小议gentrification

人们谈及房屋重新整修时常用 renovation 或 renewal。这里要议的是 gentrification 一字(动词是 gentrify)。它和前两个字有相同词义,但也有不同之处。从词源学或构词法的角度来考虑,人们很容易把它和 gentry 联系上。gentry 原意是“上层人士”。从中可悟出 gentrification 的一部分意思来。在美国匹兹堡时,一位美国朋友指着该市南部地区,特别是沿卡尔森一条街说:This area is undergoing gentrification。

Gentrification Within the Law of Transformation of Areas at Disaster Risks in Turkey Sulukule,Istanbul Example

With coming in force of The Law of Transformation of Areas at Disaster Risks numbered 16.5.2012/6306 by Ministry of Environment and Urbanization,the concept of urban transformation has entered to our life in Turkey.Gentrification as one of the forms of urban transformation brought the existence of liberated zones produced by neo-liberal mentality.Sulukule area(Neslisah Sultan settlement)which is subject to research is counted among“the areas to be renewed and to be put under preservation”by numbered 2006/10299 decision of Council of Ministers.Due to the shortage of lands in the city,it is observed especially in 1980s that the families in high-income group have preferred to live in horizontally expending villa towns far from the center.While these residential areas are deepening the distance from the center in time,the pressure of housing demand of middle-income people and rent circles who are not planning to leave the city center caused to have an eye on these areas which are residential areas of mostly low-income people and appeared in certain regions as they are established without infrastructure and healthy conditions.With this law,the transformation has started in the areas such as Fikirtepe,Dolapdere,Esenler,and Banks of Halic(Golden Horn)where structural life is completed,and floor area ratio has been raised to 4.0 from 2.07.Vertical housing is stimulated by adding the street between the parcels to the blocks,it has been tried to prevent the victimization of local people to unearned income.There are some quarters that,under the name of gentrification,Romany citizens who passed to permanent settlement from nomadic culture at the Ottoman era,and who are engaged in activities such as handicraft,adornments,shoe making,weaving beside the show business at Fatih Sulukule district are convicted to lodge in the houses built in suburban if they have title deed,and in jerry-built tents if they don’t have deed.Chamber of Architects,Chamber of City Planners Istanbul Branch and Roma Culture Development and Solidarity Association filed“nullity suit”and“stay of execution”.Despite the continuing judicial process,the demolition started in 2009,and starting the constructing the villas in 2010 breaking the resistance of Romany citizens,the area was victimized to rent.

Reflection on the authenticity of urban sites

With the continuous development of society and city,the urban village has been born with time.The book Naked City:The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places by Sharon Zukin is a reflection on the"authenticity"of urban village under the background of big city’s development.Through the study of this book,other four books and the field investigation of Nantou Ancient City and Baishizhou which are typical"urban village"in Shenzhen,we can understand the authenticity,and further explore how to construct the authentic places and how to find their own way of authenticity in the development of The Times.

Like a Wrecking Ball: The Creative Queer Spaces of Gustavo Vinagre’s “New Dubai”

The aim of the article is to analyse the creative queer spaces of Gustavo Vinagre’s movie New Dubai. The mainargument indicates that gay sex creatively brings the possibility of resistance against gentrification and questionsheteronormative rules in the organization of society and space. Sex and the violence of the interventions in thecontext of the real estate speculation point to the violence and voyeurism of filming, especially of filming sex.

Knocking Walls Down:Queer Architecture and Creative Cities

Based on bibliographic research,the article analyzes how queer architecture challenged gentrification,real estate speculation,and segregation of minorities in creative cities.The results show that the architecture of queer spaces can be understood as a practice of gender and sexual resistance and biopolitical disobedience,as the capitalist architecture worked as a biopolitical technology for producing gender and sexuality and shaping political and sexual identities through techniques of surveillance and the construction of the public/private divide for controlling gender and sexual reproduction.

PAX—Patios de la Axerquía Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation in a Heritage Context

Following a decades-long real estate bubble involving a culture of indiscriminate ownership and occupation of land,PAX—Patios de la Axerquía is proposing an innovative system of governance in the city of Córdoba in Spain that fosters a new urban model consistent with the aims of the New Urban Agenda and a Smart,Sustainable and Inclusive City:from a culture of speculation to one of rehabilitation.A system of multilevel co-management between the public administration and the social economy provides the basis for the acquisition and cooperative use of empty houses as a model of urban regeneration through social innovation in a heritage context.The rehabilitation of the patio-houses in Axerquía,which have been threatened by gentrification,aims to restore the environmental values of the Mediterranean city and upgrade its historical characteristics in a contemporary way together with the citizenship:from its architectural value as a World Heritage site to its anthropological value as Intangible Heritage of Humanity,as recognised by UNESCO in 2012.The interaction between innovative mechanisms of sustainable urban development opens up a pathway of virtuous policies for the densification of the existing city by the local population,generation of micro-employment,and support for collective projects that incorporate refugees and migrants in a system of solidarity.Updating the urban,environmental,social,and economic values of the traditional city is a step toward understanding the Mediterranean city as an undeniable reminder of our past and,at the same time,providing an essential tool for the future development of a smart,sustainable,and inclusive Europe.