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4. Gentrification is about Money
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.