Course: Gentrification (CITY.B207.001.F26)

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- Select activity Syllabus
  
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Week 1: Introduction
The first four weeks are designed to give students an overview of gentrification, its history and evolution, as well as some key concepts associated with gentrification. On Tuesday, I we will do introductions and I will give an overview of the course. We’ll also discuss using Moodle and course expectations. On Thursday, we will discuss out first reading, beginning at the beginning: with Ruth Glass, the German-British planner and sociologist who coined the term “gentrification.”
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  Tuesday, September 1
  
  Select activity Fieldnotes 1: What Does Gentrification Mean to You?
  
  Fieldnotes 1: What Does Gentrification Mean to You? Assignment
  
  Opened: Monday, August 31, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
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  Thursday, September 3
  
  Select activity Aspects of Change
  
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Select section Week 2: What is gentrification? Definitions and key concepts

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Week 2: What is gentrification? Definitions and key concepts
In week 2, we will read works from Japonica Brown-Saracino, the American sociologist and ethnographer; Neil Smith, the Scottish, Marxist geographer; and Sharon Zukin, the American sociologist. Each scholar has been critical to our understanding of gentrification. Writing primarily in response to early forms of gentrification during the 1970s and 1980s and focusing on the American city, Smith and Zukin offer a foundation, while Brown-Saracino while show us how gentrification has evolved as a framework and idea beyond what Glass, Smith, and Zukin were writing in response to.
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  Tuesday, September 8
  
  Select activity The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map for A Persistent Idea (Introduction)
  
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  Thursday, September 10
  
  Select activity A Short History of Gentrification
  
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  Select activity Gentrification as Market and Place
  
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Week 3: What is gentrification? Definitions and key concepts
In week 3, we will read works from a variety of scholars writing on gentrification’s effects, namely “super-gentrification” via Loretta Lees, an English geographer and sociologist; displacement, via Lance Freeman, an American city planner and sociologist, and culture via, geographer Roman Adrian Cybriwsky and historian-planner, Paul Levy. Then, on Thursday we will consider the varying trajectories of 4 Philadelphia neighborhoods from the postwar period to the 1980s in a piece by RA Beauregard, an American city planner, followed by a reading of a magazine article, written by journalist, Jared Bray, on Northern Liberties. These readings are in preparation for our first site visit, which will be to Northern Liberties.
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  Tuesday, September 15
  
  Select activity Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City
  
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  Select activity Displacement or Succession?: Residential Mobility in Gentrifying Neighborhoods
  
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  Select activity The Hidden Dimensions of Culture and Class: Philadelphia
  
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  Thursday, September 17
  
  Select activity Mapping Gentrification: A Methodology for Measuring Neighborhood Change
  
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  Select activity Trajectories of neighborhood change: the case of gentrification
  
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  Select activity The Very Slow, All-of-a-Sudden Transformation of Northern Liberties
  
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