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Title Gentrification in a global context : the new urban colonialism / edited by Rowland Atkinson and Gary Bridge.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Housing and society series
Housing and society series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-293) and index.
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.
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Subject Gentrification -- Social aspects.
Gentrification.
Social aspects.
Gentrification -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Social classes.
Social classes.
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Atkinson, Rowland.
Bridge, Gary.
Other Form: Print version: Gentrification in a global context. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415329507 0415329515 (DLC) 2004012325 (OCoLC)55502500
ISBN 0203392086 (electronic book)
9780203392089 (electronic book)
0415329507 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0415329515 (paperback ; alkaline paper)