LONDON — Victoria Alvarez is a ball of energy, darting around the Seven Sisters Indoor Market in north London. On a recent morning, she broke away from chatting with a friend to burst into a general ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Glassy skyscrapers and luxury apartment towers cast a shadow over an east London high street dotted with greasy-spoon cafes and launderettes, a "last bastion" ...

Dezeen School Shows: an arts centre offering affordable studio and exhibition spaces in response to gentrification is among the architecture projects from students at London South Bank University.

In a session chaired by Dr Alan Mace (LSE), Antoine Paccoud (LISER) and Patria Roman-Velazquez (Loughborough University/ Latin Elephant) will be discussing how gentrification is impacting contemporary ...

As Glass wrote in her book London: Aspects of Change, “One by one, many of the working-class quarters of London have been invaded by the middle classes — upper and lower... Once this process of ...

For Londoners who have been in the city for years, the change is obvious. Not long ago, the southeast neighborhood of Peckham was the heart of London’s Nigerian population. But over the last few years ...

In the 1960s, my grandparents fled civil war in Nigeria and moved to South London in search of a better life. Clapham Junction became the neighbourhood where both my mum and I both grew up. Back then ...