Contemporary sociology offers competing images of the breadth and consequences of
gentrification. One subset presents gentrification as a nearly unstoppable force that plays a …

Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of
neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that …

In recent years, studies of gentrification have added a deeper political economic, political,
and cultural understanding to this process by demonstrating how it can be understood as not …

Gentrification is changing the landscape of many cities worldwide, exacerbating economic
and racial inequality. Despite its relevance to social work, the field has been conspicuously …

Drawing from sociological theory and research on residential mobility and neighborhood
stratification, which primarily explain urban decline and persistent segregation, the authors …

This essay emphasizes what I regard as the best paths forward in gentrification studies. Just
over 50 years after Ruth Glass coined the term “gentrification”(1964), this is an opportune …

This article argues against the allegedly inter-contextual character of gentrification within the
new gentrification research agenda. The main argument is that gentrification is a concept …

Gentrification is characterized as a spatial manifestation of economic inequality. An
unsettled debate about gentrification is the extent to which it is also marked by distinct …

In the 1970's, gentrification was identified in central city areas throughout the United States
as an economic revitalization and restructuring of urban space (Smith and Williams 1986) …

Gentrification has inspired considerable debate, but direct examination of its uneven
evolution across time and space is rare. We address this gap by developing a conceptual …