Abstract
AbstractIn this chapter, I focus on the tension and contradictions between the displacing logics of gentrification on the one hand, and the spatial resilience of service hubs on the other. Defined as conspicuous clusters of voluntary sector agencies that help the vulnerable in urban areas, service hubs are threatened by the gentrification of inner-city quarters of global cities such as London, Los Angeles and Sydney. I present three case studies in these same cities, focusing on the process and strategies of spatial resilience in terms of private strategies, spatial clustering, support from the local state, with the result that resilient service hubs are increasingly stuck in place and unchanging, and thus stuck in time as well. The chapter speaks to the importance of spatial resilience, but also to the increasing entrapment of formerly important uses marooned in dynamic city centres.KeywordsService hubsGentrificationResilienceVoluntary organisation sector
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