TY - CHAP AB - Cities are continually built and unbuilt (Hommels, 2005), reflecting cycles of investment and disinvestment across space, the machinations of housing and urban policy interventions, and shifting patterns of household need, demand, choice and constraint. The drivers of change are fluid and reflect shifting political, institutional, technological, environmental and socio-economic contexts. Urban landscapes evolve in concert with these changes, but the built environment tends to be defined more in terms of spatial fixity and the path-dependency of physical fabric. Suburban neighbourhoods register this dynamism in different ways as they have flourished, declined and subsequently revalorised over time. Changes initiated through redevelopment, from large-scale public renewal to alterations and renovations by individual owner-occupiers, are long-standing signifiers of reinvestment (Montgomery, 1992; Munro & Leather, 2000; Whitehand & Carr, 2001). Our concern here relates to a particular form of incremental suburban renewal: the increasing significance of private ‘knockdown rebuild’ (KDR) activity. KDR refers to the wholesale demolition and replacement of single homes on individual lots. We are interested in the scale and manifestations of this under-researched process and, in particular, the new insights offered to debates regarding gentrification, residential mobility and choice, and in turn, potential implications for metropolitan housing and planning policy. Our focus is Sydney, Australia. VL - 10 SN - 978-0-85724-348-5, 978-0-85724-347-8/1047-0042 DO - 10.1108/S1047-0042(2010)0000010011 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-0042(2010)0000010011 AU - Pinnegar Simon AU - Freestone Robert AU - Randolph Bill ED - Mark Clapson ED - Ray Hutchison PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/01/01 TI - Suburban reinvestment through ‘knockdown rebuild’ in Sydney T2 - Suburbanization in Global Society T3 - Research in Urban Sociology PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 205 EP - 229 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -