Research Catalog

Title

Gentrification in a global context : the new urban colonialism / edited by Rowland Atkinson and Gary Bridge.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Atkinson, Rowland.
• Bridge, Gary.

Description

x, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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

Housing and society series

Uniform Title

Housing and society series.

Subjects

• Gentrification
• Sociologia urbana
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Gentrification > Social aspects
• Social classes
• Gentrification > Case studies
• Classes sociais
• Stadtsoziologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) > Cas, Études de
• Sociologie urbaine
• Sociology, Urban
• Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) > Aspect social
• Planejamento territorial urbano
• Classes sociales

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0415329507
• 9780415329507
• 0415329515
• 9780415329514

LCCN

• 2004012325
• 99963674865

OCLC

• ocm55502500
• 55502500
• SCSB-9240942

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries