Gentrification

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! 1. Gentrification is . . . From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	In Chapter 1, author Leslie Kern, examines the history of gentrification, how it became one of the focuses of her career as a feminist geographer, and an overview of the book’s chapters. …	Leslie Kern	17	2022	$1.70 Add
From NEW! 2. Gentrification is Natural From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 2 reflects on the damage caused by the concept (or lie) that has made most people believe gentrification is a natural part of a city’s development (ie: expected, inevitable, …	Leslie Kern	15	2022	$1.50 Add
From NEW! 3. Gentrification is about Taste From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 3 focuses on how gentrification develops cultural capital or cultural power that feeds the continued gentrification of urban spaces. Topics discussed include the Cereal Killer Café …	Leslie Kern	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From NEW! 4. Gentrification is about Money From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 4 focuses on the role of gentrification in the political economy of urban centres and how capital is tied to its continuation. Topics discussed include the example of Little …	Leslie Kern	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From NEW! 5. Gentrification is about Class From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 5 focuses on the sexual politics and gendered elements of gentrification. Topics discussed include housing precarity, sexual harassment and violence from landlords, women with children …	Leslie Kern	39	2022	$3.90 Add
From NEW! 6. Gentrification is about Physical Displacement From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 6 focuses on the physical displacement of people, families, and communities through gentrification. Topics discussed include personal accounts of displacement, the connection between …	Leslie Kern	34	2022	$3.40 Add
From NEW! 7. Gentrification is a Metaphor From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 7 critically examines the social and cultural framing of gentrification. Topics discussed include the mainstreaming of taboo issues (ie: tattoos or drag), the commodification of other …	Leslie Kern	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From NEW! 8. Gentrification is Inevitable From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 8 highlights examples of resistance to gentrification through grassroot movements, political activism, and changes in public policy. Examples discussed include the Fruit Belt CLT in …	Leslie Kern	28	2022	$2.80 Add
From NEW! 9. Change the Story, Change the Ending From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies View Between The Lines	Chapter 9 as the final chapter shares a set of principles and practices that you can take as starting points for reflection and action to offer a glimmer of hope that we can change the story of …	Leslie Kern	34	2022	$3.40 Add
From A Blue-Collar Legacy – for Better and for Worse From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the dual nature of Hamilton, and poses key questions about the city. Can history be the basis for a roadmap forward? Are there unique aspects of Hamilton’s past that …	Stephen Dale	49	2021	$4.90 Add
From A Community Wrestles with Change From: Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto's Lawrence Heights View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter traces how the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood in Toronto navigated urban revitalization and gentrification from the 2010s into the early 2020s.	John Careless	31	2024	$3.10 Add
From NEW! Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco From: Dispatches from the Threshold View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, the authors examine how landlord technology in San Francisco, from the 1970s through the 2020s, accelerates gentrification and surveillance.	Erin McElroy; Matthew Martignoni	13	2025	$1.30 Add
From Boom, Bust, and a Double-Sided Bohemian Renaissance From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter surveys some of the attempts to develop and revitalize Hamilton’s downtown core. Although the initial efforts were unsuccessful, a few optimists valiantly plotted …	Stephen Dale	48	2021	$4.80 Add
NEW! Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies Between The Lines	From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. …	Leslie Kern	258	2022	View
From Introduction: Investigating Lawrence Heights From: Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto's Lawrence Heights View Fernwood Publishing	In this introduction, Careless explains the history of the Lawrence Heights revitalization in North York, Toronto, the largest public housing redevelopment in Canada.	John Careless	20	2024	$2.00 Add
From Neoliberalism and Revitalization in Lawrence Heights From: Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto's Lawrence Heights View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Careless examines how neoliberal policy reshaped the revitalization of Lawrence Heights, a racialized public housing community in Toronto, from the 1990s through the 2020s.	John Careless	34	2024	$3.40 Add