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The New Urban Frontier - Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Hardcover)
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The New Urban Frontier - Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Hardcover)
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Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America
and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades,
converting urban decay into new chic? What does this mean for the
people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book
challenges conventional wisdom - which holds gentrification to be
the simple outcome of the new middle class tastes and a demand for
urban living - to reveal gentrification as part of a much larger
shift in the political economy and culture of the late-20th
century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that
gentrification brings to the new urban "frontiers", the book
explores the interconnections of urban policy, 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 the homeless. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification
is a policy of revenge.
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