displacement

From the Field

The Fight for Community Ownership in Los Angeles Chinatown via the LA Chinatown CLT

Amy Zhou - 8 July 2025

Community land trusts are one strategy to stem displacement due to real-estate speculation in Chinatowns across North...

Essays

Multiplied Displacement Under Racial Capitalism: The “Migrant Crisis” in Berlin and New York City

René Kreichauf - 31 January 2025

Berlin and New York City, both self-proclaimed “migrant-friendly cities,” have long been destinations for...

From the Field

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

Laisa Eleonora Marostica Stroher - 1 December 2020

Laisa Stroher examines the history of large-scale urban regeneration projects in Brazil and shows how a policy...

Essays

When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility

H. Jacob Carlson - 14 April 2020

Scholarly studies of displacement resulting from gentrification are inconsistent in what they measure, and omit...

From the Field

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia

Kathryn Howell & Benjamin F. Teresa - 4 February 2020

High eviction rates in Black Richmond neighborhoods must be understood in the context of a long history of political...

From the Field

Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In

J. Revel Sims - 24 September 2019

Close analysis of eviction patterns in Dane County, Wisconsin, between 2000 and 2016 suggests that tenant poverty is...

Reviews

Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx

Aly Hassell - 2 July 2019

Decade of Fire, a new documentary film by lifelong South Bronx resident and first-time filmmaker Vivian Vázquez...

From the Field

The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York

James Shelton - 20 March 2018

What are the impacts of New York City’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program upon low-income communities of color?...

Reviews

New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture

Benjamin Terrall - 13 February 2018

Vanishing New York is Jeremiah Moss’s loving chronicle of the neighborhoods, characters, bars, and corner...

From the Field

Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space

Frank Muraca - 9 January 2018

The “Unite the Right” white-supremacist rally in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence, killing...

From the Field

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

Joshua Akers - 13 January 2017

Joshua Akers describes Detroit’s housing crisis, characterized by speculation, displacement, and increasingly violent...

From the Field

The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones

Tarry Hum - 16 February 2016

At a November 2015 press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to take action to ensure that firms in the...

Debates

The Endangered Enclave

Mike Owen Benediktsson & Brian Lamberta & Sarah Van Norden - 6 October 2015

While most gentrification studies focus on residential displacement, businesses also suffer from rising rents and a...

Interviews

Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London

Manuel Appert & Anaïs Collet & Chris Hamnett - 19 June 2013

The 2008 financial crisis called time on a long period of economic transformation in European cities that has seen...

The Fight for Community Ownership in Los Angeles Chinatown via the LA Chinatown CLT

Multiplied Displacement Under Racial Capitalism: The “Migrant Crisis” in Berlin and New York City

The Brazilian Experience of Financialization Through Urban Redevelopment: The Case of “Urban Operations”

When Measurement Matters: Displacement, Gentrification, Residential Mobility

Displacement, Demobilization, and Democracy: Current Eviction and Historic Dispossession in Richmond, Virginia

Understanding the Causes of Eviction-Based Urban Displacement: Bringing Critical Urban Theory Back In

Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated History of Neighborhood Abandonment and the Rise of Community Control in the South Bronx

The Cost of Affordability: Inclusionary Zoning and Displacement in East New York

New York’s Soul for Sale: Raising the Rent on Lunch Counters and Counterculture

Excluding Fast and Slow: Charlottesville’s Long Battle over Public Space

Contesting Economies of Displacement and Dispossession

The Hollowing-Out of New York City’s Industrial Zones

The Endangered Enclave

Professionalisation, gentrification and welfare reform: 20 years of socio-spatial change in London

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