Claiming neighborhood : new ways of understanding urban change /

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"Based on historical case studies in Chicago, John J. Betancur and Janet L. Smith focus both the theoretical and practical explanations for why neighborhoods change today. As the authors show, a diverse collection of people including urban policy experts, elected officials, investors, resident...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Betancur, John Jairo (Author), Smith, Janet L., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Subjects:
City planning > Illinois > Chicago.
Neighborhood planning > Illinois > Chicago.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Urban policy > Illinois > Chicago.
Quartiers (Urbanisme) > Planification > Illinois > Chicago.
Villes > Croissance.
Politique urbaine > Illinois > Chicago.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
City planning.
Neighborhood planning.
Urban policy.
Illinois > Chicago.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Prevailing Approaches to the Study of Neighborhoods and Change; 2. Understanding Change in Today's Changing Urban Mosaic; 3. Recasting Race/Ethnicity: The Gentrification of Bronzeville and Pilsen; 4. Constructing Carceral Space: How Englewood Became the Ghetto; 5. Constructing Flexible Spaces of Accumulation and Social Reproduction; 6. Selling the Neighborhood: Commodification versus Differential Space; 7. Reinventing Neighborhood? Transforming Chicago's Public Housing.
  • 8. Building the Organization or Building the Community? Community Development in a Time of Flexible AccumulationConclusion; Notes; References; Index.

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