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Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: The Case of Gentrification

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  • R A Beauregard

    (Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, School of Urban and Regional Policy, Lucy Stone Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA)

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Our understanding of the comparative dynamics of neighborhood change is relatively undeveloped. In order to disentangle various trajectories, the complex processes which constitute gentrification are explored both quantitatively and qualitatively in four neighborhoods in Philadelphia for the postwar period. The analysis reveals quite diverse forms of gentrification, varying in potential and pace, that pivot around the structural forces of capitalism and the particularities of place. Emphasis is placed on the actions of agents of property and finance capital, governments, and individual households in bringing about gentrification; and those of neighborhood groups in resisting it. The implications for the merging of structure and contingency in neighborhood theory and for political action are addressed briefly.

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  • R A Beauregard, 1990. "Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: The Case of Gentrification," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 22(7), pages 855-874, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:22:y:1990:i:7:p:855-874
    DOI: 10.1068/a220855
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    1. Alan Smart & Josephine Smart, 2017. "Ain't Talkin' ‘Bout Gentrification: The Erasure of Alternative Idioms of Displacement Resulting from Anglo-American Academic Hegemony," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(3), pages 518-525, May.

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