Eric Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 289 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Potential rents vs. potential lives
The seeking of potential rents directs flows of investment into built and natural environments, suffusing volatility into urban and rural landscapes, generating gentrification and other forms of land use change, and displacing lives and livelihoods to make space for 'improvement', 'highest and best use', 'revitalization', or the like. In this paper we argue that potential rents are captured at the cost of potential lives, and that rent gap theory…
Gentrification and revanchist urbanism in Taipei
As policy and theory travel, comparative urbanism becomes important to address questions concerning if and how gentrification and revanchist urbanism have ‘gone South’, or ‘gone East’. In recent decades, Taipei has experienced a shift in economic base, massive urban renewal, neoliberal reforms and associated social polarisation. In this paper we ask to what extent gentrification and revanchist urbanism are relevant concepts for understanding proc…
Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement
Good urban governance: Making rent gap theory not true
(2014). Good urban governance: making rent gap theory not true. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 392-395
Guest editorial introduction: Islanding Cultural Geographies
Participation in evolution and sustainability
The modern synthesis of genetics with evolution slanted our understanding of evolution and of ourselves by rejecting Darwin’s view of animals as participating in their own evolution. Defining evolution in terms of genetics, the modern synthesis indulges excessive individualism and distorted self‐images as self‐made. At the same time, such gene‐centred thought, evoking images of master molecules making us who we are, hollows out volition and so al…
Neoliberalization of Housing in Sweden: Gentrification, Filtering, and Social Polarization
During the last twenty-five years, housing policy in Sweden has radically changed. Once forming a pillar of the comprehensive welfare system, abbreviated the “Swedish model,” neoliberal housing politics have established market-governed housing provision with a minimum of state engagement. This shift has had consequences on the social geography of housing conditions. The research reported here analyzes social geographic change in Sweden's three la…
Society–nature coevolution: Interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber's heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainable development. Geography's recent re‐engagement in th…
The order and simplicity of gentrification ication—a political challenge
Isolating connections – connecting isolations
The varied and distinct ways we connect can facilitate or impose isolation, our own or someone else's. Different forms of isolation are themselves interconnected and sometimes enrich our connecting. The relation between isolation and connection, we argue, is one of complementarity, like Calvino's ‘two inseparable and complementary functions of life ...syntony, or participation in the world around us ... [and] focalization or constructive concentr…
Power over time‐space — the inaugural nordic geographers meeting
Power over time‐space — the inaugural nordic geographers meeting." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 87(2), pp. 97–98
The Ballad Dance of the Faeroese: Island Biocultural Geography in an Age of Globalisation
Boundary issues are central to globalisation – the expansion and time‐space integration of human societies – and to both biological and cultural diversity. The latter are, in turn, intrinsically related in processes of coevolution that generate change in the patchwork quilt of cultural and natural landscapes. These processes are especially discernible in small island societies. This paper argues that island studies can enhance our understanding o…
Nature‐society interactions on islands: Introduction
Creativity and Cost in Urban and Regional Development in the 'New Economy'
Creative Copenhagen: Globalization, Urban Governance and Social Change
The introduction of 'creativity' and the 'creative city' in imagineering Copenhagen and in strategies for developing its urban competitiveness is analysed from a perspective on relations between processes of globalization, developments in urban government/governance and social geographic change. This perspective problematizes what on the surface seems to be an unequivocally positive quality ('creative') and goal ('creativity'). We argue there is …
Globalizing cities – introduction
Globalization of a commercial property market: The case of Copenhagen
The Rent Gap Re-examined
Rent gap theory is re-examined in view of Bourassa's recent critique. The critique is found to be flawed on three accounts. It equates an abstract concept (actual land rent) with a concrete event (contract rent); it seeks the relevance of the rent gap at times of redevelopment; and it diminishes rent gap theory to an equation for calculating the profitability of redevelopment. In this re-examination, it is argued that: (1) actual land rent is not…
An Arrow-Cycle Interpretation of the Redevelopment of Stockholm's Central Business District
