Synopses & Reviews
This will be the first ever textbook on the topic of gentrification, written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both the academy and the popular press. Gentrification is the first comprehnsive introduction to the subject. It explains the theories surrounding gentrification and includes numerous case studies explaining how it works. The book international coverage, but also features a sharp analysis of gentrification in the United States.
Review
andldquo;This collection is the definitive analysis of todayandrsquo;s urban policy paradox: a friendly language of community and inclusion used to justify policies that threaten exactly what they nameandmdash;social mix and diversity.andrdquo;and#160;
Review
"This volume is extremely useful for anyone hoping to get to grips with the complex and little-understood issues regarding social mix policy and gentrification."
Synopsis
Encouraging social and class diversity in neighborhoods has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. Mixed Communities draws together case studies by a range of international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent stealth gentrification, as well as their relationship to wider social, economic, and urban change. From the perspectives of researchers, policy makers and planners, and the residents of the communities themselves, this volume draws on lessons from international comparisons.
About the Author
Gary Bridgeand#160;is professor of urban studies at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.and#160;Tim Butlerand#160;is professor of human geography at Kingandrsquo;s College, London, and the Vincent Wright Visiting Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris.and#160;Loretta Lees is professor of human geography and director of research in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.
Table of Contents
List of tables, figures and photographs
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1. Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Loretta Lees, Tim Butler and Gary Bridge
Part 1: Reflections on social mix policy
2. Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Paul Cheshire
3. Social mix and urban policy
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Patrick Le Galandegrave;s
4. Mixed Communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Rebecca Tunstall
5. Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanizing world of Australasia
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Wendy Shaw
Part 2: Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times
6. Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; David Ley
7. Social mix and encounter capacityandmdash;a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Janduuml;rgen Bruns-Berentelg
Part 3: Social mix policies and gentrification
8. Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/andrsquo;racialandrsquo; exclusion nexus
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Pauline Lipman
9. Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte dandrsquo;Or district in Paris
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Marie-Handeacute;landegrave;ne Bacquandeacute; and Yankel Fijalkow
10. Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Kate Shaw
Part 4: The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies
11. Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: evidence-based policy or urban myth?
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; David Manley, Maarten van Ham and Joe Doherty
12. Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification: a view from Brussels
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Mathieu Van Criekingen
13. andlsquo;Regenerationandrsquo; in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Sarah Glynn
14. HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claimsand#160;
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; James Fraser, James DeFilippis and Joshua Bazuin
Part 5: Experiencing social mix
15. The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Mark Davidson
16. Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Kirsteen Paton
17. From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Torontoandrsquo;s public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Martine August and Alan Walks
18. Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Talja Blokland and Gwen van Eijk
Afterword
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Gary Bridge, Tim Butler and Loretta Lees
References
Index