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Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Talja Blokland and Gwen van Eijk

in Mixed Communities: Gentrification By Stealth?

This chapter focuses on the actual experience of social mix in gentrifying urban neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. It begins by outlining the results of quantitative work that deals with the notion ... More

This chapter focuses on the actual experience of social mix in gentrifying urban neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. It begins by outlining the results of quantitative work that deals with the notion of homogeneous-heterogeneous neighbourhoods by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of social capital and the relevance of neighbourhood ties. The chapter then draws on qualitative research on social mixing in one neighbourhood. The chapter contends that social interaction and social mixing are not envisaged in Dutch policy prescriptions.Less

Urban ageing

Allison E. Smith

in Ageing in urban neighbourhoods: Place attachment and social exclusion

This chapter discusses the experience of ageing in urban cities. It demonstrates trends in demographic ageing and urbanisation. It examines the factors that have been discovered to foster as well as ... More

This chapter discusses the experience of ageing in urban cities. It demonstrates trends in demographic ageing and urbanisation. It examines the factors that have been discovered to foster as well as hinder ageing well in urban centres. It raises concern over the growth in particular types of urban neighbourhoods — especially the deprived inner-city neighbourhood — and the lack of knowledge in relation to the experience and impact on ageing. It clarifies the person-environment relationship and identifies the gaps and shortfalls in knowledge. Lastly, it describes ageing in particular types of urban neighbourhoods.Less

A Four-Category Taxonomy of Disorder

Nicole Stelle Garnett

in Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing, and the Restoration of Urban America

This chapter first discusses the confusion about what disorder is and the paucity of careful thinking about how manifestations of disorder interact with one another. It highlights how this confusion ... More

This chapter first discusses the confusion about what disorder is and the paucity of careful thinking about how manifestations of disorder interact with one another. It highlights how this confusion hinders systematic analysis of the myriad policies seeking to address the many different manifestations of disorder in our cities. It explores the connections between commercial activity, crime, and disorder in two contexts. The first is the long-standing debate over the regulation of street vending in New York City. The second is the asserted connection between mixed-use urban neighborhoods and crime and disorder. Analyzing the possibility of a commerce-disorder nexus in these specific contexts helps overcome some of the definitional confusion that plagues the order-maintenance literature.Less

Distributing Social Assistance to Preempt Disorder

Jennifer Pan

in Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers

This chapter discusses how Dibao is funded and shows the dual logic of Dibao distribution using a combination of qualitative fieldwork and a survey of 100 neighborhoods. The chapter focuses on the ... More

This chapter discusses how Dibao is funded and shows the dual logic of Dibao distribution using a combination of qualitative fieldwork and a survey of 100 neighborhoods. The chapter focuses on the urban neighborhood, which plays a crucial role in the Dibao application process, as well as the surveillance and management of targeted populations, who are prioritized for Dibao. It provides background on the targeted population program, the functioning of neighborhood surveillance networks, and how heuristics are used to identify targeted populations. This chapter shows how Dibao administrators turn away many poor households who can participate in the labor market while at the same time actively helping able-bodied individuals get access to Dibao who are similarly poor but belong to targeted populations.Less

Conclusion – cities need families

Anne Power

in City survivors: Bringing up children in disadvantaged neighbourhoods

This chapter draws together evidence from the families in the study that: a) disadvantaged neighbourhoods make family life difficult; b) in order to survive families build local community links; c) ... More

This chapter draws together evidence from the families in the study that: a) disadvantaged neighbourhoods make family life difficult; b) in order to survive families build local community links; c) that families make cities more humane; and d) cities work better when they support family life. It notes that families generate much of the social capital on which society as a whole flourishes. It also explores the dynamics of urban neighbourhoods from the perspective of parents and poses questions concerning the impact of neighbourhood conditions on family life, the issue of unpopular areas to work for families with children, strengthening community ties, and forms of interventions to counter the uncontrollable pressure on families of extremely rapid change.Less

Value: Property, History, and Homeliness in Georgetown

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

explores the economic and planning rationale for an expanded historic preservation movement particularly as it emerged in Georgetown in the 1920s. This Georgetown model was adopted by a succession of ... More

explores the economic and planning rationale for an expanded historic preservation movement particularly as it emerged in Georgetown in the 1920s. This Georgetown model was adopted by a succession of neighborhoods in later decades but also became a source of instability for the preservation movement.Less

Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

brings the preservation story in Washington DC full circle by looking carefully at the highly contested attempt in the early years of the 21st century to protect and preserve Capitol Park (1959). ... More

brings the preservation story in Washington DC full circle by looking carefully at the highly contested attempt in the early years of the 21st century to protect and preserve Capitol Park (1959). This landmark of modern design in the national capital was built as part of Washington’s massive Southwest urban renewal project and thus remained a deeply ambivalent place for Washington’s preservationists.Less

Intervening in gang-affected neighbourhoods

John Pitts

in Prevention and youth crime: Is early intervention working?

