Introduction: `gentrification’ – a global urban process? ~ Loretta
Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto López-Morales;
Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested
inner city of Athens ~ Georgia Alexandri;
Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the
imagined futures of an informal settlement ~ Eduardo Ascensão;
City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi ~
Surajit Chakravarty and Abdellatif Qamhaieh;
Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ~ Jake Cummings;
Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and
the spectre of development ~ Sapana Doshi;
The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private
investment and the neglectful state ~ Mohamed Elshahed;
Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel ~ Amiram
Gonen;
The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in
Seoul ~ Seong-Kyu Ha;
Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi ~ Arif
Hasan;
Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features ~
Hilda Herzer, María Mercedes Di Virgilio and María Carla
Rodríguez;
Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of
public lands by housing policies in Taipei City ~ Liling Huang;
The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in
Istanbul, Turkey ~ Tolga Islam and Bahar Sak?zl?oglu;
Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico ~ Gareth
Jones;
Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse
gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon ~ Marieke Krijnen and
Christiaan De Beukelaer;
Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos
~ Chinwe Nwanna;
Gentrification in China? ~ Julie Ren;
Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of
Italia-Caupolicán ~ Elke Schlack and Neil Turnbull;
Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a
reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban
reconfiguration ~ Jorge Sequera and Michael Janoschka;
When authoritarianism embraces gentrification – the case of Old
Damascus, Syria ~ Yannick Sudermann;
The place of gentrification in Cape Town ~ Annika Teppo and
Marianne Millstein;
Conclusion: global gentrifications ~ Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin
and Ernesto López-Morales;
Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification ~ Eric Clark.
Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography and Director of
Research in the Department of Geography at the University of
Leicester.
Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban
Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment at the
London School of Economics and Political Science.
Ernesto López-Morales is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile.
"This remarkable book, edited with clarity of vision and political purpose, is sensitive to the 'new comparative urbanism' whilst arguing that to 'unlearn' how we theorise gentrification would be highly questionable. The circulation of capital and the dominance of speculative landed developer interests in cities is leading to massive displacement and social suffering, and this timely volume reminds us that these issues should be at the forefront of our inquiries." Tom Slater, University of Edinburgh "This magnificent collection of gentrification studies interrogates this classic western-derived concept at an unprecedentedly global scale.The book profoundly extends the scope of gentrification research and reinvigorates the notion from the perspective of comparative urbanism." Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning UCL "The political economy of inequality and poverty is foundational for understanding cities everywhere. This wonderfully curated volume on gentrification does this to illuminate urban realities of the global south." Susan Parnell, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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