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PART 1 DEFINING GENTRIFICATION Introduction to Part One 1 "London; Aspects of Change" Ruth Glass "Alternatives to Orthodoxy: Invitation to a Debate" Neil Smith and Peter Williams "The Chaos and Complexity of Gentnfication" Robert A. Beauregard "The Order and Simplicity of Gentnfication - a Political Challenge" Eric Clark

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PART 2 STAGE MODELS OF GENTRIFICATION Introduction to Part Two 5 "The Mature Revitalized Neighborhood: Emerging issues in Gentnfication" Phillip L Clay "Islands of Renewal in Seas of Decay" Brian J. L. Berry "The Demise of Gentnfication? A Commentary and Prospective View" Larry S. Bourne

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PART 3 EXPLAINING/THEORIZING GENTRIFICATION

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SECTION A PRODUCTION-SIDE EXPLANATIONS Introduction to Section A 9 "Toward a Theory of Gentnfication: A BacK to the City Movement by Capital, not p6opi&' Neil Smith

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I OA "Commentary: Gentnfication and the Rent Gap" Neil Smith 10B "Reply The Rent Gao Revisited" David Ley II "The Rent Gao Debunked" Steven C. Bourassa ''Re-establishing the Rent Gap: An Alternative View of Capitalised Land Rent" Daniel J. Hammel

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SECTION B CONSUMPTION-SIDE EXPLANATIONS Introduction to Section B 13 ''Gentnfication and the Politics of the New Middle Class" David Ley "Class Definition and the Esthetics of Gentnfication: Victoriana in Melbourne" Michael Jager "-Gentrificaiion'and Desire" Jon Caulfield "Life on the Upslope*: The Postmodern Landscape of Gentnfication" Caroline A. Mills

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SECTION C MOVING OUTSIDE OF THE PRODUCTION VERSUS CONSUMPTION STALEMATE Introduction to Section C 17 "Rethinking Gentrification: Beyond the Uneven Development of Marxist Urban Theory" Damaris Rose "Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core" Sharon Zukin "The Blind Men and the Elephant: The Explanation of Gentnfication" Chris Hamnett "On Blindness, Centrepieces and Complementarity in Gentrification Theory" Eric Clark 189 191

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SECTION D GENTRIFICATION AND GENDER, SEXUALITY, RACE/ETHNICITY Introduction to Section D 21 "Gender Divisions and Gentrification: A Critique" Liz Bondi "Toward an Analysis of the Roie of Gay Communities in the Urban Renaissance" Mickey Lauria and Lawrence Knopp "Can You Go Home Again? Black Gentrification and the Dilemma of Difference" Monique M. Taylor "Negotiating Grit and Glamour; Young Women of Color and the Gentrification of the Lower East Side" Caitlin Cahill

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PART 4 GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT Introduction to Part Four 25 "Neighborhood Revitalization and Displacement: A Review of the Evidence" Howard J. Sumka "Abandonment, Gentrification, and Displacement: The Linkages in New York City" Peter Marcuse

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"The Hidden Costs of Gentrification: Displacement in Centra! London" Rowland Atkinson "Gentrification and Displacement: New York City in the 1990s" Lance Freeman and Frank Braconi

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PART 5 GEOGRAPHIES OF GENTRIFICATION Introduction to Part Five 29 "A Reappraisal of Gentnfication: Towards a 'Geography of Gentnfication'" Loretta Lees "Social Capital. Gentnfication and Neighbourhood Change in London: A Comparison of Three South London Neighbourhoods" Tim Butler and Garry Robson " t Want to be Global'1 Theorising the Gentrifying Ciass as an Emergent Elite Global Community" Matthew W. Rofe "Other Geographies of Gentrification" Martin Phillips

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PART 6 GENTRIFICATION AND URBAN POLICY Introduction to Part Six 33 "The Case for Gentrification" William H. Whyte "Islands of Decay in Seas of Renewal: Housing Policy and the Resurgence of Gentrification" Elvin K. Wyly and Daniel J. Hammel "New Globafism. New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy" Neil Smith "Gentrification as a Governmental Strategy: Social Control and Social Cohesion in Hoogvliet Rotterdam** Justus Uitermark, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Reinout Kleinhans

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PART 7 RESISTING GENTRIFICATION Introduction to Part Seven 37 "The Right to Stay Put" Chester Hartman "The Right to Stay Put. Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City" Kathe Newman and Elvin K. Wyly "The Eviction of Critical Perspectives from Gentrification Research" Tom Slater "In the Face of Gentrification: Conclusion" Diane K. Levy, Jennifer Comey and Sandra Padilla

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Sources of readings Index

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