In the post-industrial American city, consumption and women play new and crucial roles. As
service, tourist, shopping, and entertainment industries take prominence over or supplement …

Since the 1970s, certain types of upscale restaurants, cafés, and stores have emerged as
highly visible signs of gentrification in cities all over the world. Taking Harlem and …

This paper examines how Brooklyn retail signage represents how gentrifying women
struggle for claiming space in public and the way in which different intersectional identity …

Public debate and prior scholarship tend to emphasize the link between gentrification and
high-end chain retail, underscoring the importance of taste cultures tied to social class in …

This article presents the case for utilizing business directories in building commercial
gentrification indexes as tools for research on neighborhood change. It reviews several existing …

The emerging literature on retail gentrification has not paid much attention to the link
between recent reconfigurations of retail capital (concentration, internationalization, and …

Despite early attention being paid to the connections amongst ‘gender, work and
gentrification’ in the urban geography literature, there have been few attempts to examine the …

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial
constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy …

Alberta Street is emblematic of Portland’s image as a city that embraces the “creative class,”
ranking high in being “bohemian” and embracing “diversity.” It is a street that has had a …

Gentrification has transformed low-income communities worldwide. The process is complex
but often follows a consistent pattern: capital flows into low-income neighborhoods, more …