Danish Journal of Geography 95: 83–91, 1995. The core of Stockholm's central business district, Lower Norrmalm, underwent a process of total renewal during the post-war period. This study asks if this renewal process may be interpreted as a manifestation of a logic of cyclicity inherent to the economies of regions and nations. First, time series over construction activity are presented for three geographic levels: Stockholm, the inner city and Lo…
Towards a Copenhagen Interpretation of Gentrification
In the social sciences, and particularly in gentrification research, there seems to be a persistent fascination with, and an urge to pursue a course towards synthesising, integrating or uniting very different approaches into a single comprehensive explanation. One concept often raised in this context is complementarity (associated with Bohr's 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics), though usually in an unreflective and uncritical manne…
On gaps in gentrification theory
Relations between rent gap and value gap explanations of gentrification have not been subjected to close analysis, though they have occasionally been presented as incongruent. This article argues for an integration of the two theories — that value gaps and rent gaps do not contradict or exclude each other but are on the contrary best perceived within a common theoretical framework. The case of gentrification in Sweden is examined from this perspe…
On Blindness, Centrepieces and Complementarity in Gentrification Theory
Long Swings, Rent Gaps and Structures of Building Provision - the Postwar Transformation of Stockholm's Inner City
Landlords and Property - Social Relations in the Private Rented Sector
The Rent Gap and Transformation of the Built Environment: Case Studies in Malmö 1860–1985
The theory of rent gap has received much attention in the 1980's literature on gentrification and urban renewal. Two shortcomings in this literature are the neglect of other formulations than Neil Smith's and the lack of empirical research efforts to put the theory to a test. This paper attempts to alleviate these shortcomings by first presenting a comparison of alternative formulations of rent gap theory, and then presenting the results of an em…
Neoliberalization of Housing in Sweden: Gentrification, Filtering, and Social Polarization
During the last twenty-five years, housing policy in Sweden has radically changed. Once forming a pillar of the comprehensive welfare system, abbreviated the “Swedish model,” neoliberal housing politics have established market-governed housing provision with a minimum of state engagement. This shift has had consequences on the social geography of housing conditions. The research reported here analyzes social geographic change in Sweden's three la…
The Rent Gap Re-examined
Rent gap theory is re-examined in view of Bourassa's recent critique. The critique is found to be flawed on three accounts. It equates an abstract concept (actual land rent) with a concrete event (contract rent); it seeks the relevance of the rent gap at times of redevelopment; and it diminishes rent gap theory to an equation for calculating the profitability of redevelopment. In this re-examination, it is argued that: (1) actual land rent is not…
The Rent Gap and Transformation of the Built Environment: Case Studies in Malmo 1860-1985
Gentrification and revanchist urbanism in Taipei
As policy and theory travel, comparative urbanism becomes important to address questions concerning if and how gentrification and revanchist urbanism have ‘gone South’, or ‘gone East’. In recent decades, Taipei has experienced a shift in economic base, massive urban renewal, neoliberal reforms and associated social polarisation. In this paper we ask to what extent gentrification and revanchist urbanism are relevant concepts for understanding proc…
On gaps in gentrification theory
Relations between rent gap and value gap explanations of gentrification have not been subjected to close analysis, though they have occasionally been presented as incongruent. This article argues for an integration of the two theories — that value gaps and rent gaps do not contradict or exclude each other but are on the contrary best perceived within a common theoretical framework. The case of gentrification in Sweden is examined from this perspe…
On Blindness, Centrepieces and Complementarity in Gentrification Theory
The Rent Gap and Transformation of the Built Environment: Case Studies in Malmö 1860–1985
The theory of rent gap has received much attention in the 1980's literature on gentrification and urban renewal. Two shortcomings in this literature are the neglect of other formulations than Neil Smith's and the lack of empirical research efforts to put the theory to a test. This paper attempts to alleviate these shortcomings by first presenting a comparison of alternative formulations of rent gap theory, and then presenting the results of an em…
Participation in evolution and sustainability
The modern synthesis of genetics with evolution slanted our understanding of evolution and of ourselves by rejecting Darwin’s view of animals as participating in their own evolution. Defining evolution in terms of genetics, the modern synthesis indulges excessive individualism and distorted self‐images as self‐made. At the same time, such gene‐centred thought, evoking images of master molecules making us who we are, hollows out volition and so al…
