Note: Front Matter , Contents , List of tables, figures and photographs , Acknowledgements , Notes on contributors , Introduction: gentrification, social mix/ing and mixed communities , Reflections on social mix policy , Why do birds of a feather flock together? Social mix and social welfare: a quantitative appraisal , Social mix and urban policy , Mixed communities and urban policy: reflections from the UK , Gentrification without social mixing in the rapidly urbanising world of Australasia , Social mix in liberal and neoliberal times , Social mixing and the historical geography of gentrification , Social mix and encounter capacity – a pragmatic social model for a new downtown: the example of HafenCity Hamburg , Social mix policies and gentrification , Mixed-income schools and housing policy in Chicago: a critical examination of the gentrification/education/‘racial’ exclusion nexus , Social mix as the aim of a controlled gentrification process: the example of the Goutte d’Or district in Paris , Beware the Trojan horse: social mix constructions in Melbourne , The rhetoric and reality of social mix policies , Social mixing as a cure for negative neighbourhood effects: evidence-based policy or urban myth? , Meanings, politics and realities of social mix and gentrification – a view from Brussels , ‘Regeneration’ in interesting times: a story of privatisation and gentrification in a peripheral Scottish city , HOPE VI: calling for modesty in its claims , Experiencing social mix , The impossibility of gentrification and social mixing , Not the only power in town? Challenging binaries and bringing the working class into gentrification research , From social mix to political marginalisation? The redevelopment of Toronto’s public housing and the dilution of tenant organisational power , Mixture without mating: partial gentrification in the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands , Afterword , References , Index , In English