The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist CityWhy 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? |
Contents
CLASS STRUGGLE ON AVENUE B | 3 |
IS GENTRIFICATION A DIRTY WORD? | 30 |
Lower East Side New York | 42 |
LOCAL ARGUMENTS | 51 |
building and communitybased rehabilitation | 64 |
Baltimore waterfront | 78 |
MARKET STATE AND IDEOLOGY | 119 |
Philadelphia | 133 |
1985 | 148 |
District VII Budapest | 175 |
at the Community Board 3 meeting New York June 22 1993 | 228 |
Notes | 233 |