The Demise of Gentrification? A Commentary and Prospective View

Bourne, Larry S.

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“…Firstly, the restrictive de®nitions of gentri®-cation have guided investigations to places that have already`been' gentri®ed±within which the social, cultural, economic and physical transformations are deeply embedded (see Bourne, 1993, for fuller discussion of de®nitions of gentri®cation). This research focus has obscured the historical and spatial speci®city of processes of gentri®cation, given that the means by which the end results are procured are masked within simpli®ed accounts (which are readily comparable with pre-existing accounts of gentri®cation).…”

Section: Extending the Temporal Boundaries Of Gentrificationmentioning

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Extending the temporal and spatial limits of gentrification: a research agenda for population geographers

Smith

2002

International Journal of Population Geography

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How processes of gentri®cation unfold, at what rate, and with what effects, can all differ substantially in different places. Although pre-existing theories have sought to encapsulate this diversity, the temporal and spatial limits of gentri®cation processes have yet to be fully explored. This paper postulates that population geographers have a role to play here. Firstly, researchers are urged to study gentri®cation within a broader temporal perspective, and to unravel connections between migration dynamics and population transitions over the course of the process. Secondly, it is contended that processes and effects of gentri®cation should be examined within wider spatial frameworks, whereby migration¯ows of relatively af¯uent households are evaluated within the context of (re)urbanisation, suburbanisation and counterurbanisation. This may pose important questions about the understandings of demographic links between gentri®cation and in-migrants at particular stages of their life-course. It is argued that this research agenda will require the adoption of more inclusive de®nitions of gentri®cation, embracing wider spatial and temporal criteria.

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Section: Extending the Temporal Boundaries Of Gentrificationmentioning

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Extending the temporal and spatial limits of gentrification: a research agenda for population geographers

Smith

2002

International Journal of Population Geography

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“…V preteklosti so gentrifikacijo razlagali predvsem kot »vdor pripadnikov srednjega razreda z višjimi dohodki v delavske soseske v središču mesta, kar povzroči razselitev velikega števila prvotnih stanovalcev«. Gentrifikacija vključuje obnovo propadajočega stanovanjskega fonda, kar zadovolji potrebe novih lastnikov (Kotze in Van der Merwe, 2000, glej tudi Smith in Williams, 1986, in Bourne, 1993. Ker ta proces zviša najemnine, se morajo prvotni stanovalci, ki imajo nizke prihodke ali so celo brezposelni, sčasoma odseliti, nadomestijo pa jih pripadniki srednjega razreda.…”

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Skupnost v težavah? Vpliv gentrifikacije na sosesko Bo-Kaap v Cape Townu

Kotzé¹

2013

Urbani izziv

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Bo-Kaap je stara delavska soseska v središču Cape Towna v Južnoafriški republiki. Leta 1930 je bila to prenaseljena in zanemarjena soseska s propadajočimi hišami. Leta 1941 so lokalne oblasti tam razlastile že približno 150 stanovanj zaradi programa celostne prenove tega območja, vendar je proces ustavila skupina za ohranitev malajske četrti, ki se je borila proti rušenju hiš v tej soseski. Danes je območje s slikovitimi hišami in z enajstimi mošejami del kulturne dediščine Cape Towna in pomembna turistič-na znamenitost. Kot v sosednji gentrificirani soseski De Waterkant je bilo tudi tukaj veliko stanovanj prenovljeno in izboljšano. Cene nepremičnin so skokovito narastle, čeprav so še vedno razmeroma nizke. Število prodanih nepremičnin tako močno narašča, da se lokalne oblasti in predvsem muslimanski prebivalci nenehno borijo za ohranitev kulturne identitete soseske.

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“…By the mid 1990s -notwithstanding the severe recession of the early 1990s which called the concept into question with several writers (Bourne 1993) -gentrification had become an established pattern of life in London and the pioneers were no longer the 'trendy apes' of Marc Boxer's caricature. The second study had, as a specific focus, an investigation of the interaction between the middle classes and their local communities across a range of gentrified neighbourhoods in inner London (Butler and Robson 2003a).…”

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Location³Education³: place, choice, constraint in London¹

Butler

Hamnett

2011

Children's Geographies

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In this paper we draw on three studies of social class change amongst the middle classes undertaken in London over the last 25 years to reflect on the changing values expressed by respondents to school choice. We argue that there has been a hardening of attitudes to school performance and a loss of middle-class autonomy towards schooling. Increasingly we note a concern to navigate the few areas of privilege in a school system designed for working class children but now expected to cater for a vastly increased and educationally-anxious middle class. We specifically address the way in which choice of school has become enshrined in legislation but has itself become constrained by the lack of places in popular schools. We argue that the consequence has been to diminish the amount of choice and ensure that 'distance from school' becomes the sole arbiter of access to most popular schools. Thus an attempt at widening access to education has in effect restricted it to those able to access the housing markets nearest to the most popular schools. Taken together with a series of policy interventions designed to circumvent middle-class families playing the system, this has in effect reduced the element of choice by forcing most parents to play for the 'safe option' in the fear of being allocated to something worse. We conclude by suggesting that this policy is unsustainable in the longer term and suggest that the government policy of building new Academies is a means of re-engineering London's system of secondary education to reflect the aspirations of those living in its recently gentrified areas.

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The Demise of Gentrification? A Commentary and Prospective View

Cited by 109 publications

References 11 publications

Extending the temporal and spatial limits of gentrification: a research agenda for population geographers

Extending the temporal and spatial limits of gentrification: a research agenda for population geographers

Skupnost v težavah? Vpliv gentrifikacije na sosesko Bo-Kaap v Cape Townu

Location³Education³: place, choice, constraint in London¹

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Cited by 109 publications

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Extending the temporal and spatial limits of gentrification: a research agenda for population geographers

Extending the temporal and spatial limits of gentrification: a research agenda for population geographers

Skupnost v težavah? Vpliv gentrifikacije na sosesko Bo-Kaap v Cape Townu

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