Philosophy Talk. Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: In the 1960s, as many American cities burst and burned, the upper and middle classes fled to the suburbs, leaving behind a decaying infrastructure and a socially isolated urban underclass. In more recent times, many urban centers have undergone re-gentrification, and with it the return of the upper classes, safer neighborhoods, and better services. But gentrification often drives poor and working class people from the very places they had called home. Is gentrification on balance a morally and socially good thing or bad thing? Does it serve more to increase inequality or to lessen the isolation of the urban underclass? John and Ken assess the moral cityscape with Stanford sociologist Frederic Stout, co-editor of The City Reader.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Form	podcasts
Extent	1 audio file
Place	KALW (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)California
Date created	May 7, 2011
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital
Track configuration	Stereo

philosophytalk.org show page	Title Cities, Gentrification, and Inequality
Finding Aid	Title Philosophy Talk (SC1118)
Show#	253.0
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/dj700cm0104
Location	SC1118
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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