Gentrification in the mesh?

Two Cheers for Gentrification

Gentrification and community fabric in Chicago.

Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in...

Second wave gentrification in inner-city Sydney

There are few processes more central to the social and cultural transformation of the inner city in the past half century than gentrification. The social and economic changes that have engendered gentrification have transformed its character and meaning; it has become principally a strategy for redevelopment of brown field sites by the state and capital interests. Based on research in the forme...

Gentrification and Changes in the Spatial Structure of Labor Demand

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Towards an Anarchist Approach to Gentrification