The new urban frontier : gentrification and the revanchist city /

Smith, Neil, 1954-2012

The new urban frontier : gentrification and the revanchist city / Neil Smith. - xx, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index.

Introduction -- Class Struggle on Avenue B': The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West -- Is Gentrification a Dirty Word? -- I: Toward a Theory of Gentrification -- Local Arguments: from Consumer Sovereignty to the Rent Gap -- Global Arguments: Uneven Development -- Social Arguments: Of Yuppies and Housing -- II: The Global is the Local -- Market, State and Ideology: Society Hill -- Catch 22 The Gentrification of Harlem? -- On Generalities and Exceptions: Three European Cities -- III: The Revanchist City -- Mapping the Gentrification Frontier -- From Gentrification to the Revanchist City. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

"Why have so many central and inner cities been radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? The New Urban Frontier challenges the conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of changing middle-class tastes and a growing demand for urban living, and emphasizes instead gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', Neil Smith explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s' financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/95046015-d.html.

041513255X 9780415132558 0415132541 9780415132541 0203975642 9780203975640

95046015


Gentrification
Gentrification--Government policy
Urban renewal.
Urban policy

HT170 / .S55 1996

307.76

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