Research Example # 3

  • I found This article on gentrification and the connection to neo liberalism and urbanis. The article was interesting because touched on the argument that neoliberalism becomes a regulator of the market which makes capitalism more stronger and more of a social production. As a result urban cities are  growing rapidly and leading to more and more gentrification.  The paper dives into subjects and events in NY during the 90’s as a way to exemplify  sides bout the relationship between neoliberal urbanism and globalization. The social production seems to take a dip as the capitalist production increases when the neo liberalism dissipates and the new  urbanism takes hold. It touched on how global cities are becoming rapidly metropolitan economies of its continents.  It was interesting finding how the housing market played a role in the forward movement  of gentrification. These cities becoming un-urbanized are closely tied to the global capital and cultural circulation. The shifting force of turning an urban area into an area where the investment of capital takes a larger place in the area.  If i were to use this for my paper it could show me the ways in which to better understand and explain the way the US shifted our communities into capitalist pits of money opportunities for the rich.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Smith, N. (2002, December 16). New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8330.00249/full