This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in
geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated …

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 …

It is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification'was first coined by the British urbanist
Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own …

The author and contributors of this book seek to present alternatives to the mainstream
discussions of gentrification. It does not present a single coherent vision of the causes …

Bringing an empirical, objective approach to a topic that has often been the source of
emotional and uninformed controversy, Gentrification, Displacement and Neighborhood …

The amount of empirical research on the extent, causes, and consequences of gentrification
continues to expand. This article reviews the methods utilized to delimit and quantify …

This special issue addresses the questions of gentrification and new‐build gentrification, two
processes of urban transformation that significantly contribute to the reconfiguration of the …

Gentrification has been a major theme in urban studies, planning, and geography for more
than two decades. Indeed, it may appear to some observers that this single subject has …

More than ever before, gentrification is incorporated into public policy—used either as a
justification to obey market forces and private sector entrepreneurialism, or as a tool to direct …

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 …