There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up - Softcover

Freeman, Lance

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592134378 ISBN 13: 9781592134373

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2006

Synopsis

There Goes the 'Hood analyzes the experience of gentrification for residents of two predominantly black New York City neighbourhoods. It thereby adds an important yet often overlooked perspective to debates on gentrification - the residents of formerly disinvested neighbourhoods themselves. Their perspectives suggest that neither gentrification is neither entirely threatening or redemptive for urban neighbourhoods. Rather, it can both offer a better life and threaten long-established communities. While residents appreciate the opportunities, they resent that it often takes full-scale gentrification to make their neighbourhoods nice. The concluding chapters of the book suggest ways for limiting the negative aspects of gentrification and new ways of thinking about gentrification and the inner city.

About this title

From the Publisher:

How does gentrification affect residents who stay in the neighborhood?

From the Back Cover:

"An important book. We know very little about black neighborhoods and how they are changing. There Goes the 'Hood will add much to the gentrification debates." —Kathe Newman, Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers University

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1592134378
• ISBN 13: 9781592134373
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248