UID:
edocfu_9960161484502883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 468 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-4473-2335-1
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1-4473-1348-8
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1-4473-1350-X
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1-4473-1349-6
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022).
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GLOBAL GENTRIFICATIONS; Contents; List of figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Notes on the editors; Notes on the contributors; Foreword; 1. Introduction: 'gentrification' - a global urban process?; Introduction: moving beyond the usual gentrification suspects; Gentrification in comparative perspective; Debating the epistemological limits of 'gentrification'; Questioning a global gentrification; Overview of the book; 2. Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens; Introduction; Gentrification in Athens?; The case of Metaxourgio
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The everyday realities of gentrification in Metaxourgio: living in fear and isolationJason and Argonautica8 in Metaxourgio; Conclusion; 3. Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement; Introduction; Post-colonial migration and the geography of informal settlements in Lisbon; Gentrification and displacement in Quinta da Serra; Institutional imaginings and gentrification; Conclusion; 4. City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi; Introduction; Understanding the Abu Dhabi housing market
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Disciplining downtown Abu DhabiConclusions; 5. Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Introduction; Favela gentrification; The case for empowering favelas; Conclusion; 6. Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development; Introduction; Urban policy: post-colonial developmentalism and financialisation; Informality and flexible governance; World-class cities, upper-class states; The politics of the displaced; Dispossession through difference; Conclusion: whither the 'right to the city'?
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7. The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful statePlacing downtown Cairo within its urban context; Historical context: downtown Cairo's transformation and the emergence of its heritage value; The emergence of alternative art spaces in downtown; Downtown gentrification with private capital but without municipal policy?; Conclusion; 8. Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel; Introduction; Factors affecting the urban socio-spatial structure of urban Israel
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Gentrification processes in the inner cities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-YafoSome general issues concerning gentrification in Israel; Conclusions; 9. The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul; Introduction; A brief history of urbanisation in South Korea and Seoul; Urban renewal projects as producers of gentrification in Seoul; The impacts of urban renewal/gentrification: the case of Gileum new town; Opposition to redevelopment and new approaches; Conclusions; 10. Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi; Introduction; The case of Karachi
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Towards gentrification?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-1347-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-88126-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.51952/9781447313496
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