The injustices produced by urban “development” and “revitalization”
Dr Joel McKim, lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck and co-organizer of the Architecture, Space and Society Research Centre, reports on the recent BIRMAC (Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture) event led by Dr Isabelle Anguelovski, titled: “New directions in gentrification studies: From inequities in neighborhood greening to emerging injustice(s) in new urban food spaces.”