Abstract
In this essay, I offer a place-based history of socioeconomic and demographic change in Hyde Square and nearby Jackson Square (henceforth “Hyde-Jackson Squares”). I document the area’s ongoing gentrification and describe the distribution of gentrification pressures. I situate this contemporary process against the socio-spatial patterns carved out by the area’s historical rise as an industrial suburb, its struggle amid decades of disinvestment, and the community efforts that ultimately stabilized the neighborhood. In these sequential transformations is the story of how Latinos and Blacks entered, departed, and have strived to remain in the neighborhood.
Recommended Citation
Douglas, Jen
(2016)
"From Disinvestment to Displacement: Gentrification and Jamaica Plain’s Hyde-Jackson Squares,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 23:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol23/iss1/6
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