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 …

Gentrification is now firmly established as a major phenomenon of Western cities and is
established in both academic and popular discourse. It was first identified and labeled by …

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 …

The gentrification literature is initially reviewed in this paper, and Marxist, institutionalist, and
individual approaches are distinguished. The theoretical and empirical weaknesses of each …

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 …

Over the past three decades, economic and social change in Canadian inner cities has
been increasingly linked to the fortunes of what the'advanced tertiary'sector (sometimes …

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 a recent article in this journal, Blair Badcock (1991) provides an interesting case-study
and update on the continuing gentrification of inner city neighbourhoods in Adelaide …

New‐build gentrification has been the subject of renewed attention of late. The impetus was
Lambert and Boddy, who asserted that inner‐city new‐build developments in British city …

This paper undertakes a review of gentrification and global city research to develop an
appreciation of the nature of gentrification taking place in central areas of Leeds in the UK …