A Gentrification Reader (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781621068518)

How often do you think about gentrification? Probably not often, unless it's happening right around you. I know I don't. And, even if you are witnessing it firsthand, you might not be against it. You might think that getting rid of those old run-down buildings and cleaning up the place is a good idea. But gentrification isn't that simple. In most cases, it means that indigenous, usually lower-income, families are uprooted from the neighborhoods that they grew up in so that higher-income folks can come in and get cheap real estate, fix it up, and take the neighborhoods as their own.

Author: Skot Oh
ISBN-10: 162106851X
ISBN-13: 9781621068518
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 56
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.90w x 0.20d