Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape

Tijen Tunalı is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Introduction. Art and Gentrification: A Dialectic Look on the Aesthetics of Late Neoliberal Urbanism

Tijen Tunalı

PART I: Art’s Conflicting Relationship to Gentrification in the 21st Century

1. Gentrification: A Critique of the Contemporary Urban Dream-world

Luke Carroll

2. Proximal Disruptions: Artists, Arts-led Redevelopment, and Gentrification in 21st Century Oakland, California

Robin Balliger

3. Arts, Culture and Neoliberalism: Instrumentalization and Resistances through the Case of Marseille

Mathilde Vignau and Alexandre Grondeau

PART II: Alternative Voices, Visualities, and Performances against Gentrification

4. A Listening Against Gentrification: Ultra-Red in Boyle Heights and Elephant and Castle

Susana Jimenez-Carmona

5. Representing the Anti-gentrification Resistance: The Role of Two Artists in a Local Community Market in London

Marie-Pierre Vincent

6. Enacting ‘the Right to the Creative City’ in Berlin

Rabea Berfelde

PART III Community Building in the Gentrified Urban Space

7. The Urban Art, Landscapes, and Community Stories Project: Mapping Art, Narrative, and Community in St. Paul Minnesota

David Todd Lawrence, Paul Lorah, and Heather Shirey

8. Indigenous Cultural Resurgence, Hotel Murals and Neo-colonial Urbanism

Michelle Veitch

9. Mapping the Old City: Street Art and Community Building in Nicosia, Cyprus

Panos Leventis