THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS AND THE REMAKING OF THE CENTRAL CITY by David Ley ( 9780198232926 )

Item Details

Title:

THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS AND THE REMAKING OF THE CENTRAL CITY

By:

David Ley

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£175.00

Our price:

£153.13

Discount:

12.5% off

You save:

£21.87

ISBN 10:

0198232926

ISBN 13:

9780198232926

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 1996

Series:

Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series

Pages:

400

Description:

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'.

Synopsis:

What factors lay behind the rehabilitation of central city districts across the world? Set against the contexts of international transformations in a post-industrial postmodern society, this book examines the creation and self-creation of a new middle class of professional and managerial workers associated with the process of gentrification. These are amongst the privileged members in the growing polarisation of urban society. The book examines their impact on central housing markets, retailing and leisure spaces in the inner city. Taking as its focus six large canadian cities, the author identifies a distinctive cultural new class of urbane social and cultural professionals inspired in part by the critical youth movements of the 1960s for whom old inner city neighbourhoods served as oppositional sites to assail the boureois suburbs. The study looks at their close links with reform movements, neighbourhood activism and a welfare state that often provided their employment, in a progressive aesthetisation of central city spaces since the 1980s.The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City offers the first detailed and comparitive study of gentrification which locates the phenomenon in broader historical and theoretical contexts.

Illustrations:

halftones, line figures, tables

Publication:

Imprint:

Oxford University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

DAVID'S BROKEN LINE (PB)

GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNIC PLURALISM (HB)

GEOGRAPHY WITHOUT MAN (PB)

HOUSING BOOMS IN GATEWAY CITIES (HB)