Super-Gentrification and Metropolitan Habitus: A Critique of Recent Concepts in British Gentrification Research

Authors

  • Peter Dirksmeier Geographisches Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Deutschland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13147-010-0065-z

Keywords:

Gentrification, Residential Capital, Metropolitan Habitus, Super-gentrification, Urban geography

Abstract

the paper discusses the two theoretical concepts super-gentrification and metropolitan habitus established by British gentrification research. Both concepts are more or less unknown in German urban geography. Super-gentrification is looking at the gentrification of already gentrified urban neighbourhoods. Metropolitan habitus explains the affinity of specific social groups for very specific neighbourhoods in big cities. the paper starts with criticising both concepts for their missing explanation of influences of the qualities of urban space on habitus and super-gentrification. Secondly,the paper introduces the concept of residential capital, be un- derstood as inclusion of spatial qualities in social practices. in doing so, the theoretical gap of metropolitan habitus and super-gentrification can be bridged. In conclusion, the paper identifies some research questions for German urban geo- graphy that might be answered with the help of metropoli- tan habitus, super-gentrification and embedded residential capital.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Alisch, M.; Dangschat, J. S. (1996): Die Akteure der Gentrifizierung und ihre „Karrieren“. In: Friedrichs, J.; Kecskes, R. (Hrsg.): Gentrification. Theorie und Forschungsergebnisse. Opladen, 95-129.

Alonso, W. (1983): A theory of the urban land market. In: Lake, R. W. (Hrsg.): Readings in urban analysis: Perspectives on urban form and structure. New Brunswick, 1-10.

Atkinson, R.; Bridge, G. (Hrsg.) (2005): Gentrification in a global context: The new urban colonialism. London.

Blasius, J. (1990): Gentrification und Lebensstile. In: Blasius, J.; Dangschat, J. S. (Hrsg.): Gentrification. Die Aufwertung innenstadtnaher Wohnviertel. Frankfurt am Main, 354-375.

Blasius, J. (1993): Gentrification und Lebensstile. Eine empirische Untersuchung. Wiesbaden.

Blasius, J. (1994): Verdrängungen in einem gentrifizierten Gebiet. In: Dangschat, J. S.; Blasius, J. (Hrsg.): Lebensstile in den Städten. Konzepte und Methoden. Opladen, 408-425.

Blasius, J. (2008): 20 Jahre Gentrification-Forschung in Deutschland. In: Informationen zur Raumentwicklung 11/12, 857-860.

Bostic, R.; Martin, R. (2003): Black home-owners as a gentrifying force? Neighbourhood dynamics in the context of minority home-ownership. In: Urban Studies 40, 12, 2427-2450.

Bounds, M.; Morris, A. (2006): Second wave gentrification in inner-city Sydney. In: Cities 23, 2, 99-108.

Bourdieu, P. (1973): Kulturelle Reproduktion und soziale Reproduktion. In: Bourdieu, P.; Passeron, J.-C.: Grundlagen einer Theorie der symbolischen Gewalt. Frankfurt am Main, 89-137.

Bourdieu, P. (1983): Ökonomisches Kapital, kulturelles Kapital, soziales Kapital. In: Kreckel, R. (Hrsg.): Soziale Ungleichheiten. Göttingen, 183-198. = Soziale Welt: Sonderband 2.

Bourdieu, P. (1987): Sozialer Sinn. Kritik der theoretischen Vernunft. Frankfurt am Main.

Bourdieu, P. (1989): Antworten auf einige Einwände. In: Eder, K. (Hrsg.): Klassenlage, Lebensstil und kulturelle Praxis. Beiträge zur Auseinandersetzung mit Pierre Bourdieus Klassentheorie. Frankfurt am Main, 395-410.

Bourdieu, P. (1991): Physischer, sozialer und angeeigneter physischer Raum. In: Wentz, M. (Hrsg.): Stadt-Räume. Frankfurt am Main, 25-34. = Die Zukunft des Städtischen. Frankfurter Beiträge, Bd. 2.

Bourdieu, P. (1993): Soziologische Fragen. Frankfurt am Main.

Bourdieu, P. (1997): Ortseffekte. In: Bourdieu, P. et al. (Hrsg.): Das Elend der Welt: Zeugnisse und Diagnosen alltäglichen Leidens. Konstanz, 159-167.

Boyd, M. (2000): Reconstructing Bronzeville: Racial nostalgia and neighbourhood redevelopment. In: Journal of Urban Affairs 22, 2, 107-122.

Boyd, M. (2005): The downside of racial uplift: The meaning of gentrification in an African-American neighbourhood. In: City and Society 17, 265-288.

Boyd, M. (2008): Defensive development. The role of racial conflict in gentrification. In: Urban Affairs Review 43, 6, 751-776.

Bridge, G. (2007): A global gentrifier class? In: Environment and Planning A 39, 1, 32-46.

Bruch, E. E.; Mare, R. D. (2006): Neighborhood choice and neighborhood change. In: American Journal of Sociology 112, 3, 667-709.

