Gentrification: What it is, why it is, and what can be done about it

Geography Compass

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1697-1728

  Shaw, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 54049120099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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