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The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores the cultural and demographic shifts due to gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of existing groups (often racially/economically marginalized) are appropriated or erased in favour of luxury real estate branding strategies and retail.
List of contents
1. Introduction: the aesthetics of neighborhood change Lisa Berglund and Siobhan Gregory 2. A focus on needs: toward a more nuanced understanding of inequality and urban informality in the global North Ryan Thomas Devlin 3. Excluded by design: informality versus tactical urbanism in the redevelopment of Detroit neighborhoods Lisa Berglund 4. Authenticity and luxury branding in a renewing Detroit landscape Siobhan Gregory 5. Deracialized Nostalgia, reracialized community, and truncated gentrification: capital and cultural flows in Richmond, Virginia and Durban, South Africa Patrick Bond and Laura Browder
About the author
Lisa Berglund is a professor in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University. Her research focuses on community development and social mobilization in the context of neighbourhood change, exploring the ways that marginalized communities fight for inclusion in urban planning and development.
Siobhan Gregory is a senior lecturer of industrial design and design anthropology in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University. Her research and creative practice focus on the progress of human-centered design for the social sector. She writes about how design and designers play a role in the gentrification process.
Summary
The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores the cultural and demographic shifts due to gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of existing groups (often racially/economically marginalized) are appropriated or erased in favour of luxury real estate branding strategies and retail.
