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Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
Temple University Press
August 2006
248 pages ISBN: 1592134378 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a
seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually
affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find
out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done. He
interviews the indigenous residents of two predominantly
black neighborhoods that are in the process of
gentrification: Harlem and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. By
listening closely to what people tell him, he creates a more
nuanced picture of the impacts of gentrification on the
perceptions, attitudes and behaviors of the people who stay
in their neighborhoods. Freeman describes the theoretical and planning/policy
implications of his findings, both for New York City and for
any gentrifying urban area. There Goes the 'Hood provides a
more complete, and complicated, understanding of the
gentrification process, highlighting the reactions of
long-term residents. It suggests new ways of limiting
gentrification's negative effects and of creating more
positive experiences for newcomers and natives alike.
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