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Urban GentrificationIdeology And Practice in Middle‐Class Civic Activity

Urban GentrificationIdeology And Practice in Middle‐Class Civic Activity Middle‐Class Professionals Who Gentrified a New York City neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s possessed a coherent vision of community improvement that guided their civic activity. Drawing on many long‐standing Western ant urban notions, their vision centered on themes of renewal, cleansing, and purification of a fundamentally disordered and polluted city, and guided their actions in four main areas: (1) opposition to commercial and industrial development; (2) historic preservation and restoration; (3) beautification greening, and celebration of the "natural"; and (4) political reform. Current urban economic trends in North America, particularly the shift from manufacturing to service‐based economies, support the appearance of this ideology and the associated gentrification practices, (gentrification, housing, New York) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Urban GentrificationIdeology And Practice in Middle‐Class Civic Activity

Sieber, R. Timothy
City & Society , Volume 1 (1) – Jun 1, 1987
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Copyright © 1987 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0893-0465
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1548-744X
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10.1525/city.1987.1.1.52
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Abstract

Middle‐Class Professionals Who Gentrified a New York City neighborhood during the 1960s and 1970s possessed a coherent vision of community improvement that guided their civic activity. Drawing on many long‐standing Western ant urban notions, their vision centered on themes of renewal, cleansing, and purification of a fundamentally disordered and polluted city, and guided their actions in four main areas: (1) opposition to commercial and industrial development; (2) historic preservation and restoration; (3) beautification greening, and celebration of the "natural"; and (4) political reform. Current urban economic trends in North America, particularly the shift from manufacturing to service‐based economies, support the appearance of this ideology and the associated gentrification practices, (gentrification, housing, New York)

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City & Society – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 1987

References

  • The Ideology of Dense Neighborhood Redevelopment: Cultural Diversity and the Transcendent Community Experience
    Allen, Allen
  • Neighborhood Response to Gentrification: Conditions of Mobilization
    Henig, Henig
  • The Politics of Middle‐Class Success in an Inner‐City Public School
    Sieber, Sieber