Readings & Resources

Scroll below to see the course bibliography, web-based research tools, and other resources.

Course readings* are Open Access or available via QC Library

*Some readings are not open access nor available via QC Library, these readings can be found on the Class’s Group Site as noted below.

Angotti, T. “Zoned Out in the City: New York City’s Tale of Race and Displacement” Poverty & Race 26, no.1, (Jan-Mar 2017). [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Atkinson, R. “Measuring Gentrification and Displacement in Greater London.” Urban Studies 37, no. 1 (2003):149-65. doi:10.1080/0042098002339. [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Brown-Saracino, J. The Gentrification Debates : A Reader (Taylor & Francis Group, 2010). [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Chronopoulos, T. “African Americans, Gentrification, and Neoliberal Urbanization: The Case of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.” Journal of African American Studies, 20, no. 3–4 (2016): 294–322. [Link to reading – Open Access]
Doucet, B. “A Process of Change and a Changing Process: Introduction to the Special Issue on Contemporary Gentrification.” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 105, no. 2 (2014): 125–39. [Link to reading – available via QC]
Fainstein, Norman I. & Susan S. Fainstein. “Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Land Use Planning in New York City.” Journal of the American Planning Association 53, no. 2 (1987): 237-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944368708976658. [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Hyra , D. “Greasing the Wheels of Social Integration: Housing and Beyond in Mixed-Income, Mixed-Race Neighborhoods.” Housing Policy Debate 25, no. 4 (2015): 785-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2015.1042206 [Available via CUNY GC – please find link to reading on Group Site]
Hyra, D. & Jacob Rugh. “The US Great Recession: exploring its association with Black neighborhood rise, decline and recovery.” Urban Geography (2018): 46-72. [Link to Reading – Open Access]
“Loic Wacquant Commentaries.” People, Place and Policy 10, no. 2 (2016): 175-79. Please read Flint, p. 175 and Atkinson, p. 177 [Link to Reading – Open Access]
Montgomery, Alesia F. “The Sight of Loss.” Antipode 43, no. 5 (2011): 1828–50. [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Moore, Kesha S. “Class formations: Competing forms of black middle-class identity.” Ethnicities 8, no. 4 (2008): 492-517. [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Smith, N. “Gentrification and uneven development.” Economic Geography 58, no. 2 (1982): 139–55. [Link to Reading – available via QC]
Smith, N. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. In The new urban frontier: gentrification and the Revanchist City. (Routledge, 1996). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203975640. Please read chps. 1 & 10 [Please find link to reading on Group Site]
Stein, S. “Progress for whom, toward what? Progressive politics and New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing.” Journal of Urban Affairs 40, no. 6 (2018): 770-81. [Link to Reading – available via QC]