
Conversion process of prosperous, already gentrified solid upper-middle-class neighbourhoods into much more expensive and exclusive enclaves
- “Aspenization”
Iceberg homes
New trend in mega mansions to build multiple underground floors connected to your house but extending under your yard to add more square feet to your house.
Ruth Glass
- British sociologist, urban planner
- Looked at gentrification very early on in England
Gentrification as an emerging phenomenon
Only been a feature of industrialized cities since the mid 60s
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History of Gentrification in Montreal
Europeans settle in mile end to work at factories, free trade regulations and globalization reduces manufacturing in North America, Garment industry collapse causes disinvestment in the area, artists move in because area is cheap, then tech companies start to move in because incentivized by the government, along comes more expensive services and rent. Lots of tensions there between residents and landlords
Loretta Lees
Professor and activist who is a powerful anti-genetrification voice
Racialized dimensions of Gentrification
Belief that displacement should be understood in relation to histories of racial discrimination, the destruction of ethno-cultural infrastructures and longstanding racialized inequalities
Talked about by Loretta Lee
Strategies to combat gentrification
- renovating areas without displacing longstanding lower income groups
- fostering economic growth opportunities
- change zoning regulations
- increase community ownership
- tax vacant properties
- regulate short term rentals to free up housing stock
Single-unit Residential (R1)
A type of zoning that only permits single unit houses. Creates shortage of affordable housing, since multi-family dwellings. Many families displaced cannot afford prices of single family homes. Good to break up this zoning
Anti-gentrification laws
Ex. Oregon, Minneapolis, and other cities allowing duplexes in areas previously zoned exclusively for single family homes
Gentrification beyond “the west”
Global South gentrification has other layers. Term resonates with massive urban changes taking place such as mass urbanization and destruction of low-income housing, cherished architecture, and businesses, urban fabric
- Gentrification in East Asia is usually new-build gentrification and commercial gentrification. State plays a special role in clearing sites and transferring private land or public assets into the hands of private developers
Gentrification: a global phenomenon book
Book argues that gentrification is one of the most significant socially unjust processes affecting cities worldwide today
- Shin
Challenges in contesting gentrification in Asian cities: Challenges
- heavy presence of potentially authoritarian state
- protestors met with violence
- persistent culture of individual property owners not working together
- poor tenants rights
Profit-driven gentrification in Seoul, South Korea
In Korea gentrification refers to:
- the socio-spatial change that takes place as the unique culture and distinctiveness of an area becomes commercialized
- Tenants who played an important role in this transformation become displaced due to sharp increase in rent
There have been serious problems become tenants and their landlords.
Korean resistance to gentrification
- Combination of state policy and private capital
- Unique factors independent than western gentrification
- gentrifiers often outside of the neighbourhood
