E-bok, Engelska, 2016
Claiming Neighborhood
New Ways of Understanding Urban Change
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As the authors show, a diverse collection of people including urban policy experts, elected officials, investors, resident leaders, institutions, community-based organizations, and many others compete to control how neighborhoods change and are characterized. Betancur and Smith argue that neighborhoods have become sites of consumption and spaces to be consumed. Discourse is used to add and subtract value from them. The romanticized image of "the neighborhood" exaggerates or obscures race and class struggles while celebrating diversity and income mixing. Scholars and policy makers must reexamine what sustains this image and the power effects produced in order to explain and govern urban space more equitably.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2016-09-08
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 280
- Filformat: EPUB
- Kopieringsskydd: LCP
- ISBN: 9780252098949
- Förlag: University of Illinois Press
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John J. Betancur is a professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Janet L. Smith is an associate professor of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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"This book takes a fresh look behind the numerous social science representations of Chicago to reveal how they actively shape neighborhoods as they are taken up by the public and private sectors . A definite must read for urban scholars."--Susan Saegert, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York "In all, the importance of Claiming Neighborhood is that it transcends Chicago and,...can be beneficial to other approaches in looking at forces that impact spaces and centers in cities around the United States." --National Political Science Review
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