Gentrification in a Global Context: The New Urban Colonialism (Housing and Society Series)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Globalisation and the new urban colonialism......Page 12
Forty years of gentrification ication research......Page 14
The gentrified neighbourhood in a global context......Page 18
The new urban colonialism: contributions to the volume......Page 23
Conclusion: distance neutralised, place emphasised -gentrification in a global context......Page 26
Starbucks, Wal-Mart, and the benevolent king......Page 29
Mapping the new urban frontier......Page 32
A new urban system?......Page 33
Atop the revanchist hierarchy......Page 38
A taxonomy of neighbourhood inequality......Page 40
Conclusions......Page 46
Notes......Page 49
‘Canada’s coolest neighbourhoods’......Page 51
Emancipatory social mixing: reform-era gentrification in Canadian cities......Page 53
Neo-liberal social tectonics: the case of South Parkdale......Page 57
Conclusion......Page 66
Notes......Page 68
Introduction......Page 69
Gentrifying (post)colonial landscapes and urban indigeneity......Page 72
Performing Sydney Heritage......Page 73
Valorising select pasts as heritage......Page 74
Gentrification and Victorian architecture......Page 76
From grand to humble…......Page 77
Heritage dreaming: industrial facadism, retro chic and new-build......Page 78
Conclusion: escaping…(into the past)......Page 82
5 ‘Studentification ication’: the gentrification factory?......Page 84
The conceptual meaning of studentification......Page 85
Studentifiers: the consumers of studentification?......Page 87
The production of potential studentifiers......Page 88
The production of studentified housing and economic reordering......Page 90
The spatiality of studentification......Page 92
The migration specifics and population changes of studentification......Page 93
The cultural facets of studentification......Page 96
Studentification: the gentrification factory?......Page 98
Discussion and conclusion......Page 99
Note......Page 101
Neighbourhood transitions in Budapest: gentrification in question......Page 102
New niches in Prague’s property markets......Page 105
Old and new Tallinn......Page 108
The character of gentrification in former socialist cities......Page 109
The social geography of the socialist city......Page 111
Pathways of privatisation and property refurbishment......Page 112
Expatriates and local yuppies......Page 114
Conclusions......Page 116
Acknowledgements......Page 117
Introduction......Page 118
German research on gentrification......Page 119
The puzzle of Prenzlauer Berg......Page 121
The property market and investment behaviour......Page 122
Housing market and rent development......Page 125
Population changes in the district......Page 127
From Prenzlauer Berg to ‘Prenzlberg’......Page 129
Conclusion: A familiar or peculiar brand of gentrification?......Page 131
Note......Page 133
Gentrification in Turkey......Page 134
The formation of the new gentry: Economic, cultural, demographic and spatial restructuring processes of the post 1980s......Page 137
Successive waves of gentrification in Istanbul......Page 139
First-wave gentrification ication......Page 140
Second-wave gentrification ication......Page 141
Third-wave gentrification......Page 142
Gentrifiers......Page 143
Conclusion......Page 146
Notes......Page 147
Introduction......Page 150
The characteristics of Japanese inner cities......Page 151
The decline of the traditional townhouse and the construction of condominiums......Page 152
Gentrification in Kyoto......Page 153
Late 1990s gentrification in the central area......Page 154
Depreciation of land prices......Page 155
Displacement......Page 156
Characteristics of gentrifiers in Kyoto......Page 158
Effects of gentrification......Page 163
New preservation movements......Page 164
Acknowledgements......Page 165
Gentrification in Spain: an overview......Page 166
Urban regeneration strategies......Page 168
Flagship projects and the remaking of the central urban landscape......Page 170
The new opportunity areas and the process of gentrification......Page 173
Bilbao La Vieja as a gentrifiable neighbourhood......Page 174
The integrated plan for the rehabilitation of Bilbao La Vieja......Page 178
The ‘Guggenheim effect’ and the ‘new’ Bilbao......Page 179
A ‘new’ Bilbao La Vieja for a ‘new’ Bilbao......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 181
Notes......Page 182
11 Local limits to gentrification......Page 183
First, can we agree on the problem?......Page 184
Local limits to gentrification......Page 187
Local housing characteristics......Page 188
Housing tenures......Page 190
Embedded local communities......Page 192
Local government......Page 194
Developing equitable urban policy......Page 197
Acknowledgements......Page 199
Visual methods and the aesthetic of gentrification ication......Page 200
Visual aesthetics and class taste......Page 201
Greenpoint......Page 204
Krakow......Page 210
Conclusion: tracing gentrification trajectories in ethnically linked neighbourhoods......Page 221
Introduction......Page 225
The geography of empirical evidence of gentrification......Page 226
The research agenda: the significance of context......Page 227
Economic restructuring and the Leeds economy......Page 229
The historical legacy of the built environment of Leeds......Page 230
Contemporary housing market conditions in Leeds......Page 232
Chapel Allerton......Page 233
Research design......Page 234
The Calls......Page 235
The Claremonts......Page 236
Chapel Allerton......Page 237
Conclusion: provincial gentrification?......Page 239
Notes......Page 240
Introduction......Page 241
Latin American gentrification?......Page 242
Pelourinho, Bahia......Page 245
Bairro do Recife, Pernambuco......Page 247
Rio de Janeiro......Page 249
Brazil’s Guggenheim affair......Page 250
Sao Paulo......Page 251
Conclusion......Page 254
Notes......Page 255
Introduction......Page 256
Gentrification as fashion......Page 257
Earlier forms of gentrification......Page 258
Fashion, mirrors, imitation and diffusion......Page 260
The form of the intra-urban space......Page 261
Urbanisation and homogenisation of the urban landscape as drivers of gentrification......Page 262
Athens......Page 265
Venice......Page 266
Rome......Page 267
San Salvario-Valentino, Turin......Page 268
Conclusions......Page 270
16 The order and simplicity of gentrification ication—a political challenge......Page 272
Gentrification: an elastic yet targeted definition......Page 274
Theorising order in contingency......Page 276
Notes......Page 280
References......Page 281
Index......Page 312