Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of athens

Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 19-35

  Alexandri, Georgia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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