{"product_id":"a-neighborhood-that-never-changes-gentrification-social-preservation-and-the-search-for-authenticity-9780226076638","title":"A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Japonica Brown-Saracino\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as \u003ci\u003eA Neighborhood That Never Changes\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities-the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden-Japonica Brown-Saracino paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new breed of gentrifiers, Brown-Saracino finds, exhibits an acute self-consciousness about their role in the process and works to minimize gentrification's risks for certain longtime residents. In an era of rapid change, they cherish the unique and fragile, whether a dilapidated house, a two-hundred-year-old landscape, or the presence of people deeply rooted in the place they live. Contesting many long-standing assumptions about gentrification, Brown-Saracino's absorbing study reveals the unexpected ways beliefs about authenticity, place, and change play out in the social, political, and economic lives of very different neighborhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47608435998871,"sku":"9780226076638","price":4673.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226076638.webp?v=1775052368","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-neighborhood-that-never-changes-gentrification-social-preservation-and-the-search-for-authenticity-9780226076638","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}