Neighborhood Change

Abstract

Neighborhood change addresses the dynamics of the physical, social, and demographic composition of specific places and spaces with symbolic cohesion in the city. Understanding this transformation requires a theoretical framework that includes both the agency of individual and institutional actors and the structural power arising from urban capital accumulation. Hence, neighborhood change exemplifies the social and spatial injustices of contemporary capitalism and class struggle. Its analysis relates us to the reasons why people live, move, and concentrate in certain areas, while being systematically excluded from others.