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Urban Land, Housing, and Labor Markets:

Urban Land, Housing, and Labor Markets:. Links to Social and Cultural Change in North American Cities. Post-WW II Changes in North American Cities. Deindustrialization Rise of service sector Shift in role of government Gentrification Urban social movements

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Urban Land, Housing, and Labor Markets:

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  1. Urban Land, Housing, and Labor Markets: Links to Social and Cultural Change in North American Cities

  2. Post-WW II Changes in North American Cities • Deindustrialization • Rise of service sector • Shift in role of government • Gentrification • Urban social movements • Shift to consumption-based urban cultures

  3. How Urban Land Markets Work • “Highest and best use” • Competition, instability, and change • Role of “speculator-developers” • Role of state actors • Role of housing consumers • Role of finance capital • Real estate agents/brokers • Builders • Appraiser, title companies, others

  4. Gentrification and the “Rent-Gap” • Suburban vs. inner-city investment and consequences for the inner-city • The emergence of “rent-gaps” • Narrowing of gaps in suburbs, widening of gaps in inner-city, make reinvestment in inner-city “rational” • Changes in the nature of demand (economic restructuring, social movements, new demographics)

  5. Example and Interlinkages:Rise of “Gay Gentrification” • Expansion of job opportunities for gays and lesbians • Pre-existing geography of gay/lesbian social and institutional life • Tradition of link between property ownership, spatial concentration, and political-economic power • Non-traditional class and cross-class conflicts and alliances

  6. Gentrification andGay Community Development • Types of neighborhoods impacted • Claiming and marking space • Place-based political organizing • Spectacle • Commodification of identity • Commodification of sex and sexuality • Commodification of lifestyle • Change in urban landscape & culture

  7. Types of Neighborhoods Impacted

  8. Claiming and Marking Space

  9. Place-Based Political Organizing

  10. Spectacle

  11. Commodification of Identity

  12. Commodification ofSex and Sexuality

  13. Commodification of Lifestyle

  14. Changes in UrbanLandscape and Culture

  15. Bringing it All Together:Gay Gentrification in New Orleans • A neighborhood called Faubourg Marigny • Pre-gentrification Marigny • Early gentrification (early 1970s) and neighborhood-based politics • The arrival of speculator-developers (mid-to-late 1970s)

  16. Significance and Conclusions • Despite everything, class interests prevailed • Speculators mobilized the gay community! • Role of state actors in restoring traditional distribution of power and profits • More than just capital accumulation is at work

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