Urban redevelopment for whom? Developing practice-based knowledge for inclusive market redevelopment schemes

该项目是对贫困、不平等和社会包容等重大社会挑战的回应。该项目将直接有助于增进有关中产阶级化的理论和实践知识；中产阶级化是指低收入公民从其环境中流离失所和/或被边缘化，以便为高收入用户和居民让路的过程。特别是，学生将专注于研究不足的案例，即城镇和城市中心的传统零售市场正在进行重新开发，以分析这些过程的包容性，以及如何缓解排他性结果。士绅化研究压倒性地集中在住房上，忽视了零售环境如何随着排他性趋势的变化而发生变化。市场是产生新知识的理想和原创场所，因为它们是经济、社会和文化实践的纽带，也是城市的关键基础设施。随着社会向更可持续的消费实践转型，并将重点放在当地创造的经济财富上，市场可能再次成为社区的关键支柱。

This studentship responds to the grand social challenges of poverty, inequalities, and social inclusion . The studentship will directly contribute to advance theoretical and practical knowledge on gentrification; the process whereby low-income citizens are displaced and/or marginalised from their environments to make way for higher income users and residents. In particular, the studentship will focus on the understudied case of traditional retail markets in town and city centres undergoing redevelopment, to analyse how inclusive these processes are and how to mitigate against exclusionary outcomes. Gentrification research has overwhelmingly concentrated on housing, neglecting how retail environments are also transforming with exclusionary trends. Markets are an ideal and original site to generate new knowledge as they are nexus of economic, social, and cultural practices and are also key infrastructures of the city. As society transitions towards more sustainable consumption practices and focus on locally generated economic wealth, markets can become again key community anchors.