Life on the Upslope
The Postmodern Landscape of Gentrification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C A Mills (0000-0002-2906-4978, University of British Columbia) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-190 |
| Publication date | 1988-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d060169 |
| OpenAlex | W1968532301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 107 |
| References cited | 35 |
The significance of the changing meaning of the inner city to the process of gentrification is explored. Recent researchers taking a 'production of gentrifiers' perspective have focused on how restructuring of production and reproduction has generated a growth in the number of households which are most likely to benefit from inner-city living. That argument is extended with reference to cultural change, interweaving theoretical issues with an account of the postmodern landscape of a redeveloped neighbourhood in Vancouver, Canada. Connections are made between a number of practices, including planning and architectural design, advertising and marketing strategy, and the life-style of 'New Class' gentrifiers. Dynamic relations between emergent and dominant cultures are traced in terms of their impact on the transformation of this landscape. Postmodern landscapes are ambiguous in their meaning; they have come to represent both a reaction against corporate visions of the city, and a confirmation of the vigour of the commodity form. This tension is examined in terms of the interplay between the construction of the postmodern landscape and the constitution of gentrifiers as a social group
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural landscape · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Gentrification · Geography · Meaning (existential · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Postmodernism · Reproduction · Restructuring · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Ecology · Law · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Urban Planning and Governance
The Dynamics of Multifaceted Gentrification
The changing landscapes of Southwest Montréal
La géographique britannique et ses diagnostics sur l'époque postmoderne
The Restless Urban Landscape
Urban Geography in a Changing World
Gentrification
La ville branchée
Instruments of Symbolic Violence in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Gentrification in the Indian Context
“Eyes” on the Street
Studentification and commodification of student lifestyle in Braamfontein, Johannesburg
Gentrification within Australia’s ‘Problem City’
On the Contours of Public Space
Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver
Displacement Pressure and the Health Consequences of Neighborhood Change
New‐build gentrification
Gendering reurbanisation
From urban wastelands to new‐build gentrification
The lived experience of class cleansing
Muscles, Motorcycles and Tattoos
Divine Living
Shaping the healthy subject in gentrified spaces
Rural gentrification and the processes of class colonisation
The resale of right to buy dwellings
Gentrification as Corporate Growth Strategy
An island of civilization in a sea of delay? Indifference and fragmentation along the rugged shorelines of Kiev’s newbuild archipelago
Castles in Toronto’s Sky
Industry of Last Resort
Where is the ‘Promised Land’
Landscapes, places and geographic spaces
Inner city gentrification in South Africa
Other geographies of gentrification
Space, place and gender relations
A terrain of metaphor
Accounting for cultural meanings
Gender symbols and urban landscapes
Rethinking gentrification
Historic Preservation and Social Stability in Sacramento's Old City
Gentrification in Recession
Political Ecologies of Gentrification
Popular Cultural Practices in the “Postmodern City”
Toronto’s condo-builders
Sustainability-As-Density and the Return of the Social
Big Sky or Big Sprawl? Rural Gentrification and the Changing Cultural Landscape of Missoula, Montana
Looking at the "North American City" Through the Lens of Gentrification Discourse
Envisioning the Livable City
Urban Liveability in Context
Gender, Class, and Urban Space
Notwithstanding the Exaggerated Claims, Residential Revitalisation Really is Changing the Form of Some Western Cities
Policy Review Section
Policy Review Section
Livability for whom
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Geography
Recent Advances in Urban Morphology
The real estate foothold in the Holy Land
Leeds Calling
Is High-rise Housing Innovative? Developers' Contradictory Narratives of High-rise Housing in Melbourne
Gender Divisions and Gentrification
Yuppies, Yuffies and the New Urban Order
Fashioning the city
The best of times for some and the worst of times for others? Gender and class divisions in urban Britain today
Differential productions of rural gentrification
Critical cosmopolitanism
New populations in the British city centre
Municipally managed gentrification in South Parkdale, Toronto
The changing place of condominiums across a metropolitan area, 1970–2015
Fairview Slopes, Vancouver
Landscape
Landscape studies in geography and cognate fields of the humanities and social sciences
The Production and Consumption of Environmental Meanings in the Mass Media
The Place of Landscape
Connecting embodiment, emotion and gentrification
Retext(ur)ing the city
Ethnic Packaging and Gentrification
The City Unbound
The 'Other' Postmodern Tourism
Postmodernism and the New Middle Class
Narratives of high-rise housing
Selling the 'scary city
The Challenge of Post-Modern Scholarship Within Geography
Gentrification, Class, and Gender
An analysis of diverse gentrification processes and their relationship to historic preservation activity in Chicago
Gentrification
Connecting country and city
We're a Rich City with Poor People
Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class
Buy-to-let gentrification
A New Look at Gentrification
Adelaide's Heart Transplant, 1970-88
Re-urbanizing London Docklands
The City in the Country
Gathering 'Dreams of Presence
Heritage-fueled gentrification
Gentrification as Consumption
Gender, Class, and Gentrification
Situating Cultural Politics
The agencies of landscape in rural gentrification
New-Build 'Gentrification' and London's Riverside Renaissance
In the Pursuit of Difference
Gentrifiers and Their Choice of Housing
The Culture of consumption
Loft living
The Anti-aesthetic
The Meaning of Things
Social Limits to Growth
Iconology
Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People
The Interpretation of Cultures
The class structure of the advanced societies.
Social formation and symbolic landscape
Social Theory and the Urban Question
The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class
The Concept of Cultural Hegemony
Geography and the urban environment
Vancouver's Corporate Complex and Producer Services Sector
Social Upgrading in Six Canadian Inner Cities
Gentrification and the Rent Gap
Liberal Ideology and the Postindustrial City∗
Post-Industrial Society
Styles of the times
Cultural Hegemony and the Race-Definition Process in Chinatown, Vancouver
The Politics of Theory
Of Yuppies and Housing
Postmodernism and Planning
Rethinking Gentrification
Landscape as Spectacle
(Re)Reading the Landscape
Mapping the Postmodern
Gentrification and Uneven Development
Culture and Consumption
Industrial Transformation and Challenge in Australia and Canada
Culture and Practical Reason
The Icons of the Marketplace
| Unique citing works | 107 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,89 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 103 |