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Via@, 2020 This article seeks to understand how relatively isolated French Alpine valleys are influenced by economic (tourism, real estate market, etc.) and demographic (in settling inhabitants, gentrification, etc.) dynamics which can act in contradictory ways ...
Anne Barrioz
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Transformation of tourist landscapes in mountain areas: Case studies from Slovakia [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2011 After two decades of deregulated free market economy the post-socialist rural mountain areas are being unprecedently commodified. Landscapes of tourist consumption with specific behaviour patterns are produced and reproduced.
Branislav Chrenka, Vladimír Ira
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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Via@, 2020 The tendencies of the revalorisation of rural spaces and subsequent rural gentrification have been studied under the notion of “amenity migration” in different geographic contexts.
Andrea Friedli
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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Comparative approaches to gentrification: Lessons from the rural [PDF]
, 2018 The epistemologies and politics of comparative research are prominently debated within urban studies, with ‘comparative urbanism’ emerging as a contemporary lexicon of urban studies. The study of urban gentrification has, after some delay, come to engage
Martin Phillips (558463) +1 more
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Forum GeografiGentrification is identified as a transformative process, which involves major social and spatial transformations that take place either rapidly or gradually in various geographical contexts.
Edi Setiawan +3 more
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The Dynamics of Rural Gentrification and the Effects of Ageing on Gentrified Rural Places
AGER. Revista de Estudios sobre Despoblación y Desarrollo Rural, 2019 Theories of gentrification represent gentrifiers as social groups at early- to mid- phases of their lifecourse. In urban contexts, this encompasses young, childless and upwardly mobile professionals and family entrifiers with children. The latter are also prominent figures within representations of idyllic, gentrified rural places for raising children,
Smith, Darren P. +4 more
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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From gentrification to the geography of gentrification: shifts in paradigms and methods
Computational Urban ScienceWith the advancement of globalization and neoliberalism, gentrification studies have expanded beyond the original focus on living space changes of low-income groups in urban communities in Western Europe and North America, to the broader changes in the ...
Wei Tao +4 more
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