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Good Neighbors: Gentrifying Diversity in Boston's South End Hardcover – June 9, 2015

by Sylvie Tissot (Author), David Broder (Translator), Catherine Romatowski (Translator)

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Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston’s South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the country and indeed the contemporary world.

This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Verso (June 9, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1781687927
ISBN-13: 978-1781687925
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #554,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #458 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Public Affairs & Policy > City Planning & Urban Development
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The dark subconscious of gentrification

By Brooklyn G on February 6, 2016

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I might sum up this book as a map of the patterns of subconscious denial by gentrifying residents of the displacing effects of their actions. A good deal of focus is on the commandeering of public space (both directly and indirectly) and the institutionalizing of the gentrifying class as legitimate civic leaders of otherwise diverse communities. In particular, I found the exploration of the gulf between how gentrifying and working-class populations define "diversity" to be insightful. In some ways, I read this as a cautionary manual for gentrifiers of things not to do in their adopted neighborhoods. In that sense, "Good Neighbors" is the flip side of Sulieman Osman's book "The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn," which in many ways valorizes the actions of four decades of the gentrifiers of northwest Brooklyn, even while acknowledging the displacing effect of their expanded presence. Folks like me will see themselves in both books, and learn something from each.

I did, however, feel that Ms. Tissot's narrative was a bit overlong, not delivering as much of a revelation as I might have hoped from the amount of time invested in plowing through her prose. While her first-person research was extremely perceptive, I also found her obvious disdain for her subjects to be somewhat unattractive and lending of a judgmental quality to the work.

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