The Planetary Gentrification Reader

✍ Scribed by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader,and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting-edge debates.

Revisiting new debates over the histories of gentrification, thinking through comparative urbanism on gentrification, considering new waves and types of gentrification, and giving much more focus to resistance to gentrification, this is a stellar collection of writings on this critical issue.

Like in their 2010 Reader, the editors, who are internationally renowned experts in the field, include insightful commentary and suggested further reading. The book is essential reading for students and researchers in urban studies, urban planning, human geography, sociology, and housing studies and for those seeking to fight this socially unjust process.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
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Contents
Introduction
Part One Thinking about Gentrification Today
Introduction to Part One
1 What time is gentrification?
2 Gentrification
3 Beyond Anglo-American gentrification theory
4 Revisiting ‘the changing state of gentrification’
Part Two Planetary Gentrification
Introduction to Part Two
5 Planetary rent gaps
6 The discursive detachment of race from gentrification in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
7 The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empire
8 In debt to the rent gap: Gentrification generalized and the frontier of the future
Part Three Gentrification and Comparative Urbanism
Introduction to Part Three
9 The geography of gentrification: Thinking through comparative urbanism
10 Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities
11 Comparative approaches to gentrification: Lessons from the rural
12 Is comparative gentrification possible? Sceptical voices from Hong Kong
Part Four Gentrifications Beyond Anglo-America
Introduction to Part Four
13 Prolonging the global age of gentrification: Johannesburg’s regeneration policies
14 Desakota and beyond: Neoliberal production of suburban space in Manila’s fringe
15 Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro
16 Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana’s traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi
Part Five Planetary Gentrification and Digital Transformations
Introduction to Part Five
17 Holiday rentals: The new gentrification battlefront
18 The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: A rent gap theory perspective
19 Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid
20 Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: Techno-utopics of racial/spatial dispossession
Part Six Resisting Planetary Gentrification
Introduction to Part Six
21 Resisting gentrification
22 Resisting the politics of displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anti-gentrification activism in the Tech Boom 2.0
23 A city for all? Public policy and resistance to gentrification in the southern neighborhoods of Buenos Aires
24 When art meets monsters: Mapping art activism and anti-gentrification movements in Seoul
Index