Lees, Loretta, Shin, Hyun Bang 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-9221 and López-Morales, Ernesto
(2016)
Planetary gentrification.
Urban Futures.
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.
ISBN 9780745671642
Abstract
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 to all those committed to social justice in cities.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.polity.co.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Geography & Environment Asia Centre Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2015 10:09 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 21:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/62592 |
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