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The literature on gentrification has yielded a number of competing explanations of the phenomenon. These include demographic, ecological, sociocultural, and political-economic interpretations. By linking the results of a survey of the presence and significance of gentrification with data from 48 of the 51 cities in the Permanent Community Sample, we are able to assess why some cities are candidates for gentrification while others are not and to determine the relative usefulness of the competing explanations listed above. We find some support for aspects of each interpretation.

Gentrification is a global and highly controversial issue. This article develops an account of what can be troubling, specifically, about state support for gentrification processes. Recent research points to the fact that gentrification processes are being used by policy-makers in many parts of the world as tools for urban 'renewal' or transformation. However, it is claimed that this is often at the cost of badly off residents of these areas. I argue that where the state supports or encourages gentrification processes that either (a) impose non-trivial costs on badly off residents of gentrifying areas or (b) fail to benefit these residents in certain ways, the state disrespects these residents by failing to show due regard for their interests. In doing so, it threatens their self-respect. Having made this argument, I also consider how certain kinds of state investment once gentrification processes have occurred can threaten the self-respect of original residents.

AbstractIn times of austerity, gentrification is promoted as a prime investment opportunity capable of reviving stagnating local economies. In Athens, pro‐gentrification policies (using English slogans like 'Re‐launch Athens' and 'Re‐activate Athens') have become increasingly defined in their targeting of specific areas. Moreover, planning in Greece is characterized by spontaneity, fragmentation and tolerance of speculation, specifically favouring the gentrification process. In many cases, the state's 'absence' after promulgation of regeneration projects acts as a clear strategy for inner‐city gentrification. After discussing the emergent relations between state policies on urban intervention and gentrification in the post‐crash era, this article will focus on the peculiarities of the Greek planning system and how these have led to the gentrification of an inner‐city area called Metaxourgio.

Over the last two decades research on gentrification has boomed. As major cities across the United States experience seismic shifts in luxury real estate, inequality, lack of affordable housing, disparate education rates, and the displacement of long-time residents, gentrification and urban studies scholars have sought to provide explanations for such rapid, intervening, and profound changes. Coined by the British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964, gentrification was a term used to understand the effects of the gentry moving into working-class and poor communities in London. Employing and complicating the uses of gentrification, a series of scholars have debated whether gentrification is a deliberate or chaotic process; a result of public policy, local politics, and/or capital. While a number of scholars have examined the contradictory and multiple definitions of class-based gentrification, only recently have they also explored the impact of race, sexuality, gender, labor, ethnicity and migration status on the workings of gentrification, challenging the idea that gentrification is a strictly economic class-based phenomenon. Fortunately, there has been an increase in works that investigate the effects of gentrification on one of the largest "minority" groups in the United States: Latina/o/xs In regards to gentrification, Latina/o/xs pose a quandary. On the one hand, as workers (documented and undocumented; multi-generational and first-born), Latina/o/xs benefit from the increase in business, construction, informal economy (i.e., domestic work, child-care, elderly care), and retail. On the other, they are the most affected by downturns in the economy. Latina/o/xs are more likely to be paid less for their labor, be employed in precarious and temporary positions, be educated in low-performing public schools, and have less resources and social capital. Combined, these factors result in Latina/o/xs being one of the most displaced communities in the United States.

Beschreibung der Wohnsituation in einem Kölner Stadtviertel.
Wohnungswahlkriterien, Art und Zustand der Wohnung,
Nachbarschaftsverhältnis sowie Beschreibung der Wohnungseinrichtung.

Themen: Wohndauer im Haus und im Stadtviertel; Zeit des Einzugs in das
Viertel; Gründe für die Wahl dieses Viertels (Nippes); Kenntnis von
Nippes vor dem Einzug; Wohnsituation in der vorherigen Wohnung;
Vergleich alte und neue Wohnung; Auszugsgründe für die alte Wohnung;
Informationsquellen für jetzige Wohnung; Wohnberechtigungsschein; Wahl
anderer Stadtteile als Ausweichmöglichkeit; Ortsangabe des vorherigen
Wohnorts; Wegzugsabsicht aus derzeitigem Viertel und gegebenenfalls
wohin; Zusammensetzung der Hausbewohner; persönliche Vorstellungen vom
Stadtleben anhand von Besuchshäufigkeiten verschiedener Einrichtungen;
Häufigkeit persönlicher Freizeitaktivitäten; Wohnungswahlkriterien;
Anzahl der Wohnparteien im Haus; Beheizungsart der Wohnung und die dabei
verwendete Energieart; Wohnungsgröße in qm; Eigentümerstatus der Wohnung
bzw. des ganzen Hauses; Mietkosten; Vorhandensein von Eigentumswohnungen
im Haus; frühere Nutzung eventuell vorhandener Eigentumswohnungen; Alter
des Gebäudes; stattgefundene Renovierungen in den letzten 5 Jahren und
deren wahrgenommener Umfang; Höhe der monatlichen Nebenkosten;
Zimmeranzahl der Wohnung (ohne Küche, Diele und Bad); Art der Küche;
Anzahl der Autos im Haushalt; Häufigkeit der Inanspruchnahme von
bezahlten Haushaltshilfen; tatsächliches und präferiertes
Nachbarschaftsverhältnis; Bezugsquellen der Möbel; präferierte
Eigenschaften der Wohnungseinrichtung (bevorzugter Stil); Art der
Speisen, mit denen Gäste bewirtet werden; Einstellung zum
Gentrification-Prozeß (Skala).

