Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide, 1966-76

Badcock, Blair; Cloher, Dorothy Urlich

doi:10.1080/00420988120080041

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“…Many questions remain about the impact of``the reverse status gradient and the elite city hypothesis'' (Bourne, 1989, page 321;Ley, 1996). Actually, between a simple adjustment (reinvestment) in response to a deficiency of suburban housing supply and a major reorganisation of urban forms and urban practices (Badcock, 1991;, the`geography of gentrification' (Ley, 1996) is an accumulation of varying processes, which generate more-contrasted and morecomplex situations insofar as gentrification is also susceptible to economic cycles, recession periods, and neoliberal urban policies (Badcock, 1991;Evans, 2004;Skifter Andersen, 2003;Wyly and Hammel, 2004). Do gentrification processes appear only in downtown areas and in cities?…”

Section: Metropolitanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Urbanity: Urbanising the Rural and Ruralising the Urban

Lacour¹,

Puissant²

2007

Environ Plan A

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In this paper, an attempt is made to explore both theoretical and urban planning debates, in order to suggest an improved analysis of urbanity. Thus, the concept of re-urbanity is conceived as a qualitative approach to appreciate the variability of urban growth (1) and to overcome the wide-ranging literature on the`urban^rural dichotomy' (Champion and Hugo, 2004). The need for reconsidering urban and rural spaces would testify to the irremediable collapse of what made the city and the countryside, that is, industry and agriculture. Research now has to cope with the blur of psychological, territorial, and contextual limits, with a lack of structuring elements for settlement systems (Champion et al, 2003). Also, Ascher (2001) andCastells's (1996; analyses, or those quoted by Cloke (1996), show similar changes in the past decades concerning the criteria used to appreciate the nature or the intensity of urban and rural qualities, environments, and landscapes.On the one hand, re-urbanity is defined here as a moment and an argument of a more general issue: metropolitanisation. The latter is related to a conceptualisation discussed mainly in urban-economics literature which, initiated in the 1990s, was focused on massive cities: for example, London, Tokyo, New York, and Paris (Rutherford, 2004). However, there exist reasons to introduce adaptations and reshapings of the basic forms: metropolitan dynamics, new urban theories of growth, and suburbanisation have to take into account levels and spatial scales, to specify the mechanisms and the functions organising urban and rural territories. Why not a global village or an urban village? Do these images give or have meanings?Complex and changing urban landscapes need consideration for the contingencies and the national, cultural, historical, administrative, and political contexts involved. These characteristics do not allow the pronouncement of the decline or the death of monocentric urban forms in Europe in favour of the polycentric frameworks regularly evoked.On the other hand, current research in geography, economics, and sociology requires the investigation of qualifying spatial categories. It does not lead to a simple answer to the question of how`rural' and the`urban' should be defined today.

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Section: Metropolitanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-Urbanity: Urbanising the Rural and Ruralising the Urban

Lacour¹,

Puissant²

2007

Environ Plan A

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“…This paper updates a long-running analysis of the revitalisation of Adelaide's inner suburbs rst reported in Urban Studies in 1981 (Badcock and Urlich Cloher, 1981), and then again in 1991 (Badcock, 1991). The value of updating what is an otherwise descriptive case study of Inner Adelaide is two-fold.…”

Section: Inner Adelaide Revisitedmentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Since last presenting an update of neighbourhood upgrading in Inner Adelaide (Badcock, 1991), revitalisation has spread to the more degraded and less promising western side of the City of Adelaide. This is evident in the upward movement of both property prices and occupational pro les.…”

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Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966-96

Badcock

2001

Urban Studies

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This case study updates a long-running investigation into the revitalisation of inner Adelaide previously reported in Urban Studies in 1981 and 1991. Its value is two-fold: first, it provides an opportunity to review critically the fate of gentrification in Australia under economic conditions that others would claim have not always been favourable during the 1990s; and, secondly, it highlights the strategic role of a public housing authority as a lead agency in the process of urban revitalisation. The paper uses data on intercensal change together with an overview of the state government's urban investment policy to argue that the class transformation of inner Adelaide is now effectively complete. During the past decade, there has been a distinct improvement in the fortunes of the inner western suburbs which had previously suffered from long-term decline. The State's Inner Western Program has been instrumental in remediating badly degraded industrial land and rezoning an unused transport corridor through these suburbs and helping to lever private investment in the housing sector. Hence the housing reinvestment and class changeover normally associated with gentrification has proceeded apace right through the 1990s. After 30 years, the circle of regeneration has almost been completed on all four sides of the City of Adelaide.

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“…Whilst this variable is related to dwelling age, there is some suggestion in studies dealing with gentrification (Badcock and Urlich-Cloher 1981;Badcock 1991;Mullins 1982;Logan 1982) to suggest that renovations or alterations of housing tend to occur in the inner/middle areas of Australian cities. Spatial location is measured by a categorical variable: inner metropolitan, middle metropolitan and outer metropolitan.…”

Section: Metropolitan Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whilst the link between renovating behaviour and inner city location may be associated with the age of the dwelling, it may also reflect the gentrifying nature of some housing renovation. As a number of Australian studies have illustrated, gentrifying activity is usually confined to the inner city areas of large cities where middle/upper class households are drawn for work access and cosmopolitan lifestyles (Badcock 1991;Badcock and Urlich-Cloher 1981;Mullins 1995). These households buy older lower-priced dwellings and renovate them to meet their needs (Mullins 1995).…”

Section: Characteristics Of Renovatorsmentioning

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Home owners, home renovation and residential mobility

Baum

Hassan²

1999

Journal of Sociology

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Contemporary studies into residential mobility focus on mover households, but pay little attention to households that do not move. Conceptually, it is assumed that households make a voluntary decision to move when their current residence no longer meets their needs. This argument does not however account for households who, in the face of residential dissatisfaction, renovate or undertake alterations to better satisfy their needs. This paper presents data for Adelaide, South Australia to look at the extent to which owners renovate their homes. The analysis identifies two groups of renovators-non-mover renovators and mover renovators. Using data from the Housing and Location Preference Survey, an analysis is presented which discusses the factors which may influence renovation activity of these two groups.

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Neighbourhood Change in Inner Adelaide, 1966-76

Cited by 27 publications

References 16 publications

Re-Urbanity: Urbanising the Rural and Ruralising the Urban

Re-Urbanity: Urbanising the Rural and Ruralising the Urban

Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966-96

Home owners, home renovation and residential mobility

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