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Overview"Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom - which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of the new middle class tastes and a demand for urban living - to reveal gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late-20th century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban ""frontiers"", the book explores the interconnections of urban policy, 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. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification is a policy of revenge." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Neil SmithPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780415132541ISBN 10: 0415132541 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 22 August 1996 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 “Class Struggle on Avenue B”; Chapter 2 Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?; Part 1 Toward a Theory of Gentrification; Chapter 3 Local Arguments; Chapter 4 Global Arguments; Chapter 5 Social Arcuments; Part 2 The Global is the Local; Chapter 6 Market, State and Ideology; Chapter 7 Catch-22; Chapter 8 On Generalities and Exceptions; Part 3 The Revanchist City; Chapter 9 Mapping the Gentrification Frontier; Chapter 10 From Gentrification to the Revanchist City;Reviews'An invaluable resource for urban researchers.' - Progress in Human Geography 'A highly inforamtive and worthwhile read' - International Planning Studies '...a very fine book indeed.' - European Urban and Regional Studies 'Smith's book is a superb piece of writing and a splendid read...' - TIBG 1998, Vol 3 ... beautifully written and illustrated ... In pulling together this collection of essays, Smith has done an extraordinary job of weaving together materials written over the course of 15 years ... Author InformationNeil Smith is professor of Geography and acting Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. An urban geographer and social theorist, he has written extensively on gentrification, the history of geography, and the production of nature. He is author of Uneven Development (Blackwell 1991) and of the forthcoming The Geographical Pivot of History: Isaiah Bowman and the American Century (John Hopkins Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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