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JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue8,P.1167-1182

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英文

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作者单位

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

摘要

Gentrification is one among many issues in small cities that urban research has yet to adequately address. As many large cities are becoming unaffordable for even the middle class, some of these residents with assets are leaving them and bypassing suburbs for smaller cities, becoming gentrifiers in these places. However, we know very little about the perspectives and actions of such gentrifiers in their new urban environment. This study analyzes how middle-class gentrifiers to Newburgh, a small city north of New York City, make sense of its physical and political landscape for the purpose of development. Their narratives frame the city as a place with great “opportunity” to develop, criticize existing policies and political leaders, and cast themselves as the actors who should be spearheading these efforts. This article contributes to the urban literature by examining the factors behind how small-city gentrifiers uniquely conceptualize, take advantage of, and challenge existing conditions for development.AcknowledgmentsI thank Japonica Brown-Saracino, Derek Hyra, Christopher Mele, Leonard Nevarez, and Meghan Ashlin Rich for commenting on an earlier version of this article and the two anonymous reviewers and the managing editor at the Journal for Urban Affairs for their insightful comments and suggestions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard E. OcejoRichard E. Ocejo is Associate Professor of sociology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy (Princeton University Press, 2017) and Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City (Princeton University Press, 2014). His work has appeared in such journals as City & Community, Sociological Perspectives, Poetics, Ethnography, and the European Journal of Cultural Studies. He is also the editor of Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork (Routledge, 2012) and a co-book editor at City & Community and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Metropolitics, Work and Occupations, and the Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography. Finally, he is a podcast host at the New Books Network.