The Commodification Gap - Matthias Bernt

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Résumé :

List of Figures ix

List of Tables x

Series Editors' Preface xi

Preface xii

1 Introduction 1

Gentrification Between Universality and Particularity 1

How to Compare? Why Compare? 8

Concepts and Causation 11

Design of this Study 15

Notes 22

2 Why the Rent Gap isn't Enough 25

Where the Rent Gap Works Well 25

Where the Rent Gap Falls Short 30

When and Why does Capital Flow? 32

At Which Scale is the Rent Gap Positioned? 34

Which Rent? 37

Property as Control? 40

How is the Rent Gap Realised? 43

Embedding Gentrification 48

Economy, Society and States 48

The Commodification Gap 51

Notes 54

3 Three Countries, Three Housing Systems 57

The British Experience 57

From Private Landlordism to a Dual Market 58

The Thatcherite Revolution 60

New Labour: More of the Same? 65

Austerity and New 'Class War Conservatism' Under the Coalition Government 70

Conclusion: Neoliberalism, Tenurial Transformation and Gentrification 73

The German Experience 77

From the Controlled Housing Economy to the L?cke Plan 77

The Design of Tenant Protections 84

The Conservative Wende 86

Reunification and Neoliberal Consensus 89

Conclusion: Gentrification Between Regulation and Deregulation 91

The Russian Experience 98

Housing in the Soviet Union 99

From Shock Therapy to Failing Markets 102

Restricted State Capacities and Opportunity Planning 110

Conclusion: Gentrification in a Dysfunctional Market 112

State Intervention in Housing: Setting the Parameters for Gentrification 118

Notes 124

4 Barnsbury: Gentrification and the Policies of Tenure 129

The Making of Early Gentrification 129

The Right to Buy: Pouring Fuel on the Fire 137

The New Economy of Gentrification 141

Capital Gains Instead of Owner-Occupation 142

Penalty Renting 145

From Value Gap to Super-gentrification 150

Notes 154

5 Prenzlauer Berg: Gentrification Between Regulation and Deregulation 157

From Plan to Market 158

Rolling out the Market, Weakening Public Control 162

Since 2000: Privately Financed Refurbishments, Condominium Boom and No Regulation 164

New Build Gentrification and Energy Efficient Displacement 167

Between Deregulation and Re-regulation 171

Gentrification with Brakes? 174

Notes 179

6 Splintered Gentrification: St Petersburg, Russia 181

Unpredictable Regeneration Schemes 183

World Heritage vs. Gentrification 186

The Dissolution of Kommunalki Flats 192

State-run Repair and Renewal 198

Pro and Contra Gentrification 202

Notes 206

7 The Commodification Gap 207

Universality vs. Particularity Revisited 207

Gentrification and Decommodification 216

Meeting the Challenge: New Directions for Research and Politics 217

Notes 221

Appendix A Compulsory Purchase in Barnsbury 223

Appendix B Residents in NS-SeC Classes 1 and 2 229

References 235

Index 257