Super-gentrification: The case of Brooklyn heights, New York City

Urban Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2487-2509

  Lees, Loretta ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTRIFICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD CITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345415522     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098032000136174     Document Type: Article

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