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Title: "They want to live in the Trem, but they want it for their ways of living: gentrification and neighborhood practice in Trem, New Orleans

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: In this study, I deploy an ethnographic approach to analyze the detrimental effects of gentrification on longstanding residents in New Orleans Trem neighborhood. I focus on conflicts between long-established residents and gentrifiers over the use of neighborhood space on a day-to-day basis as a means for examining the consequent changes in neighborhood life. As their neighborhood gentrifies, long-term residents of Trem must contend with greater policing, the erosion of place-based knowledge, practices, and cultural traditions, the loss of social networks, and the closure of vital neighborhood institutions. These changes in neighborhood life provide a starting point from which to begin to understand the broader effects (beyond displacement) that longstanding residents experience as a result of gentrification.

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02723638.2014.961359

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Authors: Parekh, Trushna

Periodical (Full): Urban Geography

Issue: 2

Volume: 36

Pages: 201-220

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Land Use/Urban Organization, Other, Poverty and Welfare

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