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> From memory and reading I've done about ED, I don't think it's the case that the house were built for rental. It happened that in the 1880s there was a glut of newly built houses, and many of the streets in the area stood empty for a long time after being built. I also seem to recall that this coincided with a cyclical and national economic recession in the 1880s. I suspect that the rental market was a way of getting them occupied at the time.


The point about the Great Depression is interesting. I hadn't thought about this before.


However, I don't think that Dyos and the like can be applied to the specific area bounded by East Dulwich Road, Peckham Rye (Road), Barry Road and Lordship Lane. I understand that the small properties that dominate this area were specifically built for rental by the skilled working class, and low rank white collar managerial staff.

Together with my tutor we have redfined a provisional title for my dissertation...


"Gentrification- the leading cause of emotional distress as Oliver James suggests? OR merely and extended form of regeneration?

Using East Duwlich (Lordship Lane) as a case study, I will examine the pro's and con's of gentrification and the effects it has on society."


Has there been side effects to the newly gentrified ED?


if you havent already would you care to suggest your views on the pro's and con's of this gentrification?

"Gentrification- the leading cause of emotional distress as Oliver James suggests? OR merely and extended form of regeneration? Using East Duwlich (Lordship Lane) as a case study, I will examine the pro's and con's of gentrification and the effects it has on society."


That won't get you very far on the current citation indexing rules.


Time to change your tutor?

I think gentrification can be linked to social and psychological conditions such as status anxiety.


The gentry were historically a status group, straddling the "middle sort" of wealthier artisans, traders, merchants, lawyers, the minor aristocracy and greater yeomanry, etc.


I would, however, relate gentrification as a phenomenon of advanced capitalism, consumerism and the commodification of everything. Gentrification is just one of the cultural phenomena of complex economic change.


EDIT: You might like to use the concept of "cool" (which I think is vital when considering cultural gentrification). Bingo - "cool" as a symptom of status anxiety.

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