From the Margins to the Centre

The title of this book, From the Margins to the Centre, refers to three related themes that have run closely together in the debates on the city in the 1980s and 1990s. Firstly a process of restructuring in which activities previously deemed peripheral to the ''productive'' city have now moved centre stage; that is, a concern with culture, consumption and image. Secondly, the notion of gentrific...