{"product_id":"the-new-urban-frontier-neil-smith-9780415132558","title":"The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City","description":"Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it?\u003cbr\u003e This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness.\u003cbr\u003e The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041513255X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415132558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.14w x 0.70d","brand":"Neil Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130108997887,"sku":"9780415132558","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3b6cb612-86bc-4089-89cb-3c1d1e04e46c.jpg?v=1687467609","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-urban-frontier-neil-smith-9780415132558","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}