Long Swings, Rent Gaps and Structures of Building Provision - the Postwar Transformation of Stockholm's Inner City
Globalization of a commercial property market: The case of Copenhagen
Potential rents vs. potential lives
The seeking of potential rents directs flows of investment into built and natural environments, suffusing volatility into urban and rural landscapes, generating gentrification and other forms of land use change, and displacing lives and livelihoods to make space for 'improvement', 'highest and best use', 'revitalization', or the like. In this paper we argue that potential rents are captured at the cost of potential lives, and that rent gap theory…
Isolating connections – connecting isolations
The varied and distinct ways we connect can facilitate or impose isolation, our own or someone else's. Different forms of isolation are themselves interconnected and sometimes enrich our connecting. The relation between isolation and connection, we argue, is one of complementarity, like Calvino's ‘two inseparable and complementary functions of life ...syntony, or participation in the world around us ... [and] focalization or constructive concentr…
Guest editorial introduction: Islanding Cultural Geographies
The Ballad Dance of the Faeroese: Island Biocultural Geography in an Age of Globalisation
Boundary issues are central to globalisation – the expansion and time‐space integration of human societies – and to both biological and cultural diversity. The latter are, in turn, intrinsically related in processes of coevolution that generate change in the patchwork quilt of cultural and natural landscapes. These processes are especially discernible in small island societies. This paper argues that island studies can enhance our understanding o…
Nature‐society interactions on islands: Introduction
Towards a Copenhagen Interpretation of Gentrification
In the social sciences, and particularly in gentrification research, there seems to be a persistent fascination with, and an urge to pursue a course towards synthesising, integrating or uniting very different approaches into a single comprehensive explanation. One concept often raised in this context is complementarity (associated with Bohr's 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics), though usually in an unreflective and uncritical manne…
Landlords and Property - Social Relations in the Private Rented Sector
Good urban governance: Making rent gap theory not true
(2014). Good urban governance: making rent gap theory not true. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 392-395
Society–nature coevolution: Interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber's heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainable development. Geography's recent re‐engagement in th…
Power over time‐space — the inaugural nordic geographers meeting
Power over time‐space — the inaugural nordic geographers meeting." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 87(2), pp. 97–98
The Rent Gap and Transformation of the Built Environment: Case Studies in Malmö 1860–1985
The theory of rent gap has received much attention in the 1980's literature on gentrification and urban renewal. Two shortcomings in this literature are the neglect of other formulations than Neil Smith's and the lack of empirical research efforts to put the theory to a test. This paper attempts to alleviate these shortcomings by first presenting a comparison of alternative formulations of rent gap theory, and then presenting the results of an em…
The Rent Gap and Transformation of the Built Environment: Case Studies in Malmo 1860-1985
Landlords and Property - Social Relations in the Private Rented Sector
Long Swings, Rent Gaps and Structures of Building Provision - the Postwar Transformation of Stockholm's Inner City
On gaps in gentrification theory
Relations between rent gap and value gap explanations of gentrification have not been subjected to close analysis, though they have occasionally been presented as incongruent. This article argues for an integration of the two theories — that value gaps and rent gaps do not contradict or exclude each other but are on the contrary best perceived within a common theoretical framework. The case of gentrification in Sweden is examined from this perspe…
On Blindness, Centrepieces and Complementarity in Gentrification Theory
Towards a Copenhagen Interpretation of Gentrification
In the social sciences, and particularly in gentrification research, there seems to be a persistent fascination with, and an urge to pursue a course towards synthesising, integrating or uniting very different approaches into a single comprehensive explanation. One concept often raised in this context is complementarity (associated with Bohr's 'Copenhagen interpretation' of quantum mechanics), though usually in an unreflective and uncritical manne…
The Rent Gap Re-examined
