gentrification is not a metaphor and it is a material process, and i don't think its materiality or class dimension undermines the fact that gentrification is a continuation of colonial dispossession or racial discrimination or nuclear home life. Leslie Kern is an associate professor of geography and environment/women's and gender studies and director of women’s and gender studies at Mount Allison University. Rather, she argues, it is an continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land. I think the intersectionality should have been handled better in a book all about cultural power dynamics.

She argues that gentrification is not natural That it can not be understood in economics terms, or by class.How can we convince someone a mom-and-pop restaurant is as important as the new eatery with 100 beers on tap? Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

Analyzing connections between gentrification and culture, money, class, communities and more, she challenges readers to dismantle the ‘common sense’ train of thought that it is inevitable. From the forced removal of Indigenous people to the redlining of Black neighbourhoods, from the disenfranchisement of women through suburbanization to the expulsion of the LGBTQ+ community, Kern’s writing is a rallying cry for the decolonization of placemaking and a blueprint for an urbanism rooted in social justice and fairness. I think it is pretty essential reading for people that live in cities but also people who are concerned with housing policies and social justice in general. Pros: It made me consider cultural capital as a power dynamic in gentrification and how cultural power dynamics in shape personal taste.Often, the language of gentrification mirrors the language of imperialism, discovery, and conquest but in ways that elide, rather than illuminate, the colonial structures underlying the process.

sometimes it feels like the book is pitting different minorities and their issues against each other (white moms and Montessori, gay masculine neighborhoods). I think that this book serves as a well-written and digestible introductory text into gentrification and the various factors that affect it. At once a devastating critique of the limitations of established perspectives on gentrification and a convincing plea for an intersectional approach, this book offers sparklingly clear analysis and numerous possibilities for political action. But I wanted to spend time marinating in these issues, which are often adjacent to other stuff I encounter, but rarely central to it, so I got what I wanted out of the read and do recommend. Por lo cuál difícilmente puede lograr tener las escalas de cambio para enfrentar un fenómeno que se presenta en muchas ciudades del planeta.I read this book on a Friday afternoon, at the end of a week when I started taking hot-girl walks on my lunch hour through Brownstone Brooklyn, and had been counting and ratioing “colonizer” vs “Old Brooklyn” sightings. Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies challenges a number of well-entrenched perspectives on gentrification from the anticapitalist left as well as the market-minded right…Kern’s book is thorough in its intersectionality. Kern unmasks the direction cities are taking (globally), all battling for the dollars of the entitled, destroying what makes cities sing. In Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies, Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London and Paris to look at how gentrification is killing our cities and what we can do about it.