Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the
enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the …

The driving-force behind the identification and analysis of many urban problems can be
linked to what C. Wright Mills termed 'public issues'(1959). When Ruth Glass first observed …

This essay argues that Tom Slater's article makes several important points regarding what
he rightly suggests is the disappearance of a critical edge from much of the recent …

In 1951, Ruth Glass took up a post as Director of Social Research at University College
London. Her sustained intellectual and critical engagement with the postwar upheavals that …

In this paper I argue that gentrification, despite the many arguments over its continuing
validity as a concept, retains its key importance in understanding processes of class change …

Introduction was pleased to see Tom Slater's provocative article on gentrification research
(2009), not least because it indicates that a concern with class and inequality in cities is alive …

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 …

This paper focuses on processes of studentification, and explores the link between higher
education students and contemporary provincial gentrification. The paper provides two …

This special issue, a collection of papers presented and debated at an Urban Studies
Foundation-funded workshop on Global Gentrification in London in 2012, attempts to …

This paper looks at demand issues in gentrification. It takes as its basic proposition that
everyone involved in the demand side belongs to the same economic class and therefore …