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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lindner, Christoph (Editor ), Sandoval, Gerard F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Colección:Cities and cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Aesthetics of Gentrification
  • Part 1 Spaces of Global Consumption
  • 2. The Forces of Decline and Regeneration : A Discussion of Jane Jacobs and Gentrification
  • 3. Silicon Wafers and Office Park Dreams : Cross-Cultural Designs, Aesthetics, and Art in and around California's Santa Clara Valley
  • 4. Selling Authenticity: The Aesthetics of Design Boutiques in Montreal
  • 5. The Import of a Narrative : The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo
  • Part 2 Anxiety and Visibility
  • 6. Race, Authenticity, and the Gentrified Aesthetics of Belonging in Washington, D.C.
  • 7. Art and the Aesthetics of Cultural Gentrification : The Cases of Boyle Heights and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles
  • 8. In Residence: Witnessing and Gentrification in Susan Silton's Los Angeles
  • 9. Satellite Dishes, a Creative Incubator, and the Displacement of Aesthetics in Amsterdam
  • Part 3 Agency, Voices, and Activism
  • 10. Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti- Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles
  • 11. Speculative Spaces in Grand Paris : Reading JR in Clichy-sous- Bois and Montfermeil
  • 12. On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause
  • 13. The "Smart Safe City" : Gendered Time, Violence, and Displacement in India's Digital Urban Age
  • Index