Butler, J. (1996): Performativity’s social magic. In: Schatzki, T. R.; Natter, W. (Hrsg.): The social and political body. New York, 29-47.

Butler, T. (2002): Thinking global but acting local: The middle classes in the city. In: Sociological Research Online 7, 3. Online unter: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/3/timbutler.html (letzter Zugriff am 15.10.2010).

Butler, T. (2003): Living in the bubble: Gentrification and its ‘others’ in North London. In: Urban Studies 40, 12, 2469-2486.

Butler, T. (2007a): Re-urbanizing London Docklands: Gentrification, suburbanization or new urbanism? In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31, 4, 759-781.

Butler, T. (2007b): For gentrification? In: Environment and Planning A 39, 1, 162-181.

Butler, T.; Lees, L. (2006): Super-gentrification in Barnsbury, London: Globalization and gentrifying global elites at the neighbourhood level. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 31, 4, 467-487.

Butler, T.; Robson, G. (2001): Social capital, gentrification and neighbourhood change in London: A comparison of three South London neighbourhoods. In: Urban Studies 38, 12, 2145-2162.

Butler, T.; Robson, G. (2003a): Negotiating their way in: The middle classes, gentrification and the deployment of capital in a globalising metropolis. In: Urban Studies 40, 9, 1791-1809.

Butler, T.; Robson, G. (2003b): Plotting the middle classes: Gentrification and circuits of education in London. In: Housing Studies 18, 1, 5-28.

Butler, T.; Robson, G. (2003c): London calling. The middle classes and the re-making of inner London. Oxford.

Butler, T.; Watt, P. (2007): Understanding social inequality. London.

Cohen, P.; Marti, F. (2009): Searching for the ‘sweet spot’ in San Francisco. In: Porter, L.; Shaw, K. (Hrsg.): Whose urban renaissance? An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies. London, 222-233.

Dangschat, J. S.; Blasius, J. (1990): Die Aufwertung innenstadtnaher Wohngebiete – Grundlagen und Folgen. In: Blasius, J.; Dangschat, J. S. (Hrsg.): Gentrification. Die Aufwertung innenstadtnaher Wohnviertel. Frankfurt am Main, 11-31.

Davidson, M. (2007): Gentrification as global habitat: A process of class formation or corporate creation? In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 32, 4, 490-506.

Delli Carpini, M.; Sigelman, L. (1986): Do Yuppies matter? Competing explanations of their political distinctiveness. In: Public Opinion Quarterly 50, 4, 502-518.

Dirksmeier, P. (2006): Habituelle Urbanität. In: Erdkunde 60, 3, 221-230.

Dirksmeier, P. (2009): Urbanität als Habitus. Zur Sozialgeographie städtischen Lebens auf dem Land. Bielefeld.

Dörfler, T. (2010): Gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg? Milieuwandel eines Berliner Sozialraums seit 1989. Bielefeld.

Doucet, B. (2009): Living through gentrification: Subjective experiences of local, non-gentrifying residents in Leith, Edinburgh. In: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 24, 299-315.

Freeman, L. (2006): There goes the ’hood: Views of gentrification from the ground up. Philadelphia.

Glatter, J. (2007): Gentrification in Ostdeutschland – untersucht am Beispiel der Dresdner Äußeren Neustadt. Dresden. = Dresdner Geographische Beiträge, H. 11.

Gotham, K. F. (2005): Tourism gentrification: The case of New Orleans’ Vieux Carre (French Quarter). In: Urban Studies 42, 7, 1099-1121.

Grier, G.; Grier, E. (1980): Urban displacement: a reconnaissance. In: Laska, S. B.; Spain, D. (Hrsg.): Back to the city. Issues in neighbourhood renovation. New York, 252-268.

Harris, A. (2008): From London to Mumbai and back again: Gentrification and public policy in comparative perspective. In: Urban Studies 45, 12, 2407-2428.

Helbrecht, I. (1996): Die Wiederkehr der Innenstädte. Zur Rolle von Kultur, Kapital und Konsum in der Gentrification. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 84, 1, 1-15.

Kroch, A. (1996): Dialect and style in the speech of upper class Philadelphia. In: Guy, G. R.; Feagin, C.; Schiffrin, D.; Baugh, J. (Hrsg.): Towards a social science of language. Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1. Variation and change in language and society. Amsterdam, 23-45. = Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol. 127.

Lees, L. (2003): Super-gentrification: The case of Brooklyn Heights, New York City. In: Urban Studies 40, 12, 2487-2509.

Lees, L. (2007): Progress in gentrification research? Environment and Planning A 39, 1, 228-234.

Ley, D. (1986): Alternative explanations for inner-city gentrification: A Canadian assessment. In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76, 4, 521-535.

Ley, D. (1991): The inner city. In: Bunting, T.; Filion, P. (Hrsg.): Canadian cities in transition. Oxford, 313-348.

