State-Led Gentrification and Self-Respect

Spoiled Mixture: Where Does State-led ‘Positive’ Gentrification End?

Over the past decade, policy-makers have introduced social mixing initiatives that have sought to address urban social problems by deconcentrating poor and workingclass communities through attracting the middle classes back to the city. Such a policy objective clearly ‘smells like gentrifi cation’. However, some commentators have warned against being critical of these policies, pointing out tha...

Regeneration-led gentrification; a comparative study of Atabak and Khani-Abad neighborhoods in Tehran

The concept of "gentrification" is becoming an important and widespread phenomenon in most of the world's cities, both developed and developing. Consequently, many people have forcibly left their places or have lived at a higher cost. Therefore this phenomenon has become one of the most controversial issues of urban studies in recent years and can be analyzed as an influential and underlying fa...

Risk and self-respect AM

What is the nature of the experience of risk? Risk can impose distinctive burdens on individuals: making us anxious, impairing our relationships, and limiting our ability to plan our lives. On the other hand, risky situations are sometimes exciting, liberating, and even empowering. The article explores the idea that risk can result in benefits for the individuals who bear it. Specifically, we e...

Self-respect and the Stepford wives

Two Cheers for Gentrification