Lees, Loretta, Shin, Hyun Bang 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-9221 and López-Morales, Ernesto
(2015)
Introduction: 'gentrification' - a global urban process?
In: Lees, Loretta, Shin, Hyun Bang and López-Morales, Ernesto, (eds.)
Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement.
Policy Press, Bristol, UK, pp. 1-18.
ISBN 9781447313472
Abstract
Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the ‘usual suspects’ of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re)discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally. It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://www.policypress.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 Policy Press |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment Asia Centre Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD2329 Industrialization H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2014 10:28 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2024 23:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60441 |
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