The Tenants of East Harlem

Sharman, Russell Leigh

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“…principles to formerly public social services, nameLy affordable and low-income housing (Sharman, 2006). Cities such as Toronto, London, and New York now rely more heavily on partnership with developers and the private sector in a policy regime that already facilitates the up-scaling of neighbourhood real estate, responding not to need but market conditions (Fain stein et al, 1992;Lees & Ley, 2008).…”

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“…restructuring. An image of decay and blight is exacerbated by a lack of gradual investment and political attention that allows an environment to deteriorate, and vacant or marginal properties to build up in preparation for a 'cataclysmic' reinvestment by developers and municipal government once conditions are appropriate (Jacobs, 1961;Sharman, 2006). This may actually prevent or undermine regeneration from more local sources (ibid).…”

Section: Disinvestment In Low-income Resourcesmentioning

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From gentrification to re-urbanization : the expanding terrain of socio-spatial inequality

Horowitz¹

2021

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This paper examines a confluence of factors and consequence linked to changing socio-economic and spatial arrangements in the post-industrial globalized city. Neo-liberal urban governance and the influence of evolved capitalist economic and cultural structures have altered the demographic landscape of many cities. Urban neighbourhoods are increasingly exclusive to the middle and upper classes, as state support for low-income populations wanes in favour of revenue growth and a fixation on image. Gentrification has expanded geographically, and is often promoted by policy with little regard for gradual but substantial displacement of the poor. These patterns are epitomized in large 'world cities' such as New York, London, and Toronto that are the financial and cultural centresof their region; the conditions are mergent in a growing number of cities worldwide. If government are to prevent standardization of these processes and commit to measures for social sustainability, they must first demonstrate greater capacity for intervention in market-based inequalities.

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From gentrification to re-urbanization : the expanding terrain of socio-spatial inequality

Horowitz¹

2021

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“…One reason could be that people did not engage in a lot of organized activities in a constructive wasy to really demand accountability from the public and private sector and their institutions as Maurrasse tries to point out. The community was not really consulted about what type of changes they would want to see, hence the prevailing dismay about the redevelopment process (see Freeman 2006;Sharman 2006;Zukin 2010;Maurrasse, 2006 among others). Another factor has to do with lived experience of decades of discrimination and neglect by government agencies and private corporations, which have generated a deep sense of caution and lack of trust for outsiders in the community.…”

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The Significance of Place in Urban Governance: Mart 125 and the Politics of Community Development in Harlem, New York

Mchunu¹,

Mbatha²

2018

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

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The paper highlights the nexus between place and identity on the one hand, and urban entrepreneurialism on the other, which has become important nationally and internationally in recent decades. This refers to a form of urban governance that mixes together state with civil society and private interests to promote urban development. The city as a product of a common if perpetually changing and transitory urban life, “growth machines” or “urban regimes” play a significant role in the relationship between place and identity. This paper documents an instance of this relationship where the “growth machines” played themselves out in Harlem, New York City.

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“…4 Em vez de rastrear os mecanismos e modalidades de decomposição de classe e seus correlatos espaciais com o mesmo interesse com que lidaram com consolidação e conflito de classe numa era anterior e em vez de sondar como a desproletarização e a informalização do emprego estão moldando o proletariado urbano emergente da virada do século, os pesquisadores deram as costas a isso, ao tempo em que os estudos clássicos sobre "bairros tradicionais de classe operária" dissecados por Topalov (2003) desapareceram, sendo substituídos por investigações sobre etnicidade e segregação, por um lado, e pobreza urbana e criminalidade de rua, por outro. Para cada livro sobre áreas de classe mais baixa, focalizando a estrutura social e a vida cotidiana entre trabalhadores (como Schwartz, 1990, e Kefalas, 2003, há dúzias centrados sobre isolamento racial, tensão étnica e sucessão cultural (e.g., Hartigan, 1999;Small, 2004;Sharman, 2006;Wilson e Taub, 2006), e mais uma dúzia sobre imigração, violência e economia informal (Bourgois, 1995;Lepoutre, 2005;Smith, 2005;Venkatesh, 2006).…”

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RESSITUANDO A GENTRIFICAÇÃO: a classe popular, a ciência e o Estado na pesquisa urbana recente

