Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Atkinson, Rowland.
2. Bridge, Gary.

Description

1. x, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This text brings together the most recent theoretical and empirical research on gentrification at a global scale.

Series statement

1. Housing and society series

Uniform title

1. Housing and society series.

Subject

1. Gentrification > Social aspects
2. Gentrification > Case studies
3. Social classes
4. Sociology, Urban
5. Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) > Aspect social
6. Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) > Cas, Études de
7. Classes sociales
8. Sociologie urbaine
9. Gentrification
10. Stadtsoziologie
11. Internationaler Vergleich
12. Sociologia urbana
13. Planejamento territorial urbano
14. Classes sociais

Genre/Form

1. Aufsatzsammlung.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-293) and index.