The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge
In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment.
 
Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"—that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs—and how communities are fighting back.

 
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The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge
In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment.
 
Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"—that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs—and how communities are fighting back.

 
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The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

by Willow S Lung-Amam
The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

by Willow S Lung-Amam

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Overview

In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment.
 
Willow Lung-Amam narrates the efforts of activists, community groups, and political leaders fighting for communities' "right to suburbia"—that is, their right to stay put and benefit from new neighborhood investments. Revealing the far-reaching impacts of state-led redevelopment, The Right to Suburbia shows how patterns of unequal, racialized development and displacement are being produced and reproduced in suburbs—and how communities are fighting back.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520338173
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 09/17/2024
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Willow S. Lung-Amam is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Director of the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia.
 

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

1. The Fight to Stay in Place 
2. DC Suburban Shuffle 
3. Trouble on Main Street 
4. Resisting the Suburban Retrofit 
5. Somos de Langley Park 
6. Place Matters 

Appendix: On Choosing the Suburban Margins 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index
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