The New Urban Renewal: The EconomicTransformation of Harlem and Bronzeville

摘要

New Urban Renewal is a comparative ethnography of two historically black communities experiencing redevelopment: Bronzeville in Chicago and Harlem in New York City. Hyra suggests that both Harlem and Bronzeville are experiencing a second wave of urban renewal and explores the global, national, and citywide policies contributing to the redevelopment of these neighborhoods.rnSimilarly to the first federal urban renewal policies that had the effect of disrupting many black and low-income neighborhoods and displacing the residents, this second urban renewal disrupts the social organization of urban black neighborhoods. Yet unlike the first, the beneficiaries of this second urban renewal are not always nonblack. Hyra argues that the black middle class are an active participant in the creation of the new urban renewal and that they reap the benefits of this renewal through increases in their property values.