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The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

Neil Smith

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Introduction 1. 'Class Struggle on Avenue A': The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West 2. Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?I: Toward a Theory of Gentrification 3. Local Arguments: From Consumer Sovereignty to the Rent Gap 4. Global Arguments: Uneven Development 5. Social Arguments: Of Yuppies and HousingII: The Global is the Local 6. Market, State and Ideology: Society Hill 7. Catch 22: The Gentrification of Harlem? 8. On Generalities and Exceptions: Three European CitiesIII: The Revanchist City 9. Mapping the Gentrification Frontier 10. From Gentrification to the Revanchist City

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Introduction 1. 'Class Struggle on Avenue A': The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West 2. Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?I: Toward a Theory of Gentrification 3. Local Arguments: From Consumer Sovereignty to the Rent Gap 4. Global Arguments: Uneven Development 5. Social Arguments: Of Yuppies and HousingII: The Global is the Local 6. Market, State and Ideology: Society Hill 7. Catch 22: The Gentrification of Harlem? 8. On Generalities and Exceptions: Three European CitiesIII: The Revanchist City 9. Mapping the Gentrification Frontier 10. From Gentrification to the Revanchist City

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Introduction 1. 'Class Struggle on Avenue A': The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West 2. Is Gentrification a Dirty Word?I: Toward a Theory of Gentrification 3. Local Arguments: From Consumer Sovereignty to the Rent Gap 4. Global Arguments: Uneven Development 5. Social Arguments: Of Yuppies and HousingII: The Global is the Local 6. Market, State and Ideology: Society Hill 7. Catch 22: The Gentrification of Harlem? 8. On Generalities and Exceptions: Three European CitiesIII: The Revanchist City 9. Mapping the Gentrification Frontier 10. From Gentrification to the Revanchist City

Key concepts: Gentrification, Frontier, Global city, Economic geography, Ideology, State (computer science), Sociology, Geography

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