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Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in
seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to
innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological
sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing
social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a
time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial
tension, scholars speak of eco-gentrification,
techno-gentrification, super-gentrification, and planetary
gentrification to describe the different forms and scales of
involuntary displacement occurring in vulnerable communities in
response to current patterns of development and the hype-driven
discourses of the creative city, smart city, millennial city, and
sustainable city. In this context, how do contemporary creative
practices in art, architecture, and related fields help to produce
or resist gentrification? What does gentrification look and feel
like in specific sites and communities around the globe, and how is
that appearance or feeling implicated in promoting stylized renewal
to a privileged public? In what ways do the aesthetics of
gentrification express contested conditions of migration and
mobility? Addressing these questions, this book examines the
relationship between aesthetics and gentrification in contemporary
cities from multiple, comparative, global, and transnational
perspectives.
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