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Super-gentrification

The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City

Bibliographic Data

ID5829249
AuthorsLoretta Lees (0000-0001-5834-8155, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume40
Issue12
Pages2487-2509
Publication date2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/0042098032000136174
OpenAlexW2169013634
LanguageEN
Citations received303
References cited38

This paper is an empirical examination of the process of 'super-gentrification' in the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood of New York City. This intensified regentrification is happening in a few select areas of global cities like London and New York that have become the focus of intense investment and conspicuous consumption by a new generation of super-rich 'financifiers' fed by fortunes from the global finance and corporate service industries. This latest resurgence of gentrification can be distinguished from previous rounds of revitalisation and poses important questions about the historical continuity of current manifestations of gentrification with previous generations of neighbourhood change

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