Gentrification: a working-class perspective

by Paton, Kirsteen

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Title Statements

Full title :Gentrification : a working-class perspective / by Kirsteen Paton, University of Leeds, UK.

Summary

"Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem of 'Broken Britain'. Gentrification is often presented to a moral and market antidote to such urban ills: deeply institutionalised as regeneration and targeted at areas which have suffered from disinvestment or are defined by 'lack'. Gentrification is no longer a peripheral neighbourhood process: it is policy; it is widespread; it is everyday. Yet comparative to this depth and breadth, we know little about what it is like to live with gentrification at the everyday level."--Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (223 pages : : illustration.)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315584348, 1315584344
oclc:on1330994397
LC Classification:HN400.S6
Dewey Decimal:305.50941

Subjects

Gentrification Gentrification -- Great Britain Great Britain Group identity Group identity -- Great Britain Neighborhoods Neighborhoods -- Great Britain Social classes Social classes -- Great Britain Working class Working class -- Great Britain