gentrification

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• SOURCE: Washington University Center for the Humanities
  4/25/2022
  

  René Esparza on AIDS and Health Inequality in Urban History

  A new book examines the relationship of sexuality, residential segregation, and class and racial inequality in the AIDS epidemic.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  11/10/2021
  

  "The Ivory Tower is Dead": An Interview with Davarian Baldwin

  Davarian L. Baldwin's work interrogates how universities in postindustrial cities exemplify new models of economic development and are implicated in the problems of labor exploitation, gentrification and inequality. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/9/2021
  

  In Slasher Film ‘Candyman,’ the Horror Is U.S. Housing Policy

  by Brentin Mock

  “Candyman isn't the only ghost in this show,” says Stanford Carpenter, a cultural anthropologist based in Chicago. “The other ghost is Cabrini-Green. In both cases, the thing that makes them scary is that they were made that way by white systemic racism.”

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  9/2/2021
  

  The Rise of "UniverCity"

  Universities wield increasing control over their surrounding communities. Historian Davarian Baldwin discusses the impact of that power for good and ill. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  4/8/2021
  

  How a Plan to Save Buildings Fell Apart

  The imperatives of historic preservation are often at cross-purposes with the goals of community organizations. Does the failure of one preservation plan in Chicago offer lessons for the future?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/2/2021
  

  The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification

  by Jacob Ambinder

  Anti-gentrification activists portray themselves as champions of the poor, but they generally represent a coalition of property owners who benefit from keeping the supply of a resource – housing – scarce. How can the political and economic incentives of land and housing be realigned?

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/10/2020
  

  Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today

  High-end development has transformed some Black neighborhoods decades after they were scarred by unrest. And not by coincidence.

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• SOURCE: CrimeReads
  5/26/2020
  

  How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

  by Paul Renfro

  Concerns about the “safety” and “security” of specific children—particularly those who resemble Etan Patz—played a considerable role in New York’s extraordinary late twentieth-century transformation.

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  Whole Foods Is Opening in Harlem. Should We Be Celebrating?

  by Brian D. Goldstein

  It’s more complicated than you think.