James Wilder Irvine

March 22, 2017

UWRT 1102-016

Inquiry Annotated Bibliography

Brown-Saracino, Japonica. A Neighborhood That Never Changes:

Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, Web. 8 Mar. 2017.

Brown-Saracino demonstrates how newcomers to older

neighborhoods actually seek to preserve the authenticity

of older neighborhoods rather than completely remake them.

Brown-Saracino uses ethnographic research in four different

communities, Chicagos neighborhoods of Andersonville and

Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and

Dresden. This book discusses how gentrification is viewed from

both the perspectives of weathly home owners and the working

class. Brown-Saracino discusses the gentrifiers self-

consciousness of their role in the gentrification process and

their efforts to minimalizes the risks for long-time residents.

Curtis, Ric, Travis Wendel, and Barry Spunt. We Deliver: The gentrification

of drug markets on Manhattans Lower East Side. Rockville, MD:

 National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2002. United States

Government Publishing Office. Dec. 2002. Web. 21 Mar. 2017

This 2-year ethnographic study observes the changes of the

Market for illegal drugs in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

This report examines the social and technical organization of

drug distribution from January 1999 to January 2001. This

report is based on the observations and and interviews

conducted in the Lower East Side with 73 dealers of various

drugs, as well as 93 users of these illicit substances. The study

discusses the declining rate of street level drug sales, but also

the rise drug delivery services, the growing importance

of Secondary Markets, Class Fragmentation, and the

gentrification of Drug Markets.

Diappi, Lidia. Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets: Gentrification,

Housing Search, Polarization. Heidelberg, NY: Physica-Verlag MD,

2013. Springer Link. Physica-Verlag HD, 2013. Web. 8 Mar. 2017.

Diappis book offers an analysis of how the housing market

can affect the socioeconomic structure of a city, as well as

the image. She also outlines how the changes in urban

neighborhoods can completely transform the entire identity

 of the neighborhoods. In this book Diappi explores the housing

market in reference to three different phenomena, the search for

housing, social polarization, and gentrification. The book is

split in two parts, contributions on modeling emergence of

different of these differnet phenomena and empirical research

and analysis of the findings of the different models.

Dorsey, Sherrell. Charlottes Oldest Black Neighborhood Grapples With

Gentrification. Next City. N.p., 21 Jan. 2016. Web 21 Mar. 2017.

In Sherrel Dorseys article she outlines how gentrification has

affected the Cherry community, one of Charlottes local

communities. The Cherry community was established in 1891

as an affordable working-class neighborhood. In recent years

there has been an influx of Developers and affluent

homeowners moving into the neighborhood due to its

proximity to Uptown. Because of this influx longtime residents

fear that this growth and displacement will erase Charlottes

oldest historic black neighborhood. Since developers have

began to take advantage of the affordable neighborhood the

prices of the housing has moved from $200,000 to around

 $600,000. From 1990 to 2000 the black population of this

neighborhood has dropped from 66 percent to 55 percent.

Kennedy, Maureen, and Paul Leonard. Dealing with Neighborhood Change:

A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Changes. N.p.: The Brookings

Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2001. Policy

Link. The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan

Policy, Apr. 2001. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.

Dealing With Neighborhood Change outlines the issue of

gentrification and how the current and long-time residents

different perspectives. Kennedy and Leonard outline the way

gentrification has affected Atlanta, Cleveland, Washington D.C.

and the San Francisco Bay Area. In references to theses areas

Kennedy and Leonard explain how gentrification is a larger

issue in some areas versus others. A Neighborhood That Never

Changes also gives examples of both policies and strategies that

could be used to minimalize the negative effects of

gentrification and optimizes the benefits of neighborhood

revitalization without the displacement of long-time residents.

Levy, Diane K., Jennifer Comey, and Sandra Padilla. In the Face of

Gentrification: Case Studies of Local Efforts to Mitigate

Displacement. Washington, DC: Urban Institute, 2006. Print.

Levy, Comey, and Padillas report discusses the methods which

nonprofit organizations, for-profit developers, and city agencies

use to ensure low to moderate income residents can live in the

revitalized neighborhoods. In the Face of Gentrification

discusses the factors, which influence the prevention of

displacement. These strategies include housing market strength,

political climate and organizational capacity. The report uses

six case studies, which researchers observed the timing on

strategy selection and to look into how different approaches

to this issue are better for different housing-market contexts.

Youtube. Youtube, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Mbeb4_bpI>.

In this edition of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Paikin hosts a discussion

of whether or not gentrification is helpful to urban areas or harmful. The

discussion is between five highly qualified individuals on this topic. The

members of this discussion are Sharon Zukin (Professor of Sociology at

Brooklyn College, PhD), Christopher Leinberger (Proffesor of Real

Estate at George Washington University School of Business), Martine

August (PhD in Planning at University of Toronto), Diane Dyson

(Director of Research and Public Policy at Woodgreen Community

Services), and Kyle Rae (Former Toronto City Counciler, Urban

Development Consultant). The discussion with the individuals mentioned,

as well as Steve Paikin, is based on each member views of gentrification.

The hour-long discussion shows both sides of the argument of

gentrification argued by highly qualified indivduals in the field of

sociology and urban development.