As housing costs continue to increase across many cities in North America and Europe,
local governments face pressure to understand how housing's rising cost is changing …

The Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, remains one of the poorest
neighborhoods in Canada, yet is also a site of rapid gentrification. Both new and revitalized …

Mediatization and Mobile Lives: A Critical Approach contributes to a complex, situated and
critical understanding of what mediatization means and how it works in contemporary life …

abstract Public health researchers have begun to map the neighborhood “food environment”
and examine its association with the risk of overweight and obesity. Some argue that “food …

Gentrification is multidimensional and complex, but there is general agreement that visible
changes to neighbourhoods are a clear manifestation of the process. Recent advances in …

N eil S mith argues that in the last two decades gentrification has become a generalized
global urban phenomenon. His theory is at a high level of abstraction, as it links urban …

Gentrification has for too long been investigated as an urban phenomenon. Only relatively
recently has it been viewed as an avenue for fruitful rural research. This paper focuses on …

Contributing to an emerging debate that brings the mobilization of land rent as a financial
asset to the heart of urban analysis, this article offers a narrative of land financialization as a …

This article develops a conceptual framework of neighborhood crime dynamics based on a
synthesis of criminology and neighborhood change literatures which suggests that …

Earlier studies of Canadian inner‐city gentrification, especially in Toronto, project an image
of the process as being emancipatory: a middle‐class reaction to the oppressive conformity …