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3. Gentrification is about Taste
From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
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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 in London’s Shoreditch neighbourhood, the fetishization of nostalgic and working class staples, anti-gentrification activism and resistance to in cities, “back to the city” movements, the creative city concept, the appropriation of minority culture, food, music, fashion, and activism while actively displacing actual people of colour, resistance to gentrification by the Latinx communities in Pilsen Chicago, and the use of police to protect white interests in cities who are the beneficiaries of gentrification.