Rent gap theory is re-examined in view of Bourassa's recent critique. The critique is found to be flawed on three accounts. It equates an abstract concept (actual land rent) with a concrete event (contract rent); it seeks the relevance of the rent gap at times of redevelopment; and it diminishes rent gap theory to an equation for calculating the profitability of redevelopment. In this re-examination, it is argued that: (1) actual land rent is not…
An Arrow-Cycle Interpretation of the Redevelopment of Stockholm's Central Business District
Danish Journal of Geography 95: 83–91, 1995. The core of Stockholm's central business district, Lower Norrmalm, underwent a process of total renewal during the post-war period. This study asks if this renewal process may be interpreted as a manifestation of a logic of cyclicity inherent to the economies of regions and nations. First, time series over construction activity are presented for three geographic levels: Stockholm, the inner city and Lo…
Globalizing cities – introduction
Globalization of a commercial property market: The case of Copenhagen
Creativity and Cost in Urban and Regional Development in the 'New Economy'
Creative Copenhagen: Globalization, Urban Governance and Social Change
The introduction of 'creativity' and the 'creative city' in imagineering Copenhagen and in strategies for developing its urban competitiveness is analysed from a perspective on relations between processes of globalization, developments in urban government/governance and social geographic change. This perspective problematizes what on the surface seems to be an unequivocally positive quality ('creative') and goal ('creativity'). We argue there is …
Nature‐society interactions on islands: Introduction
The Ballad Dance of the Faeroese: Island Biocultural Geography in an Age of Globalisation
Boundary issues are central to globalisation – the expansion and time‐space integration of human societies – and to both biological and cultural diversity. The latter are, in turn, intrinsically related in processes of coevolution that generate change in the patchwork quilt of cultural and natural landscapes. These processes are especially discernible in small island societies. This paper argues that island studies can enhance our understanding o…
Power over time‐space — the inaugural nordic geographers meeting
Power over time‐space — the inaugural nordic geographers meeting." Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 87(2), pp. 97–98
Isolating connections – connecting isolations
The varied and distinct ways we connect can facilitate or impose isolation, our own or someone else's. Different forms of isolation are themselves interconnected and sometimes enrich our connecting. The relation between isolation and connection, we argue, is one of complementarity, like Calvino's ‘two inseparable and complementary functions of life ...syntony, or participation in the world around us ... [and] focalization or constructive concentr…
The order and simplicity of gentrification ication—a political challenge
Society–nature coevolution: Interdisciplinary concept for sustainability
A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber's heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainable development. Geography's recent re‐engagement in th…
Participation in evolution and sustainability
The modern synthesis of genetics with evolution slanted our understanding of evolution and of ourselves by rejecting Darwin’s view of animals as participating in their own evolution. Defining evolution in terms of genetics, the modern synthesis indulges excessive individualism and distorted self‐images as self‐made. At the same time, such gene‐centred thought, evoking images of master molecules making us who we are, hollows out volition and so al…
Neoliberalization of Housing in Sweden: Gentrification, Filtering, and Social Polarization
During the last twenty-five years, housing policy in Sweden has radically changed. Once forming a pillar of the comprehensive welfare system, abbreviated the “Swedish model,” neoliberal housing politics have established market-governed housing provision with a minimum of state engagement. This shift has had consequences on the social geography of housing conditions. The research reported here analyzes social geographic change in Sweden's three la…
Guest editorial introduction: Islanding Cultural Geographies
Good urban governance: Making rent gap theory not true
(2014). Good urban governance: making rent gap theory not true. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography: Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 392-395
Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement
Gentrification and revanchist urbanism in Taipei
As policy and theory travel, comparative urbanism becomes important to address questions concerning if and how gentrification and revanchist urbanism have ‘gone South’, or ‘gone East’. In recent decades, Taipei has experienced a shift in economic base, massive urban renewal, neoliberal reforms and associated social polarisation. In this paper we ask to what extent gentrification and revanchist urbanism are relevant concepts for understanding proc…
Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economic geography (13 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Gentrification (8 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (8 works) · Politics (7 works)