A01=Japonica Brown-Saracino
andersonville
argyle
authenticity
Author_Japonica Brown-Saracino
case studies
Category=JBSD
chicago
city changes
dresden
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ethnography
gentrification
homesteaders
local flavor
new england
old neighborhoods
preserving the past
provincetown
representation
residents
self consciousness
social preservation
sociology
united states of america
urban research
Product details
- ISBN 9780226076621
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2010
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as "A Neighborhood That Never Changes" demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities - the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden - Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification. The new breed of gentrifiers, Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute self-consciousness about their role in the process and works to minimize gentrification's risks for certain longtime residents. In an era of rapid change, they cherish the unique and fragile, whether a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year-old landscape, or the presence of people deeply rooted in the place they live.
Contesting many long-standing assumptions about gentrification, Brown-Saracino's absorbing study reveals the unexpected ways beliefs about authenticity, place, and change play out in the social, political, and economic lives of very different neighborhoods.
Japonica Brown-Saracino is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and a faculty fellow in the Center for Urban Research and Learning at Loyola University Chicago.
