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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• 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 gentrificati...

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