tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4911854789833802604.post1011266308629364410..comments2023-03-26T02:27:10.319-07:00Comments on Surly Urbanism: When the TL's cross: Wrestling with Black Gentrification Part 2Surly Urbanisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01801153194586886826noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4911854789833802604.post-71149576812893342362013-01-11T09:23:29.715-08:002013-01-11T09:23:29.715-08:00The real-estate market is important but the import...The real-estate market is important but the importance of branding here is the interesting story. You point towards rebranding gentrification as a positive good and how certain neighborhoods that are stable, good neighborhoods get ignored. These dynamics are what I find to be incredibly fascinating and to try and deconstruct some of the branding language that funnels people and investment to certain areas. Surly Urbanisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01801153194586886826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4911854789833802604.post-71967428732942556792013-01-09T18:28:51.734-08:002013-01-09T18:28:51.734-08:00What a ramble, pardon. Also to be considered is th...What a ramble, pardon. Also to be considered is the housing market's reclamation and rebranding of the term gentrification as a positive selling point, which adds gentrifiers and the godawful urban pioneers to the mix.-cphAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4911854789833802604.post-88876402670721199902013-01-09T18:24:22.177-08:002013-01-09T18:24:22.177-08:00Thank you, Surly, I think you, Ms. Knopper and Mr....Thank you, Surly, I think you, Ms. Knopper and Mr. Farrow all address who's city for whom? Regarding the many ways of looking at gentrification, your article put me in mind of a few Philadelphia areas where communities are or are not in the throes of resident expulsion and redevelopment and the whys that is. And it leads back to the real estate market. Germantown is a mixed-race, mixed-income area of the city that continues to attract new investment. Downriver, Conshohocken is booming and new white residents are vibrantly asserting themselves as older white residents are forced out. Many are moving just a few miles away to Norristown, which is a mixed-race, mixed income area that is not experiencing a rash of new investment or affluent residents, but has a consistent population of estb. and new black, white and recent immigrant residents, but is viewed as undesirable compared to more traditional (single home) suburban markets. Both Conshohocken and Norristown are outside of the city, but are not suburban architecturally or culturally (rowhomes, commercial cornerstores). So why one and not the other? Whose terms define why Bronzeville is or is not a rebounding neighborhood, or not rebounding enough to attract outside (white, mainstream)investment? The RE mkt. Your piece points to the "greater economic and politcal mechanisms" that illustrate the need for more accurate definitions of the different types of gentrification, and those mechanisms that turn away from true benefits for established communities in areas where real estate gains are or are not anticipated. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4911854789833802604.post-53336361629667696922013-01-06T19:28:24.803-08:002013-01-06T19:28:24.803-08:00I am looking forward to the book :) I am looking forward to the book :) Carltonhttps://twitter.com/Eleytownnoreply@blogger.com