젠트리피케이션과 도시 죽이기

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젠트리피케이션과 도시죽이기

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1. 재정의 지속성의 측면에서 현대 대도시화 비판
Today the tragedy comes full circle: the more affluent members of the younger generation are moving back into the run-down central city neighborhoods that their grandparents abandoned. In part, that’s because today’s families need both parents to work, making central locations more desirable. As these people return, they gentrify old neighborhoods, pricing out seniors as well as working-class or poorer residents.
Eventually the numbers caught his attention, particularly the staggering cost of maintaining the infrastructure in aging single-family subdivisions. He came to recognize that much of this infrastructure was simply long run unsustainable, and that towns were committing financial suicide in their pursuit of “growth.”
Marohn also found that in their pursuit of “shiny and new,” towns may destroy the most financially productive parts of their tax bases.


Review of Strong Towns | The D&S Blog - http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2020/01/review-of-strong-towns.html

2. 문제는 도시화 자체가 아니라, 어떤 형태의 도시화가 삶의 질적 발전을 보장하는가가 중요함을 역설한 글
Reject this Manichean narrative and we get to grapple with a more complex but ultimately empowering set of questions, like how we produce productive growth, and how we create a place of great value (in every sense of that word).
How and among whom will that value be shared? How do we do right by both those who live in a city already and those who will live in it in the future? (And by its non-human inhabitants too?) What kind of place are we leaving behind for our children and their children? And what role should the private market play in any of that?
These are all worthwhile questions that defy the simplistic political storytelling of “growth machine” critics

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/2/19/rage-against-the-machine

3. 젠트리피케이션이 계급과 인종 차별을 심화시키고, 마음의 공동화를 초래하는 등 도시개발이 시민 공동체에 미치는 폐해에 주목한 글
Moskowitz’s is brilliant in showing the why of gentrification: the federal government under President Reagan cut the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s by 40% and cut the Department of Transportation by 17.5%. Many cities had to turn to bonds to pay for services, but some like Detroit learned that credit ranking companies had downgraded their credit rating until the city couldn’t get a loan. Detroit, New Orleans, and many other cities then devised policies based on producing economic growth by wooing rich people to the cities and moving out poor people.
The author produces much evidence to show how gentrification worsens class and racial segregation as well as ends community by analyzing New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York
The author defines gentrification bringing about “a void in a neighborhood, in a city, in a culture… a trauma caused by the influx of massive amounts of capital into a city and the consequent destruction following in its wake.” His book is a powerful argument that gentrification does great harm.
In stage 1-2 gentrification when wealthy whites come live in the neighborhoods displacing the residents, Moskowitz adopts the term “gentrification of the mind” from Sara Schulman to describe the new residents’ mindset. Schulman thinks gentrifiers are “inherently stupid” when they believe that “obedience to consumer identity over recognition of lived experience is actually normal, neutral, and value free.” They believe The New York Times Styles section describing “frontier” neighborhoods and “pioneering” residents unaware of the language of colonialism where brave men settled a “foreign dangerous, and wild land and made it civilized” when discussing Brooklyn.

Gentrification Kills: Race, Inequality and the Death of American Cities - CounterPunch.org - https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/10/gentrification-kills-race-inequality-and-the-death-of-american-cities/