Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables, figures and photographs

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-vii

Notes on contributors

pp viii-xii

one - Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities

pp 1-14

Part 1 - Reflections on social mix policy

pp 15-16

two - Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal

pp 17-24

three - Social mix and urban policy

pp 25-34

four - Mixed communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK

pp 35-42

five - Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia

pp 43-50

Part 2 - Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times

pp 51-52

six - Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification

pp 53-68

seven - Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg

pp 69-92

Part 3 - Social mix policies and gentrification

pp 93-94

eight - Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/‘racial’ exclusion nexus

pp 95-114

nine - Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte d’Or district in Paris

pp 115-132

ten - Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne

pp 133-148

Part 4 - The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies

pp 149-150

eleven - Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhoodeffects: evidence-based policy or urban myth?

pp 151-168

twelve - Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification: a view from Brussels

pp 169-184

thirteen - ‘Regeneration’ in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city

pp 185-208

fourteen - HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims

pp 209-230

Part 5 - Experiencing social mix

pp 231-232

fifteen - The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing

pp 233-250

sixteen - Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research

pp 251-272

seventeen - From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto's public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power

pp 273-298

eighteen - Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

pp 299-318

Afterword

pp 319-322

References

pp 323-364