Walking backwards to the future—waking up to class and gentrification in London

T Butler, C Hamnett - Urban Policy and Research, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we consider briefly some of the arguments advanced by Tom Slater and others
about the direction taken by gentrification research and, in particular, the arguments that the …

The only class in town? Gentrification and the middle‐class colonization of the city and the urban imagination

P Watt - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Gentrification and globalization: the emergence of a middle range theory

T Butler - Cahiers du Pôle Ville, 2005 - blogs.sciences-po.fr
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 …

For gentrification?

T Butler - Environment and Planning A, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Gentrification and the middle-class remaking of inner London, 1961-2001

C Hamnett - Urban studies, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper reviews the debates over the explanation of gentrification and argues that
gentrification is best explained as the social and spatial manifestation of the transition from …

Class transformation and work-life balance in urban Britain: The case of Manchester

K Ward, C Fagan, L McDowell, D Perrons… - Urban …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

[图书][B] Gentrification: A working-class perspective

K Paton - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

[PDF][PDF] The gentrification-social structure dialectic: a Toronto case study

P Filion - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 1991 - academia.edu
Scholarly interest in gentrification stems largely from the impact that changes affecting social
classes have on the urban scene. Of particular concern is the growth of what has been …

Revisiting 'social tectonics': The middle classes and social mix in gentrifying neighbourhoods

E Jackson, T Butler - Urban Studies, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies of gentrification in London have shown that some groups of middle-class people
have been attracted to poor and multi-ethnic areas of inner London in part because of their …

From class to gentrification and back again

M Benson, E Jackson - Handbook of Gentrification Studies …, 2018 - books.google.com
In this chapter, we argue for the need to carefully scrutinize the models of class that underlie
understandings of gentrification and how they are mobilized, while also introducing more …