Re‐urbanizing London Docklands: Gentrification, Suburbanization or New Urbanism?

Butler, Tim

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00758.x

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“…This brings us to our final reflection: To what extent are the terms urban and suburban still useful in differentiating residential environments (Harris and Larkham 1999;Butler 2007)? As several scholars have noted, we also find that there is a range of suburban communities, each with its own specificities (Dreier et al 2001;Phelps et al 2006;Hanlon et al 2009).…”

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The middle classes and the remaking of the suburban family community: evidence from the Netherlands

Karsten

Lupi

Stigter-Speksnijder

2012

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The middle classes and the remaking of the suburban family community: evidence from the Netherlands Karsten, C.J.M.; Lupi, T.; de Stigter, M.C. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Abstract This paper presents data on everyday life in three recently built Dutch suburban areas constructed under the Vinex national urban planning policy. Its focus is on family households and today's division of work and care, social life and neighbourhood activism. The results show that suburbs are no longer breeding grounds for the traditional nuclear family. But, while the rate of working mothers is high, the limited use of professional child care still reflects the tradition that maintains that children are best cared for in the private domain. Having children is crucial for putting down roots and developing social networks. In contrast to the past, both working mothers and fathers are actively constructing family communities. The newly established family communities are firmly of the middle class and tend to exclude childless and lowerclass households. Neighbourhood activism involves both the reproduction of an unspoiled and orderly environment and the realisation of a suburban paradise for children. This paper further reveals differences in the suburban areas studied and discusses the false dichotomy between the urban and the suburban within the metropolitan area.

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The middle classes and the remaking of the suburban family community: evidence from the Netherlands

Karsten

Lupi

Stigter-Speksnijder

2012

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…Instead, they prefer terms like 'reurbanisation' or 'residentialisation' (e.g. Lambert and Boddy, 2002;Butler, 2007b;Boddy 2007;Buzar et al, 2007). These debates are largely hinged upon a particular understanding of postindustrial urban demographic change that conceptualises neighbourhood population change to be a form of replacement, not displacement (e.g.…”

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New‐build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies

Davidson

Lees

2010

Population Space and Place

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New‐build gentrification has been the subject of renewed attention of late. The impetus was Lambert and Boddy, who asserted that inner‐city new‐build developments in British city centres should not be viewed as a form of gentrification. While the term has long been generally accepted, Lambert and Boddy, and, more recently, Boddy, argue that the demographic transformations stimulated by city centre new‐build developments are relatively innocuous. They do not cause population displacement, and are not associated with the rent‐hike and eviction processes of gentrification proper. Indeed, within a move to rethink the workings and consequences of gentrification more generally (e.g. Butler), there has been a new questioning of whether this, or any, contemporary form of gentrification produces significant displacement concerns. In this paper, we address these new debates. We begin by tracing the histories of new‐build gentrification, highlighting its long‐standing presence, and then we move on to look at its trajectories, focusing our lens on London to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of this process in just one city. We outline the presence of displacement – both direct and indirect – as a complex and nuanced process (not just a spatial moment), but one that has nevertheless had a real‐life impact on real people. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…This process of gentrification is visible in many places from Sydney (Shaw, 2006), to Chicago (Lloyd, 2002), Canada (Podmore, 1998) and London. In London, for example, the emergence of London's East End and Dockland districts as cultural quarters extended from their past relationship with artists (Butler, 2007), and the popularity of areas such as Hackney, Dalston, Shoreditch for artists have all become implicated in producing marketable forms of cultural and economic capital (Pratt, 2009). …”

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The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

Moreton

2013

Environ Plan A

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The role of artists' organisations in populating and popularising postindustrial urban areas is well documented. However, what are less apparent are analyses of how spaces of artistic production are organised and governed in these areas. This paper explores, via an analysis of organisational documents and practices, the techniques used by London-based affordable studio providers to imagine, calculate, and make material low-cost workspace for artists. The argument made is that the negotiation of competing agendas around the production of cultural, economic, and social benefit by affordable studio providers has led to the emergence of a specific form of affordable studio. This analysis will thus show how configurations of creative space emerge from mundane techniques of measurement and governance.

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Re‐urbanizing London Docklands: Gentrification, Suburbanization or New Urbanism?

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Cited by 117 publications

References 45 publications

The middle classes and the remaking of the suburban family community: evidence from the Netherlands

The middle classes and the remaking of the suburban family community: evidence from the Netherlands

New‐build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies

The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

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