Spatial Deconcentration
A radical history pamphlet.
Spatial Deconcentration
Gentrification as Social Control in the USA
In the late 1970s US housing activists uncovered evidence of a government-sponsored program, labelled ‘spatial deconcentration’, in which urban decay and subsequent ‘regeneration’ had been deliberately used in the USA to disperse poor, mainly black communities, both to disrupt communal solidarity and subvert organised movements for social change, and to maximise private profit.
With the levels of gentrification and re-development many communities are currently facing 40 years later, the two texts reprinted here provide a useful example of how political forces and business interests operate to maintain social control.
A5, 32 pages.
printed by risograph.