Week Ten (March 20) - Gentrification
Readings for today
For further reading and research
- Neil Smith, Chapter Two in The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (recommended)
- Sharon Zukin, "Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core," Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 13 (1987), pp. 129-147.
- Benjamin Shepard, "Defending Democracy, History, and Union Square."
- Chicago Housing Authority, "Cabrini-Green Homes."
- Ramsin Canon, "The Most Complicated Simple Issue," Gapers Block, 2003.
- Deirdre Pfeiffer, "Displacement Through Discourse," Urban Anthropology, Spring 2006.
- A culture jam of the Chicago Housing Authority's 'CHAnge' campaign, from 2005.
- Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago's Public Housing (a film by Ronit Bazalel)
- Daniel Makagon, "Bring on the Shock Troops: Artists and Gentrification in the Popular Press," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2010): 26-52.