As part of the Architecture Foundation’s 2023 Book Week, Leslie Kern speaks about her new book ‘Gentrification is Inevitable: And Other Lies’; unpacking the term gentrification and suggesting a decolonial, feminist and queer form of anti-gentrification.
“Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the crisis that seek to reveal the violence based on class, race, gender and sexuality. She argues that gentrification is not natural and that it cannot be understood in economics terms, or by class. That it is not a question of taste. That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people. Rather, she argues, it is a continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land. And it can be seen today is rising rents and evictions, transformed retail areas, increased policing and broken communities.”
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