Gentrification of the City

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 571-585

  Slater, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"Policy Relevance" deleterious influence of neoclassical land theory on urban policy, or Chester Hartman's call for a "right to stay put"; Changing class structure of capitalist societies research theme in urban sociology; Class, not the only axis of difference researchers focus; Costs of gentrification, today and the future displacement from home and neighbourhood, shattering experience, leading to homelessness; Gentrification of the city links between housing and class struggle in London; Gentrification, in urban areas disinvestment in urban infrastructure, profitable redevelopment; Neil Smith, ignoring cultural aspects of gentrification writings on New York's gentrification; Point of agreement, analysts of gentrification class, the central focus; Production side versus consumption; Ruth Glass, and "gentrification" capturing class inequalities and injustices, capitalist urban land markets and policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883263966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch50     Document Type: Chapter

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