This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking'in terms of the recent
research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering …

In an era of public-private partnerships, what role do nonprofit community-based
organizations (CBOs) play in urban governance? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in …

This study draws upon cognitive maps and interviews with 56 residents living in a gentrifying
area to examine how residents socially construct neighborhoods. Most minority …

This research examines the impact of neighborhood ethnoracial composition on the
likelihood that neighborhoods that could gentrify do gentrify over time. Drawing on findings …

The 606, a greenway in Chicago, has been lauded as a transformative revitalization project
that provides diverse benefits and connects communities. However, the greenway has …

In Washington, DC, Black residents have experienced unprecedented levels of cultural and
physical displacement since 2000. Because of gentrification, the first “chocolate city,” long …

Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the
West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy …

Social mix policies have emerged as a prominent mechanism to legitimate neighbourhood
redevelopment efforts across the US. Despite integrationist rhetoric, results often disabuse …

Research in the neighborhood effects tradition has primarily concerned itself with
understanding the consequences of growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods. In recent …

Gentrification is characterized as a spatial manifestation of economic inequality. An
unsettled debate about gentrification is the extent to which it is also marked by distinct …