Loretta Lees

TL;DR: The authors argue that despite the new middle classes desire for diversity and difference they tend to self-segregate and, far from being tolerant, gentrifi cation is part of an aggressive, revanchist ideology designed to retake the inner city for the middle classes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that real analytical progress has been made, but there are still "wrinkles which research into the 'geography' of gentrification could address: financifiers - super-gentrification; third-world immigration - the global city; black/ethnic minority gentrification - race and gentrification; and liveability/urban policy - discourse on gentrification.

TL;DR: In a recent conference paper Lambert and Boddy (2002) questioned whether new-build residential developments in UK city centres were examples of gentrification as discussed by the authors, and concluded that this stretched th...

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical examination of the process of supergentrification in the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood of New York City is presented, where intensified regentrification is happening in a few selec...

TL;DR: The authors revisited the "geography of gentrification" thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism and argued that given the "mega-gentrification" affecting many cities in the Global South...