Gentrification and Resistance

1. Front Matter

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2. Gentrification and Displacement

   • Ilse Helbrecht

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3. Gentrification Hotspots and Displacement in Berlin. A Quantitative Analysis

   • Christian Döring, Klaus Ulbricht

   Pages 9-35

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4. The Black Box of Displacement. Do People Remain in their Neighborhoods or Relocate to the Periphery?

   • Daniel Förste, Matthias Bernt

   Pages 37-56

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5. Where Do They Go? Where Do They Want to Go? Displacement from Kreuzberg

   • Simon Koch, Marrike Kortus, Stephanie Schramm, Christine Stegner

   Pages 57-90

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6. The State-Made Rental Gap Gentrification in Subsidized Rental Housing

   • Greta Ertelt, Carlotta-Elena Schulz, Georg Thieme, Christiane Uhlig

   Pages 91-130

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7. Kotti & Co: New Forms of Displacement, New Forms of Protest

   • Lisa Heidsieck

   Pages 131-160

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8. Unemployment Benefit Recipients: Causes, Reactions and Consequences of Housing Relocations

   • Nelly Grotefendt, Malve Jacobsen, Tanja Kohlsdorf, Lina Wegener

   Pages 161-187

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9. Trailer Living: A Displacement Phenomenon?

   • Paul Neupert

   Pages 189-225

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10. Residential Biographies as an Instrument of Sociospatial Displacement Analysis

    • Camilo Betancourt

    Pages 227-250

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11. GentriMap: A Model for Measuring Gentrification and Displacement

    • Andrej Holm, Guido Schulz

    Pages 251-277

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12. Back Matter

    Pages 279-281

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Gentrification is arguably the most dynamic area of conflict in current urban development policy – it is the process by which poorer populations are displaced by more affluent groups. Although gentrification is well-documented, German and international research largely focuses on improvements in the built environment and social composition of neighbourhoods. The consequences for those who are displaced often remain overlooked. Where do they move? What does it mean to be forced to leave a familiar residential area? What kinds of resistance strategies are developed? How does anti-gentrification work? With a focus on Berlin – the German "capital of gentrification" – the chapters in this volume use innovative methods to explore these pressing questions.

• Reurbanization
• Urban Development
• Social Housing
• Urban Poor
• Berlin

• Geographisches Institut und Direktorin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , Berlin, Germany

  Ilse Helbrecht

Ilse Helbrecht is director of the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Metropolitan Development and full professor of social and cultural geography at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. She works on gentrification, housing, and urban governance.

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