Handbook of Gentrification Studies

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Handbook of Gentrification Studies is written by Loretta Lees and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785361740 (ISBN 10) and 9781785361746 (ISBN 13).

It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence.