ABSTRACT
In 1964, Ruth Glass, a sociologist at the University College London, coined the term gentrification. Since then, it has enjoyed a successful life well beyond Britain and well beyond the walls of today’s academic institutions. Now a generalized keyword in the vocabulary of urban sociology, gentrification often refers to the residential arrival of affluent social groups in historic working-class neighbourhoods. But the term has also become part of the vocabulary of mainstream media across the world and, through this shift, has taken on a surprising variety of meanings (Werth and Marienthal 2016).
