Neil Smith

The New Urban Frontier

Gentrification and the Revanchist City

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Produktbeschreibung

Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', Neil Smith explores the interconnections of urban policy, eviction and homelessness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780415132558
• ISBN-10: 041513255X
• Artikelnr.: 21927413

Autorenporträt

Neil Smith is professor of Geography and acting Director of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. An urban geographer and social theorist, he has written extensively on gentrification, the history of geography, and the production of nature. He is author of Uneven Development (Blackwell 1991) and of the forthcoming The Geographical Pivot of History: Isaiah Bowman and the American Century (John Hopkins Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 "Class Struggle on Avenue B"
Chapter 2 Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?
Part 1 Toward a Theory of Gentrification
Chapter 3 Local Arguments
Chapter 4 Global Arguments
Chapter 5 Social Arcuments
Part 2 The Global is the Local
Chapter 6 Market, State and Ideology
Chapter 7 Catch-22
Chapter 8 On Generalities and Exceptions
Part 3 The Revanchist City
Chapter 9 Mapping the Gentrification Frontier
Chapter 10 From Gentrification to the Revanchist City