Making Homes Unhomely: The Politics of Displacement in a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Chicago

Huq, Efadul; Harwood, Stacy Anne

doi:10.1111/cico.12393

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“…The ideology and actions of new arrivals to the neighborhood and those of the long-time residents change both in time and place. Adding a temporal dimension to the processes of neighborhood death (Borer 2010;Osman 2016) and the lived experiences of those who experience death-finding the residents as they are displaced and after (Huq and Harwood 2019)-is critical to further understanding neighborhood death and to move beyond its current explanation.…”

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Chinatowns Lost? The Birth and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City

Zipp

2021

City & Community

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This article historicizes and links the ways in which ethnically segregated neighborhoods are born and die in American cities. Based on a historical ethnography of five Chinatowns in Los Angeles from 1850 to 1950, I highlight Chinese residents’ agency in both the birth and death of their own neighborhoods through a process called neighborhood architomy. Chinese residents split off new neighborhoods from dying neighborhoods while maintaining their institutions and memories, showing how neighborhood death and birth are intimately intertwined. To understand either process fully, we must treat neighborhoods and their residents as sociological and historical agents at both the birth and death of neighborhoods.

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Chinatowns Lost? The Birth and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City

Zipp

2021

City & Community

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“…Put more clearly, RP emerged in the particular historical context of the 1990s to challenge expert and state-led planning. Theories of RP evolved through tumultuous moments such as Occupy uprisings into agonistic and anarchist streams (Jon and Purcell, 2018) and throughout RP practices have allied with emancipatory social movements (Angotti, 2019; Huq and Harwood, 2019; Marcuse, 2010; Randolph, 2017). The thread of RP scholarship contributes to transformative planning practice by spotlighting how the inclusionary planning paradigm fails (Hillier, 2002; Purcell, 2009) and by valorizing counter-hegemonic collective practices to reshape cities through self-government and pluralist democracy (Purcell, 2008, 2013).…”

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Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices

Huq

2020

Planning Theory

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Insurgent planning and radical planning are two of the most popular conceptual frames of reference for progressive planners and theorists of transformative planning practices. In the past decades, scholars have extended these two planning conceptions to new geographies and realities to shed light on how planning can challenge structural injustices and marginalization. However, less attention has been given to how insurgent planning renovates radical planning practices in response to the crisis of neoliberal urbanization. While appreciating that radical and insurgent planning remain braided in practice, this article contributes to the literature on transformative planning by highlighting how insurgent planning builds on radical planning and innovates with regard to social location, epistemic distinction, and analytical unit.

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“…Residents felt they were being pressurised out of their homes due to the poor quality of maintenance and repairs; in other words, displacement as predicated on landlord neglect (Huq & Harwood, 2019). As mentioned before, Mohammed had several housing problems, which prompted a desire to leave his flat: "I'm tired of the Aylesbury estate, I want to stay in the area but I want something new."…”

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Territorial Stigmatisation and Poor Housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’

Watt

2020

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This article offers a critical assessment of Loic Wacquant’s influential advanced marginality framework with reference to research undertaken on a London public/social housing estate. Following Wacquant, it has become the orthodoxy that one of the major vectors of advanced marginality is territorial stigmatisation and that this particularly affects social housing estates, for example via mass media deployment of the ‘sink estate’ label in the UK. This article is based upon a multi-method case study of the Aylesbury estate in south London—an archetypal stigmatised ‘sink estate.’ The article brings together three aspects of residents’ experiences of the Aylesbury estate: territorial stigmatisation and dissolution of place, both of which Wacquant focuses on, and housing conditions which he neglects. The article acknowledges the deprivation and various social problems the Aylesbury residents have faced. It argues, however, that rather than internalising the extensive and intensive media-fuelled territorial stigmatisation of their ‘notorious’ estate, as Wacquant’s analysis implies, residents have largely disregarded, rejected, or actively resisted the notion that they are living in an ‘estate from hell,’ while their sense of place belonging has not dissolved. By contrast, poor housing—in the form of heating breakdowns, leaks, infestation, inadequate repairs and maintenance—caused major distress and frustration and was a more important facet of their everyday lives than territorial stigmatisation. The article concludes by arguing that housing should be foregrounded, rather than neglected, in the analysis of the dynamics of urban advanced marginality.

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Making Homes Unhomely: The Politics of Displacement in a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Chicago

Cited by 21 publications

References 78 publications

Chinatowns Lost? The Birth and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City

Chinatowns Lost? The Birth and Death of Urban Neighborhoods in an American City

Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices

Territorial Stigmatisation and Poor Housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’

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