Sam Barton

Sam Barton is a PhD student in the Geography department at UCL. His PhD project, ‘Always Different Always the Same’ is an ethnographic study of the role of claims to authenticity in the process of neighbourhood change in Brixton. He tweets @SNFschlee.

Gentrification: how do we define it and who cares anyway?

Rather than fighting over what gentrification is and what it's not, attention needs to paid to the actual experiences of urban change affecting communities across the world.

By Sam Barton

/ 5 Feb 2014