Table of Contents

1. Title page
2. Copyright page
3. Acknowledgements
4. 1: Introduction
5. 2: New Urbanizations
   1. Refining a concept or stretching it beyond its utility?
   2. Gentrification in the context of planetary urbanization
   3. Global suburbanisms and peripheral urban development
   4. New urbanism, re-urbanization and gentrification
   5. Conclusions
6. 3: New Economics
   1. Gentrification and the global economy
   2. Gentrification and land rent
   3. Towards a comparative urbanism of planetary rent gaps
   4. Stigma and devaluation
   5. The resurgence of rent gap theory
   6. Spatial capital and gentrification
   7. Post-crisis gentrification
   8. Conclusions
7. 4: Global Gentrifiers: Class, Capital, State
   1. Politics
   2. Lifestyle and consumption
   3. Historic preservation: gentrifier or state-led?
   4. Conclusions
8. 5: A Global Gentrification Blueprint?
   1. Gentrification/Urban Regeneration Models
   2. Gentrification Policies
   3. Conclusions
9. 6: Slum Gentrification
   1. The Gentrification Debate in Light of Contemporary Slum Conflicts
   2. Slumbai or the Gentrification of Asia's Largest Slum
   3. Mainland China's ‘Slum’ Redevelopment and Gentrification
   4. From the Olympic Effect to ‘Favela Chic’: Rio de Janeiro
   5. From Mexico to South Africa: Gentrification of Formerly Informal Districts
   6. Evictions and the Settlers’ Insurgency for ‘the Right to Stay Put’
   7. Conclusions
10. 7: Mega-Gentrification and Displacement
    1. Mega-Displacement as A Pre-requisite for Urbanization in the Global South?
    2. Infrastructure Development and Gentrification
    3. Mega-Gentrification, the State and Urban Accumulation in the Global South
    4. Hidden Displacement in the Global South
    5. Mega-Displacement: A Global South Phenomenon?
    6. Conclusions
11. 8: Conclusion
    1. What We Have Learnt
    2. From South and East to North and West
    3. Resistance to Planetary Gentrification
    4. Alternatives to Planetary Gentrification
12. References
13. Index
14. End User License Agreement

List of Tables

1. Table 1.1  Traditional comparisons of gentrification versus a relational comparative approach

List of Illustrations

1. Figure 2.1:  Vertical Accumulation in Hong Kong, 2011 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
2. Figure 2.2:  Spectacular urbanization in Abu Dhabi, 2015 (Photograph by Clara Rivas-Alonso)
3. Figure 2.3:  Mega-urbanization in Mumbai, 2010 (Photograph courtesy of Andrew Harris)
4. Figure 3.1:  Gentrified Casco Antiguo, Panama City (Photograph courtesy of Thomas Sigler)
5. Figure 3.2:  Devalued properties with high-rise building in the background in gentrifying Santiago, 2014 (Photograph courtesy of Daniel Meza)
6. Figure 3.3:  Demolition in a redevelopment project site in Seoul, 2013 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
7. Figure 3.4:  Redevelopment of Lee Tung Street in Hong Kong, 2011 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
8. Figure 4.1:  Student protests in Kwangju, South Korea, 1992 (Photograph courtesy of Namkug Kim)
9. Figure 4.2:  ‘Fake-over’ of Qianmen, Beijing, 2014 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
10. Figure 4.3:  Redevelopment in the historic centre of Guangzhou, 2010 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
11. Figure 5.1:  The Puerto Madero redevelopment in Buenos Aires, 2012 (Photograph courtesy of Ignacia Saona)
12. Figure 5.2:  The Aylesbury Estate in London, 2012 – the Daily Mail stigmatized it as ‘Hell's waiting room’ (Photograph by Loretta Lees)
13. Figure 5.3:  Las Gladiolas, Puerto Rico, 2007 (Photograph courtesy of Melissa Fernandez)
14. Figure 6.1:  Dharavi Slum, Mumbai, 2010 (Photograph courtesy of Paroj Banerjee)
15. Figure 6.2:  Gentrifying Zona Portuária in central Rio de Janeiro, 2014 (Photograph by Ernesto López-Morales)
16. Figure 6.3:  People of La Victoria doing participatory planning, 2011 (Photograph courtesy of Matías Ocaranza)
17. Figure 7.1:  Restored Cheonggye Stream in Seoul, 2011 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
18. Figure 7.2:  View of Nangok neighbourhood before its complete demolition, 2001 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
19. Figure 7.3:  View of redeveloped Nangok neighbourhood filled with mostly commercial flats, 2007 (Photograph by Hyun Bang Shin)
20. Figure 7.4:  Displacement, Heygate Estate, London, 2012 (Photograph by Loretta Lees)
21. Figure 8.1:  London's modern day slums (Courtesy of The Independent, 2015)
22. Figure 8.2:  Anti-gentrification rally, Gezi Park, Taksim Square, Istanbul, 2013 (Photograph courtesy of Tolga Islam)

Guide

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