Middle Class Housing in the Central City

Land Value Determinants: Newcastle, New South Wales

“…The inner suburbs have higher priced land, although values decline quickly with distance from each commercial centre. The presence of value plateaus in the central city, with sharp price escarpments between commercial, industrial and high class residential areas, on the one hand, and low class residential sections, on the other, has been cited by J. Tait Davis (1965) as a major factor in causing population drift to the outer suburbs. The highest priced residential land in Newcastle is found at Merewether Heights in an elevated area close to the C.B.D.…”

“…THE RENT:DISTANCE GRADIENT Pollard (1956), Knos (1962), Marble (1959), Yeates (1965) and Brigham (1965) have investigated rental patterns within cities. Knos in Topeka and Brigham in Los Angeles illustrated the compliance of fact with theory; Marble's studies of Spokane and Cedar Rapids showed that distances of residences from various nuclei provided only a partial explanation of land value variations.…”

Nature And Trends Of Urban Inequality In India

“…It represents a fundamental shift from traditional rural lifestyles to modern, industrial, and urbanized communities. Urbanization is a gradual and enduring process characterized by the progressive concentration of people within urban centers (Davis, 1965). Kingsley Davis further elucidated urbanization as the transition from a dispersed settlement pattern to a centralized one, emphasizing the growing importance of cities (Davis, 1962).…”

The Public/Private Sector Partnership in the Redevelopment Process

“…Stable, that is middle-class neighborhoods, are perceived to be positive anchors that resist or reverse the process of decline and decay, and the damnation of the central city by the poor. Not only does the notion of middle-class imply middle income, but a set of values and behaviors as well (Davis, 1965). It is a basic belief that the stable middle-class, therefore, must be encouraged to dwell in the central city.…”