TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Neil
TI  - The new urban frontier: gentrification and the revanchist city 
SN  - 041513255X
AV  - HT170 .S55 1996
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Urban policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index; Introduction --; 1; Class Struggle on Avenue B': The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West --; 2; Is Gentrification a Dirty Word? --; I: Toward a Theory of Gentrification --; 3; Local Arguments: from Consumer Sovereignty to the Rent Gap --; 4; Global Arguments: Uneven Development --; 5; Social Arguments: Of Yuppies and Housing --; II: The Global is the Local --; 6; Market, State and Ideology: Society Hill --; 7; Catch 22 The Gentrification of Harlem? --; 8; On Generalities and Exceptions: Three European Cities --; III: The Revanchist City --; 9; Mapping the Gentrification Frontier --; 10; From Gentrification to the Revanchist City
N2  - "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
ER  -