num_pages: 256
description: GENTRIFIER opens up a new conversation about gentrification one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichs and examines different sides of a controversial deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book John Joe Schlichtman Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the displacement of low-income residents. Drawing on a variety of perspectives the authors present interviews case studies and analysis in the context of recent scholarship in such areas as urban sociology geography planning and public policy. As well they share accounts of their first-hand experience as academics parents and spouses living in New York City San Diego Chicago Philadelphia and Providence. With unique insight and rare candour GENTRIFIER challenges readers' current understandings of gentrification and their own roles within their neighborhoods. A foreword by Peter Marcuse opens the volume. REVIEWSGentrifier is the sort of book that vintage pre-Kardashian Kanye West might have written had he had a PhD in urban policy supplying it with an irresistible hook: We're all gentrifiers I'm just the first to admit it. Schlichtman Patch and Hill help us shelve what we thought we knew about gentrification and give us instead a brutally honest reckoning with the ills conveniences and virtues  but especially the consequences on the vulnerable  of gentrification. They ably wrestle with a characteristic facet of modern existence rescuing the term from automatic demonization while never once letting it off the hook for the damage it can do.Michael Eric Dyson Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and author of 'Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America'In their book Gentrifier instead of trying to solve the gentrification Rubiks cube they decide to pull it apart block-by-block naming each part and its role in neighborhood change. The book provides not only a glossary of terms but also tools and rules of engagement for deploying this thing thatif we can all agree on nothing elsehas now become a fully loaded and weaponized word. The function of this breakdown is that by using a more scrupulous lexicon for describing the changes happening to ones neighborhood or environment legislators and regulators can be more responsive and accurate in their policy proposals.from CityLabs Books That Influenced Us in 2017 Brentin MockThe co-authors of Gentrifier take a daring tack: Professors all they break the third wall of social science... from the New York Times Book Review Daniel BrookBy making themselves and their choices part of the analysis they have produced a unique and important contribution to the progressive literature on gentrification one that truly does work in the much-sought middle ground between supply and demand side explanations of this form of urban change. from Antipode Journal Amy StarecheskiThis book will provoke outrage among many gentrification scholars. But it provides a welcome corrective to the slap-dash way gentrification is used an explanatory force in popular narratives and some scholarship. Theprice puts it just within reach of the interested general reader who I would encourage to read it. It would also be a valuable addition to reading lists on urban studies urban geography and urban planning.from LSE Review of Books Peter MatthewsSchlichtman Patch and Hill present a rich discussion of gentrification as a socio-economic forcetouching on much more than soft complaints about tall condos disappearing neighbourhood bookshops and $8 lattes The book encourages us to look inward arming us with tools and experience to dissect our ideologies to better understand gentrification and gentrifiers.from Spacing MagazineGentrifier a co-written effort by John Joe Schlichtman Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill takes a slightly different approach and one that was most enjoyable to read. Its a more nuanced take on what it means to join an existing community...from Curbed Alissa WalkerGentrifier does a masterful job of explaining unpacking and grounding the key analytical concepts that underpin debates on gentrification. In clear readable and entertaining prose John Joe Schlichtman Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill make gentrification more tangible and relevant as an important social topic worthy of rigorous and careful understanding.John L. Jackson Jr. Richard Perry University Professor and Dean of the School of Social Policy &amp; Practice University of PennsylvaniaJohn Joe Schlichtman Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill clearly engage in the theoretical and policy debates surrounding gentrification while offering very smart analyses of their own narratives. There is a lot out there on gentrification but Gentrifier is most definitely fresh!Mary Pattillo Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University
language: English
title: Gentrifier
publisher: University of Toronto Press