The Death and Life of Gentrification

The Death and Life of GentrificationAuthor: Japonica Brown Saracino ISBN: 9780691244358 Publisher: Princeton University Press Year first published: 01 May 2026 Pages: 312 Format: Hardback A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighbourhood change takes on a life all its own. Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working class residents in London neighbourhoods by the

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