Gentrification

A shame if my last post seemed dismissive of people who are probably crying out for their community to be gated, but the local authority won't let them do it.

Well stand well back, cos gentrification, according to the blurb for this new book, has gone from being a small scale urban process pioneered by a liberal new middle class to being mass-produced as a ‘gentrification blueprint’ around the world.

'The process is shown to be at the centre of neo-liberal urban policy world-wide.'

Meanwhile Kit Hodge, who's been monitoring this theme for some time over on the Neighbors Project blog, offers Seven rules for talking about gentrification.