Readings for today:
- Neil Smith, “Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West,” in The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City.
- FILM: Flag Wars
- Gentrification Powerpoint slides.
- Neil Smith, Chapter Two in The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
- Sharon Zukin, "Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core," Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 13 (1987), pp. 129-147.
- John J. Betancur, “The Politics of Gentrification.” Urban Affairs Review, 37: 780-814 (an article about West Town Chicago)
- John Thompson, "Homo/genous Territories: Queer Youth and the Struggle for Public Space in Chicago’s Boystown" (the senior capstone project of a recent Columbia College Cultural Studies major).
- Ramsin Canon, "The Most Complicated Simple Issue," Gapers Block, 2003.
- Deirdre Pfeiffer, "Displacement Through Discourse," Urban Anthropology, Spring 2006.
- FILM: Voices of Cabrini: Remaking Chicago's Public Housing (by Chicago filmmaker, Ronit Bazalel).
