My purpose in this paper is to provide a fuller account of the origins and nature of city-centre
living in Manchester, England, by emphasising its too-often neglected 'independent'and …

The paper advances the notion that there is 'metropolitan habitus' in large global cities such
as London which distinguishes it from other conurbations in the United Kingdom. At the …

City People examines the size and nature of the city centre living phenomenon, focusing on
the historic cores of Dundee, Liverpool and Manchester. It asks why it has happened, who is …

Contemporary urban theory is marked by a division. Urban policy practitioners, planners,
architects and town hall administrators have over the past two decades rediscovered an …

In this article, a new approach is outlined to the gentrification of London which argues that it
is a diverse phenomenon. This reflects not merely contested explanations for gentrification …

Recent years have seen an expansion in the work on the attitudes, beliefs and preferences
of those middle-class groups that have accompanied the return of capital to many North …

There have been relatively few studies of city centre living in the United Kingdom. However,
the limited number of studies that do exist tend to treat city centre dwellers as a relatively …

Encouraged by government policies to promote city centre living and to increase residential
land use on brownfield sites, there has been considerable repopulation of the city centre …

Inner Newcastle has undergone a significant reorientation of both its residential composition
and physical form over the last decade. The process of gentrification within two inner city …

The British city centre has been the focus of dynamic housing development and
repopulation strategies as a key dimension of the government's urban renaissance …