| Claiming Neighborhood: New Ways of Understanding Urban Change Contributor(s): Betancur, John (Author), Smith, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252081978 ISBN-13: 9780252081972 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 307.121 |
| LCCN: 2016030961 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 270 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Geographic Orientation - Illinois |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on historical case studies in Chicago, John J. Betancur and Janet L. Smith focus both the theoretical and practical explanations for why neighborhoods change today. As the authors show, a diverse collection of people including urban policy experts, elected officials, investors, resident leaders, institutions, community-based organizations, and many others compete to control how neighborhoods change and are characterized. Betancur and Smith argue that neighborhoods have become sites of consumption and spaces to be consumed. Discourse is used to add and subtract value from them. The romanticized image of the neighborhood exaggerates or obscures race and class struggles while celebrating diversity and income mixing. Scholars and policy makers must reexamine what sustains this image and the power effects produced in order to explain and govern urban space more equitably. |