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Urban GentrificationIdeology And Practice in Middle‐Class Civic Activity
Author(s) -
Sieber R. Timothy
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1987.1.1.52
Subject(s) - gentrification , beautification , ideology , opposition (politics) , politics , middle class , sociology , urban planning , political economy , political science , economic growth , law , civil engineering , economics , engineering
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]