Gentrification in Neighbourhood Development

Case Studies from New York City, Berlin and Vienna

Yvonne Franz

• Verlag: V&R Unipress
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN drucken: 9783847104001
• eBook-ISBN: 9783847004004
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Social Sciences
• Thema: Social Science Research & Methodology

This book aims at a comprehensive understanding of diverging urban rejuvenation practices and gentrification processes in New York City, Berlin and Vienna. Regulative and supportive mechanisms at policy and planning level have been identified through a comparative analysis of urban rejuvenation policies and actors' embeddedness. Those mechanisms enable the development of contextualised parameters that support projection attempts of future gentrification processes at the neighbourhood level. As a result, a reflective understanding of gentrification and policy recommendations are drawn at a general level. The recommendations refer to the political understanding of gentrification and its role in urban development. This analysis argues that cities should include gentrification as a driving force in urban policies. However, processes of gentrification require mediation and monitoring by public authorities who should be aware of the risk of social fragmentation. As a consequence, cities should move towards a social entrepreneurial city that moves beyond the simple distribution of financial resources and responsibilities and ensures social responsibility within the force field of ongoing neoliberal forces.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• A. Introduction: Urban Regeneration as the Key Driver of Competitive Cities
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• B. Assorted Theories, Terms and Concepts with Regard to Urban Rejuvenation Practices
• C. From Urban Rejuvenation to Gentrification: Urban Planning Practices in New York, Vienna and Berlin
• D. Findings and Policy Recommendations
• E. Bibliography
• F. List of Tables
• G. List of Figures
• H. List of Maps