Urban policies and gentrification trends in Madrid's inner city

Celebrating Local Histories and Defining Neighbourhood Communities: Place-making in a Gentrified Neighbourhood

“…Gentrifi ers refers here to current residents who did not identify themselves as of Italian heritage, had arrived in the area from 1960 onwards and fi tted the description of a group with professional occupations, moderate and high incomes, and a preference for the city for its cultural facilities, diversity or urbanism (for defi nitions, see Vazquez, 1992). They had renovated their homes or had bought properties redeveloped in the 1960s.…”

La vulnerabilidad sociodemográfica en las intervenciones urbanísticas en centros históricos: el caso de Cartagena

“…Existe una amplia y exhaustiva bibliografía sobre la gentrifi cación en las ciudades anglosajonas siendo más recientes las investigaciones en otros continentes. Así, mientras que en el mundo anglosajón los estudios de gentrifi cación aumentaron considerablemente en la década de 1990 (aunque existe bibliografía relacionada desde 1964 cuando Ruth Glass acuña el término), en España es en la década de 2000 cuando se intensifi can los estudios sobre la gentrifi cación, aunque existen trabajos puntuales anteriores (Vázquez, 1992(Vázquez, , 1996Troitiño y García, 1992;Precedo, 1996).…”

Gentrification in Spain and Latin America — a Critical Dialogue

“…Many Spanish authors have been (co‐)publishing in Anglophone journals and books, and English and Spanish publications are often located in similar theoretical plans and discussions. Apart from some of the initial clarifications and theoretical revisions necessary to introduce a novel term into another language (Vázquez, 1992; 1996; Sargatal, ; Martínez, ; Rodríguez et al ., ), gentrification has now been regularly applied to the study of urban neoliberalization in almost all major Spanish cities. Authors have put up only minor resistance to familiarizing themselves with the term (García, ), and they are aware of the advantages it has for better profiling the contentious dimensions of the phenomenon.…”