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Title Gentrification in a global context : the new urban colonialism / edited by Rowland Atkinson and Gary Bridge
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations
Series Housing and society series
Housing and society series.
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
Summary The Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings together the most recent theoretical and empirical research on gentrification at a global scale
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-293) and index
Notes English
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Subject Gentrification -- Social aspects
Gentrification -- Case studies
Social classes.
Sociology, Urban.
Social Class
social classes.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes.
Gentrification
Social classes
Sociology, Urban
Stadssociologi.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Atkinson, Rowland.
Bridge, Gary.
ISBN 0203392086
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0415329515
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9781134330652
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