idk how many times it needs to be addressed that white hipsters and artists do play an active role in gentrifying neighbourhoods. yes, landlords, developers, as well as municipalities serve as the most powerful top-down parties that stigmatize and cosequently gentrify areas in the city that house many POC and working class people. but artists and other creatives can and do play an active role in âaestheticizingâ an area (very white aesthetics that are disconnected from what the neighbourhood is interested in), attracting middle class and upper class people because they are investors and provide a good image due to high cultural and economic capital.
in regards to the last comment above me: how do people think these relatively affordable houses in the city became available to artists and store owners in the first place? itâs often because the previous, marginalized population has been forced to move out due to being unwanted (contributing to a âbadâ city image). another reason is that occurs in various cases is that cities relies on a certain industry that has been abandoned over time, which results in these hip industrial places (factories, ports) with multiple restaurants and galleries and such in them. there had thus been a working class population at first which did not possess this position of aestheticizing and gentrifying an area; artists were the first to have a role in this, even if the average artist is financially poor. TLDR; artists can both be key players and victims of gentrification and are not per se exclusively not or the other.
there are countless of interesting articles that have studied gentrification in urban areas and looked at general patterns across cities and there are various explanations for way gentrification takes place with class and race, indeed, being a common factor. however, to suggest that the process only starts once corporations capitalize on creative spaces (as the comment above me does) overlooks how much larger the overall process can be.
here are some articles that iâve read that i suggest looking into for the points i named, as well as some other things relevant to gentrification and creative cities. and theyâre all available on google scholar without needing to connect to a uni library it seems.
Cameron, S., & Coaffee, J. (2005). Art, gentrification and regenerationâfrom artist as pioneer to public arts. European Journal of Housing Policy, 5(1), 39-58.
Casellas, A., Dot-Jutgla, E., & Pallares-Barbera, M. (2012). Artists, cultural gentrification and public policy. Urbani izziv, 23, S104-S114.
Glow, H., Johanson, K., & Kershaw, A. (2014). âMore Yuppy Stuff Coming Soonâ: Gentrification, cultural policy, social inclusion and the arts. Continuum, 28(4), 495-508.
Mathews, V. (2010). Aestheticizing space: Art, gentrification and the city. Geography Compass, 4(6), 660-675.
Pratt, A. (2018). Gentrification, artists and the cultural economy. In Handbook of gentrification studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Zukin, S. (2016). Gentrification in three paradoxes. City & Community, 15(3), 202-207.
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