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Q&A with Stathis G. Yeros, author of Queering Urbanism

Apr 10 2024
Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. Thi
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Managing Supergentrification in a Pandemic

Aug 31 2021
By Jenny Stuber, author of Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of SupergentrificationIn communities across the American West, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed new social class dynamics, if not fractures. The pandemic accelerated existing processes of amenity mi
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How the Pandemic’s ‘Zoomtown Effect’ is Reshaping Rural America

Apr 22 2021
By Jennifer Sherman, author of Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American DreamIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, rural communities across the U.S. have been experiencing what has been labeled the “Zoomtown” effect: real estate booms fueled by remote workers buying secon
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