Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on the editors
- Notes on the contributors
- Foreword
- One Introduction: ‘gentrification’ – a global urban process?
- Two Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens
- Three Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement
- Four City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi
- Five Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Six Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development
- Seven The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state
- Eight Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel
- Nine The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul
- Ten Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi
- Eleven Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features
- Twelve Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of 223 public lands by housing policies in Taipei City
- Thirteen The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey
- Fourteen Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico
- Fifteen Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon
- Sixteen Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos
- Seventeen Gentrification in China?
- Eighteen Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolicán
- Nineteen Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration
- Twenty When authoritarianism embraces gentrification – the case of Old Damascus, Syria
- Twenty-one The place of gentrification in Cape Town
- Twenty-two Conclusion: global gentrifications
- Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification
- Index
Twenty-two - Conclusion: global gentrifications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on the editors
- Notes on the contributors
- Foreword
- One Introduction: ‘gentrification’ – a global urban process?
- Two Unravelling the yarn of gentrification trends in the contested inner city of Athens
- Three Slum gentrification in Lisbon, Portugal: displacement and the imagined futures of an informal settlement
- Four City upgraded: redesigning and disciplining downtown Abu Dhabi
- Five Confronting favela chic: the gentrification of informal settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Six Rethinking gentrification in India: displacement, dispossession and the spectre of development
- Seven The prospects of gentrification in downtown Cairo: artists, private investment and the neglectful state
- Eight Widespread and diverse forms of gentrification in Israel
- Nine The endogenous dynamics of urban renewal and gentrification in Seoul
- Ten Value extraction from land and real estate in Karachi
- Eleven Gentrification in Buenos Aires: global trends and local features
- Twelve Promoting private interest by public hands? The gentrification of 223 public lands by housing policies in Taipei City
- Thirteen The making of, and resistance to, state-led gentrification in Istanbul, Turkey
- Fourteen Gentrification, neoliberalism and loss in Puebla, Mexico
- Fifteen Capital, state and conflict: the various drivers of diverse gentrification processes in Beirut, Lebanon
- Sixteen Gentrification in Nigeria: the case of two housing estates in Lagos
- Seventeen Gentrification in China?
- Eighteen Emerging retail gentrification in Santiago de Chile: the case of Italia-Caupolicán
- Nineteen Gentrification dispositifs in the historic centre of Madrid: a reconsideration of urban governmentality and state-led urban reconfiguration
- Twenty When authoritarianism embraces gentrification – the case of Old Damascus, Syria
- Twenty-one The place of gentrification in Cape Town
- Twenty-two Conclusion: global gentrifications
- Afterword The adventure of generic gentrification
- Index
Summary
This edited collection has been like a leap onto a moving train, not quite knowing where it might lead, and having only a vague sense of where it has been. It has been exciting and we have learnt a lot. What the different chapters offer is a wider and deeper view of ‘gentrification’ from around the globe than has been managed to date. However, here, the editors and contributors have done more than merely offer a large number of empirical accounts of the diverse forms of gentrification (and its interaction with other urban processes) around the world. In this conclusion, drawing on Ward (2010), we conceptualise and theorise back from the different empirical cases in this book to reveal what we have learned from looking at gentrification globally, and from comparing beyond the usual suspects.
The chapters in this edited collection show that a vast number of cities around the world, from Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro, from Santiago to Cape Town, from Buenos Aires to Taipei, are simultaneously experiencing intensive and uneven processes of capital-led restructuring with significant influxes of upper- and middle-income people and large doses of class-led displacement from deprived urban areas. The chapters show the uneven development of global gentrification connected to planetary urbanisations, and a significant number of these are in the vein of neo-Haussmannization (Merrifield, 2013a, 2013b) through processes of ‘accumulation by dispossession’ (Harvey, 2003). This exploitative process of value extraction from the built environment is a phenomenon that has been in place in the Global South for some time now but has often been overlooked by urban researchers, though work is emerging (see Shin, 2009, 2014; López-Morales, 2010, 2011; Goldman, 2011; Desai and Loftus, 2013). Globally, the process of value extraction has been accelerated, unevenly, by the faster pace of financial capital mobility invested in real estate circuits of capital, by rampantly entrepreneurial urban policies, by the lack of available land for the urban expansion that many cities are experiencing and by the increasing cost of peripheral (suburban) expansion and long-distance transportation (re-emphasising the importance of the notion of ‘spatial capital’ vis-a-vis gentrification; see Rerat and Lees, 2011).
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- Global GentrificationsUneven Development and Displacement, pp. 441 - 452Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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