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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Neil, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gentrification--Government policy.

Gentrification.

Urban policy.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 262 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles., maps, plans

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Summary:

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so 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? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals 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', the author 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.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. "Class Struggle on Avenue B": The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West; 2. Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?; Part I: Toward a theory of gentrification; 3. Local Arguments: From "consumer sovereignty" to the rent gap; 4. Global Arguments: Uneven development; 5. Social Arguments: Of yuppies and housing; Part II: The global is the local; 6. Market, State and Ideology: Society Hill; 7. Catch-22: The gentrification of Harlem?; 8. On Generalities and Exceptions: Three European cities; Part III: The revanchist city; 9. Mapping the Gentrification Frontier; 10. From Gentrification to the Revanchist City; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-252) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-78746-4

1-280-23674-4

9786610236749

0-203-97564-2

9780203975640

OCLC:

935229947