Wacquant

2010

Cad CRH

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Este artigo amplia o diagnóstico de Tom Slater sobre as causas da gentrificação da pesquisa recente sobre gentrificação.2 Ele argumenta que o deslocamento de denúncia para celebração da gentrificação, a elisão do deslocamento dos residentes estabelecidos e o foco eufemístico em “mesclagem social” participam de um padrão de invisibilidade da classe operária na esfera pública e na investigação social. Essa obliteração do proletariado na cidade é reforçada pela heteronomia crescente da pesquisa urbana, na medida em que ela se torna mais ligada estreitamente aos interesses dos governantes da cidade. Ambas as tendências revelam e incitam a transformação do papel do Estado, de provedor de assistência social para populações de renda mais baixa para o de fornecedor de serviços e amenidades empresariais para urbanitas de classe média – e alta –, entre os quais a limpeza, no ambiente construído e nas ruas, dos detritos físicos e humanos engendrados pela desregulação econômica e o corte de gastos de previdência social. Para construir melhores modelos do nexo em transformação entre classe e espaço na cidade neoliberal, precisamos ressituar a gentrificação numa perspectiva mais ampla, revisando a análise de classe para capturar a (de)formação do proletariado pós-industrial, resistindo às seduções das problemáticas pré-fabricadas das ações políticas e dando destaque ao Estado como produtor da desigualdade socioespacial. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: gentrificação, espaço urbano, classes, política, sociologia urbana.RELOCATING GENTRICATION: the working class, science and the state in recent urban research Loïc Wacquant This article amplifies Tom Slater’s diagnosis of the causes of the gentrification of recent gentrification research. It argues that the shift from the denunciation to the celebration of gentrification, the elision of the displacement of the established residents, and the euphemistic focus on ‘social mixing’ partake of a broader pattern of invisibility of the working class in the public sphere and social inquiry. This effacing of the proletariat in the city is reinforced by the growing heteronomy of urban research, as the latter becomes more tightly tethered to the concerns of city rulers. Both tendencies, in turn, reveal and abet the shifting role of the state from provider of social support for lower-income populations to supplier of business services and amenities for middle – and upperclass urbanites – among them the cleansing of the built environment and the streets from the physical and human detritus wrought by economic deregulation and welfare retrenchment. To build better models of the changing nexus of class and space in the neoliberal city, we need to relocate gentrification in a broader and sturdier analytic framework by revising class analysis to capture the (de)formation of the postindustrial proletariat, resisting the seductions of the prefabricated problematics of policy, and giving pride of place to the state as producer of sociospatial inequality. KEY WORDS: gentrication, urban space, class, politics, urban sociology.MISE EN SITUATION DE L´ANOBLISSEMENT: la classe ouvrière, la science et l´État dans la recherche urbaine récente Loïc Wacquant Cet article amplifie le diagnostic de Tom Slater sur les causes de la “gentrification” des études récentes sur la “gentrification” urbaine. Le glissement de la dénonciation à l’éloge de la gentrification, l’élision du déplacement forcé des habitants établis et la focalisation euphémistique sur la “mixité sociale” s’inscrivent dans un schéma plus large d’invisibilisation de la classe ouvrière dans la sphère publique et les investigations sociologiques. Cet effacement du prolétariat des métropoles est renforcé par l’hétéronomie croissante de la recherche urbaine, plus étroitement liée que jamais aux préoccupations des dirigeants de la ville. Ces deux tendances révèlent et facilitent la mutation du rôle de l’État, de fournisseur de soutiens sociaux aux populations démunies en agence de services et d’équipements marchands pour citadins des classes moyennes et supérieures–au premier rang desquels figure le nettoyage de l’environnement bâti et des rues des détritus humains et matériels engendrés par la dérégulation de l’économie et le recul de la protection sociale. Pour construire de meilleurs modèles des rapports changeants entre classe et espace dans la ville néolibérale, il faut replacer la gentrification des quartiers populaires dans un cadre analytique élargi et renforcé en réélaborant l’analyse de classe pour saisir la (dé)formation du prolétariat post-industriel, en résistant aux séductions des problématiques préfabriquées de politique publique, et en accordant une place centrale à l’État en tant que producteur d’inégalités sociospatiales. MOTS-CLÉS: anoblissement, espace urbain, classes, politique, sociologie urbaine. Publicação Online do Caderno CRH: http://www.cadernocrh.ufba.br

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The Tenants of East Harlem

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From gentrification to re-urbanization : the expanding terrain of socio-spatial inequality

From gentrification to re-urbanization : the expanding terrain of socio-spatial inequality

The Significance of Place in Urban Governance: Mart 125 and the Politics of Community Development in Harlem, New York

RESSITUANDO A GENTRIFICAÇÃO: a classe popular, a ciência e o Estado na pesquisa urbana recente

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