Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City (1) (Cities and Cultures)

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Synopsis
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 a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification, techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative practices in art, architecture, and related fields help to produce or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of gentrification express contested conditions of migration and mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary cities from multiple, comparative, global, and transnational perspectives.
Copyright:
2021

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
296 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040788981
Related ISBNs:
9781003690498, 9781041175308, 9789463722032, 9781040782996
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
All authors / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Christoph Lindner
Edited by:
Gerard Sandoval

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