The Gentrification Debates

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“…Likewise, as the literature on neighborhood gentrification highlights, the process of urban change is not uniform across contexts (Brown‐Saracino ; Butler and Robson ). This underscores the need to explore local variation in the dynamics and consequences of middle‐class investment in urban public schools.…”

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“…Some of the emergent work in this area explicitly frames the demographic changes in schools within the broader context of neighborhood gentrification (Butler, Hamnett, and Ramsden ; Butler and Robson , Hankins ; Stillman ). Yet, similar to the ongoing debates about the nature and definition of neighborhood gentrification (Brown‐Saracino ) a related issue remains unaddressed: could the movement of middle‐class families into disadvantaged urban public schools itself be characterized as a form of gentrification?…”

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Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Posey-Maddox¹,

2014

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Middle-class flight from urban public schools to suburban districts or private schools is a key source of educational inequality. Recently, however, a number of studies have focused on middle-class and upper-middle-class families who have made a different choice, opting to remain in the city and send their children to neighborhood public schools. While the movement of advantaged families into urban public schools has received positive attention in the media, this growing body of research tells a more complicated story. Middle-class families -with their economic, cultural, and social capital -can bring important resources to schools, resulting in widespread benefits. However, their engagement in urban public schools can also lead to marginalization and exclusion. We review the emergent literature on this topic, highlighting four themes: (i) parent preferences, identities, and values; (ii) the role of marketing campaigns and informal networks in attracting the middle class; (iii) the nature and consequences of middle-class parent engagement in urban schooling; and (iv) the relationship between neighborhood change and school change. We conclude by outlining a research agenda aimed at deepening our understanding of the mechanisms by which middle-class parent engagement in urban schooling may serve to mitigate, reproduce, or exacerbate educational inequalities.Sociological scholarship on urban education frequently focuses on the inequities experienced by low-income students in large city school districts. Recently, however, a growing body of American and European literature has called attention to the decisions of middle-class and upper-middle-class parents, 1 particularly Whites, to consider and/or enroll their children in socioeconomically mixed or predominantly low-income urban public schools (Billingham and

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Section: Charting An Agenda For Future Researchmentioning

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Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Posey-Maddox¹,

2014

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“…Other scholars have argued that gentrification requires a cultural shift related to the influx of artists, "bohemians," and young professionals (Douglas 2012;Lloyd 2010;Zukin 1982). For a comprehensive discussion on the gentrification debate see the edited volume by Brown-Saracino (2010 (Covington and Taylor 1989;Smith 1996) or the influx of coffee shops (Papchristos et al 2011). Wyley (1996: Wyley andHammel 1999) used a mixed-methods approach incorporating field surveys and observations with a complex algorithm of 9 census measures, including homeownership rates, the share of the population between the ages of 30 and 44, the percent Black population, and the single White population to indicate gentrifying neighborhoods (see also, Kreager, Lyons, and Hays 2011).…”

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The Spatial Dimensions of Gentrification and the Consequences for Neighborhood Crime

Boggess¹,

Hipp

2014

Justice Quarterly

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This study examines neighborhood economic improvement, what is occurring in nearby neighborhoods, and the consequences for neighborhood crime rates. Negative binomial regression models are estimated to explain the relationship between the increase in average home values (a component of gentrification) and crime in Los Angeles between 1990 and 2000. We find that the spatial context is important, as gentrifying neighborhoods located on the "frontier" of the gentrification process have significantly more aggravated assaults than gentrifying neighborhoods surrounded by neighborhoods also undergoing improvement. Furthermore, this effect is stronger in neighborhoods that began the decade with the highest average home values.Our findings indicate that the extent to which neighborhoods are more or less embedded in a larger process of economic improvement, and where the neighborhood is at in the economic development process, has differential effects on neighborhood crime.

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“…According to Marcuse (), this displacement can be either direct, when longstanding residents are priced out of the neighborhood, or indirect, when the amenities and people that sustained their daily uses of the neighborhood disappear, and familiar streets progressively lose their familiarity. “Gentrifying” households would be mostly young singles or couples, and are often highly educated (Brown‐Saracino ).…”

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Along the London Overground: Transport Improvements, Gentrification, and Symbolic Ownership along London's Trendiest Line

Lagadic¹

2019

City & Community

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Between 2008 and 2011, the dysfunctional North London line was improved and rebranded into a high‐quality, high‐frequency service: the London Overground. Great ambitions for regeneration came with this project: The improved line, running through deprived areas of East London, was expected to bring inward investment and to open access to new opportunities outside the borough to its residents. Seven years after the beginning of the improvement works, Hackney's Overground stations have emerged as hubs for London's trendy, symbolic economy, and the current commercial dynamism has been interpreted by many as indicative of widespread gentrification. Through census data analysis and 58 interviews with local shopkeepers and experts around four stations of the London Overground—Dalston, Hackney Central, Homerton, and Hackney Wick—this study shows that the emergence of a trendy retail scene should not be mistaken for inclusive regeneration. The North London Line improvements catalyzed gentrification both by capital and by collective action, and fostered gentrification in both direct and indirect ways. The expansion of the trendy retail scene, if left uncontrolled by policymakers, will lead to a symbolic displacement of longstanding residents, which will be added to their direct displacement through rising rents and exclusion from employment opportunities in the symbolic economy.

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The Gentrification Debates

Cited by 65 publications

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Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

Middle‐Class Parents and Urban Public Schools: Current Research and Future Directions

The Spatial Dimensions of Gentrification and the Consequences for Neighborhood Crime

Along the London Overground: Transport Improvements, Gentrification, and Symbolic Ownership along London's Trendiest Line

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