ABSTRACT
For a number of years, the urban-geographical literature on the gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods suffered from what became a somewhat sterile debate between consumption-side and production-side explanations of the phenomenon. In recent years, the Marxist-influenced urban literature has increasingly come to study how, at national and international levels, recent transformations of the economy, of power relations and decision-making structures, are mapped into a restructured functional urban hierarchy. The relationship between the location of places of employment and those of residence leads us to believe that there is a symbiotic linkage between the growth of public and parapublic sector employment, especially of women, and the gentrification of the neighborhoods studied. For gender divisions influence employment incomes and job security of new middle-class fractions from which gentrifiers are produced. Yet in order to explore how this interrelation might influence gentrification, we also need to break down the professional population of these neighborhoods in terms of the types of household they live in.
