Gale, Dennis E. The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 141-143
Author(s):  
Anne E. Krulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
History Of

Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: ‘Authenticity’ and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442094675
Author(s):  
Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Demographic Change ◽  
Property Values ◽  
The State ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Palestinian Refugees ◽  
Geographical Study ◽  
Imaginative Geography ◽  
History Of

This article explores how urban settler-colonial landscapes are produced in the neoliberal era. Adopting an anti-colonial approach, the article addresses practices of landscape production through the history of Wadi Al-Salib in Haifa after the driving out of its inhabitants in 1948. A micro geographical study of three Palestinian refugees’ houses, sold by the state to private real estate companies during the last two decades, constitutes the empirical mainstay of the article. Located in Wadi Al-Salib where rapid neoliberal urban renewal schemes hope to raise property values and enact demographic change, these houses are often marketed to upper-class Israeli Jews as “authentic”. Such branding indicates that the privatization of the Palestinian refugees' houses may also signify privatization of the colonial imagination, and a broader shift of the landscape into a collage of marketable images, echoing an ‘aesthetic violence’ that evokes past colonial landscapes. Such references create several hyper-realities in the same place, thus canonizing colonial landscapes’ imaginaries.

scholarly journals Jesus and the Bulldozer: Religion, Suburbanization, and Urban Renewal in a New Jersey Camp Meeting Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-47
Author(s):  
Samuel Avery-Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Suburban Communities ◽  
Camp Meeting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gloucester County ◽  
Black Towns

The history of suburbanization in New Jersey is a well-established topic in the scholarly literature. Since the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the state’s northeastern and southwestern areas have become dense with suburban communities tied, culturally and economically, to New York City or Philadelphia. By the early twentieth century, these areas were a mix of middle-class white enclaves, Black towns, immigrant and working-class communities, agricultural hamlets, and industrial suburbs. However, in the late nineteenth century, some suburbs emerged as religious retreats. This article explores how suburbanization and, by the 1960s, urban renewal, transformed the Gloucester County borough of Pitman’s landscape. Founded in 1871 as a Methodist camp meeting resort, the history of Pitman demonstrates ways that religion complemented suburbanization, and suburbanization, amid religious decline and secularization, reshaped the religious landscape of one South Jersey community.

scholarly journals Urban Renewal, Rehabilitation, and Remodelling of Santiago, Chile

2013 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Armando de Ramón ◽  
José Manuel Larráin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Investment ◽  
Dominant Characteristic ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
The City ◽  
New Infrastructure

We study the history of the changes in Santiago, Chile, between 1780 and 1880 to verify the stages of urban renewal and the role of state and private investment in the processes. We find that before 1780 the dominant characteristic is conservation, i.e., repair or rebuilding of existing stock of buildings. Between 1780 and 1880 the stages were habilitation, rehabilitation, and remodelling of buildings and spaces for optimum use of urban land. Involved also were more intensive use and the creation of better and more expeditious communication to knit the various quarters of the city together and to provide communication with surrounding entities, such as the port and centres of supply. These stages and developments may follow each other but also may occur in superimposed rhythm. In the earlier years, state investment in new infrastructure is paramount; that investment, in turn, leads both to the development of new quarters and the entrance of private investors who profit from the unearned increment brought about by the state investment.

Reversing the Tide of Suburban Families? The Design, Marketing, and Occupancy of Urban Renewal’s High-rise Housing

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-255
Author(s):  
Francesca Russello Ammon
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Occupational History ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Site Planning ◽  
Us Cities

During the postwar urban renewal era, many US cities constructed high-rise downtown apartment buildings to lure families back from the suburbs. These projects met demand for high-end downtown housing. They often remain occupied today—in stark contrast to the more rapid demise of many other redevelopment projects designed for shopping, entertainment, or public housing use. Yet, they also often fell short of their larger demographic goals. This occupational history of New Haven, Connecticut’s first downtown high-rises shows that the projects’ architecture, site planning, public realm, and rental structures never lived up to either suburban alternatives or their own marketing promises.

The Socialist Bratwurst: East German Urbanism and Its Reemergence in the Present

2020 ◽  
pp. 009614422095314
Author(s):  
Samantha Fox
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Renewal Program ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
East German ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
Urban Renewal Program ◽  
Socialist Utopia ◽  
The City

This article examines defining features of East German urban planning—primarily the housing complex and the city/settlement binary—and their relationship to Eisenhüttenstadt, a city founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, an East German socialist utopia. Today Eisenhüttenstadt is home to a novel form of urban renewal in which architects and planners look to the socialist past for inspiration as they imagine a new urban future. I examine the history of socialist urbanism as it was implemented in Eisenhüttenstadt, as well as how residents and urban planners came to understand socialist urbanism in the years immediately following German reunification. I then examine an urban renewal program, started in 2014, that explicitly draws on the socialist past. In doing so, I aim to consider the socialist city not as an architectural form but as a set of practices, spatial imaginations, and ethical commitments that can be reanimated even in a capitalist sociopolitical context.

scholarly journals Urban Regeneration in Rotterdam: Economic and Social Values

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariënne Mak ◽  
Paul Stouten
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subsequent Regeneration

Development of economic and social values is regarded as a key factor in urban development and urban regeneration. With its history of urban renewal and regeneration since the 1970s, Rotterdam provides an example to assess the profound changes from a socialized mode of housing provision and urban renewal towards more market-oriented strategies. In this light, new forms of gentrification are becoming a regular strategy in former urban renewal areas, mainly dominated by social housing. The paper examines the development of economic and social values in areas of Rotterdam that have been transformed through the vast urban renewal and subsequent regeneration programs. Mostly these programs are area-based approaches that got priority in more European countries.

Buffalo at the Crossroads

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
White Flight ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
City Beautiful ◽  
The City

This book is a diverse set of twelve cutting-edge chapters that highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. The chapters consider the history of Buffalo's built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture. The chapters examine Buffalo's architectural heritage in rich context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful movement; world's fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries; urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks of labor and production that set the city's economic fate. The book pays attention to currents that connect contemporary architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler, Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others. The book is a compelling introduction to Buffalo's architecture and developed landscape that frames discussion about the city.

Public Housing, Redevelopment, and the Governance of Poverty

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-41
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Vale
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Subsidized Housing ◽  
Hope Vi ◽  
Planning History ◽  
Federal Program ◽  
Concentrated Poverty ◽  
Policy Evolution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Housing Redevelopment

This chapter provides a brief overview American public housing history, linked to the broader planning history of slum clearance and urban renewal. It steps back to consider the longer history of efforts to define the problem of poverty and its governance. It then traces the evolution of deeply subsidized housing programs, revealing decades of expansion, followed by a more recent contraction. It next introduces HOPE VI, the main federal program of public housing redevelopment, explaining its policy evolution, efforts to combat concentrated poverty, and links to gentrification. It provides a method for categorizing the significant variety of efforts to implement HOPE VI projects, showing that mixed-income housing can be pursued in many different ways, in accordance with divergent aims. By identifying the larger national pattern of HOPE VI deployment in an unprecedented way, it situates the book’s four detailed case examinations in a more holistic context.

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