Urbanism without guarantees : the everyday life of a gentrifying west side neighborhood / Christian M. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Christian M., 1978- author.

Series:

Diverse economies and livable worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--New York (State)--New York.

Gentrification.

Gentrification--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Sociology, Urban.

Social aspects.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (State).

Physical Description:

xxxv, 250 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Anderson's work of urban geography is centered in ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hell's Kitchen in New York City. At one time a site of disinvestment, the street is now rapidly gentrifying, and Miller examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the "quality of life" of their neighborhood, to define and maintain their values of urban living. Residents pick up litter, call the 311 hotline to report minor concerns, and form a block association to hire a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson's broader agenda is to show how processes such as "investment" and "gentrification" are constructed out of the aggregate actions of ordinary people, and thus can be the sites of critique and intervention"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Situating a Struggle

Renovating and Making the Urban Question Critical: Toward a

Parallax Urbanism

Fateful Leaps: Flipping the Script on Rent Gaps and Revanchism

Unsettling the Urban Question

The Contingencies of Civic Action, Revisted

The Hitch, or, Performative Infrastructure

Place-Embedded Stories and Other Incitements to Parallax Urbanism

A Brief (Infrastructural?) History of West Forty-Sixth Street

Specters, Traditions, and the Dominance of Common Sense

Battles, Contradictions, and Good Sense

This Hegemony is a Drag.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anderson, Christian M., 1978- Urbanism without guarantees

ISBN:

9781517907426

151790742X

OCLC:

1122914015