La revitalisation urbaine et la gentrification sont intimement liés. Voici un article bien intéressant sur des pistes proposant de nouveaux mécanismes permettant surtout, aux populations d’origine de ces quartier à y rester pendant et après la rénovation urbaine. A tout le moins, c’est déjà bien de se poser la question des migrations dans les quartiers rénovés, ce qui fait souvent défaut en Europe.
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Cities are the place to be these days, which means big changes for the historic communities that have populated urban cores. While much of the urban renewal experiments of the 1940s through the 1960s have been deemed disasters, word is still out on the new wave of « urban revitalization » that began in the 1990s and continues through to today in most of America’s cities. The supporters of revitalization say rising tides lift all boats. As wealth has come back to cities, everyone benefits. But critics of revitalization simply call it gentrification, and, as one speaker at the EcoDistricts Summit in Washington, D.C. said, « gentrification is a crime. » Furthermore, new discussions of turning existing urban neighborhoods into « ecodistricts » may just be gentrification in a green dress. How can cities encourage growth but also provide a sense of continuity? How can over-taxed city planning departments accommodate…
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