This paper identifies a new factor, the age of the housing stock, that affects where highand low-income neighborhoods are located in U.S. cities. High-income households, driven by a high demand for housing services, will tend to locate in areas of the city where the housing stock is relatively young. Because cities develop and redevelop from the center outward over time, the location of these n...

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...

The central focus of this article is the interaction between religious actors and urban regeneration in former industrial area Amsterdam North. While there extensive literature on structural, sociocultural, economic impact related processes gentrification, role groups these neighborhood change has largely been ignored. Based ethnographic research, I examine how different Christian movements int...

Geodemographic classifications are useful tools for segmenting populations and have many applications but not suitable measuring neighbourhood change over time. There is a need an approach that uses data of higher spatiotemporal resolution to capture the fundamental dimensions processes driving local changes. Data primitives measures drivers therefore offer route. In this article, three types g...

Abstract Data primitives are the fundamental measurements or variables that capture process under investigation. In this study annual data for small areas were collated and used to identify characterise gentrification. Such data-driven approaches possible because of increased availability over fine spatial temporal resolutions. They overcome limitations traditional quantifying geodemographic ch...

This paper asks what role schools play in the gentrification process, a topic that remains understudied outside Anglo-American context. I analyze how discourse about has shaped ...

Glossary Burgess Model Developed by Ernest W. Burgess in 1925, this modeled the urban social structure of industrialized cities based on the case of Chicago. The model consisted of a series of concentric rings around the central business district, with working-class populations living near the center where industries were located, and middle-class households living further out from the center. ...