Gentrifications

Marie Chabrol is a lecturer in the department of geography of the University of Picardy Jules Verne, in Amiens (France), and a member of the Habiter le Monde research unit.

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Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction: From Gentrification to Gentrifications



Part I: Structures



Chapter 1. From Industry to Real Estate: Creating the Gentrification Supply

Chapter 2. The Existing Built Environment: How Urban Morphologies Inform Gentrification ‘Potentials’

Chapter 3. On the Diversity of Gentrifers: Structural Effects and Contextual Effects



Part II: Policies



Chapter 4. Are Pro-Gentrification Policies Real? An Evidence-Based Inquiry

Chapter 5. Gentrification: A Matter of Images and Representations

Chapter 6. Moving Upmarket: a Neoliberal Strategy of Urban (Re)Development



Part III: Inhabitants



Chapter 7. Gentrification, Pauperization, Immigration: One Process May Hide Another

Chapter 8. Popular Continuities in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods: The Presences and Practices of Nonresidents

Chapter 9. R Residing in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood: The Importance of Trajectories and Mobilities

Chapter 10. Negotiating Diversity in Daily Life. Controlled Neighbourly Relations and School Choices



Conclusion



Index