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Referred to in France as the Trente Glorieuses, the 'thirty glorious' years from 1945 to 1975

The 'stagflation' of the 1970s

This is what academics call 'ontological security', a sense of order and continuity in relation to experiences.

Because of the role played by central and local government in estate regeneration, for many academics the population shifts which result from it are no longer known as 'gentrification', but 'state-led gentrification'.

Ed Miliband identified similar issues and criticized developers for 'land banking', the process whereby housebuilders buy up land and fail to build on it as they wait for it to rise in value.