This paper examines conditions that impede inner-city gentrification. Several factors emerge
from review of a scattered literature, including the role of public policy, neighbourhood …

Those failures became clear to me recently whilst attending the``Upward Neighbourhood
Trajectories: Gentrification in a New Century Conference''in Glasgow.(1) Despite Jan van …

Gentrification is a sub-set of the neighbourhood upgrading process. While upgrading has
some positive effects on neighbourhoods, when gentrification occurs, the benefits of …

As recently as 2006, students walked into the first day of my urban sociology course at
Brooklyn College without knowing the term “gentrification.” Within a few years, however …

Recent years have seen an extraordinary resurgence of interest in the process of
gentrification, accompanied by a surge of articles published on the topic. This article looks at …

THE COMMODIFICATION GAP 'In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book
demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive …

By offering a response to recent calls for a 'geography of gentrification', the author attempts
to move on from the intractable theoretical divisions and overgeneralizations that continue to …

Recent criticisms of the coherence of theories of gentrification, the potential for its continued
expansion in the 1990s, and methods for assessing its extent and significance have cast …

More than ever before, gentrification is incorporated into public policy—used either as a
justification to obey market forces and private sector entrepreneurialism, or as a tool to direct …

Gentrification has been a major theme in urban studies, planning, and geography for more
than two decades. Indeed, it may appear to some observers that this single subject has …