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This comprehensive book uses a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond to highlight the intensifying global struggle over urban space and underline gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.
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Introduction ~ Loretta Lees, Hyun Shin and Ernesto Lopez; Part 1: South East Asia; Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi ~ Arif Hasan; Rethinking Gentrification in India: Displacement, Dispossession and the Specter of Development ~ Sapana Doshi; Gentrification in China? ~ Julie Ren; Promoting Private Interest by Public Hands? The Gentrification of Public Lands by Housing Policies in Taipei City ~ Liling Huang; The Endogenous Dynamics of Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Seoul, South Korea ~ Seong-Kyu Ha; Part 2: Africa; The place of gentrification in Cape Town ~ Annika Teppo and Marianne Millstein; The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state ~ Mohamed Elshahed; Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos ~ Chinwe Nwanna; Part 3: Latin America; Gentrification in the city of Buenos Aires: global trends and local features ~ Hilda Herzer, Maria Mercedes Di Virgilio, Maria Carla Rodriguez; Confronting Favela Chic: the Gentrification of Informal Settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ~ Jake Cummings; Gentrification, Neoliberalism and Loss in Puebla, Mexico ~ Gareth Jones; Emerging Retail Gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolican ~Elke Schlack and Jon Neil Turnbull; Part 4: The Middle East; When Authoritarianism Embraces Gentrification - the Case of Old Damascus, Syria ~ Yannick Suderman; Capital, state and conflict; the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon ~ Marieke Krijnen and Christiaan De Beukelaer; Diverse and widespread forms of gentrification in Israel ~ Amiram Gonen; City Upgraded: Redesigning and Disciplining Downtown Abu Dhabi ~Surajit Chakravarty and Abdellatif Qamhaieh; Part 5: Atypical European Cases; The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey ~ Tolga Islam and Bahar Sakizlioglu; Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement ~ Eduardo Ascensao; Unraveling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens ~ Georgia Alexandri; Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a re-consideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration ~ Jorge Sequera and Michael Janoschka; Afterword ~ Eric Clark.
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Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography and Director of Research in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester. Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Ernesto López-Morales is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile.
Riassunto
This comprehensive book uses a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond to highlight the intensifying global struggle over urban space and underline gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.
