New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance

Mark Davidson and Loretta Lees

Environment and Planning A, 2005, vol. 37, issue 7, 1165-1190

Abstract: In a recent conference paper Lambert and Boddy (2002) questioned whether new-build residential developments in UK city centres were examples of gentrification. They concluded that this stretched the term too far and coined ‘residentialisation’ as an alternative term. In contrast, we argue in this paper that new-build residential developments in city centres are examples of gentrification. We argue that new-build gentrification is part and parcel of the maturation and mutation of the gentrification process during the post-recession era. We outline the conceptual cases for and against new-build ‘gentrification‘, then, using the case of London's riverside renaissance, we find in favour of the case for.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1068/a3739

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