Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

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Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

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Leslie currently lives in the territory of Mi’kmaqi in the town of Sackville, New Brunswick with her partner and their two senior cats. Kern not only details the erosion of communities at the hands of local governments and developers, in the final chapter she discusses possible ways to fight back. A stunning visual celebration of the model for social housing, the Golden Lane Estate, with commissioned photography, illuminating architectural history of the building and fascinating interviews with residents of the Estate.

Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment and director of women's and gender studies at Mount Allison University.

Kern invites the reader to reflect on their own social location and relationship to gentrification (this section of the last chapter is perhaps most useful). Too many references to other authors in the text made it at times a bit of a mash-up: other views could have been more often integrated more elegantly with a footnote referring to the authors. Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies is a humane analysis of the many contributing and consequential factors of urban takeovers.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). I read some Goodreads reviews whose authors criticized Kern for frequently citing the work of fellow scholars. If you live long enough to be on a fixed income, gentrification screams, you might have made a mistake.From the forced removal of Indigenous people to the redlining of Black neighbourhoods, from the disenfranchisement of women through suburbanization to the expulsion of the LGBTQ+ community, Kern’s writing is a rallying cry for the decolonization of placemaking and a blueprint for an urbanism rooted in social justice and fairness. her main gripe with gentrification discourse seems to be the over-emphasis on class which is sort of hard for me to wrap my head around because gentrification is, in fact, a class-structuring process. Mientras el noveno capítulo se enfoca en historias de cambio y adelantar una pequeña agenda política basada en el feminismo y lo queer, en el anti racismo y en una perspectiva decolonial. Inspired by the likes of Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin, urban scholar Leslie Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the gentrification crisis amid our current economic climate, based on class, race, gender, and sexuality.



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