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Gentrification / Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, and Elvin Wyly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lees, Loretta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gentrification.
- Gentrification--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (339 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offering ideas for future research.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Plates, Figures, Maps, and Boxes; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 The Birth of Gentrification; 2 Producing Gentrification; 3 Consumption Explanations; 4 The Mutation of Gentrification; 5 Contemporary Gentrification; 6 Gentrification: Positive or Negative?; 7 The Future of Gentrification?; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 12, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781135930240
- 1135930244
- 9780415950374
- 0415950376
- 9780203940877
- 0203940873
- 9781135930257
- 1135930252
- OCLC:
- 862367507
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