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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.55,Issue8,P.1690-1710

语言

英文

关键字

Chinatown; ethnic enclave; neighbourhood change; ownership; LOS-ANGELES; NEW-YORK; GENTRIFICATION; ENCLAVE; CITY

作者单位

[Acolin, Arthur] Univ Southern Calif, Los Angeles, CA USA. [Vitiello, Domenic] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Acolin, A (reprint author), Univ Southern Calif, Price Sch Publ Policy, Lewis Hall 312, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. E-Mail: acocapid@usc.edu

摘要

The survival of Chinatowns and other ethnic enclaves in cities is largely determined by who owns property. Ethnic enclaves such as Chinatowns have traditionally played important economic, social and cultural functions as places for recent immigrants to live and work, though Chinatowns have long faced redevelopment pressures. In North America, as Chinese immigrants and their descendants settle in the suburbs, and as historic Chinatowns' locations close to revitalising downtowns attract increasing investment, the future of these historic enclaves is shaped by various, often intense and divergent, forces. This article describes changes in the patterns of property ownership in Boston and Philadelphia's downtown Chinatowns over the last decade (2003-2013) and relates them to changes and continuities in these neighbourhoods' population, commercial activities and building stock. The trends we observe simultaneously reinforce and complicate debates about gentrification and longstanding efforts to preserve these Chinatowns as ethnic Chinese residential, commercial, and cultural centres.