Gentrification and Urban Restructuring
Intensive analysis of gentrification's historical and spatial development within post-fordist urban restructuring in the US, highlighting urban theory and methodological questions.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.62 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.60 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Understand the development of gentrification from its origin as an urban anomaly in the eastern seaboard and rustbelt region during a period of “crisis-generated restructuring” to a “global urban strategy” of urban development.
Analyze the complicated urban processes behind gentrification and the forces and actors that work to create them.
Evaluate important concepts in urban planning theory through questions regarding development and the negative consequences associated with the process of gentrification.
Understand the role of urban planning in the gentrification process and the forms of resistance/mediation communities have used to challenge gentrification.
Apply and strengthen research skills through written, oral, and graphic communication with written reflections, formal essays, and in-class engagement around the material as well as a final project that asks students to operationalize the concept of gentrification.
Apply urban theory to an original research project on gentrification for the final project.
Analyze the primary theoretical approaches to gentrification and urban restructuring through particular and additional focus on relevant theory-based scholarly articles.
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.62 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.60 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).
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Topics
- Historical and spatial development of gentrification within post-fordist urban restructuring.
- Urban theory and methodological questions relevant to urban planning, geography, and sociology.
- Case study investigations of particular locations to test analytical frameworks.
- Development of gentrification from an urban anomaly in the eastern seaboard and rustbelt to a global urban strategy.
- Role of urban planning in gentrification and community forms of resistance or mediation.
Skills
- Analyzing complicated urban processes and identifying forces and actors behind gentrification.
- Evaluating urban planning theory concepts related to development and gentrification consequences.
- Applying research skills through written, oral, and graphic communication including formal essays and a final project.
- Applying urban theory to an original research project on gentrification.
- Analyzing primary theoretical approaches to gentrification and urban restructuring via scholarly articles.
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