From: Jane’s Walk Phoenix Please check it out for more information on Jane Jacobs and for details of Jane’s Walk 2010 taking place on May 1 & 2, 2010.
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I came across this post on Planetizen. It provides an interesting perspective and touched on an issue that I’ve long wrestled with: authenticity, preservation and organic development. From the article: “just what does authenticity mean, and who is really allowed to claim it?”
Jane Jacobs, Gentrifier?
Posted by: Tim Halbur
11 January 2010 – 9:00amProf. Sharon Zukin argues that Jacobs had “a gentrifier’s appreciation of urban authenticity” in her new book, Naked City.
Zukin tackles the issue of gentrification and the people who lay claim to the authenticity of neighborhoods, particularly in New York. She finds no easy answers, but does believe in the quest to preserve authenticity.
In the New York Post: “In the end, New York City development revolves around who successfully claims ownership of a neighborhood. Conflict arises when ‘groups representing the opposing visions claim the same space,’ Zukin says, especially in ‘the conflict over authentic representations of neighborhoods like Red Hook, between old working-class homeowners, public housing project tenants, and gentrifiers.'”
Source: New York Post, January 10, 2010
From my other blog, Jane’s Walk Phoenix
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