Introduction: Gentrification and Retail Change

摘要: The literature on contemporary cities is vast, constantly evolving as it struggles to keep pace with frenetic processes of urban restructuring. But for the last 50 years or so, one theoretical concept has consistently been fore: gentrification. Originally invoked describe social transformation some London’s inner city neighbourhoods via ‘sweat equity’ owner-occupiers, term now routinely used any instance where landscapes long-term disinvestment are ‘upscaled’ through state funding, corporate speculation individual initiative. Around world, we seeing long associated working-class and minority populations being reinvented in accordance ideals metropolitan living, new residents tourists consuming these spaces sites leisured, middle-class urbanity. Corporations search eagerly opportunities exploit ‘rent gap’ between current potential rents, often aided abetted by governors keen see an transformation. theories experiences gentrification first worked London 1960s then updated revised become apparent elsewhere, including global South. Indeed, putative globalization led scholars suggest pulse behind generalized, a key dimension ‘planetary urbanism’ (Merrifield 2013; Wyly 2015).