The rent gap revisited

Gentrification in point Chevalier, Auckland

Bibliographic Data

ID11670576
AuthorsCheng Liu (0009-0000-8779-6977, China University of Geosciences, corresponding author), David O’sullivan (0000-0001-8078-3241, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA), George L W Perry (0000-0001-9672-9135, School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
Year2018
Volume39
Issue9
Pages1300-1325
Publication date2018-03-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2018.1446883
OpenAlexW2793916543
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited53

The rent gap is the difference between the actual and potential ground rent of a site. This paper estimates the rent gap into two ways: gaps estimated using actual and potential ground rents at the same scale, and those based on different scales, and unpacks the relationship between renovation and both of these rent gaps via logistic regression. Using the suburb of Point Chevalier in Auckland as a case study, we find that the rent gap at a single scale is a more appropriate proxy for Smith’s rent gap concept in this particular case. A comparison between Point Chevalier and other neighborhoods in Auckland suggests that the co-occurrence between renovation events and rent gap derives from capital flows and class struggle in gentrification and that the rent gap is both an outcome of the social relations that produce gentrification, and a symptom of it

Cartography · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic rent · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Geometry · Microeconomics · Point (geometry · Proxy (statistics · Scale (ratio · Statistics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Mathematics · Urban Planning and Governance

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