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- Title
Skid Row, Gallery Row and the space in between: cultural revitalisation and its impacts on two Los Angeles neighbourhoods.
- Authors
Collins, Brady; Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
- Abstract
As a means for neighbourhood improvement, cultural urban revitalisation seeks to draw business growth and investment by attracting a creative class of young urban professionals. Though criticisms abound that these strategies beneit the wealthy and displace low-income communities, there is little research focusing on how the efforts of social actors can shape or resist this process. The purpose of this study is to offer a micro-level look at the spatial and political contestations and negotiations that occur amongst a variety of community organisations and individuals in two adjacent neighbourhoods in downtown Los Angeles undergoing revitalisation. By approaching 'revitalisation' as an arena where different neigh- bourhood groups can compete to achieve their goals, it argues that we scrutinise prevailing notions of gentriication and seek to understand the values and actions of stakeholders involved in order to enable more equitable outcomes of urban revitalisation.
- Subjects
LOS Angeles (Calif.); CULTURAL maintenance; NEIGHBORHOODS; SKID row; POOR communities
- Publication
TPR: Town Planning Review, 2016, Vol 87, Issue 4, p401
- ISSN
0041-0020
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/tpr.2016.27