Demographie: Alter; Geschlecht; Familienstand; Konfession;
Schulbildung; Anzahl weiterer Personen im Haushalt und deren Alter;
Alter des jüngsten Kindes und dessen Beaufsichtigung an Werktagen;
berufliche Position; Berufstätigkeit; Berufslaufbahn; Berufstätigkeit
und berufliche Position des Partners; Berufstätigkeit des Vaters; Anzahl
der Personen im Haushalt mit Einkommen; Haushaltseinkommen;
Parteipräferenz (Sonntagsfrage); Staatsangehörigkeit.

Zusätzlich verkodet wurden: Anwesenheit anderer Personen beim
Interview; Interviewdatum; Interviewdauer; Interviewnummer;
Interviewraum innerhalb der Wohnung; Art des Fußbodens; Gestaltung der
Wände, Decken und Fenster; Art der Schränke; Geräumigkeit; allgemeiner
Zustand des Wohnraumes; Sprache des Interviewten; Doppelverglasung der
Fenster; Fassade gestrichen; Anzahl der Stockwerke; Giebelausbau;
Dachausbau.

Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the Real Estate State -- 2. Planning Gentrification -- 3. New York's Bipartisan Consensus -- 4. The Developer President and the Private Side of Planning History -- 5. Unmaking the Real Estate State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

In this paper we show how the form and effects of gentrification have advanced in the post crash, recessionary context. As such, we argue that state-led gentrification contributes to state-led evictions. The cumulative impacts of government cuts and the paradigmatic shift of housing from a social to financialised entity not only increases eviction risk amongst low income households but, through various legal repossession frameworks that prioritise ownership, the state actively endorses it. Given the nature and extent of these changes in housing, we argue that the state-led gentrification has advanced further. Evictions, we argue, are the new urban frontier and this is orchestrated by the state in fundamental ways.

Scientific Colloquium from 18 to 21 June 1992 in Weimar at the University of Architecture and Construction on: 'Architecture and power' ; Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 18. bis 21. Juni 1992 in Weimar an der Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen zum Thema: 'Architektur und Macht'

Hipsters, bobos, yuppies, gentrifieurs? Les termes ne manquent pas pour qualifier les nouvelles populations qui s?approprient les quartiers centraux anciens de certaines métropoles au détriment des habitants populaires. Mais cette profusion empêche de comprendre le phénomène : comment dépasser les oppositions binaires entre gentrifieurs et gentrifiés ? Quels sont les moteurs, les logiques et les enjeux de la gentrification ? Est-elle vraiment inéluctable ?

Increased international tourism in large European cities has been a growing social and political issue over the last few years. As the number of urban tourists has rapidly grown, studies have often focused on its socio-spatial consequences, commonly referred to as touristification, and have linked this to gentrification. This connection makes sense within the framework of planetary gentrification theories because the social injustices it generates in cities have a global pattern. However, gentrification is a complex process that must be analytically differentiated from tourism strategies and their effects. Whereas gentrification means a lower income population replaced by one of a higher status, touristification consists of an increase in tourist activity that generally implies the loss of residents. Strategies to appropriate and marketise culture to sustain tourismled economies can also shape more attractive places for foreign wealthy newcomers, whose arrival has been theorised as transnational gentrification. Discussions on the relationship between gentrification, transnational gentrification and touristification are essential, especially regarding how they work in transforming an urban area's social fabric, for which Seville, Spain's fourth largest city with an economy specialised in cultural tourism, provides a starting point. The focus is set on the processes' timelines and similar patterns, which are tested on three consecutive scales of analysis: the city, the historic district and the Alameda neighbourhood. Through the examination of these transformations, the article concludes that transnational gentrification and touristification are new urban strategies and practices to revalorise real estate and appropriate urban surplus in unique urban areas. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Introduction -- Gentrification Studies on a Global Scale -- Grounding Gentrification in the Large Chinese City -- Inner-city Urbanism and the Construction of Consumer Citizenship -- Residential Relocation and the Working Class in Gentrification -- Structural Inequalities in the post-Gentrification Housing Market -- Conclusion.