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A reappraisal of gentrification: towards a ‘geography of gentrification’
- L. Lees
- Sociology
- 1 September 2000
The gentrification literature since the mid-1990s is reappraised in light of the emergence of processes of post-recession gentrification and in the face of recent British and American urban policy…
New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance
- M. Davidson, L. Lees
- History
- 1 July 2005
In a recent conference paper Lambert and Boddy (2002) questioned whether new-build residential developments in UK city centres were examples of gentrification. They concluded that this stretched the…
Gentrification and Social Mixing: Towards an Inclusive Urban Renaissance?
- L. Lees
- History
- 1 November 2008
Nearly 30 years ago now, Holcomb and Beauregard were critical of the way that it was assumed that the benefits of gentrification would 'trickle down' to the lower classes in a manner similar to that…
Urban geography: discourse analysis and urban research
- L. Lees
- Sociology
- 1 February 2004
Super-gentrification: The Case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City
- L. Lees
- Economics
- 1 November 2003
This paper is an empirical examination of the process of 'super-gentrification' in the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood of New York City. This intensified regentrification is happening in a few select…
Towards A Critical Geography of Architecture: The Case of an Ersatz Colosseum
- L. Lees
- Sociology
- 1 January 2001
This paper argues that an architectural geography should be about more than just representation. For both as a practice and a product architecture is performative in the sense that it involves…
New-build gentrification: its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies
- Mark S. Davidson, L. Lees
- Political Science
- 1 September 2010
New-build gentrification has been the subject of renewed attention of late. The impetus was Lambert and Boddy, who asserted that inner-city new-build developments in British city centres should not…
The geography of gentrification
- L. Lees
- Sociology
- 1 April 2012
This paper revisits the ‘geography of gentrification’ thinking through the literature on comparative urbanism. I argue that given the ‘mega-gentrification’ affecting many cities in the Global South…
Super‐gentrification in Barnsbury, London: globalization and gentrifying global elites at the neighbourhood level
In this paper we argue that a process of super-gentrification, similar to that first identified by Lees (2003 Urban Studies 40 2487–509) in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, is occurring in the…
The ambivalence of diversity and the politics of urban renaissance: the case of youth in downtown Portland, Maine
- L. Lees
- History
- 1 September 2003
In this article the ambivalence of public policy responses to diversity on the street are documented empirically through a detailed case study of the marginalization of youth from the downtown public…
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