The Atlantic:
The $5 cereal that provoked a London mob
30 September 2015
In the East London case, wrote Paul Cheshire, an emeritus professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics, via email, ''the very early relatively poor but mainly educated/drop-out pioneer gentrifiers - typical of most processes of gentrification moving into areas of architectural interest in mainly inner city neighborhoods when those are still rundown and largely occupied by working class or refugee poor - are being replaced by richer and more market-oriented still mainly liberal professional and successfully university educated successor gentrifiers, who are a good bit richer and (commercially) fashion-conscious''. The ''pioneer gentrifiers'' were attracted not just to East London's cheapness but also its edginess, which they believe the richer groups are eroding.
This article was published online by The Atlantic (USA) on September 30, 2015
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