Planetary Gentrification

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most significant and socially unjust processes affecting cities worldwide today, and one that demands renewed critical assessment.

Drawing on the 'new' comparative urbanism and writings on planetary urbanization, the authors undertake a much-needed transurban analysis underpinned by a critical political economy approach. Looking beyond the usual gentrification suspects in Europe and North America to non-Western cases, from slum gentrification to mega-displacement, they show that gentrification has unfolded at a planetary scale, but it has not assumed a North to South or West to East trajectory - the story is much more complex than that.
Rich with empirical detail, yet wide-ranging, Planetary Gentrification unhinges, unsettles and provincializes Western notions of urban development. It will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in the future of cities and the production of a truly global urban studies, and equally importantly to all those committed to social justice in cities.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. New Urbanizations
3. New Economics
4. Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State
5. A Global Gentrification Blueprint?
6. Slum Gentrification
7. Mega-Gentrification and Displacement
8. Conclusion

References

About the author

Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester.

Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ernesto López-Morales is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Chile.

Summary

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global.

Product details

• Authors: Hyu Bang Shin, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto L. Pez-Morales, Ernesto L?pez-Morales, Ernesto Lã3pez-Morales, L Lees, Lorett Lees, Loretta Lees, Loretta Bang Shin Lees, Loretta Lopez-Morales Lees, Lees Loretta, Ernesto Lopez-Morales, Ernes López-Morales, Ernesto López-Morales, Hyun Bang Shin
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780745671642
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-7164-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Polity Urban Futures; Urban Futures; Urban Futures
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Globalisierung, Soziologie, Geographie, Sociology, Geography, Stadtsoziologie, Entwicklungsforschung, Stadtgeographie, Urban Sociology, Development Studies, Urban geography, Entwicklung u. Globalisierung, Globalization & Development