Global Gentrifications
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Global Gentrifications

Uneven Development and Displacement

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Global Gentrifications

Uneven Development and Displacement

About this book

Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the 'usual suspects' of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re)discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally. It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world. The book will be of value to students and academics, policy makers, planners and community organisations.

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Yes, you can access Global Gentrifications by Lees, Loretta,Shin, Hyun Bang in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Política pública de planificación local y regional. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. GLOBAL GENTRIFICATIONS
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures and tables
  4. Notes on the editors
  5. Notes on the contributors
  6. Foreword
  7. 1. Introduction: ‘gentrification’ – a global urban process?
  8. 2. Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens
  9. 3. Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement
  10. 4. City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi
  11. 5. Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  12. 6. Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development
  13. 7. The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state
  14. 8. Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel
  15. 9. The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul
  16. 10. Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi
  17. 11. Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features
  18. 12. Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of public lands by housing policies in Taipei City
  19. 13. The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey
  20. 14. Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico
  21. 15. Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon
  22. 16. Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos
  23. 17. Gentrification in China?
  24. 18. Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolicán
  25. 19. Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration
  26. 20. When authoritarianism embraces gentrification – the case of Old Damascus, Syria
  27. 21. The place of gentrification in Cape Town
  28. 22. Conclusion: global gentrifications
  29. Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification
  30. Index