Surviving Supergentrification in Inner City Sydney

Adaptive Spaces and Makeshift Economies of Cultural Production

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ID5048873
AutoresA Pollio (0000-0001-8099-4452, autor correspondente), Liam Magee (0000-0003-2696-1064), I Ang (0000-0002-4877-0026), David Nelson Rowe, David Rowe (0000-0001-7281-903X), Deborah Stevenson (0000-0002-8977-1818), Teresa Swist (0000-0003-3836-112X), Alexandra Wong (0000-0002-5377-5892)
Ano2021
Volume45
Fascículo5
Páginas778-794
Data de publicação2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.13015
OpenAlexW3169211764
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas48

Artists and creative workers have long been recognized as playing an important role in gentrification, being often portrayed as forerunners of urban change and displacement in former industrial and working-class suburbs of 'post-Fordist' cities. However, as is well represented by recent research, the relationship between the arts, gentrification and displacement has been called into question. The purpose of this article, which draws on 30 case studies of creative spaces in Sydney's inner suburbs, is to chart some of the strategies of spatial adaptation and makeshift economies of solidarity that cultural workers adopt in order to keep living and working in areas of 'supergentrification'. We document how cultural infrastructure is transformed by the gentrification process and argue that these alterations are critical to the survival of arts and culture in the city. Such makeshift economies contribute, in a practical way, to preserving the diversity that gentrification is sometimes deemed to destroy or displace. While the survival of creative spaces is a much less researched phenomenon than other forms of resistance or displacement, we suggest that it has important consequences for both research and policy decisions around gentrification, infrastructural development and urban cultural economies

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