Neighborhood Change

Description

This week we will explore the causes and consequences of neighborhood change. We will examine some of the theory surrounding neighborhood change, and, drawing from local and national examples, we’ll look at the ways in which analysts qualify outcomes from this change over time.

Discussants

Colt and Caelin

Learning Goals

  • Understand the common economic and social theories that explain neighborhood change.
  • Articulate why neighborhood change often becomes a political issue.
  • Critically engage with how narratives of neighborhood change influence the social, economic, and political futures of neighborhoods.

Readings

Smith, Neil, Gentrification and the Rent Gap

Saunders, Pete, The State of Gentrification

Ellen, Ingrid, and Justin Steil, The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing Segregation and Opportunity (Discussion 24)

Voorhees Center, The Socioeconomic Change of Chicago’s Community Areas (1970 - 2010)

Voorhees Center, Gentrficiation and Neighborhood Change: Helpful Tools for Communities (skim)

Slides

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