Space over time: The changing position of the black ghetto in the United States

Marcuse, Peter

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“…Even though the Bijlmer is not the ghetto that the media often presents, it is an undeniable fact that most residents who had the opportunity to leave, did so. In that sense, the Bijlmer was not only a largely low-income and migrant area, but also a very dynamic place with high social mobility, more typical of an "ethnic enclave" than of a "ghetto" (Marcuse 1998; see also Aalbers and Deurloo 2003).…”

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The Revanchist Renewal of Yesterday's City of Tomorrow

Aalbers

2010

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Although planned as the “City of Tomorrow”, the Bijlmer district in Amsterdam quickly became the quintessential symbol of urban decline. Today, even with half of the planned renewal of the Bijlmer completed, the alleged success of this urban revitalisation programme is questionable. Parts of the black middle class did not move out and some are even returning to the Bijlmer; the combination is producing a type of “black gentrification”, which forces the “undesirables” like drug users, homeless people and undocumented immigrants to leave. This revanchist renewal not only benefits the middle and lower‐class population of the district, but it also serves the interests of private developers. European revanchism makes the city safe for corporate investment and aims to restore social order as well as stimulating the development of a strong middle class. This paper demonstrates how hard revanchist policies are demanded not only by private developers but also by the middle and lower classes, and they exist alongside soft “caring” policies, even for the “undesirables”.

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The Revanchist Renewal of Yesterday's City of Tomorrow

Aalbers

2010

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“…To ''promote security in the community'' means ''creating a space physically separate from the community in which to hold people whose propensity to crime [made] them appear an intolerable risk'' (Richman, 2001). Public fear is thus managed by the simple exile of risk-producing populations from the polis, first by enclosing them in ghettos, then by sending them to distant locales (Marcuse, 1998;Wacquant, 2001).…”

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The War on Crime as Precursor to the War on Terror

Huq

Muller

2008

International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice

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“…Not surprisingly, different places are reinvented differently (Sassen 1990; Urry 2002; Judd 2003). While the bulk of academic research has focused on studying the restructuring of large urban conglomerates, from the redefinition of the ghetto to the emergence of the global city apparatus (Sassen 1990; Marcuse 2002), places beyond the exploding metropolis and intensifying edge cities, by comparison, have gotten little attention, especially when it concerns Canadian landscapes 1 . In this work, we examine the city of Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada, during the last two decades, as we identify this non‐metropolitan hinterland city of one hundred thousand inhabitants as exhibiting a particular type of the phenomenon of making and selling place.…”

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Work hard, play hard: selling Kelowna, BC, as year‐round playground

Aguiar¹,

Tomic²,

Trumper³

2005

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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A keen interest in place making and place selling is widespread in contemporary society. While the bulk of academic research has focused on studying the restructuring of large urban conglomerates, places beyond the exploding metropolis, by comparison, have received little attention, especially when it concerns Canadian landscapes. In an attempt to study the particularities of place making in contemporary smaller, more isolated communities—hinterlands—this work analyses the city of Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada. We argue that historically Kelowna, a small rural community specialising in ranching, forestry and fruit production, since the early 1980s, has been re‐imagined and re‐designed, on the one hand as an all‐year playground and as an innovative frontier for high‐tech industries; on the other hand, this post‐Fordist reinvention contains a discourse of ‘whiteness’, one that entices by packaging ‘place’ in terms of ‘sameness’ and ‘familiarity’. In contrast to large cosmopolitan post‐industrial cities, hinterland‐type cities are invented, sought and lived as geographies cleared from the ‘elements’ that make cities ‘unsafe’.

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Space over time: The changing position of the black ghetto in the United States

Abstract: Ghettoization is increasingly of concern in countries around the world.

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

The Revanchist Renewal of Yesterday's City of Tomorrow

The Revanchist Renewal of Yesterday's City of Tomorrow

The War on Crime as Precursor to the War on Terror

Work hard, play hard: selling Kelowna, BC, as year‐round playground

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