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Few scholars have studied gentrification in older industrial cities across different national contexts. A review of the literature suggests that gentrification in older industrial cities will look different in systematic ways from gentrification in global, magnet cities that most research has focused on. The literature also suggests that the political and institutional differences in cities located in different national contexts can shape gentrification processes. Our research shows that Dortmund and St. Louis are both undergoing deep processes of economic restructuring with new knowledge workers moving in to neighborhoods adjacent to expanding tech clusters. The speed and magnitude of gentrification, however, is significantly less than reported in strong market cities. Unlike in hot market, global cities, many areas within Dortmund and St. Louis are experiencing little or no gentrification, and the neighborhoods that are experiencing gentrification-like processes vary significantly along important dimensions. Despite important differences in political institutions, the basic pattern of gentrification in St. Louis and Dortmund is similar. In these two older industrial cities, at least, gentrification is a complex and variegated phenomenon that requires more research to be fully understood.

'Weak market cities' across European and America, or 'core cities' as they were in their heyday, went from being 'industrial giants' dominating their national, and eventually the global, economy, to being 'devastation zones'.In a single generation three quarters of all manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving dislocated, impoverished communities, run down city centres and a massive population exodus. So how did Europeans react?And how different was their response from America's?This book looks closely at the recovery trajectories of seven European cities from very different regions of the EU.Their dramatic decline, intense recovery efforts and actual progress on the ground underline the significance of public underpinning in times of crisis.Innovative enterprises, new-style city leadership, special neighbourhood programmes and skills development are all explored.The American experience, where cities were largely left 'to their own devices', produced a slower, more uncertain recovery trajectory.This book will provide much that is original and promising to all those wanting to understand the ground-level realities of urban change and progress

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Mit Transnationalität werden Verflechtungen adressiert, die sich im Zuge von Migrationsprozessen zwischen Orten herausbilden. In Abgrenzung zu Multilokalität sind diese Prozesse inhärent ländergrenzenübergreifend, also transnational. Anders als z.B. beim multilokalen Wohnen liegt der analytische Schwerpunkt nicht auf den konkreten (Wohn-)Arrangements zwischen zwei Orten, sondern stärker auf den wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen Ankunfts- und Herkunftskontext und der Konstitution transnationaler sozialer Räume.