The 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 British Columbia, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Territory, Vancouver, Canada.

Introduction

Part One Thinking bout gentrification today

Introduction to Part One

1. What time is gentrification?

Suileman Osman

2. Gentrification

Elvin Wyly

3. Beyond Anglo-American gentrification theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales

4. Revisiting 'the changing stage of gentrification'

Manuel B. Aalbers

Part Two Planetary gentrification

Introduction to Part Two

5. Planetary rent gaps

Tom Slater

6. The discursive detachment of race from gentrification in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Melissa M. Valle

7. The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empire

Ida Danewid

8. In debt to the rent gap: Gentrification generalized and the frontier of the future

Hamish Kallin

Part Three Gentrification and comparative urbanism

Introduction to Part Three

9. The geography of gentrification: Thinking through comparative urbanism

Loretta Lees

10. Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities

Charlotte Lemanski

11. Comparative approaches to gentrification: Lessons from the rural

Martin Phillips and Darren P. Smith

12. Is comparative gentrification possible? Sceptical voices from Hong Kong

David Ley and Sin Yih Teo

Part Four Gentrification beyond Anglo-America

Introduction to Part Four

13. Prolonging the global age of gentrification: Johannesburg’s regeneration policies

Tanja Winkler

14. Desakota and beyond: Neoliberal production of suburban space in Manila's fringe

Arnisson Andre C. Ortega

15. Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro

Thaisa Comelli, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Eric Chu

16. Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana's traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi

Lewis Abedi Asante and Richmond Juvenile Ehwi

Part Five Planetary gentrification and digital transformations

Introduction to Part Five

17. Holiday rentals: The new gentrification battlefront

Agustín Cocola-Gant

18. The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan: A rent gap theory perspective

Alberto Amore, Cecilia de Bernardi and Pavlos Arvanitis

19. Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid

Alvaro Ardura Urquiaga, Inigo Lorente-Riverola and Javier Ruiz Sanchez

20. Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: Techno-utopics of racial/spatial dispossession

Erin McElroy

Part Six Resisting planetary gentrification

Introduction to Part Six

21. Resisting gentrification

Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso

22. Resisting the politics of displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anti-gentrification activism in the Tech Boom 2.0

Florian Opillard

23. A city for all? Public policy and resistance to gentrification in the southern neighborhoods of Buenos Aires

María Carla Rodríguez and María Mercedes Di Virgilio

24. When art meets monsters: Mapping art activism and anti-gentrification movements in Seoul

Seon Young Lee and Yoonai Han