Gentrification revisited
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Gentrification revisited: Laurie Taylor talks to Leslie Kern, Associate Professor of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University, Canada and author of a new study unpacking the meaning and impact of gentrification six decades after the term was first coined. She travelled from Toronto to New York, London, Paris and San Francisco, scrutinising the myth and reality that surround this highly contested phenomenon. Beyond the yoga studio, farmer's market and retro cafe, she argues that this is not a 'natural' process, but one which impacts the most vulnerable.
They’re joined by Dr Charmaine Brown, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Education and Cultural Studies at the University of Greenwich, whose research in Peckham, South East London, finds contrasting perspectives amongst different residents. Beautiful shop fronts, fewer police sirens and new street furniture appeal to incomers but Dr Brown sees a loss of social capital, opportunity and support for the original mainly Black communities.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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| 0:47.0 | Hello I vividly remember how much time my mother devoted to describing the differences between our own home and the |
| 0:55.2 | houses that lay around us. She pointed out that we lived in a semi-detached |
| 0:59.2 | residence, not like our immediate neighbors in a terrace. |
| 1:03.0 | More than that, our house actually had a name as well as a number. |
| 1:07.0 | And that not only distanced us from the people next door, |
| 1:11.0 | but placed us on an altogether different plane from those who lived on the |
| 1:15.1 | council estate further down the road. Well, this obsessive concern with the status of our |
| 1:20.4 | dwelling meant that Mother was always alert to any tell-tale sign that the area |
| 1:24.6 | might be changing, that the quality of our neighbours might be deteriorating. |
| 1:29.6 | Were they people like ourselves who employed a regular window cleaner to buff up our net curtain front |
| 1:34.6 | windows or were they newcomers with too many children and overflowing dust spins or might |
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