New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City

Zusatztext Faculty are often asked, by students and funding agencies, for examples of how scholarly research in a given discipline or field should be done. This volume provides an excellent model. The book is very well written, carefully argued, richly informative and copiously documented... not only solid scholarship, but a good read. Students of inner cities will find this volume especially useful... It may also serve as the definitive history to date of the gentrification literature... this volume will likely stand as... the definitive history of, three decades of research on gentrification. Klappentext This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities. Placing his study within the context of international post-industrial, postmodern society, Ley discusses the crucial role of cultural politics dating from the 1960s. Zusammenfassung This book examines the creation of a new middle class responsible for the gentrification of inner city districts in six large Canadian cities within the international contexts of post-industrial postmodern society. It discusses the crucial role of cultural politics dating from the 1960s in this first detailed and comparative study of `gentrification'.

Product details

• Authors: David Ley, David (Professor of Geography Ley, David F. Ley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1996
• EAN: 9780198232926
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823292-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series; Oxford Geographical and Enviro; Oxford Geographical and Enviro; Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Canada, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, c 1960 to c 1970, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Human Geography, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems