An edition of The new urban frontier (1996)

The new urban frontier

gentrification and the revanchist city

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An edition of The new urban frontier (1996)

The new urban frontier

gentrification and the revanchist city

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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 homeless people as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
262

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Cover of: La nueva frontera urbana
La nueva frontera urbana: Ciudad revanchista y gentrificación
Oct 2012, Traficantes de Sueños
Print book; E-book in Spanish - 1st edition
Cover of: New Urban Frontier
New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
2005, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: New Urban Frontier
New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
2005, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: New Urban Frontier
New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
2005, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: The New Urban Frontier
The New Urban Frontier
2005
Cover of: New Urban Frontier
New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
1996, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: The new urban frontier
The new urban frontier: gentrification and the revanchist city
1996, Routledge
in English
Cover of: The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
Sep 20, 1996, Routledge

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-252) and index.

Published in
London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
307.76
Library of Congress
HT170 .S55 1996, HT170.S55 1996, HT170 .S55 1996eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 262 p. :
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL809232M
Internet Archive
newurbanfrontier00smit
ISBN 10
041513255X
LCCN
95046015, 95004615
OCLC/WorldCat
229924544, 33407252
Library Thing
253782
Goodreads
993097

Work Description

¿Qué está ocurriendo en los centros urbanos y en muchos otros barrios históricos de las ciudades de Europa, Norteamérica y otros continentes? ¿Por qué se ha producido esa oleada de operaciones de regeneración urbana con resultados tan extremadamente chic? ¿Se puede dar por terminado este proceso en el marco de la actual crisis financiero-inmobiliaria? ¿Qué supone la remodelación de los centros urbanos para la gente que vive en los mismos?

Este libro, convertido ya en el estudio clásico sobre lagentrificación, revela con notable lucidez la fuertedependencia de los procesos de transformación urbana de las dinámicas de acumulación de capital sobre el territorio. Ajeno a toda complacencia con los gustos y estilos de vida de clase media, que normalmente justifican las políticas pro-gentrificación, Smith muestra con crudeza sus obvios efectos sociales: desplazamiento de la población con menores recursos, banalización y musealización de los centros urbanos, subordinación de las políticas urbanas al beneficio de promotores y entidades financieras, segregación espacial, criminalización de la pobreza y de las personas sin hogar, etc. En este terreno su análisis no sólo es convergente con movimientos como la okupación y la democratización del acceso a la vivienda, sino también extremadamente útil para cualquier aproximación que reivindique el derecho a la ciudad.

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