The specter of neighborhood appropriation by big capital and other outside actors, pricing out the people who lived there previously, is the traditional conception of “gentrification.” But the feelings evoked by this urban phenomenon are so intense that the term has expanded to mean many other things – perhaps too many to keep its potency and specificity. Unfrozen interviews Japonica Brown-Saracino, a professor at Boston University and author of "The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea."
Show Notes
Intro/Outro: “Depreston,” by Courtney Barnett
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Discussed:
The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea
Explicating Divided Approaches to Gentrification and Growing Income Inequality
Sarah Schulman: The Gentrification of the Mind
Ruth Glass and the coining of “Gentrification” as a term in 1964
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Robert Goldman: Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification
Sharon Zukin: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Neil Smith: The Rent-Gap Theory
Loretta Lees: Super-Gentrification
Wendy Griswold: Regionalism and the Reading Class
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