Abstract The San Francisco Bay Area in California is undergoing a technology‐driven wave
of growth arguably more thoroughgoing than the first “dot‐com” bubble, fueling hypertrophic …

In the past few years San Francisco has experienced rapid gentrification amidst what is
locally referred to as" tech boom 2.0". This chapter analyses two struggles over public space …

Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing
economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post …

We are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance of interest in gentrification. As in the 1970s
and 1980s, the transforming inner city is taken as a crucible of broader economic and …

The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric
in the making. Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of …

Studies of the city traditionally have presumed a division between the economy of cities and
their culture, with culture subordinate in explanatory power to the “work” of the city. However …

This paper uses several events in New York in the late 1990s to launch two central
arguments about the changing relationship between neoliberal urbanism and so–called …

In his seminal essay on “The significance of the frontier in American history,” written in 1893,
Frederick Jackson Turner (1958 edn) wrote: American development has exhibited not …

The private-market investments of gentrification effectively took over the role of clearing out
the center just at the point when public programs of urban renewal ran out of federal funding …

Written in a non-technical, narrative style, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone
concerned with current trends in urban development. During the Reagan era, responsibility …