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Urban Transformation and Gentrification

This document discusses the transformation of cities from landscapes dominated by production to those focused on consumption. It notes trends like upscaling, demographic replacement, standardization, and a shift to aestheticizing formerly obsolete urban spaces through adaptive reuse and gentrification. These changes are driven by global capital investment, state policies, media portrayals, and consumers' tastes. The document calls for balancing economic growth with preserving cities' authenticities and senses of place over time through public-oriented planning and management of shared urban spaces.

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Urban Transformation and Gentrification

This document discusses the transformation of cities from landscapes dominated by production to those focused on consumption. It notes trends like upscaling, demographic replacement, standardization, and a shift to aestheticizing formerly obsolete urban spaces through adaptive reuse and gentrification. These changes are driven by global capital investment, state policies, media portrayals, and consumers' tastes. The document calls for balancing economic growth with preserving cities' authenticities and senses of place over time through public-oriented planning and management of shared urban spaces.

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Sharon Zukin, City University of New York

Metropolis Laboratory 2012, Copenhagen

1971

2010

Hue-Man Bookstore and Caf


Jill Scott book signing, 2000s

The House of Common Sense


Home of Proper Propaganda
bookstore
Registration for the Back to Africa
Movement, July 24, 1964

Upscaling (or capitalist growth?)


Demographic replacement (or
displacement?)
Standardization (or globalization?)
Consciousness of loss (or nostalgia?)
Shift from a landscape of production to a
landscape of consumption?
A different urban experience?

Aestheticizing the obsolete


Adaptive reuse
Gentrification
Global investment in real estate
Private management of public space
Artistic entrepreneurialism

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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Cafs, bars, restaurants, boutiques


Economic, social, cultural entrepreneurs

JOHN BALDESSARI, 2011

MAURICIO CATTELAN, 2012

Capital investment
State controls
Media images
Consumers tastes

Re-enchant the city


Sense of place + sense of time
Preserve the citys multiple

authenticities
What is + what ought to be

by and for the public

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