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Gentrification and the Middle-class Remaking of Inner London, 1961-2001

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ID10860233
AuthorsChris Hamnett (0000-0001-9944-5891, Department of Geography, King's College, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK. chris., corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume40
Issue12
Pages2401-2426
Publication date2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/0042098032000136138
OpenAlexW2133505800
LanguageEN
Citations received244
References cited42

This paper reviews the debates over the explanation of gentrification and argues that gentrification is best explained as the social and spatial manifestation of the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial economy based on financial, business and creative services, with associated changes in the nature and location of work, in the occupational class structure, earnings and incomes and the structure of the housing market. The paper sets out the links between these changes in the London context. It also examines the evidence for gentrification-induced displacement in London, arguing that it may be more appropriate to view the process partly as one of replacement

Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Earnings · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Gentrification · Geography · Labour economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Working class · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance

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