9780415132541

The New Urban Frontier

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780415132541

Hardcover|9780415132541


Overview

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? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? 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 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 the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.

ISBN-13

9780415132541

ISBN-10

0415132541

Weight

1.65 Pounds

Dimensions

6.14 x 0.69 x 9.21 In

List Price

$300.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

288 pages

Publisher

Routledge

Published On

1996-09-20



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