
San Francisco’s continued economic boom threatens to displace much of its culturally diverse population, including LGBTQ residents who have made the city a center of…

Issue 8.2 LGBTQ Heritage Change Over Time is pleased to announce the launch of issue 8.2 LGBTQ Heritage. Published in commemoration of the 50th anniversary…

Representations of LGBTQ history in the built environment abound and comprise a range of property types beyond that quintessential symbol of LGBTQ space: the gay…

The journal Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, invites abstract submissions for…

San Francisco’s continued economic boom threatens to displace much of its culturally diverse population, including LGBTQ residents who have made the city a center of…

Gentrification. For many, simply saying the word evokes powerful emotions of anger, resentment, despair and, at times, powerlessness. Such responses are often rooted in experiences…

Gentrification. For many, simply saying the word evokes powerful emotions of anger, resentment, despair and, at times, powerlessness. Such responses are often rooted in experiences…

In the 1970s, geographer Neil Smith used Philadelphia’s Society Hill neighborhood to examine the process of gentrification. In this 4-block by 7-block area, a combination…

“Climate gentrification” is a term that is getting more traction in both popular media and academic circles. However, little has been done to link this…

“Climate gentrification” is a term that is getting more traction in both popular media and academic circles. However, little has been done to link this…

The processes involved in designating historic properties have become increasingly participatory over the past quarter century, allowing more diverse publics to ascribe value to and…

Community organizations are increasingly turning toward the arts and historic preservation to catalyze community economic development, although both strategies have complex histories related to gentrification…

Can twenty-first-century scholars of gentrification find historical precedents for “social preservationist” ideology in the gentry-assisted black town-building movement of the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries?…

Francesca Russello Ammon is associate professor of City and Regional Planning and Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. A cultural historian of the built…

This photo essay, with accompanying text, examines overlooked gathering spaces used by lesbian and queer female-identified individuals in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens between the years…