New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance

Davidson, Martin N.; Lees, Loretta

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“…This is indicated by recent gentrification research. There is not only a growing literature detailing the upgrading of industrial buildings and 'new build' gentrification (Davidson and Lees, 2005), but an emerging and increasingly cited roll-call of work charting gentrification's global spread: from St John's, Antigua (Thomas, 1991), to Puebla (Jones and Varley, 1999), Marrakech (Escher et al, 2001), Istanbul (Potuoglu-Cook, 2006) and São Paolo (Sandler, 2007).…”

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“…Gentrification researchers need to ask who is responsible for the creation of what Davidson andLees (2005, p. 1167) depict as a 'gentrification blueprint' that is 'being mass-produced, mass-marketed, and mass-consumed around the world'. This parallels recent attempts to conceive neoliberalism as a migratory set of practices rather than an 'atmospheric' system (Ong, 2007).…”

Section: The Global Policy-scapes Of Gentrificationmentioning

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From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

2008

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Gentrification has become a global phenomenon over the last fifteen years, and has been understood as an increasingly important strategy within neoliberal policy-making.Focusing on London and Mumbai, this paper details how public policies and planning regimes have been reconfigured and rescaled to facilitate and encourage new property speculation. However, against more generalised and abstract accounts of the neoliberal city, the paper uses its comparative perspective to emphasise the geographically and historically specific manifestations and effects of gentrification processes. By highlighting different forms of state intervention and sharper socio-spatial impacts in Mumbai, the paper challenges the Eurocentric framing of a global spread of gentrification, and argues Mumbai can act as an important source of learning for gentrification research. 2Almost everywhere urban societies . . . seem to be going around in circles: they seem to be strangely slow and maladroit in dealing with the most urgent, material needs which they can well afford to meet -from the elimination of homelessness in London (a relatively small but stubborn problem) to the provision of water taps in the bustees of Bombay. (Glass, 1989, p. 102)

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From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

2008

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“…Gentrification is primarily an upward class transformation and the creation of affluent space. As a result, it is seen by many scholars to include not only the upgrading of traditional working class housing, but also new-build projects geared to higher-income groups, on formerly industrial or waterfront lands, or more marginal areas further from the city centre (Slater 2006;Davidson and Lees 2005;Hackworth and Smith 2001;Smith 1996).…”

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“…Gentrification is a politically loaded word (Davidson and Lees 2005). As such, it evokes strong feelings from a variety of different parties.…”

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Living through gentrification: subjective experiences of local, non-gentrifying residents in Leith, Edinburgh

Doucet

2009

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The process of gentrification is often seen as having winners and losers; the debate frequently is centred on the gentrifiers and those being displaced by them. However, the process appears to be more complex, and in many gentrifying neighbourhoods, there are residents who do not fit into these categories. This paper explores the subjective experiences of those who have lived through the process of gentrification. By using interviews with local residents in a gentrifying neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Scotland, a new viewpoint has been uncovered that found residents who were simultaneously embracing of and cautious about the rapid changes taking place in their gentrifying community. This paper examines three elements: housing, amenities and social interactions, and how local residents, who are not incoming gentrifiers, perceive these changes in their neighbourhood. While many residents welcomed some of the changes, there also appeared to be a 'not for us' sentiment. This research sheds new light on an important element of the population involved in the process, and suggests that gentrification is more complex and nuanced than often portrayed.

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“…In parallel, other authors have qualifi ed as 'new-build gentrifi cation' the construction of high-status housing in inner urban areas and notably on brownfi eld sites (Davidson and Lees, 2005). Such projects are considered as a form of gentrifi cation because they share a series of features with classic gentrifi cation: (i) reinvestment of capital in inner cities, (ii) social upgrading of locale by incoming high-income groups, (iii) landscape changes, and (iv) direct or indirect displacement of low-income groups.…”

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New forms of gentrification: issues and debates

Rérat

Söderström

Piguet

2010

Population Space and Place

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This special issue addresses the questions of gentrification and new‐build gentrification, two processes of urban transformation that significantly contribute to the reconfiguration of the socio‐demographic profile of populations in contemporary cities. Whereas gentrification has long referred to the physical and social transformation of central areas through rehabilitation of existing housing stock and population displacement by more affluent households, the concept has recently been extended to include new high‐status developments (regeneration of brownfield sites or demolition/reconstruction of existing residential areas). Although these new developments do not always cause direct population displacement, the question of the possible indirect consequences has been critically raised while the densification of the built environment appears as a favourable outcome in a context of environmental sustainability concerns. The papers collected in this issue focus on the emerging debates surrounding the new forms of gentrification, the increased residential attractiveness of core cities, and the actors who are involved or affected by these processes. In so doing it discusses the geography of gentrification, expanding analysis towards a wide range of contexts. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance

Cited by 526 publications

References 49 publications

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective

Living through gentrification: subjective experiences of local, non-gentrifying residents in Leith, Edinburgh

New forms of gentrification: issues and debates

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