ABSTRACT
Nearly twenty years ago now, colleagues of ours in Geography at King’s College London published an edited volume titled London: A New Metropolitan Geography (Hoggart and Green, 1991). In that book, they argued that London was being ‘renewed’ at a rapid pace. In this book, we show that the pace has stepped up signifi cantly and in qualitatively different ways. Hoggart and Green (1991) suggested that inner London was not being ‘Americanised’, or becoming a polarised or workingclass city. They argued instead that the real risk was of inner London becoming gentrifi ed and almost exclusively reserved for middle to upper income and/or class strata. In this book, which is focused specifi cally on regeneration in London, we explore the growing tensions between a globally focused growth agenda and the broader pressures associated with the city’s social reproduction, such as housing affordability, sustainability and the provision of public services.
