Main entry:

Smith, Neil, 1954-2012.

Title & Author:

The new urban frontier : gentrification and the revanchist city / Neil Smith.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Description:

xx, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index.
Introduction : "Class struggle on Avenue B": the Lower East Side as wild wild west -- Is gentrification a dirty word? -- Part I. Toward a theory of gentrification : Local arguments: from "consumer sovereignty" to the rent gap -- Global arguments: uneven development -- Social arguments: of yuppies and housing -- Part II. The global is the local : Market, state and ideology: society hill -- Catch-22: the gentrification of Harlen? -- On generalities and exceptions: three European cities -- Part III. The revanchist city : Mapping the gentrification frontier -- From gentrification to the revanchist city.

Summary:

"Why have so many central and inner cities been radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? The New Urban Frontier challenges the conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of changing middle-class tastes and a growing demand for urban living, and emphasizes instead gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', Neil Smith explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s' financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/95046015-d.html.

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ISBN:

(cloth)
0415132554
041513255X (pbk.)
9780415132558 (pbk.)
0415132541
9780415132541
9780203975640
0203975642

Subject:

Gentrification.
Gentrification Government policy.
Urban renewal.
Urban policy.
Housing development.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban Renewal
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme)
Rénovation urbaine.
Politique urbaine.
Promotion résidentielle.
Sociologie urbaine.
Embourgeoisement (Urbanisme) Politique gouvernementale.
gentrification.
urban renewal.
housing developments.
urban sociology.
71.14 urban society.
15.85 history of America.
71.12 social stratification, social mobility.
Gentrifizierung
Kommunalpolitik
Stedelijk beleid.
Sociaal-economische verandering.
USA
Urban regions Redevelopment

Holdings:

Location: Library main 129234
Call No.: ID HT170.S55; ID:97-B182
Status: Available