Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy And Community Strategy Shape Bal...

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy And Community Strategy Shape Baltimore And BrooklynISBN13:9780231194075ISBN10:0231194072Author:Passell, Aaron (Author)Description:Historic Preservation Is Typically Regarded As An Elitist Practice In This View, Designating A Neighborhood As Historic Is A Project By And For Affluent Residents Concerned With Aesthetics, Not Affordability It Leads To Gentrification And Rising Property Values For Wealthy Homeowners, While Displacement Afflicts Longer-Term, Lower-Income Residents Of The Neighborhood, Often People Of Color Through Rich Case Studies Of Baltimore And Brooklyn, Aaron Passell Complicates This Story, Exploring How Community Activists And Local Governments Use Historic Preservation To Accelerate Or Slow Down Neighborhood Change He Argues That This Form Of Regulation Is One Of The Few Remaining Urban Policy Interventions That Enable Communities To Exercise Some Control Over The Changing Built Environments Of Their Neighborhoods In Baltimore, It Is Part Of A Primarily Top-Down Strategy For Channeling Investment Into Historic Neighborhoods, Many Of Them Plagued By Vacancy And Abandonment In Central Brooklyn, Neighborhood Groups Have Discovered The Utility Of Landmark District Designation As They Seek To Mitigate Rapid Change With Whatever Legal Tools They Can The Contrast Between Baltimore And Brooklyn Reveals That The Relationship Between Historic Preservation And Neighborhood Change Varies Not Only From City To City, But Even From Neighborhood To Neighborhood In Speaking With Local Activists, Passell Finds That Historic District Designation And Enforcement Efforts Can Be A Part Of Neighborhood Community Building And Bottom-Up Revitalization Featuring Compelling Narrative Interviews Alongside Quantitative Data, Preserving Neighborhoods Is A Nuanced Mixed-Methods Study Of An Important Local-Level Urban Policy And Its Surprisingly Varied Consequences Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Columbia University PressPublication Date:2021-01-19Weight:0.7 lbsDimensions:Number of Pages:272Language:English

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