Violent youth gangs are almost invariably located in economically distressed urban neighbourhoods. Many U.S. studies and recent experience in Europe and the United Kingdom indicate that poor housing, ... More

Violent youth gangs are almost invariably located in economically distressed urban neighbourhoods. Many U.S. studies and recent experience in Europe and the United Kingdom indicate that poor housing, material poverty and the absence of primary sector employment contribute significantly to the presence of violent youth gangs. This suggests that neighbourhood-level interventions that endeavour to address both the problems afflicting these neighbourhoods and their broader socioeconomic and cultural determinants might serve to stem the flow of young people becoming involved in gang violence as victims and as perpetrators. In certain multiply disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods, children, young people and their families are at heightened risk of gang involvement and gang victimisation. Indeed, U.S. research suggests that the neighbourhood of residence may be the key factor in determining whether or not a young person becomes involved in youth crime and youth gangs. This chapter offers a sketch of some of the components of a medium- to long-term comprehensive intervention in gang-affected neighbourhoods. Such a strategy may involve family support, neighbourhood capacity building, educational interventions, youth and community provision and rehabilitation and resettlement.Less

The Lower Classes Under the Oligarchic State

Susan C. Stokes

in Cultures in Conflict: Social Movements and the State in Peru

This chapter explores the political life and culture of the popular sectors from the oligarchic state period of the 1930s through the late 1960s. It argues that, despite the rise in the early 1930s ... More

This chapter explores the political life and culture of the popular sectors from the oligarchic state period of the 1930s through the late 1960s. It argues that, despite the rise in the early 1930s of political parties interested in promoting labor unionism and in mobilizing working-class voters, these parties had only a small impact on poor urban neighborhoods. Organizations in the neighborhoods and their leaders remained enmeshed, instead, in clientelist networks. Clientelism stressed face-to-face ties with government officials and leadership centralized in a small group among a broader population that only became mobilized for very limited purposes. Clientelism encouraged a political culture in which strains of deference and fatalism coexisted with upper-class affinity: a tendency for poor people to admire the values and lifestyles of the elite, and to see themselves as sharing these values and lifestyles.Less

Prostitution, gentrification, and the limits of neighbourhood space

Phil Hubbard, Rosie Campbell, Maggie O'Neill, Jane Pitcher, and Jane Scoular

in Securing an urban renaissance: Crime, community, and British urban policy

This chapter examines the impact of gentrification and prostitution on urban neighbourhood space. The studies in five British cities suggest there are a multitude of tensions that may arise in areas ... More

This chapter examines the impact of gentrification and prostitution on urban neighbourhood space. The studies in five British cities suggest there are a multitude of tensions that may arise in areas of street sex working, and, irrespective of the cause of these tensions, the result is a differentiated landscape of tolerance. The chapter argues that the social disruption caused by gentrification may pre-empt and provoke concerted campaigns of enforcement and social exclusion. It also discusses community response to sex work and looks at sex work in the context of urban regeneration.Less

Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

tells the story of resistance to the restoration and preservation movement focusing in particular on the racially salient critique of the restoration culture and its impact on poor, black incumbent ... More

tells the story of resistance to the restoration and preservation movement focusing in particular on the racially salient critique of the restoration culture and its impact on poor, black incumbent residents in the intown areas of Washington.Less

Whose Neighborhood? Whose History?: Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975–1985

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

looks at the success of the neighborhood preservation movement in the 1970s and early 1980s and the fine grain of neighborhood conflict inspired by preservation’s assertiveness in that period.

Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

argues that architectural taste was central to the expansion of preservation in the later decades of the twentieth century. The chapter analyses shifts in taste and the impact of those shifts on the ... More

argues that architectural taste was central to the expansion of preservation in the later decades of the twentieth century. The chapter analyses shifts in taste and the impact of those shifts on the possibilities for successful neighborhood restoration and preservation.Less

The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960–1975

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

examines the catalytic impact of the Federal government on Washington’s preservation movement. The negative impacts, especially bulldozer-driven urban renewal, have been quite well documented. But ... More

examines the catalytic impact of the Federal government on Washington’s preservation movement. The negative impacts, especially bulldozer-driven urban renewal, have been quite well documented. But the positive influence of the Lafayette Square redevelopment and of federal policy leadership have not been acknowledged.Less

Preservation, Profits, and Loss

Cameron Logan

in Historic Capital: Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

The key to this change in perception and the activities it inspired was the maturation of preservation activism and law.