UID:
edocfu_9959233549502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (319 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-33065-0
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1-134-33064-2
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1-280-16875-7
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0-203-39208-6
Serie:
Housing and society series
Inhalt:
Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings together the most recent theoretical and empirical research on gentrification at a global scale. Each author gives an overview of gentrification in their country so that each chapter r
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction / Rowland Atkinson and Gary Bridge -- Mapping neo-liberal American urbanism / Elvin K. Wyly and Daniel J. Hammel -- Gentrification in Canada's cities : from social mix to 'social tectonics' / Tom Slater -- Heritage and gentrification : remembering 'the good old days' in postcolonial Sydney / Wendy Shaw -- 'Studentification' : the gentrification factory? / Darren P. Smith -- Gentrification in post-communist cities / Ludek Sýkora -- Exploring the substance and style of gentrification : Berlin's 'Prenzlberg' / Matthias Bernt and Andrej Holm -- Outside the core : gentrification in Istanbul / Tolga Islam -- Gentrification and neighbourhood dynamics in Japan : the case of Kyoto / Yoshihiro Fujitsuka -- Another 'Guggenheim effect'? : central city projects and gentrification in Bilbao / Lorenzo Vicario and P. Manuel Martínez Monje -- Local limits to gentrification : implications for a new urban policy / Kate Shaw -- Poland and Polonia : migration and the re-incorporation of ethnic aesthetic practice in the taste of luxury / Jerome Krase -- Outside the metropole : gentrification in provincial cities or provincial gentrification? / Paul Dutton -- A curious blend? : city revitalization, gentrification and commodification in Brazil / Silvana Rubino -- Out of squalor and towards another urban renaissance? : gentrification and neighborhood transformations in southern Europe / Petros Petsimeris -- The order and simplicity of gentrification, a political challenge / Erik Clark.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-32951-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-32950-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203392089
