Besides the impact gentrification has had on the people who live in cities, Winifred Curran examines how manufacturing businesses are being forced to move out of cities and either relocate or cease to exist. Rather than placing the blame on competition between global manufacturing businesses and deindustrialization, Curran makes a […]
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“‘From the Frying Pan to the Oven’: Gentrification and the Experience of Industrial Displacement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn” by Winifred Curran, is about how deindustrialization in Williamsburg caused displacement of people and businesses due to developers desiring their land. However, we know that developers usually come to a […]
Despite the fact that the manufacturing sector of a city is a relatively “old” practice, it is directly correlated, and thus vital, for a city’s economic power to thrive. Within neighborhoods, like Williamsburg in Brooklyn, that are experiencing gentrification, according to Winifred Curran, manufacturers are at risk of displacement due […]
Sharon Zukin unlike other urban sociologists doesn’t focus on ethnographically analyzing communities, immigrants and settlement patterns, moreover she is concerned with the role of the state and targeting how urban space is produced deliberately from capital necessity. Similarly, to Richard Florida and the “Creative Class”, Zukin coined the term and concept […]
