Nearly 30 years ago now, Holcomb and Beauregard were critical of the way that it was
assumed that the benefits of gentrification would'trickle down'to the lower classes in a …

Over the past decade, policy-makers have introduced social mixing initiatives that have
sought to address urban social problems by deconcentrating poor and working-class …

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 …

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 issue of social mixing has recently moved to the forefront of gentrification debate. In part,
this has been stimulated by neoliberal urban policies promoting 'social mix', research …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Displacement has been at the centre of heated analytical and political debates over
gentrification and urban change for almost 40 years. A new generation of quantitative …

When I began my doctoral work, on gentrification in London, I was fuelled by a desire to
measure what was largely an invisible social problem. Household displacement had barely …