"I am concerned and I frustrated because don't know what the alternates are...It clearly isn't racist; its economics. The real question you have to ask yourself is: Is this good orbad?"-Norman Rice, former Mayor of Seattle, On gentrification in that cityUrban America is a state crisis. A huge pool America's resources increasingly disconnected from mainstream society. That within core major citi...

Scholars of gentrification often study the visual results socioeconomic structural change in urban environments, including graffiti removal and historical reconstructions façades, turning “ugly” factory ruins into charming residential loft spaces, etc. This article examines Berlin’s former working-class neighborhood Prenzlauer Berg terms sound. We present Knaack Klub as a sonic case symbolizing...

Retail gentrification is gaining relevance to study the transformation of several urban districts. In this article we explore connections between process and appropriation use elements authenticity a given district. Drawing upon production standpoint, based our research on objective, constructivist existential perspective concept authenticity. We developed fieldwork Mouraria, traditional neighb...

Glossary brownfield A piece of previously used land that requires some remediation of contaminants, pollutants, debris or hazardous substances in order for it to be reused and redeveloped. containerization A shipping method which uses standardized containers to store and transport goods and materials. gentrification A complex process whereby a group of middle class people move into a previously...

Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill* In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tractlevel data set covering the 27 largest US cities, y...

Objective. To explore how older people who are "aging in place" are affected when the urban neighbourhoods in which they are aging are themselves undergoing socioeconomic and demographic change. Methods. A qualitative case study was conducted in two contrasting neighbourhoods in Montréal (Québec, Canada), the analysis drawing on concepts of social exclusion and attachment. Results. Participants...

Following the lead of artists and scholars in Black, feminist, psychoanalytic, queer studies geographies, this special issue editorial call for greater scholarly attention to conscious unconscious emotional, psychic, affective dimensions urban gentrification. While geographical scholarship frequently gestures gentrification as an scene, these connections are generally suggested rather than deve...