Planetary Gentrification Reader

Loretta Lees is Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, Boston, USA.Tom Slater is Tom Slater is Professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University, New York City, USA.Elvin Wyly is Professor of Geography at the University of BritishColumbia, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory, Vancouver, Canada.

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• IntroductionPart One Thinking bout gentrification todayIntroduction to Part One1. What time is gentrification?Suileman Osman2. Gentrification Elvin Wyly3. Beyond Anglo-American gentrification theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales4. Revisiting 'the changing stage of gentrification' Manuel B. AalbersPart Two Planetary gentrification Introduction to Part Two5. Planetary rent gapsTom Slater 6. The discursive detachment of race from gentrification in Cartagena de Indias, ColombiaMelissa M. Valle7. The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empireIda Danewid8. In debt to the rent gap: Gentrification generalized and the frontier of the futureHamish KallinPart Three Gentrification and comparative urbanismIntroduction to Part Three9. The geography of gentrification: Thinking through comparative urbanism Loretta Lees10. Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern citiesCharlotte Lemanski11. Comparative approaches to gentrification: Lessons from the ruralMartin Phillips and Darren P. Smith12. Is comparative gentrification possible? Sceptical voices from Hong KongDavid Ley and Sin Yih TeoPart Four Gentrification beyond Anglo-AmericaIntroduction to Part Four13. Prolonging the global age of gentrification: Johannesburg’s regeneration policiesTanja Winkler14. Desakota and beyond: Neoliberal production of suburban space in Manila's fringe Arnisson Andre C. Ortega15. Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de JaneiroThaisa Comelli, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Eric Chu16. Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana's traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, KumasiLewis Abedi Asante and Richmond Juvenile EhwiPart Five Planetary gentrification and digital transformationsIntroduction to Part Five17. Holiday rentals: The new gentrification battlefront Agustín Cocola-Gant18. The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: A rent gap theory perspective Alberto Amore, Cecilia de Bernardi and Pavlos Arvanitis19. Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in MadridAlvaro Ardura Urquiaga, Inigo Lorente-Riverola and Javier Ruiz Sanchez20. Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: Techno-utopics of racial/spatial dispossessionErin McElroyPart Six Resisting planetary gentrification Introduction to Part Six21. Resisting gentrificationSandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso22. Resisting the politics of displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anti-gentrification activism in the Tech Boom 2.0Florian Opillard23. A city for all? Public policy and resistance to gentrification in the southern neighborhoods of Buenos AiresMaría Carla Rodríguez and María Mercedes Di Virgilio24. When art meets monsters: Mapping art activism and anti-gentrification movements in SeoulSeon Young Lee and Yoonai Han