How can we convince someone a mom-and-pop restaurant is as important as the new eatery with 100 beers on tap? At once a devastating critique of the limitations of established perspectives on gentrification and a convincing plea for an intersectional approach, this book offers sparklingly clear analysis and numerous possibilities for political action. The final chapter explores these three frameworks in depth, offering actionable steps toward a more equitable urbanism that centers such concepts as infrastructures of care, Land Back movements, reparations, and environmental justice. Gotta say I don't think anyone there is worried about gentrification while they're scared of getting shot.

Some parts of the book (Gentrification is about taste, class, metaphor) were really enjoyable, otherwise I’ve found it unnecessarily long (even though it’s a short book), as the author keeps going around the same issues. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report.Destacar que la finalidad de la autora es visibilizar que hay medios para luchar contra la gentrificación. An insightful read on gentrification, capitalism, 'white privilege', and many things I haven't really thought about before, such as the gentrification of 'yoga', 'tattoos', and more. gentrification is not a metaphor and it is a material process, and i don't think its materiality or class dimension undermines the fact that gentrification is a continuation of colonial dispossession or racial discrimination or nuclear home life. And with incisive clarity, she develops an account of what a radical, intersectional anti-gentrification politics might look like.

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies ] examines the forces behind displacement in North America and beyond, arguing for an intersectional way of understanding gentrification, one that acknowledges the harms done to working people based not just on class but also on race, gender, and sexuality. Leslie Kern dissects seven common myths about gentrification, asserting that any study of the urban phenomenon should be examined not only in terms of class but also through the lenses of queer-feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial points of view. The book may have just been not aimed at the lay-reader who only dabbles in feminist/socialist literature (and haven't read any anti-colonial literature. But an all-encompassing gentrification model ultimately means nothing if it is impossible to define. This format bears the style of a scientific essay, which is not an issue per se, it is just not what I was hoping to read.From the forced removal of Indigenous people to the redlining of Black neighbourhoods, from the disenfranchisement of women through suburbanization to the expulsion of the LGBTQ+ community, Kern's writing is a rallying cry for the decolonization of placemaking and a blueprint for an urbanism rooted in social justice and fairness.