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      The New Urban Frontier
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      The New Urban Frontier

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      The New Urban Frontier book

      Gentrification and the Revanchist City

      The New Urban Frontier

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      The New Urban Frontier book

      Gentrification and the Revanchist City
      ByNeil Smith
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1996
      eBook Published 22 August 1996
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203975640
      Pages 288
      eBook ISBN 9780203975640
      Subjects Built Environment, Geography
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      Smith, N. (1996). The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203975640

      ABSTRACT

      Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it?
      This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness.
      The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |1 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|25 pages

      “Class Struggle on Avenue B”: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?

      part |1 pages

      Part I Toward a theory of gentrification

      chapter 3|23 pages

      LOCAL ARGUMENTS From “consumer sovereignty” to the rent gap

      chapter 4|17 pages

      GLOBAL ARGUMENTS Uneven development

      chapter 5|25 pages

      SOCIAL ARGUMENTS Of yuppies and housing

      part |1 pages

      Part II The global is the local

      chapter 6|20 pages

      MARKET, STATE AND IDEOLOGY Society Hill

      chapter 7|27 pages

      CATCH-22 The gentrification of Harlem?

      chapter 8|21 pages

      ON GENERALITIES AND EXCEPTIONS Three European cities

      part |1 pages

      Part III The revanchist city

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Mapping the Gentrification Frontier

      chapter 10|22 pages

      From Gentrification to the Revanchist City

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