--- product_id: 21357316 title: "The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City" price: "3882072₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/21357316-the-new-urban-frontier-gentrification-and-the-revanchist-city store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City **Price:** 3882072₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City - **How much does it cost?** 3882072₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/21357316-the-new-urban-frontier-gentrification-and-the-revanchist-city) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge. Review: beyond uneven development - I'll start with the bad news: If you're familiar with Neil Smith, you'll realize, as he mentions in the Acknowledgments, that most of these chapters aren't new. The majority are revamped mashings of a variety of articles he wrote. Nonetheless, new work still fills a lot of New Urban Frontier. His considerations for the cultural production/consumption of gentrification (i.e. frontier discourse) are rather new and important, considering previous articles where he rejects social emphases (and his following article in 1999 with James DeFilipis where he re-affirms the priority of economic analyses). The book also attempts to negotiate with gentrification on a global context, considering, for example, the intricacies of uneven dev. at the global level, and `three European cities'. Also, and I felt this was a treat, two chapters discuss other theories of gentrification and urban (re)development on local (US?) and global levels. Personally, I would recommend this book as a great example of gentrification studies - the book attempts to open up the many facets of this phenomenon (local-global economic trends, social correlations, cultural aspects, and even a little bit on future resistance). It's also quite ideal for anyone being introduced to the field, as Smith makes helpful attempts to survey the many opposing positions. Personally, I preferred the articles. Review: Cities want the well-to-do, not the average person. - New unreleased census data bears out what the author predicted 10 years ago: cities are revanchist and want to redevelop with the wealthy in mind. Thus there is a great emphasis on downtowns with tax subsidized housing for the above average household. Indeed, the modern city is best described as the revanchist city. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,410,138 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #594 in Geography (Books) #1,224 in Urban & Land Use Planning (Books) #1,248 in Architecture (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews | ## Images ![The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/619PZuPgogL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ beyond uneven development *by A***R on December 23, 2009* I'll start with the bad news: If you're familiar with Neil Smith, you'll realize, as he mentions in the Acknowledgments, that most of these chapters aren't new. The majority are revamped mashings of a variety of articles he wrote. Nonetheless, new work still fills a lot of New Urban Frontier. His considerations for the cultural production/consumption of gentrification (i.e. frontier discourse) are rather new and important, considering previous articles where he rejects social emphases (and his following article in 1999 with James DeFilipis where he re-affirms the priority of economic analyses). The book also attempts to negotiate with gentrification on a global context, considering, for example, the intricacies of uneven dev. at the global level, and `three European cities'. Also, and I felt this was a treat, two chapters discuss other theories of gentrification and urban (re)development on local (US?) and global levels. Personally, I would recommend this book as a great example of gentrification studies - the book attempts to open up the many facets of this phenomenon (local-global economic trends, social correlations, cultural aspects, and even a little bit on future resistance). It's also quite ideal for anyone being introduced to the field, as Smith makes helpful attempts to survey the many opposing positions. Personally, I preferred the articles. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cities want the well-to-do, not the average person. *by G***N on January 9, 2007* New unreleased census data bears out what the author predicted 10 years ago: cities are revanchist and want to redevelop with the wealthy in mind. Thus there is a great emphasis on downtowns with tax subsidized housing for the above average household. Indeed, the modern city is best described as the revanchist city. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential and Current Critique of Urbanization as a Tool of Capital *by D***O on February 20, 2009* The New Urban Frontier remains a cogent, essential, and hard critique of the mechanisms that shape urbanization as a process of capital, through means that impose, and expand social inequality and exclusion. Unapologetically it offers critique from the left that is supported by one of the most lucid analysis of gentrification to date. Given its depth on, it often requires careful reading and analysis, and heated questioning as it calls for a reevaluation of the built environment and the predominant discourses that often coat urban life. Written in 96, the book might benefit from an update to cover the following 10 years, something that Smith has done to some extent in his following work and teaching. However, if anything comes clear well over a decade after its publication is how current, and pointed his critique is, having been reproduced and expanded in a new cycle of gentrification, exclusion, decorated with the dogma of urban frontiers, pioneering, renewal, that hardly ever touches with any compromise social equity and environmental justice as the funding principles of its being. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/21357316-the-new-urban-frontier-gentrification-and-the-revanchist-city](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/21357316-the-new-urban-frontier-gentrification-and-the-revanchist-city) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-05-15*