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Some Tests for the Rent Gap Theory

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  • C-F Yung
  • R J King

    (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia)

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The ambiguity of the title is intended. Smith's rent gap theory is difficult to operationalize, and the authors propose tests for three of its aspects: to observe the presence or otherwise of a ‘rent valley’, to observe the coincidence of a rent gap with a period of gentrification, and to observe capital switching to inner-city alterations and additions. However, when the tests are applied to 1967–91 Melbourne data, they are somewhat testing for the theory itself: there are certainly rent gaps, but they are unevenly distributed over space and time, not consistently associated with periods of gentrification but rather with more complex shifts at the level of demand, and to be viewed as just a minor phenomenon of the broader processes of continual spatial restructuring.

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  • C-F Yung & R J King, 1998. "Some Tests for the Rent Gap Theory," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 30(3), pages 523-542, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:30:y:1998:i:3:p:523-542
    DOI: 10.1068/a300523
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    1. Kanev, Dimitar, 2012. "Социално-Ефективният Резултат: В Търсене На Благосъстояние, Свобода, Справедливост И Равенство [Effective social result: In search of utility, freedom, justice, and equality]," MPRA Paper 77295, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2017.

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