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Preserving Neighborhoods : How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Aaron Passell (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherColumbia University Press
ISBN-100231194072
ISBN-139780231194075
eBay Product ID (ePID)27050059075
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NamePreserving Neighborhoods : How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectHousing & Urban Development, Social History, Sociology / Urban, Public Policy / Regional Planning
TypeTextbook
AuthorAaron Passell
Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Social Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-028797
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsSo-called neighborhood preservation lands very differently from one place to another; here we learn just why. There is a radical specificity that determines why the effect in Brooklyn is so different than in Baltimore. Replete with insight and irony, Passell's book makes a genuine contribution to urban analysis more generally., Preserving Neighborhoods is a powerful book about how people and organizations work the system to advance parochial projects, a vivid demonstration of how the "social" shapes "social policy" and, with it, urban form. There are far too few comparative ethnographies in urban studies, and Passell has produced an exemplary work., Aaron Passell's Preserving Neighborhoods is a must-read for anyone interested in urban preservation. With case studies from Baltimore and Brooklyn, Passell reveals preservation as a malleable strategy that facilitates different ends across varied contexts, from neighborhoods facing gentrification and development pressure to those crumbling under the weight of entrenched vacancy and abandonment., It offers many new insights, as well as challenges to conventional wisdom about neighborhood preservation and gentrification. The book is a good candidate to assign in urban sociology or urban studies undergraduate or graduate courses, particularly on research methods., So-called 'neighborhood preservation' lands very differently from one place to another; here we learn just why. There is a 'radical specificity' that determines why the effect in Brooklyn is so different than in Baltimore. Replete with insight and irony, Passell makes a genuine contribution to urban analysis more generally., Preserving Neighborhoods draws on a comparison between two distinct contexts to show how historic designation unfolds differently across different places. In doing so, Aaron Passell engages with a critical urban policy area of vital public importance that has received insufficient scholarly attention., Historic preservation is a movement focused on preserving the physical past. In Preserving Neighborhoods , Aaron Passell deftly illustrates the ways preservation is actually used as a catalyst for changing a neighborhood's physical and social dimensions. Preserving Neighborhoods is a nuanced and detailed look at historic preservation as a force for neighborhood change and should be in the library of anyone with an interest in the physical and social fabric of urban communities., Passell's contribution to urban studies and mixed methodology is loud and clear, and the book does the work of a great sociological account by dispelling--or at least complicating--conventional wisdom about an issue in a way that moves us forward and affords us better comprehension of the world around us.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal307.12160974723
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Explaining Change in Baltimore's Historic Neighborhoods 3. Mitigating Gentrification Through Preservation in Central Brooklyn 4. Vacancy, Abandonment, Demolition by Neglect, and Project CORE in Baltimore 5. Struggling to Preserve in the Context of Aggressive Development Pressure 6. Conclusion Appendix: Data, Methods, and Measures Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisHistoric 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., Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. 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.
LC Classification NumberHT168.B35P38 2021
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