“…The development of Docklands initially seemed a very clear-cut case of 'regeneration as gentrification' in which there were unambiguous issues of displacement and the inward migration of a replacement population. This was clearly documented in the literature (Smith, 1989;Brownill, 1990) and, particularly, Foster (1999) whose careful ethnography of new and old, nuanced according to ethnicity and class, pointed to the complex nature of the gentrification process in which their worlds and cultures were, as she describes it, in 'conflict and collision'. Docklands was, as it were, an undisputed case of Neil Smith (1979) style 'gentrification by capital' (Warde, 1991).…”