By Richard J. Smith My thinking about gentrification formed as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan at church. After a weekend service trip on Detroit’s west side with Habitat for Humanity, I casually mentioned to our associate pastor how great it was to see all the new investment in downtown Detroit. He responded, "But… Continue reading Does spatial assimilation lead to reproduction of gentrification in the global city?
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Do I Still Think Detroit is Dying?
By Peter Eisinger Wandering through a museum exhibit some years ago on art from the cradle of civilization, I came upon a map of the ancient Middle East with the names of scores of cities that no longer exist, and I was suddenly struck that the world is indeed full of sites of once vibrant… Continue reading Do I Still Think Detroit is Dying?
Journal of Urban Affairs 