Good Neighbors
Good Neighbors

Author: Sylvie Tissot

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1781689504

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Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston's South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the country and indeed the contemporary world. This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.

South Boston, My Home Town
South Boston, My Home Town

Author: Thomas H. O'Connor

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781555531881

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An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political bosses.

Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Transforming Urban Waterfronts

Author: Gene Desfor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1136897720

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The collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on how waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean. It brings together authors from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to tackle vital questions of waterfront development.