Handbook of Gentrification Studies

Lees, Loretta; Phillips, Martin

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“…Thereby, the place can be simply seen as the result of the interactions between people and the physical setting. The changes to the physical setting need to adapt to people's needs, and to sustain people's needs, the regeneration of physical environment then is as an opportunity to enhance social and economic satisfaction [45,46]. These needs are sense of place, sense of belonging, set of meanings and memories and feelings (Figure 1).…”

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Changes of Spatial Characteristics: Socio-Cultural Sustainability in Historical Neighborhood in Beijing, China

Liu

2021

Sustainability

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This paper uses a typological approach as a tool to establish an analytical framework from a physical perspective to understand ‘place‘ and to identify key spatial characteristics that could adapt to local needs to deliver socio-cultural sustainability. Six representative housing types with their spaces and uses that were introduced in a historic neighborhood in Beijing, China are selected as case studies. Their morphological characteristics at the building, open space and neighborhood scales are examined, and typological transformations among the cases in terms of the degree of spatial continuity are identified. The paper proposes an analytical framework consisting of fifteen indicators to assess socio-cultural sustainability at the different morphological scales (building, open space and block/neighborhood) of the residents of the six cases. The score of changes from its original design is brought into calculations of continuities of spatial characteristics, which present the transitions and transformations of morphological characteristics in relation to adaptation of local needs and uses. The analysis results show that the spatial characteristics were changed when political-socioeconomic ideologies changed, and local needs and uses were transformed to follow these mutations, and finally, the methods of use in different morphological scales mostly differed from historical norms. Although the continuities of spatial characteristics were significantly changed, they are positively and continually accommodating the transformations and transitions of local needs and uses. On the other hand, the invariant spatial characteristics are important, which last despite transformation of the city development and changing of political-social-economic ideologies, and could be maintained for future development to enhance sociocultural sustainability.

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Changes of Spatial Characteristics: Socio-Cultural Sustainability in Historical Neighborhood in Beijing, China

Liu

2021

Sustainability

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“…The owners managed to regain all the buildings at 50 Vulturilor Street in 2002 and flipped the property for about 1.8 million Euros to a Norwegian real estate investor. His intention was to demolish the original structures and build luxury condominiums, a common form of new-build gentrification in Bucharest redrawing the class geography of its central neighborhoods (Davidson, 2018;Chelcea et al, 2015;Bürkner & Totelecan, 2018; see Figure 2). During the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 construction plans stopped, but the investor's lawyers managed to get eviction orders for all residents in 2014.…”

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Evictions as infrastructural events

Zamfirescu

Chelcea

2020

Urban Geography

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Infrastructures are productive ethnographic entry points for understanding evictions. Three analytic strategies have informed the research on the entanglements of evictions and infrastructures. We outline a fourth, centered on evictees' inframaking. A relatively frequent occurrence after evictions in central neighborhoods in Bucharest, Romania, has been that evicted families camp out in front of "their" former houses. Drawing on a case of this kind, we suggest that the way to understand resistance to being rendered abject is to invite ethnographers to foreground the disconnections, reconnections, and networked ties that the evicted mobilize post-eviction for both survival and protest. That means paying attention not only to material socio-technical assemblages, but also to preparedness in anticipation of eviction, post-eviction claims, and biopolitical expectations of care by the state. Social infrastructures, some neighborhood relations, access to networked connectivity at the workplace, and urban commons such as public water fountains gain heightened importance after eviction.

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“…Once a marginal topic during the 1960s and 70s, gentrification is now considered the largest subfield in urban studies (Lees and Phillips 2018). British sociologist Ruth Glass injected the term "gentrification" into urbanist lexicon when she sought to capture local inequality and class struggles in her book, London: Aspects of Change (1964), by discussing how "the working-class quarters of London ha [d] been invaded by the middle classes upper and lower" who replaced modest homes for more upscale accommodations and displaced the original working-class inhabitants (xviii).…”

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Globalizing the Sociology of Gentrification

Valle

2021

City & Community

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How can the gentrification scholarship of US urban sociologists be enhanced by expanding beyond the confines of the Global North to include empirical and theoretical analyses of Southern gentrifications? This article engages the debate around the utility of the gentrification concept outside of postindustrial Northern cities. It argues that, in contrast to geographers and other interdisciplinary urbanists, many US–based sociologists have unduly overlooked or minimized two aspects of gentrification that may be more clearly observed in the Global South: the roles of local political–economic forces and the state. This article also notes what the discipline of sociology can add to apt explorations of gentrification in the Global South. It marries the oft–disparate discourses of sociologists of gentrification primarily in North America and Western Europe with geographers and other urbanists conducting gentrification research in the Global South in order to globalize the sociology of gentrification.

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Handbook of Gentrification Studies

Cited by 37 publications

References 39 publications

Changes of Spatial Characteristics: Socio-Cultural Sustainability in Historical Neighborhood in Beijing, China

Changes of Spatial Characteristics: Socio-Cultural Sustainability in Historical Neighborhood in Beijing, China

Evictions as infrastructural events

Globalizing the Sociology of Gentrification

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