Ley, D. (2003): Artists, aestheticisation and the field of gentrification. In: Urban Studies 40, 12, 2427-2544.

Ley, D. (2004): Transnational spaces and everyday lives. In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series 29, 2, 151-164.

Ley, D.; Dobson, C. (2008): Are there limits to gentrification? The contexts of impeded gentrification in Vancouver. In: Urban Studies 45, 12, 2471-2498.

Mayer, A. J. (1960): Russel Woods: Change without conflict. A case study of neighborhood racial transition in Detroit. In: Glazer, N.; McEntire, D. (Hrsg.): Studies in housing and minority groups. Berkeley, 198-220.

McKinnish, T.; Walsh, R.; White, T.K. (2010): Who gentrifies low-income neighborhoods? Journal of Urban Economics 67, 2, 180-193.

Moore, K. S. (2009): Gentrification in black face?: The return of the black middle class to urban neighbourhoods. In: Urban Geography 30, 2, 118-142.

Phillips, D. A.; Smith, D. P. (2001): Socio-cultural representations of greentrified Pennine rurality. In: Journal of Rural Studies 17, 457-469.

Podmore, J. (1998): (Re)reading the ‘loft living’ habitus in Montréal’s inner city. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 22, 2, 283-302.

Porter, M. (2010): The rent-gap at the metropolitan scale: New York City’s land-value valleys, 1990-2006. In: Urban Geography 31, 3, 385-405.

Potuoğlu-Cook, Ö. (2006): Beyond the glitter: Belly dance and neoliberal gentrification in Istanbul. In: Cultural Anthropology 21, 633-660.

Quastel, N. (2009): Political ecologies of gentrification. In: Urban Geography 30, 7, 694-725.

Quigley, J. M.; Raphael, S. (2004): Is housing unaffordable? Why isn’t it more affordable? In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 18, 1, 191-214.

Reay, D. (2007): ‘Unruly places’: Inner-city comprehensives, middle-class imaginaries and working-class children. In: Urban Studies 44, 7, 1191-1201.

Robson, G.; Butler, T. (2001): Coming to terms with London: Middle-class communities in a global city. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25, 1, 70-86.

Savage, M.; Bagnall, G.; Longhurst, B. (2005): Globalisation and belonging. London.

Shin, H. B. (2009): Property-based redevelopment and gentrification: The case of Seoul, South Korea. In: Geoforum 40, 906-917.

Smith, N. (1979): Toward a theory of gentrification. A back to the city movement by capital, not people. In: Journal of the American Planning Association 45, 4, 538-548.

Smith, N. (2002): New globalism, new urbanism: Gentrification as global urban strategy. In: Brenner, N.; Theodore, N. (Hrsg.): Spaces of neoliberalism. Urban restructuring in North America and Western Europe. Malden, 80-103.

Tallon, A. R.; Bromley, R. D. F. (2004): Exploring the attractions of city centre living: Evidence and policy implications in British cities. In: Geoforum 35, 771-787.

Thomas, D.; Fuhrer, U.; Quaiser-Pohl, C. (2008): Akteure der Gentrification und ihre Ortsbindung: Eine Studie in einem städtischen Sanierungsgebiet in Ostdeutschland. In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 60, 2, 339-366.

Walks, R. A.; Maaranen, R. (2008): Gentrification, social mix, and social polarization: Testing the linkages in large Canadian cities. In: Urban Geography 29, 4, 293-326.

Wang, J.; Siu Yu Lau, S. (2009): Gentrification and Shanghai’s new middle-class: Another reflection on the cultural consumption thesis. In: Cities 26, 57-66.

Warde, A. (1991): Gentrification as consumption: Issues of class and gender. In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 9, 2, 223-232.

Webber, R. (2007): The metropolitan habitus: Its manifestations, locations and consumption profiles. In: Environment and Planning A 39, 1, 182-207.

Weichhart, P. (2009): Multilokalität – Konzepte, Theoriebezüge und Forschungsfragen. In: Informationen zur Raumentwicklung 1/2, 1-14.

Wilson, E. (1995): Plagues, fairs, and street cries: Sounding out society and space in early modern London. In: Modern Language Studies 25, 3, 1-42.

Wießner, R. (1990): Soziale und strukturelle Folgen von Modernisierungen in innenstadtnahen Gebieten. In: Blasius, J.; Dangschat, J. S. (Hrsg.): Gentrification. Die Aufwertung innenstadtnaher Wohnviertel. Frankfurt am Main, 301-324.

Zukin, S. (1987): Gentrification: Culture and capital in the urban core. In: Annual Review of Sociology 13, 129-147.

Downloads

Published

2010-12-31

Issue

Section

Research Article

How to Cite

1.
Dirksmeier P. Super-Gentrification and Metropolitan Habitus: A Critique of Recent Concepts in British Gentrification Research. RuR [Internet]. 2010 Dec. 31 [cited 2024 Nov. 11];68(6):447–457. Available from: https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/913

Share