4. Selling Authenticity: The Aesthetics of Design Boutiques in Montreal

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. 1. Introduction: Aesthetics of Gentrification 9
5. Part 1 Spaces of Global Consumption
6. 2. The Forces of Decline and Regeneration : A Discussion of Jane Jacobs and Gentrification 27
7. 3. Silicon Wafers and Office Park Dreams : Cross-Cultural Designs, Aesthetics, and Art in and around California’s Santa Clara Valley 49
8. 4. Selling Authenticity: The Aesthetics of Design Boutiques in Montreal 73
9. 5. The Import of a Narrative : The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo 91
10. Part 2 Anxiety and Visibility
11. 6. Race, Authenticity, and the Gentrified Aesthetics of Belonging in Washington, D.C. 115
12. 7. Art and the Aesthetics of Cultural Gentrification : The Cases of Boyle Heights and Little Tokyo in Los Angeles 137
13. 8. In Residence: Witnessing and Gentrification in Susan Silton’s Los Angeles 155
14. 9. Satellite Dishes, a Creative Incubator, and the Displacement of Aesthetics in Amsterdam 177
15. Part 3 Agency, Voices, and Activism
16. 10. Boulevard Transition, Hipster Aesthetics, and Anti- Gentrification Struggles in Los Angeles 199
17. 11. Speculative Spaces in Grand Paris : Reading JR in Clichy-sous- Bois and Montfermeil 221
18. 12. On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause 247
19. 13. The “Smart Safe City” : Gendered Time, Violence, and Displacement in India’s Digital Urban Age 269
20. Index 289