Mixed Communities : : Gentrification by Stealth? / / ed. by Gary Bridge, Tim Butler, Loretta Lees.

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• MitwirkendeR: August, Martine,; Bacqué, Marie-Hélène,; Bazuin, Joshua,; Blokland, Talja,; Bridge, Gary,; Bruns-Berentelg, Jürgen,; Butler, Tim,; Cheshire, Paul,; Davidson, Mark,; DeFilippis, James,; Doherty, Joe,; Fijalkow, Yankel,; Fraser, James,; Galès, Patrick Le,; Glynn, Sarah,; Lees, Loretta,; Ley, David,; Lipman, Pauline,; Manley, David,; Paton, Kirsteen,; Shaw, Kate,; Shaw, Wendy,; Tunstall, Rebecca,; Van Criekingen, Mathieu,; Walks, Alan,; van Eijk, Gwen,; van Ham, Maarten,
• HerausgeberIn: Bridge, Gary,; Butler, Tim,; Lees, Loretta,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Encouraging neighbourhood social mix has been a major goal of urban policy and planning in a number of different countries. This book draws together a range of case studies by international experts to assess the impacts of social mix policies and the degree to which they might represent gentrification by stealth. The contributions consider the range of social mix initiatives in different countries across the globe and their relationship to wider social, economic and urban change. The book combines understandings of social mix from the perspectives of researchers, policy makers and planners and the residents of the communities themselves. Mixed Communities also draws out more general lessons from these international comparisons - theoretically, empirically and for urban policy. It will be highly relevant for urban researchers and students, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables, figures and photographs -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities -- Reflections on social mix policy -- Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal -- Social mix and urban policy -- Mixed communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK -- Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia -- Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times -- Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification -- Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg -- Social mix policies and gentrification -- Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/‘racial’ exclusion nexus -- Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte d’Or district in Paris -- Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne -- The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies -- Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: evidence-based policy or urban myth? -- Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification – a view from Brussels -- ‘Regeneration’ in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city -- HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims -- Experiencing social mix -- The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing -- Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research -- From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto’s public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power -- Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands -- Afterword -- References -- Index