Gentrification
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From  NEW! A Farewell to El Gran BurritoFrom: Messy Cities |
The authors lament the loss of a beloved burrito establishment, unique in design and how it co-existed with its surroundings in a gentrifying Los Angeles neighbourhood. | Dylan Reid | 5 | 2025 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! But What about the LandlordsFrom: The Tenant Class |
In this chapter, Ricardo responds to the misconception that the current housing climate has put landlords in jeopardy. Ricardo examines the differences and similarities between private rental … | Ricardo Tranjan | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Community Wellbeing: A Social Framework for DomicideFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 9 continues a chronological trajectory documenting the wider struggle and events unfolding around the redevelopment proposal for the neighbourhood. Crosby provides a window into the … | Andrew Crosby | 27 | 2023 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Contradictions in Infra-Commoning Networks in Serbia |
In this chapter, Vilenica and Mentus examine contradictions within Serbia’s anti-eviction solidarity networks, focusing on the Joint Action Roof Over Head organization in Belgrade’s … | Ana Vilenica; Vladimir Mentus | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
 Decolonize Hipsters |
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that … | Grégory Pierrot | 148 | 2021 | View |
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NEW! Dispatches from the ThresholdTenant Power in Times of Crisis |
Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and state hostility toward unhoused people made worse by mass … | Alexander Ferrer; Rae Baker | 238 | 2025 | View |
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From Domicide in the Liveable CityFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby explores urban liveability and domicide, identifying liveability as an ideological discourse of urban improvement that is mobilized alongside gentrification efforts to … | Andrew Crosby | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Encampment Evictions in Washington, DC |
In this chapter, Howe and Clarkk examine encampment evictions in Washington, DC, during 2020 and 2021. | Aaron Howe; Shannon Clark | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Epilogue: Visions and DreamsFrom: Caught in the Eye of the Storm: Urban Revitalization in Toronto's Lawrence Heights |
In this chapter, Careless examines the Lawrence Heights revitalization plan in Toronto’s North York district, tracing the tension between institutional urban development and community … | John Careless | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Foreword |
In this foreword, Stein introduces the collection and how it documents housing justice organizing amid various crises of the twenty-first century. | Samuel Stein | 2 | 2025 | $0.20 Add |
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From Look at That Fucking HipsterChapter 1 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In Look at That Fucking Hipster, Pierrot provides a history of modern subcultures and where the hipster phenomenon arose from to its peak to its eventual decline post-2016. The chapter explores … | Grégory Pierrot | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From Heron Gate and the Financialization of Rental HousingFrom: Resisting Eviction |
Chapter 6 examines Heron Gate’s owner and landlord in more detail. Crosby takes a deep dive into the world of financialized real estate investment within a broader context of housing policy and … | Andrew Crosby | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 Add |
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From Hips Don’t LieChapter 4 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In Hips Don’t Lie, Pierrot reflects on the present state of hipsterdom after the Black Lives Matter movement. Pierrot provides a call to action which must reflect on and move away from … | Grégory Pierrot | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From From the HipChapter 2 From: Decolonize Hipsters |
In From the Hip, Pierrot explores the etymology of the word ‘hip’ and how it has been used over the centuries, before delving deeper into the larger history of white hegemonic culture … | Grégory Pierrot | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From NEW! Housing Justice in the Bluegrass State |
In this chapter, Bullock traces the housing justice movement in Kentucky from 2019 through the early 2020s. | Lukas Bullock | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From Human Rights and Racial Discrimination in HousingFrom: Resisting Eviction |
This book concludes with a discussion of the human rights case initiated by Heron Gate tenants evicted in 2018 who are seeking a right to return. The potentially precedent-setting case before the … | Andrew Crosby | 7 | 2023 | $0.70 Add |
