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Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver

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  • David Ley

    (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Canada, dley@geog.ubc.ca)

  • Cory Dobson

    (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Canada, Cory.Dobson@vancouver.ca.)

Abstract

This paper examines conditions that impede inner-city gentrification. Several factors emerge from review of a scattered literature, including the role of public policy, neighbourhood political mobilisation and various combinations of population and land use characteristics that are normally unattractive to gentrifiers. In a first phase of analysis, some of these expectations are tested with census tract attributes against the map of gentrification in the City of Vancouver from 1971 to 2001. More detailed qualitative field work in the Downtown Eastside and Grandview-Woodland, two inner-city neighbourhoods with unexpectedly low indicators of gentrification, provides a fuller interpretation and reveals the intersection of local poverty cultures, industrial land use, neighbourhood political mobilisation and public policy, especially the policy of social housing provision, in blocking or stalling gentrification.

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  • David Ley & Cory Dobson, 2008. "Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(12), pages 2471-2498, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:45:y:2008:i:12:p:2471-2498
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098008097103
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