The New Urban Frontier : Gentrification and the Revanchist City.

Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban frontiers."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Neil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "CLASS STRUGGLE ON AVENUE B" The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West; 2 IS GENTRIFICATION A DIRTY WORD?; 3 LOCAL ARGUMENTS From "consumer sovereignty" to the rent gap; 4 GLOBAL ARGUMENTS Uneven development; 5 SOCIAL ARGUMENTS Of yuppies and housing; 6 MARKET, STATE AND IDEOLOGY Society Hill; 7 CATCH-22 The gentrification of Harlem?; 8 ON GENERALITIES AND EXCEPTIONS Three European cities; 9 MAPPING THE GENTRIFICATION FRONTIER.