Lecture 4: gentrification Flashcards
gentrification
urban development is a reflection of wider social and economic trends - harvey 1985
if you don’t have the money we don’t want you- type
the ghetto
jewish bankers kept separate
historical basis - venice - vatican
slums- predominately in the global south- sprawl - urban fringe
white flight
white middle class moves to the suburbanisation- got more money therefore can get a car- travel to the city
nuclear family stay at home mom- desire to protect property- separate from crime ridden inner city
gated communities
L.A
privatropias- mckenzie- 1994- hardly connected to immediate city around them
cities- defined by walls and barriers- more protected and gated- privatisation
parks owned by companies- not public anymore
place as the problem
chasing place as the solution - make more attractive
bring in investors
links to detroit
revitalise the neighbourhood
culture
related and connected to gentrification- buying into this cultural capital- appropriation of culture capital by market forces
hipsters
power of the aesthetic
kimmy schmidt
right to the city
david harvey- cities are our creation- fully human creation not nature
people who make the city
who gets the choice and decision to define what a city is let alone what time a city- which now inhibits certain people to live or be in certain place
property led generation-economic focus- ticket market failure-physical regeneration of localities- privatisation of public space
global north
normally gentrification occurs here but now beijing for instance is starting this
the emancipatory city
multicultural
lgbt
sets you free
freedom
neo-colonialism
new urban colonialism
new environmental are invaded- space radically changed
race based thing as well
Reading- ley 2003
artist spaces have undergone some expansion in large cities
artists special members of the middle class
the ship between artists and gentrification is frequent
artists need authentic location
manchester and selfridges need for each other for mutual reproduction
artists produce high cultural capital- steadily rising economic capital
