Urbanism without guarantees : the everyday life of a gentrifying west side neighborhood

Author(s)

• Anderson, Christian M.

Bibliographic Information

Urbanism without guarantees : the everyday life of a gentrifying west side neighborhood

Christian M. Anderson

（Diverse economies and livable worlds）

University of Minnesota Press, c2020

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p229-241) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification. The book is centered on ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hell's Kitchen in New York City-once a site of disinvestment, but now rapidly gentrifying. Anderson examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the quality of life of their neighborhood and to define and maintain their values of urban living-from picking up litter and reporting minor concerns on the 311 hotline to hiring a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson demonstrates how processes such as investment and gentrification are constructed out of the collective actions of ordinary people, and challenges prevalent understandings of how place-based civic actions connect with dominant forms of political economy and repressive governance in urban space. Examining how residents are pulled into these systems of gentrification, Anderson proposes new ways to think and act critically and organize for transformation of a place-in actions that local residents can start to do wherever they are.

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Situating a Struggle I. Renovating and Making the Urban Question Critical: Toward a Parallax Urbanism 1. Fateful Leaps: Flipping the Script on Rent Gaps and Revanchism 2. Unsettling the Urban Question 3. The Contingencies of Civic Action, Revisited 4. The Hitch, or, Performative Infrastructure II. Place-Embedded Stories and Other Incitements to Parallax Urbanism 5. A Brief (Infrastructural?) History of West Forty-Sixth Street 6. Specters, Traditions, and the Dominance of Common Sense 7. Battles, Contradictions, and Good Sense Conclusion: This Hegemony Is a Drag Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC07540219
• ISBN:
  • 9781517907426
• LCCN: 2019023561
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Minneapolis
• Pages/Volumes: xxxv, 250 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HT177.N5
  • DC23 : 307.7609747
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gentrification -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Gentrification -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
  • LCSH : Sociology, Urban
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC07540161