Global gentrifications: uneven development and displacement

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

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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