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The Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn
New Kids on the Block
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2009
Summary
While most studies on gentrification focus almost exclusively on its causes and consequences through an examination of housing, class conflict, and the displacement of residents, this book analyzes the process of gentrification. Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn examines the ways in which the established working-class and lower-income residents of Greenpoint, Brooklyn remain socially segregated from the incoming gentrifiers, with both groups forming parallel cultures within the shared physical spaces of the community. Desena broadens the typical analyses of gentrification to include the grass roots dynamics which create social class relations that lead to residential segregation created by social class relations. Drawing upon areas traditionally under represented in urban sociology, including families, women, children, and local institutions other than housing, this study explores the ways in which working-class residents, in the course of their everyday lives, negotiate change in their neighborhood and dissimilarity with their new (gentry) neighbors. Gentrification and Inequality in Brooklyn touches on issues familiar to anyone who has lived in a multi-class or multi-ethnic community, while offering new perspectives on the ways that such communities develop and maintain the boundaries of social segregation.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2342-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3809-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
98
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 01. Gentrification, Segregation, and Negotiation in the City No access Pages 9 - 18
Chapter 02. The Neighborhood of Greenpoint No access Pages 19 - 28
Chapter 03. Neighborhood Demographics and Change No access Pages 29 - 36
Chapter 04. Gentrification in Everyday Life No access Pages 37 - 44
Photospread No access Pages B - J
Chapter 05. Gentrification and Local Schools: Women Shape the Urban Landscape No access Pages 45 - 58
Chapter 06. Soccer Moms in the City No access Pages 59 - 68
Chapter 07. Views of Manhattan for Sale: Rezoning for Residential Development on the East River No access Pages 69 - 80
Chapter 08. Conclusions: What It Means for the Future of the City No access Pages 81 - 88
