2018-10-16
37 分钟Welcome to LSEIQ,
a podcast from the London School of Economics and Political Science where we ask leading social scientists and other experts to answer an intelligent question about economics,
politics or society.
In 1964,
the sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification to describe the process of London's working class neighbourhoods being taken over by the middle classes.
Modest two up two down terraced houses were brought cheap, done up and made into expensive residences.
Once grand Victorian houses
that had fallen on hard times and become lodging houses or homes to multiple families were restored once again and subdivided into luxury flats.
Soon the working class residents had been squeezed out of the neighbourhood and its character changed completely.
Fifty years on and this process continues apace in London and many other cities.
In this episode of LSEIQ, Sue Windy-Bank asks, is the gentrification of our global cities inevitable?
I am Patria Roman Velasquez,
I am the sort of founder and chair of trustees of Latin Elephant but I'm also senior lecturer at Loughborough University in London.
We're sitting in the shopping centre in the Elephant and Castle.
Can you just explain a little bit to us, for someone who hasn't been here, what it's like here?
The shopping centre is a really lovely place to be in for loads of people who might have a job,
might not have a job, might want to meet a friend.
It is a sort of social place as well as a commercial space.
It is where you can get goods at affordable price, it is where you can meet a friend, socialise.
There are loads of events also happening in the shopping centre.