num_pages: 248
description: There Goes the 'Hood analyzes the experience of gentrification for residents of two predominantly black New York City neighbourhoods. It thereby adds an important yet often overlooked perspective to debates on gentrification -- the residents of formerly disinvested neighbourhoods themselves. Their perspectives suggest that gentrification is neither entirely threatening nor redemptive for urban neighbourhoods. Rather, it can both offer a better life and threaten long-established communities. While residents appreciate the opportunities, they resent that it often takes full-scale gentrification to make their neighbourhoods nice. The concluding chapters of the book suggest ways for limiting the negative aspects of gentrification and new ways of thinking about gentrification and the inner city.
language: English
title: There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
titlecomplete: There Goes the 'Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
genres: Sociology, History, Urbanism, Cities, Social Justice, Urban Studies, Race, Politics, Urban Planning, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 174
publisher: Temple University Press