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4. Gentrification is about Money

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From: Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

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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 Village, Chicago push back against displacement, environmental racism and strategic neglect of racialized areas of city’s, investment and disinvestment, globalization’s role in divestment of urban working cities in the US, the post-industrial city, cultural consumption and neoliberalism, anti-homeless architecture and neoliberal urbanism, condoization, airbnbification, and disaster capitalisms role in gentrification through the examples of post-Katrina New Orleans, post-Superstorm Sandy Lower Manhattan, post-earthquake (1985 and 2017) Mexico City, and post-IRA bombing central Manchester, as well as the current disaster capitalism from the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Leslie Kern

Leslie Kern is the author of two books on gender and cities, including Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. She holds a PhD in women’s studies from York University. Currently, Leslie is an associate professor of geography and environment and women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Her research has earned a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, a National Housing Studies Achievement Award, and several national multi-year grants. Leslie is also an academic career coach, where she helps academics find meaning and joy in their work. Originally from Toronto, Leslie now resides with her partner and two cats in Mi’kma’ki, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.