Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures

Author:   Erualdo González Romero (California State University, Fullerton, USA) ,  Michelle E. Zuñiga ,  Ashley C. Hernandez ,  Rodolfo D. Torres (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   146
Publication Date:   06 May 2022
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Gentrification is one of the most debilitating—and least understood—issues in American cities today. Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities. Authors in this collection begin to unpack and explore the forces that underlie these significant changes in an area’s social character and spatial landscape. Central in their analyses is an emphasis on racial formations and class relations, as they each look to find the essence of the urban condition through processes of demographic change, economic restructuring, and gentrification. Their original findings locate gentrification within a carefully integrated theoretical and political framework and challenge readers to look critically at the present and future of gentrification studies. Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures is a vital read for scholars and researchers, as well as planners and organizers hoping to understand the contemporary changes happening in our urban areas.

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Author:   Erualdo González Romero (California State University, Fullerton, USA) ,  Michelle E. Zuñiga ,  Ashley C. Hernandez ,  Rodolfo D. Torres (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367357887


ISBN 10:   0367357887
Pages:   146
Publication Date:   06 May 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Neighborhood Change in Near-Transit Latinx Communities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development. 3. Downtown Revitalization in Tucson, Arizona: A Historical Case Study of the Menlo Park Barrio—A Case for New Realities. 4. Houses for Living, Not Profit. 5. Displacing Los Angeles Chinatown: Racialization and Development in an Asian American Space. 6. Gentrification and Resistance in the U.S. South: The Case of the Historic Third Ward Neighborhood in Houston, Texas. 7. Commercial Gentrification in a Downtown “Made in Mexico”: The Case of Santa Ana in Southern California, 1980-2011. 8.Teaching, Learning, and Relationships to Space: Toward a Spatially Engaged Pedagogy. 9. Artists as “Shock Troops” of Gentrification? 10. Gentrification in New Orleans: Global Discourses and Material Effects.

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This exciting, fresh, and timely collection Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures discusses the enduring and yet changing relationship between race and class with respect to processes of gentrification and offers a welcome and distinctive Latina/o/x consideration. A key focus is the necessary confrontation between neoliberalism and racialized mobilization in resisting market and state driven gentrification. This is a book that will add much to gentrification debates and that scholars and activists alike should buy! Loretta Lees, University of Leicester What does it mean to place the study of gentrification, as a necessarily racialized process of displacement and dispossession, at the very heart of critical urban theory? Here is a bold volume that does precisely this, drawing attention to the many modes of gentrification from cultural place-making to art washing to transit-oriented development. Refusing the inevitability of such spatial restructuring, the authors root their research and analysis in communities that imagine, demand, and create alternative futures. Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles


This exciting, fresh, and timely collection Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures discusses the enduring and yet changing relationship between race and class with respect to processes of gentrification and offers a welcome and distinctive Latina/o/x consideration. A key focus is the necessary confrontation between neoliberalism and racialized mobilization in resisting market and state driven gentrification. This is a book that will add much to gentrification debates and that scholars and activists alike should buy! Loretta Lees, University of Leicester What does it mean to place the study of gentrification, as a necessarily racialized process of displacement and dispossession, at the very heart of critical urban theory? Here is a bold volume that does precisely this, drawing attention to the many modes of gentrification from cultural place-making to art washing to transit-oriented development. Refusing the inevitability of such spatial restructuring, the authors root their research and analysis in communities that imagine, demand, and create alternative futures. Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles


Author Information

Erualdo González Romero is Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He is a critical urbanist and ethnic studies scholar. He focuses on gentrification, neighborhood planning, urban health, and governance and public policy, with an emphasis on Mexican immigrants and communities of color. Michelle E. Zuñiga is Assistant Professor in Urban and Community Planning at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her research focuses on resident perspectives of neighborhood change occurring in areas undergoing increased investment towards sustainable urban development. She is most interested in learning how Latinx immigrant communities experience the benefits and disruptions of neighborhood change and their implications for environmental, social, and economic justice. Ashley C. Hernandez is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, where she studies and teaches on urban governance and inequality, race, and social movements. Her research investigates anti-gentrification activism and community-based organizations in East Los Angeles and beyond. Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-author of The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes, and the Next Left and co-author of Capitalism and Critique: Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics, among many other books.

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