This article offers insight into how housing, renovation, and gentrification are more than matters of upgrading material dwellings and neighborhoods, but they substantially engage residents’ very notions of who they are and how they are perceived. Using the lens of valuation, gentrification is presented as much more than an exclusionary market relationship but as a process that shows how human perspectives on selves emerge and transform along with housing discourse and relations and informs feelings of socio-spatial (in)justice. The case is the ongoing transformation of the working-class garden villages in postindustrial Amsterdam North, an area that has become subject to active urban redevelopment since the 2000s. The material upgrading of the industrial spaces and social housing makes tangible the long-term active residents’ historically sensorial relations with the built environment, around which their sense of self was shaped. Long-term residents and their children increasingly demand that the ongoing spatial improvement of the area does justice to the deeply embodied history of social emancipation in the garden villages.

本文提供了有关房屋，装修和高档化的更多信息，而不仅仅是对物质住所和社区的升级，但是它们充分地吸引了居民关于他们是谁以及他们如何被感知的观念。使用估价的视角，高级化不仅是排他性的市场关系，而且是一个过程，它展示了人类对自我的看法是如何随着住房的话语和关系而出现和转变的，并传达出社会空间（正义）的感觉。案例是北工业化后的阿姆斯特丹北部工人阶级的花园村正在进行的改造，自2000年代以来，该地区已开始积极地进行城市重建。工业空间和社会住房的物质升级，使长期活跃的居民与建筑环境之间的历史感官关系变得明显，他们周围的自我感得到了塑造。长期居民和他们的孩子越来越多地要求该地区正在进行的空间改善必须与花园村深层体现的社会解放历史相吻合。