Ruth Glass’s famous introduction to London: Aspects of Change (Glass 1964), published in 1964, presented a view of gentrification that has become definitional, even though, at the time, Glass only attempted to “deploy a colloquial-jokey term” to characterise one of London’s ‘aspects of change’ (Johnson-Schlee 2019: 6). Since then, sixty years of empirical and theoretical analysis of gentrification settings in London have elapsed. In these intervening years, gentrification has been studied in the developed world, the global south, and has been seen to be a global phenomenon. This three-day conference seeks to bring the focus back to London, where it was coined, to look back to Ruth Glass’s definition and to examine London’s current development for signs of gentrification’s latest stages, and of the latest manifestations of resistance to gentrification. It seeks to return the discussion of London’s gentrification back into London as a globalised city, and also as a place – or series of places – in which gentrification occurs.

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Taking place at the Garrison Chapel in Chelsea (with an evening lecture in Shoreditch), the event is fully catered.