Gentrification of the City

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Neil Smith, Peter Williams
Routledge, Oct 15, 2013 - Architecture - 275 pages

The author and contributors of this book seek to present alternatives to the mainstream discussions of gentrification. It does not present a single coherent vision of the causes, effects and experiences of gentrification, but a number of different views that do not always coincide. What the authors have in common is the attempt to escape a naive empiricism which has dominated much mainstream research, as well as the conviction that questions of social class lie at the heart of this issue. This book was first published in 1986.

 

Contents

invitation to a debate NEIL SMITH AND PETER WILLIAMS
1
CONTRIBUTED ESSAYS
13
2 Gentrification the frontier and the restructuring of urban space NEIL SMITH
15
3 The chaos and complexity of gentrification ROBERT A BEAUREGARD
35
4 Class constitution through spatial reconstruction? A reevaluation of gentrification in Australia Britain and the United States PETER WILLIAMS
56
Victoriana in Melbourne MICHAEL JAGER
78
Society Hill Philadelphia and False Creek Vancouver ROMAN A CYBRIWSKY DAVID LEY AND JOHN WESTERN
92
the British condo experience CHRIS HAMNETT AND BILL RANDOLPH
121
the linkages in New York City PETER MARCUSE
153
9 The anatomy of displacement in the United States RICHARD T LEGATES AND CHESTER HARTMAN
178
CONCLUSION
202
the dynamics of contemporary urban development PETER WILLIAMS AND NEIL SMITH
204
Bibliography
225
Subject Index
243
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