New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy Export

@article{citeulike:3091192, abstract = {This paper uses several events in New York in the late 1990s to launch two central arguments about the changing relationship between neoliberal urbanism and so2013called globalization. First, much as the neoliberal state becomes a consummate agent of2014rather than a regulator of2014the market, the new revanchist urbanism that replaces liberal urban policy in cities of the advanced capitalist world increasingly expresses the impulses of capitalist production rather than social reproduction. As globalization bespeaks a rescaling of the global, the scale of the urban is recast. The true global cities may be the rapidly growing metropolitan economies of Asia, Latin America, and (to a lesser extent) Africa, as much as the command centers of Europe, North America and Japan. Second, the process of gentrification, which initially emerged as a sporadic, quaint, and local anomaly in the housing markets of some command2013center cities, is now thoroughly generalized as an urban strategy that takes over from liberal urban policy. No longer isolated or restricted to Europe, North America, or Oceania, the impulse behind gentrification is now generalized; its incidence is global, and it is densely connected into the circuits of global capital and cultural circulation. What connects these two arguments is the shift from an urban scale defined according to the conditions of social reproduction to one in which the investment of productive capital holds definitive precedence.}, address = {City University of New York, US}, author = {Smith, Neil}, citeulike-article-id = {3091192}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00249}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/118947083/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1111/1467-8330.00249}, journal = {Antipode}, keywords = {gentrification, new, planning, urbanism}, number = {3}, pages = {427--450}, posted-at = {2009-01-05 16:15:04}, priority = {2}, title = {New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00249}, volume = {34}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3091192 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3091192 N2 - This paper uses several events in New York in the late 1990s to launch two central arguments about the changing relationship between neoliberal urbanism and so2013called globalization. First, much as the neoliberal state becomes a consummate agent of2014rather than a regulator of2014the market, the new revanchist urbanism that replaces liberal urban policy in cities of the advanced capitalist world increasingly expresses the impulses of capitalist production rather than social reproduction. As globalization bespeaks a rescaling of the global, the scale of the urban is recast. The true global cities may be the rapidly growing metropolitan economies of Asia, Latin America, and (to a lesser extent) Africa, as much as the command centers of Europe, North America and Japan. Second, the process of gentrification, which initially emerged as a sporadic, quaint, and local anomaly in the housing markets of some command2013center cities, is now thoroughly generalized as an urban strategy that takes over from liberal urban policy. No longer isolated or restricted to Europe, North America, or Oceania, the impulse behind gentrification is now generalized; its incidence is global, and it is densely connected into the circuits of global capital and cultural circulation. What connects these two arguments is the shift from an urban scale defined according to the conditions of social reproduction to one in which the investment of productive capital holds definitive precedence. IS - 3 JF - Antipode AD - City University of New York, US EP - 450 TI - New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy VL - 34 SP - 427 KW - gentrification KW - new KW - planning KW - urbanism AU - Smith, Neil PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00249 ER -