Producing space: Block-by-block change in a gentrifying neighborhood (original) (raw)
Gentrification of urban neighborhoods is part of an ongoing restructuring of the city, linked to the emerging occupational structure of the service economy and the remaking of built environments that were created for a production economy. It is the name given to processes in which commodification and reinvestment accompany the in-migration of professional and managerial workers, often displacing prior residents and giving altered spatial form to inequality. This dissertation is a case study of gentrification in Hyde and Jackson Squares, part of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The emergence of gentrification pressures and their uneven distribution within the area is documented and situated in the context of the area's historical development, using a combination of descriptive numeric and qualitative data. A method to observe the block-by-block process of reinvestment and occupational transformation at the x CHAPTER
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