TY  - GEN
AU  - Less, Loretta
AU  - Shin, Hyun Bang
AU  - Lopez Morales, Ernesto
TI  - Global gentrifications: uneven development and displacement
SN  - 9781447313489
U1  - 307.3416 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Policy Press
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - Urban renewal - Case studies
N1  - Table of contents:

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


N2  - 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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