Week Ten (March 20) - Gentrification

Readings for today

• Neil Smith, “Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West,” in The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
• John Thompson, "Homo/genous Territories: Queer Youth and the Struggle for Public Space in Chicago’s Boystown," Cultural Landscapes, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2009): 1-25.  *This is the senior capstone thesis of a Columbia College cultural studies major.
• John J. Betancur, “The Politics of Gentrification.” Urban Affairs Review, 37: 780-814 (an article about West Town Chicago)

 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.