LSE Alumni - In 1964 the sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term ' gentrification' to describe the process of London's working class neighbourhoods being taken over by the middle classes. Fifty years on,
What would Ruth Glass do?: London: Aspects of Change as a critique of urban epistemologies: City: Vol 23, No 1
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