Ruth Glass
born 30 june 1912 / died 9 march 1990
the catch :
her name may be not familiar to the most, but the term she coined
'gentrification'
born in Berlin / Germany, emigrated to Great Britain in the early 1930's as many others because of the rising national socialism
resumed & accomplished there her sociology studies
it's once again a disgrace for our society not to honor a sociology autor, but just the followers
when you look the web you find nearly nothing about the person of Ruth Glass or her life, you'll have dificulties to buy her books
also nothing about her neither in the english nor in the german Wikipedia,
but a lot about those mainly males, who built their fame on her research & science, who have their sites there & everywhere
imagine 'she' would be a 'he', do you think, it would be the same ?
maybe next year somewhere, then she would have her 100th birthday
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the only brief Ruth Glass biography on the net - in PDF format
The undoubted star of UCL, however, was Ruth Glass, the sociologist (originally a refugee from Berlin) who really established urban sociology in England.
Extended Definition: gentrification
The Controversal Topic of Gentrification and Its Impact on the Urban Core
Chicago gentrification is a global issue - about the gentrification change of the Pilsen community in Chicago
It goes something like this: the painters and installation artists move in first, when there’s nary a pannini in sight.
some interesting links, cases of & discussions about gentrification, just in german :
Definition und Darstellung des Gentrifizierungsprozess
Gentrifizierung als Ideologie. Linke Stadtteilinitiativen und ihr Verhältnis zu Ökonomie und Stadtraum.
Gentrifizierung: Eine kleine Geschichte wie plötzlich alles anders wird
Gentrification: Die Debatte in der Schweiz 2010 - eine Bestandsaufnahme
Berlin: Die Karawane zieht weiter – Stationen einer Aufwertung - very interesting article about the change of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin wall
Die Mainzer Straße in Berlin Friedrichshain im Juni 1990 & 2007 - two fotos of the gentrification change of one Berlin neighborhood
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11 apr 2011