Kern Leslie - Gentrification Is Inevitable And Other Lies - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: How Gentrification is killing our cities and what we can do about it What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern author of the best selling Feminist City travels from Toronto New York London Paris and San Francisco and scrutinises the myth and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times. First observed in 1950s London and theorised by leading thinkers such as Ruth Glass Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin this devastating process of displacement now can be found in every city and most neighbourhoods. Beyond the Yoga studio farmer's market and tattoo parlour gentrification is more than a metaphor but impacts the most vulnerable communities. Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the crisis that seek to reveal the violence based on class race gender and sexuality. She argues that gentrification is not natural That it can not be understood in economics terms or by class. That it is not a question of taste. That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people. Rather she argues it is an continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land. And it can be seen today is rising rents and evictions transformed retail areas increased policing and broken communities. But if gentrification is not inevitable what can we do to stop the tide? In response Kern proposes a genuinely decolonial feminist queer anti - gentrification. One that demands the right to the city for everyone and the return of land and reparations for those who have been displaced.
Title: Gentrification Is Inevitable And Other Lies
Author(s): Kern Leslie
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839767548
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 9/6/2022
Category: Urban & Municipal Planning