During the last three decades, the household has become the focus of a wide range of socio-demographic processes, including the destabilization of traditional patterns of marriage, cohabitation, and divorce; the growing fluidity of ties of kin and friendship; and increasingly complex transitions...

During the last three decades, the countries of the developed world have been engulfed by the 'second demographic transition', which involves new family relations, less and later marriage, declining fertility rates, population ageing, postponement of child-bearing and smaller households, among...

It has recently come into question whether the term ‘gentrification’ can capture the wide array of contemporary demographic processes in the inner city. There is also a need to extend the gentrification debate beyond the Anglo-American context, while understanding the urban implications of...